Tombeau: Couperin & Ravel
Remembrance Day Music & Dance Performance in Celebration of Maurice Ravel's 150th birthday
Initially published in 1919, each movement of the piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin was dedicated to a fallen soldier of the Great War but the music itself, although sometimes wistful, is not sombre--it is a reflection of the spirit of the friends and associates of the composer, those who had fallen in battle. When questioned about this, Ravel merely said "The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence."
To put this exquisite music into context, it is preceded by the inspiration for Ravel's work: the Concerts Royaux, by François Couperin, and six Baroque Dances of that time (each corresponding to a movement of the dance suites by Couperin and Ravel: Menuet, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Rigaudon, Forlane), to give the audience a visual experience that will bring the music alive in the full splendour of colour and movement.
Featuring Tiffany Vong--harpsichord, Reese Carly Manglicmot--piano
Autrefois Historical Dance & Music Ensemble, Talitha MacKenzie, Director, Tim Macdonald--Baroque violin
Tickets here
Organ Recital
Organ Recital at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Free admission, donations welcome.
A Ceremony of Carols
University of Glasgow Choral Society and Chapel Choir perform Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols
Tickets here
Kelvin Choir Christmas Concert
A festive programme of choral and instrumental music with Kelvin Choir.
Tickets £8/4
Valentines Vivaldi by Candlelight
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta
Programme
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in G minor RV 317
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in A minor RV 356
Vivaldi - Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor, RV 522
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Poppy Shotts, Marina Sanchez Cabello & Tiffany Vong
Music for Soprano, Cello and Harpsichord.
Jordanhill Parish Church Concert Series. Admission by donation.
Organ Recital
Organ Recital at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Free admission, donations welcome.
Organ Recital
Organ Recital at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Free admission, donations welcome.
NFM Leopoldinum: Benedetti & Sitkovetsky’s Tribute to Menuhin
Edinburgh International Festival Concert with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nicola Benedetti, and NFM Leopoldinium.
Programme and tickets here
Organ Recital
Organ Recital at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Free admission, donations welcome.
Organ Recital
Free entry. Retiring collection in aid of Inverness Cathedral Music Fund.
Organ Recital
Organ Recital on the restored 1903 Harrison & Harrison pipe organ
J S Bach (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue in c, BWV 546
J S Bach arr. Alexandre Guilmant: Sonatina (Sinfonia de la cantate ‘Gottes Zeit ist die Allerbeste Zeit’, Actus Tragicus), BWV 106
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1746): Suite de deuxieme ton:
Duo
Basse de Cromorne
Flûtes
Louis Vierne (1870-1937): Lied (Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre, op. 31)
Louis-James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869): Marche in F, op. 122, no. 4
Percy Whitlock (1903-1946): Folk Tune
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Fugue on BACH, op. 60, no. 6: Mäßig, nach und nach Schneller
Organ Recital
Organ Recital at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Free admission, donations welcome.
Traditional Scottish: Sig Tune – Kelvingrove
J S Bach: Prelude in C, BWV 545
Camille Saint-Saëns: The Swan
John Rutter: Toccata in Seven
arr. George Shearing: Amazing Grace
Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness
Korb & Roever arr. Antony Baldwin: Highland Cathedral
Organ Recital
The Organist Entertains Series of Lunchtime Concerts at Ayr Town Hall.
John Stanley (1712-1786): Voluntary in D minor, op. 5 no. 8
J S Bach (1685-1750) arr. Alexandre Guilmant: Sonatina (Sinfonia de la cantate ‘Gottes Zeit ist die Allerbeste Zeit’ Actus Tragicus), BWV 106
Clara Schumann (1819-1896): Prelude and Fugue in D minor, op. 16 no. 3
Louis-James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869): Pastorale in C
Marche in F, op. 122, no. 4
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Fugues on BACH, op. 60:
3. Mit sanften Stimmen
5. Lebhaft
6. Mäßig, nach und nach Schneller
Jordanhill Spring Concert
Spring Concert with the Jordanhill Community Choir and Handbell Ringers
Kelvin Choir Spring Concert
Kelvin Choir’s Annual Spring Concert with Glasgow Chamber Orchestra and soloists.
Programme to include Vivaldi’s lesser-known Jubilate and Gloria and Ola Gjeilo’s atmospheric Sunrise Mass
Tombeau: Couperin & Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin harks back both to the time of Louis XIV and to the years of the Great War, when Maurice Ravel left composing to serve as a driver in the French military. Initially published in 1919 as a piano solo suite of six movements, it was reimagined in 1920 as a ballet in four movements (Prélude followed by three Baroque Dances: Forlane, Menuet, Rigaudon). The movements were dedicated to fallen soldiers who were personal friends and associates.
This programme juxtaposes Le Tombeau de Couperin with dances from the time of François Couperin and excerpts from the original Concerts Royaux, on which Ravel based his work. By presenting this 20th-century suite alongside the Baroque music and dance that inspired it, we hope to give the audience a unique insight into Ravel’s creative process.
In addition, two sets of three chansons, one by Couperin and the other by Ravel, will be sung by Early Music vocalist Héloïse Bernard. Also featured will be Tiffany Vong on harpsichord and Tim Macdonald on Baroque violin.
Baroque dances, with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jacques Cordier, André Campra and André Cardinal Destouches, echo the keyboard suites, which will be performed by Edinburgh-based Historical Dance & Music Ensemble Autrefois, led by Talitha MacKenzie, graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and lecturer in Historical Dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
The Tombeau Project is in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel (7 Mar 1875-28 December 1937).
Tickets here
Organ Recital
Organ Recital at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Free admission, donations welcome.
Programme:
Traditional Scottish: Sig Tune – Kelvingrove
Emma Louise Ashford: Fanfare in G minor
Camille Saint-Saëns: The Swan
David N Johnson: Trumpet Tune in D
George Shearing: Amazing Grace
Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness
Lefébure-Wély: Marche in F
Organ Recital
Organ Recital at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Free admission, donations welcome.
Traditional Scottish: Sig Tune – Kelvingrove
Emma Louise Ashford: Fanfare in G minor
At Sunset
John Stanley: Trumpet Voluntary
Felix Mendelssohn: Allegro maestoso e vivace (from Organ Sonata No. 2)
Lefébure-Wély: Pastorale in C
Marche in F
Organathon
A sponsored Organathon with a number of short recitals by local players and visitors, all of whom generate sponsorship to help to support the work on the organ by ‘Friends of the Caird Hall Organ’ (FOCHO).
FOCHO was launched in 2010 to promote the Harrison & Harrison organ in the Caird Hall, Dundee, which is one of the most significant concert hall organs in the UK. It was the firm’s first concert hall organ, and unlike many other instruments of its period it remains substantially in original condition. Dundee City Council, as custodian of the instrument, was keen to ensure its long-term future and encouraged the setting up of a friends organisation to assist with promotion and fundraising. Since its launch, FOCHO has promoted a regular and varied series of public concerts using the instrument and has raised tens of thousands of pounds which have been put towards maintenance work on the instrument, funding new equipment and sponsoring regular tunings.
Kirsty Main, Marina Sanchez Cabello & Tiffany Vong
Music for violin, cello and harpsichord with Kirsty Main, Marina Sanchez Cabello and Tiffany Vong.
Part of the Jordanhill Parish Church Concert Series 2024/2025. Admission by donation.
Programme:
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): Sonata for Violin in D minor Op. 5 No. 7
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Violin Sonata in E major HWV 373
Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli (1710-1763): Sonata in A minor for Violoncello and Basso Continuo
Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808): Duo No. 1 in D major Op. 1
Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809): Maggie Lauder from A Collection of The Most Favourite Scots Tunes, With Variations For the Harpsichord
James Oswald (1711-1769): A Sonata on Scots Tunes
Valentines Vivaldi by Candlelight
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta
Ben Norris (violin)
Programme
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in A minor RV356
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Vivaldi - Four Seasons