Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme 1997

ST MICHAEL & ALL SAINTS CHURCH OO© MUSIC Venue 95 - St Michael and All Saints Church, Brougham Street ■in the MUSIC AT ST MICHAEL AND ALL SAINTS Come & hear music setting of High whichKodaly it was (17th); written:Missa Harmoniemesse, Haydn (with orchestra)( 10th);Mass MissaforBrevis, Bel Amfitrit Altera, ST ANDREW’S & ST GEORGE’S AT FESTIVAL TIME continued Lassus10,17,24 (24th). 11.00 Aug (12.30) Free ■piano THE COATESrespective DUO Leon and Heather Coates celebrate with songs and SCOTTISH SINFONIA OOO© Aug 20music14.3the0 (16.15) £6.00anniversaries (£5.00) of Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. Venue 131 - Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Candlemaker Row. Tickets 225 1900 Kl I | ' ■on CELLO & PIANO Ronen Kory and Geoffrey Dancer, celebrated duo, ■Mahler MAHLER: SYMPHONY NOmet7with Conductor: Neilconfidence’, Mantle. OurScotsman... previous‘ Bach, Beethoven and Schubert.

7 ‘Every challenge was complete Augtheir 21 third 12.30 visit.

(13.30)Sonatas £5.00by(£4.00) degree ofevent accuracy andstandards’, edge of fresh combine to make j ■a dash CZECHMozart.

IT OUT! Janacek, Dvorak, Schumann, Strauss, Wolf, Mahler and The this anhigh important by any(£6.00 TES. enthusiasm Prague£6.00 soprano Aug 24 17.

0 0 (18.30) £6.50 OAP) (£4.00 C) Aug 21of 14.30(16.15) (£5.00)Zdena Kloubova;Alan Jacques (piano).

Aug 25 20.00 (21.30) ■Haydn’s PIANO RECITALBrahms’ For his‘8 third visit, brilliant pianist Geoffrey Dancer plays ‘Variations’, Klavierstucke’ Op. 76 and Chopin’s ‘PolonaiseSEGOVIA GUITAR TRIO 00©0p Fantaisie’.

Venue 77 -The Square Centre,Nicolson Square Methodist Church.

LI2 |N Aug 22 12.30 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) ■ HOMAGE TO SEGOVIA remembers the legendary guitar maestro Andre , ■Mendelssohn MASTERSandOFLiszt THEplayed KEYBOARD Music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Segovia in a programme of his greatest hits.

The Segovia Trio ‘deserves the on the piano by Stefan Warzycki. honourable of Segovia’£6.00The(£4.50) Scotsman ****‘Exceptional’ The Times.

Aug 25 19.30 (21.30) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-22 name 13.00 (13.55) ■O’Sullivan,Verlaine,Yessenin.

FOUR POETS, ELEVENSongCOMPOSERS Lyrics byIanMacDiarmid, recital: many rareties.

Ainsworth SEXTETO CANYENGUE OO©© (bass-baritone), Patricia£5.00 Ball (piano).

Venue 90 - Graffiti, Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 Aug 26 12.30 (13.30) (£4.00) TANGO PALACE In collaboration with Europe’s foremost Tango orchestra ■(clarinet), CANTABILE CELEBRATE BRAHMS (1833 -(piano) 1897) Philip four dancers Graffiti presents late nightssetting of pure unrestrained Robin Mason (cello), Michael Lester-Cribb presentGreene sonatas and romance, melancholy passionevening inthree the awesome and minor(16.30) Trio. £6.00 church - followed by (03.00) sixandmagical concerts. of this fabulous Augthe26 A14.30 (£5.00) Aug 21,22,24 23.00 £ 10.

0 0 (£8.00) Aug 25-30 20.00 (21.30) £8.00 (£7.00) ■recital.

CANTUS Scottish tenor Schubert, Stuart Rathie’s SpiritualsANGELICUS! and sacred music

by Handel, Franck,fourth WolfFestival and Stradella.

SHAMBHALA OOO© Aug 27 19.30 (21.30) £6.00 (£5.00) Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay St Tickets 228 2215 K9 ■Stefan CHOPIN AND THE SPIRIT OF POLAND International concert pianist ■ SHAMBHALA A unique incontroChiambretti between Italian and byIrishIrishmusic and plays a£5.00 programme culture.

Lyrics by Turin poet Felicita ‘songified’ brothers Aug 28Warzycki 12.30 (13.30) (£4.00) of Chopin polonaises and mazurkas.

Martinworld and music.

Joe Lynch producingatavenue. concert that encompasses Celtic melodies ■popular ENSEMBLE Scenesandfromaccompanist operas, operettas andin musicals by theconcert ever and CD available eleven singers from Fife this delightful Aug 25-30 16.00 (17.25) £5.00 (£4.00) programme.

Aug 29 19.30 (21.30) £6.00 (£5.00) SHIHO SOUND JAPANESQUE OD©0 ■ ORGAN SPECTACULAR Maestro Alberto Massimostageguarantees 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay St Tickets 228 2215 K9 and spills galore.

More amazing arrangements of familiar and screenthrills Venue favourites.

■ SHIHO SOUND JAPANESQUE Shiho spectacularly stage ‘Japanesque’ Aug 30 12.30 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) oriental and cosmic sounds with synthesiser, dance, voice and costumes.

Shiho the musculartoendmellow of NewtheAgeheart’ music,TheanScotsman Eastern Mike Oldfield, successfullyis ■hisAN IMPROMPTU AFTERNOON WITHbySCHUBERT A selection(piano). of from creating‘melodies brilliant and well-loved masterpieces played Margaret Jaffrey-Smith Aug 11-23 (not 17) 18.00 (19.00) £5.50 (£4.50) Aug 30 14.30 (16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) ■portrayed SCUOLA GEOVIA Forgotten masterworks of renaissance Europe by choristers of international Monteverdi Voci). repute. Sweelinck (Pseaumes de David), Aug 31 19.3(Messa 0 (21.30)a Quattro £6.00 (£5.00) WANT TO BUY TICKETS IN PERSON? come Box Office ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL ©O©© or onetooftheourFringe four satellites Venue 91 - St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place J7 Details on page three ■ ORGAN RECITALS Evening concerts given Emeritus, on celebrated 1879 Father Willis instrument.

5th: Dennis Townhill (Organist St(StMary’s).

Timothy Byram-Wigfield (St Mary’s).

19th: Peter Backhouse Mary’s).12th: 26th: Peter Wright (Southwark).

Aug 5,12,19,26 20.00 (21.15) £5.00 (£3.00 SUD) (£ 1.00 C) ■choirs SCOTTISH CHAMBER CHOIR One of Scotland’s leading performs a programme including Handel’s ‘Zadock the Priest’chamber coronation anthems; Palestrina’s Tu es Petrus’ and the mass based onandthisother motet.

Aug 17 20.00 (21.45) £7.00 (£5.00) ■ SUNDAY SERVICES 10.30 - Mozart,I SawCoronation Mass. 17th: 15.30 Walton, Chichester Service 17th: and Bainton.And a New Heaven.

L’Anglais Messe Solennelle.

24th: 15.30 - Howells, Gloucester Service24th: and 10.30 i ColA^vT Bairstow, Blessed City.

Aug Aug 17,24 17,24 10.15.3300 (11.30) (16.30) Free Free I pm-SpM ■unique DAILY CHORAL EVENSONG Sung by the renowned Cathedral Choir,3 in Scotland.

Wednesday Aug 27 (16.00), broadcast live on BBC Radio (doors close 15.45).

Aug 23,24,28) Aug 2718-2916.(not 00 (17.00) Free 17.30 (18.10) Free Til: 0131-557 5114 riNiSH OFF THE FESTIVAL DAY '7^ ■orchestra B MINOR MASS Ludus Baroque, Scotland’s acclaimed periodcharged chamber AT WHISTLE BINKIES CELTIC PARTY 1am-5aM and choir, continue a festival tradition with this highly performance of J S Bach’s magnificent setting.‘Purposeful performances VERY surprise Special Guests Different every ni with intelligence’ Aug great 9 19.3vigour 0 (21.30)and £7.50 (£5.00) Mary Miller,The Scotsman.

56