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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 13 July 2018 until 8 September 2018 | |
| Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore, Kensington London SW7 2AP United Kingdom Details: Web site | Henry Wood (BBC) Promenade Concerts |
| 28 September 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St John's Smith Square Smith Square, Westminster London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Web site | Warren Mailley-Smith - great classical piano works |
| 29 September 2018 | |
| 5pm St. Cuthbert's 50 Philbeach Gardens London SW5 9EB United Kingdom Details: Victor Gomez Web site +44 (0)20 7101 4479 15 | Juan Rezzuto - Haydn Piano Concertos Juan Rezzuto, piano WKMT London Orchestra Debussy: Petite Suite for Piano 4 hands Haydn: Piano Concerto H 18:2 Haydn: Piano Concerto H 18:4 |
| 5 October 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St John's Waterloo Waterloo Road London SE1 8TY United Kingdom Details: Web site £12 ('earlybird' discount) / 15 | 10 (students) | A Londinium Bestiary Londinium Andrew Griffiths, conductor Ola Gjeilo: Unicornis Captivatur Bernard Hughes: A Medieval Bestiary Kenneth Leighton: Laudes Animantium To open its 2018-19 season Londinium presents a thrilling programme of works on the theme of weird and wonderful creatures. Kenneth Leighton's unpublished 'Laudes Animantium' ('Praises of the Creatures') is a superb sequence of poems about animals, from Blake's Lamb and Tyger to Tennyson's Kraken, by way of Edward Lear and others, and finds its composer at the height of his powers. Ola Gjeilo's 'Unicornis Captivatur', based on remarkable fifteenth-century chants, introduces us to the unicorn, pelican, phoenix, hydra and crocodile. Finally, Bernard Hughes' 2011 'A Medieval Bestiary' explores the relationship between medieval man and the animal world. The dramatis personae, taken from a fourteenth-century source, include the manticore, parander, gryphon, monoceros, dragon, panther, and scorpion, and Hughes' music is no less inventive and exhilarating. |
| 16 October 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ United Kingdom Details: Web site | An evening of great music (Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Gershwin, etc.) played by a virtuoso pianist. |
| 21 October 2018 | |
| 8pm St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7222 1061 | Juliana – London premiere Cheryl Enever, Juliana Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Kerstin Samuel Pantcheff, Juan Nova Music Opera George Vass, conductor Richard Williams, director Joseph Phibbs: Juliana (new chamber opera with libretto by Laurie Slade - first London performance) |
| 9 November 2018 | |
| 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Milton Court, Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH United Kingdom Details: Barbican Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7638 8891 £15-32 | Britten Sinfonia - The Last Letter Jonathan McGovern, baritone Britten Sinfonia Thomas Gould, violin/director Gurney: The Western Playland Kelly: Elegy Ravel, arranged by Robert Weiner: Le Tombeau de Couperin Stephan: Nachspiel Nico Muhly: The Last Letter Barber: Adagio for Strings To commemorate the end of the Great War, Britten Sinfonia gives the first performance of a new arrangement of Nico Muhly's poignant The Last Letter as part of a compelling and dramatic evening of music and words. Nico Muhly's The Last Letter sets an intriguing and moving selection of letters by First World War German and English soldiers and their loved ones, interspersed with music and poetry written by composers and poets on both sides of the conflict. |
| 7.30pm St James's Church Piccadilly 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)333 666 3366 £15-32 | Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by Candlelight Bach: Air on a G String Vivaldi: 4 Seasons Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik Mozart: Piano Concerto in A major K414 Celebrate the end of the week with The Piccadilly Sinfonia, an exciting new orchestra featuring some of the UK’s most outstanding young professional musicians, lead by the sensational violinist Zoë Beyers, (leader of the CBSO). This dynamic ensemble present a programme of some of the greatest classical music ever written including Vivaldi’s masterpiece, “The Four Seasons” in the beautiful surroundings of St James’ Church, in the heart of London’s West End by the evocative glow of candlelight. This special concert also features exceptional british pianist Warren Mailley-Smith, who has developed a large following across the UK thanks to his effortless technique and charismatic charm. One of his most extraordinary achievements is performing the complete solo works (3.5 million notes) of Frederick Chopin from memory. Mailley-Smith is a firm favourite with the Royal Family and he has been featured as Classic FM CD of the Week. |
| 21 November 2018 | |
| 1pm Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, Marylebone London W1U 2BP United Kingdom Details: Wigmore Hall Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7935 2141 £14-16 | Britten Sinfonia - At Lunch One 2018-19 Jacqueline Shave, violin/director Miranda Dale, principal 2nd violin Clare Finnimore, principal viola Caroline Dearnley, principal cello Huw Watkins, principal piano Mark Padmore, tenor Luke Styles: new work Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge Tenor Mark Padmore is joined by principals of Britten Sinfonia for the London première of a new song cycle by Luke Styles, former Young Composer-in-Residence at Glyndebourne. The programme is crowned by Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, which depicts rural life at a time when the First World War was drawing near. |
| 20 November 2018 until 22 November 2018 | |
| London United Kingdom Details: Web site | Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 'We have thought very carefully about how best my competition can benefit young conductors, and this is why we have decided to change the criteria for applications, broadening reach, while also ensuring that it is conductors at the very start of their careers who benefit. I am delighted to partner with medici.tv for the first live stream of the Competition, and also to allow the public into the preliminary rounds. I believe that the more we can open up music-making to the world, the more people will be as enthralled and inspired by it as I am, so I'm really pleased that so many more people will have the opportunity to see the finalists in action next year. Finally I want to thank the extraordinary conductors and musicians who are on the judging panel, as I know each of them will inspire everyone who takes part. I wish everyone who enters the very best of luck!' - Donatella Flick |