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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 28 June 2019 | |
| 7.30pm St James' Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Piccadilly Sonfonietta The Piccadilly Sonfonietta and two distinguished soloists play Handel, Bach and Vivaldi. |
| 12 July 2019 | |
| 7.30pm St John's Waterloo 73 Waterloo Road London SE1 8TY United Kingdom Details: Web site £12 ('earlybird' discount) / 15 | 10 (students) | The Grand Tour Londinium Andrew Griffiths, conductor Bernard Rose: Upon Westminster Bridge Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans Judith Bingham: Gleams of a Remoter World Luca Marenzio: O mille volte Edward Elgar: Go, Song of Mine Eric Whitacre: Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine Giovanni Croce: Percussit Saul mille Richard Wagner arr. Clytus Gottwald: Im Treibhaus Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Osculetur me Leonardo Leo: Heu nos miseros Matthew Recio: How to Survive Vesuvius Heinrich Isaac: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen Gustav Mahler arr Gottwald: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Henry Purcell: Fairest Isle Michael Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air Inspired by the traditional 'grand tour' made by young British aristocrats from the seventeenth century onwards, Londinium embarks on an intrepid journey around some of Europe's foremost musical centres. Our route follows a typical grand tourist's itinerary: after leaving London for Paris, we make a perilous Alpine crossing to explore the treasures of Italy, before returning home by way of Vienna. On our travels we encounter a dazzling array of repertoire - everything from the polyphony of Renaissance Rome to the polychoral splendour of Venice, the Neapolitan Baroque, echoes of Wagner's 'Tristan', the seductive soundworld of fin-de-si&engrave;cle Vienna, the sophistication of Debussy, and the music of our own time. Particular highlights include Clytus Gottwald's sumptuous transcriptions of Wagner and Mahler, Judith Bingham's bewitching 'Gleams of a Remoter World', the UK première of Matthew Recio's 'How to Survive Vesuvius', and - marking the quincentenary of the death of its protagonist - Eric Whitacre's hugely entertaining 'Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine'. |
| 13 July 2019 | |
| 7.30pm St Gabriel's, Pimlico Warwick Square London SW1V 2AD United Kingdom Details: Web site At the door: £14/ 12. In advance (to 10 July 2019): £12/ 10 | O beata Trinitas: Renaissance music for Father, Son and Holy Ghost Renaissance Singers David Allinson, conductor A central tenet of Christian belief is that there is one creator, who is simultaneously Father, Son and Holy Ghost — the formulation so familiar from the Creed, and in countless prayers, that it may pass almost without a thought. The mysterious and frequently-misunderstood concept is celebrated on Trinity Sunday, one of the few major feasts in the calendar that celebrates a doctrine rather than an event or individual. In music, the concept became linked with the harmony of the major triad. Join us for this programme of sublime mass music and motets in honour of the Trinity written during the Renaissance period, by composers from England (Tallis, Sheppard, Byrd), the low countries (Josquin, de Rore), Italy (Palestrina) and Iberia and the New World (Guerrero, Victoria, Lopez Castillas). |
| 25 July 2019 | |
| 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JH United Kingdom Details: Web site | Enjoy the tranquillity of Bach, the majesty of Beethoven and the ravishing harmonies of Rachmaninov |
| 28 September 2019 | |
| 6.30pm St Cuthbert's Church 50 Philbeach Gardens, Earl's Court London SW5 9EB United Kingdom Details: Victor Gomez Web site +44 (0)20 7101 4479 £15 | Haydn: Double Violin and Piano Concerto Juan Rezzuto, piano Paola Delucchi, violin WKMT Ensemble Alvaro Sisti, conductor WKMT Featured Piano Student playing Classical Pieces Haydn: Piano and Violin Concerto Hob XVIII:6 |
| 28 November 2019 | |
| 1.05pm St Bartholomew the Great West Smithfield London EC1A 7BE United Kingdom Details: Web site | James Kreiling, piano To include: McCabe: Tenebrae City Music Society |