Classical Concerts in London UK
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10 March 2010
 
7.30pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Recital by Russian pianist Misha Fomin

 
11 March 2010
 
7.30pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Fibonacci Sequence: Julian Farrell (clarinet) Kathron Sturrock (piano) with guest artist Ann Mackay

 
7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
London
United Kingdom

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£12, 16, 20 (concessions 50% discount)
Orchestra Europa

Alexander Melnikov,piano
Orchestra Europa
Scott Ellaway, conductor

Bedrich Smetana: The Bartered Bride, overture
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

 
7.30pm
The Forge
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

Details:
Kathron Sturrock
Web site
+44 (0)20 8780 3266
Address: SW15 4LA

£8, 6, 4
Fibonacci at the Forge - soprano, piano and clarinet

Ann Mackay, soprano
Kathron Sturrock, piano
Julian Farrell, clarinet

Purcell: Music for a While
Finzi: Prelude, Carol and Fughetta (5 Bagatelles for clarinet and piano)
Mozart: Das Veilchen; Abendempfindung; Dans un bois solitaire
Strauss: Ich schwebe; Die Nacht; Ständchen; Schlagende Herzen
Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano
Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock

 
12 March 2010
 
7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
London
SE1 8XX
United Kingdom

Details:
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office
Web site
E-mail
+44 (0)20 7840 4242
Address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP

Tickets £9-£38 Premium seats £55
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Gunther Herbig, conductor
Hélène Grimaud, piano

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Brahms: Symphony 2

JTI Friday Series

It was Schumann's unflinching adoration for his pianist wife Clara that spawned the Piano Concerto, a love-letter in music that offers a touching insight into one of the most famously passionate romances of the nineteenth century. But Schumann also took the young Johannes Brahms very much to heart, who he said would 'spring like Minerva from the head of Jove' to take the compositional world by storm. He was only partly right; the First Symphony heard on 11 December took Brahms a painstaking fourteen years to write. But the Second did indeed spring forth like Minerva, flowing as seamlessly as a stream, abounding in pure, exhilarating joy.
 
7.30pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 4JJ
United Kingdom

Details:
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Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

LMA Orchestra
Ofer Falk

Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Pachelbel: Canon
Mozart: Salzburg Symphony No 3 in F
Bizet: Carmen Suite
Gershwin: Greatest Hits Orchestral Melody
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 5
Monti: Czardas

A Mozart classic meets gypsy melodies and Gershwin's favourite tunes. Join LMA Orchestra with guest violinist Ofer Falk for this magical programme.
 
9pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Singer-Songwriters Music in the Round, Mark Aaron James and Friends

 
13 March 2010
 
7.30pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Live on Delancey Street with Nathan Watson and Friends

 
14 March 2010
 
11am
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

Details:
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Morning Recital of unaccompanied Bach from cellist Joe Zeitlin

 
11.30am
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
London
SE1 8XX
United Kingdom

Details:
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office
Web site
E-mail
+44 (0)20 7840 4242
Address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP

Tickets Child £4-7, Adult £8-14
London Philharmonic Orchestra FUNharmonics Family Concert - Dreams

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Stuart Stratford, conductor
Chris Jarvis, presenter

Davenport: In the Night Garden (theme)
Debussy: Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune (excerpt)
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Marianelli: New work
various: Classical lullabies
Silvestri: The Polar Express (theme)

Everyone dreams - so whatever your age, as the theme from In the Night Garden begins, prepare your imagination for a fantastical musical journey and a surreal dreamtime experience. The sights and sounds along the way may enchant or terrify.

Foyer Events throughout the morning
You can try your hand at playing an orchestral instrument in one of our Have-a-Go sessions, get your face painted or join our human orchestra – in the foyers before and after the performance.

Generously supported by The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust.
 
2pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Come and enjoy a Mother's Day meal with a selection of live jazz standards with Karen Street

 
6pm
St Mary-the-Virgin
Primrose Hill Road
London
NW3 3DJ
United Kingdom

Details:
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Camden Chamber Choir - Music of the English Baroque

Jane Sheriff, soprano
Anne-Isabel Meyer, cello
Camden Chamber Choir
Peter Lea-Cox, conductor

Works by Thomas Arne, William Boyce, William Croft, Maurice Greene and John Weldon

The church is on the corner of King Henry's Road, Elsworthy Road and Primrose Hill Road. Nearest tube: Swiss Cottage/Chalk Farm
 
16 March 2010
 
7.30pm
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
London
SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom

Details:
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Nicholas Cleobury conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in this evening of reflective music

 
17 March 2010
 
7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
London
SE1 8XX
United Kingdom

Details:
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office
Web site
E-mail
+44 (0)20 7840 4242
Address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP

Tickets £9-£38 Premium seats £55
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

What is life without the warmth and inspiration of human affection? When virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim bounded into Brahms' life like an energetic puppy, he utterly overwhelmed the composer, drawing from him a violin concerto that's at once poised and playful. Béla Bartók - alone, exiled, ill and poor - might well have thought his compositional life over in 1943. His friend the conductor Serge Koussevitsky thought otherwise. He re-energised Bartók with encouragement and a major commission. Eight weeks later Bartók delivered his Concerto for Orchestra - a percussive, irrepressible and playful firecracker of a piece.

6-6.45pm
Free | Royal Festival Hall
A performance by Lambeth and Southwark school children marking the culmination of their composition project, inspired by this evening's repertoire.
 
7.30pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

Details:
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Two Duos at The Forge

 
18 March 2010
 
7.30pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2
United Kingdom

Details:
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£6-24
Handel Messiah

English Baroque Choir
Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
Jeremy Jackman, conductor

Handel: Messiah

 
7.30pm
St Andrew Holborn
5 St Andrew Street
London
EC4A 3AB
United Kingdom

Details:
Robin
Web site
+44 (0)20 8893 4322

Tickets £12, concessions £8, available by phone, online or at the door
Two Fathers of Musick - Tallis and Byrd in Elizabeth's England

Clare Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano
Orlando Chamber Choir
James Weeks, director and organ

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585):
Loquebantur variis linguis
Salvator mundi I
In ieiunio et fletu
Eight tunes for Archbishop Parker's psalter
O nata lux

William Byrd (1539-1623):
Miserere mihi Domine
What steps of strife
From virgin's womb
Haec dies
Sing joyfully
This sweet and merry month of May
Though Amaryllis
Rejoice, rejoice
Mass for four voices
Ye sacred muses
Justorum animae
O God that guides the cheerful sun

A concert that contrasts two early English masters, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, setting them within the glittering but turbulent world of Queen Elizabeth's court. Motets and anthems, airs and fancies, songs and psalms paint a rounded picture of their fascinating musical world.
 
7.30pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

Details:
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Dialogues Trio

 
19 March 2010
 
7.30pm
St John's
Smith Square
London
SW1
United Kingdom

Details:
Box office +44 (0)20 7222 1061

£20, 15, 10
The Romantic Piano Transcription

Henriette Gaertner

Galuppi: Sonata
Beethoven: Bagatelles and 'Moonlight' sonata
Bach-Tausig: Toccata in D
Rossini-Herz: Non Piu Mesta
Verdi-Liszt: Rigoletto Paraphrase
Schumann-Levinson: 'Der Nussbaum'
Wagner-Liszt: Der Ritt der Walkuren

Rarely performed virtuoso piano transcriptions
 
9pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Adriano Adewale Group

 
20 March 2010
 
4.30pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 4JJ
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
E-mail
+44 (0)20 7766 1100 ext 2

Adults £8, children £6
Mini Maestro Family Concert - Vivaldi Four Seasons

LMA Orchestra

"Great Music for Little Ears"

Come and join our musical playground where everyone can listen, learn and join in lots of fun and games. Featuring Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

We look forward to seeing you there!
 
7.30pm
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
London
SW1X 9DQ
United Arab Emirates

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Rising star soprano Elizabeth Watts performs with City of London Sinfonia

Elizabeth Watts, soprano
City of London Sinfonia
Douglas Boyd, conductor

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été (arr. Matthews)
Mahler: Symphony No.4 (arr. Stein)

 
7.30pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

Details:
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Twenty21 - a contemporary music ensemble with a difference

 
7.30pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 4JJ
United Kingdom

Details:
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Vivaldi Four Seasons

LMA Orchestra

Vivaldi: Sinfonia 'Alla Rustica'
Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D
Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Bach: Dances from Suite No 3
Handel: Concerto Grosso in C 'Alexander's Feast'
Vivaldi: Four Seasons

Join LMA Ensemble for a hit parade of favourite baroque pieces with Pachelbel's Canon, Handel's Queen of Sheba and Alexander's Feast. With special guest Joshua Fisher, Violin. Including a special Mini Masterclass about the music during the interval!
 
7.30pm
Holy Innocents and St John's Church
Paddenswick Road, Hammersmith
London
W6 0UB
United Kingdom

Details:
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Polychoral Venice: A Celebration of Gabrieli's 500th Anniversary

 
21 March 2010
 
11am
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Lawson Trio

 
11.30pm
Lauderdale House
Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill
London
N6 5HG
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
+44 (0)20 8348 8716

£7 (concessions £5, schoolchildren £1)
Cassandra Mansi, viola

J S Bach: Cello Suite No 3 (arranged for viola)
R Schumann: Marchenbilder Op 113 for viola and piano
York Bowen: Sonata No 2 for viola and piano

At the age of 16 Cassandra gained a place at the junior department of the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Jonathan Barritt, where she was principal viola of the JRAM Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 she gained an undergraduate place to continue at the Royal Academy of Music, and this year was invited to lead the viola section in the Amadeus Symphony Orchestra, and in October 2009 she made her debut solo concert at the Royal Academy of Music.
 
23 March 2010
 
7pm
St Anselm's and St Cecilia's RC Church
70 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Kingsway
London
WC2A 3JA
United Kingdom

Details:
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Admission free with a retiring collection
Giltspur Singers' Spring Concert

The Giltspur Singers
Christopher Maxim, conductor

Anerio: Christus factus est
Ingegneri: In monte oliveti
Palestrina: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Bruckner: Christus factus est
Leighton: Drop, drop slow tears
Christopher Maxim: Salve Regina
Pärt: Which was the son of...
de Séverac: Tantum ergo
Kodály: Jesus and the traders

A concert of music for the Lenten season, including music by Renaissance masters, Bruckner, Kenneth Leighton, and de Séverac. The performance will also feature Arvo Pärt's "Which was the Son of...", Christopher Maxim's "Salve Regina" (published by the Royal School of Church Music) and Kodály's magnificent work "Jesus and the Traders".
 
24 March 2010
 
6.45pm
Temple Church
Off Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 7BB
United Kingdom

Details:
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Gioachino Rossini: Petite Messe Solonnelle

 
7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road
London
SE1 8XX
United Kingdom

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Charles Dutoit conducts the Firebird

Charles Dutoit, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2
Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet score)

Unlike tonight's opener, based on liturgical references, Prokofiev's 1913 Second Piano Concerto apparently terrified and scandalised the audience, some of whom dived for the exits! There is, of course, nothing to fear and much to admire in this extraordinary work, combining full-blooded, romantic tunes with the blistering, brittle keyboard virtuosity that characterised the young Prokofiev.

When Stravinsky was approached by Ballet Russes founder Diaghilev to write the score for The Firebird, he was relatively unknown as a composer, and the highly successful première of the ballet in 1910 brought him enormous acclaim.
 
7.30pm
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
London
SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom

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Charles Dutoit conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Yuja Wang on the piano

 
25 March 2010
 
7.30pm
Lauderdale House
Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill
London
N6 5HG
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
+44 (0)7905 117 785

£10 (concessions £8)
Fragrant Flora – Depictions of Flora in Music

Baroque Encounter:
Glenn Kesby, counter tenor
Lauren Brant, recorders
Claire Williams, piano

English folk songs
Handel
Pepusch: Spring Cantata 'Fragrant Flora'

Welcoming the arrival of spring, Baroque Encounter highlight how composers have depicted flora in music to create moods, evoke images and express love.
www.baroque-encounter.com
www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroque
 
7.30pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

Details:
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Song Recital by Laura Mitchell (soprano) and Charlotte Forrest (piano)

 
7.30pm
Grosvenor Chapel
South Audley Street, Mayfair
London
W1K 2PA
United Kingdom

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Sacred music by Eric Whitacre, Cecilia McDowall, Romuald Twardowski, Kodály and Meyerbeer

 
26 March 2010
 
9pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Manu Delago and Handmade

 
28 March 2010
 
11am
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

Details:
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London Conchord Ensemble

Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 1
Fauré: Piano Quartet No 1 in C Minor Op 13

 
2pm
Forge Music Venue
3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town
London
NW1 7NL
United Kingdom

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Jazz afternoon with Anita Wardell

 
4.30pm
Lauderdale House
Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill
London
N6 5HG
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
+44 (0)20 8348 8716

£13 (concessions £11)
Nicola Sloane supported by Paul Brangan

Nicola Sloane, vocals
Paul Brangan (vocals
Hosted by Valerie Cutko, vocals
Stephen Hose, piano

Cabaret

A versatile performer, Nicola has just returned from filming Season of the Witch alongside Nicholas Cage. Her West End stage credits include A Little Night Music, The Sound of Music, Acorn Antiques: The Musical, and Les Miserables. She was the original woman in 'The Woman in Black' (Fortune Theatre).
Paul has extensive cabaret experience in Ireland and London. Whilst training he created the role of Roscoe in Charles Miller’s Big Top at the Bridewell Theatre.
 
7.30pm
St Johns Church
Friern Barnet Road
London
N11 3EQ
United Kingdom

Details:
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Adults £8, children under 16 free
Natalie Clein and the Barnet Symphony Orchestra

Natalie Clein, cello
Barnet Symphony Orchestra

Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra op. 125
Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite

Come and hear Natalie Clein, one of our leading cellists, play Prokofiev's wonderful symphony concerto. Programmed with two other great orchestral favourites this should make for a fabulous musical evening.
 
8pm
Lauderdale House
Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill
London
N6 5HG
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
+44 (0)20 8144 3421

£10 (concessions £8) in advance; £12 (concessions £10) at the door
Kantos: Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Songs and Music

Kantos:
Monica Acosta, voice
Stephen Homes, guitar
Ilana Cravitz, violin
Ulises Diaz, percussion

A concert of beautiful Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) songs, to include traditional melodies for the festival of Passover (Pesach) and some joyful wedding songs.

www.monicaacosta.com
 


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