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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 10 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | Fibonacci Sequence: Julian Farrell (clarinet) Kathron Sturrock (piano) with guest artist Ann Mackay |
| 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre London United Kingdom Details: Web site £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 +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: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | 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: Web site | 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 +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 Details: Web site | 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: Web site | 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: Web site | 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 +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: Web site | Two Duos at The Forge |
| 18 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2 United Kingdom Details: Web site £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: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | Adriano Adewale Group |
| 20 March 2010 | |
| 4.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ United Kingdom Details: Web site +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 Details: Web site | 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: Web site | Twenty21 - a contemporary music ensemble with a difference |
| 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ United Kingdom Details: Web site | 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: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | 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: Web site 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: Web site | Gioachino Rossini: Petite Messe Solonnelle |
| 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX United Kingdom Details: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | 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: Web site | Song Recital by Laura Mitchell (soprano) and Charlotte Forrest (piano) |
| 7.30pm Grosvenor Chapel South Audley Street, Mayfair London W1K 2PA United Kingdom Details: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | Manu Delago and Handmade |
| 28 March 2010 | |
| 11am Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | 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 Details: Web site | 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: Web site 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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