Classical Concerts in London UK - A selection of forthcoming live music

Classical Concerts in London UK
A selection of forthcoming live music

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25 September 2017
1.10pm St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site	An Evening in Seville Echoes Festival

28 September 2017
7pm Bolívar Hall 54, Grafton Way London W1T 5DL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Centenary Homage to Antonio Lauro Echoes Festival

29 September 2017
7.30pm The Wallace Collection (Great Gallery) Hertford House, Manchester Square, Marylebone London W1U 3BN United Kingdom Details: Web site	Clara Mouriz and Iain Burnside

7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: E-mail +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £12, concessions £8	Serenata: Music by 19th-Century Women Composers Members of Serenata Songs and piano music by nineteenth-century women composers, including Liza Lehmann: In a Persian Garden Amy Woodford-Finden: Indian Love Lyrics Tickets available at the door. Box office: +44 (0)20 8340 2983 Tickets available in advance by sending a cheque payable to Serenata and stamped addressed envelope to Serenata Box Office, 141 Norfolk Avenue, London N13 6AL.

30 September 2017
7pm St Cuthbert's 50 Philbeach Gardens London SW5 9EB United Kingdom Details: Web site	Francisco Miguel Jimeno Yepes and his string quartet Beethoven: Quartet Op 18 No 4 David Bozzo: Quartet 'A la muerte de un Ángel' Schubert: Quartet in E flat, DV87

3 October 2017
1.15pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site E-mail +44 (0)20 8348 8716 Free Concert - no booking needed	Members of The Meritus Collective Members of The Meritus Collective Mozart, arranged Hummel for flute, violin, cello and piano: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K 466 Free Lunchtime Concerts The recital ends at about 2pm. The Meritus Collective was established to bring together musicians of all instruments who shared a passion for chamber music and to provide platforms from which to perform. Members have mostly trained at the major conservatoires in Britain and between them have performed in chamber groups all around the world and orchestras including the London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. Meritus was the pseudonym of Felix Mendelssohn given to the young composer by Robert Schumann. It translates roughly as 'happy through merit' which is an inspiring yet effective byword for this young and dynamic group of musicians who will be bringing a varied and exciting set of programmes to Lauderdale House over the course of the year. The recital will take place in the Long Gallery, using our newly- refurbished 9ft Erard kindly provided by Markson Pianos, one of the most respected piano specialists in Great Britain www.marksonpianos.com

5 October 2017
7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site E-mail £25. No concessions	Madame Viardot's Salon Members of Salon Musical and Test-of-Time Entertainment Songs, violin and piano music by Fauré, Chopin, Duparc and Elgar Poetry by Baudelaire Salon Musical is a unique show of theatre and music where audience members escape the every-day and venture into a world of beautiful music and poetry as well as flirtation, gossip and intrigue. A cast of five young professional performers, two singers, an actor, a violinist and a pianist, all graduates from the top London music and drama conservatoires, play historical characters and weave together music and scripted dialogue. The show's creation has involved academic research as well as professional direction and costume design. Experience has shown that the shows bring alive the past in an informative yet entertaining way. The performers engage with the audience throughout the evening to create a relaxed, immersive and intimate social gathering. Picture yourself as a guest at the home of celebrated 19th century singer, composer and pianist Pauline Viardot, being introduced to emerging composer Gabriel Fauré, eminent and provocative poet Stéphane Mallarmé and their protégés. They will be performing their latest music and poetry and you will witness their spontaneous music-making. Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/SalonMusicalUK/ Twitter: @salonshows Test of Time facebook: @testoftimeentertainment Test of Time twitter: @testoftime2012 https://www.testoftimeentertainment

6 October 2017
7.30pm The Oak Building Herne Hill School 127 Herne Hill London SE24 9LY United Kingdom Details: Web site	Herne Hill Music Festival: Harp Recital - Alexander Thomas

8pm The Other Palace (Studio) 12 Palace Street London SW1E 5JA United Kingdom Details: Web site	Chopin in the Caribbean: Romantic Piano Music from Cuba, Curaçao and Venezuela Echoes Festival

7 October 2017
11am Herne Hill United Church Red Post Hill London SE24 9PW United Kingdom Details: Web site	Herne Hill Music Festival: Coffee Morning Music - Fuzion Trio

8pm The Half Moon 10 Half Moon Lane London SE24 9HU United Kingdom Details: Web site	Herne Hill Music Festival - Alt-classical - World Music - iyatraQuartet and syzygy

8 October 2017
1.30pm Brockwell Hall Brockwell Park London SE24 United Kingdom Details: Web site	Herne Hill Music Festival: Family Concert - Flautotonic

3.30pm St Saviour's Church St George's Square, Lupus Street, Pimlico London SW1V 3QW United Kingdom Details: Web site	Family Concert: Singing Through Spain with the Aglaia Trio Echoes Festival

10 October 2017
8pm Canopy Beer Arch 1127 Bath Factory Estate, 41 Norwood Road London SE24 9AJ United Kingdom Details: Web site	Herne Hill Music Festival: Gorgeous Guitars - Peter Black and Steve Morrison

11 October 2017
7.30pm The Oak Building, Herne Hill School 127 Herne Hill London SE24 9LY United Kingdom Details: Web site	Herne Hill Music Festival: Dance with the Winds - London Consorts of Winds

13 October 2017
1.10pm St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Tessitori, viola-guitar duo - Iberian Music Echoes Festival

7.30pm St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2DH United Kingdom Details: Web site £12 ('earlybird' discount) / £15 \| £10 (students)	There is Sweet Music Londinium, chamber choir Andrew Griffiths, conductor Michael Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air Orlande de Lassus: Musica Dei donum optimi Howard Skempton: Music (Let me go where’er I will) Frank Bridge: Music, when soft voices die Ralph Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music Johann Sebastian Bach: Singet dem Herrn Arvo Pärt: Solfeggio Edward Elgar: There is Sweet Music Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands Johannes Brahms: Abendständchen Zoltán Kodály: An Ode for Music William Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis Thomas Tomkins: Music Divine Elliott Carter: Musicians Wrestle Everywhere To open its 2017-18 season, Londinium presents a beguiling programme celebrating the essence of music itself. From the sixteenth century to the present day, composers have risen superbly to the challenge of setting words describing their own art, and our selection offers a veritable feast of the finest choral music, both sacred and secular. Ethereal works by Lassus, Tomkins, and Vaughan Williams rub shoulders with vivacious music by Gibbons, Tippett, and Elliott Carter, whilst the familiar worlds of Byrd, Brahms and Elgar are offset by little-known gems by Frank Bridge, Zoltán Kodály, Howard Skempton and Arvo Pärt. The centrepiece is a dazzling evocation of music-making in the service of the divine, in the shape of Bach's most virtuosic motet, 'Singet dem Herrn'.

14 October 2017
7.30pm St Faith's Church Red Post Hill London SE24 9JQ United Kingdom Details: Web site	Herne Hill Music Festival: Charity Concert for Practical Action: Haruko Seki Piano Recital

22 October 2017
3pm St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7222 1061	Julian Jacobson, piano - Beethoven, Schubert and Prokofiev Beethoven: 'Eroica' Variations, Op 35 Schubert: Four Impromptus, D 899 Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 6 in A, Op 82

29 October 2017
7pm Barbican (Milton Court Concert Hall) Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH United Kingdom Details: Web site	'PanAmericana': A Concert of Musical Border-Crossings Through the Americas Echoes Festival

2 November 2017
7pm King's College (Chapel) Strand Lane London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom Details: Web site	Fernando Espí, guitar - Antonio Torres 200 Echoes Festival

8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site E-mail +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £12, concessions £10, students £7	Leon Greening Trio Leon Greening Trio : Leon Greening, piano Adam King, bass Steve Brown, drums For those who love their piano-playing to be soaked in the bop, blues and gospel flavours of giants lke Wynton Kelly, Bobby Timmons and Horace Silver, Leon is THE man. No one builds a solo with ever-mounting excitement as he does. Well, not in the UK anyway! Jazz in the House TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE ONLY Due to technical issues with our online payment system tickets are not currently available to purchase online. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance please call 020 8348 8716 or email enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk. A long-time favourite and one of the most popular side men in London, Leon makes a long overdue return with his superlative trio of Brown, the best straight-ahead swing drummer in the country and King, winner of a Worshipful Company of Musicians Best Young Musician Award.

8 November 2017
1.10pm St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Pedro López, flute and Panaretos Kyriatzidis, piano: History of the Tango Echoes Festival

9 November 2017
7.30pm Barbican Hall Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site	Britten Sinfonia - Elder conducts Brahms Mark Elder conducts Britten Sinfonia in an intimate chamber orchestra performance of Brahms, Finzi and Mahler

7.30pm Barbican Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)207 638 8891 £15-45	Elder conducts Brahms Elisabeth Kulman, mezzo-soprano Britten Sinfonia Mark Elder, conductor Finzi: The Fall of the Leaf Mahler arr. Britten: What the Wild Flowers tell me Mahler: Rückert-Lieder Brahms: Symphony No 1 Brahms’s First Symphony, one of the greatest of all Romantic symphonies, was first performed with considerably smaller musical forces than we are used to hearing today. Sir Mark Elder conducts Britten Sinfonia in a performance that returns to the spirit of those early concerts and allows the details of Brahms’s extraordinary lyrical masterpiece to shine through. To accompany the work, Elder has chosen Mahler’s sublime Rückert-Lieder, with mezzo Elisabeth Kulman, and Finzi’s soaring elegy for orchestra. Benjamin Britten’s arrangement of the second movement of Mahler’s Third Symphony completes the eloquent programme.

10 November 2017
7.30pm The Wallace Collection (Great Gallery) Hertford House, Manchester Square, Marylebone London W1U 3BN United Kingdom Details: Web site	La Grande Chapelle: Music in the Time of El Greco Echoes Festival

11 November 2017
9.30am The Wallace Collection (Great Gallery) Hertford House, Manchester Square, Marylebone London W1U 3BN United Kingdom Details: Web site	Come & Sing the Victoria Requiem! Echoes Festival

17 November 2017
1pm Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street London W1U 2BP United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7935 2141 £15	Britten Sinfonia: At Lunch One Nik Bärtsch, piano Laura Lucas, flute Joy Farrall, principal clarinet Roger Linley, double bass James Woodrow, electric guitar Sarah Kirkland Snider: Pale as Centuries OPUS2017 Winner: New work (world premiere tour) Judd Greenstein: City Boy Nik Bärtsch: New work (world premiere tour) Nik Bärtsch's music was praised by The New York Times for blending 'post-modernism with a precision groove honed in the spirit of James Brown'. As curator, Bärtsch has set his latest work alongside works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Judd Greenstein and the winner of OPUS2017, Britten Sinfonia's competition for unpublished composers. Wigmore Hall - Pre Concert Talk, 12.15pm Nik Bärtsch and the OPUS2017 winner talk to Dr Kate Kennedy about their new works.

18 November 2017
11am Pushkin House 5A Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2TA United Kingdom Details: Juan Rezzuto Web site E-mail +44 (0)20 7101 4479	6th Music Festival WKMT All members and non-members of WKMT will perform one piece which they have gone through all this time studying it at WKMT. Also, parents and friends of the members will have access to the festival. In case you are not a member of the community, you can also take advantage of this chance to perform in front of the audience and also be recorded professionally. The first part of the festival will be dedicated to performances by children. The second part, late afternoon and evening will be for adults. There will be some drinks and canapes between and after the parts.

19 November 2017
4.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site E-mail +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £16. Concessions £14. With Afternoon Tea 25.50 or 28.50	Gerard McCarthy Gerard McCarthy, singer Support singer to be confirmed Tim McCarthy, host Cabaret at Tea-Time Gerard was awarded Sir Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Scholarship to train as an actor. He first found fame playing Kris in Hollyoaks and has recently played Kevin McSwain in BBC 2's BAFTA nominated drama The Fall starring Gillian Anderson. He played alongside Sir Derek Jacobi, Neve Campbell and Joely Richardson as Ashley Stokes in Titanic: Blood & Steel, an epic 12 part series charting the extraordinary construction of RMS Titanic in the shipyards of Edwardian Belfast. The series was nominated for 5 IFTA Awards including Best Series. Recently he has played Brondsted in the first episode of Michael Hirst's brand-new History Channel series Vikings starring Gabriel Byrne. On stage, McCarthy made his Shakespeare debut as Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor at The Globe in London. Most recently on stage he has played opposite Robert Bathurst as Dr Bruce Flaherty in Joe Penhall's multi-award-winning play Blue/Orange, and has appeared in the UK premiere of It's A Wonderful Life, and as Tony in Beautiful Thing. TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE ONLY Due to technical issues with our online payment system tickets are not currently available to purchase online. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance please ring 020 8348 8716 or email enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk. Please see our web site for details of our Afternoon Tea Menus. These are served from 3.30pm.

26 November 2017
3pm St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7222 1061	Julian Jacobson, piano - Schubert, Beethoven and Prokofiev Schubert: Sonata in D, D 850 Beethoven: 'Moonlight' Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor, 'Quasi una fantasia' Prokofiev: Sonata No 7 in B flat, Op 83, 'Stalingrad'

2 December 2017
7.30pm Barbican Hall Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site	Bernstein: Chichester Psalms - Britten Sinfonia

7.30pm Barbican Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)845 548 7650 £10-50	Britten Sinfonia and Kings College Choir: Chichester Psalms Ailish Tynan, soprano Neal Davies, baritone King’s College Choir Stephen Cleobury, conductor Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave, violin/director Emma Ruth Richards: new work (William Alwyn Foundation commission, first performance) Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem Written in 1965, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, with its brass, harps and exquisite solo for boy treble, provides an exhilarating invocation of the composer’s hopes for brotherhood and peace, sentiments mirrored by Vaughan Williams impassioned Dona nobis pacem. The world-renowned King’s College Choir of Cambridge joins Britten Sinfonia for performances of both works, conducted by Stephen Cleobury. The concert opens with the world premiere of a new work by Emma-Ruth Richards, directed by Britten Sinfonia leader Jacqueline Shave.

24 January 2018
1pm Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street London W1U 2BP United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7935 2141 £15	Britten Sinfonia: At Lunch Two Jacqueline Shave, leader Caroline Dearnley, principal cello Huw Watkins, principal piano Biber: Annunciation Sonata 1 Philip Glass: Orbit Leo Chadburn: New work (world premiere tour) Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel Mozart: Piano Trio in B Flat Leo Chadburn’s new work for piano trio and electronics is set amongst chamber repertoire both new and old. The programme will showcase each instrument in the piano trio, from the softly-evolving cello melody in Philip Glass’ Orbit to the interaction of violin and piano in Arvo Pärt’s poignant Spiegel im Spiegel. Wigmore Hall – Pre Concert Talk, 12.15pm Leo Chadburn talks to Dr Kate Kennedy about his new work.

11 February 2018
3pm St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7222 1061	Julian Jacobson, piano - Beethoven, Schubert and Prokofiev Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 8 Op 13, 'Pathétique' Schubert: Piano Sonata No 20 in A, D 959 Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 8 Op 84

27 February 2018
7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH United Kingdom Details: Web site	Jeremy Denk, piano and Britten Sinfonia - rhapsody of jazz and dance-inspired music by Gershwin and Stravinsky

7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7638 8891 £15-30	Britten Sinfonia: Rhapsody in Blue with Jeremy Denk Jeremy Denk, piano To include; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version) Stravinsky: Concerto for piano and winds From its opening clarinet glissando Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue has become synonymous with 1920s America and its popularity continues to this day. Performed here in the original jazz band arrangement with acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk the work is paired with Stravinsky’s rhythmically complex Concerto for piano and wind. Both works explore rhythm from the syncopated cadenzas in Stravinsky to the abundant use of dance and ragtime rhythms in Gershwin.

11 March 2018
3pm St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7222 1061	Julian Jacobson, piano and Mariko Brown, piano - Schubert, Beethoven, Prokofiev and Gershwin Schubert: Fantasie in C, D 760, 'Wanderer Fantasy' Beethoven: Sonata No 23 in F minor, Op 57, 'Appassionata' Prokofiev: Selections from Ten Pieces, Op 75, 'Romeo and Juliet': No 1, 'Folk Dance' Prokofiev: No 4, 'The Young Juliet' Prokofiev: No 6, 'Montagues and Capulets' Prokofiev: No 10, 'Romeo Bids Juliet Farewell' Gershwin, transcribed by Julian Jacobson: An American In Paris (for piano four hands)

28 March 2018
7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH United Kingdom Details: Web site	Britten Sinfonia - Stravinsky and Mozart Britten Sinfonia celebrates Easter with a double-bill of choral masterpieces: Stravinsky’s Mass and Mozart's Missa Brevis.

7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7638 8891 £15-30	Britten Sinfonia: Easter Voices Ben Goldscheider, horn Britten Sinfonia Voices Eamonn Dougan, conductor Mozart: Venite populi Stravinsky: Fanfare for a New Theater Mozart: Missa Brevis in F, K192 Stravinsky: Pater noster, Ave Maria Esa-Pekka Salonen: Concert etude for solo horn Stravinsky: Mass The talents of the acclaimed Britten Sinfonia Voices, conducted by Eamonn Dougan, are showcased in a special Easter concert featuring two masses written 170 years apart. Stravinsky considered function as important as form and composed his Mass, which many consider his finest religious work, for church use, writing 'religious music without religion is almost always vulgar'. The Mass features gorgeous harmonic colours, animating the text of the Roman Catholic liturgy with voice, wind and brass. In the run-up to writing his own Mass, Stravinsky stumbled across a handful of Mozart’s masses in a Los Angeles bookshop; Britten Sinfonia’s Easter celebration is completed by Mozart’s beautiful Missa Brevis.

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