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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 21 June 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: +44 (0)7786 038 761 £20, concessions £15 | L’Elisir D’Amore by Gaetano Donizetti Members of Villa InCanto The emotion of an entire opera in little over an hour. From Verona, Italy, Opera Villa InCanto bring their alternative to staged operas to Lauderdale House. This is a powerful but intimate show by an excellent cast of singers who have sung across Europe. |
| 23 June 2013 | |
| 11am Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Caminetto Voices Keys and Coffee Concert Series A programme of vocal music to enjoy with your Sunday coffee, including Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes for vocal quartet, and songs and arias by Mozart and Wolf. |
| 11am The Forge, Camden 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Joanna Web site +44 (0)20 7383 7808 £10 (full), £8 (concessions), £4 (children) | Keys & Coffee Caminetto Voices: Hannah Berridge, soprano Joanna Harries, mezzo-soprano Philip Kennedy, tenor Laurence Williams, bass Ben-San Lau, piano Michael Waldron, piano To include: Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op 52 for vocal quartet Songs by Mozart, Schumann and Wolf Complimentary tea and coffee will be served from 10:30am in the glazed courtyard. Brunch and Sunday Roast available at The Foundry restaurant before and after the concert. |
| 26 June 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Violinist Mandhira de Saram is joined by pianist and wine connoisseur James Sherlock Concert Bites |
| 27 June 2013 | |
| 7pm Pushkin House 5a Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2TA United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)7466 695194 £7-10 | The Treasures of Russian Opera Olga Adamovic, soprano Roberta Terchi Nocentini, piano Dargomyzhsky: Rusalka’s aria (Rusalka) Tchaikovsky: Iolanta Iolanta’s arioso (Iolanta) Tchaikovsky: Maria’s arioso (Mazepa) Rimsky-Korsakov: Maria’s song (Pan Voyevoda) Cui: Aniesa’s aria (The Saracen) Rimsky-Korsakov: Lullaby of Volkhova (Sadko) Tchaikovsky: Liza’s Arioso (The Queen of Spades) Musorgsky: Parasya’s dream song (Sorochintsï Fair) Rachmaninov: Francesca’s aria (Francesca da Rimini) Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden The Death scene Rimsky-Korsakov: Servilya’s aria (Servilya) Rachmaninov: Zemfira’s song (Aleko) Tchaikovsky: Kuma’s arioso (The Enchantress) Tchaikovsky: Tatiana’s letter scene (Eugene Onegin) Two big talented and internationality famous musicians, the Russian-Italian lyric soprano Olga Adamovich-Basile (whose reputation is confermed by the silver medal from the City of Rome for her artistic achievements) and the Italian pianist Roberta Terchi Nocentini (who has collaborated with famous artists like the tenor Giuseppe Sabbatini or the trumpetist Sandro Verzari) are today forming a duo of excellence. During this collaboration with Pushkin's House, they will give the public a programme of high quality and rarity. They will perform arias by Russian opera's composers, letting the public go through the musical culture of Russia, showing listeners its colours prosperity and its deep passionate nature. The programme will carry the listeners from the love story beetween Francesca from Rimini and her Paolo by Rachmaninov to operas about historical subjects by Taneev amd Kiui (rarely performed), to finish with operas fables by Rimsky Korsakov and with tragic operas by Tchaikovskj on original verses from Pushkin's poems |
| 7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | International prize-winning pianist Anthony Hewitt performs evocative Russian piano music |
| 28 June 2013 | |
| 1.10pm St James's Piccadilly 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site Free - Retiring Collection | BPSE Lunchtime Recital Malcolm Troup, piano Ernest Bloch: 'Clowns' (first performance) Beethoven: Sonata Op 109 Benjamin Britten: Holiday Diary op 5 (to mark Britten Centenary) The concert is given in conjunction with the International Ernest Bloch Society (IEBS) |
| 29 June 2013 | |
| 7.45pm St Jude-on-the-Hill Central Square London NW11 7AH United Kingdom Details: Proms at St Jude's Web site +44 (0)20 8455 8687 £10, 17, 22 | Orchestra Nova Madeleine Mitchell, violin Orchestra Nova George Vass, conductor Mozart: Divertimento in F, K138 David Matthews: Romanza for violin and strings, Op 119 Elgar: Serenade in E minor, Op 20 Sibelius: Andante Festivo Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C, Op 48 Proms at St Jude's |
| 30 June 2013 | |
| 11.30am Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £7, concessions £5, schoolchildren £1 | Antonio Novais, cello, and Maya Soltan, piano Antonio Novais, cello Maya Soltan, piano Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata Britten: Cello Sonata Family-Friendly Series Portuguese cellist António Novais has been playing with the European Union Youth Orchestra since 1997, with whom he performed in many prestigious concert halls across Europe and Asia and was awarded the Sir Robert Bellinger Award. He is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music. |
| 3pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Left-hand virtuoso pianist Stefan Warzycki performs seminal works for left-hand piano |
| 2 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Radar VII - Spotlight Romania Mercury Quartet: Vlad Maistorovici, violin/viola Corentin Chassard, cello Antoine Francoise, piano/saxes Harry Cameron-Penny, clarinets Niculescu: Echos II (first UK performance) Diana Rotaru: new commission Oliver Weeks: new commission Julian Anderson: Bearded Lady Dan Dediu: Concert Gotic (first UK performance) After a very successful first year of the RADAR series, the Mercury Quartet returns to present new commissions alongside the great masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. This season, each concert will represent the music form the quartet members' own origins: England, Romania, France and Switzerland. |
| 3 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm St Pancras Old Church Pancras Road London NW1 1UL United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)844 8700 887 £12 (£10 concessions) | In Peascod Time Passamezzo: Eleanor Cramer, soprano, viols Arngeir Hauksson, lute, guitar, bass Alison Kinder, viols, recorders Tamsin Lewis, Renaissance violin, viols, alto Jack Merivale, actor, baritone 16th and 17th century music, words and song for Summer and the Harvest: Ballads, Lutesongs, Consort Music, Madrigals and Readings Includes music by Bennet, Campion, Cavendish, East, Greene, Pilkington, Purcell, Robinson and Wilbye. Words from Breton, Herrick, Nashe and Shakespeare. Tickets from 0844 8700 887, www.ticketsource.co.uk/passamezzo or at the door |
| 6 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Harrow School Speech Room High St Harrow on the Hill HA1 3HP United Kingdom Details: Web site | The world-famous London Welsh Male Voice Choir perform a glorious programme of choral classics |
| 7 July 2013 | |
| 11.30am Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £7, concessions £5, schoolchildren £1 | Antara Thomas Hancox, flute Rachel Wick, harp Mozart: Andante in C, K315 Alwyn: Naiades Jongen: Danse Lente Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango Andy Scott: And Everything is Still Family-Friendly Series These Royal Academy of Music postgraduates have performed around the country, with performances ranging from recitals in major concert venues to performances at stately homes and the royal palaces. Last year they played as orchestral principals for a large-scale project directed by the conductor-composer John Adams, with concerts at the BBC Proms and at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center. |
| 11 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook London EC4 8BN United Kingdom Details: Web site | In the beginning London Concord Singers Malcolm Cottle, conductor Copland: In The Beginning Byrd: Mass for Five Voices Bernard Hughes: Two Choral Fanfares Francis Poulenc: Salve Regina Motets by Lassus, Victoria and Gabrieli |
| 13 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Harrow School Speech Room High St Harrow on the Hill HA1 3HP United Kingdom Details: Web site | Be transported back to the golden age of swing music at St Luke’s Proms Swingin’ Big Band Special |
| 7.30pm Wathen Hall, St Paul's School Lonsdale Rd, Barnes London SW13 9JJ United Kingdom Details: Web site | The Addison Singers - Hymns, Spirituals & Folksongs Addison Oratorio and Chamber Choirs Matthew Hough, piano David Wordsworth, conductor Lauridsen: Dirait-on Gardner: American Hymns Rutter: Feel the Spirit Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia Grainger: Folksong settings Lilli Boulanger: Hymn to the Sun |
| 14 July 2013 | |
| 6.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)7876 652 607 £10 (£8 advance booking) | The Sounds of Summer Members of The Moving Chamber Choir A choral evening of songs for the summer. We shall entertain you with a selection of wonderful madrigals, traditional folk songs and some favourite musical theatre numbers. |
| 16 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Riot Ensemble + East Coast Contemporary Ensemble To include: John Aylward: Aura Helen Grime: Seven Pierrot Miniatures This concert brings together some of the most exciting young performances of contemporary music from the United States (ECCE Ensemble) and England (The Riot Ensemble) presenting two world premieres alongside works by John Aylward (USA) and Helen Grime (UK). This concert will also feature the English premiere of the 2013 Etchings Prize-winning work, and will be conducted by The Riot Ensemble's Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum. |
| 19 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)7766 910 880 £10 | Folk and Fantasy Amanda Lake, violin Jessie Maryon Davies, piano Ravel: Violin Sonata Bach: Partita in E major Chausson: Poème Join this captivating duo for an evening of characterful and thought-provoking music. Enjoy Ravel's blues-infused Sonata, explore the dance movements of Bach's Partita in E major and be transported by Chausson's magical Poème. |
| 25 July 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Royal Albert Hall London United Kingdom Details: Web site | The Apotheosis of the Dance Clara Mouriz, mezzo-soprano BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena, conductor McCabe: Joybox (BBC Commission, first performance) Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat Ravel: Boléro BBC Proms 2013 event 17 |
| 2 August 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)7805 358 346 £10; concessions £8 | Over the Pond and Back Lorna James, soprano Tom Henderson, piano To include: Britten: Four Cabaret Songs Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson Michael Betteridge: Except for Love's Sake Only - a new setting of Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning A concert of British and American song, featuring composers from Elgar to Bernstein. |
| 8 August 2013 | |
| 8.15pm St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7222 1061 £10, 20, 28, 32 | Curlew River Nova Music Opera Richard Williams, director Janey Williams, designer George Vass, conductor Benjamin Britten: Curlew River, Op 71 7.30pm Pre-performance talk with Britten’s one time amanuensis, composer David Matthews |
| 25 August 2013 | |
| 1pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Brandon Allen Web site +44 (0)7976 379 891 £17.50; concessions £12.50 | The Alan Barnes Quartet plus special guest Scott Hamilton (USA) The Alan Barnes Quartet Scott Hamilton, tenor saxophone Highgate Jazz with Soul Festival. Alan Barnes the saxophonist, clarinettist, arranger, composer,compere and national jazz treasure leads the group. Alan's musical diversity has led him to work with Kenny Baker, Stan Tracey, Bjork and Van Morrison. American saxophonist Scott Hamilton has carried on the tradition of the classic jazz tenor saxophone in the style of Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins as well as those of Zoot Sims and Don Byas. All advance tickets available at www.BrandonAllen.co.uk (Highgate Jazz Festival page). Limited tickets available on the door on the day. Enquiries: 07976 379 891 |
| 8pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Brandon Allen Web site +44 (0)7976 379 891 £17.50; concessions £12.50 | Tina May and Nikki Iles Tina May, vocals Nikki Iles, piano Highgate Jazz with Soul Festival Tina May and Nikki Iles have a rapport that takes a partnership between singer and pianist to a stage far beyond mere voice plus accompaniment. A distinctive atmosphere surrounds everything they do together, a kind of wistfulness, even at the most lively moments. All advance tickets available at www.BrandonAllen.co.uk (Highgate Jazz Festival page). Limited tickets available on the door on the day. Enquiries: 07976 379 891 |
| 26 August 2013 | |
| 1pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Brandon Allen Web site +44 (0)7976 379 891 £17.50; concessions £12.50 | Bobby Wellins and Kate Williams Bobby Wellins, saxophone Kate Williams, piano Highgate Jazz with Soul Festival Limited tickets available on the door on the day. Scottish saxophonist Bobby Wellins is a legendary figure, best known for his collaboration with Stan Tracey on the British jazz album Under Milk Wood (1965). Jazz pianist/composer Kate Williams was born in London into a musical family (her father is the guitarist John Williams, her mother a classical pianist). A recipient of the John Dankworth Award For Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, she has gained a distinctive reputation as both a writer and performer. |
| 1pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Brandon Allen Web site +44 (0)7976 379 891 £17.50; concessions £12.50 | The Tough Tenors, featuring Alex Garnett and Brandon Allen Alex Garnett, saxophone Brandon Allen, saxophone Ross Stanley, keyboards Enzo Zirilli, drums Highgate Jazz with Soul Festival Ronnie Scott's regulars Alex Garnett and Brandon Allen pay homage to the tenor saxophone battles made famous by Stitt and Ammons, Lockjaw and Griffin, and Wardell and Dexter. The two saxes will be propelled by the organ-grinding talent of Ross Stanley and Italian drummer Enzo Zirilli. |
| 6 September 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)7786 038 761 £20; concessions £15 | La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Members of Opera VillaInCanto The emotion of an entire opera in little over an hour. Opera VillaInCanto bring their alternative to staged operas from Verona, Italy, to Lauderdale House. This is a powerful but intimate show by an excellent cast of singers who have sung across Europe. |
| 8 September 2013 | |
| 11am Herne Hill Station 301-303 Railton Road London SE24 0JN United Kingdom Details: Web site | Bandstand music at the Herne Hill Sunday Market Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
| 13 September 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8502 9239 £11; concessions £9 | Collaborations: Performers & Composers Together Now Felicity Hayward, soprano Catherine Herriott, piano Niall O’Riordan, flute Yeu-Meng Chan, piano To include new works by Alex Butters, Miriam Mackie and Jacob Shirley, plus established 20th- and 21st-century repertoire |
| 14 September 2013 | |
| 3pm St Saviour's Hall Herne Hill Road London SE24 0AY United Kingdom Details: Web site | Youth Jazz-Factor, first semi-final Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
| 15 September 2013 | |
| 11.30am Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site £7; concessions £5; schoolchildren £1 | The Tomoni Trio Kathy Batchelor, flute James Greenfield, cello Yukiko Shinohara, piano Family-Friendly Series This recital will include compositions by Weber, Piazzolla and Saint-Saëns alongside some re-arranged classics! These graduates of the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban College of Music will be exploring the varying types of music written for flute trio, including classical, jazz and tango. |
| 20 September 2013 | |
| 8pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site £7 at the door | Stephen Yates with Lauderdale Guitar Society: New Music Plus Classics Stephen Yates, guitar Members of the Lauderdale Guitar Society This is the second concert this year in collaboration with London Composers’ Forum for whom the Guitar Society has recently given a series of composition workshops. For anyone with a love of guitar music, especially with a return visit of award-winning guitarist/composer Stephen Yates, this is must-see. www.lauderdaleguitarsociety.org www.stephenyatesguitaristcomposer.co.uk |
| 23 September 2013 | |
| 8pm The Half Moon 10 Half Moon Lane London SE24 9HU United Kingdom Details: Web site | Jazz-Factor, first semi-final Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
| 27 September 2013 | |
| 7.30pm Regent Hall 275 Oxford Street London W1C 2DJ United Kingdom Details: Stephen Cottage Web site +44 (0) 7768 463059 £10 | The Swinsian Ensemble Inaugural London Concert The Swinsian Ensemble Justin Fung, conductor Vaughan Williams: Concerto Grosso Frank Bridge: Suite for String Orchestra Peter Warlock: Serenade for Strings Gustav Holst: St Paul's Suite anon: songs for voice and orchestra |
| 28 September 2013 | |
| 3pm St Saviour's Hall Herne Hill Road London SE24 0AY United Kingdom Details: Web site | Youth Jazz-Factor, second semi-final Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
| 30 September 2013 | |
| 8pm The Half Moon 10 Half Moon Lane London SE24 9HU United Kingdom Details: Web site | Jazz-Factor, second semi-final Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
| 11 October 2013 | |
| 8pm The Prince Regent 69 Dulwich Road London SE24 0NJ United Kingdom Details: Web site | Blues and Gypsy Jazz Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
| 12 October 2013 | |
| 11am Carnegie Library Herne Hill Road London SE24 0AG United Kingdom Details: Web site | The Calton String Quartet perform to library users and visitors Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
| 3pm St Saviour's Hall Herne Hill Road London SE24 0AY United Kingdom Details: Web site | Youth Jazz-Factor, the final of our competition for young jazz stars Herne Hill Music Festival 2013 |
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