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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 21 October 2017 | |
| 7pm St Cuthbert's Philbeach Gardens 50 Philbeach Gardens London SW5 9EB United Kingdom Details: Victor Ruiz Web site +44 (0)20 7101 4479 from £5 | Nika Shirocorad with WKMT Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op 23 Debussy: Preludes, Vol 1 Ravel: Oiseaux tristes (Sad Birds) Messiaen: Catalog of the Birds N Shirocorad: extracts from opera-musical Alice in Wonderland The fabulous and internationally awarded pianist, Nika Shirocorad, performs a very challenging recital. The aim of this concert is to raise funds for her charity NIKA YOUNG TALENTS. This foundation provides funds to gifted music students going through hardship and/or unable to afford their very needed music lessons. Concert Programme S.Rachmaninoff- preludes op.23. C.Debussy-preludes, vol.1 M.Ravel- "Oiseaux tristes'' (Sad Birds) O.Messiaen- " Catalog of the Birds" N.Shirocorad extracts from opera- musical " Alice in Wonderland" http://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/classical-concerts-london-by-wkmt http://www.nikashirocorad.com/ All the funds will be destinated to Nika Young Talents Foundation, for children/families unables to afford music lessons in the UK. |
| 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 +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 +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 +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. |
| 17 April 2018 | |
| 1pm West Road Concert Hall 11 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP United Kingdom Details: Web site | Caroline Shaw: new work (first performance) |
| 19 May 2018 | |
| 7.30pm Barbican Hall Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site | Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 5 Thomas Adès and Britten Sinfonia’s journey through Beethoven’s Symphonies reaches the half-way point. |
| 23 May 2018 | |
| 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH United Kingdom Details: Web site | Volatile substances: Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia mix the music of Beethoven and Gerald Barry |
| 24 May 2018 | |
| 7.30pm Barbican Hall Silk.Street London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom Details: Web site | Thomas Ades juxtaposes Beethoven’s life-affirming Symphony No 6 with Gerald Barry’s passionate The Conquest of Ireland |