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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 26 June 2018 | |
| 8pm St Leonard's Church Shoreditch High Street London E1 6JN United Kingdom Details: Web site | Looking back: Looking forward Lore Lixenberg, soprano (Birdsongs for Lore, Book 1) CoMA London Ensemble Gregory Rose, conductor Paul Burnell: Acute Suite No 1 Phil Cashian: Star Machine Howard Jones: Homage to Miro Hannah Kendall: Onset Naomi Pinnock: Four Humours Sam Pradalie: Exodus (first performance) Gregory Rose: Birdsongs for Lore, Book 1 (first performance) Gregory Rose: Three-Edged Polygon Jess Ward: Aqueous (first performance) Celebrating CoMA’s 25th year, our programme will include favourites from the past and works written for this year’s festival. |
| 27 June 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS United Kingdom Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0)207 591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 28 June 2018 | |
| 8pm Our Lady of Help of Christians Church Lady Margaret Road, Kentish Town London NW5 2XT United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)7771 600 776 Free - suggested donation five pounds | Mornington Sinfonia Summer Concert Elizabeth Ann Binks, violin Ana Ivanova, viola Bryan Ogilvie, bassoon Mornington Sinfonia Keith Bramich, conductor Sullivan: Iolanthe Overture Mozart: Duo in G, K 423 (last movement) for violin and viola Mozart: Bassoon Concerto (slow movement) Johann Halvorsen: Passacaglia on themes by Handel, for violin and viola Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op 46 Nos 4 and 6 Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C Nearest tube: Kentish Town Free entrance Snacks and drinks afterwards with the performers Concert in aid of SanKTus Welfare Project for the homeless in Kentish Town. Please give a donation. Suggested donation: 5 pounds |
| 29 June 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 7.30pm Emma Cons Hall, Morley College 61 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7HT United Kingdom Details: Web site | Planets for Pianos Michalis Angelakis, piano Dimitris Karydis, piano Eleni Mavromoustaki, piano Petros Moschos, piano Wilfrid Murray, piano Kate Ryder, piano Haruko Seki, piano Nikos Stavlas, piano Paul Sarcich, conductor Gustav Holst, arranged by Paul Sarcich: The Planets Morley College Festival of Arts and Culture 2018 Nearly a hundred years after the first performance of Gustav Holst's famous orchestral work, Morley piano tutors join forces in this spectacular Redux of The Planets for 4 pianos, 8 pianists and percussion in an arrangement by Paul Sarcich, Morley's composition tutor, specially commissioned for the Festival. There will be a short pre-concert talk for ticket holders by historian and musicologist Neil Arthur Williams at 7pm. This visually captivating performance will be enhanced by images created by Morley Digital Media students. |
| 2 July 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 3 July 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 6 July 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2DH United Kingdom Details: Web site GBP 12 ('earlybird' discount) / 15 | 10 (students) | Captured Light Londinium Leanne Singh-Levett, piano Andrew Griffiths, conductor Lili Boulanger: Renouveau Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans Maurice Ravel, arr Clytus Gottwald: Soupir Gabriel Faure: Madrigal Maurice Durufle: Quatre Motets sur des themes gregoriens Claude Debussy, arr Clytus Gottwald: Les Angelus Lili Boulanger: Hymne au soleil Gabriel Faure: Les Djinns Lili Boulanger: Les Sirenes Claude Debussy, arr Clytus Gottwald: Des pas sur la neige Claude Debussy: L'isle joyeuse (piano) Maurice Ravel: Trois Chansons Lili Boulanger: Soir sur la plaine Londinium marks the centenaries of the deaths of Claude Debussy and Lili Boulanger by plunging into the heady world of early twentieth-century French choral music. Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome, lived for just 24 years; her prodigious talent is nowhere clearer than in her luxuriant and often-ecstatic works for choir and piano, far too rarely performed today. We pair Debussy's classic 'Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans' with virtuosic transcriptions of his songs and piano music by the masterful arranger Clytus Gottwald, and our programme is completed with works by Faure, Ravel, and the perennially popular 'Quatre Motets sur des themes gregoriens' by Maurice Durufle. |
| 11 July 2018 | |
| 7.30pm Temple Church 1 Inner Temple Lane London EC4Y 1AF United Kingdom Details: Web site Free with reservation | The City Choir of Washington In London The City Choir of Washington Robert Shafer, conductor Robert Shafer: Psalm 121: I will lift up mine eyes Eric Whitacre: The Chelsea Carol John Tavener: The Lamb John Tavener: Tolstoy's Creed (2012 Commission by the City Choir of Washington) Fauré: Requiem in D minor, Op 48 Classical Movements presents The City Choir of Washington on its debut tour of England in July 2018. Under the direction of its GRAMMY award-winning conductor Robert Shafer, in only 10 years TCCW has built a reputation as one of the capital's top choirs, with the Washington Post heralding them 'a first-class chorus'. The choir's tour program combines American, English and French choral works spanning the 19th century to today. A highlight of this tour will be the Choir's own 2012 commission, John Tavener's Tolstoy's Creed, alongside the Fauré Requiem and works by Robert Shafer and Eric Whitacre. |
| 29 May 2018 until 28 July 2018 | |
| Holland Park Kensington London United Kingdom Details: Web site | Opera Holland Park An opera company with a unique voice, based in the London Borough of Kensington, and presenting an annual festival of fully staged productions in a setting combining the best aspects of urban and country house opera under one roof. All year round there are performances, discussions and cultural events in partnership with local venues, unlocking the world of opera. Through accessible pricing, education and outreach programmes and family events, critically acclaimed work is brought to the widest possible audience. |
| 13 July 2018 until 8 September 2018 | |
| Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore, Kensington London SW7 2AP United Kingdom Details: Web site | Henry Wood (BBC) Promenade Concerts |
| 21 October 2018 | |
| 8pm St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7222 1061 | Juliana – London premiere Cheryl Enever, Juliana Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Kerstin Samuel Pantcheff, Juan Nova Music Opera George Vass, conductor Richard Williams, director Joseph Phibbs: Juliana (new chamber opera with libretto by Laurie Slade - first London performance) |
| 20 November 2018 until 22 November 2018 | |
| London United Kingdom Details: Web site | Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 'We have thought very carefully about how best my competition can benefit young conductors, and this is why we have decided to change the criteria for applications, broadening reach, while also ensuring that it is conductors at the very start of their careers who benefit. I am delighted to partner with medici.tv for the first live stream of the Competition, and also to allow the public into the preliminary rounds. I believe that the more we can open up music-making to the world, the more people will be as enthralled and inspired by it as I am, so I'm really pleased that so many more people will have the opportunity to see the finalists in action next year. Finally I want to thank the extraordinary conductors and musicians who are on the judging panel, as I know each of them will inspire everyone who takes part. I wish everyone who enters the very best of luck!' - Donatella Flick |