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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 1 October 2016 | |
| 7.30pm St Sepulchre’s Church Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2DQ United Kingdom Details: Liz Aram Web site +44 (0)7812 599340 £12 / 7 | Mariana Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir Feinklang Choir, Munich Greg Morris, conductor Byrd: O magnum mysterium Grieg: Ave Maris Stella Poulenc: Salve Regina Rachmaninov: Ave Maria Hassler: Magnificat Tavener: Mother of God, here I stand anon: There is no rose Britten: Hymn to the virgin Parsons: Ave Maria This autumn, Collegium Musicum of London collaborates with the Feinklang Chamber Choir from Munich in two concerts of acappella anthems interpreting prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The first, in the splendid setting of St Sepulchre’s church in the City of London, takes full advantage of the venue’s excellent acoustic for choral music. The concert will be repeated three weeks later in Munich. Marian anthems have been widely popular with composers, and the concert brings together a diverse collection of works from four centuries. Featuring music by Byrd, Victoria, Bach, Grieg, Brahms, Bruckner, Rachmaninov, Poulenc, Britten and John Tavener, Mariana promises a varied and moving evening’s music-making, in one of London’s most majestic concert venues. |
| 7 October 2016 | |
| 7pm The Oak Building Herne Hill School 127 Herne Hill London SE24 9LY United Kingdom Details: Web site £18/16 | Don Giovanni Dulwich Opera Company Jeremy Silver, music director David Monteith, director Herne Hill Music Festival Dulwich Opera Company presents a semi-staged concert performance of Mozart's classic opera, Don Giovanni. Featuring some of Mozart’s greatest music, the opera will be performed in the original Italian with English surtitles, with an exciting cast of eight young professional singers. They will be directed from the piano by internationally renowned conductor, Jeremy Silver. Premièred in 1787, Mozart's Don Giovanni remains one of the most loved and performed of all operas around the world. Based on the legends of Don Juan, it recounts the dramatic downfall of the serial seducer, Don Giovanni. Dulwich Opera Company was established in 2015 to promote opera as an exciting and accessible artform, and to provide opportunities for professional opera singers at the start of their careers by presenting high quality performances of opera. Its first full production was Puccini's La bohème, in 2015. It recently presented a new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte. |
| 8 October 2016 | |
| 11am Herne Hill United Church Red Post Hill London SE24 9PW United Kingdom Details: Web site Free | Coffee morning music The Calton String Quartet Herne Hill Music Festival A morning of great classical pieces for string quartet for the Calton Quartet, returning to the Festival after a few years. They performed twice at the Carnegie Library. Coffee Break, with a presentation from CalAid - a charity working to help refugees stranded in northern France, and a fund-raising collection. |
| 7pm Schott Music Shop 48, Great Marlborough Street London London W1F 7BB United Kingdom Details: David Breeze +44 (0)7745 215152 Tickets £9 (£6 concessions) | Contemporary music for voice and piano Nigel Evans-Thompson, baritone Matthew Rickard, piano Janet Davey, piano New and recent music by UK composers David Breeze and Janet Davey. Exploring themes of innocence and experience, the poetry of Wilfred Owen and HS2. Tickets from 020 7534 0710 or at the door. |
| 7.30pm St Paul's Church Herne Hill London SE24 9LY United Kingdom Details: Web site £12/8 | All The World's A Stage The Friends' Musick The Mock Tudor Band Herne Hill Music Festival Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, The Friends' Musick chamber choir, Director James Dixon, together with the Mock Tudor Band, present a musical tribute in period costume with readings from the Bard's works. The music and madrigals will be mainly from the 16th and early 17th centuries. Composers will include Dowland, Holborne, Gibbons, Morley and Weelkes. |
| 9 October 2016 | |
| 1.30pm Brockwell Hall Brockwell Park London SE24 9BJ United Kingdom Details: Web site £8/5 | Indian Classical Music - family concert Mehboob Nadeem, sitar, tabla and vocals Herne Hill Music Festival With a musical heritage spanning over 15 generations, Mehboob Nadeem takes you on a musical journey that unravels 700 years of Indian culture. Featuring sitar, tabla, singing, and poetry, the concert will explore the DNA of Indian classical music, enabling you to better grasp and enjoy the different elements of this incredible tradition. Grandson of legendary singers Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan (Pranpiya) and Gayan Samrat Ustad Azmat Husain Khan (Dilrang), Mehboob Nadeem is acknowledged as one of the leading exponents of the present generation of the Vilayatkhani Gharana, a style of sitar developed to mirror the lyrical quality of the human voice. Alongside performing, Mehboob Nadeem is a passionate educator that gives regular workshops and one-to-one lessons all over the UK. |
| 12 October 2016 | |
| The Oak Building Herne Hill School 127 Herne Hill London SE24 9LY United Kingdom Details: Web site £10/7 | Early Music Comes to Herne Hill Chelys Consort of Viols Herne Hill Music Festival The Chelys Consort specialises in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but also performs modern pieces written for period instruments. The programme in the Festival is called All the Kings' Men, and is consort music from the courts of Charles I and II, by composers including William Lawes, John Jenkins and Henry Purcell. They trained at Trinity College of Music, London, and the Royal Academy. All are experienced and enthusiastic players and teachers, enjoying busy and varied careers. The members of Chelys are active in the wider Early Music world, playing with leading ensembles such as the Rose Consort of Viols, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Phantasm and Fretwork. They teach on courses around the UK and abroad, including the Benslow Trust, NORVIS, the Irish Recorder and Viol Summer School and the Easter Early Music Course in Ascot. They have recently performed at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, and the Worcester Early Music Festival. The word 'Chelys' is derived from the ancient Greeks and referred to a bowed lyre, said to have been invented by the god Hermes. |
| 14 October 2016 | |
| 7.30pm St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2DQ United Kingdom Details: Web site £12 (until 9th October) / £15 | 10 (students) | The Seven Ages of Man Londinium Andrew Griffiths, conductor Orlando Gibbons: What is our life Eric Whitacre: Sleep My Child Thomas Tallis: O ye tender babes Dominick Argento: There was a naughty boy Hubert Parry: My delight and thy delight Sebastián de Vivanco: Veni, dilecte mi Thea Musgrave: Ithaca Guillaume Dufay: Kyrie from Missa L'homme armé Andrea Gabrieli: Sento, sent'un rumor ch'al ciel si estolle Anton Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur Thomas Morley: Sing we and chant it William Byrd: Retire my soule Gustav Holst: Nunc dimittis Peter Cornelius: Grablied Bob Chilcott: Even such is time William Harris: Bring us, O Lord God Inspired by Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" monologue from 'As You Like It', this beguiling programme of unaccompanied choral music traces a course from the cradle to the grave. Our intriguing and eclectic journey begins with the tender sounds of Eric Whitacre's 'Sleep My Child', and ends with William Harris' luscious 'Bring us, O Lord God', taking in music old (Dufay, Tallis, Gabrieli, Byrd) and new (Dominick Argento's 'There was a naughty boy'), as well as evergreen works by Bruckner, Parry and Holst. The centrepiece of our programme is Thea Musgrave's 2014 Proms commission 'Ithaca', a celebration of life's journey in all its splendour. |
| 15 October 2016 | |
| 7.30pm St Faith's Church Red Post Hill London SE24 9JQ United Kingdom Details: Web site £12/8 | Music for Practical Action The Jacquin Trio: Jessie Grimes, clarinet Kay Stephens, viola/violin Charis Hanning, piano Robert Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen Kurtag: Hommage a Robert Schumann Mozart: Kegelstatt Trio Bruch: Acht Stucke (selection) Hugh Watkins: Speak Seven Seas Jean Françaix: Trio Herne Hill Music Festival Practical Action is an international development charity with a difference. Founded by the radical economist and philosopher Fritz Schumacher, author of Small is beautiful, the charity knows that the simplest ideas can have the most profound, life-changing effect. This is why, for over 40 years, it has been working closely with some of the world’s poorest people, using appropriate technology to fight poverty and transform lives for the better. This concert is promoted by PASELG, the charity’s SE London Group of supporters (Send us an email: paselgroup@yahoo.co.uk), founded over 20 years ago and now with some 80 local members. The Jacquin Trio are winners of the Royal Overseas League Ensemble Competition and the St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition ‘Front runners taking to the chamber music stage.’ Classical Music Magazine ‘The Jacquin Trio stand out as an astonishingly versatile and virtuosic ensemble’ Charlotte Bray, award-winning British composer ‘What a night, terrific performance. Hugest congratulations. You were so consistently fabulous round after round.’ Royal Overseas League Panellist. |
| 16 October 2016 | |
| 3.45pm St Faith's Church Red Post Hill London SE24 9JQ United Kingdom Details: Web site £12/8 | Chamber Orchestra Concert Nadia Lasserson, piano The Southwark Sinfonietta Rupert Bond, conductor Haydn: Symphony No 44 in E minor (the 'Trauer') Mozart: Piano Concerto No 17 in G, K 453 Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G Minor K 550 Herne Hill Music Festival The Southwark Sinfonietta was formed by Michael Brooks and Matthew Redfearn in 2005 from a varied group of local musicians. The orchestra is similar in size to those which composers from Bach to Schubert wrote for. |
| 30 October 2016 | |
| 7pm Burgh House New End Square London NW3 1LT United Kingdom £10 (£8 concessions) children up to 18 years half price. you will receive a programme as your entry ticket | Marina Solarek, violin and Caroline Soresby, piano Marina Solarek, violin Caroline Soresby, piano Lili Boulanger: Deux Morceaux pour Violon et Piano Johanna Senfter: Elegie op 13 no 3 Johanna Senfter: III Heiter beschwingt from 5 pieces op 100 Grieg: Sonata for violin and piano no 2 in G major op 13 Barabara Heller: Lalai ‘Schlaflied zum Wachwerden’ (1989) Johannes Brahms: Sonata for no 2 in A Major op 100 violin and Piano Marina and Caroline who have enjoyed performing together since 2009. They will be playing a colourful programme of works by 19th and 20th century women composers like by Lili Boulanger, Johanna Senfter and Barbara Heller as well as Sonatas by Edward Grieg and Johannes Brahms. The concert will open with “Deux Morceaux” by the young Lili Boulanger, sister of the famous teacher Nadia Boulanger. Lili wrote these two pieces only 4 years before her death at the young age of 24. The second set of compositions are by the German composer Johanna Senfter who’s writing was strongly influenced by Bach, Brahms and her teacher Max Reger. You will hear two pieces - Elegie op 13 from her early creative period and no 3 of her much later ‘Fünf Stuecke’ op 100. The first half will conclude with the 2nd Sonata in G Major op 13 by Edward Grieg, dedicated to the Norwegian violinist Johan Svendson. After a short interval Marina and Caroline will perform an intriguing piece titled ‘Lalai’ by the German composer Barbara Heller (born 1936) which is dedicated to all persian women. The concert will conclude with the wonderful 2nd Sonata in A Major op 100 by Johannes Brahms. |
| 2 November 2016 | |
| 7pm St John's Smith Square Smith Square London SW1P 3HA United Kingdom Details: Web site | Goyescas - José Menor, piano, Latin Chamber Orchestra - Granados Centenary Echoes Festival |
| 7 November 2016 | |
| 1.10pm St James's Church 197, Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Maria Canyigueral, piano Echoes Festival |
| 14 November 2016 | |
| 1.10pm St James's Church 197, Piccadilly London W1J 9LL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Cervantes 400 - Elena Gragera and Antón Cardó Elena Gragera, mezzo Antón Cardó, piano Echoes Festival |
| 24 November 2016 | |
| 1pm Barry Rooms, National Gallery Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DN United Kingdom Details: Web site | A celebration of Dame Myra Hess Waka Hasegawa and Joseph Tong, piano 4 hands Schumann: Bilder aus Osten Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants (extracts) McCabe: Upon Entering a Painting Schubert: Fantasie in F minor, D940 Ravel: La Valse |
| 7.30pm St Sepulchre's Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2DQ United Kingdom Details: Web site | Idil Biret 75th Birthday Concert Idil Biret, piano Whitehall Orchestra Michael Nebe, conductor Sibelius: Finlandia Borodin: Polovtsian Dances Rachmaninov: Paganini Rhapsody Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances |
| 25 November 2016 | |
| 1pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2 N4J United Kingdom Details: Web site | Erato Piano Trio - Granados Chamber Music Echoes Festival |
| 1 December 2016 | |
| 1pm St George the Martyr Borough High Street London SE1 1JA United Kingdom Details: Web site | Free lunchtime piano recital by Richard Hinsley Richard Hinsley, piano Richard Hinsley: Stain on the sunset Richard Hinsley: Night wind Richard Hinsley: Walk in the mist Richard Hinsley: Calm before the storm Yann Tiersen: Comptine d'un autre été l'après-midi Richard Hinsley: Above the clouds Richard Hinsley: Hide in the shadows Richard Hinsley: Chasing the rain Richard Hinsley: Timeless Richard Hinsley: Wedding Day Ludovico Einaudi: I Giorni |