Cadenza Events Diary - Classical and contemporary concerts in United Kingdom

Cadenza Events Diary
Classical and contemporary concerts in United Kingdom

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1 October 2010
7.30pm Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street London W1U 2BP £24, 22, 16, 12	Festlicher Bach The King's Consort: Julie Cooper, soprano Rebecca Outram, soprano Robin Blaze, countertenor David Gould, countertenor Charles Daniels, tenor Mark Dobell, tenor Ben Davies, bass Philip Tebb, bass Robert King, conductor Bach: Concerto to Cantata BWV35 Bach, after Kerll: Sanctus in D major, BWV241 Bach: Sinfonia to Cantata BWV35 Bach: Lutheran Mass in G major, BWV236 Telemann: Ouverture 'Perpetuum mobile' Bach: Lutheran Mass in G minor, BWV235 Bach's glorious Lutheran Masses, dating from the late 1730s, are full of astonishing music, with joyous choruses and ravishing solos. With eight fine singers, an unbeatable instrumental line-up, and music by a composer central to TKC across 30 years, here is an unmissable concert.

6 October 2010
7.30pm Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street London W1U 2BP Details: Web site £10, 14, 18, 20	Southbank Sinfonia Showcase Southbank Sinfonia Sacconi Quartet Elgar: Introduction and Allegro ‘This was densely inter-communicated chamber music, with Raphael Wallfisch relishing the work’s soaring lyricism and his duetting with many an orchestral soloist’ The Times on Southbank Sinfonia’s concert at Wigmore Hall in 2009

7 October 2010
7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX Details: Web site £49, 39, 29, 19, 12, 10	A Night under the Stars Joan Rodgers, soprano Victoria Simmonds, mezzo-soprano Jesus Leon, tenor Changhan Lim, baritone Jack Liebeck, violin Orion Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Toby Purser, conductor Mozart: Overture; 'Non so piu' (The Marriage of Figaro) Rossini: ’Non piu mesta’ (La Cenerentola) Puccini: ‘Che gelida manina’ (La boheme) Massenet: Meditation (Thais) Dvorak: ‘Song to the Moon’ (Rusalka) Tchaikovsky: Polonaise and Tatiana’s Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin) Bizet: Prelude and Toreador Song (Carmen) Bizet: ‘Au fond du temple saint’ (The Pearl Fishers) Verdi: Hebrew Slaves chorus (Nabucco) In aid of The Passage-helping homeless people for 30 years Griff Rhys Jones hosts an evening of operatic hits. Soprano Joan Rodgers CBE leads a line up of exciting soloists. To buy concert tickets call The Passage on 020 7592 1856 or The Southbank Centre on 0844 847 9910 Or email tickets@passage.or.uk Pre concert and post concert gala reception tickets available from the Passage-see www.passage.co.uk Discounts are available if purchasing concert tickets with reception tickets Or mail The Passage, St Vincent’s centre, Carlisle Place, London SW1P 1NL

8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG Details: Web site £12 (Concessions £10)	Stan Tracey Trio Stan Tracey, piano Andrew Cleyndert, double bass Clark Tracey, drums One of the great figures of post-war jazz, Stan Tracey, now in his eighties, is as vigorous and dynamic as ever. He received standing ovations at this year’s Swanage Festival, and in August sold out one of Amsterdam’s top concert venues. Busier than ever, the trio has achieved a feeling of cohesion and group thought unique on the British scene.

8 October 2010
8pm St.John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £20, 14, 8	Consumed by a kiss: Pasticcio amoroso Julia Gooding, soprano Mark Tucker, tenor Pavlo Beznosluk, violin Adrian Chandler, violin Paula Chateauneuf, chitarrone and 5-course guitar David Roblou, harpsichord To include: Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonata quinta decima Monteverdi: Signor,deh, non partire: Speranza,tu mi vai : Come dolci,signor and Signor, oggi rinasco (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) Monteverdi: Ed e pur dunque vero Luigi Rossi: Gelosia, che a poco a poco Biagio Marini: Sonata terza Marini: Variata - Sinfonia Primo Tuono Dario Castello: Sonata terza, and Sonata Ottavo Fontana: Sonata Terza Decima Francesca Cavalli: Piovan le sfere su questa regia and Dormi, cara Didone (La Didone) Little Missenden Festival event 1 The demand for opera in Monteverdi's Italy became so great that a pasticcio was created as a way of recycling favourite arias and scenes, weaving chunks of operas by different composers into new plot lines. Mark Tucker and Julia Gooding are fine and expressive interpreters of baroque opera. This group of instrumentalists also has unsurpassed credentials in this repertoire.

9 October 2010
5pm St. John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £12 unreserved	Harpsichord music with Spanish roots Laura Tivendale, harpsichord Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K318 in F# major, Andante Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K319 in F# major, Allegro Sebastian de Albero: Fuga in D major, Allegro Antonio Soler: Sonata R84 in D major, Allegro Antonio Soler: Sonata in G major, Cantabile Antonio Soler: Sonata R12 in G major 'De la Codorniz', Allegro molto Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K 366 in F major, Allegro Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K 367 in F major, Presto Johann Gottfried Pratsch : Fandango Little Missenden Festival event 4 Laura Tivendale is a highly impressive young musician who's made a special study of the virtuoso works of Scarlatti and Rameau. She won the 2009 Broadwood Harpsichord Competition. The flamboyant and exuberant folk music of the Iberian Penensula influenced a wealth of colourful harpsichord works that explored the sound world of the instrument. The harpsichord master Scarlatti moved to the Spanish court, where he was influenced by the flavours and rhythms of Spanish dances and folk tunes, which infused his compositions. The other composers were heavily influenced by Scarlatti, two Spaniards and a Czech.

8pm St. John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £20, 14, 8	The Toledo Summit Orlando Consort: Matthew Venner, alto Mark Dobell, tenor Angus Smith, tenor Donald Greig, baritone To include: Alfonso de Mondejar: Ave rex noster Pierre de La Rue: Gaude virgo Pierre de La Rue: Missa de Sancto Job Pierre de La Rue: Gloria Pierre de La Rue: Autant en emporter le vent Anchieta/Ribera/Compere: O bone Jesus Pedro de Escobar: Missa pro defunctis :Introit and Kyrie Pedro de Escobar: Regina caeli Alexander Agricola: Je n'ay dueil Alexander Agricola: Si dedero Antonius Divitis: O desolatorum consolator Josquin Desprez: In te Domini Josquin Desprez: O festiva ferculis Pedro de Lagarto: Andad,pasiones,andad Little Missenden Festival event 5 The Orlando Consort sing a wonderful array of music performed by the Burgundian and Spanish courts, at the Toledo Summit in 1502, when the Duke of Burgundy met his in-laws, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. The Orlando Consort is one of Britain's most important vocal groups, renowned for imaginative and innovative programming.

10 October 2010
3pm St. John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £20, 14, 8	Quartetto Prometeo Giulio Rovighi, violin Aldo Campagnari, violin Carmelo Giallombardo, viola Francesco Dillon, cello Robert Schumann: String Quartet No 2 in F major, Op 41 no 2 Salvatore Sciarrino: String Quartet No 7 Franz Schubert: String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D817, 'Death and the Maiden' Little Missenden Festival event 6 The Italian Quartetto Prometeo has built a brilliant international career, embracing an Aldeburgh residency, and many major prizes. Their repertoire includes classic quartet works, but they also have a matchless reputation in comtemporary music, including numerous world premieres.

13 October 2010
8pm St John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £18, 12, 8	Dancing in Tetuan Joglaresa: Belinda Sykes, voice, director Avivit Caspi, voice Jeremy Avis, voice Jean Kelly, harp Tim Garside, nay, percussion, dulcimer Stuart Hall, oud, kemence, guitar Little Missenden Festival event 7 A programme of traditional songs from the Balkans, Morocco, the Middle East, Turkey, Bulgaria and Bosnia - Judeo-Arabic dance songs, Sephardic wedding songs, Berber rhythms and Moorish romanzas from Andalusia and the Maghreb. They will include songs by medieval Spanish-Hebrew poets : Rabbi Yehuda Halevi of Tudela, Solomon Ibn Gabirol of Saragossa and Todros Abulafia of Castile. Joglaresa is an exciting group combining ethnic songs, instruments and performance styles from diverse cultures. This London based British/Israeli/Irish/Arabic ensemble was among the first to programme music from medieval Jewish and Arabic sources.

15 October 2010
8pm St. John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £20, 14, 8	The Romantic piano Libor Novacek. piano Joseph Haydn: Sonata in C, Hob XVI/50 Frederic Chopin: 2 Nocturnes op 48 Frederic Chopin: Ballade no 1 in G minor Leos Janacek: In the Mist Franz Liszt: From Annees de Pelerinage I, Switzerland: Au Lac de Wallenstadt Pastorale Orage La Vallee d'Obermann Little Missenden Festival event 8 Libor Novacek leads us from Haydn's elegant classicism into the re-blooded Romantic pianism. The recital includes two of Chopin's miracously poetic Nocturnes and one Ballade. It concludes with four masterly pieces from the Swiss book of Liszt's 'Annees de Pelerinage'. Libor Novacek's recent CD of the work drew a five star review from the Guardian's Tim Ashley, and many suoerlatives from other reviewers.

16 October 2010
11am Royal and Derngate Theatre 1 Guildhall Road, Northampton Northamptonshire NN1 1DP Details: Web site	The Malcolm Arnold Festival 2010 Saturday 16th 11am Festival Launch by Hayley Mills. Members of the Northamptonshire Country Youth Orchestra play Hoffnung Fanfare for 12 trumpets. 11.45am An Illustrated talk by Paul Harris and Hayley Mills Whistle down the Wind, The Chalk Garden, Sky West and Crooked 2pm Malcolm Arnold Performance Competition. Judges: John Gibbons (chair), Moritz Ernst and Matthew Taylor. 3:30pm Malcolm Arnold Film Music: a talk by Martin Ellerby 4:30pm Tea 5.00pm Moritz Ernst piano Programme includes Music from stage and film and the World Première of Matthew Taylor Fantasy on Whistle Down the Wind 8.00pm Northampton Symphony Orchestra & Abingdon Choral Society Conductor Alexander Walker. Introduced by Matthew Taylor Return of Odysseus and Sweeney Todd

3pm St. John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £12 unreserved	Violin and Cello Gemma Rosefield, cello Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin Zoltan Kodaly: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7(1914) Richard Causton: Fantasia and Air (for solo violin) David Matthews: Song for Gemma from Journeying Songs Op.95 Maurice Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello (1920-22) Little Missenden Festival event 10 Violin and cello duos are not common, but this combination of instrumentsproduces lovely sonorities. this programme includes two of the genre's classics, by Kodaly and Ravel, together with solos for both instruments. Gemma Rosefield has teamed with a young violin virtuoso, Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Matthews and Causton have both featured at earlier Festivals. David Matthews wrote his piece for Gemma Rosefield, and Tamsin Waley-Cohen premiered Richard Causton's Fantasia and Air at a recital this year.

7.30pm St. John's Smith Square London SW1P Details: Web site £25, 20, 15 and concessions	St John Passion Mark Wilde, Evangelist Peter Harvey, Jesus Julia Doyle, soprano Robin Blaze, alto Nicholas Mulroy, tenor Colin Baldy, bass Mark Ford, conductor The Purcell Singers The Purcell Orchestra The Purcell Singers and Orchestra will be joined by an exceptional line-up of soloists to perform Bach's awe-inspiring St. John Passion. All proceeds of the concert will go to The Yellow Heart Trust to help those with unresolved trauma.

8pm St John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £18, 12 8	Curios Tom Cawley, piano Sam Burgess, double bass Joshua Blackmore, drums Little Missenden Festival event 12 Cawley's remarkable talents as pianist and composer were obvious from the outset. His compositions are melodic, fiery, serene,and intense, drawing on romantic classical music as much as modern jazz. The band covers the whole spectrum -at times delicate, at times wildly percussive. Tom Cawley's Trio, Curios, has made quite an impact on the jazz scene. They won "Best Band" at the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards. It's tight partnership -their empathy and interplay create a chemistry that colours the group's distinctive sound.

12pm St John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £12 unreserved	English piano music Mark Bebbington, piano Frank Bridge: Sonata John Ireland: Rhapsody (1907) Richard Drakeford: A Handful of Pleasant Delights Jeremy Dale Roberts: Oggetti - Omaggio a Morandi (extracts) Little Missenden Festival event 9 Mark Bebbington is a great champion of English piano music, and his frequent visits to Little Missenden Festival have been very well received. The Gramophone wrote of his 'prodigious technique and musicianship'. Mark's 2006 recording of Frank Bridge's towering 1925 piano sonata drew a 5-star review from BBC Music Magazine. Sadly Richard Drakeford died shortly after the 50th Festival last year. He was a founder-member of the Festival. a composer and music teacher. He was a tireless promoter of English composers like Ireland and Bridge, and an admirer of Mark Bebbington's playing. As a tribute Mark will play one of Richard's piano pieces, 'A Handful of Delights'.

Shoreditch Church London Details: Web site	Frieze Music presents Baby Dee and The Elysian Quartet

17 October 2010
11am Royal and Derngate Theatre 1 Guildhall Road, Northampton Northamptonshire NN1 1DP Details: Royal and Derngate Box Office Web site +44 (0)1604 624811	The Malcolm Arnold Festival 2010 Hayley Mills Martin Ellerby Moritz Ernst Northampton Symphony Orchestra and Choir Northamptonshire County Youth Orchestra and Wind Band Harpham String Quartet The Malcolm Arnold Festival Orchestra Sunday 17th 11am Malcolm Arnold on film. Rarely seen film excerpts Presented by Martin Ellerby. 12noon Northamptonshire Country Youth Orchestra. Programme includes Sound Barrier; St Trinians Suite; Inn of the 6th Happiness; Scherzetto; Hobson’s Choice 2.15pm Celebrating St Trinians! Including members of the original cast and crew of the four St Trinian's films. 4.00pm The Harpham Quartet play Arnold and Alwyn. Alwyn String Quartet No 1; Arnold String Quartet No 2 5.00pm Jessica Gillingwater soprano and Edward Hughes tenor Programme includes Songs from Parasol & Purple Dust 7:30pm Gala Concert: A Night to Remember The Malcolm Arnold Festival Orchestra Conductor John Gibbons Arnold Overture from Trapeze; Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2; Arnold Bridge on the River Kwai; Boy on the Bridge (Premiere); Stolen Face, David Copperfield; Alwyn A Night to remember, Desert Victory.

3pm St John the Baptist Church Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site +44 (0)1494 862704 £20, 14, 8	Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside Iain Burnside, piano Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano Joseph Haydn: The Mermaid's Song Joseph Haydn: She never told her love Joseph Haydn: Fidelity Joseph Haydn: The Spirit's Song Hugo Wolf: Der Gartner Hugo Wolf: Gesang Weylas Hugo Wolf: Um Mitternacht Hugo Wolf: Wo find ich Trost? Richard Wagner: 5 Lieder von Matthilde Wesendonck Ivor Gurney: I will go with my father a-ploughing; Ivor Gurney: Epitaph in Old Mode; On the Downs ; The Scribe; Ivor Gurney: By a Bierside John White: Houses and Gardens in the Heart of England Jeremy Dale Roberts: Spoken to a Bronze Head Brian Elias: Meet me in the Green Glen Richard Baker: English Lullaby William Bolcom: Fur William Bolcom: Oh close the Curtain William Bolcom: Amor Little Missenden Festival event 13 Susan and Iain are an ideal pairing for this music. Iain is passionately committed to song, and British song in particular. He is one of our leading accompanists. Susan Bickley is an acclaimed Wagnerian, and her performances in opera houses, concert halls and recital rooms have drawn glowing reviews.

8 October 2010 until 17 October 2010
St.John the Baptist Church, and Village Hall Little Missenden, Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0RA Details: Susanne Clare Web site E-mail +44 (0)1494 862704	51st Little Missenden Festival of Music and the Arts The Little Missenden Festival has been described as England's best kept secret. A concert in the small Saxon-cum-Norman church of St.John the Baptist, enriched with 12th-17th century wall paintings, is a unique experience. the Festival features promising young talents, as well as famous artists and composers. The programme ranges from classic masterworks to less familiar music, a jazz concert, folk music, children's workshops, an art lecture, and a poetry reading. Visit the website for programme, and booking details: www.little-missenden.org

21 October 2010
8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG Details: Web site £9 (concessions £7.50)	Damon Brown Quintet Damon Brown, trumpet Yutaka Shiina, piano Art Themen, tenor saxophone Martin Zenker, double bass Troy Miller, drums Shiina is Japan’s premier modern jazz pianist. He was a member of the Elvin Jones’ Jazz Machine. His albums on Sony BMG have included great players like Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove and Christian McBride. This will be part of Damon’s fourth tour with him, and the inclusion of German bassist Michael Zenker adds to the band’s international flavour. Themen, of course, is simply one of our finest musicians.

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