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| 4 November 2010 | |
| 8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG Details: Web site £9 (concessions £7.50) | Christian Brewer / Stan Sulzmann Quintet Christian Brewer, saxophone Stan Sulzmann, saxophone Andrea Pozza, piano Tom Farmer, double bass Shaney Forbes, drums The synthesis of these two wonderful saxophone players, coming from different generations and stylistic backgrounds, is a mouth-watering prospect. Sulzmann, a giant from the Wheeler/Surman/Taylor school, is one of the UK's most respected players, while Brewer, the younger of the two, is steeped in the bebop language of an earlier period. He plays regularly with Pozza, an Italian pianist who has been an important figure on the international jazz scene for the last twenty years, having worked with such outstanding figures as Enrico Rava, Chet Baker, Steve Grossman and many others. Shaney Forbes is believed by many to be one of the outstanding young drummers on the scene, a musician who loves to swing in the classic style of men like Max Roach and Philly Joe Jones. |
| 11 November 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Cadogan Hall Sloane Terrace London Details: Web site £30, 22, 15 | Remembrance & Revival Valentina Seferinova, piano Orion Symphony Orchestra Toby Purser, conductor Dorothy Howell: Piano Concerto Lilian Elkington: Out of the Mist Josef Holbrooke: Variations on 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' Ralph Vaughan Williams: Overture 'The Wasps' Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' Edward Elgar: In the South Famous and Forgotten Works by British Composers First professional performance for over 70 years of the following works: Dorothy Howell: Piano Concerto Lilian Elkington: Out of the Mist Josef Holbrooke: Variations on ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’ Dorothy Howell was a pupil at the Royal Academy of Music and gained recognition in 1919 when, at the age of 21, her symphonic poem Lamia was given its première at the Promenade Concerts by Sir Henry Wood - it was performed four more times that same season, and makes a welcome reappearance at this year’s Proms. Her piano concerto was praised by Havergal Brian. A notable concert pianist, Lilian Elkington studied both composition and piano under Granville Bantock. Her compositions were performed at Bournemouth and Harrogate in the early 1920s, but, after her marriage, she ceased writing music. We owe the discovery of Out of the Mist to the musicologist David Brown who came across the manuscript full score and orchestral parts in a box of sheet music in a secondhand bookshop in Worthing. Her only surviving orchestral work, Out of the Mist is a moving evocation of the arrival of the body of the Unknown Warrior. The scintillating and light-hearted Variations on ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’, surely a candidate for the last night of the Proms, is the second of three sets of orchestral variations produced by Josef Holbrooke, the others being on ‘Three Blind Mice’ and ‘Auld Lang Syne’ respectively. Holbrooke was the equal of Bantock or Vaughan Williams in his mastery of orchestration and this rare performance of one of his most attractive pieces will give audiences an opportunity to reassess this unjustly neglected composer. Also included is music by Vaughan Williams, the popular and tuneful Overture ‘The Wasps’ and Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’, while Elgar’s glorious tone poem In the South concludes the concert. Concert in aid of the St Lazarus Charitable Trust for the relief of leprosy. |
| 8pm Christ Church Cathedral Christ Church, St Aldate's Oxford OX1 1DP Details: Alice Hyland Web site +44 (0)20 8450 1060 £37, 26, 17.50, 10 (unsighted) | Remembrance Day Concert Mark Simpson, clarinet Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford Oxford Philomusica Orchestra Stephen Darlington, conductor This concert on Armistice Day features two great masterpieces Mozart composed in 1791, the final year of his life. The Clarinet Concerto, played by the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year, Mark Simpson, is complemented by a performance of the Requiem by the Christ Church Cathedral Choir under their Music Director Stephen Darlington as a fitting tribute to the war dead. |
| 13 November 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Bushey Academy London Road Bushey WD23 3AA Details: Ticket secretary Web site +44 (0)1923 774229 £14 (Children £1) | Autumn Classics David Adams, violin Bushey Symphony Orchestra George Vass, conductor Beethoven: Fidelio overture, Op 72c Nielsen: Symphony No 1 in G minor, Op 7 Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 61 |
| 18 November 2010 | |
| 7.45pm St Sophia's Cathedral Moscow Road, Bayswater London W2 4LQ Details: Web site £12, concessions £10 | Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Canticum, chamber choir Mark Forkgen, conductor Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Centenary performance of Rachmaninov's 1910 sacred choral work, performed in London's Greek Orthodox Cathedral |
| 8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG Details: Web site £9 (concessions £7.50) | London Jazz Festival: In Deep Mark Lockheart, saxophone Liam Noble, piano Chris Laurence, double bass Mark Lockheart was voted ‘Musician of the Year’ in this year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards and his original material on his In Deep album was one of the reasons for that accolade. In this concert Mark has promised a mix of some of that material together with some standard themes, and the prospect of the interplay between his haunting saxophone sound and the inventions of his two triple A-class companions promises an evening of outstanding chamber jazz. |
| 20 November 2010 | |
| 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ Details: Web site | Beethoven's 5th Symphony LMA Orchestra John Landor, conductor Mozart: 'Overture' from The Marriage of Figaro Schubert: Symphony No 8, 'Unfinished' Beethoven: Ode to Joy Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor Featuring LMA's 'Mini Masterclass', a short exploration of the music during the interval. |
| 7.30pm St Martin's Parish Church Church Street, Epsom Surrey KT17 4PX Details: Web site | Choral Concert - Durufle Requiem, Song for Athene and more |
| 21 November 2010 | |
| 7pm Stationers' Hall Ave Maria Lane London NN11 3TD Details: Box office Web site +44 (0)1327 360931 £25 (includes reception, interval champagne), dinner +£80 | Tallis Christmas Mass Fiori Musicali Choir Penelope Rapson, director Tallis: Lamentations Tallis: Magnificat à 4 Tallis: Missa Puer natus est Tallis stands supreme at the pinnacle of English choral music, and it is thought his Missa Puer natus est was composed for the combined chapel choirs of Queen Mary and King Philip of Spain. Based on Christmas plainchant, the mass is the most elaborate from mid-16th century England, and by far the grandest by Tallis himself. The St Ceciliatide celebrations at Stationers' Hall date from just after the Great Fire of London. Revived by Fiori Musicali to great acclaim, these events are amongst the City's best kept secrets. "A splendid entertainment is provided, and before it is always a performance of Music by the best voices and hands in Town . . . This Feast is one of the genteelest in the world." Reception 6.30 for 7pm concert. Optional candlelit dinner afterwards with fine Saint-Émilion wines. |
| 25 November 2010 | |
| 8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG Details: Web site £9 (concessions £7.50) | Chris Allard / Brandon Allen Quintet Chris Allard, guitar Brandon Allen, saxophone Ross Stanley, piano Oli Hayhurst, double bass Nick Smalley, drums Guitarist Allard, who works regularly with Jacqui Dankworth and was a member of John Dankworth’s last Big Band, has won plaudits from no less than Pat Martino for his ‘pure’ jazz playing. He can also rough it up a little, in John Scofield mode, for the band’s bluesier, funkier grooves. This is a young band, bursting with energy, and in Australian saxophonist Allen it boasts one of the most exciting tenor players in London. |
| 27 November 2010 | |
| 7.30pm St Mary's Church Churchyard, Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1HP Details: Web site | Hitchin Symphony Orchestra Concert Samantha Ward, piano Hitchin Symphony Orchestra Janet Hicks, leader Paul Adrian Rooke, conductor Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat Stanford: Symphony No 6 |
| 7.30pm St. Francis Xavier Church Broad Street, Hereford Herefordshire HR1 Details: Patrick +44 (0)1548 876568 £10 on the door, but reservation (by email or phone) is recommended | Advent Vespers: Music for Advent and Christmas Ensemble Sine Nomine (Chamber Choir) Russell Burton, director Featuring: Hieronymus Praetorius: Christmas Magnificats Music by Byrd, Tallis, Gabrieli, Sheppard, Howells, Poulenc, Britten Ensemble Sine Nomine promises an atmospheric night in St Francis Xavier Church, with glorious early polyphony and more modern festive favourites for Advent and Christmas. By candlelight. |
| 28 November 2010 | |
| 8pm Sheldonian Theatre Broad Street Oxford OX1 3AZ Details: Alice Hyland Web site +44 (0)20 8450 1060 Tickets £37, 26, 17.50, 10 | Classical Romanticism Nicola Benedetti, violin Marios Papadopoulos, conductor Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 Beethoven wrote his only violin concerto in 1806. It quickly fell into obscurity after a disastrous premiere, but has long since become a staple in the instrument’s repertoire. Nicola Benedetti, the 2004 BBC Young Musician of the Year, joins the Philomusica for tonight’s performance. Brahms’ autumnal 2nd Symphony is one of his later works, characterised by a distinctively nostalgic lyricism. Young Artists Platform Sheldonian Theatre, 6.30pm Free access for evening concert ticket holders Directing from the keyboard Masterclass with Marios Papadopoulos Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A, K.488 Alissa Firsova piano, Oxford Philomusica Music Director Marios Papaopoulos is this year’s Honorary Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. As such, he has undertaken a number of projects in association with the company to assist young musicians. One of these features a brilliant musician, Alissa Firsova, in a Directing from the Keyboard masterclass offering an unparalleled opportunity for a wonderful young artist to play and conduct a professional orchestra and receive guidance on this aspect of music-making that she is interested in pursuing as a career. |
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