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Classical Concerts in London UK A selection of forthcoming live music |
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| 7 March 2010 | |
| 11.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £7 (concessions £5, schoolchildren £1) | Halcyon String Quartet Julian Azkoul, violin Leslie Townsend, violin Robert Ames, viola Seth Branum, cello Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Jean Sibelius: Fugue for Martin Wegelius David Dies: String Quartet No 1 Recipients of the Sir John Thomson Award and winners of the 2007 Cavatina Chamber Music Competition, the 2009 Sir John Barbirolli Competition, and the Audience Prize at the 2009 Inter-Collegiate Cavatina Chamber Music Competition, the Halcyon String Quartet has performed throughout England and Switzerland, and was invited to be ensemble-in-residence at Les Musicales de Grillon Festival in France for two summers in a row. The quartet consists of young and dynamic players attending the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music, and King's College, Cambridge. |
| 8 March 2010 | |
| 1pm Banqueting House Whitehall London SW1A 2ER United Kingdom Details: Valerie Jarvis Web site +44 (0)20 3166 6153 Fax: 020 3166 6066 Address: Whitehall, London SW1A 2ER £19.00 to include pre concert buffet lunch and after concert Q&A session with the musicians | The Music Collection Susan Alexander-Max, fortepiano and director Simon Standage, violin Sonatas for fortepiano and violin by Mozart and Beethoven The Music Collection is renowned for its highly acclaimed performances and recordings of 18th and early 19th century repertoire on historic instruments. The fortepianist, Susan Alexander-Max, founder of The Music Collection, will perform Sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven with violinist Simon Standage. Moments are breathtakingly beautiful...Exemplary playing of captivating music. BBC Music Magazine***** The performances are exquisite, and the 'cleaner' sound of the period pianos used...helps to maintain the overall clarity of texture. Gramophone |
| 10 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Recital by Russian pianist Misha Fomin |
| 11 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Fibonacci Sequence: Julian Farrell (clarinet) Kathron Sturrock (piano) with guest artist Ann Mackay |
| 12 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London SE1 8XX United Kingdom Details: London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office Web site +44 (0)20 7840 4242 Address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP Tickets £9-£38 Premium seats £55 | London Philharmonic Orchestra Gunther Herbig, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano Ravel: Mother Goose Suite Schumann: Piano Concerto Brahms: Symphony 2 JTI Friday Series It was Schumann's unflinching adoration for his pianist wife Clara that spawned the Piano Concerto, a love-letter in music that offers a touching insight into one of the most famously passionate romances of the nineteenth century. But Schumann also took the young Johannes Brahms very much to heart, who he said would 'spring like Minerva from the head of Jove' to take the compositional world by storm. He was only partly right; the First Symphony heard on 11 December took Brahms a painstaking fourteen years to write. But the Second did indeed spring forth like Minerva, flowing as seamlessly as a stream, abounding in pure, exhilarating joy. |
| 9pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Singer-Songwriters Music in the Round, Mark Aaron James and Friends |
| 13 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Live on Delancey Street with Nathan Watson and Friends |
| 14 March 2010 | |
| 11am Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Morning Recital of unaccompanied Bach from cellist Joe Zeitlin |
| 11.30am Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London SE1 8XX United Kingdom Details: London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office Web site +44 (0)20 7840 4242 Address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP Tickets Child £4-7, Adult £8-14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra FUNharmonics Family Concert - Dreams London Philharmonic Orchestra Stuart Stratford, conductor Chris Jarvis, presenter Davenport: In the Night Garden (theme) Debussy: Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune (excerpt) Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre Marianelli: New work various: Classical lullabies Silvestri: The Polar Express (theme) Everyone dreams - so whatever your age, as the theme from In the Night Garden begins, prepare your imagination for a fantastical musical journey and a surreal dreamtime experience. The sights and sounds along the way may enchant or terrify. Foyer Events throughout the morning You can try your hand at playing an orchestral instrument in one of our Have-a-Go sessions, get your face painted or join our human orchestra – in the foyers before and after the performance. Generously supported by The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust. |
| 2pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Come and enjoy a Mother's Day meal with a selection of live jazz standards with Karen Street |
| 16 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace London SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom Details: Web site | Nicholas Cleobury conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in this evening of reflective music |
| 17 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London SE1 8XX United Kingdom Details: London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office Web site +44 (0)20 7840 4242 Address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP Tickets £9-£38 Premium seats £55 | London Philharmonic Orchestra Ludovic Morlot, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1 Brahms: Violin Concerto Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra What is life without the warmth and inspiration of human affection? When virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim bounded into Brahms' life like an energetic puppy, he utterly overwhelmed the composer, drawing from him a violin concerto that's at once poised and playful. Béla Bartók - alone, exiled, ill and poor - might well have thought his compositional life over in 1943. His friend the conductor Serge Koussevitsky thought otherwise. He re-energised Bartók with encouragement and a major commission. Eight weeks later Bartók delivered his Concerto for Orchestra - a percussive, irrepressible and playful firecracker of a piece. 6-6.45pm Free | Royal Festival Hall A performance by Lambeth and Southwark school children marking the culmination of their composition project, inspired by this evening's repertoire. |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Two Duos at The Forge |
| 18 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2 United Kingdom Details: Web site £6-24 | Handel Messiah English Baroque Choir Brandenburg Baroque Soloists Jeremy Jackman, conductor Handel: Messiah |
| 7.30pm St Andrew Holborn 5 St Andrew Street London EC4A 3AB United Kingdom Details: Robin Web site +44 (0)20 8893 4322 Tickets £12, concessions £8, available by phone, online or at the door | Two Fathers of Musick - Tallis and Byrd in Elizabeth's England Clare Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano Orlando Chamber Choir James Weeks, director and organ Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): Loquebantur variis linguis Salvator mundi I In ieiunio et fletu Eight tunes for Archbishop Parker's psalter O nata lux William Byrd (1539-1623): Miserere mihi Domine What steps of strife From virgin's womb Haec dies Sing joyfully This sweet and merry month of May Though Amaryllis Rejoice, rejoice Mass for four voices Ye sacred muses Justorum animae O God that guides the cheerful sun A concert that contrasts two early English masters, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, setting them within the glittering but turbulent world of Queen Elizabeth's court. Motets and anthems, airs and fancies, songs and psalms paint a rounded picture of their fascinating musical world. |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Dialogues Trio |
| 19 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm St John's Smith Square London SW1 United Kingdom Details: Box office +44 (0)20 7222 1061 £20, 15, 10 | The Romantic Piano Transcription Henriette Gaertner Galuppi: Sonata Beethoven: Bagatelles and 'Moonlight' sonata Bach-Tausig: Toccata in D Rossini-Herz: Non Piu Mesta Verdi-Liszt: Rigoletto Paraphrase Schumann-Levinson: 'Der Nussbaum' Wagner-Liszt: Der Ritt der Walkuren Rarely performed virtuoso piano transcriptions |
| 9pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Adriano Adewale Group |
| 20 March 2010 | |
| 4.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7766 1100 ext 2 Adults £8, children £6 | Mini Maestro Family Concert - Vivaldi Four Seasons LMA Orchestra "Great Music for Little Ears" Come and join our musical playground where everyone can listen, learn and join in lots of fun and games. Featuring Vivaldi's Four Seasons. We look forward to seeing you there! |
| 7.30pm Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace London SW1X 9DQ United Arab Emirates Details: Web site | Rising star soprano Elizabeth Watts performs with City of London Sinfonia Elizabeth Watts, soprano City of London Sinfonia Douglas Boyd, conductor Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été (arr. Matthews) Mahler: Symphony No.4 (arr. Stein) |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Twenty21 - a contemporary music ensemble with a difference |
| 21 March 2010 | |
| 11am Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Lawson Trio |
| 4.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £13 (concessions £11) | Cassidy Janson supported by John Jack Cassidy Janson, vocals John Jack, vocals Hosted by Valerie Cutko, vocals Stephen Hose, piano Cabaret Cassidy is currently appearing as Kate Monster / Lucy The Slut in Avenue Q in the West End. She has covered and played Elphaba in Wicked (Apollo Victoria) and played Susan in Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick… BOOM! (UK premiere, Menier Chocolate Factory). New work appearances include Austentatious (Landor) and Only The Brave (Edinburgh fringe). John appeared in Shout! (Arts Theatre), Gay School Musical (Above The Stag Theatre) and As You Like It (Royal Lyceum Theatre) and BBC series Still Game. |
| 11.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £7 (concessions £5, schoolchildren £1) | Cassandra Mansi, viola J S Bach: Cello Suite No 3 (arranged for viola) R Schumann: Marchenbilder Op 113 for viola and piano York Bowen: Sonata No 2 for viola and piano At the age of 16 Cassandra gained a place at the junior department of the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Jonathan Barritt, where she was principal viola of the JRAM Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 she gained an undergraduate place to continue at the Royal Academy of Music, and this year was invited to lead the viola section in the Amadeus Symphony Orchestra, and in October 2009 she made her debut solo concert at the Royal Academy of Music. |
| 24 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX United Kingdom Details: Web site | Charles Dutoit conducts the Firebird Charles Dutoit, conductor Yuja Wang, piano Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet score) Unlike tonight's opener, based on liturgical references, Prokofiev's 1913 Second Piano Concerto apparently terrified and scandalised the audience, some of whom dived for the exits! There is, of course, nothing to fear and much to admire in this extraordinary work, combining full-blooded, romantic tunes with the blistering, brittle keyboard virtuosity that characterised the young Prokofiev. When Stravinsky was approached by Ballet Russes founder Diaghilev to write the score for The Firebird, he was relatively unknown as a composer, and the highly successful première of the ballet in 1910 brought him enormous acclaim. |
| 7.30pm Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace London SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom Details: Web site | Charles Dutoit conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Yuja Wang on the piano |
| 25 March 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)7905 117 785 £10 (concessions £8) | Fragrant Flora – Depictions of Flora in Music Baroque Encounter: Glenn Kesby, counter tenor Lauren Brant, recorders Claire Williams, piano English folk songs Handel Pepusch: Spring Cantata 'Fragrant Flora' Welcoming the arrival of spring, Baroque Encounter highlight how composers have depicted flora in music to create moods, evoke images and express love. www.baroque-encounter.com www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroque |
| 7.30pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Song Recital by Laura Mitchell (soprano) and Charlotte Forrest (piano) |
| 26 March 2010 | |
| 9pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Manu Delago and Handmade |
| 28 March 2010 | |
| 11am Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | London Conchord Ensemble Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 1 Fauré: Piano Quartet No 1 in C Minor Op 13 |
| 2pm Forge Music Venue 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site | Jazz afternoon with Anita Wardell |
| 4.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £13 (concessions £11) | Nicola Sloane supported by Paul Brangan Nicola Sloane, vocals Paul Brangan (vocals Hosted by Valerie Cutko, vocals Stephen Hose, piano Cabaret A versatile performer, Nicola has just returned from filming Season of the Witch alongside Nicholas Cage. Her West End stage credits include A Little Night Music, The Sound of Music, Acorn Antiques: The Musical, and Les Miserables. She was the original woman in 'The Woman in Black' (Fortune Theatre). Paul has extensive cabaret experience in Ireland and London. Whilst training he created the role of Roscoe in Charles Miller’s Big Top at the Bridewell Theatre. |
| 7.30pm St Johns Church Friern Barnet Road London N11 3EQ United Kingdom Details: Web site Adults £8, children under 16 free | Natalie Clein and the Barnet Symphony Orchestra Natalie Clein, cello Barnet Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra op. 125 Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite Come and hear Natalie Clein, one of our leading cellists, play Prokofiev's wonderful symphony concerto. Programmed with two other great orchestral favourites this should make for a fabulous musical evening. |
| 8pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8144 3421 £10 (concessions £8) in advance; £12 (concessions £10) at the door | Kantos: Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Songs and Music Kantos: Monica Acosta, voice Stephen Homes, guitar Ilana Cravitz, violin Ulises Diaz, percussion A concert of beautiful Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) songs, to include traditional melodies for the festival of Passover (Pesach) and some joyful wedding songs. www.monicaacosta.com |
| 31 March 2010 | |
| 1.05pm Concert Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama Barbican London United Kingdom Details: Web site | John McCabe Celebration Guildhall Brass Band and Wind Ensemble Paul Cosh, conductor Peter Gane, conductor McCabe: Canyons for wind ensemble McCabe: Desert I: Lizard McCabe: Desert II: Horizon McCabe: The Maunsell Forts |
| 1.05pm St Andrew Holborn 5 St Andrew Street London EC4A 3AB United Kingdom Details: Web site | Free Winter Lunchtime Concerts with City of London Sinfonia Hilary Summers, contralto City of London Sinfonia Joseph Cullen, director Purcell: Chacony Lennox Berkeley: Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila Holst: St Paul's Suite Bach: Cantata BWV 54 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde' In association with the City of London Festival. |
| 3 April 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace London SW7 2AP United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7730 4500 £15, 25, 35, 45 | Sondheim 80th Birthday Gala Celebration David Firman, music director Maria Friedman, vocalist Daniel Evans, vocalist Graham Bickley, vocalist A wonderful evening of the very best of Stephen Sondheim from his award-winning shows Sweeney Todd, Follies, Into the Woods and many more! Including classic songs Send in the Clowns, Losing My Mind, Agony and Being Alive. Plus a special feature of a brand new UK première, written for Sondheim’s 80th birthday! |
| 9 April 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace London SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom Details: Web site | Maxim Shostakovich, son of Dmitri Shostakovich, conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 10 April 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London SE1 8XX United Kingdom Details: London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office Web site +44 (0)20 7840 4242 Address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP Tickets £9-£38 Premium seats £55 | London Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks Prokofiev: Violin Concerto 1 Stravinsky: Fireworks Beethoven: Symphony 7 Beethoven's Seventh Symphony has proved many things to many people: a celebratory vision of a rustic wedding for Robert Schumann; 'the apotheosis of the dance' for Richard Wagner; 'a triumphant of Bacchic fury' for the legendary musicologist Donald Francis Tovey; and 'a continuous, cumulative celebration of joy' for modern Beethoven scholar David Wyn Jones. It might be preceded by colourful fireworks from the pens of Handel and Stravinsky, but when conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin lights the blue touch paper of Beethoven's most blazingly triumphant orchestral work, the Royal Festival Hall will exploded with colour and elation. |
| 13 April 2010 | |
| 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX United Kingdom Details: Web site | Freddy Kempf performs Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 Freddy Kempf, piano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Litton, conductor Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 Glinka's sparkling Overture serves as a colourful curtain-raiser to Tchaikovsky's immortal First Piano Concerto, which was famously (and shockingly) dismissed by Rubinstein as being 'bad and vulgar'. From its broad opening tune, supported by crashing piano chords, to its thrilling finale, this is music of supreme confidence and unfettered imagination, and remains one of the great war-horses of Romantic concertos for keyboard. Despite his assertion that he had no idea how to compose a symphony, nor any desire to write one, Rachmaninov succeeded in completing no less than three, by far the most popular of which is the Second. Completed in 1908, this great and passionately lyrical outpouring combines characteristic sweeps of melody with infectious rhythmic verve. |
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