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| 12 April 2019 | |
| 1.15pm Merton College Chapel Merton Street Oxford OX1 4JD Details: Chapel administrator Web site +44 (0)1865 616724 £10 | Passiontide at Merton 2019 - Exile Meditations Riga Vocal Quartet Latvia Chris Walsh Sinka, conductor Arvo Pärt: Pacem domine Josquin des Prez: De profundis Gabriel Jackson: Exile Meditations The Riga Vocal Quartet, founded in 2017 by American conductor and singer Christopher Walsh Sinka, is comprised of current and former members of the State Choir LATVIJA and the Latvian Radio Choir. Specialising in new music, the ensemble premiered Gabriel Jackson’s Exile Meditations in July 2017 to high acclaim. |
| 13 April 2019 | |
| 2pm Merton College Chapel Merton Street Oxford OX1 4JD Details: Chapel Administrator Web site +44 (0)1865 616724 £15 | Passiontide at Merton 2019 - Stabat Mater Merton College Girls' Choir Girls' Choir of St Marys le Tower, Ispwich Britten: Missa Brevis Pergolesi: Stabat Mater tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com |
| 14 April 2019 | |
| 5pm Merton College Chapel Merton Street Oxford OX1 4JD Details: Chapel administrator Web site +44 (0)1865 616724 £10-40 | Passiontide at Merton 2019 - St Matthew Passion Mark Wilde, Evangelist Giles Underwood, Christus Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano Simon Ponsford, alto Joel Williams, tenor Tristan Hambleton, bass Choir of Merton College Merton College Girls' Choir Instruments of Time and Truth Benjamin Nicholas, conductor Bach: St Matthew Passion tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com |
| 27 April 2019 | |
| 7.30pm St James's, Piccadilly Piccadilly London W1J 9LL Details: John Biggins Web site +44 (0)7976 629435 £18, 16 | Bach: B minor Mass Augusta Hebbert, soprano Philippa Hyde, soprano Ben Williamson, alto Nathan Vale, tenor Richard Latham, bass Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir Greg Morris, conductor Bach: B minor Mass A cornerstone of the choral repertoire, Bach’s magnificent Mass in B minor was one of the composer’s last works, completed in 1749. The Mass gave new life to vocal music that Bach had composed throughout his career. Despite its sheer scale and grandeur, Bach didn’t even name the work, and it existed only as a collection of loosely related manuscripts for many years, until it was performed in a single sitting for the first time in 1859, more than a century after the composer’s death. The Mass is now considered by many to be the true culmination of his life’s work. St James’s, Piccadilly, provides an elegant backdrop to Collegium Musicum of London’s springtime concert. The choir is joined by a host of exceptional soloists and Baroque instrumentalists for this performance of what is perhaps Bach’s most profound and heartfelt work. |
| 25 April 2019 until 28 April 2019 | |
| Leeds College of Music 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds West Yorkshire LS2 7PD Details: Web site | Leeds Lieder Festival Leeds Lieder was founded in 2004 by Jane Anthony in partnership with a group of individuals and Leeds College of Music, to promote the enjoyment, understanding, appreciation, composition and performance of art-song. |
| 3 May 2019 | |
| 7.30pm St James' Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL Details: City Music Productions Web site +44 (0)333 666 3366 £15, 22, 28 | Piccadilly Chamber Music Series: The Great Romantics [3] Martyn Jackson, violin Rowena Calvert, cello Warren Mailley-Smith, piano Beethoven: Piano Trio No 3, Op 1 No 3 in C minor Chick Corea: Addendum Schubert: Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D 898 Chamber music series. focusing on ‘The Great Romantics’. Featuring Beethoven, Schubert and Chick Corea. |
| 11 May 2019 | |
| 7pm St Thomas' Church St Thomas Street, Lymington Hampshire SO41 9ND Details: Karen Brett Web site +44 (0)7484 230822 £15, students £7.50, accompanied children free. Includes a glass of wine or soft drink | Haydn's Creation Esther Mallet, soprano Michael Bell, tenor Timothy Edlin, bass Lymington Choral Society Lymington Classical Players Marjory King, leader Michael Moorsom, cello continuo Timothy Rice, keyboard continuo Michael Goldthorpe, conductor Joseph Haydn: The Creation |
| 19 May 2019 | |
| 3pm Bushey Academy London Road Bushey WD23 3AA Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0)7467 248 258 £18, £15, £1 children (£1 discount online) | Classics for Spring Joseph Longstaff, horn Martin Smith, violin Bushey Symphony Orchestra George Vass, conductor Janacek: Suite, Op 3 Mozart: Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat, K 417 Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op 28 Poulenc: Sinfonietta 2018/19 Bushey Symphony Orchestra Season | Concert IV |
| 21 May 2019 | |
| 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Milton Court, Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH Details: Barbican Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7638 8891 £15-35 | Britten Sinfonia - Beethoven Symphony Cycle (Nos 7 and 8) Britten Sinfonia Thomas Adès, conductor Beethoven: Symphony No 7 Gerald Barry: Dead March Beethoven: Symphony No 8 A game of musical chairs plus a short but inventive symphony all bought together with a jubilant and joyous close: Britten Sinfonia’s Beethoven Cycle continues with Symphonies Nos 7 and 8. Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia continue their journey through Beethoven’s symphonies with the brief, brilliantly inventive Symphony No 7 and the jubilant Eighth. Irish composer (and Beethoven devotee) Gerald Barry draws on melodies that he loves in Dead March, then allows them to behave as if 'everything is possible'. |
| 26 May 2019 | |
| 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Milton Court, Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH Details: Barbican Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7638 8891 £15-35 | Britten Sinfonia - Beethoven Symphony Cycle (No. 9) Claudia Boyle, soprano Britten Sinfonia Voices Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices director Britten Sinfonia Thomas Adès, conductor Gerald Barry: The Eternal Recurrence Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (choral) Britten Sinfonia’s Beethoven Symphony Cycle, conducted by Thomas Adès, concludes with Beethoven’s mighty ‘choral’ symphony and Gerald Barry’s feverish The Eternal Recurrence. Beethoven’s extraordinary Ninth Symphony is regarded by many as the finest of all symphonies, and its message of humanity, perhaps most famously encapsulated in the symphony’s Ode to Joy chorus, continues to resonate today (not least, as the anthem for the European Union). Here, Beethoven’s masterful celebration of the human race is paired with Gerald Barry’s The Eternal Recurrence, a brilliant, feverish setting of texts from Nietzsche’s philosophical novel Also sprach Zarathustra. |
| 30 May 2019 until 2 June 2019 | |
| Worcester Details: Web site | Elgar Festival The official celebration of the life and music of Edward Elgar, based in his home town of Worcester with activities spanning Elgar Country, and held annually during the weekend closest to his birthday (2 June 1857). Combines symphonic and string orchestra concerts by the festival's orchestra-in-residence, the English Symphony Orchestra, with chamber concerts, choral concerts, recitals, outdoor concerts, plays, exhibits and talks. |
| 8 June 2019 | |
| 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Milton Court, Silk Street London EC2Y 9BH Details: Barbican Box Office Web site +44 (0)20 7638 8891 £15-40 | Britten Sinfonia - Donizetti's Il Paria with Opera Rara Albina Shagimuratova, soprano Opera Rara Chorus Britten Sinfonia Mark Elder, conductor Donizetti: Il Paria A rare chance to hear Il Paria, one of Donizetti’s most innovative and daring scores, conducted by Sir Mark Elder with Britten Sinfonia. Opera Rara is known internationally for bringing rare and neglected operas vividly back to life. Working in partnership with Britten Sinfonia, and featuring acclaimed Russian coloratura soprano Albina Shagimuratova, Opera Rara present Donizetti’s Il Paria, a work that brings a new exotic colour to Italian opera of the period, inspired by its setting in ancient India. |
| 14 June 2019 | |
| 7.30pm All Saints Church Queens Road Hertford SG13 8AY Details: Web site | Orchestra of the Swan Steven Isserlis, cello Orchestra of the Swan Tom Hammond, conductor McCabe: Red Leaves Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Haydn: Adagio cantabile (Symphony No 13) Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète (1947 version) Hertfordshire Festival of Music |
| 21 June 2019 until 27 June 2019 | |
| Kirkwall Orkney Details: Web site | St Magnus International Festival |
| 27 July 2019 until 3 August 2019 | |
| Gloucester Details: Web site | Three Choirs Festival |
| 22 August 2019 until 27 August 2019 | |
| Presteigne Powys Details: Web site | Presteigne Festival (22-27 August) Based in border marches country between England and Wales, the Presteigne Festival's six music-filled days span the August Bank Holiday period. Established over thirty years ago, the Festival has a long tradition of supporting young artists and for presenting a fresh and individually stylised mix of contemporary works carefully balanced with twentieth century classics and featuring a wide range of music from the standard repertoire. |
| 28 November 2019 | |
| 1.05pm St Bartholomew the Great West Smithfield London EC1A 7BE Details: Web site | James Kreiling, piano To include: McCabe: Tenebrae City Music Society |
| 25 July 2020 until 1 August 2020 | |
| Worcester Details: Web site | Three Choirs Festival |
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