|
Cadenza Events Diary Classical and contemporary concerts in United Kingdom |
Concerts in: Austria Belgium Canada China Croatia Czech Republic Finland France Germany Hungary Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Liechtenstein Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia South Africa Spain Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom United States of America
Look ahead: July August September October November December
| 23 June 2018 | |
| 7.30pm Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres Grange Road, Great Malvern Worcestershire WR14 3HB Details: Web site | A German Requiem Malvern Festival Chorus Richard Knight, conductor Brahms: A German Requiem |
| 8 June 2018 until 24 June 2018 | |
| Snape Maltings Aldeburgh Suffolk IP17 1SP Details: Web site | Aldeburgh Festival Aldeburgh Festival 2018 celebrates Britten and America. It also reflects 1948 - the remarkable period in post-war British history when the festival began and when so much of what we now regard to be the backbone of our cultural life was launched. In his centenary the music of Bernstein plays a significant part in the festival. Britten and Bernstein: composers, pianists, conductors, programme planners, educators, and major media figures were towering creative leaders, and are linked but rarely met each other. They sailed against prevailing winds and were celebrated and revered everywhere, and here they can be heard side by side with many connections that resonate across the festival. These links include Peter Grimes, W H Auden, Revd Walter Hussey and their composing friend Aaron Copland. |
| 26 June 2018 | |
| 8pm St Leonard's Church Shoreditch High Street London E1 6JN Details: Web site | Looking back: Looking forward Lore Lixenberg, soprano (Birdsongs for Lore, Book 1) CoMA London Ensemble Gregory Rose, conductor Paul Burnell: Acute Suite No 1 Phil Cashian: Star Machine Howard Jones: Homage to Miro Hannah Kendall: Onset Naomi Pinnock: Four Humours Sam Pradalie: Exodus (first performance) Gregory Rose: Birdsongs for Lore, Book 1 (first performance) Gregory Rose: Three-Edged Polygon Jess Ward: Aqueous (first performance) Celebrating CoMA’s 25th year, our programme will include favourites from the past and works written for this year’s festival. |
| 27 June 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0)207 591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 28 June 2018 | |
| 8pm Our Lady of Help of Christians Church Lady Margaret Road, Kentish Town London NW5 2XT Details: Web site +44 (0)7771 600 776 Free - suggested donation five pounds | Mornington Sinfonia Summer Concert Elizabeth Ann Binks, violin Ana Ivanova, viola Bryan Ogilvie, bassoon Mornington Sinfonia Keith Bramich, conductor Sullivan: Iolanthe Overture Mozart: Duo in G, K 423 (last movement) for violin and viola Mozart: Bassoon Concerto (slow movement) Johann Halvorsen: Passacaglia on themes by Handel, for violin and viola Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op 46 Nos 4 and 6 Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C Nearest tube: Kentish Town Free entrance Snacks and drinks afterwards with the performers Concert in aid of SanKTus Welfare Project for the homeless in Kentish Town. Please give a donation. Suggested donation: 5 pounds |
| 29 June 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 7.30pm Emma Cons Hall, Morley College 61 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7HT Details: Web site | Planets for Pianos Michalis Angelakis, piano Dimitris Karydis, piano Eleni Mavromoustaki, piano Petros Moschos, piano Wilfrid Murray, piano Kate Ryder, piano Haruko Seki, piano Nikos Stavlas, piano Paul Sarcich, conductor Gustav Holst, arranged by Paul Sarcich: The Planets Morley College Festival of Arts and Culture 2018 Nearly a hundred years after the first performance of Gustav Holst's famous orchestral work, Morley piano tutors join forces in this spectacular Redux of The Planets for 4 pianos, 8 pianists and percussion in an arrangement by Paul Sarcich, Morley's composition tutor, specially commissioned for the Festival. There will be a short pre-concert talk for ticket holders by historian and musicologist Neil Arthur Williams at 7pm. This visually captivating performance will be enhanced by images created by Morley Digital Media students. |
| 29咠 June 2018 until 29 June 2018 | |
| 70.30pm St James's Piccadilly 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL Details: Web site | Three international classical musicians play wonderful chamber music in central London. |
| 30 June 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St Albans High School Townsend Avenue St Albans AL1 3SJ Details: Web site £16 (£14 concessions); £1 children | A Time For All Seasons Sophie Edwards, soprano Beaumont School Vocal Ensemble St Albans Choral Society Richard Harvey, piano George Vass, conductor Cecilia McDowall: A Fancy of Folksongs James MacMillan: The Gallant Weaver Cecilia McDowall: A Time for all Seasons Bob Chilcott: Like a Singing Bird Bob Chilcott: Irish Blessing John Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme |
| 7.30pm St John in Bedwardine Church 1A Bromyard Rd, St John's Worcester WR2 5BS Details: Web site | 'Stars & Stripes' - a programme of popular American music Elgar Chorale |
| 7.30pm St Mary Redcliffe Church Colston Parade Bristol BS1 6RA Details: Web site | Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique and Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem |
| 7.30pm St Mary Redcliffe Church Colston Parade Bristol BS1 6RA Details: Web site | Symphonie Fantastique Charlotte Newstead, soprano Martin Le Poidevin, baritone The Choirs of St Mary Redcliffe Church Bristol Concert Orchestra Stefan Hofkes, conductor Purcell arr Stokowski: Dido's Lament Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique This concert of two halves opens with Stokowski's string arrangement of Purcell's heartrending Dido's Lament ('When I am Laid in Earth'), providing an incredibly effective prelude to Vaughan Williams' empassioned plea for peace Dona nobis pacem (written after the composer's experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I) and recognised as a neglected choral masterpiece. For the second half, the incredible Symphonie Fantastique - the 'programme symphony' written by a 27-year-old Berlioz telling the (autobiographical) story of "an artist gifted with a lively imagination" who has "poisoned himself with opium" in the "depths of despair" because of "hopeless, unrequited love." The five movements of this hallucinatory tale include a beautiful waltz, the famous 'March to the Scaffold' and concludes at the funeral of the hero attended by sorcerers and monsters. Or, as Leonard Bernstein put it 'Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral.' Fantastical indeed ... |
| 7.30pm St Peter's Church St Peter's Way, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland Tyne and Wear SR6 0DY Details: Web site £10 (free to anyone in full-time education) | The Glories of the 20th Century England Cappella Novocastriensis Peter Coulson, conductor Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor Tippett: Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time' Harris: Faire is the Heaven Stanford: Three Motets Wood: Hail Gladdening Light Wood: Nunc dimittis in B flat Tickets at http://www.wegottickets.com/cn , from choir members) or at the door. |
| 2 July 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 3 July 2018 | |
| 7pm Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7591 4314 £10, 20, 30, 40, 50 | In The Locked Room and The Lighthouse Stephen Unwin, director Michael Rosewell, conductor Hannah Wolfe, designer Huw Watkins (composer) and David Harsent (librettist): In the Locked Room Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Acclaimed theatre director Stephen Unwin joins forces with Michael Rosewell for two thrilling operas. |
| 7.30pm St Ann's Church St Ann Street Manchester M2 7LF Details: Web site £10, 8 and 5 at the door | Kantos Chamber Choir: McCabe, Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker Kantos Chamber Choir Ellie Slorach, conductor McCabe: The Lily White Rose A capella choral music by Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker |
| 4 July 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St Mark's Church Broomhill Sheffield S10 2SG Details: Web site £10, 8 and 5 at the door | Kantos Chamber Choir: McCabe, Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker Kantos Chamber Choir Ellie Slorach, conductor McCabe: The Lily White Rose A capella choral music by Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker |
| 5 July 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St Luke the Evangelist Burton Stone Lane York YO30 7BE Details: Web site £10, 8 and 5 at the door | Kantos Chamber Choir: McCabe, Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker Kantos Chamber Choir Ellie Slorach, conductor McCabe: The Lily White Rose A capella choral music by Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker |
| 6 July 2018 | |
| 7.30pm St Mary the Virgin Station Road, Richmond North Yorkshire DL10 7AQ Details: Web site | Kantos Chamber Choir: McCabe, Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker Kantos Chamber Choir Ellie Slorach, conductor McCabe: The Lily White Rose A capella choral music by Britten, Macmillan, Bairstow, Finzi, Grainger, Rory Johnston and Robin Walker |
| 7.30pm St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2DH Details: Web site GBP 12 ('earlybird' discount) / 15 | 10 (students) | Captured Light Londinium Leanne Singh-Levett, piano Andrew Griffiths, conductor Lili Boulanger: Renouveau Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans Maurice Ravel, arr Clytus Gottwald: Soupir Gabriel Faure: Madrigal Maurice Durufle: Quatre Motets sur des themes gregoriens Claude Debussy, arr Clytus Gottwald: Les Angelus Lili Boulanger: Hymne au soleil Gabriel Faure: Les Djinns Lili Boulanger: Les Sirenes Claude Debussy, arr Clytus Gottwald: Des pas sur la neige Claude Debussy: L'isle joyeuse (piano) Maurice Ravel: Trois Chansons Lili Boulanger: Soir sur la plaine Londinium marks the centenaries of the deaths of Claude Debussy and Lili Boulanger by plunging into the heady world of early twentieth-century French choral music. Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome, lived for just 24 years; her prodigious talent is nowhere clearer than in her luxuriant and often-ecstatic works for choir and piano, far too rarely performed today. We pair Debussy's classic 'Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans' with virtuosic transcriptions of his songs and piano music by the masterful arranger Clytus Gottwald, and our programme is completed with works by Faure, Ravel, and the perennially popular 'Quatre Motets sur des themes gregoriens' by Maurice Durufle. |
Next Page of Events Newly added events Main events page Add an Event Cadenza Index