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| Thursday 9-Sep-10 02:30pm |
 Kings Place: Hall One, LondonLatin American Classics I: Songs of the Black Swan - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 02:30pm Latin American Classics I: Songs of the Black Swan - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Tickets: £4.50
Composed in 1915, Villa-Lobos's Second String Quartet is an early example of a genre that attracted him throughout his life (he composed 17 of them in all) and reveals the early Romanticism and the influence of French music on the Brazilian master. O Canto do Cysne Negro (Song of the Black Swan), though it may sound echt-Brazilian, was arranged in 1917 from an orchestral work based on Greek mythology, the symphonic poem Naufrágio de Kleônicos (1916). Manuel Ponce, often called ‘the father of Mexican music', combined Impressionist and neoclassical influences picked up in Europe with an interest in Mexican folk-music and an innate lyric talent, shown to perfection in the popular Estrellita, often used as an encore.
Singer-songwriter-filmstar Carlos Gardel, who died in a plane crash in 1935 at the height of his fame, is one of the legends of the development of tango in Argentina (though he claimed he was Uruguayan, and was born in France!), and creator of the tango-canción. The Venezuelan pianist-composer Aldamero Romero was a prolific composer in many styles, including Caribbean popular music and jazz. He created the Venezuelan style known as Onda Nueva (New Wave), influenced by the Brazilian Bossa Nova. The highly rhythmic (and almost Bachian!) Fuga con Pajarillo comes from a suite for strings composed in 1975. The pajarillo is a Venezuelan dance, something like a waltz but with the accent on the second of the three beats.
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| Thursday 9-Sep-10 03:45pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Latin American Classics I: Jazzinho - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 03:45pm Latin American Classics I: Jazzinho - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Tickets: £4.50
Born in Caracas of a Venezuelan mother and German father, Reynaldo Hahn spent his career so completely in France (where he moved with his parents at the age of 3) that he's generally thought of as a French composer. As well as composing songs, operettas and film music, he managed to be the lover of Marcel Proust and the friend and biographer of Sarah Bernhardt. His Violin Sonata of 1926 is, typically for him, sunny and lyrical, full of discreet charm and nostalgia for more gracious times, even when it is being sprightly. It could almost be very superior salon music, but with an infusion of the urbanity and grace of Faure.
Jose Luis Munoz is credited with being the first Venezuelan composer to adopt the 12-tone method, but many of his works attest to his fascination with jazz styles, such as Jazzinho (the title denotes ‘small, sweet' jazz) for piano and string quartet.
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| Thursday 9-Sep-10 05:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Latin American Classics I: 4 Four Tango - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 05:00pm Latin American Classics I: 4 Four Tango - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Tickets £4.50
Manuel Ponce's Sonatina for violin and piano is a beautiful example of his gentle and temperate neo-classicism, and also reflects the influence of Paul Dukas, with whom he studied in Paris. Astor Piazzolla is celebrated as the great master of Argentinian tango, but 4 for Tango, composed in 1982, is also his first string quartet, and a virtuoso application of the full range of 20th-century string textures (sul ponticello, ‘Bartok-pizzicato', harmonics, glissandi, rapping on the wood with the knuckles etc, as well as traditional playing techniques) to a very sophisticated stylisation of the popular dance rhythm. Short, pithy, and dark-hued, it makes the perfect foil to Reynaldo Hahn's imposing yet delightful Piano Quintet in F sharp minor of 1922. This work breathes the spirit of Gabriel Faure, who was one of Hahn's teachers at the Paris Conservatoire.
Lucid and civilised, this is music that harks back to the more spacious and comfortable days before World War I, yet does so with wit and sobriety, especially in the opulently tender slow movement (reminiscent of the operettas of Messager) and the vigorous and joyous finale.
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| Friday 10-Sep-10 02:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Mikhail Rudy - Russian Masterpieces: Seasons and Pictures Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 02:30pm Mikhail Rudy - Russian Masterpieces: Seasons and Pictures Tickets: £4.50
The charismatic pianist Mikhail Rudy is well known for his creative programmes, whether it be his dramatisation of The Pianist or collaboration with the jazz pianist Misha Alperin in Double Dream. He's also a worldclass virtuoso, capable of encompassing huge orchestral works on the piano, as we'll witness in his arrangement of Petrushka and performance of Mussorgsky's monumental Pictures at an Exhibition. In these concerts, Rudy delves into his Russian past. As he says, ‘Being Russian myself but living a great part of my life in the West, Russian music is for me a constant emotional link, a way of keeping Russia alive inside me.' He's joined in his second concert by his compatriot the cellist Alexander Ivashkin, a musical tour de force in his own right, being a soloist, conductor and Professor of Music at the University of London.
Tchaikovsky's The Seasons ought to have been called ‘The Months', for the complete cycle contains 12 pieces each named for a month of the year and each written to accompany lines from a poem on that month by a different poet. Published as the musical supplements to a St Petersburg monthly journal from January to December 1876, they were intended to be within the capabilities of amateur pianists, but have sufficient subtleties to interest real virtuosi, too. Their formal simplicity, coupled with the programmatic imagery, was a spur to Tchaikovsky's invention: many of them remind us of his genius as a ballet composer, and it's easy enough to imagine a ballet constructed around their sequence of varied moods and characters.
Unlike The Seasons, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is a visionary work and the sound of a modern Steinway is almost not enough for the range and richness of the colours required, hence the many orchestrations. A grand memorial to his friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann, it takes the form of Mussorgsky himself (a portly figure represented by a ‘Promenade' in ponderous 11/4 time) viewing ten pictures in a memorial exhibition of Hartmann's work which was held in 1874. The sharp delineations of character and colour, vividly rendering scenes and personalities, created a new manner of writing for the piano which was hardly understood for over 50 years, while the monumental finale - ‘The Great Gate of Kiev'- is one of the most majestic culminations in piano literature.
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| Friday 10-Sep-10 03:45pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Mikhail Rudy - Russian Masterpieces: The Russian Cello Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 03:45pm Mikhail Rudy - Russian Masterpieces: The Russian Cello Tickets: £4.50
The charismatic pianist Mikhail Rudy is well known for his creative programmes, whether it be his dramatisation of The Pianist or collaboration with the jazz pianist Misha Alperin in Double Dream. He's also a worldclass virtuoso, capable of encompassing huge orchestral works on the piano, as we'll witness in his arrangement of Petrushka and performance of Mussorgsky's monumental Pictures at an Exhibition. In these concerts, Rudy delves into his Russian past. As he says, ‘Being Russian myself but living a great part of my life in the West, Russian music is for me a constant emotional link, a way of keeping Russia alive inside me.' He's joined in his second concert by his compatriot the cellist Alexander Ivashkin, a musical tour de force in his own right, being a soloist, conductor and Professor of Music at the University of London.
Stravinsky's Suite Italienne (1932) is an arrangement of an arrangement of an arrangement. In it - with the help of the great cellist Piatigorsky - he transcribed a violin-piano suite he'd made in 1925 of movements from his ballet Pulcinella (1919-20), itself founded upon a collection of 18th-century pieces by (or rather, often, wrongly attributed to) Pergolesi. Stravinsky does everything he can to upset the four-square Baroque phrasing by means of displaced accents, prominent syncopations, changes of timesignature, and so on. His rather Cubist re-ordering and re-imagining of the Baroque melodies and harmonies are taken a stage further when transferred to cello and piano, creating a kind of conscienceless neoclassicism, like a burlesque of Pergolesi's own sonatas.
Prokofiev's Cello Sonata is a late work, written in the dark days after February 1948, when the composer (along with Shostakovich) had been denounced by Stalin's henchman Zhdanov for writing ‘formalist, bourgeois decadent, anti-people music'. Though ill and depressed, Prokofiev felt that to be ‘working, always working' would be his personal salvation in this situation, and he was quick to spot the talent of the young Mstislav Rostropovich and to write a work especially for him. Though it does not have the barbaric dissonance of his middleperiod works, its combination of aching lyricism and spiky virtuosity is authentic Prokofiev. There is a defiant youthfulness to this music, rather than the spirit of elegy, encapsulated in his preface quote from Gorky: ‘Man, how proud the word sounds!'
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| Friday 10-Sep-10 05:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Mikhail Rudy - Russian Masterpieces: Petrushka Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 05:00pm Mikhail Rudy - Russian Masterpieces: Petrushka Tickets: £4.50
The charismatic pianist Mikhail Rudy is well known for his creative programmes, whether it be his dramatisation of The Pianist or collaboration with the jazz pianist Misha Alperin in Double Dream. He's also a worldclass virtuoso, capable of encompassing huge orchestral works on the piano, as we'll witness in his arrangement of Petrushka and performance of Mussorgsky's monumental Pictures at an Exhibition. In these concerts, Rudy delves into his Russian past. As he says, ‘Being Russian myself but living a great part of my life in the West, Russian music is for me a constant emotional link, a way of keeping Russia alive inside me.' He's joined in his second concert by his compatriot the cellist Alexander Ivashkin, a musical tour de force in his own right, being a soloist, conductor and Professor of Music at the University of London.
Prokofiev made his international reputation as a pianist-composer, an alchemist of brilliant keyboard miniatures, sometimes caustic, sometimes tender or sentimental. Twenty of these make up the Visions fugitives (1915-17), pieces meant to suggest the highly concentrated essence of a kaleidoscope of moods, each just a minute or so long: musical epigrams that stand in for unheard epics. The ballet Romeo and Juliet, by contrast, enshrines the far more expansive and genuinely romantic style of the later Prokofiev, and contains some of his best-loved melodies. We hear three numbers from the set of ten that Prokofiev himself arranged for piano.
Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka originated in the sound of the piano, for he originally conceived it as a Konzertstück for piano and orchestra. In his memoirs, he recalled it all began with his having ‘a distinct picture of a puppet, suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios'. He himself arranged three dances from the ballet for solo piano at the behest of Arthur Rubenstein, so the logic of Mikhail Rudy's own transcription is unimpeachable. In its combination of folksong and urban melodies with daring harmonic and rhythmic experiment, this is Stravinsky at his most subversively brilliant, as well as his great tribute to St Petersburg. As Rudy writes, ‘I completed this suite to make the entire Petrushka less driven by the idea of pianistic tour de force than by the desire to tell the story of the love, jealousy and ultimate death of a piece of wood, the puppet Petrushka, by the means of another piece of wood, the piano.'
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| Friday 10-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Kings Place Festival: Essence of Enlightenment Kings Place Festival |
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| Friday 10-Sep-10 08:15pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Kings Place Festival: Essence of Enlightenment Kings Place Festival |
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| Friday 10-Sep-10 09:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Three Violins: Music From Purcell's London Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 10-Sep-10 09:30pm Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Three Violins: Music From Purcell's London The thriving musical life of Restoration London attracted many foreign composers and performers. Among them was the German violinist Thomas Baltzar, whose Suite in C major for three violins and continuo introduced to England a popular northern European scoring - though its opening Pavan and Galliard are dances in the English tradition. The same instruments are used in the Divisions, or variations, over a repeating ground bass by the Neapolitan violinist Nicola Matteis, who, as his solo Fantasia suggests, must have been an outstanding virtuoso.
John Jenkins wrote chiefly in the native English tradition of the fantasia in several sections for viol consort; but the lively writing of his Fantasias for two trebles and a bass (completed by 1650) seems more suited to violins than to viols. His younger colleague Matthew Locke added keyboard continuo to this trio sonata scoring, and followed a fantasia with a series of dances, in each of the six suites that he wrote in 1661 for the King's private ‘Broken Consort'.
The great Henry Purcell contributed two early works to the repertoire for three violins and continuo: a Pavan, possibly written in memory of Jenkins; and a set of variations for ‘Three Parts on a Ground' of fertile invention and great contrapuntal ingenuity.
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| Saturday 11-Sep-10 11:00am |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Light: Johannes Moser & Sophie Cashell - Beethoven, Janacek, Messiaen Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 11:00am Light: Johannes Moser & Sophie Cashell - Beethoven, Janacek, Messiaen Tickets £4.50
The young German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser came to the world's attention when he won the famous Tchaikovsky Cello Competition in 2002. He's since performed as a soloist with the world's great orchestras, and also made a name as a chamber musician, inspirational educator and exponent of the electric cello. He's joined by pianist Sophie Cashell, winner of BBC TV's Classical Star competition (2007) for two contrasting programmes exploring core works of the cello repertoire mixed with live improvisation on electric cello and Nintendo Wiimote. Both e-cello works will be created using strands from the other works on the programme through improvisation. Moser will take feelings and themes from each piece to create a link from one work to the next, as he explains: ‘I would like to share my experiments of the past few months with the electric cello, and show that work-in-progress against pieces that have been in my repertoire for years. I feel more and more that these pieces are subject to subtle improvisations constantly, keeping the music fresh and alive. I am very pleased to be working with Sophie since she really knows the repertoire inside out and is a very keen spirit herself.' Beethoven's two late Sonatas (from 1815) are characterised by brevity, compression and the incredible ingenuity of the mature composer. The first, in C major, Beethoven named a ‘free' sonata, his way of accounting for its unconventional design. It opens with deceptively gentle simplicity before plunging into its stormy A minor Allegro Vivace. From out of a dreamily rhapsodic, recitative-like Adagio bursts a spirited, Haydn-like Finale in which the instruments play an exuberant game of cat-and-mouse. Janáček's twinkling Podháka (A Fairy tale) evokes the magical Russian tale of Prince Ivan and his love for Maria, daughter of the King of the Underworld. Drawing on folk song and delightful dance rhythms, it follows the lovers' trials and enchantments leading to their eventual happy union. Louange à l'éternité de Jésus is a movement from Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time, written while he was a prisoner in Stalag 8a during the Second World War. Inspired by the Book of Revelation, this magnum opus, composed for musicians available in the camp, was given its premiere before 5,000 shivering inmates on 15 January 1941. In this movement of mesmerising serenity, the cellist plays a long, sustained cantilena over slowly shifting, pulsating harmonies on the piano. A glowing meditation praising the eternal love of Jesus, it is essential Messaien, while prefiguring a whole wave of Minimalist music that would blossom in the late 20th century. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 11:15am |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Endymion - For Anton Stadler Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 11:15am Endymion - For Anton Stadler Tickets: £4.50.
The world-class chamber ensemble Endymion always strives to bring the greatest chamber music past and present to a wide audience. Known for the vitality, virtuosity and innovation of its players, Endymion has already made an impact at Kings Place by giving the first public performance in Hall One at the opening Festival in 2008, with a new piece by Simon Holt. Last summer Endymion celebrated 30 years with a major new music project, Sound Census, showcasing 27 premieres during a week of concerts here. This year their festival programmes epitomise the character of Endymion's music-making, contrasting two of the most emotional and engaging classics of the repertoire by Mozart and Brahms with an intriguing recent work by composer and artistic director Philip Venables. Philip Venables's K is a tribute and prelude to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, which follows in this programme. It takes the first two bars of the Quintet and, in the composer's words, ‘pulls them apart, exposing, reworking, fragmenting, reflecting and elaborating their harmony and gesture'. The fragment on which the piece is based is heard towards the end. Mozart fell in love with the voice-like sound of the clarinet relatively late in life. Clarinet virtuoso Anton Stadler was the catalyst for this passion and inspired both the Clarinet Concerto and this Clarinet Quintet. The first of the Quintet's four movements sets the mood with its charming, conversational exchange between the clarinet and string quartet. The second movement is strikingly similar to the slow movement of the concerto, with the clarinet's lyrical qualities to the fore. A delightful minuet with two trios follows before the theme and variations of the final movement in which Mozart experiments further with all the possible combinations of instruments in a finale of striking inventiveness. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 12:15pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Dark: Johannes Moser & Sophie Cashell - Bach, Takemitsu, Beethoven Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 12:15pm Dark: Johannes Moser & Sophie Cashell - Bach, Takemitsu, Beethoven Tickets: £4.50
The young German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser came to the world's attention when he won the famous Tchaikovsky Cello Competition in 2002. He's since performed as a soloist with the world's great orchestras, and also made a name as a chamber musician, inspirational educator and exponent of the electric cello. He's joined by pianist Sophie Cashell, winner of BBC TV's Classical Star competition (2007) for two contrasting programmes exploring core works of the cello repertoire mixed with live improvisation on electric cello and Nintendo Wiimote. Both e-cello works will be created using strands from the other works on the programme through improvisation. Moser will take feelings and themes from each piece to create a link from one work to the next, as he explains: ‘I would like to share my experiments of the past few months with the electric cello, and show that work-in-progress against pieces that have been in my repertoire for years. I feel more and more that these pieces are subject to subtle improvisations constantly, keeping the music fresh and alive. I am very pleased to be working with Sophie since she really knows the repertoire inside out and is a very keen spirit herself.' For the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, J S Bach's fifth suite was simply ‘darkness'. Written for a cello with its top A string tuned down to G, it is the most shadowy and mysterious of the Suites, with this Sarabande forming a still point, its measured, falling phrases, unwinding with their extraordinary chromatic logic into the void. For some, this eloquent aria of pain represents nothing less than the Crucifixion. Toru Takemitsu combined a Japanese sensibility with Western techniques inspired by Debussy, Webern, Messaien and Cage. Orion, named after the constellation, is a chamber version of the first movement of his cello concerto, Orion and Pleiades. Moser recalls meeting Takemitsu's long-time recording producer, who explained that his tempi markings were related to the Japanese Qi, which means breathing. ‘So however a performer decides to breathe this music will determine the tempo.' Beethoven's Sonata in D for piano and cello was to be his last in the form. The first movement, with its jubilant rising arpeggio, is driven by optimism and vigour, in sharp contrast to the sombre Adagio, and its memorably dark-hued chorale. The work ends with a muscular fugue, which takes us back to Bach. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 12:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Endymion - For Richard Muhlfeld Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 12:30pm Endymion - For Richard Muhlfeld Tickets: £4.50.
The world-class chamber ensemble Endymion always strives to bring the greatest chamber music past and present to a wide audience. Known for the vitality, virtuosity and innovation of its players, Endymion has already made an impact at Kings Place by giving the first public performance in Hall One at the opening Festival in 2008, with a new piece by Simon Holt. Last summer Endymion celebrated 30 years with a major new music project, Sound Census, showcasing 27 premieres during a week of concerts here. This year their festival programmes epitomise the character of Endymion's music-making, contrasting two of the most emotional and engaging classics of the repertoire by Mozart and Brahms with an intriguing recent work by composer and artistic director Philip Venables. Brahms's Clarinet Quintet has much in common with the Clarinet Quintet by Mozart (heard earlier this morning). Like Mozart, Brahms's late conversion to the clarinet was inspired by a virtuoso, Richard Muhlfeld, for whom he also wrote his two masterful clarinet sonatas. Muhlfield premiered the work with a quartet led by violinist Joseph Joachim, Brahms's long-time friend and collaborator. As a tribute to Mozart's Quintet, Brahms's follows a similar four-movement structure. The first movement, like many of Brahms's late works, has a brooding, autumnal quality. The second movement shows Brahms at his most expansive and lyrical, with the strings subtly playing on the colours and harmonic flavour of the clarinet melody. The short third movement, with its gently meandering melodies, is one of the few lighter moments in the work. Following Mozart's example, Brahms finishes with a theme and variations but where Mozart's is playful and charming, Brahms's is searching and darkly romantic. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 03:45pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Latin American Classics - 2, Bachianas Brasileras - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 03:45pm Latin American Classics - 2, Bachianas Brasileras - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Tickets: £4.50.
Starting in 1930 Villa-Lobos composed what is probably his most famous series of works, the nine Bachianas Brasileiras. A lifelong admirer of the music of J S Bach, by this title he meant to suggest a synthesis of Bach's style - especially his endless melody and elaborate polyphony - with the spirit of Brazilian music in all its melodic and rhythmic diversity, along with Villa-Lobos's personal blend of polytonality. Bachiana No. 1 was to be performed by a ‘cello orchestra' of at least eight players, with the central movement, Modinha, being a kind of sweetly melodious, sentimental song which Villa-Lobos thought of as a counterpart to Bach's arias. The well-loved Bachiana No. 5 is for soprano and five cellos. In the first movement the soprano spins her soaring melody above pizzicato cellos, and in the passionate central section intones a nocturnal poem by Ruth Valadares Correa. The lively, humorous finale is a martelo, a dancesong from Northern Brazil, to a poem invoking the birds of Brazil and their songs. The Venezuelan teacher, conductor and horn-player Innocente Carreno has written two string quartets displaying a wide range of styles and a melodic gift, founded on Venezuelan folk music, that has also brought him renown as a composer of songs. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Saturday 11-Sep-10 05:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Latin American Classics - 2, Last Round - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 11-Sep-10 05:00pm Latin American Classics - 2, Last Round - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet Tickets: £4.50.
Villa-Lobos composed his Sixteenth Quartet in Paris in 1955; unflagging in its invention, like many of his works it's infused with Brazilian song and dance character, but sublimated into a sophisticated, mature idiom. The slow movement, with its soulful cello melody, is reminiscent of the Bachianas Brasileiras; the sparkling scherzo is one of his best. Juan Bautista Plaza, noted for his sacred music, was Kapellmeister at Caracas Cathedral but also wrote notable instrumental works. He was a pioneer in Venezuelan music education and musicology who helped his compatriots establish a national style. He composed Fuga criolla for strings in 1931, adding the Fuga romántica in 1950 to make a two-part work, though the two fugues are often performed separately. In a sense they ‘Venezuelanise' J S Bach just as Villa-Lobos sought to make him into a Brazilian. Osvaldo Golijov is now the most celebrated contemporary Argentine composer of classical music, though his roots are in the Jewish communities of Romania and the Ukraine and he grew up speaking Yiddish. Last Round, originally commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, is a sublimated tango fantasy in which two string quartets are scored for an idealised bandoneon (the small accordion-like instrument of which Astor Piazzolla was a virtuoso) and its two movements are a homage to Piazzolla's fighting spirit and also to Carlos Gardel, whose song ‘My beloved Buenos Aires' provides the basis of the last movement. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 11:00am |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Gould Piano Trio - Bohemian Rhapsody Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Sep-10 11:00am Gould Piano Trio - Bohemian Rhapsody Tickets: £4.50.
The Gould Piano Trio is one of the UK's finest chamber ensembles, boasting an impressive discography, and festival appearances at Edinburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Bath, Aldeburgh and the BBC Proms. The group have a special affinity with the 19th-century Romantic repertoire, and last year released a set of Brahms's complete music for piano trio to great acclaim, but they have also been active in commissioning and promoting new music. The Gould Piano Trio is one of the UK's finest chamber ensembles, boasting an impressive discography, and festival appearances at Edinburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Bath, Aldeburgh and the BBC Proms. The group have a special affinity with the 19th-century Romantic repertoire, and last year released a set of Brahms's complete music for piano trio to great acclaim, but they have also been active in commissioning and promoting new music. The Gould Piano Trio is one of the UK's finest chamber ensembles, boasting an impressive discography, and festival appearances at Edinburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Bath, Aldeburgh and the BBC Proms. The group have a special affinity with the 19th-century Romantic repertoire, and last year released a set of Brahms's complete music for piano trio to great acclaim, but they have also been active in commissioning and promoting new music. The composers in this concert are linked not only through a shared love of Czech folk music - Josef Suk was Dvořák's pupil, and eventually his son-in-law. Suk's 1902 Elegie was inspired by a cycle of poems about a Czech legend. Although he originally scored for violin, cello, string quartet, harmonium and harp, Suk quickly rearranged the work for the more saleable combination of piano trio. A yearning, heart-on-sleeve theme dominates, with contrast provided by a short but intense section that's tempestuous in tone, and highly evocative of gypsy music. A snatch of this makes a surprise reappearance towards the end, before a lull and a final reprisal of the main theme. Dvořak's 1883 piano trio echoes the style of his friend Brahms in its dramatic intensity and rhythmic interplay. However, its strong Czech flavour ensures it's still unmistakably Dvořak. Dark in tone, it was composed soon after the death of his mother. The long, frequently tempestuous first movement is dominated by its brooding opening theme, despite the cello offering a calmer second subject. A folky, polka-inflected Allegretto grazioso is followed by the most Brahmsian of the movements, a lushly romantic Poco Adagio that sets triple and duple meters against each other. Dance-like motives return for the Finale, but in a brooding, dramatic tone that recalls the opening Allegro. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 12:15pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Gould Piano Trio - Variations in a Major Key Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Sep-10 12:15pm Gould Piano Trio - Variations in a Major Key Tickets: £4.50.
The Gould Piano Trio is one of the UK's finest chamber ensembles, boasting an impressive discography, and festival appearances at Edinburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Bath, Aldeburgh and the BBC Proms. The group have a special affinity with the 19th-century Romantic repertoire, and last year released a set of Brahms's complete music for piano trio to great acclaim, but they have also been active in commissioning and promoting new music. Beethovens ‘Kakadu' Variations, based on a popular contemporary aria, were probably written around 1803. They were one of Beethoven's few British-published works, printed by Chappell in 1824. A slow G minor introduction gives way to the chirpy, major-keyed song theme. The piano alone plays Variation 1, and the three instruments don't come together again until Variation 4. Contrapuntal imitation is the hallmark of the fifth, before the piano grabs the tune for the sixth, playfully punctuated by the strings. Variation 9 is a pathosridden minor-keyed Adagio. A battle between major and minor ensues during the Presto Variation 10. After the major key conquers, the pace slows to a final Allegretto, also based on the theme. Brahms's intense Piano Trio, completed in 1882, feels thoroughly symphonic in scale, its rich textures and soaring melodies frequently appearing to strive beyond the confines of their chamber walls. A dramatic Allegro moderato, full of dynamic and rhythmic contrasts, is followed by a tragic, minor-keyed theme and variations. The mood remains dark, and the key minor, for the tensely hurried Scherzo, although its C major trio provides a carefree respite. The exciting Finale, with its surprise modulations of key, and melodies unexpectedly changing tack, builds to a triumphant climactic flourish. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 02:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Sacconi Quartet - A Quintet for Clara Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Sep-10 02:30pm Sacconi Quartet - A Quintet for Clara Tickets: £4.50.
Rarely is there an opportunity in London to hear three giants of the piano quintet repertoire performed on one occasion. For these three concerts, pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips joins the Sacconi Quartet to bring the great piano quintets of Brahms, Schumann and Dvořak to the Kings Place stage. The Sacconi Quartet's innovative programming and exceptional playing mark them out in the British scene today. Their energy and creativity are bringing a new audience to chamber music with their concerts, recordings and outreach work. The Quartet makes a welcome return to Kings Place after their week of groundbreaking concerts, one of the highlights of the opening season. Simon Crawford-Phillips is renowned for his imaginative playing and dynamic musicianship. He is developing a diverse career as soloist, song accompanist, conductor, and pianist in the Kungsbacka Trio. Schumann wrote his Piano Quintet for his wife, Clara, during his ‘Chamber Music Year' of 1842 and it was an immediate success with musicians and audiences. The first movement's sparkling theme is followed by a gentler, more romantic second subject. After a funeral march, the cheerful Scherzo, based around ascending and descending scales, is unusual for having two contrasting trio sections. Schumann neatly concludes the final movement by combining its main theme with the opening one of the entire work. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:45pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Sacconi Quartet - Hard-won Masterpiece Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Sep-10 03:45pm Sacconi Quartet - Hard-won Masterpiece Tickets: £4.50. Rarely is there an opportunity in London to hear three giants of the piano quintet repertoire performed on one occasion. For these three concerts, pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips joins the Sacconi Quartet to bring the great piano quintets of Brahms, Schumann and Dvořak to the Kings Place stage. The Sacconi Quartet's innovative programming and exceptional playing mark them out in the British scene today. Their energy and creativity are bringing a new audience to chamber music with their concerts, recordings and outreach work. The Quartet makes a welcome return to Kings Place after their week of groundbreaking concerts, one of the highlights of the opening season. Simon Crawford-Phillips is renowned for his imaginative playing and dynamic musicianship. He is developing a diverse career as soloist, song accompanist, conductor, and pianist in the Kungsbacka Trio. This quintet beautifully illustrates Brahms's lifelong perfectionist streak. Its first incarnation was in 1862, as a string quintet with two cellos. Unsatisfied, Brahms rearranged it as a two-piano duet. Still unsatisfied, in 1864 he re-scored it as a piano quintet. Two tumultuous, passionate outer movements, replete with interwoven melodic lines, are the bookends for a tender, majorkeyed Andante, and an emotionally highly wrought Scherzo. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Sunday 12-Sep-10 05:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Sacconi Quartet - Dumka and Dancing Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Sep-10 05:00pm Sacconi Quartet - Dumka and Dancing Tickets: £4.50. Rarely is there an opportunity in London to hear three giants of the piano quintet repertoire performed on one occasion. For these three concerts, pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips joins the Sacconi Quartet to bring the great piano quintets of Brahms, Schumann and Dvořak to the Kings Place stage. This afternoon of concerts is the first of a planned series in which these musicians will collaborate to perform all of the masterpieces in this genre. The Sacconi Quartet's innovative programming and exceptional playing mark them out in the British scene today. Their energy and creativity are bringing a new audience to chamber music with their concerts, recordings and outreach work. The Quartet makes a welcome return to Kings Place after their week of groundbreaking concerts, one of the highlights of the opening season. Simon Crawford-Phillips is renowned for his imaginative playing and dynamic musicianship. He is developing a diverse career as soloist, song accompanist, conductor, and pianist in the Kungsbacka Trio. Dvořak's 1887 quintet is a masterpiece of lyrical Bohemian spirit, its palette of moods ranging from unbounded joy to introspective melancholy. After the dramatic Allegro has whirled to a close, pathos enters with the Dumka, a type of melancholic Ukranian ballad. Well-oiled fingers are required for the merry Scherzo based on a Bohemian dance this time, the furiant. The triumphant rush to the equally light-hearted Finale's finish is heralded by an augmented pianissimo version of its theme. Multi-buy Offers: Book tickets and save money 3+ events save 10% 6+ events saves 15% 10+ events save 20% The same number of tickets must be booked for each event to qualify for the discount. To book using our multi-buy offer please contact our Box Office where you will be offered the discount on the online price. | ||
| Wednesday 29-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Schumann on Piano and Violin |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Wednesday 29-Sep-10 07:30pm Schumann on Piano and Violin Price: £9.50 - £26.50
Lucy Parham's lifelong passion for the music of Robert Schumann has resulted in several CDs, broadcasts and the concept of Beloved Clara. Her recording of Robert and Clara Schumann's piano concertos was BBC Music Magazine Critics' Choice of the Year.
Jennifer Pike was the youngest ever BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2002. Only twenty years of age, she is already known as one of the finest violinists of her generation. Martin Roscoe is one of Britain's most established pianists. Here, Schumann's large scale Novelette No. 8 for solo piano is framed by the three Romances and his first violin sonata.Price type: Low cost: 50% at £10 or less | ||
| Thursday 30-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Schumann with Natalie Clein and Friends |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 30-Sep-10 07:30pm Schumann with Natalie Clein and Friends Price £9.50 - £26.50
Natalie Clein was BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1994 when she captivated British audiences with her performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto. Since then she has established herself as one of the finest young cellists in the world. She is joined by highly acclaimed Russian pianist Katya Apkeisheva, violinist Alexander Sitkovetsy and violist of the Belcea Quartet, Krzysztof Chorzelski, for a performance of the Piano Quartet.
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| Friday 1-Oct-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Beloved Clara |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 1-Oct-10 07:30pm Beloved Clara Price: £9.50 - £26.50
Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck stars of The Lives of Others
Beloved Clara is the story of the intense relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, told in their own words. "This is a beautifully put-together portrait of one of classical music's most romantic and tragic marriages and it's every bit as glamorous and star crossed as Romeo and Juliet." Guardian Works by Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) | ||
| Saturday 2-Oct-10 11:30am |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Schumann and Children |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 2-Oct-10 11:30am Schumann and Children Prince £9.50 online
Hosted by BBC's Petroc Trelawny
Performers include Alan Rusbridger (Guardian Editor), Sue Perkins (comedian), Richard Ingrams (Private Eye), Katie Derham (BBC TV and radio presenter), Sarah Walker (BBC Radio 3), Edward Fox (actor) Claus Moser, Conrad Williams (author of The Concert Pianist), Oliver Condy, (BBC Music Magazine Editor), Kit Hesketh Harvey (Kit and the Widow) and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (Archbishop of Westminster) | ||
| Saturday 2-Oct-10 01:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Lieder Masterclass with Ann Murray |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 2-Oct-10 01:30pm Lieder Masterclass with Ann Murray Price: £9.50/£14.50
Eleanor Dennis mezzo
Anna Patalong soprano
Jonathan McGovern baritone
World renowned soprano Ann Murray DBE and broadcaster Iain Burnside lead this Masterclass, which also features winners of the Musicians Benevolent Fund Awards.
In association with the Musicians Benevolent Fund. Works by Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) (Lieder Masterclass) | ||
| Saturday 2-Oct-10 07:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Schumann and the Voice |
Schumann, Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart (Poems of Mary Queen of Scots), for voice and piano, Op.135 |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 2-Oct-10 07:00pm Schumann and the Voice Price: £6.50 - £14.50
Ann Murray DBE is one of the world's finest mezzo-sopranos, and her superb recording of Frauenliebe und Leben was critically acclaimed. She is accompanied by Iain Burnside, renowned pianist and broadcaster. | ||
| Saturday 2-Oct-10 08:15pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Schumann Part Songs and Cello Concerto |
Schumann, Kinderszenen: Träumerei (Reverie), Op.15 no.7 (arr for string orchestra) Schumann, 5 Lieder for mixed voices, Op.55 (Nos. 1 - 4) |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 2-Oct-10 08:15pm Schumann Part Songs and Cello Concerto Price: £6.50 - £14.50
The string orchestra version of the Cello Concerto is rarely heard and provides a unique balance and texture for the solo cello's soaring voice. Raphael Wallfisch is joined by the Orchestra of St John's for this piece. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), Kinderszenen: Träumerei (Reverie), Op.15 no.7 (arr for string orchestra) Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), 5 Lieder for mixed voices, Op.55 (Nos. 1 - 4) | ||
| Sunday 3-Oct-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 3-Oct-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society | ||
| Sunday 10-Oct-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society presents...Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Simon Crawford-Phillips |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 10-Oct-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society presents...Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Simon Crawford-Phillips Tamsin Waley-Cohen, playing on her 1721 Stradivarius violin, with the pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips in Handel, Beethoven's mighty C minor sonata, the early violin sonata by Delius dating from 1892 and Claude Debussy's last completed work, the violin sonata from 1917. | ||
| Thursday 14-Oct-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London REMIX: London Sinfonietta & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Baroque Reinventions |
Handel, Menuet and Courante from Theodora |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 14-Oct-10 07:30pm REMIX: London Sinfonietta & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Baroque Reinventions Price: £9.50 - £24.50
This concert proves that imitation is sometimes the sincerest form of flattery. The first half showcases re-workings by Handel of several original pieces by Gottlieb Muffat from his Componiementi Musicali. The second is an arrangement by JS Bach of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
Aftershow - Level -2 Foyer, 9.30pm - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Join the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment players in the bar for an informal short performance. Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759), Menuet and Courante from Theodora | ||
| Friday 15-Oct-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London REMIX: London Sinfonietta and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Cover Versions |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 15-Oct-10 07:30pm REMIX: London Sinfonietta and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Cover Versions Price: £9.50 - £29.50
London Sinfonietta brings a contemporary twist to existing classics. The concert combines arrangements of pre-20th century music from the greats of contemporary music such as Birtwistle, Adès and George Benjamin. You can also hear the world premiere of Anna Clyne's new version of Britten's Hymn to a Virgin.
Aftershow - Level -2 Foyer, 9.30pm, London Sinfonietta
Join London Sinfonietta players in the bar for an informal short performance.
 Purcell, Henry (1659-1695), Fantasy upon One Note for 5 viols in F major, Z 745 (also known as Fantasia XIII) | ||
| Saturday 16-Oct-10 01:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London REMIX: London Sinfonietta and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Music as Theft |
Monza, Air; Gavotte avec Double |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 16-Oct-10 01:00pm REMIX: London Sinfonietta and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Music as Theft Price: £9.50 - £24.50
London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment join forces in a concert showcasing works based on older musical ideas. The second half includes a new five-minute commission from composer Richard Causton, taking a movement of one of the first-half pieces as their starting point. Stravinsky's Pulcinella takes centre stage with its modern, neo-classical take on Pergolesi's 18th-century classic. Artists will join the audience in the bar after the performance.
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| Sunday 17-Oct-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society presents...Sitkovetsky Piano Trio |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 17-Oct-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society presents...Sitkovetsky Piano Trio The Sitkovetsky Piano Trio play Mendelssohn's famous D minor trio, the second of British composer David Matthew's three piano trios and Tchaikovsky's trio composed in Rome at the end of 1881 ‘in memory of a great artist', his friend Nikolai Rubinstein, who had died earlier that year. | ||
| Sunday 24-Oct-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society presents...Carducci Quartet |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 24-Oct-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society presents...Carducci Quartet The Carducci Quartet play early Haydn, the American composer Philip Glass's third quartet (1985) based on his music for the film Mishima and Mendelssohn's impassioned last quartet the 1840s. | ||
| Sunday 31-Oct-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society presents...Rosamunde Trio |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 31-Oct-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society presents...Rosamunde Trio The Rosamunde Trio in a programme of nineteenth-century piano trios by Beethoven (including the delightful ‘Allegretto' composed for his ten year old piano student) the middle of Brahms's three piano trios and Josef Suk's ‘Elegy' composed in 1902. | ||
| Sunday 7-Nov-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society presents...Primrose Piano Quartet with Clara Biss and Leon Bosch |
Smirnov, Piano Quintet, Op.72 ((London première)) |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 7-Nov-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society presents...Primrose Piano Quartet with Clara Biss and Leon Bosch The Primrose Piano Quartet presents a wide-ranging programme consisting of one of Beethoven's finest string trios, the ever-popular piano quintet by Schumann, the London premiere of a new work by Russian-born composer Dmitri Smirnov and English music by Roger Quilter. Smirnov, Dmitri (b. 1948), Piano Quintet, Op.72 ((London première)) | ||
| Thursday 11-Nov-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Aldeburgh Highlights - Britten and Beyond |
Knussen, Ophelia Dances (A fragment of Ophelia's last dance) |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 11-Nov-10 07:30pm Aldeburgh Highlights - Britten and Beyond Price: £9.50 - £29.50
The outstanding Hebrides Ensemble in Britten and three of the composers who succeeded him as Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival. Shakespeare and Ovid colour music by Bridge, Britten, Knussen and Adès whilst Woolrich ruminates on musical ghosts -Monteverdi, Debussy and Schubert. Knussen, Oliver (b. 1952), Ophelia Dances (A fragment of Ophelia's last dance) | ||
| Sunday 14-Nov-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society present...The Turner Ensemble (1) |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 14-Nov-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society present...The Turner Ensemble (1) The Turner Ensemble (Covent Garden Orchestra principals with some of the finest players) follow their impressive LCMS debut with the first of four concerts in 2010/11 as LCMS resident ensemble. They demonstrate their versatility in the Schumann-influenced trio by Wolfgang Rihm, lieder by Schumann and Brahms's ever-popular Piano Quintet in G minor with its famous Hungarian-inspired finale. | ||
| Sunday 21-Nov-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society present...Chilingirian Quartet |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 21-Nov-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society present...Chilingirian Quartet Mozart's composition student, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, was a slightly younger contemporary of Beethoven, and they became good friends. The famous Chilingirian string quartet here performs one of Hummel's Op. 30 quartets (composed in 1803) and Beethoven late Op. 127 quartet (composed in 1825). In between comes a performance of the second quartet by Peter Fribbins, commissioned by the Chilingirian Quartet in 2005 and based on an English hymn known as Cromer. | ||
| Thursday 25-Nov-10 08:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Transition_projects - Claire Booth: The Human Voice |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 25-Nov-10 08:00pm Transition_projects - Claire Booth: The Human Voice Price: £9.50 - £24.50
'dazzlingly performed...Claire Booth giving a marathon display of transcendent vocal beauty' Independent
Claire Booth, ‘one of the finest and most versatile vocalists of her generation' (Guardian) creates an astonishing portrait of women on the edge in Berio's startling Sequenza No. III, and Poulenc's astonishing setting of Jean Cocteau's monologue for a woman on the telephone. Through a one-sided conversation La Voix Humaine (1959) reveals a woman's desperate attempts to survive the breakup of an affair as she argues, cajoles and pleads with her lover. In Sequenza III, (1962) Berio exploits every aspect of the female voice and expression, pushing the performer to virtuoso feats and creating an extraordinary and unique portrait. Transition present these works with innovative interactive film, and projected translations.
'Claire Booth...a dazzling rendition of Sequenza No. III' Guardian
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| Friday 26-Nov-10 08:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Transition_projects - James Gilchrist: Before Life and After |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 26-Nov-10 08:00pm Transition_projects - James Gilchrist: Before Life and After Price: £9.50 - £24.50
'a time there was... before the birth of consciousness, when all went well.' Hardy, Before Life and After
A performance of the mesmerising settings of Hardy by Britten, and Hudson by Tippett; poems about the loss of innocence, fleeting experience, growing old, life, death, and the vast, intractable expanse of time. Winter Words contains some of the most imaginative and haunting music Britten ever composed. Boyhood's End, first performed by Britten and Peter Pears in 1944, was described by the singer as ‘‘full of imaginative and suggestive imagery...that innocent and radiant fantasy which is at the centre of (Tippett's) unique contribution to our music'. Both works are woven together in a staged performance with film and integrated live video.
'James Gilchrist is now unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence' Independent
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| Saturday 27-Nov-10 08:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Transition_projects - Fflur Wyn: Oh My Days |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 27-Nov-10 08:00pm Transition_projects - Fflur Wyn: Oh My Days Price: £9.50 - £24.50
‘Transition...bold and lively...contemporary, and profoundly moving' Guardian
Transition conjure up the agony and ecstasy of first love, in a collection of the most beautiful songs by Jacopo Peri the composer often credited as the inventor of opera, together with songs by Claudio Monteverdi. Staging a portrait of a young girl's view of life, love, happiness, misery, home, the world, the universe, and everything, Transition celebrate the joy and radiance of these songs, setting them against the backdrop of a long summers vacation, with film, animation and live interactive video.
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| Sunday 28-Nov-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society presents...Fibonacci Sequence |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 28-Nov-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society presents...Fibonacci Sequence Led by Kathron Sturrock, the wind players of Fibonacci Sequence perform a concert of some of the very best chamber music for wind, including Mozart's beautiful E flat quintet, Samuel Barber's Summer Music composed in 1956 and Francis Poulenc's ever-colourful Sextet. | ||
| Wednesday 1-Dec-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Italians in Paris - Cello Quintets |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Wednesday 1-Dec-10 07:30pm Italians in Paris - Cello Quintets Price: £9.50 - £34.50
Anticipating the Romanticism of Schubert, many Italians composed and published in Paris cello quintets - string quartets with an extra cello - enabling the instrument to show its expressive potential to the full. In playing these works on period instruments, the Quatuor Mosaïques and Raphaël Pidoux give this fascinating rediscovery a delightful historical flavour. | ||
| Thursday 2-Dec-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Italians in Paris - Paganini and the Great Composers |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 2-Dec-10 07:30pm Italians in Paris - Paganini and the Great Composers Price: £9.50 - £29.50
The demonic and mysterious violinist Paganini influenced all the artists of his generation. Pianists such as Schumann and Liszt endeavoured to transpose his virtuosity to the keyboard, while the greatest composers dedicated works to him, among them Berlioz with his "dramatic" symphony Harold en Italie. | ||
| Friday 3-Dec-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Felicity Lott and Isabelle Moretti: An Afternoon at the Salon |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Friday 3-Dec-10 07:30pm Felicity Lott and Isabelle Moretti: An Afternoon at the Salon Price: £9.50 - £34.50
The harp was a star of the Parisian salons. Elegant ladies would play it with talent, accompanying themselves in airs and romances with a very Romantic feeling. Dame Felicity Lott - an expert interpreter of such intimate pieces - will explore a varied repertoire in complicity with Isabelle Moretti, the greatest French harpist of recent decades. | ||
| Saturday 4-Dec-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Carolyn Sampson - Italians Celebrate Europe |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Dec-10 07:30pm Carolyn Sampson - Italians Celebrate Europe Price: £9.50 - £34.50
Gioachino Rossini
Muzio Clementi
Luigi Cherubini
romances, airs and art songs
A confection of Englishmen setting Italian texts, Italians writing in French...and Frenchmen publishing works in Italian! This recital by stunning soprano arolyn Sampson highlights the individual features of opera and of salon music, and shows their common inspiration. A real gem.
"...Carolyn Sampson is radiant, volumptuous and utterly captivatings." International Recod Review
Works by Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) Works by Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832) Works by Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842) | ||
| Sunday 5-Dec-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society present...Quartet of Peace |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Dec-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society present...Quartet of Peace Four South Africans musicians perform on a quartet of string instruments made by Brian Lisus in honour of South Africa's four Nobel Peace laureates - the late Dr. Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Bishop Desmond Tutu. A performance in Mandela's living room in early December, attended by de Klerk and Tutu will be followed by a gala concert at this year's Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo and concerts in Geneva, Paris and London, before the instruments travel further afield to the world's trouble spots to be played in the context of conflict resolution. The musicians are kindly donating their services and proceeds from the concert will be given to charity. The Charity benefiting from this special performance is Musequality. | ||
| Sunday 12-Dec-10 06:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London London Chamber Music Society present...Aquinas Piano Trio |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Sunday 12-Dec-10 06:30pm London Chamber Music Society present...Aquinas Piano Trio An excellent new piano trio (formed in 2009) in a programme of nineteenth-century classics by Beethoven and Saint-Saëns, and beginning with Haydn's famous Gypsy Rondo trio composed in 1795. | ||
| Wednesday 15-Dec-10 07:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Early Music Festival - In Hoary Winter's Night |
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| Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Wednesday 15-Dec-10 07:30pm Early Music Festival - In Hoary Winter's Night Price: £9.50 - £29.50
Joglaresa
Belinda Sykes voice, director
Jeremy Avis voice
Mick Sands voice, bodhran, flute
Jean Kelly cláirseach, voice
Jim O'Toole fiddles, voice
Tim Garside dulcimer, percussion, voice
An effervescent Anglo-Irish collaboration of ancient and spellbinding Christmas songs ringing with echoes of winter pagan festivities from across the centuries. Well-known carols such as The Coventry Carol are mixed together with many lesser-known songs such as The Falcon Carol, As I in Hoary Winter's Night and Lordings Listen to Our Lay.
‘Thrilling and haunting' The Times | ||
