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| Friday 3-Sep-10 11:00am |
 Queen's Hall, EdinburghDuo Sol Edinburgh International Festival |
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| Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JG, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 11:00am Duo Sol Duo Sol brings a flamboyant programme of music from the new world together with Beethoven’s dazzling Kreutzer Sonata. One of Hollywood’s leading film composers, Korngold was just 20 when he wrote incidental music for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango is a vital tango alternately languorous and impassioned. Australian composers Ross Edwards and Matthew Hindson show very different influences and ambitions, reconnecting music with ritual, spontaneity and the impulse to dance and exploring elements of techno and death-metal styles respectively. John Adams’s Road Movies travels through three movements: Relaxed Groove, Meditative and 40% Swing. Tickets from £7 Supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 01:00pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Free Lunchtime Concert - Olivia Sham Piano |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 01:00pm Free Lunchtime Concert - Olivia Sham Piano Price type: Free | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Carrs Lane Church, Eastside, Birmingham Handel's Joshua |
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| Carrs Lane Church, Eastside, Birmingham, Birmingham B4 7SX, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:00pm Handel's Joshua Handel wrote Joshua as part of a series celebrating the defeat
of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. His treatment of the biblical
story of the entry of the wandering Israelites into Canaan
under their leader Joshua, the demolition of Jericho, and the
rout of the scruffy savages who had the misfortune to live
there, was resonant and popular in Georgian London, and,
although we may feel uneasy about its modern equivalence, we
can revel in Handel's most blazingly colourful music, with
trumpets and horns and drums.
Meanwhile Handel concocts a sub-plot telling the story of two young lovers. Though they are but names in the Bible, their love-music provides welcome contrast to the blood-curdling shouts of victory elsewhere: indeed Joshua contains both Handel's grandest and his sweetest music. ensemble 1685 presents the oratorio complete and with historical instruments, in the first production of this piece outside London in modern times, using a specially-prepared edition. Despite the religious origins of the story, Handel conceived this and all his oratorios with the same dramatic intent he used for his earlier operas, as works for a live audience in the theatre, and we hope you enjoy the show. Tickets are £10 and £6 for under 21s. | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Bach Brandenburg Concertos |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm Bach Brandenburg Concertos | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St John the Baptist, Plush Plush Ensemble Music at Plush |
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| St John the Baptist, Plush, Dorset, UK, Plush DT2 7RJ, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm Plush Ensemble The Plush Ensemble weekend is an annual festival highlight. For this concert, a world-class group of musicians come together to perform music from Haydn to Elgar, including Mozart's String Quintet in D. | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 65 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm Prom 65 In the first of his two Proms with the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle couples Beethoven’s punchy Fourth Symphony – a work packed with drama beneath its sunny surfaces – with Mahler’s First, which recalls the youthful song-cycle heard in Prom 62 while tracing a characteristic Mahlerian scenario of hard-fought triumph over personal doubts and demons. | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Southwell Minster The Choral Pilgrimage 2010 |
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| Southwell Minster, Southwell NG25 0HD, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm The Choral Pilgrimage 2010 Pre-concert talk with Harry Christophers 7.00pm | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Royal Overseas League: Princess Alexandra Hall, London "Schumann and more" Chamber Music Festival |
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| Royal Overseas League: Princess Alexandra Hall, London, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 07:30pm "Schumann and more" Chamber Music Festival "SCHUMANN AND MORE" Festival Princess Alexandra Hall Royal Over Seas League House, Park Place St.James's Street London SW1A 1LR Tickets - £10 a glass of wine included 3rd September Concert, 7:30 at the Princess Alexandra Hall, Schumann Fantasiestucke Piano Trio op.88 (Alba Ventura, Natalia Lomeiko, David Cohen) Bruch A selection of pieces for violin, clarinet and piano (Natalia Lomeiko, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Olga Sitkovetsky) interval Schumann Piano Quartet in E-flat (Alba Ventura, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Yuri Zhislin, David Cohen) 4th September pre concert rehearsals at the Hall possible masterclass Concert, 7:30 Schumann Adagio and Allegro op.70 (David Cohen, Olga Sitkovetsky ) Fantasiestucke (Nicolas Baldeyrou, Olga Sitkovetsky ) Fantasie arr.Kreisler (Yuri Zhislin, Olga Sitkovetsky) interval Bach Goldberg Variations arr. for String Trio by D.Sitkovetsky (Natalia Lomeiko, Yuri Zhislin, David Cohen 5th September Concert , 3:00 Schumann Piano Quintet (Alba Ventura, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Natalia Lomeiko, Yuri Zhislin, David Cohen) short interval Brahms Clarinet Quintet (Nicolas Baldeyrou, Natalia Lomeiko, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Yuri Zhislin, David Cohen) Natalia Lomeiko, Violin David Cohen, Cello Yuri Zhislin, Viola Alba Ventura, Piano Olga Sitkovetsky, Piano Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violin Nicolas Baldeyrou, Clarinet Price type: Low cost: 50% at £10 or less | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 08:00pm |
The Studio, Brightlingsea Sacconi Quartet at Studio Music |
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| The Studio, Brightlingsea, Brightlingsea CO7 0SX, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 08:00pm Sacconi Quartet at Studio Music | ||
| Friday 3-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Usher Hall, Edinburgh Susan Graham/Malcolm Martineau Edinburgh International Festival |
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| Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH1 2EA, United Kingdom Friday 3-Sep-10 08:00pm Susan Graham/Malcolm Martineau Now a firm Festival favourite, American mezzo soprano Susan Graham is one of the world’s foremost opera and recital stars. Tonight she performs a sumptuous programme of music by American composers alongside songs by Mozart and Mahler. An evening of glorious vocal music-making. ‘creamy tone, smoothly controlled technique, keen artistic instincts.’ Baltimore Sun ‘totally compelling’ The Wall Street Journal ‘at the peak of her powers.’ The Sunday Times Tickets from £8 With support from Frank Hitchman | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 11:00am |
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh Simón Bolívar String Quartet Edinburgh International Festival |
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| Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JG, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 11:00am Simón Bolívar String Quartet Young, talented and passionate the musicians of the Quartet, Alejandro Carreño, Eduardo Salazar, Ismel Campos and Aimon Mata are also associated with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra and the Venezuelan music project El Sistema. In the final concert of The Queen’s Hall Series the Simón Bolívar String Quartet performs a programme featuring music from South America alongside works by Bach, Brahms and Shostakovich. This concert promises to finish the Festival on a high. ‘nothing less than a miracle... From here, I see the future of music for the whole world. I see this programme not only as a question of art, but deep down as a social initiative. It has saved many lives, and will continue to save them.’ Sir Simon Rattle describes El Sistema Tickets from £7 Supported by The Peter Diamand Trust | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 03:00pm |
Cadogan Hall, London Proms Saturday Matinee 5 BBC Proms |
Jackson, In nomine Domini (BBC Commission: world première) |
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| Cadogan Hall, London, London SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 03:00pm Proms Saturday Matinee 5 Judith Weir responds to 13th-century Parisian master Pérotin, while Brian Ferneyhough is inspired by Renaissance composer Tye. For their part, Jonathan Harvey and Gabriel Jackson glance backwards to Tye’s contemporary Taverner. Thea Musgrave evokes the homecoming of Odysseus and Bayan Northcott sets the Latin poet Catullus. Musgrave, Thea (b. 1928), Ithaca (BBC commission: world première) Jackson, Gabriel (b. 1962), In nomine Domini (BBC Commission: world première) | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Warwick Road United Reformed Church, Coventry Handel's Joshua |
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| Warwick Road United Reformed Church, Coventry, Warwick Row, Coventry CV1 4DX, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:00pm Handel's Joshua Handel wrote Joshua as part of a series celebrating the defeat
of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. His treatment of the biblical
story of the entry of the wandering Israelites into Canaan
under their leader Joshua, the demolition of Jericho, and the
rout of the scruffy savages who had the misfortune to live
there, was resonant and popular in Georgian London, and,
although we may feel uneasy about its modern equivalence, we
can revel in Handel's most blazingly colourful music, with
trumpets and horns and drums.
Meanwhile Handel concocts a sub-plot telling the story of two young lovers. Though they are but names in the Bible, their love-music provides welcome contrast to the blood-curdling shouts of victory elsewhere: indeed Joshua contains both Handel's grandest and his sweetest music. ensemble 1685 presents the oratorio complete and with historical instruments, in the first production of this piece outside London in modern times, using a specially-prepared edition. Despite the religious origins of the story, Handel conceived this and all his oratorios with the same dramatic intent he used for his earlier operas, as works for a live audience in the theatre, and we hope you enjoy the show. Tickets are £10 and £6 for under 21s. | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St John the Baptist, Plush Plush Ensemble Music at Plush |
Liszt, Années de Pélérinage, Première Année: Suisse: Vallée d'Obermann, S. 160 (arranged for piano trio) Birtwistle, New Work (for solo cello) |
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| St John the Baptist, Plush, Dorset, UK, Plush DT2 7RJ, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm Plush Ensemble This concert features contrasting pieces ranging from Beethoven to the world premiere of Birtwistle’s new work for solo cello. Expect to be challenged and delighted by the group’s infectious energy and original interpretations. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886), Années de Pélérinage, Première Année: Suisse: Vallée d'Obermann, S. 160 (arranged for piano trio) Birtwistle, Harrison (b. 1934), New Work (for solo cello) | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 66 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm Prom 66 In the first half of their second Prom, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic pair late works by two of Germany’s greatest late-Romantics – ‘Richard the First’ and ‘Richard the Third’, as the conductor Hans von Bülow rather wickedly called them (quipping that, after Wagner, there could be no ‘Richard the Second’). After the interval come sensational sonic adventures by the three great musical pioneers of early-20th-century Vienna. Celebrated Finnish soprano Karita Mattila returns to the Proms as soloist in Strauss’s opulently nostalgic reflections on life’s last days. | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Vivaldi - The Four Seasons by Candlelight |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm Vivaldi - The Four Seasons by Candlelight | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Peterborough Cathedral The Choral Pilgrimage 2010 |
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| Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough , United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm The Choral Pilgrimage 2010 Pre-concert talk with Harry Christophers 7.00pm | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Royal Overseas League: Princess Alexandra Hall, London "Schumann and more" Chamber Music Festival |
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| Royal Overseas League: Princess Alexandra Hall, London, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 07:30pm "Schumann and more" Chamber Music Festival Natalia Lomeiko, Violin David Cohen, Cello Yuri Zhislin, Viola Alba Ventura, Piano Olga Sitkovetsky, Piano Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violin Nicolas Baldeyrou, Clarinet Price type: Low cost: 50% at £10 or less | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Usher Hall, Edinburgh Mahler Symphony No 8 Edinburgh International Festival |
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles, Conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus RSNO Junior Chorus Christopher Bell, Chorus director Erin Wall, Soprano Hillevi Martinpelto, Soprano Nicole Cabell, Soprano Katarina Karnéus, Mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano Simon O'Neill, Tenor Anthony Michaels-Moore, Baritone John Relyea, Bass |
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| Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH1 2EA, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 08:00pm Mahler Symphony No 8 With its vast orchestration and immense vocal forces, Mahler’s self-proclaimed ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ is an epic climax to the Festival’s 2010 Usher Hall programme. Donald Runnicles leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a stellar cast of soloists, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus in Mahler’s heavenly Eighth Symphony. Tickets from £10 Sponsored by Lumison, The Internet at Work BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles, Conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus RSNO Junior Chorus Christopher Bell, Chorus director Erin Wall, Soprano Hillevi Martinpelto, Soprano Nicole Cabell, Soprano Katarina Karnéus, Mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano Simon O'Neill, Tenor Anthony Michaels-Moore, Baritone John Relyea, Bass | ||
| Saturday 4-Sep-10 10:00pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Tchaikovsky - Liturgy of St John Chrysostom by Candlelight |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Sep-10 10:00pm Tchaikovsky - Liturgy of St John Chrysostom by Candlelight | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 02:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 67 - Last Night of the Proms 1910 BBC Proms |
Paganini, Moto Perpetuo in C major, Op.11 (arr. Pitt) Mussorgsky, Rayok (The Peep Show) (orch. Henry Wood) Bizet, L’Arlésienne (excerpts) Matthews, Dark Pastoral – based on the surviving fragment of the slow movement of Vaughan Williams’s Cello Concerto (1942) (BBC commission: world première) Dvořák, Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7 (orch. Henry Wood) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 02:30pm Prom 67 - Last Night of the Proms 1910 To open our daylong tribute to Proms founder-conductor HenryWood, we present his own Last Night programme from a century ago – so producing the first Proms season ever to feature two Last Nights. While this parade of short popular classics truly recalls Promenade concerts of another age, we also continue Wood’s commitment to new works – what Wood called his ‘novelties’. So one short cello piece from the original 1910 programme is this afternoon replaced by a brand-new work, based on a movement from the unfinished Cello Concerto by Vaughan Williams. Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), Rayok (The Peep Show) (orch. Henry Wood) Bizet, Georges (1838-1875), L’Arlésienne (excerpts) Matthews, David (b. 1943), Dark Pastoral – based on the surviving fragment of the slow movement of Vaughan Williams’s Cello Concerto (1942) (BBC commission: world première) Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904), Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7 (orch. Henry Wood) Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo-soprano Sergei Leiferkus, Baritone Steven Isserlis, Cello BBC Concert Orchestra Paul Daniel, Conductor Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 03:00pm |
Royal Overseas League: Princess Alexandra Hall, London "Schumann and more" Chamber Music Festival |
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| Royal Overseas League: Princess Alexandra Hall, London, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 03:00pm "Schumann and more" Chamber Music Festival Natalia Lomeiko, Violin David Cohen, Cello Yuri Zhislin, Viola Alba Ventura, Piano Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violin Nicolas Baldeyrou, Clarinet Price type: Low cost: 50% at £10 or less | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 03:00pm |
Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, London Foundling Sunday Concerts |
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| Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, London, London WC1N 1AZ, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 03:00pm Foundling Sunday Concerts Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 03:30pm |
Brown's Hotel, London Concert and Champagne Tea, Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano. Young Artist's Recital. |
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| Brown's Hotel, London, Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4BP, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 03:30pm Concert and Champagne Tea, Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano. Young Artist's Recital. Members of the Chopin Society £30. Non-members £35 | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 07:30pm |
The Warehouse, London The Third London Festival of American Music - Con Acento Latino - London Festival of American Music |
Sierra, Counting-out Rhyme for cello and piano (UK première) Sierra, Recordando una melodia olvidada (UK première) Sanchez Gutierrez, Trio Variations (European première) Carrillo Cotto, Will the quiet times come (European première) |
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| The Warehouse, London, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 07:30pm The Third London Festival of American Music - Con Acento Latino - The aim of the London Festival of American Music (founded by Lontano Ensemble in 2006) is to bring UK audiences to a broader spectrum of the best American and US-based contemporary composers. Most of the concerts will include UK or European premieres and several of the composers featured will attend the festival. Bayolo, Armando (b. 1973), Hermandad (UK première) Sierra, Arlene (b. 1970), Counting-out Rhyme for cello and piano (UK première) Sierra, Roberto (b. 1953), Recordando una melodia olvidada (UK première) Sanchez Gutierrez, Carlos (b. 1964), Trio Variations (European première) Carrillo Cotto, Carlos, Will the quiet times come (European première) Sierra, Roberto (b. 1953), Turner (UK première) | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Milton Keynes Theatre Curtain Raiser |
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| Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes MK9 3NZ, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 07:30pm Curtain Raiser | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm |
St Mary's Church, South Creake Hilliard Ensemble - Arkhangelos North Norfolk Music Festival |
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| St Mary's Church, South Creake, South Creake, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm Hilliard Ensemble - Arkhangelos | ||
| Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 68 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Sunday 5-Sep-10 08:00pm Prom 68 To close our HenryWood Day, the Ulster Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor PaulWatkins play music either premiered by or closely associated with the founder-conductor of the Proms, opening with the fanfare that Arthur Bliss, the BBC’s then Director of Music, wrote for Wood’s 75th (and last) birthday in 1944, the year of the Proms’ Golden Jubilee. | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 01:00pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London St Martin-in-the-Fields Organ Series |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 01:00pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Organ Series Programme not known Price type: Free | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 01:00pm |
Cadogan Hall, London Proms Chamber Music 8 - Venice: from the streets to the palaces BBC Proms |
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| Cadogan Hall, London, London SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 01:00pm Proms Chamber Music 8 - Venice: from the streets to the palaces As a curtain-raiser to our 400th-anniversary performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 (see Prom 75), the vibrant French ensemble Le Poème Harmonique conjures up the carnivalesque atmosphere of 17th-century Venice, where the streets and palaces provided a cultural melting pot for the popular and artistic styles of the day. Along with one of Monteverdi’s most famous madrigals, the Lamento della ninfa, the programme includes rarely heard music by Francesco Manelli, the first composer to write operas for the paying public as opposed to the privileged court. Works by Manelli, Francesco (1594-1667) | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 01:10pm |
St Anne's Lutheran Church, London Schumann: Piano Trio in D minor |
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| St Anne's Lutheran Church, London, Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BX, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 01:10pm Schumann: Piano Trio in D minor The Lauriston Trio returns to start the new season of concerts at St Anne's. Refreshments are provided before and after the concert, visitors are welcome to bring lunch. Price type: Free | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 69 BBC Proms |
MacMillan, The Sacrifice (Three interludes, London première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 07:00pm Prom 69 The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its French-born Music Director, Stéphane Denève, join Paul Lewis as he rounds off his cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos with the last and most proudly majestic of them all. Taking up this afternoon’s Italian theme, they play spectacular orchestral showpieces by Berlioz and Respighi, inspired respectively by Rome’s lively street life and its imperial past; while, cementing Celtic connections, they introduce a recent symphonic suite drawn from the Scottish composer James MacMillan’s opera The Sacrifice, inspired by the medieval folk tales of The Mabinogion and premiered to great acclaim by Welsh National Opera in 2007. MacMillan, James (b. 1959), The Sacrifice (Three interludes, London première) | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 07:00pm |
St Mary's Church, South Creake Sacconi Quartet at the North Norfolk Music Festival North Norfolk Music Festival |
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| St Mary's Church, South Creake, South Creake, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 07:00pm Sacconi Quartet at the North Norfolk Music Festival | ||
| Monday 6-Sep-10 10:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 70 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Monday 6-Sep-10 10:00pm Prom 70 French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky and Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux sing arias and duets by two great masters of 18thcentury opera seria, including a rare extract from one of the works that Handel’s London rival Porpora wrote to show off his star pupil, the legendary castrato Farinelli. | ||
| Tuesday 7-Sep-10 01:00pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Free Lunchtime Concert - Flute Ensemble |
Works by Clarke |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Tuesday 7-Sep-10 01:00pm Free Lunchtime Concert - Flute Ensemble Works by Clarke, Elizabeth Price type: Free | ||
| Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Classical Concerto Masterpieces |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm Classical Concerto Masterpieces | ||
| Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 71 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Tuesday 7-Sep-10 07:30pm Prom 71 In its first visit to the UK since Daniele Gatti became Music Director, the Orchestre National de France presents three great works linked to France and its capital city. Dating from a decade before his symphony of seascapes, La mer, Debussy’s poetic Prélude made its composer’s name when it was premiered in 1894, and created controversy when Nijinsky danced his erotic choreography of it for the Ballets Russes in 1912. A year later the Paris premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring prompted an even more sensational succès de scandale for Diaghilev’s company, causing the most famous riot in musical history. | ||
| Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 72 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Wednesday 8-Sep-10 07:00pm Prom 72 Bruckner, like his hero Wagner, composed on a vast scale. In his third Prom of the season, the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor, JiΣí BΔlohlávek, pairs the dashing festive prelude from Act 3 of Wagner’s ‘swan knight’ romance with the most overarching and open-hearted of Bruckner’s nine symphonies – a work whose slow movement was composed in the shadow of Wagner’s death and enshrines Bruckner’s musical memorial to the man he revered as the ‘Master’. Always a composer of vivid and funky surprises, Tansy Davies promises in her new work to take us on a journey through the Tarot pack. Davies, Tansy, Wild Card (BBC Commission: World Première) | ||
| Wednesday 8-Sep-10 10:15pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 73 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Wednesday 8-Sep-10 10:15pm Prom 73 To end the season’s Late Night series we celebrate a band of musicians popular for two generations. Penguin Cafe’s quietly insidious blends of catchy material, sophisticated skill and slightly surreal unpredictability have long been familiar to listeners who may never have registered the names of performers or music. Originally dreamt up and fronted by Simon Jeffes until his death in 1997 – and also prompting David Bintley’s successful ballet ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Cafe – the group’s music has reappeared on the scene thanks to Jeffes’s son Arthur, who has added new pieces to the menu. Joining them is star Northumbrian smallpiper Kathryn Tickell, a past guest of the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Penguin Cafe is the latter-day reincarnation of the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra, founded in 1972 by Simon Jeffes, whose original music for the band music has always been notoriously difficult to describe. ‘I think our recordings have been put in the classical, folk, pop, rock, avant-garde, chill-out, world and dance sections of record shops,’ says Arthur Jeffes, the group’s current leader (and son of Simon Jeffes). ‘One description I like at the moment is that it’s a kind of modern chamber folk – I like that it could apply to the music or the musicians.’ The band boasts an eclectic line-up of instruments, ranging from violin, cello and piano, to ukulele, dulcitone (a keyboard instrument whose hammers strike tuning forks), penny whistles and guitars. Kathryn Tickell, on Northumbrian smallpipes, joins the group for its first Proms appearance. ‘I’m looking forward to playing with Kathryn very much,’ says Jeffes. ‘I’ve been a real fan for a long time. I find the expression she can get into the pipes sounds so effortless, and yet so clear and direct that I can’t listen to her playing without smiling.’ For its Late Night Prom, the ensemble aims to offer ‘a place where one can opt out of the dehumanising pressures of modern life and simply be. Without wanting to sound overly mystical about it, a space where the music can just simply exist.’ | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 02:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall One, London Latin 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 02:45pm |
Kings Place: Hall Two, London Classical Music from India - Hindustani Santoor Recital Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall Two, London, 90 York Way , Opp. Goods Way, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 02:45pm Classical Music from India - Hindustani Santoor Recital Tickets: £4.50
Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust
Darbar takes you on an Indian musical journey, introducing instruments relatively new to Indian classical music. We begin in the foothills of the Himalayas with the shimmering sounds of the santoor, the hundred-stringed instrument from the valleys of Kashmir. This ancient instrument is the Indian version of the hammered dulcimer. The second concert takes us to the deep south, and unusually features the violin as a solo instrument, supported by percussion. We end our journey back in the north, with an instrument we would usually associate with Western jazz - the saxophone.
Harjinderpal Singh
Harjinder Pal Singh's interest in music began in his childhood, and his father sent him to learn tabla from Bhai Labh Singh Ji of the Punjab Gharana at the age of 14. He also mastered the Pakhawaj style of tabla, and later became a senior disciple of maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar. Harjinder travels widely in India giving concerts, lectures and demonstration programmes in schools and colleges. He also tours abroad.
Manjeet Rasiya
Manjeet is one of the UK's greatest Indian percussionists, and a fine Latin and Afro-Cuban drummer. As well performing with renowned Indian musicians and on theatre and film he has performed with Western musicians, including Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithful and Beth Orton.
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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 04:00pm |
Kings Place: Hall Two, London Classical Music from India - Carnatic Concert Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall Two, London, 90 York Way , Opp. Goods Way, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 04:00pm Classical Music from India - Carnatic Concert Tickets: £4.50
Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust
Darbar takes you on an Indian musical journey, introducing instruments relatively new to Indian classical music. We begin in the foothills of the Himalayas with the shimmering sounds of the santoor, the hundred-stringed instrument from the valleys of Kashmir. This ancient instrument is the Indian version of the hammered dulcimer. The second concert takes us to the deep south, and unusually features the violin as a solo instrument, supported by percussion. We end our journey back in the north, with an instrument we would usually associate with Western jazz - the saxophone.
Jyotsna Srikanth
Trained in the south Indian Carnatic and Western classical genres, Jyotsna composes her own music and collaborates with jazz, western classical and world music artists. ‘She provided a remarkable, improvised
instrumental, switching between rapid-fire violin ragas and slower delicate pieces and some impressive interplay between the percussionists.' (Guardian, April 2010).
Neyveli Venkatesh
Neyveli gave his first mridangam performance at the age of ten. He is skilled in playing the difficult ‘gumuki style' and is adept in kanjira konnokol, the art of performing percussion syllables vocally. Neyveli has accompanied frontline musicians in many major Indian music festivals and has toured extensively.
R N Prakash
R N Prakash is a disciple of Vidvan K N Krishnamurthy of Bangalore. His fusion work with western pop and jazz groups, especially Massive Attack, illustrates the musical bridges he builds to other cultures. He has made many television appearances demonstrating the versatility of mridangam and ghatam.
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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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| Thursday 9-Sep-10 05:15pm |
Kings Place: Hall Two, London Classical Music from India - Contemporary Indian Classical Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall Two, London, 90 York Way , Opp. Goods Way, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 05:15pm Classical Music from India - Contemporary Indian Classical Tickets: £4.50
Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust
Darbar takes you on an Indian musical journey, introducing instruments relatively new to Indian classical music. We begin in the foothills of the Himalayas with the shimmering sounds of the santoor, the hundred-stringed instrument from the valleys of Kashmir. This ancient instrument is the Indian version of the hammered dulcimer. The second concert takes us to the deep south, and unusually features the violin as a solo instrument, supported by percussion. We end our journey back in the north, with an instrument we would usually associate with Western jazz - the saxophone.
Jesse Bannister
Jesse Bannister plays north Indian classical music on the saxophone. His exciting music demonstrates how the saxophone can be ‘as sweet and mellifluous as a flute at times and at others, as powerful and direct as a Shehnai' (Amrita Review in Los Angeles), adding a new dimension to India's contemporary classical repertoire.
Bhupinder Chaggar
Bhupinder is a leading disciple of tabla maestro Pandit Sharda Sahai Ji. He teaches tabla to jazz students as well as tabla classes, and works with musicians from many cultures, including flamenco guitarist Eduardo Neibla, Portuguese percussion maestro Rui Junior, and soul singer Jocelyn Brown.
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| Thursday 9-Sep-10 06:30pm |
Handel House Museum, London Improvisation: Handel to Hendrix and beyond with harpsichordist David Gordon |
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| Handel House Museum, London, London W1K 4HB, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 06:30pm Improvisation: Handel to Hendrix and beyond with harpsichordist David Gordon The freedom of spirit and demonic intensity of music-making that characterises Hendrix’s work was not unknown to baroque performers. The keyboard playing of Domenico Scarlatti, for example, was compared with that of ‘ten thousand devils’. Improvisation and virtuosity were closely linked, and solo harpsichord performance in baroque times was invariably improvised. Folk music and dance music were integral to even the highest ‘art’ music of the period. This recital aims to look at the harpsichord as a solo instrument through the prism of improvisation, contemporary rhythms, and of questions as to the possibilities and the limits of the instrument. The programme will consist of everything from a prélude non mésure, a realisation of a Pasquini sonata for basso continuo, Purcellian divisions and Bach partimento fugues and doubles, all containing a large degree of improvisation, to original jazz-based compositions, and – perhaps – requests from the audience. £9, £5 students | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:15pm |
Kings Place: Hall Two, London London Sinfonietta - Chamber Music by Igor Stravinsky Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall Two, London, 90 York Way , Opp. Goods Way, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:15pm London Sinfonietta - Chamber Music by Igor Stravinsky Tickets: £4.50
In 1930 Igor Stravinsky (82-71) was introduced to the violinist Samuel Dushkin, who became a great friend and recital partner. Inspired by Dushkin's playing, Stravinsky wrote several works for the violinist including his Violin Concerto No.1, the Suite Italienne (based on pieces from Pulcinella) and the large-scale Duo Concertante (1931). Formed of five distinct movements, the music of this Duo ranges from the tranquil pastorale to episodes with a more angular, aggressive character. The final movement, Dithyrambe, features some of the most lyrically expressive music the composer ever wrote.
Three Pieces for clarinet (1918) was dedicated to the tea millionaire, and amateur clarinettist, Weiner Reinhart, who financially supported several of Stravinsky's struggling concert series. The colourful pieces are among the first works in which Stravinsky experimented with incorporating aspects of jazz, describing them as ‘written-out portraits of improvisations'.
Suite Italienne (1932) is a set of six movements for cello and piano, based on music from Stravinsky's earlier Neo-Classical ballet Pulcinella. His starting point was a set of 18th-century pieces by (in some cases wrongly attributed to) Pergolesi. The work opens with two movements - one high-spirited, one a sombre aria - taken from the start of the ballet, while the remaining idiosyncratic movements, all twists on recognisable Baroque forms, come from the end of the work.
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| Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 74 BBC Proms |
Holloway, Reliquary: Scenes from the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, enclosing an instrumentation of Schumann's ‘Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart’ (BBC commission, World Première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, London, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm Prom 74 To end our Schumann bicentenary survey, Irish pianist Finghin Collins plays the closest thing we have to a second Schumann piano concerto, while Robin Holloway offers a fresh slant on the composer’s final song-cycle, which sets poems and prayers penned in exile and prison by Mary, Queen of Scots. Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic also include masterpieces by two other composers who sadly lived even shorter lives. | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm |
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Baroque Festival by Candlelight |
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| St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 07:30pm Baroque Festival by Candlelight  Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741), The Four Seasons: Concerto in E major, "La Primavera (Spring)", RV269, Op.8 no.1 | ||
| Thursday 9-Sep-10 08:30pm |
Kings Place: Hall Two, London London Sinfonietta - Chamber Music by Tom Ades Kings Place Festival |
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| Kings Place: Hall Two, London, 90 York Way , Opp. Goods Way, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom Thursday 9-Sep-10 08:30pm London Sinfonietta - Chamber Music by Tom Ades Born in 1971, British composer Thomas Ades is ‘one of the most imposing figures in contemporary music' (The New Yorker). His compositions range from large-scale operas to intimate chamber works, but each is distinctive for their intricate sound tapestries and elaborately patterned textural layers. Catch (1991) is Ades' first chamber piece: a short, humorous work for violin, cello, clarinet and piano, with an improvisatory nature, the lively nature of the game ‘catch' depicted by numerous syncopated rhythms and apparently arbitrary entrances. The work structures itself around various combinations of the four instruments, with a stationary piano trio taunting and teasing the clarinettist, who refuses to join the game - but who eventually joins in with a burst of jubilantly expressive music.
Court Studies from The Tempest (2005) is scored for the same four instruments as Catch. Written as one continuous movement, the work is formed from six solo numbers taken from Ades's highly acclaimed opera The Tempest and freely transcribed for the four instruments. The pieces depict the leading figures from The Tempest arriving on Prospero's island, with the music conjuring up a rarefied, mysterious world. The work ends with a spine-chilling final section, which ultimately fades out with a mesmerising solo violin phrase.
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