BELFAST
Ulster Hall 01232 668798
15 January
Stephen Kovacevich plays and directs Beethoven's Third Piano
Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra
Waterfront Hall 01232 668798
22 January
Arcadi Volodos plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
with the Ulster Orchestra under Dmitri Sitkovetsky
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BIRMINGHAM
Symphony Hall 0121 212 3333
23 January
Alexei Lubimov plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 17 with the Budapest
Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer
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BRISTOL
Colston Hall 0117 922 3686
14 January
Alexei Lubimov plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto with
the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Herbert Blomstedt
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EDINBURGH
Queen's Hall 0131 668 2019
21 January
Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto
with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Joseph Swensen
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GLASGOW
City Hall 0141 287 5511
22 January
Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto
with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Joseph Swensen
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LEEDS
City Art Gallery 0113 247 8336
27 January, lunchtime
Sharon Gould, harpsichord, plays Bach, Pachelbel, Louis Couperin
and Rameau
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LIVERPOOL
Philharmonic Hall 0151 709 3789
16 January
John Lill plays Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Petr Altrichter
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LONDON
Barbican Centre 0171 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk
17 January
Yvonne Loriod plays in Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony with
Jeanne Loriod and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis
St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061
10 January, 10.30 am start
Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Piano Scholarships 1999, Finals
29 January
Alexander Ardakov plays an all-Russian programme - Shostakovich,
Prokofiev, Glinka, Mussorgsky
SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
12 January
Alexei Lubimov plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto with
the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Herbert Blomstedt
21 January
Robert Levin plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concertos
Nos 24 & 25, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
26 January
Cristina Ortiz plays Grieg’s Ballade, plus music by Poulenc,
Mompou, Stenhammar and Fernandez
SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
24 January
Alexei Lubimov plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 17 with the Budapest
Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer
26 January
Imogen Cooper plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 27 with the Philharmonia
Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach
Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
9 January
Steven Osborne plays Beethoven, Ives and Debussy
14 January
Andras Schiff plays Schumann
17 January, 4 pm
Dmitri Bashkirov plays Mozart, Schubert-Liszt and Brahms's F
minor Sonata
21 January
Fou Ts'ong plays Chopin
23 January
Sequeira Costa plays Schumann, Chopin’s Funeral March Sonata,
Debussy and Chabrier plus piano buff delicacies
25 January, lunchtime
Grigory Sokolov plays Byrd and Beethoven
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MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall 0161 907 9000 http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/
13, 14, 17 January
Nikolai Demidenko plays Grieg's Piano Concerto with the
Halle Orchestra under Owen Arwel Hughes
28 January, lunchtime
Ronan O'Hara plays Chopin
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POOLE
Arts Centre 01202 685222
20 January
Boris Berezovsky plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto
with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Dmitri Kitaenko
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YORK
Central Hall 01904 432439
15 January
Imogen Cooper plays and directs Mozart’s Piano Concerto
No 9 with the Northern Sinfonia | 