BASINGSTOKE
The Anvil 01256 844244
7 May, 7.45pm Vladimir Ashkenazy plays and directs Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 20 with the Philharmonia Orchestra
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BIRMINGHAM
Symphony Hall 0121 212 3333
28 April, 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven's Fourth
Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Paavo
Berglund
1 May, 7pm Leif Ove Andsnes plays Schumann's Piano Concerto
with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Berglund
5 May, 8pm Evgeny Kissin plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano
Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy
10 May, 8pm Arcadi Volodos plays Rachmaninov's Third Piano
Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy
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BRADFORD-UPON-AVON
Wiltshire Music Centre 01225 860100
24 April, 7.30pm Piano Plus. Works by Mozart, Martin, Saint-Saens,
Shostakovich
7 May, 7.30pm Charles Owen partners cellist Natalie Clein
for a programme of sonatas by Britten and Brahms (No 2)
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BRIGHTON
The Dome 01273 709709
1 May, 8pm Arcadi Volodos plays Rachmaninov's Third Piano
Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy
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BROMSGROVE FESTIVAL
New Guesten Hall, Avonscroft Museum of Buildings 01527 876504
4 May, 7.45pm Freddy Kempf plays sonatas by Beethoven (Op
109) and Rachmaninov (No 2, original 1913 version), Schumann's Arabesque,
and music by Liszt - the Rigoletto Paraphrase and Sixth Hungarian
Rhapsody
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CARDIFF
St David's Hall 01222 878444
4 May, 7.30pm Arcadi Volodos plays Rachmaninov's Third
Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy
14 May, 7.30pm Aleksandar Madzar plays Chopin's Second
Piano Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka
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CROYDON
Fairfield Halls 0181 846 6821
12 May, 8pm Christian Blackshaw plays Grieg's Piano Concerto
with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra under Tamas Vasary
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DUNDEE
Caird Hall 01382 434940
24 April, 7.30pm Graham Scott plays Richard Strauss's Burleske
with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Alexander Lazarev
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EDINBURGH
Festival Theatre 0131 529 6000
25 April, 7.30pm Graham Scott plays Richard Strauss's Burleske
with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Alexander Lazarev
Queen's Hall 0131 668 2019
13 May, 7.45pm David Golub plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano
Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Joseph Swensen
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HALIFAX
Victoria Theatre 01422 351158
8 May, 7.30pm Martin Roscoe plays Mozart's Piano
Concerto No 20 with the London Mozart Players under Matthias Bamert
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INVERNESS
Eden Court Theatre 01463 234234
5 May, 8pm Steven Osborne plays Ravel's Piano Concerto
in G with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Jerzy Maksymiuk
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LAMPETER
University of Wales 01570 422347
8 May, 8pm William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble
of London play piano quartets by Mozart (G minor) and Schumann and piano
quintets by Hummel and Martin Butler
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LEEDS
Leeds City Art Gallery 0113 247 8248
12 May, 1.05pm John Lenehan partners flautist Leslie Newman
for a lunchtime recital of Bartok, Pierne (Sonata, Op 36) and Taffanel
Town Hall 0113 247 6962
15 May, 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw plays Beethoven's Third
Piano Concerto with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra under Tamas Vasary
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LEICESTER
De Montfort Hall 0116 233 3111
12 May, 7.30pm Mikhail Rudy plays Tchaikovsky's First Piano
Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy
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LIVERPOOL
Philharmonic Hall 0151 709 3789
5 May, 7.30pm Timothy Horton & Ian Wright play Martinu's
Double Concerto for piano, timpani and two string orchestras with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Petr Altrichter
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LONDON
Barbican Centre 0171 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk
28 April, 8pm Gianluca Cascioli plays Mozart's Piano Concerto
No 26 (Coronation) with the English Chamber Orchestra under Paul
Goodwin
4 May, 7.30pm Pascal Roge plays Franck's Symphonic Variations
with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra under Jan-Lathan Koenig
11 May, 7.30 pm John Lenehan appears with the Handel Festival
Orchestra under Charles Farncombe
12 May, 7.30pm Dmitri Yefimov partners mezzo Olga Borodina
for a recital of baroque and 19th century song
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Blackheath Halls 0181 463 0100
25 April, 11.30am Roderick Chadwick plays Chopin's Third
Sonata, David Warburton's Six Little Inventions, and music by Bach and Poulenc
9 May, 7.30pm The Newbould Piano Quartet play David Matthews's
A Song and Dance Sketchbook, and piano quartets by Mozart (G minor)
and Dvorak
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St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061
12 May, 7.30pm Junko Kobayashi gives a Chopin recital,
including the Third Sonata
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SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
23 April, 7.30pm Julian Jacobson partners violinist Susanne
Stanzeleit for a 20th century programme including Bridge's Violin Sonata
and Carter's Duo plus works by Rebecca Saunders, Jonathan Harvey and Philip
Cashian
24 April, 7.30pm Martin Feinstein, harpischord, plays and
directs Bach's Concerto in A with the Feinstein Ensemble of London
26 April, 7.30pm Reiko Fujisawa plays Chopin's Preludes
Op 28, Ichiyanagi's Cloud Atlas I, II & III, and Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition
6 May, 1.05pm The Gould Piano Trio play Beethoven's Trio
Op 1 No 2 and Brahms's C major Trio Op 87
7 May, 7.30pm Anthony Zerpa Falcon plays Mozart, Schubert,
Beethoven (Sonata Op 109), Schubert-Liszt, Ronald Stevenson (Peter Grimes
Fantasy) and Chopin
11 May, 7.30pm Carolyn Kotok plays Schumann's Kreisleriana,
Prokoviev's Second Sonata, and works by Mendelssohn and Ravel
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13 May, 1.05pm Nikolai Lugansky plays Rachmaninov's Corelli
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SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
23 April, 7.45pm The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio play
Haydn's Piano Trio No 18, Mendelssohn's Second Trio in C minor, and the
Tchaikovsky A minor
29 April, 7.45pm Julian Joseph in a tribute concert to
Duke Ellington
9 May, 7.45pm Richard Goode plays Bach's B flat Partita,
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations and music by Chopin
14 May, 7.45pm Daria Hovora partners cellist Mischa Maisky
for a recital including the Rachmaninov and Prokofiev Cello Sonatas
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12 May, 6.15pm The Florestan Trio plays Tchaikovsky's Serenade
melancolique and Rachmaninov's Trio elegiaque in D minor and
Morceaux de salon Op 2
12 May, 8pm Semyon Skigin partners soprano Marina Shaguch
and baritone Sergei Leiferkus in songs by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky |
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SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
26 April, 7.30pm Igo Pogorelich gives an all-Chopin recital
including the Second (Funeral March) and Third Sonatas, polonaises
and mazurkas
4 May, 7.30pm Maurizio Pollini plays Schumann's Piano Concerto
with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly
| "Hidden Perspectives - Rediscovering the Music of Rachmaninoff"
6 May, 7.30pm Evgeny Kissin plays Rachmaninov's Second
Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy
11 May, 7.30pm Arkadi Volodos plays Rachmaninov's Third
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Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
25 April, 7pm John McCabe 60th Birthday Concert. An evening
with the composer-pianist and guests. Music by Haydn, McCabe and Brahms
26 April, 1pm The Takacs Piano Trio play Haydn's Gypsy
Rondo Trio No 25, and Beethoven's Archduke
26 April, 7.30pm Another chance to hear the Archduke, played
this time by Zenith, together with Dvorak's Piano Quintet and Mahler's
early Quartet Movement in the arrangement by Schnittke
27 April, 7.30pm Julius Drake partners soprano Lisa Milne
and baritone Christopher Maltman in Schumann's Song Album for the Young
28 April, 7.30pm Zoltan Kocsis joins violinist Joshua Bell
for sonatas by Schubert (D major), Beethoven (C minor) and Brahms (A major)
as well as Bartok's Romanian Dances and Dance Rhapsody No 1
30 April, 7.30pm Finghin Collins plays works by Beethoven,
Berg, Scriabin, Liszt and Bach arr Busoni
1 May, 7.30pm Bella Davidovich joins violinist Dmitri Sitkovetsky
and cellist David Geringas for a recital of Russian piano trios by Rachmaninov
(G minor), Shostakovich (No 2) and Tchaikovsky
3 May, 1pm Ronald Brautigan joins Hausmusik London
for Schubert's Notturno and Trout Quintet
3 May, 7.30pm David Dolan plays Chopin's piano-and-string
quintet arrangement of his Second Piano Concerto with pupils of the Yehudi
Menuhin School
4 May, 7.30pm The Eastman Trio play piano trios by Hummel
(Op 83), Schnittke and Brahms (Op 8)
5 May, 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau partners soprano Amanda
Roocroft in Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben and songs by Debussy,
Wolf and Ivor Gurney
7 May, 7.30pm Jania Aubakirova partners violinist Marat
Bisengaliev in a programme including Brahms's D minor Sonata, Prokofiev's
First and Ravel's Tzigane
8 May, 7.30pm The Vienna Piano Trio play Mozart (K548),
Haydn (No 29) and Dvorak's Dumky
9 May, 11.30pm The Vienna Piano Trio play Mozart (K502)
and Shostakovich's E minor (No 2)
9 May, 7pm Clifford Benson partners flautist William Bennett
in a programme of music, original and arranged, by Bach, Poulenc (Sonata),
Mendelssohn and Villa-Lobos
10 May, 1pm Irwin Gage partners soprano Melanie Diener
in Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben and songs by Richard Strauss
10 May, 7.30pm Anna Tilbrook partners soprano Emma Bell
for a mixed song recital
11 May, 7.30pm Philip Moore & Simon Crawford Phillips
give a piano duet recital including works by Beethoven (Sonata Op 6), Schubert
(Fantasy in F minor), Ravel (Ma mere l'oye, La Valse) and
Rawsthorne
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MACHYNLLETH
Y Tabernacl 01628 703355
1 May, 7.30pm Julius Drake partners bass Robert
Lloyd in Schubert's Die Winterreise
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MALVERN
New Malvern Theatres 01684 892277
6 May, 7.45pm Ian Brown partners violinist Gyorgy Pauk
in a programme including works by Mozart and Schubert
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MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall 0161 907 9000
29 April Marc Neikrug partners violinist Pinchas Zukerman
in a programme including Franz Xaver Mozart's rarely heard Grande Sonate
in E and Takemitsu's November Fog
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8 May, 7.30pm Jean-Philippe Collard plays Ravel's Piano
Concerto in G with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier |
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MILTON KEYNES
The Stables 01908 583928
9 May, 2.30pm Peter Donohoe plays Liszt's B minor Sonata,
Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, and music by Chopin
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NEWPORT
Newport Centre 01633 662666
8 May, 7.30pm John Lill plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano
Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka
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NORTHAMPTON
Derngate 01604 626222
1 May, 7.30pm Jeremy Menuhin plays Mozart's Piano Concerto
No 21 with the Warsaw Sinfonia under William Boughton
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NOTTINGHAM
Royal Concert Hall 0115 989 5555
29 April, 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven's Fourth
Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Paavo
Berglund
11 May, 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw plays Grieg's Piano
Concerto with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra under Tamas Vasary
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OXFORD
Sheldonian Theatre 01865 798600
23 April, 7.30pm Jon Kimura Parker plays Prokofiev's Third
Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton
Holywell Music Room 01865 798600
12 May, 8pm Clive Williamson joins Kuniko Kato and Sound
Intermedia for a contemporary programme of Stockhausen, Jonathan Harvey,
James Wood and Edmund J Campion
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PORTSMOUTH
Arts Centre 01202 685222
13 May, 7.30pm Aleksandar Madzar plays Chopin's Second
Piano Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka
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ROBERTSBRIDGE
Vinehall School 01580 880413
1 May, 7.30pm Steven Osborne plays Beethoven's Pathetique
and Tempest Sonatas, Charles Ives's Three Page Sonata, and
Debussy's Preludes Book I
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SHEFFIELD
Crucible Studio 0114 276 9922
8 May, 7pm Christian Blackshaw plays Beethoven's Third
Piano Concerto with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra under Tamas Vasary
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SHREWSBURY
The Gateway 01743 244255
9 May, 7.30pm The Barbican Piano Trio play Chausson's early
G minor Piano Trio and Mozart's and Dvorak's Piano Quartets in E flat (viola
to be confirmed)
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STIRLING
MacRobert Centre 01786 461081
7 May, 7.30pm Steven Osborne plays Ravel's Piano Concerto
in G with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Jerzy Maksymiuk
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YORK
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall 01904 432439
8 May, 8pm Christian Zacharias plays and directs Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 16 with the Northern Sinfonia
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