ALDEBURGH
Aldeburgh Festival
01728 453543 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/
12 June, 11 am Imogen Cooper joins baritone Wolfgang Holzmair
for a recital of songs by Britten, Robert and Clara Schumann (Blythburgh
Church)
12 June, 7.30 pm Imogen Cooper plays Mozart's Piano Concerto
No 9 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Joseph Swensen. Jurgen
Hocker, Ampico player-piano, plays Nancarrow Studies (Snape Maltings)
13 June, 3 pm Imogen Cooper plays Dvorak's Piano Quintet
with the Belcea Quartet (Snape Maltings)
13 June, 8pm Alfred Brendel reads poems from his collection
One Finger Too Many interspersed with Pierre-Laurent Aimard
playing works by Ligeti and Kurtag (Blackheath House)
14 June, 3 pm Jurgen Hocker, Ampico player-piano, plays
Nancarrow Studies (Aldeburgh Cinema)
14 June, 8 pm Alfred Brendel plays sonatas by Haydn, Mozart
and Schubert (the late A major) (Snape Maltings)
15 June, 3 pm Roger Vignoles takes a masterclass on Britten's
Blake settings (Jubilee Hall)
16 June, 3 pm Roger Vignoles takes a masterclass on Britten's
Pushkin settings, The Poet's Echo (Jubilee Hall)
17 June, 3 pm Roger Vignoles takes a masterclass on Britten's
Soutar settings, Who are these Children (Jubilee Hall)
19 June, 3 pm Rolf Hind and Nicolas Hodges take
part in a Per Norgard Composer Portrait, including works by Stravinsky and
Sibelius (Jubilee Hall)
21 June, 8 pm Pascal Roge joins soprano Felicity Lott,
clarinettist Pascal Moragues and horn player Richard Watkins for music by
Schubert (including Der Hirt auf dem Felsen), Britten (On This
Island) and Poulenc (Clarinet Sonata) (Snape Maltings)
22 June, 2.30pm Bruno Monsaingeon's Royal Philharmonic Society
Award winning film Richter, The Enigma (Aldeburgh Cinema)
24 June, 8 pm Ian Brown partners cellist Steven Isserlis
in sonatas by Shostakovich and Martinu and music by Janacek (Snape Maltings)
25 June, 3 pm Skip Sempe, harpsichord, plays Couperin (Orford
Church)
25 June, 8 pm Julius Drake partners tenor Ian Bostridge
in songs by Schubert and Britten, including The Poet's Echo
in Peter Pears' English translation (Snape Maltings) |
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BATH
Bath International Music Festival
01225 463362
5 June, 1pm Florent Boffard plays Debussy's Etudes and
premieres works by Murail (UK), Stroppa (UK), and Schoeller (world)
5 June, 7.30pm Tamas Vasary & Peter Frankl plays Schumann,
Debussy and Brahms |
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BIRMINGHAM
Symphony Hall 0121 212 3333
Russian Celebration
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
6 June, 8pm Dmitri Alexeev plays Tchaikovsky's Second Piano
Concerto under Alexander Lazarev
8 June, 8pm Anya Alexeyev plays Tchaikovsky's First Piano
Concerto under Yuri Temirkanov |
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BRADFORD-UPON-AVON
Wiltshire Music Centre 01225 860100
16 June, 7.30pm William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble
of London play Hummel's Piano Quintet Op 87, the Schumann Piano Quartet,
and David Knotts' Kitharodia
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BRISTOL
St George's, Brandon Hill 0117 923 0359
8 June, 7.30pm William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble
of London play Faure's Second Piano Quartet, the Schumann Piano Quintet,
and David Matthews' A Song and Dance Sketchbook
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GLASGOW
Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511
| RSNO Scottish Power Summer Proms
11 June, 7.30pm Howard Shelley plays and directs Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 21 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra |
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KINGSTON-ON-THAMES
Parish Church 0181 287 6059
12 June, 7.30pm Ian Shaw, piano and organ, partners baritone
Michael Bundy in a programme of Gallic song and organ music by Franck, Pierne,
Tournemire and Langlais
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LEEDS
College of Music 0113 222 3400
9 June, 7.30pm Neil Crossland partners violinist Tara Noval
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LONDON
Barbican Centre 0171 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/
10 June, 7.30pm Andras Schiff plays Mozart's Piano Concerto
No 21 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink
13 June, 7.30pm Andras Schiff plays Mozart's Piano Concerto
No 18 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink
18, 19 June, 8pm Twyla Tharp's ballet Variations on a Waltz
by Diabelli, with Nikolai Demidenko
21 June, 7.30pm Norma Fisher plays Brahms's Second Piano
Concerto with the London Chamber Orchestra under David Josefowitz
22, 23 June, 7.30pm Andras Schiff plays Mozart's Piano
Concerto No 9 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink
24 June, 7.30pm Andreas Haefliger plays Mozart's Piano
Concerto No 23 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Joseph Swensen
Hampstead & Highgate Festival
0171 435 9910
20 June, 10.45am Ian Fountain plays works by Beethoven,
Rautavaara and Rachmaninov |
Hellenic Centre 0171 487 5060
17 June, 7.30pm George Lazaridis gives the world premiere
of Koumendakis's Third Piano Concerto (Diary of Confinement)
with the BT Scottish Ensemble
The Perfect Movement - Johann Strauss and the Vienna Waltz
0171 823 9472 http://www.austria.org.uk/waltz
15 June, 7pm Konstantin Scherbakov plays virtuoso Strauss
transcriptions and paraphrases |
St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061
6 June, 7.30pm Julian Galant plays Glinka and John Field
in a celebrity Gala Concert marking the 200th anniversary of Pushkin's birth
10 June, 7.30pm Roger Vignoles partners bass Alistair Miles
in songs by Wolf, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and Schubert
24 June, 7.30pm Double Image play Haydn's Piano Trio No
27
St Lawrence Jewry 0171 226 8263
7, 14, 21 June, 1pm Tessa Uys gives three lunchtime recitals
SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
17 June, 7.30 pm Jennifer Micallef & Glen Inanga play
Poulenc, Rachmaninov, Milhaud, Richard Rodney Bennett and Lutoslawski
SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
10 June, 7.30 pm previewing his Aldeburgh Festival recital
Alfred Brendel plays sonatas by Haydn (No 34), Mozart (K331) and Schubert
(the late A major)
16 June, 7.30pm Murray Perahia plays Bach's B flat Partita,
Haydn's Sonata No 49 and works by Brahms, Chopin and Schubert-Liszt
23 June, 7.30pm Mitsuko Uchida plays Chopin's Second Piano
Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Kurt Sanderling
Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
6 June,11.30 am Nelson Goerner plays Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasy,
Fourth Ballade and first book of Studies, Op 10
7 June, 1pm Melvyn Tan, fortepiano, joins baritone Olaf Bar for
Schubert's Schwanengesang
8 June, 7.30 pm Marc-Andre Hamelin plays Medtner's E minor
Sonata (Night Wind) and Schubert's last
9 June, 7.30pm Julius Drake partners mezzo-soprano Louise
Winter and baritone Gerald Finley in songs by Duparc
11 June, 7.30pm Alba Ventura plays Schubert, Liszt's Twelfth
Hungarian Rhapsody and works by Prokofiev including the Third Sonata
13 June, 7pm Boris Berezovsky joins baritone Vassily Savenko
for a programme of Pushkin settings and Russian song
14 June, 1pm Ted Taylor partners soprano Sylvia McNair
in songs by George and Ira Gershwin
15 June, 7.30 pm Marc-Andre Hamelin plays Medtner's Sonata-idylle
and music by Godowski and Rzewski
16 June, 7.30pm Eric Schneider partners soprano Christine
Schafer in Schumann's Dichterliebe and Messiaen's Poemes pour
mi
17 June, 7.30pm Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord, with the English
Concert in a programme of Purcell and Handel
21 June, 7.30pm Yuki Matsuzawa plays Chopin and Schubert's
Trout Quintet with the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble.
In aid of the Japan Animal Welfare Society
22 June, 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau partners soprano Joan
Rodgers for a Pushkin bicentenary recital
23 June, 7.30pm Malcolm Binns plays Bennett, Chopin, Stanford,
Balakirev (Islamey), Baines and Delius
25 June, 7.30pm Sonnerie play Mozart's two piano quartets
and the Quintet for piano and wind, K452
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OXFORD
St Hilda's College 01865 276884
17 June, 7.30pm Francis Pott plays his Violin Sonata with
violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved. Also sonatas by Debussy and Rawsthorne,
and works by Satie and McCabe
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PORTSMOUTH
Guildhall 01705 824355
13 June, 3 pm Valentina Seferinova plays Bach, Liszt, Schubert
and Rachmaninov | 
