ABERYSTWYTH
International Summer School & Music Festival
01970 623232
23 July, 8pm Murray McLachlan plays Michael Parkin's 'minimalist
virtuoso' Piano Concerto with the Musicfest International Orchestra under
Franz Anton Krager |
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
BRACKNELL
South Hill Park 01344 484123
1 August, 7pm Claire Williams, harpsichord, partners recorder
player Rhiannon Greenaway and friends in a programme of Renaissance and
Baroque instrumental music
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
CHELTENHAM
Cheltenham International Festival of Music
01242 237377 http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk/music
17 July, 7.30pm Susan Tomes plays Mozart's G minor Piano
Quartet and Dvorak's Piano Quintet with the Nash Ensemble
17 July, 10pm Alexander Blok partners bass-baritone Vassily
Savenko in a recital of Pushkin settings by Arensky, Borodin, Cui, Dargomyzhsky,
Glazunov, Glinka, Medtner, Mosolov, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov
18 July, 11am Graham Johnson partners soprano Felicity
Lott in a recital of songs by Berners, Britten, Dring, Poulenc, Richard
Strauss
18 July, 7.30pm Freddy Kempf plays Rachmaninov's Second
Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins |
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
DEAL
Deal Summer Music Festival
01304 366077
4 August, 8pm Stephen Gutman plays Liszt's transcription
of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony and music by Rameau, Dukas, Schumann
and Hasse |
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
HARROGATE
Harrogate International Festival
01423 562303 http://www.harrogate-festival.org.uk
23 July, 8pm Mikhail Rudy plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano
Concerto with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra under Gintaras Rinkevicius
26 July, 8pm Ian Brown partners cellist Steven Isserlis
in works by Saint-Saens (Suite Op 16), Janacek and Shostakovich (Sonata)
27 July, 11am Viv McLean partners cellist Kate Gould in
a recital including Beethoven's Op 69 Cello Sonata and the Brahms Second
(Dorothy Parkinson Memorial Award)
29 July, 11am George Lazaridis plays Beethoven's Tempest
Sonata, Chopin's Funeral March Sonata, his own Three Pieces from
the Trojan Circle, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
29 July, 8pm John Lill plays Beethoven and Brahms
2 August, 8pm Wayne Marshall plays and directs Gershwin's
Piano Concerto in F with the Northern Junior Philharmonic Orchestra
3 August, 11am Florian Uhlig plays Beethoven's Waldstein
Sonata, Liszt's Funerailles and Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody, Brahms's
Variations on a Theme of Schumann and toccatas by himself and Schumann
5 August, 11 am Ketevan Badridze partners violinist Natalia
Gabunia in a recital including sonatas by Brahms (No 1), Debussy and Richard
Strauss and Ravel's Tzigane (Rotary Club of Harrogate Millennium
Project) |
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
LAKE DISTRICT
Lake District Summer Music
01539 724441 http://www.ldsm.org.uk
2 August, 8pm Ronan O'Hara plays Schubert's G major Sonata
and Wanderer Fantasy, and works by Liszt and Britten (Notturno)
6 August, 8pm Ronan O'Hara joins cellist Raphael Wallfisch
for cello sonatas by Beethoven (Op 102 No 1) and Brahms (No 2), and music
by Schumann and Korngold (Much Ado About Nothing)
8 August, 2pm Ronan O'Hara takes a Piano Masterclass
10 August, 2pm Renna Kellaway, Founder Director of Lake
District Summer Music, takes a Piano Ensemble Masterclass |
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
LONDON
BBC Proms 99
105th Season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms
'The great music presented this season will give us all occasions
for wonder at the human capacity to draw instruction from despair and to
reaffirm faith in our species when hope seems truly gone'
Michael Ignatieff
BBC Proms 99 Guide
Royal Albert Hall 0171 589 8212
23 July, 7.30pm Marking the bicentenary of its conception, Imogen
Cooper plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra under Mark Elder
26 July, 7.30pm Marking the 190th anniversary of Mendelssohn's
birth, Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the First Piano Concerto with the
Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Joseph Swensen
27 July, 7.30pm Marking the centenary of Poulenc's birth, Paul
Crossley joins members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under
David Atherton for a performance of the 'choreographic concerto' for piano
and 18 instruments, Aubade
28 July, 7.30pm Marking the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death,
Louis Lortie plays the Second Piano Concerto with the BBC National
Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka
5 August, 10pm Joanna MacGregor gives the London premiere
of Harrison Birtwistle's Harrison's Clocks written specially for
her
Lunchtime Proms Chamber Music
Victoria & Albert Museum 0171 589 8212
19 July, 1pm Pierre-Laurent Aimard makes his Prom debut
in a recital of late Mozart, Liszt, Scriabin (Tenth Sonata) and Debussy
(Etudes 10, 11, 5) |
British Music Information Centre 0171 499 8567
28 July, 7.30 pm Geoffrey Burford partners soprano Louisa
Beard for Lorca settings by Denis ApIvor
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
Greenwich & Docklands Festival
0870 900 0355
18 July, 7.30pm Joanna MacGregor plays Gershwin's Piano
Concerto in F in an open-air and fireworks concert with the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra under Paul Mann |
St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061
24 July, 7.30pm David Willison accompanies singing students
from Trinity College of Music in a showcase recital of opera arias
25 July, 8pm David Rose partners mezzo-soprano Della Jones
in a programme of cabaret songs by Gershwin, Weill, Kern, Poulenc, Satie
and Britten
St Lawrence Jewry 0171 226 8263
Lunchtime recitals
19 July, 1pm Leo McFall
26 July, 1pm Mary Bruce
2 August, 1pm Ellyan Piano Trio
SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
16 July, 7.30pm Margaret Newman joins the Weingarten Ensemble
for Schumann's Piano Quartet
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
16 July, 7.30pm Angela Brownridge gives an all-Liszt recital
17 July, 7.30pm Steven Osborne joins the Vellinger Quartet
for Dvorak's Piano Quintet
18 July, 11.30am Paul Lewis joins violinist Katharine Gowers
and cellist Adrian Brendel for piano trios by Beethoven (C minor, Op 1 No
3) and Schubert (E flat)
19 July, 7.30pm Felipe Browne plays Brahms's Paganini
Variations, Liszt's B minor Ballade, and works by Mendelssohn and Chopin
22 July, 7.30pm Stephen de Pledge plays Beethoven's Pastorale
Sonata plus Barber and Liszt ,and gives the UK premiere of Cresswell's Acquerello
24 July, 7.30pm For the closing concert of the Wigmore's 1998-99
season, Alexandre Tharaud joins clarinettist Ronald van Spaendonck
and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras for masterworks by Beethoven, Faure and
Brahms
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
OXFORD
Sheldonian Theatre 01865 798600
5 August, 8pm Panayis Lyras plays Rachmaninov's Second
Piano Concerto with the Butler University Symphony Orchestra under Stanley
DeRusha
Top of page Pianos & Pianists
SNAPE
Maltings 01728 453453
25 July, 2.30pm Kate Harvey plays Richard Addinsell's Warsaw
Concerto with the IAPS National Symphony Orchestra under Howard Moody |
