ALDEBURGH
Snape Maltings Proms
01728 453543
30 August, 7.30pm Piers Lane
joins violinist Tasmin Little for music by Schubert, Ravel and Franck (Sonata)
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ARUNDEL
Arundel Festival
01903 883690
http://www.argonet.co.uk/arundel.festival
28 August, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall and
violinist Tasmin Little in concert
29 August, 7.15pm Anthony Goldstone
plays Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with the English Classical Players
under Jonathan Brett
4 September, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall
joins vocalist Kim Criswell for songs by Gershwin, Porter and Kurt Weill
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BEVERLEY
Beverley Chamber Music Festival
01482 867430
15 September, 7.30pm Martin Roscoe
joins violinist Matthew Trusler for sonatas by Beethoven (Spring)
and Brahms (D minor)
16 September, 7.30 pm Martin Roscoe
plays Shostakovich's Piano Quintet with the Duke Quartet
17 September, 1pm Martin Roscoe
gives an all-Chopin recital including the First Ballade and Funeral March
Sonata
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BRACKNELL
South Hill Park 01344 484123
4 September, 7.30pm Trio Alpaca
play piano trios by Mozart, Copland and Brahms
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EDINBURGH
53rd Edinburgh International Festival
0131 473 2000
http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk
27 August, 11am Christian Zacharias
joins violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann for Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos
5-7
28 August, 11am Harvard Gimse
plays Schumann's Piano Quintet with the Vertavo String Quartet
28 August, 5pm Christian Zacharias
in conversation
28 August, 8pm Alfred Brendel
plays Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under
Charles Mackerras
29 August, 3pm Pierre-Laurent Aimard
joins soprano Rosemary Hardy for a performance of Kurtag's The Sayings
of Peter Bornemisza
30 August, 11am Christian Zacharias
joins violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann for Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos
8-10
30 August, 7pm Andras Schiff
plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos 14-17 and Quintet for Piano
and Wind with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
31 August, 11am Grigory Sokolov
gives a recital of works by Byrd, Beethoven (Sonata Op 2 No 3) and Ravel
(including Le tombeau de Couperin)
1 September, 11am Maria Joao Pires
joins violinist Augustin Dumay and cellist Jian Wang for Brahms's first
and Schubert's last piano trios
1 September, 5pm Maria Joao Pires
in conversation
2 September, 11am Malcolm Martineau partners
baritone Simon Keenlyside for songs by Duparc and Poulenc and Schumann's
Dichterliebe
3 September, 11am Maria Joao Pires
joins violinist Augustin Dumay and cellist Jian Wang for piano trios by
Mozart, Beethoven (Ghost) and Brahms (No 2)
4 September, 11am in the final morning concert of this year's
Festival, Marita Viitasalo partners
soprano Soile Isokoski in songs by Mozart, Schubert, Grieg, Ives and Strauss
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GLAMORGAN
Vale of Glamorgan Festival
01446 794848
7 September, 7.30pm Elena Riu plays
works by Sculthorpe, Arismendi and Part, and repeats Tavener's Hypakoe
which she premiered at the City of London Festival in July
10 September, 7.30pm PIANO CIRCUS pupils
from Vale of Glamorgan schools, including music by Barber and Nancarrow
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GOUDHURST
Finchcocks Festival
01580 211702
10 September, 8pm Richard Burnett
and Lina Zilinskyte, harpsichord, join
tenor Nigel Rogers for Haydn's Canzonets and solos by Scarlatti, Schubert
and John Field
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HIGH WYCOMBE
Wycombe Swan 01494 513000
15 September, 1pm Zoe Smith
partners clarinettist Vanessa Parker in Poulenc's Sonata and Weber's Grand
Duo Concerntant
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LONDON
BBC Proms 99
105th Season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms
'Music, Isaiah Berlin used to warn, is not a language; and so
to ask it to speak to history is to mistake what it is. Even so, a music
that affirms and rejoices, if only in reference to itself, is still seeking
a response from an audience which knows what it knows about this century'
Michael Ignatieff
BBC Proms 99 Guide
Royal Albert Hall 0171 589 8212
29 August, 3pm Leon McCawley plays
Franck's Symphonic Variations with the New London Orchestra under Ronald
Corp
9 September, 7.30pm Evgeny Kissin
plays Chopin's First Piano Concerto with the Bavarian State Orchestra under
Zubin Mehta
10 September, 7.30pm In the final piano prom of the current season,
Alfred Brendel plays Mozart's last concerto,
K 595, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis
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Lunchtime Proms Chamber Music
Victoria & Albert Museum 0171
589 8212
30 August, 1pm Pascal Devoyon
makes his Proms debut in a recital of music by Debussy and Fauré
with violonist Philippe Graffin and cellist Paul Watkins
6 September, 1pm Roger Vignoles
partners soprano Inger Dam-Jensen in songs by Richard Strauss, Poulenc and
Nielsen
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SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
11 September, 7.30pm Nigel Clayton partners
soprano Sarah Poole and guests for 'Gershwin & Co' - including numbers
by Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter
12 September, 7.30pm Oliver Williams
plays Schumann's Kreisleriana, Peter Thompson's Marc
Chagall Suite, and music by Chopin
14 September, 7.30pm Nigel Clayton partners
clarinettist Sarah Thurlow in a programme of works by Burgmuller, Debussy,
Brahms (F minor Sonata), Schumann, Berg and Weber (Grand Duo Concertant)
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SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 0171 960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
5 September, 4pm Andreas Staier,
fortepiano, gives an all-Mozart recital including the Fantasy and Fugue
in C, K 394, and the Fantasy and Sonata in C minor, K 475/457
7 September, 7.45pm Bheki Mseleku joins
saxophonist Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson and guests for an evening of jazz
8 September, 7.45pm Andrew Wilde plays
four Beethoven sonatas, including the Appassionata and Op 110
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SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
2 September, 7.30pm Peter Donohoe
plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the National Musicians Symphony
Orchestra under James Blair
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Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
9 September, 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau
partners soprano Barbara Bonney in the opening concert of the Wigmore Hall's
1999-2000 season
10 September, 7pm Malcolm Martineau
partners soprano Barbara Bonney in an Insight Class for young singers
11 September, 7.30pm Jean-Philippe Collard
plays works by Chopin (including Third Sonata) and Fauré (barcarolles,
noctures, Ballade in F sharp)
12 September, 11.30am the Florestan Trio
give an all-Schumann programme, including the F major Trio
15 September, 7.30pm Roger Vignoles
partners baritone Stephan Genz in songs by Schubert and Wolf
17 September, 7.30pm the Florestan Trio
give another all-Schumann programme, including the G minor Trio and Piano
Quartet (with Thomas Riebl, viola)
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MACHYNLLETH
Machynlleth Festival
01654 703355
28 August, 7.30pm John Lenehan joins
cellist Julian Lloyd Webber for works by Debussy, Britten, William Lloyd
Webber and Brahms
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POOLE
Arts Centre 01202 685222
16 September, 7.30pm Alfred Brendel
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 22 with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
under Yakov Kreizberg
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PRESTEIGNE
17th Presteigne Festival
01544 267800
http://www.cadenza.org/presteigne
28 August, 4.30pm Gretel Dowdeswell joins
clarinettist David Campbell and cellist Alice Neary for Brahms's First Cello
Sonata, John McCabe's Sonata for clarinet, cello and piano, and music by
Schumann
29 August, 2.30pm Gretel Dowdeswell partners
soprano Alison Smart and oboist Ruth Watson in a programme of music by Schumann,
Robin Holloway, Graham Fitkin and Schubert
29 August, 8pm Stephen de Pledge,
Artist-in-Residence, plays Beethoven's Pastoral Sonata, Graham Fitkin's
Furniture, Schumann's Carnaval and music by Liszt
30 August, 2.30pm John McCabe,
featured composer at this year's Festival, gives a piano recital featuring
two Haydn Sonatas (Nos 29, 49), Alan Rawsthorne's Theme and Four Studies,
and Alan Hoddinott's Third Sonata
30 August, 8pm Gretel Dowdeswell joins
clarinettist David Campbell and cellist Alice Neary for Brahms's Clarinet
Trio and the world premiere of John McCabe's Cello Sonata
31 August, 2.30pm Gretel Dowdeswell partners
cellist Alice Neary in Brahms's Second Cello Sonata, music by Mendelssohn,
and Spring Requiem by Adrian Williams, founder of the Presteigne
Festival
31 August, 8pm Stephen de Pledge plays
Mozart's Piano Concerto No 17 with the Presteigne Festival Orchestra under
Artistic Director George Vass
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RYE
Rye Festival
01797 224442
http://www.rye-tourism.co.uk/festival
11 September, 7.30pm James Kirby
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 with the Sussex Concert Orchestra
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STOCKTON
Parish Church 0500 591996
16 September, 7.45pm Gulsin Onay
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9 with the Northern Sinfonia under David
Haslam
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