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Pianos and Pianists - Consultant Editor Ates Orga

Who to listen for - the UK round-up. October 29th - November 19th 1999

 

Basingstoke     Bath     Belfast     Birmingham     Brighton     Burgess Hill     
Cardiff     Carlisle     Croydon     
Edinburgh     Glasgow     
Lancaster     Leeds     Liverpool     London     
Manchester     Milton Keynes     Morpeth     
Newcastle     Northampton     Nottingham     
Plymouth     Poole     
Reading     Rocester     
Sheffield     Southend-on-Sea     

BASINGSTOKE

The Anvil 01256 844244

30 October, 7.45pm Kokoro give a concert of contemporary music including Berg's Chamber Concerto

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BATH

Mozartfest

01225 463362

7 November, 7.30pm Roger Vignoles partners soprano Joan Rodgers and tenor John Mark Ainsley in songs and arias by Mozart

9 November, 7.30pm Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Ivan Fischer

13 November, 7.30pm Stephen Kovacevich plays sonatas by Beethoven (Appassionata), Mozart (K 282) and Schubert (late A major)

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BELFAST

Ulster Hall 01232 668798

19 November, 7.45pm Constantin Lifschitz plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 with the Ulster Orchestra under Christoph Eberle

Belfast Festival at Queen's

01232 667687
http://www.qub.ac.uk/festival

29 October, 8pm Rolf Hind joins Jacques Tchamkerten (ondes martenot) and the Ulster Orchestra under Thierry Fischer for a performance of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

3 November, 3pm Richard Goode plays works by Chopin and Schubert

6 November, 8pm Russell Ryan partners baritone Wolfgang Holzmair for a Schubert song recital

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BIRMINGHAM

Symphony Hall 0121 212 3333
http://www.symphonyhall.co.uk/symphony

20 November, 7.30pm Peter & Elaine Donohoe play Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

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BRIGHTON

Theatre Royal 01273 328488

14 November, 7.30pm John Lill plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth

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BURGESS HILL

Triangle Arena 01444 876000

6 November, 7.30pm John Walker plays Constant Lambert's The Rio Grande with the Ditchling Choral Society and Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra under Janet Canetty-Clarke

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CARDIFF

St David's Hall 01222 878444

18 November, 7.30pm Cecile Ousset plays Ravel's G major Piano Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Matthias Bamert

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CARLISLE

St Cuthbert's Church 01228 512444

4 November, 7.30pm Muriel Phillips partners baritone James Rutherford in a recital of songs by Vaughan Williams, Schubert and Burleigh, plus arias by Mozart

Sands Centre 01228 625208

19 November, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall plays and conducts Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Halle Orchestra

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CROYDON

Fairfield Halls 0181 688 9291

10 November, 8pm Ikuyo Nakamichi plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the London Mozart Players under Matthias Bamert

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EDINBURGH

Festival Theatre 0131 529 6000

14 November, 7.30pm Howard Shelley plays Grieg's Piano Conceto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Tadaaki Otaka

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GLASGOW

City Hall 0141 287 5511

19 November, 7.30pm Aleksander Madzar plays Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Gerard Korsten

Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511

13 November, 7.30pm Howard Shelley plays Grieg's Piano Conceto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Tadaaki Otaka

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LANCASTER

Great Hall, Lancaster University 0800 028 3042

11 November, 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau partners baritone Christopher Maltman in an American Rememberence Day recital including Schumann's Dichterliebe

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LEEDS

Town Hall 0113 247 6962

6 November, 7.30pm Zoltan Kocsis plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

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LIVERPOOL

Philharmonic Hall 0151 709 3789 http://www.rlps.co.uk

3 November, 7.30pm Lars Vogt plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Junichi Hirokami

17 November, 7.30pm Rolf Hind plays Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Petr Altrichter

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LONDON

Barbican Hall 0171 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk

31 October, 7.30pm Andreas Haefliger plays Ravel's G major Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chung

3 November, 7.30pm Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas

4 November, 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes gives a recital including Prokofiev's Third Sonata and Debussy's Estampes, together with works by Janacek, Antheil and Rachmaninov

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St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061

31 October, 7.30pm Ritva Sjostedt plays works by Chopin in the minor and major of C sharp, plus music by Sibelius, Arnold and Rautio

1 November, 7.30pm Marko Martin plays Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the Philharmonic Orchestra under Nicholas Kok Martin Musical Fund Award Winners' Concert

2 November, 7.30pm The Fibonacci Sequence play Beethoven's Quintet for Piano & Wind
Kingston University Centenary Concert

8 November, 7.30pm Haruko Seki partners cellist Ingrid Wager-Kraft in sonatas by Beethoven, Strauss and Wolfram Wagner (Third Piano Sonata, Cello Sonata)

16 November, 7.30pm Christopher Czaja Sager plays Bach's first and last Partitas, Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze, and music by Debussy

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St Lawrence Jewry 0171 839 8362

1 November, 1pm Christina Lawrie

8 November, 1pm Jasmina Samssuli

15 November, 1pm You-Chiung Lin

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SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

30 October, 7.30pm the London Harpsichord Ensemble

6 November, 7.30pm making a rare London appearance, Daniel Adni joins cellist Raphael Sommer for sonatas by Mendelssohn and Franck, and music by Strauss and Schumann

7 November, 7.30pm Daniel Segal plays Haydn's D major Concerto with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra under David Josefowitz

London Jazz Festival

13 November, 7.30pm Nikki Yeoh with cellist Matthew Barley

15 November, 7.30pm Fred Hersch

19 November, 7.30pm Ian Shaw with singer Cedar Walton

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SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

8 November, 7.45pm Eleonora Bekova joins mezzo-soprano Marianna Tarasova for Russian songs by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich

11 November, 7.45pm Paul Lewis plays Schubert (Sonata in A minor D 537, Wanderer Fantasy), Haydn, late Liszt and Kurtag

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SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

2 November, 7.30pm Cristina Ortiz plays Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth

3 November, 7.30pm Chick Corea plays his own version of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Anne Manson

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Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141

29 October, 7.30pm Yoo-Jung Kim and Olga Sitkovetsky join violinist Natalia Lomeiko for music by Beethoven (Les adieux Sonata), Messiaen, Liszt, Leclair, Grieg, Part and Schumann

30 October, 7.30pm The Nash Ensemble play piano quintets by Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvorak

1 November, 1pm Trio Fontenay play trios by Haydn (No 24) and Schubert (B flat)

2 November, 7.30pm Jean-Marc Luisada joins the Talich Quartet and double-bassist Benjamin Berlioz for an all-Chopin evening including the chamber version of the First Piano Concerto

3 November, 1pm Malcolm Martineau partners soprano Lisa Milne in songs by Wolf, Debussy and Rodrigo

4 November, 7.30pm harpsichordist Neal Peres da Costa appears with the Florilegium Orchestra

6 November, 7.30pm Jeff Cohen partners soprano Sumi Jo for a mixed-song recital

7 November, 4pm Kevin Kenner gives an all-Chopin recital emphasising the relatively unfamiliar

8 November, 1pm Semyon Skigin partners soprano Elena Prokina in a recital of Russian song

9 November, 7.30pm harpsichordist Christophe Rousset and friends Francois Couperin and His Age

12 November, 7.30pm Artur Pizarro brings his all-American recital programme to London - including Copland's Rodeo Suite, the Barber Sonata and Earl Wild's Fantasy on Porgy and Bess

13 November, 7.30pm Graham Johnson and Pascal Devoyon join the Chilingirian Quartet, soprano Ann Murray and violinist Philippe Graffin for a concert including Chausson's Concert in D and music by Duparc and Debussy Chausson Centenary Series

14 November, 4pm Janina Fialkowska makes a rare London appearance, playing Chopin (including the Funeral March Sonata, Second Ballade and Fourth Scherzo), Szymanowski and Lutoslawski

15 November, 1pm Hartmut Holl partners violist Tabea Zimmermann for a lunchtime programme of Schumann, Alexander Goehr and Britten

16 November, 7.30pm Jeremy Menuhin joins the Chilingirian Quartet and violinist Philippe Graffin for a concert including Chausson's Poeme and music by Franck (Violin Sonata) and Debussy
Chausson Centenary Series

17 November, 1pm Wolfgang Kastorp partners soprano Anja Harteros, Winner of the 1999 Cardiff Singer of the World, in a recital of song by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms

19 November, 7.30pm Helmut Deutsch partners baritone Olaf Bar in songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf, Pfitzner and Richard Strauss Goethe 250

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MANCHESTER

Bridgewater Hall 0161 907 9000 http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/

4 November, 7.30pm Barry Douglas plays Strauss's Burleske and Bartok's Third Piano Concerto with the Halle Orchestra under Cristian Mandeal

6 November, 7.30pm Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier

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MILTON KEYNES

The Stables 01908 583928

14 November, 8pm Ian Brown partners clarinettist Emma Johnson for a programme including sonatas by Brahms (F minor) and Bernstein

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MORPETH

Town Hall 01670 512435

11 November, 7.30pm David Wickham partners baritone Roderick Williams for songs by Schubert, Abelard, Barber, Mahler, Butterworth and Hugo Wolf

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NEWCASTLE

City Hall 0500 591 996

19 November, 7.45pm Jean-Bernard Pommier plays and directs Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto with the Northern Sinfonia

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NORTHAMPTON

Derngate Centre 01604 624811

12 November, 7.30pm Zoltan Kocsis plays and directs Liszt's First Piano Concerto with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

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NOTTINGHAM

Royal Concert Hall 0115 989 5555

10 November, 7.30pm Katia & Marielle Labeque play Mozart's Double Concerto with the Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square under John Lubbock

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PLYMOUTH

Sherwell Centre 01752 233988

6 November, 7.30pm the Vivace Piano Trio and friends play music by Dvorak (Dumky), Rossini and Schubert (Trout Quintet)

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POOLE

Arts Centre 01202 685222

3 November, 7.30pm Anya Alexeev plays Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Paul Mann

17 November, 7.30pm Jean Louis Steuermann plays and directs concertos by Bach (F minor, BWV 1056), Mendelssohn (D minor for piano and violin, joining violinist Richard Studt), and Mozart (No 27) with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta

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READING

The Hexagon 0118 960 6060

10 November, 7.30pm Zoltan Kocsis plays and directs Liszt's First Piano Concerto with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

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ROCESTER

Abbotsholme School 01543 263304

2 November, 7.30pm Nikolai Demidenko gives an all-Beethoven recital featuring the early F major Sonata Op 10 No 2, the final set of Bagatelles, Op 126, and the Diabelli Variations

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SHEFFIELD

City Hall 0114 278 9789

13 November, 7.30pm Zoltan Kocsis plays and directs Liszt's First Piano Concerto with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

Cliffs Pavilion 01702 351135

7 November, 7.30pm Zoltan Kocsis plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

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