ABERDEEN
Music Hall 01224 641122
23 November, 7.30pm Oleg Marshev
plays Chopin's Preludes and Prokofiev's Visions fugitives and
Second Sonata
26 November, 7.30pm Nikolai Demidenko
plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra under Osmo Vanska
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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
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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
9 December,8pm Larissa Gergieva partners
soprano Galina Gorchakova in a programme of Russian song and Italian aria
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BOURNEMOUTH
Talbot Heath School 01202 658921
4 December, 3pm Gretel Dowdeswell partners
cellist Alice Neary in works by Beethoven and Vasks and sonatas by Brahms
(E minor) and Grieg
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BRIGHTON
Brighton College 01273 704209
1 December, 7.45pm Nikolai Demidenko
gives an all-Russian programme featuring key-works from his CD repertory
including Scriabin, Prokofiev's Visions fugitives and Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition
Sallis Benney Theatre 01273 709709
4 December, 7.45pm the LeHuray Ensemble
frame Szymanowski and Chopin with Stravinsky and Messiaen (Quartet
for the End of Time)
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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
30 November, 7.30pm the Orsino Trio
play trios by Beethoven (Op 1 No 3), Frank Bridge (Miniatures) and
Tchaikovsky
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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COLCHESTER
St Botolph's Church 01206 577905
4 December, 7.30pm Philip Elwell
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 with St Botolph's Music Society under
Colin Nicholson
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DEWSBURY
Town Hall 01924 324501
9 December, 7.30pm Ronan O'Hara
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 26 with the English Northern Philharmonia
under Oliver von Dohnanyi
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EDINBURGH
Festival Theatre 0131 529 6000
5 December, 7.30pm Bruno Leonardo Gelber
plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
under Alexander Lazarev
Queen's Hall 0131 667 7776
20 November, 7.45pm Aleksander Madzar
plays Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
under Gerard Korsten
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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
22 November, 7.30pm Oleg Marshev
plays Chopin's Preludes and Prokofiev's Visions fugitives and
Second Sonata
25 November, 7.30pm Nikolai Demidenko
plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra under Osmo Vanska
30 November, 7.30pm Boris Berezovsky
plays Bartok's Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra under Osmo Vanska
Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511
4 December, 7.30pm Bruno Leonardo Gelber
plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
under Alexander Lazarev
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GUILDFORD
University of Surrey School of Performing Arts,
Studio One 01483 876876
5 December, 3.30pm Nocturnal 'ecstasies of quiet contemplation'
framed by a fantasia of late masterworks: Nikolai
Demidenko gives a recital marking the 150th anniversary of Chopin's
death
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HADDINGTON
The Town House 01875 340674
20 November, 7.30pm Gordon Fergus-Thompson
plays music by Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Glinka and Scriabin
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HASTINGS
St Mary-in-the-Castle 01424 781624
http://www.1066.net/fosmic
20 November, 7.30pm Kyoko Hashimoto
plays Chopin
21 November, 11am Jazz Breakfast with John
Horler
4 December, 7.30pm Young Chon Lee
plays Chopin, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven
5 December, 11am Gretel Dowdeswell
partners cellist Alice Neary in a Coffee Concert including works by Beethoven
and Grieg
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HUDDERSFIELD
Contemporary Music Festival
01484 430528
21 November, 8pm Reinbert de Leeuw
plays Ustvolskaya's Fifth Piano Sonata
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LANCASTER
Great Hall, Lancaster University
0800 028 3042
25 November, 7.30pm Howard Shelley
plays Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the BBC Philharmonic
under Markus Stenz
2 December, 7.30pm the Camerata Ensemble
play Haydn, Saint-Saens and Dvorak (Piano Quintet)
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LONDON
Barbican Hall 0171 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk
20 November, 7.30pm Pierre-Laurent Aimard
plays Scriabin's Piano Concerto with the Russian National Orchestra under
Mikhail Pletnev
28 November, 7.30pm Martin Roscoe and
members of the LSO Chamber Ensemble play piano trios by Haydn (No 26), Beethoven
(Archduke) and Schubert (E flat)
1 December, 7.30pm Robert Levin
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 with the City of London Sinfonia under
Richard Hickox
4 December, 7.30pm Nigel Hutchinson
plays Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
under Philip Ellis
Blackheath Halls 0181 463 0100
5 December, 11.30am the Weingarten Ensemble
play piano quartets by Mozart (G minor) and Faure (C minor)
Conway Hall 01494 726106
5 December, 6.30pm the Rubinstein Piano
Trio play Brahms (No 1), Shostakovich (No 2) and Tchaikovsky
Royal Albert Hall 0171 589 8212
24 November, 7.30pm Kathryn Stott plays
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra under
Barry Wordsworth
St John's, Smith Square 0171 222
1061
27 November, 7.30pm Larissa Gergieva
partners soprano Galina Gorchakova in a programme of Russian
song
30 November, 7.30pm James Tocco takes
part in the John Downey Festival, The Edge of Space
St Lawrence Jewry 0171 839 8362
22 November, 1pm Marcus Price
29 November, 1pm Johan Hugosson
SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
24 November, 7.30pm the Newbold Piano
Quartet, winners of the 1999 Parkhouse Award, play music by Mozart,
early Mahler, Schnittke, Frank Bridge and Schumann
SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 0171 960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
10 December, 7.45pm Louis Lorte
commemorates the 150th annivesary of Chopin's death
SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
29 November, 7.30pm Maurizio Pollini
commemorates the 150th annivesary of Chopin's death with a recital including
the Preludes and Funeral March Sonata, First Scherzo and Nocturnes
Op 27
30 November, 7.30pm Jean-Yves Thibaudet
plays Strauss's Burleske with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir
Ashkenazy
3 December, 7.30pm Barry Douglas
plays Ravel's G major Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under
Philippe Auguin
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
Stationers' Hall 01327 361380
St Ceciliatide International Festival
of Music
'On St Cecilia's Day [November 22nd],
custom was for the Society of Gentlemen,
Lovers of Musick and Professors and Masters of their Art
to celebrate at Stationers' Hall'
24 November, 7.30pm Joshua Rifkin
and the Bach Ensemble
Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
20 November, 7.30pm Jean-Philippe Collard
joins the Arpeggione Quartet of Paris for Schumann's Piano Quintet Schumann Series
21 November, 11am Pascal Devoyon
and friends play piano quartets by Faure (G minor) and Chausson Chausson Centenary Series
22 November, 1pm Markus Markl,
harpsichord, partners counter-tenor Andreas Scholl in a baroque programme
featuring Purcell, Bach and Handel
24 November, 1pm Graham Johnson
partners baritone Christopher Maltman in songs by Butterworth, Somerwell
and Schumann
24 November, 7.30pmr Sequeira Costa
commemorates the 150th annivesary of Chopin's death with a recital including
the Preludes, First Scherzo and First and Third Ballades
26, 29 November, 7.30pm Julius Drake
partners tenor Ian Bostridge in Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
and the UK premiere of Henze's Six Songs from the Arabian [2 performances]
30 November, 7.30pm Andras Schiff
and the Panocha Quartet play Dvorak, including the E flat Piano Quartet
and A major Quintet
7 December, 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau
partners counter-tenor David Daniels in a recital of songs from the baroque
to Ravel and Vaughan Williams
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MAIDSTONE
Maidstone Leisure Centre 01622 76111
27 November, 7.30pm Freddy Kempf
plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Maidstone
Symphony Orchestra under Brian Wright
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MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall 0161 907 9000 http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/
20 November, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall
plays and conducts Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Halle Orchestra
30 November, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall
joins vocalist Kim Criswell and conducts the BBC Big Band in a Duke Ellington
tribute concert
2 December, 7.30pm as part of a centenary tribute to John Barbirolli
Daniel Barenboim plays Brahms's First
Piano Concerto with the Halle Orchestra under Kent Nagano
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MORPETH
Town Hall 01670 512435
9 December, 7.30pm Anthony Goldstone
and Caroline Clemmow music
for two piano and duet by Poulenc, Ravel, Schubert, Mozart and Rachmaninov
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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
24 November, 7.45pm Cecile Ousset plays
Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
under Matthias Bamert
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OXFORD
Sheldonian Theatre 01865 798600 http://www.musicatoxford.igw.com
23 November, 8pm Jessie de Bellis plays
Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24 with the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra
under Boguslav Davidov
30 November, 8pm Jessie de Bellis plays
Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with the Russian National Philharmonic
Orchestra under Boguslav Davidov
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PERTH
City Hall 01738 621031
24 November, 7.30pm Oleg Marshev
plays Chopin's Preludes and Prokofiev's Visions fugitives and
Second Sonata
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POOLE
Arts Centre 01202 685222
1 December, 7.30pm Artur Pizarro
plays Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra under Libor Pesek
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REDDITCH
Ecumenical Centre 01527 546056
9 December, 7.30pm Tim Horton
partners violist Juliet Jopling for works by Bach, Enescu, Schumann, Joachim
and Brahms (F minor Sonata)
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SHEFFIELD
City Hall 0114 278 9789
26 November, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall
plays and conducts Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Halle Orchestra
3 December, 7.30pm as part of a centenary tribute to John Barbirolli
John Lill plays Brahms's First Piano
Concerto with the Halle Orchestra under Kent Nagano
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SOUTHAMPTON
Guildhall 01703 595151
3 December, 7.30pm Artur Pizarro
plays Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra under Libor Pesek
Turner Sims Concert Hall 01703 632601
20 November, 7.30pm Paul Lewis
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 with the City of London Sinfonia under
Richard Hickox
9 December, 7.30pm John Lenehan
joins saxophonist John Harle for music by Poulenc, Corea, Britten, Bartok,
Denisov (Sonata), Sondheim and Richard Rodney Bennett
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SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
Cliffs Pavilion 01702 351135
22 November, 7.30pm Cristina Ortiz
plays Ravel's G major Piano Concerto with the Orchestra of St John's, Smith
Square under John Lubbock
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WATFORD
The Colosseum 01923 445000
25 November, 7.30pm Jeremy Menuhin
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 with the English Classical Players under
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