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the UK
Concerto, Recital, Special Event
round-up
June 2000

 

Aldeburgh     Basingstoke     Belfast     Birmingham     
Cardiff     Edinburgh     Glasgow     
Leicester     Liverpool     London     
Manchester     Oxford     
Reading     Robertsbridge     
St Magnus, Orkney     


ALDEBURGH

ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL

01728 687110

Saturday 10th June, 11am Stephen Hough joins cellist Steven Isserlis for a morning recital including Franck's Cello Sonata and the World premiere of Robert Saxton's Sonata on a Theme by William Walton

Saturday 10th June, 8pm Thomas Adès, Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival, plays Fauré's Second Piano Quintet with members of the Belcea Quartet

Sunday 11th June, 3pm Stephen Hough plays late Haydn, the Copland Variations and Liszt's Second Ballade and B minor Sonata, and gives the European premiere of David del Tredici's Arm Candy

Wednesday 14th June, 8pm Ludmila Berlinskaia plays Shostakovich's Piano Quintet with the Borodin Quartet

Thursday 15th June, 8pm Aleksandar Madzar plays Stanchinsky (including the Second Sonata) and Debussy's Études

Saturday 17th June, 11am Ludmila Berlinskaia plays Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio with members of the Borodin Quartet

Saturday 17th June, 3pm Noriko Kawai and Pavel Nercessian take part in a Composer Portrait of Gerald Barry

Saturday 17th June, 10.30pm Paul Lewis plays Busoni's Elegies

Sunday 18th June, 3pm Pascal Devoyon joins cellist Steven Isserlis and friends for works by Ravel and Fauré (Second Cello Sonata, Second Piano Quartet)

Tuesday 20th June, 3pm Ludmila Berlinskaia joins cellist Valentin Berlinsky for Shostakovich's Cello Sonata

Tuesday 20th June, 8pm Paul Lewis plays Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Wind with London Winds

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BASINGSTOKE

The Anvil 01256 844244

Thursday 1st June, 7.45pm Julian Gallant plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto with the Oxford Philomusica under Marios Papadopoulos

Saturday 17th June, 7.45pm Tim Carey plays Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra under Stephen Scotchmer

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BELFAST

Waterfront Hall

ULSTER PROMS

028 9033 4455

Saturday 24th June, 7.45pm Ana-Maria Vera plays Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra under Christopher Bell

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BIRMINGHAM

Symphony Hall 0121 780 3333 http://www.symphonyhall.co.uk

Wednesday 14thJune, 2.15pm Jean Louis Steuerman plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Peter Oundjian

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CARDIFF

St David's Hall 029 2087 8444

Friday 16th June, 7.30pm Ingrid Haebler plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka

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EDINBURGH

Festival Theatre

ROYAL ORCHESTRA
SCOTTISHPOWER PROMS

0131 667 7776

Saturday 3rd June, 7.30pm Leon McCawley plays Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Owain Arwel Hughes

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GLASGOW

Royal Concert Hall http://www.grch.com

ROYAL ORCHESTRA
SCOTTISHPOWER PROMS

0141 287 5511

Friday 23rd June, 7.30pm Leon McCawley plays Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Owain Arwel Hughes

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LEICESTER

De Montfort Hall 0116 233311 http://www.demontforthall.co.uk

Monday 5th June, 7.30pm Jean-Philippe Collard plays Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Richard Hickox

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LIVERPOOL

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

Wednesday, Thursday 7th & 8th June, 7.30pm John Lill plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Petr Altrichter [two performances]

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LONDON

Barbican Hall 020 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk

Wednesday 7th June, 7.30pm Stephen Hough plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniele Gatti

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St. Giles, Cripplegate

10th LONDON INTERNATIONAL JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL

http://www.jmi.org.uk/festival2000

Monday 12th June, 7:30pm Gila Goldstein plays Bach's English Suite No 2, Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze and Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas and gives the World premieres of Ben-Haim's First Suite (1933) and Nimrod Borenstein's Piano Sonata (2000)

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St John's, Smith Square 020 7222 1061 http://www.sjss.org.uk

Sunday 4th June, 7.30pm Julian Jacobson plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 12 with the Barbican Virtuosi under Budoc Goudie

LUFTHANSA BAROQUE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC

Saturday 10th June, from 3pm Olivier Baumont and Davitt Moroney, harpsichords, play Bach's Double Concerto in C minor with the St James's Baroque Players under Ivor Bolton

Thursday 15th June, 10pm Bach and Beyond I Susan Tomes joins cellist Richard Lester for a programme including Schumann's arrangement of the Third Cello Suite

Thursday 22nd June, 10pm Bach and Beyond II Aleksander Madzar and Katherine Chi, pianos, play Bach's Double Concerto in C and excerpts from Robin Holloway's Gilded Goldbergs

Thursday 29th June, 10pm Bach and Beyond III Wayne Marshall, piano and organ

Wednesday 21st June, 7.30pm Diana Ambache plays the Shostakovich and Brahms Piano Quintets with The Ambache

BEETHOVEN 2000
The Complete Sonatas
Martino Tirimo

Friday 23rd June, 7.30pm Concert 6 - Opp 14, 31 No 2 (Tempest), 27 No 2 (Moonlight), 101

Sunday 25th June, 7.30pm Imogen Cooper plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 19 with the Haydn Chamber Orchestra under Colin Davis

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St Martin-in-the-Fields 020 7839 8362

Thursday 29th June, 7.30pm Junko Urayama plays Chopin's First Piano Concerto with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra under David Josefowitz

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SBC Purcell Room 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

Thursday 1st June, 7.30pm Nicolas Hodges offers a challenging programme of Justin Connolly (Sonatina No 2 - Ennead) , Busoni, Ives and Michael Finnissy's Etched Bright with Sunlight (History of Photography in Sound, Book 5)

Friday 9th June, 7.30pm Helen Rogers, harpsichord, plays Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto with the Belmont Ensemble of London under Peter Gilbert-Dyson

Wednesday 21st June, 7.30pm Leszek Mozdzer gives a recital including Preisner's Ten Easy Pieces

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SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

Friday 2nd June, 7.45pm Peter Jablonski gives a Polish/Hungarian dance-centered recital featuring Chopin, Szymanowski, Bartók (Sonatina, Suite Op 14, Allegro barbaro) and Liszt (Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 3, 11, 15)

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SBC Royal Festival Hall 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

Monday 19th June, 7.30pm Murray Perahia gives an all-Chopin programme including the Op 40 Polonaises, the B minor Sonata, the Second Scherzo, five of the Op 25 Studies, and the Fourth Ballade

Wednesday 28th June, 7.30pm Alfred Brendel plays Haydn, Mozart (C minor Sonata) and Schubert (A minor Sonata, D 845)

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Wigmore Hall 020 7935 2141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tuesday 6th June, 7.30pm Imogen Cooper plays early Beethoven sonatas and late Brahms fantasias

Saturday 10th June, 7.30pm Peter Frankl joins old friends violinist György Pauk, cellist Ralph Kirshbaum and violist Michael Tree for Schumann's D minor Piano Trio and Brahms's C minor Piano Quartet

Saturday 17th June, 7.30pm Peter Frankl, violinist György Pauk, cellist Ralph Kirshbaum and violist Michael Tree, play Schumann's G minor Piano Trio and Brahms's A major Piano Quartet

Saturday 24th June, 7.30pm Pascal Rogé joins soprano Felicity Lott and clarinettist Pascal Moraguès for a programme including the Saint-Saëns and Poulenc Clarinet Sonatas

Monday 26th June, 1pm Paul Lewis in a BBC lunchtime broadcast plays Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Wind with London Winds

Monday 26th June, 7.30pm Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins violinist Julia Fischer for sonatas by Schubert, Brahms (G major), Debussy and Grieg (C minor)

Wednesday 28th June, 7.30pm András Schiff joins cellist Miklós Perényi for an all-Beethoven programme including the Opp 5 and 69 Sonatas

Thursday 29th, 7.30pm Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Debussy's Préludes Book II and a Chopin group

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MANCHESTER

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

HALLÉ PROMS

0161 907 9000

Saturday 17th June, 7.30pm Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto features in the Hallé Orchestra all-Russian Prom under Owain Arwel Hughes

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OXFORD

Sheldonian Theatre 01865 798600 http://www.musicatoxford.igw.com

Saturday 3rd June, 8pm Julian Gallant plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto with the Oxford Philomusica under Marios Papadopoulos

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READING

Leighton Park School 0118 9879558

Wednesday 7th June, 7.30pm the Franke Piano Quintet play rarely heard quintets by Bruch (G minor) and Respighi (F minor)

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ROBERTSBRIDGE

Vinehall School 01580 880413

Saturday 3rd June, 7.30pm Richard Rodney Bennett joins mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick

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ST MAGNUS, ORKNEY

ST MAGNUS FESTIVAL

01856 872669

Sunday 18th June, 2.30pm John Lill plays Haydn, Brahms, Shostakovich and Beethoven

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