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Pianos and Pianists - Consultant Editor Ates Orga

Who to listen for:
the UK round-up
2nd - 23rd
April 1999

Aberdeen      Birmingham     Cardiff     Cheltenham     
Croydon     Darlington     Edinburgh     Exeter     Leicester     
Liverpool     London     Manchester     Middlesborough     
Milton Keynes     Newcastle     Oxford     Poole     Shrewsbury     

ABERDEEN

Music Hall 01224 641122

15 April, 7.30 pm Joaquin Achucarro plays Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under James Loughran

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BIRMINGHAM

Adrian Boult Hall 0121 236 5622

17 April, 7.30 pm The Endymion Ensemble play the Brahms and Dvorak Piano Quintets, and John McCabe’s Nocturnal

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CARDIFF

St David’s Hall 01222 878444

16 April, 7.30 pm David Golub plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Joseph Swensen

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CHELTENHAM

Town Hall 01242 227979

15 April, 7.30 pm David Golub plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Joseph Swensen

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CROYDON

Fairfield Halls 0181 846 6821

17 April, 8 pm Pascal Roge plays Ravel’s G major Piano Concerto and Saint-Saens’s Wedding Cake Caprice with the London Mozart Players under Raymond Leppard

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DARLINGTON

Darlington Arts Centre 01325 466555

13 April, 7.30 pm Noriko Ogawa plays Schumann’s Davidsbundlertanze and music by Takemitsu, Beethoven and Rachmaninov

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EDINBURGH

Festival Theatre 0131 529 6000

18 April, 7.30 pm Joaquin Achucarro plays Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under James Loughran

Queen’s Hall 0131 668 2019

8 April, 7.45pm Jon Kimura Parker plays Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Joseph Swensen

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EXETER

Cathedral 01392 493493

22 April, 7.30 pm Vladimir Mishchuk plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Alexander Polianichko

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LEICESTER

De Montfort Hall 0116 233 3111

21 April, 7.30 pm Andreas Haefliger plays Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christian Thielemann

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LIVERPOOL

Philharmonic Hall 0151 709 3789

10 April, 7.30 pm Victoria Postnikova plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 9 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

14, 15 April, 7.30 pm Jon Kimura Parker plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Libor Pesek

21 April, 1 pm John McCabe gives a lunchtime recital including music by Byrd, Haydn and Richard Rodney Bennett

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LONDON

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

17 April, 7.30 pm Jazz with Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock

Blackheath Halls 0181 463 0100

18 April, 11.30 am The Endymion Ensemble play the Dvorak and Brahms Piano Quintets

Royal College of Music 0171 589 3643

19 April, 7.30 pm Alba Ventura Cruz plays Schubert and Liszt

St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061

15 April, 1 pm Iwan Llewelyn-Jones plays Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantasy, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, and music by Dutilleux

17 April, 7.30 pm Ian Pace plays Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto with the Amadeus Orchestra under Philip Mackenzie

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

19 April, 7.30 pm Elizaveta Kopelman plays Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons and Brahms’s Handel Variations

23 April, 7.30 pm Julian Jacobson joins violinist Susanne Stanzeleit for a 20th century recital of music by Saunders, Harvey, Bridge, Cashian (world premiere of Stoberod’s Violin) and Carter

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

4 April, 7.45 pm Neil Crossland plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 9 with the London Concertante under Bjorn Bryn Petersen

21 April, 7.45 pm Aleksandar Madzar plays Berg’s Sonata, Schumann’s Davidsbundlertanze, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, and music by Scarlatti and Berio

22 April, 7.45 pm Bruno Leonardo Gelber plays Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with the London Mozart Players under Matthias Bamert

23 April, 7.45 pm The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio play piano trios by Haydn (No 18), Mendelssohn (No 2), and Tchaikovsky

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

7 April, 7.30 pm Peter Jablonski plays Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy

15 April, 7.30 pm Maurizio Pollini plays Schubert’s final sonata, D 960, and Schumann’s C major Fantasy

17 April, 7.30 pm Andreas Haefliger plays Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christian Thielemann

18 April, 7.30 pm Mark Bebbington plays Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the London Concert Orchestra under Fraser Goulding

20 April, 7.30 pm Christian Zacharias plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 26 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Harding

Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141

3 April, 7.30 pm The Vienna Brahms Trio play Rachmaninov, Pfitzner and Mendelssohn

4 April, 11.30 am The Vienna Brahms Trio play Mozart and Schumann

6 April, 7.30 pm Hae-Jung Kim plays Mendelssohn, Ginastera, Rachmaninov and Bach

11 April, 7 pm Freddy Kempf plays Beethoven’s last sonata, Op 111, Schumann’s Carnaval, and the original version of Rachmaninov’s Second Sonata

12 April, 1 pm Angela Hewitt plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations

13 April, 7.30 pm Esther Pineda gives an Iberian recital of music by Albeniz, Granados, Mompou, Montsalvatge and Falla

18 April, 11.30 am The Vienna Mozart Trio play Mozart and Saint-Saens

18 April, 7 pm A Gallic evening with Ventsislav Yankoff playing Faure, Debussy and Ravel

20 April, 7.30 pm Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms. Graham Johnson joins Felicity Lott and Gabriel Woolf for songs and readings.

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MANCHESTER

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

17 April, 7.30 pm Jon Kimura Parker plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Libor Pesek

22 April, 7.30 pm Komo Kodama plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 9 with the Halle Orchestra under Gunther Herbig

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MIDDLESBOROUGH

Town Hall 0500 591996

7 April, 7.45 pm Michel Dalberto plays Franck’s Symphonic Variations with the Northern Sinfonia and joins conductor Jean-Bernard Pommier for Mozart’s Double Concerto in E flat

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MILTON KEYNES

Stantonbury Campus Theatre 01908 234466

17 April, 7.30 pm Peter Donohoe plays and conducts Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Milton Keynes City Orchestra

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NEWCASTLE

City Hall 0191 261 2606

8 April, 7.45 pm Michel Dalberto plays Franck’s Symphonic Variations with the Northern Sinfonia and joins conductor Jean-Bernard Pommier for Mozart’s Double Concerto in E flat

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OXFORD

Sheldonian Theatre 01865 798600

23 April, 7.30 pm Jon Kimura Parker plays Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton

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POOLE

Arts Centre 01202 685222

21 April, 7.30 pm Jon Kimura Parker plays Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton

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SHREWSBURY

The Gateway 01743 244255

18 April, 7 pm The Barbican Piano Trio play Dvorak, Mozart and Ravel 

 

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