BATH
| Bath International Music Festival
01225 463362
1 June, 7.30 pm Barry Douglas plays Schumann's Piano Quintet
with the Chilingirian Quartet
3 June, 7. 30 pm Roger Vignoles partners violinist Dmitri
Sitkovetsky for works by Prokofiev, Grieg and Beethoven |
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BELFAST
Waterfront Hall 01232 334455
21 May, 7.45 pm Brigitte Engerer plays Liszt's First Piano
Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra under Dmitri Sitkovetsky
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BRADFORD-UPON-AVON
Wiltshire Music Centre 01225 860100
29 May, 7.30pm Zoe Mather partners violonist Matthew Trussler
in music by the five Bs - Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok and Bazzini
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CAMBRIDGE
West Road Concert Hall 01223 503333
15 May, 8 pm Martin Roscoe joins violinist Tasmin Little
for a recital including the Elgar Sonata
Corn Exchange 01223 357851
23 May, 7.30 pm John Lenehan partners violinist Nigel Kennedy
for works by Bach, Rachmaninov, Villa-Lobos, Ravel and Brahms
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CARDIFF
St David's Hall 01222 878444
14 May, 7.30pm Aleksandar Madzar plays Chopin's Second
Piano Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka
28 May, 7.30 pm Peter Donohoe plays Gershwin's Rhapsody
in Blue with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Grant Llewellyn
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CROYDON
Fairfield Halls 0181 846 6821
2 June, 8pm Jean Louis Steuermann plays Rachmaninov's Second
Piano Concerto with the Halle Orchestra under Owain Arwel Hughes
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EDINBURGH
Festival Theatre 0131 529 6000
| RSNO Scottish Power Summer Proms
3 June, 7.30pm Tatiana Lazareva plays Rachmaninov's First
Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Alexander
Lazarev |
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GLASGOW
Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511
22 May, 7. 30 pm James Galway 60th Birthday Concert. Philip
Moll partners flautists James & Jeanne Galway
| BBC Music Live
26 May, 7.30 pm Peter Donohoe plays Rachmaninov's Third
Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska |
| RSNO Scottish Power Summer Proms
2 June, 7.30pm Tatiana Lazareva plays Rachmaninov's First
Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Alexander
Lazarev |
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LEEDS
Town Hall 0113 247 6962
15 May, 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw plays Beethoven's Third
Piano Concerto with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra under Tamas Vasary
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LONDON
Barbican Centre 0171 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk
16 May, 7.30pm James Galway 60th Birthday Concert. Philip Moll
partners flautists James & Jeanne Galway
28 May, 7.30 pm Armen Babakhanian plays Rachmaninov's Second
Piano Concerto with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra under David Josefowitz
2 June, 7.30 pm Yefim Bronfman plays Prokofiev's Second
Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Antonio Pappano
St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061
18 May, 7.30pm Diana Ambache plays and directs Mozart's
rarely heard Concerto in D for Piano & Violin, KA56/K 315f, with the
Ambache Chamber Orchestra
SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
25 May, 7.30 pm Ian Pace partners violinist Mieko Kanno
in a 20th century programme including music by Janacek (Violin Sonata),
Ferneyhough and Xenakis
27 May, 7.30 pm Neil Crossland plays Beethoven's Pathetique
Sonata and works by Bach-Busoni, Rameau, Chopin, Mussorgsky and Liszt
30 May, 7.30 pm Susan Alexander-Max, fortepiano, plays
Hummel’s E flat Quintet and Schubert’s Trout with The Music
Collection
1 June, 7.30 pm Dorothy Roberts gives a mixed recital including
music by Clara Schumann
SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
14 May, 7.45pm Daria Hovora partners cellist Mischa Maisky
for a recital including the Rachmaninov and Prokofiev Cello Sonatas
| "Hidden Perspectives - Rediscovering the Music of Rachmaninov"
23 May, 7.45pm Dmitri Alexeev & Nikolai Demidenko play
seminal works for two pianos from their Hyperion CD of music by Medtner
and Rachmaninov (Second Suite, Symphonic Dances), together with Alexeev's
transcription of movements from Prokofiev’s Cinderella |
2 June, 7.30 pm Till Fellner plays Bach and Beethoven's
Hammerklavier Sonata
4 June, 7.45 pm Ronan Magill plays Mozart's last piano
concerto, No 27, with the Belmont Ensemble of London under Peter Gilbert-Dyson
SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
15 May, 7.30 pm Ivan Moravec plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano
Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek
| "Hidden Perspectives - Rediscovering the Music of Rachmaninov"
16 May, 7.30pm Mikhail Pletnev plays Rachmaninov's Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy
17 May, 7.30pm Evgeny Kissin plays Scriabin's Third Sonata,
Balakirev's Islamey, and the last music Rachmaninov wrote in Russia,
the Etudes-Tableaux Op 39 |
24 May, 7.30 pm Krystian Zimerman plays Schumann's Sonata
in F sharp minor and music by Chopin, including the F minor Fantasy
Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
15 May, 7.30 pm Gil Kalish partners soprano Dawn Upshaw
in a recital including the first UK performance of James Primosch's Holy
the Firm
23 May, 11.30 am The Florestan Trio play Debussy's youthful
Piano Trio and Beethoven’s Archduke
23 May, 7.30 pm Alfred Brendel joins baritone Matthias
Goerne for Schubert’s Die Winterreise
24 May, 1 pm Havard Gimse partners cellist Truls Mork in
Beethoven’s first and last sonatas
26 May, 7.30 pm Stephen Kovacevich joins baritone Christopher
Maltman, flautist Emmanuel Pahud, and cellist Louise Hopkins for music by
Debussy, Ravel and Prokofiev (Flute Sonata)
27 May, 7.30 pm Andras Schiff plays Schumann's Novellettes,
Humoresque and F minor Sonata
28 May, 7.30 pm William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble
of London play piano quartets by Mendelssohn (Op 2) and Faure (Op 45)
30 May, 7 pm Valerie Tryon plays Chopin, Debussy (Estampes),
and Liszt (Hungarian Rhapsody No 12, song transcriptions)
1 June, 7.30 pm Marc-Andre Hamelin plays Alkan's Grande
Sonate, Medtner’s Sonata romantica, and Eckhardt-Gramatte's
Sonata No 6
3 June, 7.30 pm Julius Drake partners tenor Ian Bostridge
in songs by Schubert and Wolf
4 June, 7.30 pm Nelson Goerner plays Liszt's Transcendental
Studies and transcriptions from Wagner
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MAIDENHEAD
All Saints’ Church 01628 625687
24 May, 7.45 pm Huw Watkins partners violinist Alexandra
Wood in sonatas by Beethoven and Walton
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PORTSMOUTH
Guildhall 01705 824355
30 May, 3 pm Karen Kingsley plays Mendelssohn, Debussy,
Faure, Ravel and Gottschalk
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SALISBURY
| Salisbury Festival
01722 320333 http://www.salisburyfestival.co.uk
3 June, 8 pm Joanna MacGregor plays John Cage's Sonatas
and Interludes, and music for prepared piano by Django Bates, Talvin
Singh, Deirdre Gribbin, Andrew Toovey and Jonathan Harvey |
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SHREWSBURY
The Gateway 01743 244255
23 May, 7.30pm The Barbican Piano Trio play trios by Mozart,
Arrieu and Dvorak (F minor)
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YORK
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall 01904 432439
19 May, 8pm Paul Nicholson, harpsichord, plays music
by Byrd, JS Bach, JC Bach, Muffat and Mozart | 
