ALDBOROUGH
North Aldborough Festival
01423 324899
10 July, 7.30 pm Gretel Dowdeswell partners cellist Liwei
Qin in sonatas by Beethoven and Debussy
12 July, 7.30 pm Faye Williams partners soprano Lynne Dawson
in songs from Schubert to Gershwin |
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ALDEBURGH
52nd Aldeburgh Festival
01728 453543 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/
25 June, 3 pm Skip Sempe, harpsichord, plays Couperin
25 June, 8 pm Julius Drake partners tenor Ian Bostridge
in songs by Schubert and Britten, including The Poet's Echo
in Peter Pears' English translation
26 June, 11 am Katherine Chi & Aleksandar Madzar give
the first public performance of Robin Holloway's Gilded Goldbergs
for two pianos, Op 86 - an elaboration of Bach's Goldberg Variations
adding up to 'a virtual encyclopedia of 20th century musical practice, a
tribute to modernism and romanticism as much as to Bach'
26 June, 3 pm Oliver Fortin and Skip Sempe, harpsichords,
play tributes by Couperin to his friends Lully and Corelli
26 June, 8 pm Thomas Ades, Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh
Festival, plays and conducts his Concerto Conciso with the
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group |
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BRISTOL
Colston Hall 0117 922 3682
30 June, 7.30pm You-Chiung Lin plays Beethoven's Fifth
Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Bristol Concert Orchestra under
Stefan Hofkes
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BUSHEY
Bushey Hall School 01923 774229
3 July, 7.45pm Stephen de Pledge plays Grieg's Piano Concerto
with the Bushey Symphony Orchestra under George Vass
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CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge Festival Weekend
01223 357851 cammusic@enterprise.net
1 July, 7.30 pm William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble
of London play works by Mahler, Mozart and Schubert |
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CHELTENHAM
Cheltenham International Festival of Music
01242 237377 http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk/music
4 July, 11am Julius Drake partners tenor Ian Bostridge
in songs by Wolf and Poulenc, and Britten's The Poet's Echo
5 July, 11am Itamar Golan partners cellist Natalie Clein
in sonatas by Britten and Franck, and works by Schumann and Turnage
5 July, 7.30pm Ian Brown partners clarinettist Emma Johnson
in sonatas by Mendelssohn, Brahms (F minor) and Poulenc, and works by Gershwin
and Goehr
6 July, 7.30pm Rebecca Woolcock partners cellist Julian
Lloyd Webber in sonatas by Debussy and Brahms (E minor), and works by Faure
and MacMillan
7 July, 11am Huw Watkins joins violinist Daniel Bell in
sonatas by Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy, Carter's Duo and his own Coruscation
and Reflection
7 July, 7.30pm Maria Joao Pires plays Schubert and Chopin
(Fantasy in F minor, Nocturnes Opp 15 and 27)
8 July, 7.30pm Melvyn Tan & Ronald Brautigam play Saint-Saens,
Lutoslawski, Ravel (La valse), Poulenc and Debussy (En
blanc et noir)
9 July, 11am Francois-Frederic Guy plays Beethoven's Sonata
Op 109. Stockhausen's Klavierstuck IX, and Brahms's F minor Sonata Op 5
9 July, 10pm Ian Pace joins the Arditti Quartet for the
UK premiere of Furrer's Spur for piano quintet
12 July, 3pm Daniel Tong plays Poulenc, Ohana and Debussy's
first book of Preludes
14 July, 10pm Peter Donohoe joins Kokoro for Berg's Chamber
Concerto
15 July, 11am Piotr Anderszewski plays Beethoven's Sonata
Op 110, Szymanowski's Masques, Chopin's Mazurkas Op 50, and Bach's
Third English Suite
15 July, 3pm Viv McClean partners flautist Gary Aburthnot
in the Poulenc Sonata and music by Milhaud, Takemitsu, Vine and Sally Beamish
16 July, 11am Julius Drake partners oboist Nicholas Daniel
in a programme including the world premiere of David Bedford's The Fragrance
of your Hair. Works by Schumann, Elgar, Milhaud, Messiaen, Poulenc (Sonata),
Rubbra (Sonata) and Britten |
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DORKING
Dorking Halls 01306 881717
3 July, 7.30pm Anthony Hewitt plays Bartok's Third Piano
Concerto with the Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra under Adrian Brown
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES
Henley Festival
01491 843404 http://www.henley-festival.co.uk
7 July, 8.45 Peter Donohoe plays Tchaikovsky's First Piano
Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Carl Davis |
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LICHFIELD
Lichfield Festival
01543 257557 http://www.lichfieldfestival.org
10 July, 12 noon Clifford Benson partners violinist Levon
Chilingirian in sonatas by Mozart (K304), Malcolm Lipkin (No 2) and Brahms
(D minor, Op 108)
10 July, 7.30pm Thomas Scott plays Prokofiev's First Piano
Concerto with Chetham's Symphony Orchestra
11 July, 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau partners soprano Felicity
Lott for a recital of Richard Strauss, Barber and French song
13 July, 7.30pm Stephen Kovacevich plays Bach's Fourth
Partita and Beethoven's last two sonatas, Opp 110 and 111
15 July, 12 noon Ian Fountain plays Beethoven's Sonatas
Opp 78 and 79, David Matthews' Variations, and the original 1913 version
of Rachmaninov's Second Sonata
16 July, 12 noon Ian Fountain joins reciter Eleanor Bron
and the Nash Ensemble for Poulenc's Babar the Elephant |
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LONDON
Barbican Centre 0171 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk
6 July, 7.30pm Tatsuya Nagashima plays Liszt's First Piano
Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Vakhtang Jordania
City of London Festival
0171 377 0540 http://www.city-of-london-festival.org.uk
5 July, 8pm Elena Riu gives the world premiere of John
Tavener's Hypakoe and works by Mozart (Sonata in D, K576), Piazzolla,
Janacek, Albeniz, Soler, Mompou and Nazareth |
Hampstead & Highgate Festival
0171 435 9910
25 June, 7.30pm Joanna MacGregor plays Bach, Beethoven's
Waldstein Sonata, and works by Chopin, Janacek, Thelonious Monk and
Bartok |
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Hoxton New Music Days
0181 984 2767
11 July, 7.30pm Thomas Ades plays and conducts his own
works and arrangements in a programme with the Composers Ensemble |
St John's, Smith Square 0171 222 1061
3 July, 7.30pm Raul Jimenez plays Mozart's Piano Concerto
No 20 with the Vivaldi Concertante under Joseph Pilbery
8 July, 7.30pm Nicola & Alexandra Bibby plays Brahms's
F minor Sonata for two pianos and music by Mozart, Vaughan Williams and
Brubeck
St Lawrence Jewry 0171 226 8263
28 June, 1pm Tessa Uys gives a lunchtime recital
5 July, 1pm David McBride gives a lunchtime recital
12 July, 1pm Annett Busse gives a lunchtime recital
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SBC Purcell Room 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
28 June, 7.30pm Nigel Clayton partners flautist Michael
Cox and guests in a recital including Reinecke's Undine Sonata and
the rarely-heard Flute Sonata in B flat attributed to Beethoven
29 June, 7.30 pm Bebecca Holt & John Flinders play
duets by Poulenc (Sonata), Mozart, Dvorak (Slavonic Dances Op 72)
Brahms (Hungarian Dances), Ravel (Mother Goose Suite) and
Mendelssohn
16 July, 7.30pm Margaret Newman joins the Weingarten Ensemble
for Schumann's Piano Quartet
SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
30 June, 7.45pm John Ogdon Piano Gala on the tenth anniversary
of the pianist's death, with Artur Pizarro, Vladimir Ovchinikov,
Alexander Taylor, Freddy Kempf (Schumann's Humoresque)
and John Lill (Schumann's Fantasy). In aid of the Park Lane Group
Endowment and Appeal Funds. A donation will be made to the John Ogdon Foundation
11 July, 7.45pm Jack Gibbons plays Gershwin in a Fred Astaire
centenary tribute, including Fascinating Rhythm and Rhapsody in
Blue
12 July, 7.30pm Eleonora Bekova partners tenor Sergei Larin
in an all-Russian recital including Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of
Death
SBC Royal Festival Hall 0171 960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk/
27 June, 7.30pm Alfred Brendel plays Beethoven's Fifth
Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Kurt
Sanderling
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Wigmore Hall 0171 935 2141
25 June, 7.30pm Sonnerie play Mozart's two piano quartets
and the Quintet for piano and wind, K452
27 June, 7pm Iwan Llewelyn-Jones joins baritone Jeremy
Huw Williams and guests for songs by Haydn, Beethoven and Hoddinott, solos
by Chopin and Chabrier, and William Mathias's Piano Trio
28 June, 1pm Roger Vignoles partners violinist Dmitri Sitkovetsky
in sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven (Kreutzer)
28 June, 7.30pm Dominic Harlan partners mezzo-soprano Jeanette
Ager in songs by Schumann, Wolf, Debussy, Ibert, Chailly and Britten
| Risor Festival at the Wigmore Hall
29 June, 7.30pm including Leif Ove Andsnes
1 July, 7.30pm including Philippe Cassard
3 July, 7.30pm including Leif Ove Andsnes, Enrico Pace
4 July, 7pm including Leif Ove Andsnes, Enrico Pace |
2 July, 7.30pm Anthony Hewitt plays music by Beethoven,
Schubert, Schumann and Bartok
7 July, 7.30pm Hugh Tinney joins the Vanbrugh Quartet for
Elgar's Piano Quintet
8 July, 7.30pm Julius Drake partners sopranos Sophie Daneman
and Janis Kelly for a French programme of Faure, Chausson, Chabrier and
Duparc
12 July, 7.30pm Nigel Clayton partners tenor Agustin Prunell-Friend
and flautist Nicola Woodward for a mixed 20th century evening
13 July, 7.30pm Florian Uhlig joins violist Konstantin
Boyarsky in a programme of their own music and works by Schumann, Brahms,
Liszt, Marais, Enescu and Druzhinin
14 July, 7.30pm Gwenneth Prior partners clarinettist Gervase
de Peyer in a 20th century programme
15 July, 7.30pm Julius Drake partners baritone Thomas Allen
in Schumann, including Liederkreis
16 July, 7.30pm Angela Brownridge gives an all-Liszt recital
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LOWER MACHEN
Lower Machen Festival
0870 013 1812
27 June, 8pm Leon McCawley gives a mixed recital of Mozart,
Beethoven, Poulenc, Chopin and Liszt |
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MANCHESTER
University of Manchester, Department of Music Concert Hall 0161
275 4987
26 June, 7.30pm John McCabe takes part in a programme of
contemporary British music including six of his own works
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PORTSMOUTH
New Theatre Royal 01705 649000
11 July, 3 pm Anthony Groves & John Bennett play duets
by Schubert, Faure, Rachmaninov and Moszkowski
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YORK
York Early Music Festival
01904 658338 yemf@network.comuk.co.uk
7 July, 7.30pm Peter Seymour, fortepiano, partners tenor
Christoph Pregardien and baritone Stephen Varcoe in Goethe settings by Loewe,
Zumsteeg, Zelter, Beethoven and Schubert |
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