BIRMINGHAM
Symphony Hall 0121 212 3333 http://www.symphonyhall.co.uk/symphony
February 11th 8pm Michel Béroff plays Prokofiev's
Third Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under
Kurt Masur
February 15th, 17th 7.30pm
Imogen Cooper plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 9 with the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra under Tadaaki Otaka [two performances]
February 19th 8pm Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Schumann's
Arabesque and Kreisleriana, Ravel's
Gaspard de la nuit and a selection of Rachmaninov
Preludes
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BOURNEMOUTH
Talbot Heath School 01202 658921
February 5th 3pm Alison Farr plays Bach-Busoni,
Beethoven's Les adieux Sonata,
Takemitsu, Ravel's
Valses nobles et sentimentales and Poulenc
Winter Gardens 01202 456456
February 20th 3pm Alba Ventura plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 9 with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
under David Hill
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BRIGHTON
Theatre Royal 01273 328488
February 27th 2.45pm John Lill plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 24 with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra under
Barry Wordsworth
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CAMBRIDGE
Corn Exchange 01223 357851
February 13th 7.30pm Derek Han plays Rachmaninov's
Second Piano Concerto with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra under
Jaap van Zweden
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CARDIFF
St David's Hall 029 2087 8444
February 10th 7.30pm Michel Béroff plays Prokofiev's
Third Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under
Kurt Masur
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CARLISLE
Sands Centre 01228 625208
February 12th 7.30pm Derek Han plays Rachmaninov's
Second Piano Concerto with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra under
Jaap van Zweden
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COLCHESTER
St Botolph's Church 01206 577905
February 19th 7.30pm Philip Smith plays Grieg's
Piano Concerto with the St Botolph's Music Society Orchestra under
Colin Nicholson
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CROYDON
Fairfield Halls 020 8688 9291
February 2nd 8pm Derek Han plays Rachmaninov's
Second Piano Concerto with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra under
Jaap van Zweden
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DORKING
Dorking Halls 01396 881717
February 5th 7.30pm Another
opportunity to hear Nikolai Demidenko repeat
his imaginative Chopin as Improviser
recital. Nocturnal 'ecstasies of quiet contemplation' framed by a quartet
of late masterworks, the programme was devised to commemorate the 150th
anniversary of Chopin's death last year and includes the F minor Fantasy;
Fourth Ballade, F sharp minor Polonaise and Polonaise-Fantasy.
'Mesmerising ... magnificent nonchalance ... a genuine balance
between the soft-focus privacy and pyrotechnical brilliance that limits
Chopin's world' - Tom Service on Demidenko's Royal Festival Hall account
The Guardian, January 26th 2000
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DUNDEE
Caird Hall 01382 434941
February 5th 7.30pm Daniel Hoexter plays Beethoven's
Fourth Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
under Walter Weller
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EDINBURGH
Festival Theatre 0131 529 6000
February 6th 7.30pm Daniel Hoexter plays Beethoven's
Fourth Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
under Walter Weller
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GLASGOW
Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511
http://www.grch.com
February 3rd 7.30pm Daniel Hoexter plays Beethoven's
Fourth Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
under Walter Weller
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HANLEY
Victoria Hall 01782 207777
February 3rd 8pm Howard Shelley plays Beethoven's
Third Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins
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KENDAL
Westmorland Hall 01524 761549
February 12th 7.30pm Martin Roscoe plays Rachmaninov's
Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky
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LEEDS
Town Hall 0113 247 6962
February 5th 7.30pm Derek Han plays Rachmaninov's
Second Piano Concerto with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra under
Jaap van Zweden
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LEICESTER
De Montfort Hall 0116 233 3111 http://www.demontforthall.co.uk
February 5th 7.30pm Piers Lane plays Rachmaninov's
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Bardi Symphony Orchestra
under Andrew Constantine
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LIVERPOOL
Philharmonic Hall 0151 709 3789 http://www.rlps.co.uk
February 9th 7.30pm Imogen Cooper plays Chopin's
Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
under Petr Altrichter
February 26th 7.30pm Peter Donohoe plays Prokofiev's
Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
under Janos Fürst
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LONDON
Barbican Hall 020 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk
Boulez 2000
February 2nd 7.30pm Daniel Barenboim plays Schoenberg's
Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez
February 13th 7.30pm Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord/piano, joins violinist
Maxim Vengerov for a recital of baroque music and Beethoven's
C minor Violin Sonata Op 30 No 2
February 29th 7.30pm Django Bates and Joanna
MacGregor join the Britten Sinfonia for a concert including Ligeti's Piano Concerto and Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056
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Bishopsgate Hall 020 7247 6844
February 1st 1.05pm lunchtime
recital by Anthony Peebles
February 8th 1.05pm lunchtime
recital by Stephen de Pledge
February 15th 1.05pm lunchtime
recital by Ashley Wass
February 22nd 1.05pm lunchtime
recital by Peter Katin
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St John's, Smith Square 020 7222
1061 http://www.sjss.org.uk
February 3rd 1pm Ingrid Jacoby plays Schubert,
Albéniz and Prokofiev's
Seventh Sonata
February 5th 7.30pm Stephen Herbert Smith gives a programme of 20th
century music by Benjamin, Bennett, Roxburgh,
Colin Matthews, Skempton,
MacMillan, Tisné,
Beall, Fetherolf
and Rochberg
February 6th 3pm Stephen Herbert Smith gives a programme of 20th
century music by Tann, Michael
Berkeley, Woolrich, Messiaen, Freund,
Benjamin, Bolcom
and Montague
February 22nd 7.30pm Christopher Czaja Sager plays Mozart,
Bach (Partitas in C minor and
G), Scriabin and Chopin
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St Martin-in-the-Fields 020 7839
8362
February 14th 1pm Dan
Franklin Smith plays Mendelssohn,
Rust's Piano Sonata in B flat minor,
Gershwin and Brahms
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SBC Purcell Room 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
February 7th 8pm Anda
Anastasescu plays Shostakovich's
First Piano Concerto with trumpeter John Wallace and the London Schubert
Players
February 14th 8pm 'Tribute to
Fats Waller' Keith Nichols and friends
in a Valentine's Day celebration
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SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 020 7960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
February 2nd, 7.45pm Boris Berezovsky plays Beethoven's
Second Piano Concerto with the Russian Chamber Orchestra of
London under Dmitri Yablonsky
February 12th, 7.45pm 'indisputable
grand master of the jazz piano' Kenny Barron
and friends
February 14th, 7.45pm Andrew Wilde plays early and late period Beethoven sonatas plus Chopin
February 20th, 7.45pm Simon Crawford-Philips,
Philip Moore and Min-Jung Kim play
Mozart's Triple Concerto K
242, Double Concerto K 365 and Piano Concerto No 21 with
the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra under David Josefowitz
Chopin 150
February 27th, 3.30pm Nelson Goerner plays Debussy's
first book of Préludes and late Chopin
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SBC Royal Festival Hall 020 7960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
February 2nd 7.30pm Emanuel Ax plays Brahms's
First Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under
Mark Elder
February 3rd 7.30pm Maurizio
Pollini plays Stockhausen, Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata and
Liszt
February 5th 7.30pm Andreas Haefliger plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 23 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
under Riccardo Chailly
February 6th 3.15pm Leon McCawley plays Grieg's
Piano Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Nicolai
Moldoveanu
February 12th 7.30pm Michel Béroff plays Prokofiev's
Third Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under
Kurt Masur
February 20th 3.30pm John Lill plays Beethoven's
Appassionata Sonata, Schumann's
C major Fantasy and three Shostakovich Preludes
and Fugues
Composer Portrait
February 28th 6.30pm Nicolas Hodges and
Ellen Corver play some of Stockhausen's
Klavierstücke in the composer's pesence
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Wigmore Hall 020 7935 2141
February 6th 7.30pm Alicia
de Larrocha plays Chopin
(including the late Berceuse, Barcarolle and Polonaise-Fantasy), Turina and Albéniz
February 8th, 11th 7.30pm Angela Hewitt plays Bach
on the piano - the '48' Book II across two evenings
February 13th 4pm Grigory
Sokolov plays Froberger, Franck and Chopin
February 27th 4pm Zoltán Kocsis plays Mozart, Beethoven's Op 111 and a Bartók
group including the 1926 Sonata
February 28th 1pm Zoltán Kocsis in a BBC lunchtime broadcast
plays John Cage,
Debussy, Chopin and the Prelude
and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde arranged Kocsis/Liszt
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LUTON
Library Theatre 01582 547474
February 28th 7.45pm Elizaveta
Kopelman gives a recital including Beethoven's
Appassionata
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MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall 0161 907 9000
PIANO 2000 FESTIVAL
4th-19th February
February 4th 8pm Kathryn
Stott joins cellist Yo-Yo Ma for the Shostakovich
and Grieg Cello Sonatas
February 5th 11am Daina
Ketler plays Grieg, Stenhammar, Sibelius
and Vasko
February 5th 7.30pm Alicia
de Larrocha, Anna Kravchenko, Kathryn Stott, Noriko
Ogawa with the BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins. Programme
includes Shostakovich's First Piano
Concerto, Falla's Nights in the
Gardens of Spain, Rachmaninov's
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the world premiere of Yeats's The Round and Square Art of Memory
February 6th 2.30pm Children's Concert with Chetham's Chamber Orchestra
under Stephen Threlfall. Programme includes Poulenc's
Babar the Elephant, Butler's
Dirty Beasts, Ridout's Ferdinand
the Bull and Saint-Saëns's
Carnival of the Animals
February 6th 8pm jazz
pianist Julian Joseph and friends
February 9th 1.15pm Kathryn
Stott joins violinist Raphael Oleg and cellist Gary Hoffman for
piano trios by Fauré and Ravel
February 9th, 10th, 13th 7.30pm
Alexander Melnikov plays Beethoven's
Second Piano Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra under Nicholas
Kraemer [three performances]
February 12th 11am Stefan
Veselka plays Smetana, Szymanowski, Dvorák
and Chopin
February 12th 7.30pm Kathryn
Stott, John Lill with the
Manchester Camerata under Anthony Halstead. Programme includes Mozart's Double Concerto K 365
and Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto
(Emperor)
February 14th 7.30pm 'Homage
to Astor Piazzolla' with Gerardo Gandini
and friends
February 15th 8pm Kathryn
Stott joins The Lindsays for Schubert's
Trout Quintet and Chausson's
Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet
February 17th 1.15pm Kathryn
Stott joins London Winds for quintets by Beethoven
and Rimsky-Korsakov
February 17th 7.30pm Grigory
Sokolov plays Chopin's Second
Piano Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra under Moshe Atzmon
February 18th 8pm Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Schumann's
Arabesque and Kreisleriana, Ravel's
Gaspard de la nuit and a selection of Rachmaninov
Preludes
February 19th 11am Roberto
Cappello plays virtuoso transcriptions: Schubert-Liszt, Strauss-Grünfeld, Strauss-Dohnányi, Mozart-Liszt
February 19th 7.30pm Stephen
Hough, Martin Roscoe, Jean-Yves Thibaudet,
Peter Donohoe with the BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky.
The four Rachmaninov concertos
Royal Northern College of Music 0161
907 5278
February 1st 7.30pm Peter
Donohoe plays five Beethoven sonatas
including the Appassionata and Les adieux
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POOLE
Arts Centre 01202 685222
February 9th 7.30pm Michael
Roll plays Grieg's Piano
Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra underGerhard Markson
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SOUTHAMPTON
Turner Sims Concert Hall 023 8059
5151
February 8th 8pm Alfred
Brendel plays Haydn (C
major Sonata No 50) Mozart (B
flat Sonata K 333) and Schubert (A
minor Sonata D 845)
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SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
Cliffs Pavilion 01702 351135
February 3rd 7.30pm Derek Han plays Rachmaninov's
Second Piano Concerto with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra under
Jaap van Zweden
February 28th 7.30pm Freddy Kempf plays Tchaikovsky's
First Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Alexander
Lazarev
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SUNDERLAND
Tom Cowey Lecture Theatre, Sunderland University
0191 252 5398
February 5th 7.30pm Viv
McLean plays Schubert, Ravel, Brahms (Handel
Variations) and Gershwin (Rhapsody
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