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Pianos and Pianists - Consultant Editor Ates Orga

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

 

Aberdeen     Basingstoke     Belfast     Brighton     Bristol     
Cambridge     Canterbury     Cardiff     Chelmsford     Croydon     
Dorking     Exeter     Glasgow     Guildford     
Lancaster     Leeds     Liverpool     London     
Manchester     Northampton     Oxford     Poole     
Salisbury     Sheffield     Southampton     
Tonbridge     Truro     


ABERDEEN

Music Hall 01224 641122

March 17th, 7.30pm Kathryn Stott plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä

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BASINGSTOKE

The Anvil 01256 844244

March 2nd, 7.45pm Django Bates (keyboard) and Joanna MacGregor (piano) with the Britten Sinfonia under Nicholas Cleobury in a programme including works by Bates, Ligeti's Piano Concerto and Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

March 7th, 8pm Stephen Hough plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 22 with the Oxford Philomusica Orchestra under Marios Papadpoulos

March 17th, 7.45pm Stephen Kovacevich plays Beethoven's First Piano Concerto with the London Mozart Players under Raymond Leppard

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BELFAST

Ulster Hall 028 9066 8798

March 24th, 7.45pm Vladimir Ovchinnikov plays Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra under Takuo Yuasa

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BRIGHTON

Theatre Royal 01273 328488

March 12th, 2.45pm John Lill plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 27 with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth

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BRISTOL

Colston Hall 0117 922 3683

March 4th, 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw plays Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under Antoni Wit

March 9th, 7.30pm Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton

St George's, Brandon Hill 0117 923 0359

March 1st, 7.30pm András Schiff plays Bach's six English Suites

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CAMBRIDGE

Corn Exchange 01223 357851

March 4th, 7.30pm Django Bates (keyboard) and Joanna MacGregor (piano) with the Britten Sinfonia under Nicholas Cleobury in a programme including works by Bates, Ligeti's Piano Concerto and Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

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CANTERBURY

King's School 01227 595639

March 3rd, 7.30pm Django Bates (keyboard) and Joanna MacGregor (piano) with the Britten Sinfonia under Nicholas Cleobury in a programme including works by Bates, Ligeti's Piano Concerto and Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

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CARDIFF

St David's Hall 029 2087 8444

March 18th, 7.30pm Lars Vogt plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Mark Wigglesworth

March 20th, 7.30pm Peter Donohoe plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 with the Welsh College of Music and Drama

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CHELMSFORD

Civic Theatre 01245 605606

March 5th, 7.30pm Django Bates (keyboard) and Joanna MacGregor (piano) with the Britten Sinfonia under Nicholas Cleobury in a programme including works by Bates, Ligeti's Piano Concerto and Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

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CROYDON

Fairfield Halls 020 8688 9291 http://www.croydon.gov.uk/fairfield

March 15th, 7.45pm Stephen Kovacevich plays Beethoven's First Piano Concerto with the London Mozart Players under Raymond Leppard

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DORKING

Dorking Halls 01396 881717

March 25th, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall plays and conducts Gershwin's Second Rhapsody with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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EXETER

Exeter Cathedral 01404 47102

March 1st, 8pm James Dick plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Orchestre de Bretagne under Stefan Sanderling

Great Hall, Exeter University 01392 493493

March 10th, 7.30pm Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton

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GLASGOW

Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511 http://www.grch.com

March 29th, 7.30pm Murray Perahia plays Bach's Goldberg Variations

Royal Scottish Acadey of Music and Drama 0141 332 5057

March 3rd, 10pm Nicolas Hodges joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins for a concert of music by Birtwistle

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GUILDFORD

Civic Hall 01483 444555

March 2nd, 7.30pm James Dick plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Orchestre de Bretagne under Stefan Sanderling

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LANCASTER

Great Hall, Lancaster University 0800 028 3042

March 16th, 7.30pm Murray McLachlan joins the Galliard Wind Ensemble for Piano-and-Wind Quintets by Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov and Mozart and the Poulenc Sextet

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LEEDS

Town Hall 0113 247 6962

March 25th, 7.30pm John Lill plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 12 with the European Union Chamber Orchestra under Lavard Skou Larsen

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LIVERPOOL

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

March 15th & 16th, 7.30pm Joanna MacGregor plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 and Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Libor Pesek [two performances]

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LONDON

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

March 2nd, 7.30pm Maurizio Pollini gives the world premiere of Sciarrino's Recitativo oscuro with the London Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez

March 21st, 7.30pm Joanne Polk plays Beach's Piano Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra under Paul Goodwin

March 29th, 7.30pm Peter Jablonski plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniele Gatti

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

March 1st, 7.30pm Martino Tirimo plays five Beethoven sonatas, including Op 110

March 9th, 7.30pm Jorge Federico Osorio joins cellist Richard Markson for the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas

March 12th, 7.30pm Geoffrey Saba plays Haydn, Scriabin's Fifth Sonata, Bartók, Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and the Liszt B minor Sonata

March 15th, 7.30pm Diana Ambache plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 14 with The Ambache

March 22nd, 7.30pm Martino Tirimo plays four Beethoven sonatas, including Op 106 (Hammerklavier)

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

March 13th, 8pm Anna-Maria Stanczyk plays virtuoso Romantic warhorses, including Chopin's F sharp minor and A flat Polonaises, the Liszt Sonata and Rachmaninov's C sharp minor and G minor Preludes plus Tchaikovsky and Szymanowski

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

March 4th, 8pm James Dick plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Orchestre de Bretagne under Stefan Sanderling

March 11th, 7.45pm Peter Donohoe plays Chopin's final two Nocturnes, Op 62, Ravel's Miroirs, Schumann's Kreisleriana and Liszt's Venezia e Napoli

March 20th, 7.45pm Lars Vogt joins cellist Truls Mørk for Cello Sonatas by Beethoven (Op 5 No 1) Prokofiev and Brahms (Op 99)

March 25th, 3pm Pierre-Laurent Aimard offers an uncompromisingly challenging programme of Boulez (including the First Sonata), Schoenberg (Klavierstücke Op 23) and the complete Debussy Études

March 26th, 2.30pm John Constable and Rolf Hind with the London Sinfonietta under Pierre-André Valade take part in a 75th Birthday tribute to Pierre Boulez including the world premiere of twelve new piano pieces commissioned from among the foremost composers of our time

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

March 2nd, 7.30pm Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Janácek's Capriccio with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi

March 9th, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a centenary tribute to Aaron Copland and takes the piano in a progamme of American cabaret and show songs with mezzo-soprano Sally Burgess, bass-baritone Willard White and members of the English National Opera

March 19th, 3pm András Schiff plays the second book of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier

March 27th, 3pm Murray Perahia plays Bach's Goldberg Variations and four Bach-Busoni Chorale Preludes

March 29th, 7.30pm Wayne Marshall plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Kurt Masur

Wigmore Hall 020 7935 2141

March 3rd, 7.30pm András Schiff plays Bach's six English Suites

March 5th, 4pm Pascal Rogé plays Beethoven's Op 126 Bagatelles and Appassionata, together with Book I of the Debussy Préludes

March 6th, 1pm Piotr Anderszewski in a BBC lunchtime broadcast plays Janácek's Sonata 1.X.1905, Szymanowski and Bartók's Fourteen Bagatelles Op 6

March 13th, 1pm Imogen Cooper in a BBC lunchtime broadcast plays Mozart, Beethoven (Sonata Op 10 No 2) and Brahms's Fantasias Op 116

March 18th, 7.30pm Melvyn Tan plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 8 and Schubert's Trout Quintet with the New Mozart Ensemble

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MANCHESTER

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

March 4th, 7.30pm Mikhail Rudy plays Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky

March 16th, 7.30pm John Lill plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra under Gunther Herbig

March19th, 7.30pm Evgeny Kissin recital

March 30th 7.30pm Pascal Rogé plays Saint-Saëns's Fifth Piano Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra under Jac van Steen

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NORTHAMPTON

Derngate 01604 624811

March 20th, 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw plays Chopin's First Piano Concerto with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under Antoni Wit

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OXFORD

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

March 8th, 8pm Mitsuko Uchida joins violinist Mark Steinberg for five Mozart violin sonatas (K301, 303, 304-06)

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POOLE

Arts Centre 01202 685222

March 6th, 7.30pm Django Bates (keyboard) and Joanna MacGregor (piano) with the Britten Sinfonia under Nicholas Cleobury in a programme including works by Bates, Ligeti's Piano Concerto and Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

March 8th, 7.30pm Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton

March 29th, 7.30pm Stephen Kovacevich plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Kazushi Ono

 

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SALISBURY

City Hall 01722 327676

March 5th, 7.30pm James Dick plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the Orchestre de Bretagne under Stefan Sanderling

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SHEFFIELD

City Hall 0114 278 9789

March 31st, 7.30pm John Lill plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 12 with the European Union Chamber Orchestra under Lavard Skou Larsen

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SOUTHAMPTON

Turner Sims Concert Hall 023 8059 5151

March 7th, 8pm Neil Crossland joins the Galliard Wind Ensemble for a programme including Beethoven's and Mozart's Piano-and-Wind Quintets and the Poulenc Sextet

March 21st, 8pm James Lisney joins the Schidlof String Quartet for Shostakovich's Piano Quintet

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TONBRIDGE

West Kent College 01732 354763

March 25th, 8pm Martin Jones joins horn-player David Pyatt and violinist Janice Graham for the Berkeley and Brahms Horn Trios

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TRURO

Hall for Cornwall 01872 262466

March 9th, 8pm Joanna MacGregor plays Kurtág, Scriabin (Ninth Sonata - Black Mass), Stravinsky (Three Pieces from Petrushka), Debussy, Messiaen and Rzewski

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