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Concerts and Recitals July to
December 2006
Raymond Gubbay Christmas Festival 2006:
Opera Gala.
The Bridgewater Hall,
Manchester
27.12.2006 (RJF)
Handel Messiah: Emma
Kirkby, Iestyn Davies, Andrew
Kennedy, James Rutherford; Polyphony, The Academy
of Ancient Music, cond. Stephen Layton. St John’s,
Smith Square, London 23.12.2006
(ME)
Bach,
Debussy, Shostakovich, Chopin, Prokofiev:
Rustem Heyroudinoff
(piano).
Wigmore Hall, 21.12. 2006 (CC)
Haydn,
Mahler, Bartók:
Philharmonia
Orchestra cond, Esa-Pekka
Salonen; Matthias Goerne (baritone) Queen Elizabeth
Hall, London, 19.12. 2006 (ME)
Tallis,
Xenakis, Finnissy:
Rohan
de Saram (cello), Exaudi,
James Weeks (director) Shoreditch Church, London,
18.12.2006 (AO)
Tchaikovsky,
Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov:
London
Symphony Orchestra, Antonio
Pappano, Conductor , Simon Trpceski (piano)17.12.2006.
Barbican Hall London (GD)
Bach,
Christmas Oratorio:
Les
Arts Florissants. William Christie (conductor).
Marie Arnet (soprano), Tim Mead (counter-tenor), Nicholas
Watts, (tenor, Evangelist), Marcel Beekman, (tenor),
Markus Werba (bass). Barbican Hall London, 15.12.2006
(GD)
Haydn,
Mahler, Strauss:
Monica
Groop (mezzo-soprano) Philharmonia
Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) Queen Elizabeth
Hall, 14.12. 2006 (JPr)
Handel,
Poulenc, Stravinsky, Donizetti, R. Strauss:
Soloists of the London Philharmonic
Orchestra/Robin
O’Neill.
Wigmore Hall, Tuesday,
12.12.2006
(CC)
Britten,
Vaughan Williams and Honegger:
Soloists / London
Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / New London Children’s
Choir / Ronald Corp and Vladimir Jurowski (conductors).
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 10.12.06 (ED)
Mozart, Rossini, Arias, Morales, Bellini, Donizetti:
Juan
Diego Flórez (tenor) Vincenzo
Scalera (piano) Barbican Hall 09.12.2006. (ME)
Haydn,
Mahler, Schoenberg:
Anne
Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)Queen
Elizabeth Hall, 09.12. 2006 (AR)
Henze,Stockhausen,Kagel:
London
Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
(conductor), Queen Elizabeth Hall, 06.12.2006 (AO)
Shostakovich:
Marinsky
Theatre Orchestra and
Chorus, Valery Gergiev (conductor), Sergey Alexashkin
(bass), 05 and 06.12.2006 (GD)
Kodály,
Korngold, Fribbins, Zemlinsky, Beethoven:
Raphael
Wallfisch (cello), John York (piano) Wigmore Hall,
London, 05.12.2006 (AO)
Ligeti,
Mahler: Saschko
Gawriloff (violin), Jonathan
Nott (conductor) Philharmonia Orchestra,
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 5.12.2006 (AO)
Britten
'In Memoriam' (3) :
Mark
Padmore (tenor), Lisa Milne
(soprano), Catherine Wyn Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Roger
Vignoles (piano), Laurence Power (viola), Richard
Watkins (horn), Edward Garner (conductor), The Nash
Ensemble. Wigmore Hall, London 04.12.2006 (AO)
Handel,
Messiah :
Rebecca
Evans (soprano); Christopher
Ainslie (countertenor); Andrew Staples (tenor); Robert
Davies (baritone); Cardiff Polyphonic Choir; Welsh
Chamber Players (Leader: Roger Huckle), conducted
by Neil Ferris. St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 03.12.06
(GPu)
Benjamin
Britten ‘In Memoriam’ :
The
Canticles. Iestyn Davies
(counter-tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Leigh Melrose
(baritone) Richard Watkins (horn) Lucy Wakeford (harp)
Roger Vignoles (piano) Wigmore Hall, 3.12.2006
(M E)
Renée
Fleming: Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra,
cond. Andreas Delfs. Barbican Hall, Saturday 02.12.
2006. (M E)
Shostakovich
and Tchaikovsky:
Piano
Trios. Maxim Vengerov
(violin), Lilya Zilberstein
(piano) and Alisa Weilerstein
(cello). Barbican Hall, London. 28.11.2006 (ED)
Strauss to Sondheim: Songs
and duets by Mendelssohn,
Mozart. Richard Strauss, Noël Coward, Rogers &
Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, Jerome
Kern and Stephen Sondheim. Dame Felicity Lott (soprano);
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone); Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 28. 11.2006 (JQ)
Mahler's
Sixth Symphony:
Jim
Pritchard discusses performance problems and reviews
a recent concert in Salisbury (JPr)
Transcendent
(II) The music of Helmut Lachenmann:
London
Sinfonietta, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Queen Elizabeth
Hall, London 20 .11.2006 (AO)
Mozart,
Mahler: London Symphony Orchestra,
David Zinman (conductor), Alfred
Brendel (piano). Barbican Hall London, 19.11.2006
(GD)
Sibelius :
Violin Concerto in D mnor Op
47, Kullervo Symphony O p7
Alina Ibragimova (vln)
Päivi Nisula (sop) Raimo Laukka (bar) YL Men's
Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
(conductor) Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 17.11.2006
(BK)
Transcendent
– The music of Helmut Lachenmann:
Noriko
Kawai (piano) / RCM Symphony Orchestra / Pierre-André
Valade. Royal College of Music, London. 17.11.2006
(ED)
Messiaen,
Pintscher, Ravel, Stravinsky:
Truls
Mřrk
(cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra/Matthias
Pintscher, Barbican
Hall,
14.11.2006
(CC)
WAGNER
Siegfried Act III
:
Hallé
Orchestra and soloists.
Conducted by Mark Elder CBE. The Bridgewater Hall
Manchester, UK , 11.11. 2006 (RJF)
Martinu,
Mozart, Dvorak:
London Symphony
Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner
(conductor), Leif Ove Andsnes
(piano). Barbican Hall, London 09.11.2006.
(GD)
Shostakovich:
New Babylon, a film by
Trauberg and Kozintsev, with music by Shostakovich,
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski,
(conductor). Barbican Hall, 08.11.2006 (AO)
‘Four
hands at one piano’:
Ranko
Markovic and Marialena Fernandes perform Mozart and
Bruckner at the Austrian Embassy, 05. 11. 2006 (JPr)
Mozart, Beethoven,
Berlioz:
Philharmonia
orchestra, Charles Dutoit conductor, Mikhail Pletnev
(piano), Queen Elizabeth Hall, 02.11.2006 (GD)
Haydn,
Mozart and Tchaikovsky:
Soloists
/ London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski
(conductor).
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. 01.11.06 (ED)
Schumann, Schubert:
Angelika
Kirchschlager (mezzo soprano),
Helmut Deutsch (piano) Wigmore Hall, 28.10.2006 (AO)
Beethoven,
Mozart, Brahms:
Philharmonia Orchestra,
Philippe Jordan
conductor, Till Fellner (piano.) Queen Elizabeth Hall,
28.10 2006 (GD)
Mozart,
Boccherini, C. P. E. Bach:
Magdalena Kožená
(mezzo);
Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni
Antonini.
Barbican Hall, 27.10.2006 (CC)
Oxford Lieder
Festival:
Joana Seara (soprano) Sholto
Kynoch (piano) Purcell (arr. Bitten), Walton,
Schubert, Respighi, Wolf-Ferrari. Holywell Music Room,
Oxford. 24.10.2006. (AO)
Welcome
as the Dawn: Music
from Handel's Solomon and Poro,
Lucy Crowe (soprano) Iestyn
Davies (countertenor) London Handel Orchestra, Laurence
Cummings (conductor) St, George's, Hanover Square,
24.10.2006 (SL)
Oxford Lieder Festival:
Elizabeth
Watts (soprano) Roger Vignoles
(piano) Schubert, Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninov.
Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford. 22.10.2006. (ME)
English Music Festival:
Elgar
Piano Music David
Owen Norris (piano), English
Music Festival, Silk Hall, Radley College, Oxfordshire,
22.10.2006 (PCW)
World
Premier - Peter Maxwell Davies:
Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian
Pipes), Northern Sinfonia, Garry Walker (Conductor)
The Sage, Newcastle upon Tyne/Gateshead, UK, 19.10.2006
(JL)
Shostakovich
Song Cycles:
Sergei Leiferkus
(bass baritone), Catherine Wyn Rogers (mezzo), Joan
Rodgers (soprano), Ilya Levinsky (tenor), Semyon Skigin
(piano) Members of the Nash Ensemble : Ian Brown,
(piano), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Paul Watkins (piano).
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 14.10.2006 (AO)
Rossini,
Puccini, Respighi, Stravinsky:
La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra
/ Riccardo Chailly (conductor), St. David’s Hall,
Cardiff, 14.10.2006 (GPu)
Beethoven:
Symphony No.9 in D Minor, Op.125
Kodály Psalmus hungaricus.
Hallé Orchestra.
Hallé Choir (James Burton choral director)
Mark Elder CBE (conductor) Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
14.10. 2006 (RJF)
Janáček, Mozart, Stravinsky:
Nikolai
Lugansky
(piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jiří
Bĕlohlávek.
Barbican
Hall,
14.10
2006 (CC)
Mozart, Schumann, Shostakovich:
Sergey Khachatryan
(violin); Lusine Khachatryan
(piano).
Wigmore Hall, Tuesday
10.10.
2006 (CC)
Bach/Liszt,
Bach, Liszt, Schubert:
Nikolai
Demidenko
(piano).
QEH, Monday 09.10. 2006 (CC)
Hahn, R. Strauss, Orthel and Wolf: Cora
Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano)
and Gary Matthewman (piano). Wigmore Hall, London.
8.10.06 (ED)
Bartók, Reich
and Eno:
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Synergy
Vocals, Alexander Rumpf (conductor - Bartók), Stefan
Asbury (conductor – Reich) Bang on a Can All Stars,
Barbican Centre, London, 07.10.2006 (AO)
Schmitt,
Messiaen:
BBC National
Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales,
Christine Buffle (soprano), Roger Murano (piano),
Jacques Tchamkerten (ondes martinot), conducted by
Thierry Fischer, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 07.10.06
(GPu)
Mendelssohn,
Schumann, Brahms:
Helen Huang
(piano); London Philharmonic Orchestra/Kurt
Masur.
QEH,
06.10.2006
(CC)
Handel,
Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Geminiani:
The
English Concert, Andrew Manze
(Director/Violin), Mark Padmore (Tenor), Alison McGillivray
(Cello). Wigmore Hall, London, 30. 09.2006 (GD)
Beethoven:
Imogen Cooper
(piano); Britten Sinfonia.
QEH, Monday October 2nd,
2006 (CC)
Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Bizet/Shchedrin:
Leonidas Kavakos
(violin)
/ London Philharmonic Orchestra /
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Queen Elizabeth
Hall, London. 27.09.2006 (ED)
Rachmaninov
Piano
Concerto No. 2 and Shostakovich Symphony
No. 5: Philharmonia Orchestra, Gabriela Montero (piano),
Benjamin Zander (conductor) Queen Elizabeth Hall.
26.09. 2006.(JPr)
Mendelssohn, Schumann, Dvořák and Wolf:
Magdalena
Kožená (mezzo-soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano).
Wigmore Hall, London. 21.9.2006 (ED)
Glinka
and Tchaikovsky: Philharmonia
Orchestra, Vesselin
Stanev (piano) Alexander Lazarev
(conductor) Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple, UK, 21.09.2006
(RS)
Kurtág,
Adčs: Valdine
Anderson (soprano), Thomas Adčs (piano), The Keller
Quartet, Krzysztof Chorelski (viola), Corin Long (double
bass) Wigmore Hall, London, 20.09.06 (AO)
MAHLER : Eighth Symphony
Janice Watson, Christine
Teare, Gillian Keith, (sopranos) Catherine Wyn-Rogers,
Susan Parry (mezzo-sopranos) Kim Begley (tenor), Phillip
Joll (baritone) and Matthew Best (bass baritone)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Clio Gould (Leader),
John Birch (Organist), London Philharmonic Choir,
London Symphony Chorus, London Chorus, Brighton Festival
Chorus, London Children’s Choir, Daniele Gatti (conductor),
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall, London,
15.9.06 (AO)
Schubert,
Wolf:
Ian
Bostridge (tenor), Anthony Pappano (piano), Wigmore
Hall, 16.9.06 (AO)
Schumann, Shostakovich, Brahms:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Valéry Gergiev (conductor), Barbican Hall, London,
14.9.06 (AO)
Kabalevsky, Miaskovsky, Shostakovich, Stevenson
& Shchedrin:
Murray McLachlan (piano). Wigmore
Hall, 10.09. 2006 (CC)
Ripon International
Festival Opening Concert 2006:
The Razumovsky
Ensemble, Mozart, String Quartet K465
The Dissonance; Schubert, String Quintet
in C D956,Holy Trinity Church, Ripon, UK, 08.09.2006
(JL)
Opening
Concert of the Wigmore Hall Season:
-
Schubert,
Lieder to texts by Mayrhofer, Leitner, Schiller and
Goethe. Matthias Goerne (baritone) Elisabeth
Leonskaja (piano) 08.09.2006 (ME)
Edinburgh Festival 2006 (3) : Bruckner:
Symphony No. 9, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Jiři Bĕlohlávek (conductor) Usher
Hall, 01.09.2006.(JPr)
Bowen, Eccles, Vaughan Williams and Bridge
at St James’s Piccadilly,
Shulah Oliver (viola) Glen Ballard (piano) 01.09.2006
(LF)
Vasks,
Pärt, Bryars, Viļums, Ligeti, Ešenvalds :
Latvian
Radio Choir / Sigvards Kļava and Kaspars Putniņš
(conductors), Ewenny Priory Church, Wales, 30.08.06
(GPu)
Strauss,
Shostakovich, Gershwin, Bernstein:
Barry Douglas (piano)
/ Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin
(conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 29.08.06 (GPu)
Edinburgh
Festival (1)
:
Strauss
and Mahler. Anne
Schwanewilms (soprano) and Martin Martineau (piano)
in a Strauss and Mahler programme, The Queen’s Hall,
31.08. 2006. (JPr)
Snape Proms (2) : Purcell,
King Arthur
Singers from the Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme,
the Britten–Pears Baroque Orchestra, Michael
Chance (narrator) Laurence Cummings (director) Snape
Maltings, Suffolk, 10.08.2006 (BK)
Snape Proms 2006 (1): Copland, Ravel,
Gershwin and Shostakovich
Youth Orchestra
of the Americas,Gabriela Montero (piano) Benjamin
Zander (conductor) Snape Maltings, Suffolk 08.08.2006.
(JPr)
Harrogate
International Music Festival:
Alfred
Brendel (Piano), Haydn, Piano Sonata
in D Hob. XVI/4; Schubert, Sonata for Piano
no.18 in G D894; Mozart, Fantasia in C minor
KV475; Mozart, Rondo in A minor KV511;
Haydn, Piano Sonata in C Hob XVI/50. Harrogate
International Centre, UK 30.07.2006 (JL)
Mostly Mozart Festival:
Haydn,
Symphony no.
44 in E minor, ‘Trauer’
Mozart, Requiem. Academy
of St Martin in the Fields, Mostly Mozart Festival
Chorus, cond. Douglas Boyd. Barbican Hall, 29. 07.
2006. (ME)
Mostly Mozart Festival: The arias that time forgot.
Soloists / Academy of Ancient Music
/
Paul Daniel (conductor).
Barbican Hall, London.
28.07.2006
(ED)
Mostly Mozart Festival: Caldara,
Gluck
and Mozart.
Soloists
/ The Sixteen
/
The Symphony of Harmony and Invention
/
Harry Christophers (conductor).
Barbican Hall, London.
27.07.2006
(ED)
Welsh Proms (2):
Beethoven
Llŷr
Williams (piano) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,
Owain Arwel Hughes (cond.) St. David’s Hall, Cardiff.
27.07.2006 (GPu)
Welsh Proms: A Tribute to Paul Robeson
Sir
Willard White (bass-baritone), Neal Thornton (piano
and arrangements), Guy Barker (trumpet), Richard Bolton
(guitars), Gareth Huw Davies (bass), Mark Doffman
(drums), Beverley Humphreys (narrator). St. David’s
Hall, Cardiff, 23.07.2006 (GPu)
Exeter Summer Festival (2) Tomŕs
Luis de Victoria:
Motets and Requiem (1605)
The
Sixteen
conducted by Harry Christophers, Exeter Cathedral
22.07.2006 (BK)
Halle Promenade Series:
An
Opera Gala with Mark Elder,
The Bridgewater Hall; Manchester, Mary Plazas (sop)
Barry Banks (ten) Halle Orchestra; Mark Elder (conductor)
21.07.2006 (RJF)
Exeter
Summer Festival (1)
:
Beethoven,
Piano Sonata in C Minor Op 13, Pathétique, Sonata
in F minor Op 57 Appassionata Chopin
Ballade No
1 in G Minor Op 23, Sonata No 3 in B Minor Op 58
Freddy Kempf (piano) Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
18.07.2006 (BK)
Cheltenham Music Festival (6):
Berlioz,
Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5
Jeffrey
Lloyd-Roberts (tenor), Cheltenham Bach Choir, Gloucester
Choral Society, Stroud Choral Society, Tewkesbury
and District Choral Society, St. Cecilia Singers,
Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra, Stroud Symphony Orchestra,
Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra, Portishead Town Band
conducted by Martin Brabbins. Tewkesbury Abbey 15.07.2006
(JQ)
Elgar,
Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams and Mozart:
Hilary
Hahn
(violin)
/ English
Chamber Orchestra / Roy Goodman
(conductor). Barbican Hall,
London. 14.07.2006. (ED)
Cheltenham Music Festival (5):
Beethoven Piano
Sonatas:
in G major, Op. 79 (1809); in D major,
Op. 20 “Pastoral” (1801); in B Flat major Op. 106,
“Hammerklavier”(1817-18). Paul Lewis (piano) Pittville
Pump Room, Cheltenham, 13.07.2006 (JQ)
The Royal Choral Society at Southwark Cathedral:
Wind serenades
by Mozart and Dvořák: Bruckner’s Mass in E minor
and Motets.
Instrumentalists and choir conducted
by Richard Cooke.
12.07.2006.(JPr)
Cheltenham Music Festival (4) :
Vocal music by Elizabeth Liddle, Guillaume de Machaut,
Tarik O’Regan, James MacMillan and Robert Carver.
The Orlando Consort and The Oriel Singers. Tewkesbury
Abbey 11.07.2006 (JQ)
Cheltenham Music Festival (3) :
Schumann,
Mahler, Francis
George Scott and Finzi. Roderick
Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano). Pittville
Pump Room, Cheltenham. 09.07.2006 (JQ)
York Early Music Festival:
Academy
of Ancient Music Pavlo Beznosiuk (Violin),
Rachel Brown (Flute), Richard Egarr (Director and
harpsichord) The Citadel, Gillygate, York, UK. 08.
07.2006 (JL)
Cheltenham Music Festival (2):
Bartók,
Kurtág, Benjamin, Schumann, Debussy
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham,
07.07.2006 (AO)
and
Berio, Stockhausen:
Markus
Stockhausen (trumpet), Pittville Pump Room,
Cheltenham, 07.07.2006 (AO)
Schumann:
Nigel
Black, Laurence Davies, Cormac Ó hAodáin, James
Handy (horns); Philharmonia Orchestra/András Schiff
(piano). QEH, 06.07.2006 (CC)
The Sound of Colour:
Soloists /
Almeida Ensemble / Richard Bernas (cond.) Almeida
Theatre, London. 05.07.2006 (ED)
Cheltenham
Music Festival (1):
Kenneth Hesketh, Judith Weir
The Opera Group, Owen Gilhooly, Heather Shipp, Claire
Wild, Mark Wilde (singers/actors) Patrick Bailey (conductor).
John Fulljames (director) Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham,
02.07.2006 (AO)
Bruch, Bartók:
London Symphony
Orchestra; Conductor Ilan Volkov, Solo violin, Sarah
Chang, Barbican Hall. London, 02. 07. 2006 (GD)
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