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JUNE 2001

GOLDSMITHS' COLLEGE SECOND BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC

Solaris Quartet: Rodney Bennett, Britten, Schubert, St James's Piccadilly, Friday 22 June (SD)

No Arrival, No Parking, Navigation part III Almeida at King's Cross, Caledonian Road, London, 25 & 26 June 2001

Kathryn Thomas & Richard Shaw: French Flute Recital, PR, 21 June, 2001 (MB)

Christian Tetzlaff (violin) & Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Wigmore Hall 19 June 2001 (PGW)

La Damnation de Faust, Opera of Hector Berlioz, Opéra de Paris, June 16, 2001 (FC)

Faurè: Pénélope, Opera in Three Acts, Concert Version, June 14, 2001, Théàtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris (FC).

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, ENO, 15 June 2001 (MB)

Andrew SCHULTZ Going into Shadows (World Première) Guildhall School of Music & Drama 13 June 2001

Mozart, Malcolm Arnold & Elizabeth Maconchy The Ambache, Diana Ambache, St John's Smith Square June 6 2001 (SD)

Mozart: Don Giovanni, ENO, June 2001 (MB)

Philadelphia Orchestra Events : January-May 2001 (R M-B)

Spectrum 3 BBC Radio Theatre, London, 23 May 2001 (PGW)

Matthias Goerne/Alfred Brendel Théàtre du Châtelet, Paris, June 5, 2001 (FC)

Centenary of the birth of Gerald Finzi: A Weekend of English Song Friday 1st June to Sunday 3rd June 2001 Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ludlow Shropshire (IL)

ujiimimangalisco the mysteries carmen Broomhill Opera. Wilton's Music Hall, London. 7 & 8 June 2001 (PGW)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Jirí Belohlávek Truls Mork (cello) Symphony Hall, Birmingham 29th May  Janácek From the House of the Dead-Suite (Arr. Frantisek Jílek) Dvorák Cello Concerto No. 2 in B Minor Op. 104 Janácek Taras Bulba. [CT]

25th Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music Lisbon, 21 May-3 June 2001 (PGW&AW)

AHMED ESSYAD Héloïse et Abélard Théàtre musical du Châtelet, Paris May 16, 19, and 22, 2001 (FC)

Erich Korngold Die Tote Stadt Théàtre Musical du Châtelet, Paris. May 19, 2001 (FC)

Raphael Wallfisch (cello) John York (piano) Wigmore Hall, 20 May 01[PC]

Carter, Rijnvos, Salonen & Wuorinen London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1 & 16 May 2001 (PGW)

Lorin Maazel conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Arcadi Volodos (pf) Mahler: Symphony No.5 RFH, 31 May 2001
Mozart: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.5 in A, K.219, Gil Shaham (vln) Bruckner: Symphony No.8 RFH, 3 June 2001
Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [MB]

MAY 2001

EDITORIAL

Czech Music Festival Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa. May 2001 (CT)
Smetana Piano Trio in G Minor Op. 15 Sylvie Bodorova Piano Trio "Mediggo"
Dvorák Piano Quartet in E Flat Op. 87 The Schubert Ensemble of London Simon Blendis (violin) Douglas Patterson (viola) Jane Salmon (cello) William Howard (piano) (8 May)

Dvorák Quartet in G Op. 106 Janácek Quartet No. 2 (Intimate Letters)
Suk Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 8
The Janácek Quartet
with Petr Jirikovský (piano) (9 May)

Marcel DUPRÉ De Profundis Op 17 Trinity College of Music Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Ely Cathedral Choir/Martien van Woerkum Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich 17 May 2001 (PGW)

17th Century English Music Charivari Agréable Purcell Room, London 14 May 2001

PIONEERS OF THE NEW MUSICAL Greenwich Theatre 15-26 May 2001 (PGW)

The Elizabethan Masque Study Day with afternoon concert QEH 14 May 2001 (PGW)

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 27/2, 31/3 & 111 Stephen Kovacevich RFH 13 May 2001

 BBC SO & Philharmonia Orchestra Concerts: Barbican, 9 May 2001 & RFH, 10 - 12 May, 2001 (MB)

Marat BISENGALIEV (violin) with Benjamin FRITH (piano) Brahms, Elgar etc. Wigmore Hall 4 May 2001 (PGW)

Piotr Anderszewski at Wigmore Hall Bach, Chopin & Janacek 5 May 2001

VERDI Falstaff English National Opera, The Coliseum, London 10 May 2001

Brahms Clarinet Sonatas Op. 120, Nos. 1 & 2 Berg Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op 5; Piano Sonata, Op 1 Sabine Meyer, cl; Lars Vogt, pf. Wigmore Hall, Wednesday May 2, 2001 (SD)

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC/ZUBIN MEHTA, SCHUBERT - Symphony No. 8 Unfinished SCHOENBERG - Chamber Symphony No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 4 RFH 23 April 2001 (IP)

3rd Rhodes International Music Festival and Choir Competition National Theatre of Rhodes,18-22 April 2001 (PGW&AW)

Lachenmann & Schumann Nicolas Hodges (piano): Purcell Room, 30 April 2001 (MB)

STRAVINSKY The Firebird (Fokine); Agon (Balanchine); Les Noces (Nijinska). The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, 2 May 2001 (PGW)

DUPRÉ Symphony No 2; FRANCK Final; LISZT Fantasia & Fugue Ad nos ad salutarem undam; MESSIAEN Transports de Joie; BACH Fantasia & Fugue in G minor; HAKIM Gershwineska; MARSHALL Verdi Improvisation. Wayne Marshall (organ) RFH 30 April 2001 [PGW]

David Sawer From Morning to Midnight   ENO, London Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane 27 / 4 / 2001 (World Premiere )

APRIL 2001
EDITORIAL

Arditti Quartet: works by Adès, Nancarrow, Harvey, Scelsi & Xenakis QEH, 19 April 2001 (MB)

Shostakovich & Mahler: Viktoria Mullova (vln), Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, RFH, 17 April, 2001

LSO Bohemian Spring
Janacek The Eternal Gospel; Dvorak Symphonic Variations & Te Deum, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/ Sir Colin Davis, Barbican 25 March 2001 (MB)

Janacek Mass in Eb; Eben Te Deum; Zelenka Laudate Dominum; Dvorak Choruses; Novak Poems & Martinu Czech Madrigals London Symphony Chorus/Stephen Westrop with Stephen Disley (organ) Barbican, London 8 April 2001 (PGW)

SUK Asrael Symphony DVORAK Cello Concerto in B minor National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Belohlavek with Lynn Harrell The Barbican, London 10 April 2001

SCHNITTKE/SHOSTAKOVICH/WALTON Violin Sonatas Daniel Hope with Simon Mulligan (piano) Wigmore Hall 14 April 2001 (PGW)

João de Sousa CARVALHO L'amore industrioso Apollo Chamber Orchestra/ John Theocharis with soloists. St John's Smith Square 12 April 2001

BACH  Mass in B minor BWV 232 Magnificat BWV 243 Cantata 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' BWV 80  + CD-ROM L'Universe of Bach. Philippe Herreweghe - director     Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908110.12 [PGW]

VERDI Il Trovatore ENO 9.4.2001 (AW)

ROSSINI The Barber of Seville ENO 11 April 2001 (PGW)

VERDI  Requiem

Indian Music Concert and CD-live label launch Satish Prakash (shehnai) and Mahavir Prasad (bansuri & shehnai) with Gladwin Charles (tabla) Purcell Room, London 6 April 2001 (PGW)

Voices - Hans Werner Henze at 75: Henze - Requiem
Paul Crossley (pf) & Håken Hardenberger (trumpet), Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, RFH, 4 April 2001 (MB)

Bartok Romanian Dances; Gershwin Three Preludes; Monti Czardas; Pärt Fratres; Piazzolla Tanti Anni Prima; Rimsky Korsakov Flight of the Bumble-bee; Vivaldi Sonata Op 14 Czardas Duo (Matthew Forbes - cello; Ian Watson accordion) The Czardas Duo [50 mins] (PGW)

Katherine Mackintosh (oboe) & Simon Lepper (piano) Blackheath Halls, 8 April 2001 (PGW)

RAVEL Daphnis & Chloé (complete) BERLIOZ Overture Beatrice & Benedict; Les nuits d'été; Zaide LSO/Boulez with LPO Choir & Cecilia Bartoli Barbican, London 5 April 2001 (PGW)

10th Archipel Festival Geneva 20 March - 1 April 2001 (PGW)

MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea

BARTOK No.1, BEETHOVEN Op.18/2, MENDELSSOHN Op. 80 String Quartets Edinburgh String Quartet Conway Hall, South Place, London. 1 April 2001

Voices - Hans Werner Henze at 75: Henze - Symphony No 5, Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 3, Henze - Fraternité, Beethoven - Symphony No 5. Yefim Bronfman (pf), Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi 29 March 2001, RFH (MB)

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