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Seen and Heard Editor: Peter Grahame Woolf Music Webmaster Len Mullenger: Len@musicweb-international.com
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1999 LISTINGS
Bach, Geminiani, Handel, Purcell & Wassenaer Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze. St John's Smith Square, London. 29 November 00 (PGW) Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival November 2000 (PGW & ANR) Zero plus One and Millions. South London Gallery, Peckham ,. 28 November 2000 NOVEMBER 2000 Schubert Quartettsatz; String Quartet in A minor (Rosamunde); String Quintet. Orpheus Quartet with Antonio Lysy, 2nd cello. Wigmore Hall, 25 November 2000 (SD) Arthur Butterworth Guitar Concerto Craig Ogden (guitar)/Leeds Symphony Orchestra/Martin Binks. Notre Dame College, Leeds. 19 November 00 (PC) Mozart, Berg, Tchaikovsky: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra/James Levine, Barbican 28 November, 2000. (MB) Berio: Folk Songs. Rota: La Strada. Dallapiccola: The Prisoner English National Opera/Richard Hickox, conductor. London Coliseum 17 November 2000 (RW) Kantak. Philip Howard Small as dust. Lazkano Sorginkeriak. Erkoreka Bizitza. Guerrero Concierto da Cámera. De Pablo Dibujos. Torres Ceremonia Secreta. Purcell Room, November 23rd, 2000. Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 & Symphony No 1, Philharmonia Orchestra, Maurizio Pollini (pf), Christoph von Dohnányi, RFH, November 2000 (MB) Dusapin, Keeling, C. Matthews & Stravinsky Trinity College Contemporary Music Group/DiegoMasson with Evelyn Glennie (percussion) Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich 16 November 2000 Happy (if somewhat anxious) 100th Birthday, Philadelphia Orchestra! (RM-B) About DVDs - reflections from the Editor of Seen&Heard (PGW) An
American Portrait: Aaron Copland BBC Symphony
& Concert Orchestras / Leonard Slatkin
Barbican Hall 10 - 12 November 2000 (RW) Leoncavallo La Bohème ENO 2 November 2000 (AW) Luxembourg 2000 - the Capital of the European Contemporary Music Community.Interview with Artistic Director Marcel Wengler by Anton Rovner Cashian, Harrison, Norman, Redgate The Comp osers Ensemble/Roger Redgate, The Warehouse 9 11 00 (PGW) Skampa String Quartet Beethoven Op 18/2; Prokofiev No. 2, Op. 92; Franck Piano Quintet with Kathryn Stott (piano) Wigmore Hall, 11 November 2000 Fifth British Contemporary Piano Competition Vestry Hall & The Warehouse, London. 10-12 November 2000 Jonathan Dove/Nick Dear The Palace in the Sky conducted by Stuart Stratford, with Robert Tear, Keel Watson (Nicholas Folwell), Toby Stafford-Allen, Sally June Gain, Diana Moore, Gavin Spokes, Collegium Musicum, CYM Hackney Saturday Music Centre Choir, Percussion Ensemble and players/Simon Foxley, Hackney Youth Jazz Orchestra; Cambridge Heath Salvation Army Band, Alevi Saz Ensemble, Hackney Youth Steel Orchestra, The Hoxton Singers & Old Spice, a multitude of children and adult residents of Hackney. Hackney Empire 5 November 00 Bach: Partita No. 6 in E minor, BW V830; English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV811 Szymanowski: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 36; Two Mazurkas, Op. 62 Piotr Anderszewski (piano) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 9 November 2000 Chopin, Mendelssohn, Weber etc Florian Uhlig (piano) Wigmore Hall 8 11 00 Philip Jones Concert, A Concert to Celebrate His Life and W ork at the Royal Northern College of Music, Sema Group Concert Hall, 1st November. Featuring the RNCM Brass Ensemble and member of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Conductor John Iveson. Michael Berkeley Jane Eyre Music Theatre Wales/Michael Rafferty Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) 2 November 2000 Mahler Symphony No 7 LSO/Michael T ilson Thomas Barbican 5 November 00 (PGW) Webern, Brahms Cello Sonatas, Janacek Pohadka; Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Heinrich Schiff (cello) Wigmore Hall, 7 November 00 (PGW) Massenet La Navarraise & le portrait de Manon; Debussy L'enfant prodigue Guildhall School of Music & Drama, 4 November 00 Alan Bush Centenary Concert, Wigmore Hall 1 November 00 Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades Welsh National Opera, Oxford 17 October 00 (AW) HANDEL Semele San Francisco Opera, 1 November 2000 (HE) Strauss Don Quixote; Beethoven Symphony No 2 LSO/Ozawa with Bashmet & Rostropovich Barbican, London. 2 November 00 (CF) OCTOBER 2000 Birtwistle The Last Supper Glyndebourne Touring Opera Glyndebourne Theatre, 21 October 2000 (PGW). KREMERata Baltica: Music for the Cinema San Francisco Symphony, 29 October 2000 (HE) Wagner Tristan & Isolde Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 30 October 00 "EuropeAsia" Contemporary Music Festival in Kazan April 2000 (AR) Mahler: Symphony No 9, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Barbican 28 October 2000 (MB) A Quiet Evening Richard Benjafield and Chris Brannick (percussion) The Warehouse 26 October 00 Faust play Nosferatu, Royal Festival Hall, 25 October, 2000 (MB) Donatella Flick Conducting Competition Barbican, 23 October 2000. (MB) Davidson; Brahms; Schoenberg/Webern. The Bennelong Ensemble at St James's Church, Piccadilly. 23 October 00. BBCSO 70th Birthday Concert Bainbridge Scherzi; Turnage Another Set To; Barber Violin Concerto; Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky BBC Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin with Christian Lindberg (trombone), Joshua Bell (violin) and Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano) Barbican, 22 October 2000 (MB) Donizetti L'Elisir d'Amore San Francisco Opera, 21 October 2000 (HE) Bedford; Tavener; Elgar etc London Mozart Players/David Parry. Fairfield Halls, Croydon 21 10 00 BIZET Carmen Welsh National Opera at Oxford, 21 October 00 IXION with conductor Michael Finnissy & Stephen Gutman (piano). The Warehouse, London 19 October 00 Puccini La Bohème Glyndebourne Touring Company/Louis Langrée at Glyndebourne Opera House, 15 October 00 (TW) Birtwistle: Tragoedia; Silbury Air; Slow Frieze. Hesketh: Torturous Instruments Sawer: Tiroirs. London Sinfonietta/Martyn Brabbins with Joanna MacGregor (piano) Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 14 October 00 (RW) C P E Bach; Grazioli; S tepan. Andreas Erismann (clavichord) BCS at Art Workers' Guild, London, 14 October 00 Rossini The Turk in Italy ENO at The Coliseum, London 11 October 00 (AW) Krása: Symphony for Small Orchestra Ligeti: Piano Concerto Colin Matthews: Continuum (World premiere, BCMG Sound Investment commission) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sir Simon Rattle; Cynthia Clarey (mezzo-soprano) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Barbican Hall, 10 October 00 (RW) MacMillan in Manchester: James MacMillan Composer/Conductor, The BBC Philharmonic and The RNCM New Music Ensemble. The Royal Northern College of Music 4 October 2000 David Conte: Elegy for Matthew St B artholomew's Church, New York City BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw Broomhill Opera, Wilton's Music Hall, London, 12 October 00 Prague Spring 2000 Elgar/Payn e Symphony No 3 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Ashkenazy Dvorak Symphony No 7, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra/Ceccato (DW) ISCM World Music Days 2000 Luxembourg 29 September-8 October HEGGIE Dead Man Walking San Francisco Opera, 7 October 2000 (HE) Honegger: Symphony No. 3, 'Liturgique' Fauré: Requiem Dorothea Röschmann, soprano Simon Keenleyside, baritone London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Antonio Pappano, conductor Barbican Hall, Sunday 8 October Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea ENO, The Coliseum, 7 10 00 (PGW) MUSICA2000 at STRASBOURG 25-28 September 00 (PGW+AW) TAVENER in Pentonville HMP Pentonville, Monday October 2, 2000, 7.45pm MAHLER: Rückertlieder & Symphony No 10 (Cooke) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Matthias Goerne (baritone) Riccardo Chailly (cond), RFH, 6 October, 2000 (MB) SEPTEMBER 2000 The Cutting Edge: Rebecca Saunders - Portrait Topologies BMIC at The Warehouse, London, Thursday 28 September (RW) BRITTEN BILLY BUDD Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 20 September 2000 (PGW) PUCCINI Manon Lescaut ENO, 18 September 2000 (AW) Richard Strauss CAPRICCIO N ederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, September 2000. (AW) International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Berlin 27. August - 1. September 2000 (JM) JUNE IN BUFFALO 2000 report by Hans-Theodor Wohlfahrt INTERNATIONAL GAUDEAMUS MUSIC WEEK Amsterdam, 31 August to 10 September 2000 (AW & PGW) SAN SEBASTIAN FESTIVAL August-September 2000 (PGW & AW) SCHUBERT Die Schöne Müllerin Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Eric Schneider (piano) Wigmore Hall, London. 9 September 2000 >Prom 63 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 Henze: Symphony No. 9 (UK premiere) AUGUST 2000 >PROM 61 Rimsk y-Korsakov: Dubinushka, Op. 62, Copland: Symphonic Ode Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 105 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, RAH 31 Augsust 2000 (RW) JULY 2000 The webmaster was on holiday for the first two weeks of August. During this period Seen&Heard reviews were posted on the Performance web site and can be found in the classical department, section headed Notes on Notes. |
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