Temple Music
Tuesday 25 August, 7.00pm live-streamed from Temple Church, Victoria Embankment
Imogen Cooper performs Schubert and Ravel
Schubert Moments Musicaux
Ravel Jeux D’eau
Ravel Sonatine
Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Tuesday 25 August, 7.00pm live-streamed from Temple Church, Victoria Embankment
Imogen Cooper performs Schubert and Ravel
Schubert Moments Musicaux
Ravel Jeux D’eau
Ravel Sonatine
Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Sunday 11 October at 5.00pm. Live stream from Wigmore Hall, London
Consone Quartet
BBC New Generation Artists: The Long Weekend
Beethoven Quartets
String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2
String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4
This concert will be live streamed.
All concerts in the Autumn Series will be available on demand for 30 days after the date of the concert.
Wednesday 14 October, streamed on Marquee TV
Storming the Heavens
The third of a 13 concert series performed by the LPO and streamed live on Marquee TV
John Storgårds (conductor)
Simone Lamsma (violin)
JULIAN ANDERSON Van Gogh Blue*
NIELSEN Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 In 1811, Beethoven conceived a symphony without precedent. ‘He’s ripe for the madhouse’ declared one contemporary, but 250 years on from the composer’s death, the Seventh Symphony burns with undimmed popularity and power. John Storgårds has followed the Symphony’s influence down two centuries, and paired it with two works of maverick genius. Simone Lamsma plays Nielsen’s Violin Concerto of 1911 – a bracing counterblast to romantic clichés, composed under clear northern skies. And Julian Anderson plunges into the luminous, swirling imagination of Vincent van Gogh, creating sounds that transcend social distance, glowing with fantasy and colour. *Supported by Resonate. Resonate is a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with the Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust.
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Thursday 22 October at 8.00pm, Barbican Hall London and live streamed
Performers
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Konya Kanneh-Mason violin/piano
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason cello/piano
Aminata Kanneh-Mason violin
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason cello
Programme
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No 1 in C minor, Op 8
Franz Schubert Impromptu No 4 in A-flat major, D899
Impromptu No 4 in F minor, D935
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Mélodie, Op 42 No 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat major, K502 Mvt III
Samuel Barber Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op 6 Mvt I
George Gershwin Three Preludes
Eric Whitacre The Seal Lullaby
Jerry Bock, arr Kanneh-Masons Fiddler on the Roof medley
Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October, Brecon Baroque Festival
Festival director and baroque violinist Rachel Podger performs the première of Chad Kelly’s arrangement of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque.
The Goldberg Variations were filmed in the sun-drenched south transept of Brecon Cathedral. The transept dates from the 13th Century and its magnificent stone walls are adorned with 18th Century memorials, a fitting backdrop for Chad Kelly’s reimagining of JS Bach’s 1741 Goldberg Variations. The 32-movement work and the setting of Brecon Cathedral sit well together, with the wild and beguiling energy of the musicians and the mountains around them.
Sunday 8 November, 3.00pm at Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4SR
A theatrical work conceived by Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer C.F. Ramuz, A Soldier’s Tale is a parable of a soldier who trades his violin to the devil in return for a fortune, later deliberately losing at cards to win it back. But the Devil is not so easily beaten…
Actor Tama Matheson narrates this Faustian story, while rhythms of ragtime, tango, waltz and a march jostle for position in the highly original and positively primal score, performed by an LMP septet of violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet/trumpet(?), trombone and percussion. Written at the end of the First World War, The Soldier’s Tale is a lesson for all cultures and times. This Classical Club performance will be broadcast first on Remembrance Sunday from the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and the concert will end with The Last Post. Enjoy the whole 8-concert series online via LMP’s Classical Club, tickets just £12 each or £50 for the full 8-concert series if you book before 31 October (£60 thereafter).
Thursday 14 January 2021, 6.00pm
BOOK TICKETS
Henry Purcell – Bess of Bedlam, Z.370
Joseph Haydn – Piercing Eyes, Hob XXVIa:35
Joseph Haydn – The Mermaid’s Song, Hob XXVIa:25
Joseph Haydn – She never told her love, Hob XXVIa:34
Hugo Wolf – Italienisches Liederbuch
Henry Purcell – A morning hymn, Z.198
Jonathan Dove – Song of the dry orange tree
Mátyás Seiber – O your eyes are dark and beautiful
Benjamin Britten – Cabaret Songs: Funeral Blues
Kurt Weill – Nanna’s Lied
Kurt Weill – Surabaya Johnny
Kurt Weill – Je ne t’aime pas
Cole Porter – Gay Divorce: ‘Night and day’
George Gershwin – Girl Crazy: ‘I Got Rhythm’
Frederick Loewe – My Fair Lady: ‘I could have danced all night’
Friday 15 January 2021, 7.30pm
Anthony Robb – flute
Robert Manasse – flute
Carmine Lauri – violin
Natalia Lomeiko – violin
Tamás András – violin
Yuri Zhislin – violin
Charlotte Scott – violin
Shlomy Dobrinsky – violin
Marios Papadopoulos – director / harpsichord
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no.4 in G major, BWV 1049
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 4 violins in B minor, Op.3 no.10
Johann Sebastian Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
Johann Sebastian Bach – Air on the G string
Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D Major, P.37
Thursday 28 January, 6.00pm
Fritz Kreisler – Recitativo und Scherzo-Caprice, Op.6
Eugène Ysaÿe – Sonata for solo violin in E minor, Op.27 no.4
Kensington and Chelsea Music Society and Bedford Music Club are delighted to be collaborating on an exciting new series of virtual concerts in January & February 2021.
The concerts will be streamed live from the 1901 Arts Club in London and subsequently made available on YouTube. There is no charge for watching, but we hope that anyone watching will feel inclined to donate via GoFundMe and help cover our total costs.
Monday 8 February at 7.30pm – live stream
Nash Ensemble
Alasdair Beatson piano
Stephanie Gonley violin
Lawrence Power viola
Adrian Brendel cello
Graham Mitchell double bass
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) – Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major Op. 87
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) – The Trout D667
By the time Dvořák composed his Piano Quartet in E flat he was an international celebrity, feted by the German and English musical establishments. It was composed during July and August 1889, and the inspiration seems to have flowed easily; Dvořák wrote ‘The melodies just surged upon me’. Our Chamber Ensemble in Residence also performs one of the absolute classics of the chamber music repertory, Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet.
Saturday 13 February at 7.00pm – live stream
As part of the London Spring Festival
The Passing of the Year
The programme sees VOCES8, hosts of ‘Live from London’ presenting music rooted in nature – from extravagant Elizabethan idylls, styled for their queen ‘Oriana’, to Alec Roth’s rapt, soaring ‘Stargazer’ and Kate Rusby’s ‘Underneath the Stars’. The programme title comes from Jonathan Dove’s superb song cycle which evokes the beauty and mystic power of the changing seasons and describes the triumph of nature’s perpetual cycle. The composer himself will accompany VOCES8 on the piano. Also included are folksong arrangements describing the beauty of the world around us.
VOCES8
Jonathan Dove – piano
Sunday 21 February, 1 – 5pm EST (6 – 10 GMT)
New Year! New Hope! New Commissions! On February 21, Bang on a Can presents an entire marathon of PREMIERES! 16 brand new works by 16 pioneering composers. Tune in to hear 4 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, mind-blowing music. Alvin Lucier! Jennifer Walshe! Matthew Shipp! Ingrid Laubrock! Gabriel Kahane! and many many more.
This concert is FREE! But please do consider purchasing a ticket. That helps us pay more players, commission more composers, and make more music. The pandemic is still here. An entire ecosystem of composers and performers needs our attention, our love, and our financial support. All Marathon performers and composers are participating live and being paid by Bang on a Can. Please help us do that!
– Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe: co-founders and co-artistic directors
Thursday 25 February at 7.00pm – live stream
Bacewicz Music for strings, trumpet & percussion
Strauss Oboe Concerto
Schreker Chamber Symphony
Duncan Ward conductor
Juliana Koch oboe
London Symphony Orchestra
Three tales from the 20th century: power, passion and pure beauty, in music by Bacewicz, Schreker, and Richard Strauss.
What a difference half a century makes. Schreker wrote his sensuous, shimmering Chamber Symphony in the Vienna of Klimt and Freud. Grażyna Bacewicz, in post-war Poland, was working in a very different world, and writing music of uncompromising personality and power. Richard Strauss, meanwhile, remembered a happier age in what might be the greatest of all oboe concertos.
Thursday 11 March, Wigmore Hall free live stream
The Heath Quartet
Oliver Heath
Sara Wolstenholme
Gary Pomeroy
Christopher Murray
play Bartok and Beethoven.
21 March 2021 at 3.00pm
Are you missing singing with your choir? In partnership with the VOCES8 Digital Academy, you’re invited to join VOCES8 and Paul Smith for a concert packed full of participative music-making.
Repertoire will include music from the Renaissance to contemporary choral compositions, and sheet music and online coaching will be provided as part of your £5.00 contribution towards this event. Singers of all ages and abilities are welcome so please join us, Singing to London (and the world), as we gather together to share the joy of community and song.
Wednesday 24 March at 7.30pm
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor)
Penderecki
Prelude for Peace
Haydn
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (orchestral version)
Penderecki described his four-minute, brass Prelude as a distillation of his childhood memories from the period of German occupation and communist regime that came to dominate Poland after the war, leading to a sense of final liberation. Haydn “translated” the seven last short sentences uttered by Christ from the Cross (according to the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John) into a sequence of seven slow, prayerful, meditative sonatas, framed by an intense introduction and a short, explosive coda. It was commissioned in 1783 for the Good Friday service at the Oratorio de la Santa Cueva, Cádiz.
Monday 10th May, Wigmore Hall at 1.00pm, live stream
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1
Kurt Schwertsik (b.1935)
Haydn lived in Eisenstadt
Johannes Brahms
Viola Sonata in E flat Op. 120 No. 2
2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, written especially for this concert. This will be performed between two Brahms viola sonatas which were originally written for clarinet.
11th July – 2pm EDT | 7pm BST Live Stream from Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
ORA Singers & Zeb Soanes
All Shall be Well
At the turn of the 15th century the first ever female author in the English language, Julian of Norwich, wrote “All shall be well, all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.” Writing during a time of plague, and following her own near-death experience from disease, Julian’s phrase echoes through the centuries as we also face one of the most devastating medical emergencies of our time.
The award-winning ORA Singers and BBC Radio 4 presenter Zeb Soanes present a selection of stunning choral music and readings from Julian’s time to ours, celebrating the power of the human spirit, and human art, in the face of life’s adversities. The ORA Singers are joined during the programme by VOCES8, in celebration of Julian’s hope and belief that ‘all shall be well’.
17th July – 2pm EDT | 7pm BST Live Stream from London
Suspended in Time
Vaughan-Williams The Lark Ascending
Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
Four of the UK’s most renowned solo and chamber musicians unite to take you on an inspirational journey through Messiaen’s well known masterwork, Quartet for the End of Time. Whilst Messiaen musics hope from despair inspired by text from the book of Revelation, so Vaughan Williams turns to poet George Meredith and our most beloved The Lark Ascending for his inspiration.
Julian Bliss – clarinet
Jack Liebeck – violin
Sheku Kanneh-Mason – cello
Katya Apekisheva – piano
7th August 2021 – 2pm EDT | 7pm BST
Descend to Earth
Chineke!
VOCES8
Matthew Lynch, conductor
The Chineke! Orchestra will perform as part of LIVE from London. Founded in 2015 by double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, the Chineke Foundation has gained widespread acclaim through the Chineke! Orchestra (and it’s sister Chineke! Junior Orchestra), Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. The organisation aims to be a catalyst for change, realising existing diversity targets within the industry by increasing the representation of Black and ethnically diverse musicians in British and European orchestras.
The programme includes music by Mendelssohn, British composer Philip Herbert and Nigerian Fela Sowande. Chineke! will be joined by VOCES8 in a new arrangement of Deep River for voices and orchestra by Matthew Lynch and in new orchestrations of choral music by Ken Burton previously heard in LIVE From London festivals.
Monday 16 August – streamed on line at 8.00pm
Free pre-concert chat at 6.00pm
Schubert ‘Die Forelle’ in Db Major, D. 550
Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 ‘The Trout’
Piano Solo: Kristian Bezuidenhout
Tenor Solo: Guy Cutting
Violin: Matthew Truscott
Viola: Max Mandel
Cello: Luise Buchberger
Double Bass: Christine Sticher
Friday 22 April, 7.30pm at Sage Gateshead
Everyone’s got their own favourite bit of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: the birdsong of Spring, the downpours of Summer, the celebrations of Autumn or the icy shiver of Winter. Three centuries after they were composed, they’re as fresh and tuneful as ever – and there’s still nothing to beat the sensation of hearing these four brilliant concertos performed live in concert. Rachel Podger is an expert on baroque music, as well as a dazzling violinist. She takes the spotlight today, and shares three more baroque gems by Telemann and Corelli: expect wit, drama and pure sonic splendour.
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