CONCERTS

Libra at St Giles (Boulez, Carter,Finnissy etc)

Lindberg/Laurin/Emilsson (From-Sweden festival)

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook at Blackheath

FEBRUARY 2005

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Verdi Don Carlos Royal Opera Stockholm

Jennefelt Sport & Leisure Royal Opera Stockholm

Laban & Palucca (Contemporary Dance)

MOZART la clemenza di tito (ENO)

CONCERTS

LPO/PAAVO BERGLUND/ PIETER WISPELWEY

Scottish Ensemble/Clio Gould; Toby Spence (tenor)

IAN PACE The Warehouse

Shostakovich 15th Symphony (Pletnev)

Jack Liebeck & Piers Lane - Blackheath Sundays

JANUARY 2005

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE

Dukas Ariane et Barbe-bleue Zurich Opera/John Eliot Gardiner

Verdi Nabucco Zurich Opera/Nello Santi

Hot Mikado at Upstairs at the Gatehouse

John Browne Babette's Feast

CONCERTS

Park Lane Group Young Musicians, 2005

Pieter Wispelwey cello Dejao Lazic piano

Steven Osborne (Tippett in context)

Tippett Festival at Wigmore Hall

Round Up of memorable musical events in 2004

DECEMBER 2004

Ireland and Sweden

Janácek/Bostridge/Adès/Mackerras

Owen Gunnell & Olly Cox (percussion)

Ensemble Exposé (Dillon, Finnissy & Ferneyhough)

Benedict Mason ChaplinOperas

CLOSURE OF BRIDEWELL THEATRE Farewell Gala Concert

Hiroaki Takenouchi at St James Piccadilly

Ruth Wall

Tarleton's Jig at Blackheath

Handel: Semele ENO

Wagner Siegfried ENO

NOVEMBER 2004

Mozart The Magic Flute, Royal Academy Opera

Britten The Rape of Lucretia, Royal College of Music, London

The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs at Laban

OAE/Alessandrini Porta/Vivaldi

A Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton (Ian Pace & colleagues)

Wihan Quartet at Blackheath

ON LONDON FIELDS (A Community Opera for Hackney)

ARC Ensemble Toronto at Canada House

THE GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC 2004

Ambroise Thomas Mignon at Guildhall School of Music & Drama

AVIV STRING QUARTET (South Bank lunchtime series)

Fibonacci Sequence 10th Anniversary

Kenneth Leighton 75th Anniversary Concert

Radulescu/Wolpe/Skalkottas/Sciarrino/Finnissy/Keeley/Moore
Ian Pace & colleagues at King's College, London

OCTOBER 2004

Belcea Quartet & Friends (Mahler/Olsen etc)

Catherine Leonard/Charles Owen (Blackheath Sundays)

Beethoven, Haydn & Janacek: Vellinger and Bronte String Quartets

Paul Clark Liebeslied/My Suicides (ICA)

BMIC The Cutting Edge 2004

Beethoven, Bax, Brahms (Ashley Wass)

Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets 4 & 5

ALICE AND MARTIN NEARY (Bach & Britten)

Lidström,Forsberg, ECO (Kalistenius. Stanford etc)

Raphael Wallfisch and John York Blackheath Sundays

Bieito's Don Giovanni at ENO

Wigmore Hall Refurbished (Belcea Quartet/Imogen Cooper; Florestan Trio)

Henri Oguike Dance Company at Laban

Viktor Ullmann The Emperor of Atlantis at Lucerne

SEPTEMBER 2004

Berlioz The Trojans ENO

Handel Semele (British Youth Opera)

Polifonia Italiana, Antwerp 2004

AUGUST 2004

Cavalieri Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo

Brahms and Britten Violin Concertos
(Benjamin Britten Competition prizewinners with LSO/Davis)

JULY 2004

Erhu & Dizi from China; Santoors from India

Transitions Dance Company and Lamat Dance at Laban

Different Drums of Ireland

Edward Rushton Trojan Trilogy and The Young Man with a Carnation

Verdi Luisa Miller, Opera Holland Park

New French Song (Alison Smart and Katharine Durran)

City of London Festival: Borodin Quartet; Pascal Rogé; Kenneth Leighton

Anthony Gilbert - A Retrospective

Birtwistle The Io Passion

Brian Ferneyhough Shadowtime

The Full Monteverdi I Fagiolini at Greenwich

Williamson Our Man in Havana

John Woolrich The Sea and Shore 1 July 2004, Almeida Opera 2004

JUNE 2004

Opera North 2
Zemlinsky The Dwarf
Rossini Love's Luggage Lost

Verdi Ernani (ENO revival, June 2004)

Puccini La Fanciulla del West at Opera Holland Park

Kalmann Countess Maritza Sadler's Wells

Mitzi Meyerson at The Wallace Collection

Lufthansa Festival 2004

Bellini Norma at Holland Park Opera & on CD

Matthew Jones & Michael Hampton
Shostakovich, Brahms and Bowen at Blackheath Summer Sundays

Two Stabat Maters at Zurich

Verdi I Vespri Siciliana Zurich Opera

MAY 2004

VERDI Falstaff The Barbican 23 May 2004

The Barber of Seville revisited Savoy Opera 21 May 2004

Wagner: The Valkyrie ENO 11 May 2004

Queen Elisabeth Music Competition Finals (Singing) Brussels May 2004

Barbara Nissman (Prokofiev recital)

Andreas Boyde (Brahms series at Blackheath)

50th CORK INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL

APRIL 2004

Penderecki UBU Polish National Opera

A Celebration of Emmanuel Chabrier

Berio Festival (London 15-30 April 2004)

Serafina Steer at Blackhea

Rossini Barber of Seville Savoy Opera 15 April

Chamber Domaine at Blackheath

Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Savoy Opera 16 April

ECHO Rising Stars Day (Céleste Zewald & Jaap Kooi

Corrado Canonici (recital and CD)

Anne Sofie von Otter & Bengt Forsberg (Launch of From Sweden festival)

MATS LIDSTRÖM & SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS at Blackheath

MARCH 2004

BRITTEN A Midsummer Night's Dream English Touring Opera

Clockwork Opera by Stephen McNeff, Royal Opera House

Francis Schwartz's anti-opera DALI & GALA in Petersberg, Florida

Storioni Trio at Blackheath

Charpentier David et Jonathas

Charpentier 300th Anniversary Concert

Debussy & Ravel The Complete Music for Piano 4 hands (Blackheath)

MORTON FELDMAN'S For Philip Guston (Royal Academy of Arts)

Stephen Sondheim's Passion (Bridewell Theatre)

Wagner The Rhinegold ENO

LABAN In-House Artists

FEBRUARY 2004

The Tempest revisited

London Sinfonietta's Ferneyhough in Focus Day

Family Matters (Bridewell Theatre)

Bartholdy Trio at RAM

Woolrich at 50 - (2)

CHOROS at Conway Hall

THE TEMPEST Thomas Adès

ZOLINSKY at Blackheath Halls

Bernard Roberts at Sutton House

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES CELEBRATION 6.00 - 11.15 pm

Two Blackheath Sundays

JANUARY 2004

Czech Music Festival

Brian Elias Portrait

London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen (FOUR PREMIERES)

The Banquet at Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban

MAINLY PIANISTS AND PIANOS (January round-up, Wigmore & Royal Festival Halls)

Woolrich at 50

Dance to the Music of Art

CAGE 4'33" for orchestra

Florestan & Barbican Piano Trios

David Owen Norris (piano) with Sonnerie - The World's First Piano Concertos

Park Lane Group 2004 "Ten Days in January"

Murray McLachlan at Wigmore Hall

AVIV STRING QUARTET

A look back at memorable Live Events reviewed in 2003

DECEMBER 2003

Lamento di Tristano Spanish medieval music

OAE/Rattle (Schumann & Brahms) RFH and R3 from Birmingham

Alison Balsom (trumpet recital)

Paul Lewis

Room Music at Blackheath

Philip Howard recital

Birtwistle Theseus Game (London Sinfonietta)

Dark In Dark - OAE at QEH

Francis Schwartz at Miami Festival

NOVEMBER 2003

Charlie Chaplin Festival

Britten at Britten Theatre (Turn of the Screw)

Haydn Il mondo della luna

Arpege at Blackheath (Philippa Davies flute Christina Rhys harp Stephen Stirling horn Louise Williams viola)

Atlantic Waves Pedro Carneiro with Drumstruck; Galliard Ensemble and RSA Brass

Beth Anderson - Swales and Angels

ATTIS Guiot; Jongen; Piazzolla; Damase; Matthew Wright; Cecilia McDowall

Pianists 3 X 4 (Andrews, Boyde & Pletnev)

Rzewski plays Rzewski

Comedy on the Bridge & Béatrice et Bénédict

SCHOENBERG & STRAUSS; SIBELIUS & MAHLER

Inside Monteverdi - Let there be light!

OCTOBER 2003

Elena Riu (piano) at Blackheath Halls

THE GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC - October 2003

spnm Generation Games

Sonatas and Arrangements Matthew Jones & Michael Hampton

Jean-Michel Damase at 75

Gabriel Prokofiev string quartet

Sergei Prokofiev complete chamber music at Blackheath

Robin Holloway at 60

JULY 2003

A: OPERAS, MUSIC THEATRE etc

Menotti The Saint of Bleecker Street

Massenet Werther

Cilea: L'Arlesiana Opera Holland Park

A WEEK OF "OPERA" at Oxford, Holland Park and Islington
(Jephtha, Don Giovanni, L'Arlesiana & Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?)

B: CONCERTS, RECITALS etc

Wolfgang Rihm Klaverstucke (Ian Pace & Mark Knoop)

The Tallis Scholars at Greenwich+Docklands Festival -Thomas Tallis & Errolyn Wallen

MOZART flute quartets (CD Launch concert Guimond/Sonnerie)

On Growth and Form Almeida Opera

101st Birthday Party for Hugues Cuénod

Ashley Wass & Lang Lang - City of London Festival

JUNE 2003

A: OPERAS, MUSIC THEATRE etc

Nielsen Masquerade (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)

Beethoven Fidelio Opera Holland Park

Joglaresa with storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton

B: CONCERTS, RECITALS etc

City of London Festival - New Generations

Mozart Piano Concertos with Olga Tverskaya fortepiano

Spitalfields Festival at Shoreditch (Oxford & Cambridge Choirs & Continuum Ensemble)

Spitalfields Festival at Wiltons' Music Hall: Vanbrugh Quartet; Trinity Baroque & Fretwork

Spitalfields Festival at Wilton's Music Hall (Leslie Howard and Nuala Willis/Jonathan Dove)

Helen Reid (17 June 2003)

Alison Luz (piano recital)

MAY 2003

A: OPERAS, MUSIC THEATRE etc

BAC Opera Scratch Night and Jerry Springer - the Opera

Nederlands Dans Theater 2

WAGNER Tristan & Isolde ENO

Milhaud & Stravinsky at BAC & Trinity College of Music

TRANSITIONS DANCE COMPANY at Laban, Deptford

Berlioz The Trojans at Carthage (ENO)

B: CONCERTS, RECITALS etc

Roger Smalley at 60

Schubert Extravaganza Concerto Cristofori

Roger Smalley at New Quays

Hummel, Delius etc at Sutton House

Schwertsik & Mäntyjärvi at South Bank Centre

Pavao & Artea String Quartets Milhaud, Williams & Mendelssohn

LENNOX BERKELEY CENTENARY CONCERT May 12

JAMES DILLON The Book of Elements Books I-V Ian Pace (piano), 8th May 2003

Dante Quartet Rubbra Quartets Series

TRUMPETS! London Sinfonietta Day Queen Elizabeth Hall and foyer

Takacs Quartet Lecture Recital (Bartok No 6) - 5.5.03

The Chamber Music Company (Volkmann, Liszt & Beethoven)

MARCH/APRIL 2003

A: OPERAS, MUSIC THEATRE etc

Britten's Albert Herring at Zurich

Handel Alcina (ENO)

Behind the Screen & Show People (Chaplin/King Vidor/Carl Davis & LPO)

Strauss Elektra (Royal Opera House, London, 4 April)

Poul Ruders The Handmaid's Tale (British premiere, ENO, London, 3 April 2003)

Handel's Susanna (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)

Cavalli's Orion: venetianOpera at Wilton's Music Hall

Henri Oguike Dance Company at Laban

CHELSEA OPERA GROUP (Catalani's La Wally) and TURIN OPERA DVD (Rossini's Elisabetta )

JANACEK The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Academy Opera)

B: CONCERTS, RECITALS etc

The Clerks' Group at Blackheath

RUSSIAN COMPOSERS SINCE STALIN (Goldsmith's College Discovery Day)

Rösler, Vorísek, Kricka, Eben etc Magdalena Kozená

Academy of Ancient Music & Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin (Feb/March 2003)

Woolrich, Barry & Castiglione etc (London Sinfonietta & RAM)

Schubert Ensemble of London at Blackheath (Boyle, Mozart,Fauré)

Emma Kirkby (Baroque Music of Bolivia)

Prokofiev & Shostakovich Under Stalin (+ Shchedrin & Ustvolskaya)

Emperor Quartet at Blackheath + Walton & MacMillan CDs

Angelika Kirchschlager at Wigmore Hall

Vanbrugh Quartet at Purcell Room

JANACEK Concertino etc (Andras Schiff), 1st Quartet (Panocha Quartet) and the Cunning Little Vixen

JAN/FEBRUARY 2003 REVIEWS

A:OPERAS, MUSIC THEATRE etc

Listening to Opera at ENO & on DVD (Khovanschina and The Capture of Troy)

B: CONCERTS, RECITALS etc

PLG Young Artists January 2003 (47th Season)

Ian Pace 'Modern Mystics' recital at King's College

Saraste & BBCSO Feb 2003

New Composers Series (The Space, Isle of Dogs)

Guildhall Strings at Blackheath Halls

LSO/Nagano with Robert Gambill & Anne Sofie von Otter The Barbican, February 2003

Endymion Ensemble Rubbra, Bowen and Elgar Blackheath Halls

Elysian Quartet at Blackheath

Schubert Ensemble anniversary concerts

One Sunday (17 February 2003, Blackheath Halls, South Bank Centre & The Barbican)

Christa Ludwig Lieder Master Classes

Beethoven live and on record

Singing at Trinity College of Music (Emma Kirkby Master Class etc)

Imogen Cooper Recital

EnsembleQ at Blackheath

Matthew Wadsworth Wigmore Hall & CD

REVIEWS 2002 and earlier

Kuhr Stallerhof Lucerne 2002

The Music of Stefan Wolpe, Tate Modern 30 September 2002

Cork Choral Festivals 2002/2003

Monteverdi Operas live and on DVD

Handel Saul (McCreech, Oct 2002)

Pace/Rosman recital at King's 2002

Florestan Trio + Susan Tomes essay

Lindsays at South Place Dec 2002

Ibali looTsotsi at Wilton's Music Hall (Autumn 2002)

Rameau & Lully (December 2002)

Rambert Dance Company Nov. 2001 (& Dance on DVD)

Lowell Liebermann Première, James Giles April 2003 (Marc Bridle in Seen&Heard)

A Look Back at Donaueschingen, 2002 (John Warnaby in Seen&Heard)