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December 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

CONCERTS

Brahms & Szymanowski (LSO/Gergiev)

Brahms, Mozart etc (Fibonacci Sequence)

Gubaidulina, Kurtag, Vlasov, Piazzolla etc (Royal Academy Students around town)

Christmas Choral Concerts Birtwistle (The Octandre Ensemble & Exaudi)

Opera and Song (Helen Bailey & Susy Ruffles at Blackheath)

New Music Show 3 (LONDON SINFONIETTA)

November 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Haydn La vera constanza (Royal Academy Opera)

Bizet Carmen (ENO)

CONCERTS

Accordions, accordions, accordions... (RAM & Barbican Hall)

Bach Cantatas (Royal Academy of Music/Ledingham)

Royal Academy of Music Trombone Choir/Bob Hughes (Regent Hall, Oxford Circus)

Brahms, Shostakovich, Stravinsky etc (Villanueva/

Academy Horns - Charlton House

CPE Bach, Reinecke, Poulenc (Anne Allen & Charles Matthews)

Kurtag & Bartok (Julia Hamos & Tianyun Jia)

Chaminade, Haydn, Ravel etc (Tzigane Trio & Murray Duo)

Balakirev, Chopin & Ireland (Rebeca Omordia)

Debussy, Gaubert, Martinu, Poulenc, Weber etc (Noakes, Wallfisch, Nicholson)

Dvorak, Ligeti, Mozart (Wu Quartet)

Rolf Hind The Tiniest House of Time (BBCSO/Hrusa/Crabb)

 

October 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Handel – Giulio Cesare (ENO, October 2012)

Ullmann The Emperor of Atlantis (English Touring Opera)

Britten Albert Herring (English Touring Opera, Linbury Studio Theatre)

Peter Maxwell Davies The Lighthouse (English Touring Opera)

Three Acts of Play (Candoco Dance Company)

CONCERTS

Mozart, Stanford, Brahms (The London Soloists Ensemble)

Dowland, Grieg, Wolf, Poulenc & Bizet (Danielle de Niese & Julius Drake at the Temple)

Ensemble Tris at Austrian Cultural Forum

G Gabrieli, Howarth, Ives (RAM Academy Symphonic Brass)

Bach, Debussy, Grainger, Liszt (Jason Gillham at St Martin-in-the-Fields)

Graham Waterhouse Portrait Concert (Highgate School)

Royal Greenwich Brass Band/Stephen Maw (Charlton House)

Beethoven Bloch & Brahms (Tempest Piano Trio)

 


September 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE

Martinu Julietta (ENO)

Judith Weir A Night at the Chinese Opera (British Youth Opera)

Smetana The Bartered Bride (British Youth Opera)

 

CONCERTS

Brahms The Beautiful Magelone (Roderick Williams, Roger Vignoles, Julia Somerville)

Schumann & Haydn (Leporello String Quartet)

Conway Hall Sunday Concerts Autumn 2012

August 2012

CONCERTS

Krek, Stravinsky, Rota & Dvorak (The Maribor International Orchestra 2012)

July 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Cape Town Opera at The Coliseum)

Albarn & Norris Dr Dee (English National Opera)

CONCERTS

Chopin & Mendelssohn (Istomin & Sofronitsky)

Haydn, Mozart & Britten (The Badke Quartet)

Schubert & Adam Johnson

Kreutzers & friends at Waterloo Festival

CoLF Recitals (Rudge, Johnson, Baek)

June 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Britten Billy Budd (two-act version, ENO)

Mascagni Zanetto & Puccini Gianni Schicchi (Opera Holland Park)

McNeff The Secret Garden (Trinity College of Music, London)

The Pajama Game & Promise, Promises (Musicals at Royal Academy of Music)

Chaplin (Musical at Guildhall SMD)

CONCERTS

City of London Festival 2012 (Counterpoise - Edwd Rushton etc

Royal Academy of Music Accordion Department 25th Anniversary Celebration

Liszt on 1920 Steinway & 1849 Erard (Olivia Sham)

Schubert, Schumann, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Szymanowski & Wolf (Friends Summer Concert)

Castello, Fontana, Frescobaldi etc (Charlton House lunchtimes)

Mendelssohn & Trandafilovski (Wilton's last concert before renovation)

Rebel: Les Elemens Handel: Water Music Suite 3 etc LINDEN BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

May 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Glanert Caligula (ENO)

Wagner The Flying Dutchman (ENO)

Ned Rorem Our Town (Guildhall SMD)

Jonathan Dove Mansfield Park (Royal Academy Opera)

CONCERTS

Brahms, Bartok, Dohnanyi (Conway Hall Ensemble)

Mendelssohn & Trandafilowski (Wilton's Music Hall)

Mahler's 5th (RAM Academy Concert Orchestra/Bychkov)

Harps & Accordions at Royal Academy of Music

Smyth Elgar George Lloyd (Philharmonia Britannica/Fender)

Dediu, Beaudoin & de la Cour (Royal Academy of Music & The Forge)

Mozart, Prokofiev, Franck and Ravel (violin recitals at Blackheath)

Music from Vienna (London Bridge Ensemble at Wigmore Hall)

April 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

CONCERTS

CPE Bach, Benda, D Scarlatti (Linda Nicholson, clavichords)

Schubert Winterreise (Benjamin Appl & James Cheung)

Sor, Falla, Tárrega, Hattori etc ( Edoardo Catemario guitars)

Bartok & Szymanowski (Znaider & LS Chorus & Orchestra/Eötvös)

Grieg, Sarastate etc at Charlton (Riley & Tinker)

Debussy, Szymanowski & Scriabin (Tetzlaff, LS Chorus & Orchestra/Eötvös)

An afternoon at Trinity Laban - Piano Showcase and Italian Baroque masterclass

Elena Firsova - portrait concert

Strauss, Debussy, Schroyens & Rodrigo (Ann de Renais with Jonathan Beatty at Blackheath)

Handel, Eccles, Carr, Paisible ( Peter Holtslag/Elizabeth Kenny)

Elaine Agnew (Concorde: Up Close with Music)

 

 

March 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Guildhall SMD, London)

Mozart Die Zauberflote (Royal Academy of Music, London)

Rameau Acante et Céphise (University College Opera)

Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino (Chelsea Opera Group)

Brahms, Dvorak & Poulenc Brahms (The Turner Ensemble + College students)

Harps in the South East:
Dittersdorf and Ravel (Carmen Alcántara harp, David Knotts piano)
Debussy & Saint-Saens (Alicia Griffiths & friends)

Dvorak & Panufnik (Lakeside Trio)

Ysaye, Grieg etc (Sean Riley & Nathan Tinker)

Anneke Scott & Kathryn Cok - natural horn and fortepiano at South Bank Centre

Brahms, Boulanger & Grant (Solarek Piano Trio)

Rusconi at LSO St Lukes

Jennifer Morsches at New Malden

February 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Adams The Death of Klinghoffer

Coleridge-Taylor Thelma (Surrey Opera/Jonathan Butcher)

Strauss Rosenkavalier at ENO

CONCERTS

SAMPRADAYAM Subathra & Balu Raguraman at Bhavan

Berio, Kurtag, Webern & Xenakis etc at Charlton House

Sideris Wind Quintet at Charlton

Berio, Kurtag, Webern & Xenakis etc (Railton/Rose/Thomas at Charlton)

Debussy 150th anniversary (Pascal and Ami Rogé, pianos)

Elgar & Sibelius (The Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra/Adam Johnson with Jamie Walton, cello)

TangoFugue (Pythagoras Quartet)

Britten & Bridge (Dante Quartet & Simon Crawford-Phillips)

French & Spanish Song (Gaëlle Arquez, mezzo)

Schumann, Chopin, Piazzolla etc (Andrius Puskunigis - oboe Evelina Puzaite - piano)

Trio Madame - Flore Philis, Clemmie Franks and Felicity Sim at Blackheath

Haydn, Shostakovich, Beethoven (Edinburgh Quartet)

Mendelssohn, Joachim & Fribbins (Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola)

 

January 2012

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

 

CONCERTS

Beethoven, Cirri, Haydn (Trio Goya)

Britten & Ovid (Dante Quartet etc)

Hahn, Mendelssohn, Wolf etc (Rebeccas v d Berg & Marek Ruszczynski)

Schumann, Franck, Shostakovich & Korngold movements (Cosima Piano Quintet)

Arutiunian, Menotti & Wolf etc (Eidos Trio, Mary Bevan & Sholto Kynoch)

Francaix & Schumann (Wind Quintets from Royal Academy of Music)

Music in New Malden - Trios & Concertos with chalumeau

Fribbins, Grieg, Ravel & Schubert (new Piano Trio)

Brahms, Dvorak, Moskowski & Mozart (Fibonacci Sequence)

Park Lane Group Young Artists - 1 (John McCabe)

Park Lane Group Young Artists - 2

Park Lane Group Young Artists - 3 (Poul Ruders)