A Night Under the Stars: Crown and Country
A Night Under The Stars presents Crown and Country: an evening of English classical music favourites in aid of homeless charity The Passage. From stirring music capturing the very essence of great state occasions to lyrical evocations of rural England and an unsurpassed elegy for a time gone by, Crown and Country features some of Britain’s most lo ...
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Royal Festival Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Twickenham Choral Society
This well-known local society has been impressing audiences for over 90 years both in the UK and abroad. For this concert they are joined by the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists to perform J S Bach's Magnificat, cantata no.50 - Nun ist das Heil, and cantata no.21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis.
Conductor: Christopher Herrick. ...
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Landmark Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Kreutzer Quartet
Sadly the last classical concert of the year in our historic auditorium before it closes for urgent
repairs. This will be a nostalgic and beautiful evening celebrating Wilton’s gorgeous acoustic.
Two of Mendelssohn's works will book end the the concert, his fabulous Octet and the unplayed
original version of his early D minor Concerto f ...
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Wilton’s Music Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Bach Brandenburg Concertos
Feinstein Ensemble
Martin Feinstein Flute/Recorder/Director
Specialising in the historically accurate performance of Baroque music, the Feinstein Ensemble's concerts and recordings of the Baroque repertoire have been acclaimed internationally.
The Ensemble performs a regular season of London concerts, broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and Cla ...
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ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
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London
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United Kingdom
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Baroque Extravaganza
Festive Orchestra of London
Catherine Manson Director/Violin
The Festive Orchestra of London was formed in 1990 to perform the masterpieces of the Baroque in and around London. The players are equally at home on modern and period instruments, giving them a unique insight into this wonderful repertoire. They have performed in most of London' ...
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ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
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London
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United Kingdom
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Bach Brandenburg Concertos by candlelight
Feinstein Ensemble
Martin Feinstein Flute/Recorder/Director
Specialising in the historically accurate performance of Baroque music, the Feinstein Ensemble's concerts and recordings of the Baroque repertoire have been acclaimed internationally.
The Ensemble performs a regular season of London concerts, broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and Cla ...
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ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
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London
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United Kingdom
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ABBEY SIMON piano recital
The legendary American pianist - now 90 - is flying in for the States to give this recital.
He will play:
Mozart - Sonata in A K.331
Schumann - Kreisleriana
Chopin - Impromptus, the Fantaisie-Impromptu & Nocturnes. ...
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Westminster Cathedral Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Choral Evensong - BBC Radio 3 live broadcast
Choral Evensong with the Athenian Ensemble. The evensong will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. ...
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Old Royal Naval College
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London
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United Kingdom
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Lawson Trio
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV/25 (Gypsy Rondo)
Camden Reeves: The dead broke blues break for piano trio (World premiere)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Five rackets for trio relay (London premiere)
Interval
Anthony Powers: Piano Trio (World premiere)
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Lawson Trio
This dynamic and award-winning British pi ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Death and the Maiden: New Zealand String Quartet
Michael Norris Exitus for string quartet
Ross Harris The Abiding Tides (poems by Vincent O’Sullivan) for string quartet and soprano (UK premiere)
Interval
Schubert String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810 (“Death and the Maiden”)
New Zealand String Quartet
Helene Pohl violin
Douglas Beilman violin
Gillian Ansell viola
Rolf Gjelsten cello
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Kings Place
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London
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United Kingdom
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Eight Colours: New Zealand String Quartet
Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor Op 81 No 3
Gao Ping Three poems by Mu Xin (UK premiere)
Jack Body Three Tran_ions for string quartet
Interval
Tan Dun Eight Colors for String Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet No 1 in F major Opus 18 No 1
New Zealand String Quartet
Helene Pohl violin
Douglas Beilman violin
Gillian Ansell viola
Rolf Gj ...
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Kings Place
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London
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United Kingdom
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SOFYA GULYAK piano recital
Sofya Gulyak from Russia is the only woman to have won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition, which she did in 2009. She is a powerful player and very musical, and has been compared to the young Martha Argerich. ...
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Westminster Cathedral Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Ingrid Fuzjko Hemming
Japan’s number one iconic concert pianist, Ingrid Fuzjko Hemming is returning to the London stage for one night only. With her unique style of classical piano, Fuzjko will perform works by great composers such as Bach and Chopin. Her style bringing new life to their music!
As a great animal lover, Fuzjko will donate the proceeds from the perform ...
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Cadogan Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Thames Philharmonia
Yoon-Seok Shin has attained prizes in several competitions, and performed in major venues across the UK and South Korea, as a soloist and chamber accompanist. For this concert he will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto no.2 Op19. Programme also includes Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa Overture & Symphony no.6 Op.74. Conducter Byung-Yun Yu. ...
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Landmark Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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London Chamber Orchestra and Graham Fitkin Band
Rosemary Furniss director
Graham Fitkin Band
Programme:
BRITTEN: Night Mail
MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness
FITKIN: Totti
FITKIN: Watching
HOLST: St Paul’s Suite
PART: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
WALTON: Touch her Soft Lips and Part, from Henry V
FITKIN: Vamp
FITKIN: Track to Track*
The longest established ...
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Cadogan Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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New York Polyphony: Tudor City
Choral at Cadogan
ased on New York Polyphony's acclaimed 2010 Avie Records release, Tudor City is 'a stunning tour through chant, polyphony, and renaissance harmonies' (American Public Media). An allusion to the historic New York neighbourhood, Tudor City highlights the works of English composers active during the reign of the Tudor ...
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Cadogan Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Organ Concert
An opportunity to experience an Organ Concert by David Aprahamian Liddle.
David will delight us with a selection of concert pieces on the Grand Willis Organ. Proceeds to the organ restoration fund.
Tickets for the concert are only available on the door, prices as listed below. ...
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Alexandra Palace
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London
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United Kingdom
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New York Philharmonic Masterclass: Horn
Come and watch Philip Myers (french horn) from the New York Philharmonic work with up and coming horn players from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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EMMANUEL DESPAX piano recital
The acclaimed French pianist will play:
Chopin - Barcarolle Op.60
Chopin - Nocturnes Op.27 Nos 1 & 2
Chopin - Sonata No.2 in Bb minor Op.35
Liszt - Legende No.2 - St. Francis walking on the water
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
This recital is presented by The Chopin Society UK. ...
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Westminster Cathedral Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Drawing Room Orchestra
Following the success of their sell-out performance in 2009 of the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony in the stunning arrangement by his pupil, Taneyev, Karl and David return to perform his even more emotionally charged Fifth, again at just one piano, and partner it with Debussy’s own arrangement of La Mer, written during his stay at The Grand Hotel in Ea ...
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PUSHKIN HOUSE
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London
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United Kingdom
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Lunchtime Concert: Guildhall Chamber Orchestra
Anthony Marwood (director/solo violin)
Brett Dean Short Stories
Peteris Vasks Violin Concerto: Distant Light
Australian Brett Dean describes his Short Stories as Five Interludes for string orchestra, telling abstract stories, open to personal interpretation and without specific narrative, except for one inspired by the death of a Soviet Cosm ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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Children-s Concert - The Richmond Orchestra with Primary Schools
Refreshments afterwards
A programme of music for all ages performed by the Richmond Orchestra with young singers and instrumentalists from local primary schools. Includes an introduction to some instruments of the orchestra.
Concert lasts about one hour with refreshments afterwards. ...
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Landmark Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Pre-concert talk by Roy Howat on Debussy
Roy Howat is internationally renowned as both pianist and scholar whose concerts, broadcasts and lectures regularly take him worldwide. A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, he made a special study of French music in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, and teaches and plays French music at major French-speaking Conservatoires and on French radio.
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Bishopsgate Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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Lunchtime Concert: Roy Howat
Roy Howat (piano)
Music by Debussy, Chopin, Fauré and Chabrier
Marking the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth, distinguished pianist-scholar Roy Howat explores connections between Debussy and Chopin and Debussy's immediate predecessors. As a contributor to the Complete Debussy Edition and lead editor for the Peters Edition Faur ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Angel in the Forest
A dramatic song cycle for tenor solo, vocal ensemble and cello sextet
Concert
Music by Julian Marshall with text by Gertrud Kolmar
Taken from Philip Kuhn & Ruth von Zimmerman’s English translation of Kolmar’s Der Engel im Walde
Additional text taken from the Old Testament
James Gilchrist tenor solo
Sophie Harris cello
Christophe ...
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St James’s Church
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London
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United Kingdom
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Idomeneo String Quartet
Mark Derudder (violin)
Eugene Lee (violin)
Adam Newman (viola)
Reinoud Ford (cello)
Schubert Quartet in E flat D 87 Op. post. 125 No. 1
Schnittke Quartet No. 3
Founded in 2009 while studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the members of the Idomeneo Quartet were awarded a Chamber Music Fellowship by the Guildhall School. Th ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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London Symphony Orchestra - Thomas Ades
London Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès In Seven Days for piano and orchestra
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Thomas Adès Tevot
Thomas Adès conductor
Nicolas Hodges piano
Toby Spence tenor
London Symphony Orchestra
The 19th-century collection of German poems known as Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Seasons - Gabrieli Consort and Players conducted by Paul McCreesh
Multibuy:
Buy tickets for three or more concerts in the English-language Oratorios series and receive a 10% discount.
Haydn The Seasons
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh conductor
Christiane Karg soprano
Allan Clayton tenor
Christopher Purves baritone
Haydn's oratorio is a hymn to the world around us - weather, wil ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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BBC Symphony Orchestra - Knussen - Schoenberg Chamber Symphony Op 9b
Miaskovsky Symphony No10 in F minor Op 30
Alexander Goehr When Adam Fell (BBC commission: world premiere)
Castiglioni Concerto for Orchestra (UK premiere)
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony Op 9b
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen conductor
Miaskovsky's 10th Symphony provides the dramatic highlight, with its tremendous portrayal of a drow ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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In Search of Haydn - World Premiere with Endellion String Quartet
From the makers of In Search of Mozart and In Search of Beethoven, (nominated for RPS Awards), filmmaker Phil Grabsky and his company Seventh Art Productions are now embarking on In Search of Haydn to explore the most elusive of the three Viennese composers.
Haydn (1723-1809) was one of the greatest musical innovators. Mozart and Beethoven grea ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Danish String Quartet
Programme:
HAYDN: String Quartet in D major, 'The Lark'
NIELSEN: String Quartet in F major, Op. 44
MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80
Formed in 2002, the Danish String Quartet’s joy of playing makes a powerful impact on stage wherever they perform and their fresh approach to well known repertoire has become thei ...
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Cadogan Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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London Symphony Orchestra - Antonio Pappano
Thomas Adès Dances from ‘Powder her Face’
Walton Viola Concerto
Elgar Symphony No 1
Antonio Pappano conductor
Antoine Tamestit viola
London Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès’ 1995 opera Powder Her Face takes a wickedly irreverent look at the Duchess of Argyll, whose exploits were the stuff of scandal. Elgar had long wanted to write ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Mark-Anthony Turnage Hammered Out
Elgar Cello Concerto
Walton Symphony No 1
Paul Daniel conductor
Natalie Clein cello
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Elgar composed the elegiac Cello Concerto in 1919 from his secluded Sussex cottage where he had spent nights listening to the ominous sounds of World War I artillery rolling across ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Ginastera Estancia: Ballet Suite
Korngold Violin Concerto
Castellanos Santa Cruz de Pacairigua
Gershwin An American in Paris
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Carlos Izcaray conductor
Matthew Trusler violin
Venezuelan maestro Carlos Izcaray makes his long-awaited UK debut conducting the capital's premiere youth ensemble in a scintil ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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New Year-s Day Gala
Programme to include:
Strauss The Blue Danube Waltz
Verdi Brindisi
Rossini The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Denza Funiculi, funicula
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Finale
Sousa Liberty Bell March
Verdi Sempre Libera
Bizet Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite
Puccini O soave fanciulla from La Boheme
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
London Con ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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