Cadogan Hall 5 - T01862775248Award-winning British percussionist Colin Currie joins forces with dynamic contemporary music specialists, the JACK Quartet, for a programme of 20th- and 21st-century works, including world premieres by Simon Holt and Suzanne Farrin. These are joined by two virtuosic Xenakis chamber works - the impossibly demanding Rebonds B for solo percussion and the 1983 string quartet Tetras with its eerie, woodwind-like sound manipulation and unsettling rhythmic patterning.Performer Colin Currie (percussion). Company JACK Quartet. | |
| 13 Aug 18 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L02057651381 |
T861654700Born in the shadow of one of Russia's darkest hours, Shostakovich carried the ghosts of the revolution with him. They are given voice in a Prom that brings together solo-piano Preludes and Fugues with choral settings of poems revolutionary poets.Performer Alexander Melnikov (piano). Company Latvian Radio Choir. Director Sigvards Klava. | |
| 14 Aug 17 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0533747913 |
Fretwork and Stile Antico - T1320842499Vocal ensemble Stile Antico and viol consort Fretwork celebrate the Shakespeare anniversary, contrasting music of his contemporaries with new settings.Company Fretwork. Company Stile Antico. | |
| 15 Aug 16 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0103343030 |
A Sondheim Cabaret - T1734210808Stephen Sondheim is one of the greats of musical theatre - legendary for the sharp wit of his lyrics and his darkly distinctive scores for musicals including Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods and Company. We celebrate his 85th birthday with a musical trawl through the very best of Sondheim's back catalogue. Formerly the piano-playing half of cabaret duo Kit and the Widow, Richard Sisson joins Kitty Whately, Si?n Phillips and Jamie Parker to bring a touch of Broadway to Cadogan Hall. Finish time approx. 14:00Performer Sian Philips (vocalist). Performer Kitty Whately (mezzo soprano - New Generation Artist). Performer Jamie Parker (vocalist). Performer Richard Sisson (piano). | |
| 17 Aug 15 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L709542451 |
R. Struass & Wolf - T01630176692Having joined Sir Mark Elder and the Halle earlier this season for Elgar's Sea Pictures, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote returns for a recital with pianist Julius Drake. Her programme of German songs includes Strauss's Eight Poems from 'Letzte Blatter' - some of the very earliest and loveliest of the 200 or so songs he composed over his lifetime. Dedicated to his wife Pauline and a gift to her on their wedding day, the Op. 27 Lieder are also among Strauss's most heartfelt. For Wolf, inspiration came more from literature: poems by the gentle pastoralist Morike and the philosopher of emotion Goethe inspired him to some of his most expressive musical extremes. There will be no interval. Finish time approx. 14:00Performer Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano). Performer Julius Drake (piano). | |
| 18 Aug 14 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01962547881 |
Holst & Sir Harrison Birtwistle - T01191636424Nicholas Kok conducts the UK premiere of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem for women's voices, alto flute and three harps, a dream-like incantation of the names of the dustier cousins of the sun-loving butterfly. Pre-Reformation motets preserved in the Eton Choirbook thread through the BBC Singers' alluring programme of works by Gustav Holst and his daughter Imogen, including the third set of Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda for female voices and harp, as a prelude to tonight's performance of Indra. There will be no interval. Finish time: approx. 14:00Company BBC Singers. Company Nash Ensemble. Conductor Nicholas Kok. | |
| 12 Aug 13 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L1441782899 |
Nicola Benedetti - T1835996940One of Britain's most popular young violinists returns for the second of three appearances this season, performing mostly in the company of her regular chamber music partners. The programme begins with the many-voiced solo of Bach's Chaconne and concludes with Brahms's most dramatic and tightly argued piano trio, No. 3 in C minor, composed in 1886 while on a productive summer holiday in Switzerland. The violinist is joined by Kiev-born pianist Alexei Grynyuk and German cellist Leonard Elschenbroich. There will be no interval. Finish time approx. 14:00Performer Nicola Benedetti (violin). Performer Alexei Grynyuk (piano). Performer Leonard Elschenbroich (cello). | |
| 13 Aug 12 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L33991959 |
Britten/Bridge - T0505064584The Aronowitz Ensemble, former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, explore Britten's musical relationship with his teacher, Frank Bridge. The Piano Variations, composed while Britten was still a student, looks forward to his celebrated Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, that masterpiece for string orchestra to be performed later in the season. Today's concert begins with a striking composition from the young Britten in which the oboist is Nicholas Daniel, past winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Bridge's Piano Quintet comes from relatively early in his own career, before the events of the First World War cast a dark shadow on his creative outlook. Finish time: approx. 14:00Performer Nicholas Daniel (oboe). Performer Tom Poster (piano). Company Aronowitz Ensemble. | |
| 15 Aug 11 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L912599731 |
Julia Fischer - T01571888245Following her Shostakovich concerto yesterday evening, Julia Fischer returns for the demanding and intensely expressive sonata by Belgian virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe. Her frequent chamber music partner, Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska, joins her for the large-scale, Romantically turbulent sonata by César Franck, one of the works with which this late-flowering, Paris-based composer changed the course of French music. Finish time: approx. 14:00Performer Julia Fischer (violin). Performer Milana Chernyavska (piano). | |
| 16 Aug 10 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01579179534 |
Music 5: Llyr Williams - T2040011759A recital of 'Baroque Reflections' devised by this remarkably accomplished former Radio 3 New Generation Artist and inspired by Brahms's magnificent homage to the music of anniversary composer Handel. Busoni and Mendelssohn reinvented Bach for their own times: Busoni by transcribing for the piano a selection of organ pieces, and Mendelssohn by breathing vivid new life into an archaic form in a turbulent Prelude and Fugue. Brahms worked on an even broader canvas with the music of Handel, transforming a theme from one of his keyboard suites and building to a glorious climax. Handel, that supreme man of the theatre, would have loved it! There will be no interval. Approx finish time: 14:00.Performer Llyr Williams (piano). | |
| 17 Aug 09 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01646018970 |
Jordi Savall - T1434430299Finish time approx. 14:00Music Ortiz (10 mins)). Music Hume (9 mins)). Music Marais (11 mins)). Music Sanz (8 mins)). Music Marais (14 mins)). Performer Jordi Savall (bass viol / viola da gamba). Performer Rolf Lislevand (theorbo / guitar). | |
| 18 Aug 08 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01104692478 |
T0965714818Finish time approx.Performer David Owen Norris (piano). Performer Philip Langridge (tenor). Music Schumann (Liederkreis Op 24). Music Maconchy (Maconchy (Four Shakespeare Songs0). Music Britten (Winter Words). | |
| 13 Aug 07 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0517774896 |
