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1999
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MARCH 2001
EDITORIAL
Czardas
Duo (Matthew Forbes -
cello;
Ian Watson accordion) The Arts Café, Commercial St, London
E1. 28 March 2001 (AF)
BARTOK No
4 BRAHMS No 1 Emerson
String
Quartet, Wigmore Hall 19 March 2001
PUCCINI
Il Trittico English
National
Opera, Coliseum, 8 March 2001 (SD)
HENZE:
Boulevard Solitude
Royal
Opera
House, Covent Garden, Opening night - 20 March 2001 (RW)
Ornette
Coleman at The
Barbican,
23 March 2001 (TH)
DEBUSSY La
Mer etc DVORAK
Silent
Woods etc MOZART Sonata K 387 York-2
(four hands) Blackheath Halls 18 March 2001 (PGW)
CHAPLIN
Modern Times BBC Concert
Orchestra/Timothy
Brock Royal Festival Hall, 17 March 2001
KAGEL
Comedy
&
Catastrophe Royal Academy of Music, London 13 to 16 March 2001 (PGW &
JM)
SCHUBERT
Winterreise
Ian
Bostridge with Julius Drake Wigmore Hall 14 March
2001 (PGW)
RIMSKI-KORSAKOV
The
Snowmaiden
Guildhall School of Music and Drama 10 March 2001 (AW)
HAYDN
Quartet Op. 55/1
BOCCHERINI
Quintet op. 42/1 BEETHOVEN
Op. 131 Vanbrugh String Quartet Conway Hall, London 11
March 2001 (PGW)
ROSSINI
La Cenerentola Royal Opera,
Covent
Garden 6 March 2001[AW]
A Day
of Sofia Gubaidulina Purcell Room,
South
Bank Centre, London, 25 February 2001 International Conference The
Magic World of Sofia Gubaidulina Goldsmiths College, 26 February (RW
& PGW)
HENZE
Voices
London
Sinfonietta/Knussen with Fiona Kimm (mezzo) & Christopher Gillett
(tenor). Film (Purcell Room) & Concert (Queen Elizabeth Hall) 10 March
2001 (PGW)
Meta-Piano
Ian Pace at
King's
College, London 26 February 2001 (PGW)
BACH
Prelude & Fugue in E
minor
BWV 548; Pastorale in F major BWV 590; FRANCK Chorale No 3 in A minor
KARG-ELERT Poema esaltato 'alla Scriabin'; Rondo alla
Campanella REGER Prelude & Fugue in D minor ELGAR Sonata
in G major Op 28 Nicolas Kynaston (organ) Royal Festival Hall, London
8 March 2001
International
Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2001, Rotterdam
Conservatory,
25 February to 4 March
Haydn
The Seasons Orkest van de
Achttiende Eeuw/Rattle, Nederlands Kamerkoor & soloists Oelze, Ainsley
& Wilson Johnson, 27 February
Bartok, Janacek
& Shostakovich Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/ Flor with
Peter Donohoe (piano) De Doelen, Rotterdam 3 March
Beethoven
String Quartets
Op. 95 & 127
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 The
Borodin Quartet Wigmore Hall, 7 March 2001 (PGW)
Schubert
String
Quartet
in A minor, D804 (Rosamunde) Haris Kittos Piece for String Quartet
Richard Rodney Bennett Lamento d'Arianna Elgar String
Quartet in E minor, Op 83
Solaris Quartet Music Past and Present series, Jacksons Lane Community
Centre, London March 4 2001
Huddersfield
Contemporary
Music
Festival Appoints New Artistic Director
ROTTERDAM MUSIC BIENNIAL
Results of the The
33rd International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition
FEBRUARY 2001
EDITORIAL
Ned ROREM
Fables;Bertha;Three Sisters
New World Opera Company Bridewell Theatre, London
23 February 2001
BIZET CARMEN
English
National
Opera at The Coliseum, 24 February 2001 (AW&PGW)
BARTÓK
Music for
Strings, Percussion and
Celeste
SHOSTAKOVITCH Cello Concerto No. 1
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.
4 in F minor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo
with Natalia Gutman (cello) at Symphony Hall, Birmingham 21 February 2001
(CT)
IAN PACE,
PIANIST - Interview
with
Marc Bridle, February 2001
Michael
Finnissy The History of Photography in Sound
played
by Ian Pace (piano) at the Royal Academy of Music,
London, 28 January 2001 (JW)
VERDI Don
Carlo Stuttgart
Opernhaus,
9 February 2001 (AW)
QUATUOR
MOSAÏQUES at the
Wigmore
Hall 10 and 11 February 2001 (IP)
Vernon
Handley 70th
Birthday
Concerts in Liverpool [RB]
PURCELL
Suites from The Fairy
Queen
& The Indian Queen and Birthday Odes 1691 &
1693 The King's Consort/Robert King Wigmore Hall 15 February
2001
BIRTWISTLE
Composer Portrait BBC
Symphony Orchestra/ Jac van Steen, with Richard Hodges (clarinet)
Nicolas Hodges (pianist) John Harle (saxophone) The Barbican15 February 01
(JM)
JANACEK The
Cunning Little Vixen ENO, The Coliseum,
London
14 February 2001
Return
to the Forbidden Planet
Shakespeare/Bob
Carlton/Matt
Devitt at The English Theater, Frankfurt 6 February
2001
ECLAT 2001
Theaterhaus Stuttgart
8-12 February 2001
Janácek: String
Quartet Nos 1 & 2 Jack:
String Quartets Nos
3 & 4, 08.02.01
Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti & Graeme Jennings, Dov Scheindlin,
Rohan de Saram) St John's, Smith Square Thursday 8 February
The Contemporary
Music Scene in Germany (2000)
John
Warnaby, who lives and teaches in Wales, reports from
Donaueschingen, Munich and Cologne
Series Z
Warehouse 9 Feb,
2001
(JM) Turnage, Knussen, Hesketh, Takemitsu, Adès,
Goehr
A Portrait
of John Ogdon: Works by Ogdon,
Liszt,
Maxwell Davies, Scriabin and Busoni. Ian Pace (piano). Wigmore Hall,
Friday February 9th, 2001 (CC).
Sergei
& Lusine Khachatryan Bach
Chaconne,
Beethoven
Sonata No 3 in Eb, Ysaye Sonata No 3. Blackheath Halls 4 February
2001
Pärt,
Prokofiev & Shostakovich: LSO,
Antonio
Pappano, Barbican 28 January 2001 (MB)
English
Concert/Trevor Pinnock (conductor and harpsichord)
with Carolyn Sampson, Paul Agnew, Richard Edgar-Wilson & Antonio Abete
(singers) Wigmore Hall 10 & 25 January 2001
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique;
Overture
Beatrice et Benedict LSO/Davis at The Barbican 27 & 28
September 2000 LSO 0007 (PGW)
Huddersfield
Festival of Contemporary Music 2000
(JW)
PFITZNER
Palestrina
Royal Opera House, 29 January 2001 (AW)
JANUARY 2001
EDITORIAL
Josef SUK
Piano Trio Op.2 SCHUBERT Piano
Trio
No.2
in Eb Guarneri Trio Prague Wigmore Hall 28 January
2001
Wagner:
The Rhinegold, ENO,
26
January 2001 (MB).
ClaudeVIVIER
Et je reverrai; Trois
airs Hans ABRAHAMSEN
Marchenbilder; Winternacht
MACHAUT/Causton Kyrie & Sanctus Sinfonia 21/Martyn Brabbins
with Eileen Hulse (soprano) Imperial College, London, 26 January
2001
Alfred
SCHNITTKE Barbican Hall, St Giles,
Cripplegate
& Guildhall School of Music and Drama 11- 14 January 2001
Leipzig Gewandhaus: 8 December
1855
BEETHOVEN Emperor
Concerto, MOZART Arias from Figaro,
SCHUMANN Introduction and Allegro
Appassionato; Symphony no.2 Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment/Mackerras with Robert Levin (pianoforte) ) Nuccia Focile (soprano)
James Rutherford (baritone) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 23 January 2001
BEETHOVEN
Sonata Op.90 BRAHMS
Sonata
Op.5 Ashley Wass (piano) The BBC Radio 3 Lunch Time
Concert, Wigmore Hall, 22 January 2001
D.W.GRIFFITHS
Intolerance (1916) Music
by
Carl
Davis arr. David & Colin Matthews LPO/Carl Davis Royal Festival
Hall, 20 January 2001
VERDI
Requiem London Symphony
Orchestra
& Chorus/Antonio Pappano with Renée Fleming, Violeta Urmana,
Jorge Antonio Pita & René Pape The Barbican, 21 January
2001
BUSONI
Fantasia
Contrappuntistica
Bruno Canino and Antonio Ballista (pianos)
Bruno Canino and Friends at Wigmore Hall, 18 January
2001.
Stephen
Kovacevich Master
Class
(Beethoven Piano Sonatas) Queen Elizabeth Hall 11 January 2001
(PGW)
Park Lane
Group Young Artists Concerts South
Bank Centre, 8-12 January 2001 (RW & PGW)
Alan
BUSH: Piano Concerto,
Op.
18 Rolf Hind, piano Ashley Holland, baritone Apollo Voices,
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin BBC Maida Vale Studios, 19 December
2000
Elisabeth
LUTYENS String Quartet Op 125
BARTOK
String
Quartet No 2 BEETHOVEN String
Quartet Op 59 No 2 Medici String Quartet
Blackheath Halls 7 January 2001 at 11.30
a.m.
CHOPIN
Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise Op 22; Ballade
No 3 LISZT Transcendental Studies Freddy
Kempf (piano) Wigmore Hall 7 January 2001 at 4 p.m.
Edward
RUSHTON L'An Mil HUMMEL
Piano Quintet Op 87 DVORAK Piano Quartet Op.
87 Schubert Ensemble of London Conway Hall, South Place, 7 January
2001 at 6. 30 p.m.
BARTOK
Rumanian Dances; Divertimento
John REEMAN Passion Robert FRIPP arr. Andrew
KEELING
Red Nicola LeFANU Catena Opus 20/Scott Stroman
5 January 2001 South Bank Centre, London
RAMBERT
DANCE COMPANY She is black
&
Sergeant Early's dream Sadler's Wells Theatre 18 November
2000
Chaplin
adapted by Carl
Davis
The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale. London
Philharmonic Orchestra/Carl Davis 2 December 2000
SINGING
IN THE RAIN (Musical based
on the Gene Kelly film)
Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London. 1 January
2001
VERDI
Nabucco
ENO
at The Coliseum November 2000 - 23 February
2001
John
WOOLRICH Bitter Fruit Trestle Theatre
Company/Toby
Wilsher & Russell Dean, with Birmingham Contemporary Music
Group/Pierre-André Valade. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1 December 2000
(PGW)
ZURICH OPERA
HOUSE
December 2000
BERLIOZ La Damnation
de Faust Zurich Opera/Erwin Piplits/Ulrike Kaufmann/Jurgen
Hoffman/Phillipe Augin, with Zoran Todorovich,
Egils Silnis & Liliana Nikiteanu. Première
at Opernhaus Zurich, 10 December 2000
VERDI Simon Boccanegra
Zurich Opera/Nello Santi, with Paolo
Gavanelli, Miriam Gauci, Laszlo Polgar, Vicenzo La Scola & Cheyne
Davidson. Opernhaus Zurich, Revival 13 December 2000.
LEHAR Die Lustige
Witwe Zurich Opera/Günter Neuhold with Noëmi
Nadelmann as Hanna Glawari. Opernhaus Zurich, Revival 14
December 2000.
Opera Nova Ensemble Music by Henri Dutilleux/G.
M.Cesare/Valentin Marti/Jean-François Michel/Reutter/Stephen Rush
Zurich Opera House Studio, 11 December 00
THE
REAL MILLENNIUM CONCERT Wigmore
Hall 31
December 2000
ARENSKY
Quartet Op 35 BRIDGE String Sextet in Eb major
DVORAK String Sextet in A major Op 48 The Raphael Ensemble
Wigmore Hall, London 29 December 2000
BERLIOZ
The Trojans
LSO
and LSO Chorus/Sir Colin Davis with soloists The Barbican,
6 & 7 December 00 (PGW)
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