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PROMENADE
CONCERTS
This year's Proms season has just been announced and it looks like being
a vintage season with opera and choral works forming the backbone of this
greatest of music festivals. HIghlights of the season must include Prom
30, a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony conducted by Simon Rattle
(National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain) and Prom 44 a pairing of Martha
Argerich and Claudio Abbado with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in
Bartok, Ravel (the G major piano concerto) and Debussy. Also promising
to be of outstanding interest are three concerts by the Kirov Opera under
Gergiev, including a complete performance of Boris Godunov and the UK
premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's St John Passion. They conclude their visit
to the Proms with a performance of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto (Toradzo)
and Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Bryn Terfel and Renee Fleming sing
together in a Welsh National Orchestra Prom spanning Wagner, Strauss,
Mozart and light music whilst there is a rare performance of Schoenberg's
Romantic masterpiece Gurrelieder under the BBC SO and Donald Runnicles.
Visiting orchestras come from Spain, France, Denmark and Holland with
Riccardo Chailly conducting his Royal Concertgebouw in Mahler's Third
Symphony. The Los Angeles Philharmonic under their chief conductor, Esa
Pekka Salonen, play two concerts the first of Debussy, Ravel and Prokofiev
and in their second concert take on this years Choral Symphony (coupled
with Shostakovich's Second). James Levine makes a welcome return to the
Proms with the wonderful Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in an enterprising
programme of HIndemith, Mozart, Varese (Ameriques) and Ravel. The LSO
have two Proms this year - one under Jansons the other under Haitink,
whilst the Philharmonia bring with them their Music Director, Christoph
von Dohnanyi in Strauss, Beethoven and Dvorak. The LPO play Elijah under
their chief conductor Kurt Masur.
Full details of all Proms can be read on the BBC's website at: www.bbc.co.uk/proms.
Seen & Heard will be covering much of the season.
Marc Bridle
Articles, Interviews and Editorials
 SCHAFER
and VOLANS STRING QUARTETS
at Blackheath and on CD (PGW)
François
le Roux in conversation with Melanie Eskenazi
IN
PARENTHESIS; reflections on
three ENO Nights at the Opera La Vestale, A Masked
Ball and The Elixir of Love 11-13 April 2002 (PGW)
Britten,
Elgar and Sibelius, Mahler and Bruckner
at The
Barbican April 2002, with some thoughts about Youth Orchestras in UK
and Spain (PGW)
Christiane
Oelze in Interview with Melanie Eskenazi
BACH
St John Passion
in theatre, concert and on CD, with thoughts about
other Passions and the Bachakademie's multi-composer Requiem of Reconciliation
(PGW)
Simon
Keenlyside in interview with Melanie Eskenazi
Moscow
Nights – where the
Bolshoi is only the start… by Neil McGowan
John
Mark Ainsley in interview with Melanie Eskenazi
ORPHEUS
PRIZE 2002 - International
Biennial Competition for Interpretation of Contemporary Chamber Music,
De Singel, Antwerp 14-16 February 2002 (PGW)
Peter Grahame Woolf at 75
Matthias
Goerne in conversation with Melanie Eskenazi
Interview with
Calixto Bieito by Martin Hoyle
Günter Wand
(1912-2002)
New
Beginnings in Philadelphia by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Vasks,
Poulenc and 17th Century Italian Choral Music, with some
shorter notes Vasks: Choral Music; Poulenc:
Figure Humaine; Cappella Figuralis; Purcell: Amsterdam Loeki
Stardust Quartet; Gurdjieff/Hartmann; Bacewicz: Eva Kupiec. (PGW)
Cutting
Edge European Music 1960-2001 (PGW)
Interview
with Daniel Müller-Schott by Melanie Eskenazi
S
& H Dance Special – live and on DVD (PGW
& MB)
Coverage of the Rambert Dance Company begins a short overview
of ‘the art of dance’.
Rambert Dance Company 75th
Anniversary Autumn Programme 1, Sadler's Wells, London, November 2001
(PGW)
FESTIVALS and INTERNATIONAL
CONCERTS
Hungarian Spring;
Kurtag Festival Queen
Elizabeth Hall and Foyer, 20 April 2002 (PGW)
MOZART
Symphony
No. 41 Jupiter KV551,
STRAUSS Don Juan; Macbeth Philharmonisches Orchester
des Landeshaupstadt Kiel, Georg Fritzsch, April 14th 2002
(RB) Konzertsaal im Kieler Schloß, 24103, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
Peer Gynt as
a ballet in Two Acts The music of
Edvard GRIEG interspersed with the Peer Gynt ballet music
by Alfred SCHNITTKE Ballet: Stela KORLJAN Saturday 13 April 2002,
LandesTheater, Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (RB)
Rocky Khorosho
Neil McGowan reviews DRACULA – the
latest in the wave of big-budget musicals to open in Moscow.
Rostropovich
at 75:
Prokofiev, Shostakovich & Britten, London Symphony
Orchestra, 14th – 27th March 2002 (MB, CC &
ME)
ARS
MUSICA FESTIVAL 2002 March 7 - 24, Brussels
Strauss:
Der Rosenkavalier, 2002 New Zealand
Festival (MS)
Adés,
Beethoven, Brahms, Orchestre de Paris,
Salle Pleyel, February 27, 2002 (FC)
WOODSTOCK
ON THE LOIRE, Nantes, France, 25-27 January
2002 (FC)
Huddersfield
2001 by John Warnaby
OPERA
(UK and International),
Spontini,
La Vestale, ENO, April 2002 (MB)
Strauss, Arabella,
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, April 13, 2002 (FC)
Donizetti, ‘The Elixir of Love’ English
National Opera, London Coliseum, April 17th
2002. (M.E.)
Shostakovich:
Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, The
Helikon Opera, Moscow, 2nd April 2002 (NM)
MOZART:
IDOMENEO,
PALAIS GARNIER, Paris, April 8th 2002 (FC)
Rossini,
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Opéra
de Paris-Bastille, April 2, 2002 (FC)
Verdi,
Aida: The Helikon
Opera, Moscow, 17th March 2002
(NM)
Mukeria triumphant
in the Valley of the Kings
Bizet,
Ivan IV, Orchestre National
de France, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 28 March,
2002 (FC)
Mula melts the heart of Bizet’s fearsome
Czar
Monteverdi,
'Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria' Les Arts
Florissants, Barbican Theatre, 17th March. (ME)
Bach,
'St. John Passion' English National Opera,
March 15th (ME)
Welsh
National Opera in London and Oxford (PGW)
Handel,
'Ariodante' English National
Opera, March 9th 2002 (ME)
OPERA
IN EUROPE - FEBRUARY
2002 (PGW)
MOZART
Cosi fan tutte Guildhall School of Music
& Drama, London
Richard
Wagner: Die Walküre
(performed in German with Russian surtitles) The
Mariinsky Opera Company on tour at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscowconducted
by Valery Gergiev, 4th March 2002 (NM)
Mozart,
'Don Giovanni' Royal Opera
House, February 23rd. (ME)
Verdi,
'A Masked Ball' English
National Opera, February 21st. (ME)
Jonathan
Dove Flight Flemish Opera,
Antwerp, 15 February 2002 (PGW)
Weber/Berlioz
Le Freyschütz,
Orchestre de Paris, Salle Pleyel, February 14 and
16, 2001 (FC)
Glyndebourne
Visits Paris, January/February
2002 (FC)
VERDI
Attila Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 11
a.m. Saturday 2 February 2002 (PGW)
Offenbach,
La Vie Parisienne,
Opéra-Comique, Paris, February 1, 2002 (FC)
TOSHIO
HOSOKAWA Vision of Lear and
Portrait Concert, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
31 Jan & 1 February 2002 (PGW)
Britten:
Turn of the Screw,
ROH, Covent Garden, January 2002 (BK)
Massenet,
Don Quichotte, January
21, 2001, Opéra-Bastille, Paris (FC)
Wagner,
'The Valkyrie' English National Opera,
London Coliseum, 3 p.m. January 27th (PGW)
Wagner,
'The Valkyrie'
English National Opera, London Coliseum,
January 24th. (ME)
Spotlight
on Lully:
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris (FC)
Wagner:
Parsifal, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
cond. Sir Simon Rattle, December 2001 (BK)
Puccini:
Madam Butterfly London
City Opera, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 26th December. (M.E.)
Jazz,
Dance and Alternative
Spanish
Contemporary Music;
ANAKI : Inaki
Alberdi (accordion) & Ananda Sukarlan (piano) Royal Academy of Music,
London, 17 April. Britten, Takemitsu & Japanese Cross-Over;
ENSEMBLE TOZAI Blackheath Halls,18 April (PGW)
The
Carnegie Hall Jazz Band
Carnegie Hall
Thursday Feb. 21 2002
URI CAINE ENSEMBLE Mahler Reimagined
Purcell Room, London 9 February 2002 and
on CD (PGW)
Marc
Ribot & Terry Edwards, QEH,
3rd February 2002 (MB)
CONCERTS and RECITALS (UK)
April 2002
Haskell Small: Poulenc,
Mompou, Takemitsu, Ginastera, Purcell
Room, 29th April 2002 (MB)
ARTHUR
HINTON’S PIANO CONCERTO, Lambeth Orchestra,
Christopher Fifield, March 2002 (LF)
Heinz HOLLIGER
Beiseit (London première)
Joe CUTLER la hora cero .. (world
première) Rebecca SAUNDERS Quartet (1998)
Andrew Watts countertenor Gareth
Davis clarinet David Farmer accordion
Corrado Canonici double bass Dominic
Saunders piano Gregory Rose conductor
Wigmore Hall, 3 April 2002 (PGW)
Tchaikovsky,
Rachmaninov:
Soloists; BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Evgeny
Svetlanov. Barbican Centre, April 19th, 2002 (CC)
ANDALORO'S
PROGRESS London
International Piano Competition, 6-16 April
2002. Recitals and Concerto Finale at South Bank Centre 8, 9, 12 &
16 April (PGW) also Competition RESULTS
Serenata
Winds, Purcell Room,
12th April 2002 (CN)
Classic
Rhythm – Flute,
Piano and Percussion ensemble, Purcell Room, 15th April 2002
(CN).
Mahler,
‘Kindertotenlieder,’ Schubert, Symphony
no. 9 in C major, D944 (‘Great’) Deutsches
Symphonie – Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, Thomas Quasthoff (ME)
Bach/Busoni,
Schumann, Hamelin, Alkan: Marc-André
Hamelin (piano). Queen Elizabeth Hall, Thursday, April 11th, 2002 (CC).
Mahler,
‘Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen;’
Bruckner, 3rd Symphony.
Deutsches Symphonie – Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano,
Thomas Quasthoff. Barbican Hall, 9th April 2002. ( M. E.)
London
International Piano Competition, 6-16
April 2002 Royal Academy of Music and South Bank Centre; Purcell Room,
8 & 9 April (PGW)
Brian
ELIAS The
House that Jack Built Hugh WOOD Scenes from Comus (Susan
Gritton & Daniel Norman) DEBUSSY La
Mer MOZART Violin Concerto No 2 (James Ehnes) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew
Davis The Barbican 22 March 2002
Hugh WOOD Scenes from Comus and Symphony NMC D070 (PGW)
Dvořák
Stabat Mater
: Soloists; Ealing Choral Society;
London Orpheus Choir and Orchestra/James Gaddarn. Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Saturday April 6th, 2002 (CC)
Negativity - disappointments
at South Bank Centre and Blackheath Halls
(PGW)
March 2002
Schubert.
‘Winterreise’ Simon
Keenlyside, Graham Johnson, Wigmore Hall, March 25th. (M.
E.)
J
S Bach, Lowell Liebermann, Anne Boyd &
Theobald Boehm, RCM, 22nd March
2002 (CN)
Alma
Mahler: The Songs Klara Csordas,
mezzo soprano, Richard Black, piano Wigmore Hall, 23 March 2002 (MA)
William
Walton: Suite, Henry V, Violin
Concerto, Symphony No. 2 Philharmonia Orchestra,
Richard Hickox, Joshua Bell, violin, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 22nd
March 2002 (CT)
Pärt,
Bruch, Sibelius:
Akiko Suwanai, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra/Neeme
Järvi. RFH, Friday, March 8th, 200
Bach,
‘St. John Passion,’ Bach – Collegium Stuttgart,
Gachinger Kantorei, Helmuth Rilling, Barbican Hall, Saturday March 23rd.
(ME)
Anderson,
Berlioz, Ravel & Mussorgsky: City Of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 14th
March (CT)
Wolfgang
Holzmair baritone
Imogen Cooper piano Lieder by
Robert & Clara Schumann Wigmore Hall 21 March 2002 and on CD
(PGW)
PIANO
CIRCUS Erkki-Sven
Tüür- Transmission Nikki
Yeoh- Six as 1
Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible Conlon Nancarrow-
Study No.5
Miguel del Aguila Conga Line in Hell Heiner Goebbels
Scutigeras Queen Elizabeth Hall, 13 March 2002 and CDs Transmission
and Surrogate Cities (PGW)
Walton,
Howells: The Lindsays,
John Mark Ainsley, Kathryn Stott, Craig Ogden, Queen Elizabeth Hall,
March 14th. (ME)
JOANNA
MACGREGOR (piano) Blackheath
Halls Sunday 17 March with related CDs from SoundCircus & Unknown
Public (PGW)
R.
MURRAY-SCHAFER 3rd String Quartet;
Kevin VOLANS 6th String Quartet; DVORAK Op.
96. Duke Quartet. 10 March 2002, Blackheath Halls (PGW)
Hungarian
Spring in London March-May 2002
Holst:
The Evening Watch and Works by Parry, Jonathan
Harvey, Morten Lauridsen, Warlock, Delius and Britten 'Sacred and Profane':
Holst Singers (conductor Stephen Layton), St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge,
Saturday 2 March, 2002 (SD)
Beethoven
Cycle: Philharmonia Orchestra: Sir Charles Mackerras & Marek
Janowski, RFH, 7th & 12th March 2002 (MB)
Ruggles,
Gershwin, Ives, Bernstein Symfonieorkest van de Munt (Brussels)/Antonio
Pappano/ Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) De Singel, Antwerp 13 February
2002
Copland, Prokofiev, Ravel
LSO/ Han-Na Chang, cello Antonio
Pappano 7 March 2002
Crumb, Holst (with Colin Matthews’
Pluto) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Kazuchi Ono 8 March 2002 (PGW)
Keuris,
Shostakovich, Prokofiev Riccardo Chailly conductor, Vadim
Repin violin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, 3.30pm,
10 March 2002 (SHJ)
BACH, HANDEL & MOZART The
Academy of Ancient Music at St John's Smith
Square, 6 February & 14 March 2002, with observations about singing
competitions and a note on the Queen Elizabeth International Music
Competition of Belgium (PGW)
Handel,
'Brockes Passion' London Handel Festival at
the Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Tuesday 12th March. (ME)
Mussorgsky,
Tchaikovsky Mikhail Pletnev (piano), RFH, Tuesday March 5th,
2002 (CC)
HURLSTONE
Trio, HOWELLS
Minuet and A near Minuet,
GLINKA Trio, WEBER Andante & Hungarian Rondo,
MARTINU Clarinet Sonatina CHOPIN Berceuse English
Romantics Trio Victoria Soames Samek (clarinet) Lawrence Perkins
(bassoon) John Flinders (piano) Blackheath Halls 3 March 2002 (PGW)
University
of Warwick Wind Orchestra and Brass Band Conductors
Colin Touchin, Simon Hogg and Ben Wong Butterworth Hall, University
of Warwick Arts Centre, 25th February 2002 (CT)
Schubert:
Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, Wigmore Hall, March 2nd,
2002 (ME).
February 2002
Davis
conducts Bruckner: London
Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, 19th & 22nd
February 2002 (MB)
Beethoven,
Adès, Schubert Wigmore Hall, Tuesday,
February 26th, 2002. Endellion String Quartet (CC)
Mozart:
Violin Concerto No.3, Jupiter Symphony, Itzhak
Perlman violin/director, London Philharmonic Orchestra (reduced
ensemble), Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm, 23 February 2002 (SHJ)
Olli
Mustonen Bach &
Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 20th
Feb 2002 (PGW)
Berg,
Bartók, Mahler:
Zoltán Kocsis (piano); Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von
Dohnányi. RFH, February 21st, 2002 (CC)
Bach
and Shostakovich at the Wigmore Hall,
20th February, 2002 (MA)
Zrinka
Mikelić
(piano), St
Giles Church, Cripplegate, Barbican (MA)
Simon
Trpčeski: Brahms,
Liszt, Chopin, Wigmore Hall, 1pm 18th
February 2002 (MB)
Chopin,
Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart: András
Schiff, Piano, Wigmore Hall, February 14th. (M.E.)
Mozart,
Stravinsky: Soloists; London Voices;
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Lothar Zagrosek. Royal Festival Hall,
February 17th, 2002 (CC)
Related
Rocks: The Music of Magnus Lindberg,
QEH 7th Feb 2002 & RFH 10th
Feb 2002 (PQ)
Brahms:
Matthias Goerne, Leif Ove
Andsnes, Wigmore Hall, February 13th. (ME)
Stravinsky,
Mozart: Maria João Pires (piano),
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Yan-Pascal Tortelier. Royal Festival Hall,
February 13th, 2002 (CC).
Haydn,
Komitas, Prokofiev: Grigory
Sokolov (piano). Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sunday, February
10th, 2002 (CC).
BRAHMS
Sonata
op.99; PROKOFIEV Sonata Op 119 Alexander
Ivashkin (cello) Daniel Adni (piano) Blackheath Halls, 3
February 2002 (PGW)
RZEWSKI
& NOSFERATU The Warehouse,
London, 7 February 2002 (PGW)
Brahms,
Berg, Debussy, Poulenc, Messager, Simons.
Susan Graham, Malcolm Martineau, Wigmore Hall, February
7th. (M. E.)
Elgar,
Britten, Mozart, Agnew, Tchaikovsky Katherine
Hunka violin, Sophia Rahman piano. Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm,
04 January 2002 (SHJ)
Morton
Feldman: composer portrait
Isabelle Faust (violin), Norbert Blume (viola),
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Barbican
Hall, 1 February 2002 (PQ)
January 2002
Bartok,
Schubert, Haydn, Endellion
Quartet (Andrew Watkinson vn; Ralph de Souza
vn; Garfield Jackson va; David Waterman vc). Wigmore
Hall, 7.30pm, 30 January 2002 (SD)
Mozart,
Bruckner:
RCM Symphony Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky, RCM, 31st
January 2002 (MB)
Britten
/ Strauss,
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn,
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Pyatt; Barbican, 30th January. (M. E.)
Holocaust
Memorial Day Concert, Purcell Room,
29 January 2002 (MA)
C.
Schumann, Brahms, R. Schumann Imogen
Cooper (piano). Wigmore Hall, Tuesday, January 29th, 2002 (CC).
ENSEMBLE
SAKURA Purcell Room, SBC, 28 Jan 2002 (PGW)
Great
Orchestras: Dresden Staatskapelle of Saxony,
Ion Marin (cond), Barbican, 26th January
2002 (MB).
Beethoven,
Schubert, Schumann; Werner
Güra, Christoph Berner, Wigmore Hall, January 26th. (ME)
Janacek
String Quartet No 1, 'The Kreutzer Sonata'; Quartet
No 2, 'Intimate Letters' Skampa Quartet (Pavel Fischer, violin; Jana
Lukasova, violin; Radim Sedmidubsky, viola; Peter Jarusek, cello), Wigmore
Hall, Saturday 12 January 2002, (SD)
TWO
RUSSIAN NIGHTS (PGW)
Bach
Arrangements Angela Hewitt piano
Wigmore Hall 30 December 2001 (PGW)
Glinka,
Prokofiev, Rachmaninov: Nikolai Demidenko
(piano), Philharmonia Orchestra/Yevgeny Svetlanov. RFH, January 22nd,
2002 (CC)
Marx,
Liszt, Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninov:
Renée Fleming,
Jean - Yves Thibaudet, Barbican, Sunday January 20th. (M. E.)
Johns
Earbox:
John Adams at the Barbican, 18.- 20. Jan 2002
(JM)
Taneyev,
Tchaikovsky:
Steven Isserlis, Ivry Gitlis, Pekka Kuusisto, Arisa
Fijita, Rachel Roberts, Daniel Müller-Schott, Nelson Goerner; Wigmore
Hall, 16th January. (M. E.)
Carter,
Knussen & Wigglesworth Claire Booth
(soprano) Ryan Wigglesworth (piano) PLG,
Purcell Room, SBC 9 January 2002 (PGW)
Schubert , Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Copland, Heggie, Davies:
Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau, Barbican, Sunday January 13th. (M.E.)
Bach,
Prokofiev, Sarasate: Ilya Gringolts
(vln) & Ashley Wass (piano), Wigmore Hall, 7th January
2002 (MB)
Bach,
Mozart, Scarlatti,Chopin Andras
Schiff (piano)
Wigmore Hall,13 December 2001 &10 January 2002 (PGW)
CORNELIUS
CARDEW DAY with former members
of the Scratch Orchestra, Peoples' Liberation Movement,
Promenade Theatre Orchestra, AMM, John Tilbury
& Frederic Rzewski (piano) Conway Hall, London. 29 December
2001 (PGW)
Dohnányi,
Beethoven, Weir, Mozart: Leopold String Trio /
Paul Lewis. Wigmore Hall, January 5th 2002. (M.E.)
J
S Bach, Schubert, Chopin: Freddy Kempf (pf), Wigmore
Hall, 6th January 2001 (MB)
Handel,
Arias from Operas and Oratorios: Celebration for
James Bowman's 60th Birthday. The King's Consort, James Bowman,
Carolyn Sampson. Wigmore Hall, December 31st 2001 (ME).
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