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DECEMBER 1999
Last Wigmore Hall Concert of the Century
Schubert Songs from Schwanengesang; Auf der Strom; Piano Sonata D960; Arpeggione Sonata; String Quintet D956. Steven Isserlis, Levon Chilingirian, Stephanie Gonley, Garfield Jackson, David Waterman, John Mark Ainsley, Roger Vignoles and Stephen Hough. Wigmore Hall, 30th December 1999Schnittke at Goldsmiths College and Wigmore Hall, December 1999
Irina Schnittke (piano) and Ivan Ivashkin (cello) with choir and instrumentalistsBerlioz The Childhood of Christ
LSO & Chorus with soloists cond. Sir Colin Davis. The Barbican 19 December 19992 GUITARISTS, 4 TRUMPETERS and SIX PIANISTS
David Starobin (guitars) with George Crumb (percussion) Wigmore Hall 13 December
Tom Kerstens (guitars) Purcell Room 14 December
History of the Jazz Trumpet (Park Lane Group) Queen Elizabeth Hall 14 December
Piano Circus (BMIC 'Cutting Edge' series) The Warehouse, SE1 16 DecemberJean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor) & Graham Johnson (piano) French song Wigmore Hall, 15 December 1999
Louis Andriessen M is for Man, Music, Mozart and De Tijd BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Martyn Brabbins, with New London Children's Chorus The Barbican, 10 December 1999
The Galliard Ensemble Purcell Room. 7 December 1999
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Rex Ingram's film with music by Carl Davis/Nic Raine LPO conducted by Carl Davis. Royal Festival Hall, 12 12 1999
Bach and his Contemporaries King's Consort, Robert King director, with singers Wigmore Hall 9 December 1999.
The Beggars' Opera Broomhill Opera directed by Jonathan Miller, music arranged by Jonathan Lloyd; musical director Charles Hazelwood. Wilton's Music Hall, 7 December 1999.
Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Zimmermann: Photoptosis; Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy
Kyung Wha-Chung (violin); London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingo Metzmacher (conductor) Royal Festival Hall Thursday 9 December 1999Dutilleux The Shadows of Time & Bruckner 7th Symphony LPO cond. Kurt Masur at the Royal Festival Hall, 4 December 1999.
Lars Vogt (piano) Wigmore Hall, 5 December 1999
Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, with soloists, cond. Sir Colin Davis. Barbican 5 December 1999 (also 8 & 11, and 9 December on R3)
OPERA ROUND-UP Handel's Rinaldo at the Barbican (17 November 1999) and Alcina at the Coliseum (29 November 1999); Britten's Peter Grimes, also at the Coliseum (30 November)JOHN DOWNEY FESTIVAL 30th November
HUDDERSFIELD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL 15 to 28 November 1999 including
Arditti Quartet, Avanti and Ensemble Recherche in Huddersfield.National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia Victoria Hall, Halifax 26 November 1999
Joanna MacGregor, piano & Andrew Stones, digital projections Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. 17 November 1999
Chausson Centenary Philippe Graffin (violin), Jeremy Menuhin (piano) and the Chilingirian Quartet. Wigmore Hall, 16 November 1999
Gluck Alceste (Paris version, 1776) starring Anne Sophie van Otter, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. The Barbican, 26 October and Radio 3, 13 November
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (excerpt) Morton Feldman: Why Patterns Music Projects/London (Richard Bernas) BMIC at The Warehouse. Thursday 11 November 1999
Artur Pizarro (piano) Copland, Gershwin, Griffes & Barber Wigmore Hall, 12 November 1999
Mauricio Kagel Music of the Bizarre South Bank Centre 13 Oct. & 2 Nov. '99.London Sinfonietta cond. Oliver Knussen and Reinbert de Leeuw, with soloists.
Musica Transalpina Celebration of Italian Music at the Royal College of Organists Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (5 & 6 November) and Francesco Cera (11 November) St Andrew's Church, Holborn.
DVORAK CHAMBER MUSIC at Queen Elizabeth Hall 7 November 1999
Florestan Trio, Members of Vellinger Quartet etc., Helene Wold & Hilary Summers (singers) with Eugene Asti (piano)John Corigliano: A Dylan Thomas Trilogy Royal Festival Hall, London, Saturday 6 November 1999, Patrick Burrowes,treble John Daszak, tenor William Dazeley, baritone BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Leonard Slatkin, conductor
City of London Sinfonia (Richard Hickox, conductor) at the Barbican, November 6th 1999: Nicholson stramash; Osborne oboe concerto (Nicholas Daniel); Berkeley cello concerto; Tavener the protecting veil (Steven Isserlis)
BMIC at The Warehouse (the cutting edge) Thursday 4th November 1999 Opus 20, director Scott Stroman: Cashian, Keeling and Hämeeniemi
Galina Ustvolskaya and the Piano
FIBONACCI at St John's, Smith Square, November 2nd 1999
Double Image at St John's Smith Square, November 1999.
David Pyatt horn Martin Jones piano South Bank Centre 28 October 1999DRACULA Tod Browning's film (1931) with live music by Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet. Royal Festival Hall 23 October 1999
MAGGINI QUARTET with PETER DONOHOE (Boesch, Brahms and Tchaikowsky) Wigmore Hall, 28 October 1999
PENDERECKI 2nd cello concerto and UK premiere of 5th symphony at The Barbican 24 October 1999
Skalkottas: String Quartets 3 & 4 / Five Greek Dances New Hellenic Quartet The Hellenic Centre, London Friday 22 October 1999
Two reports from pianoworks'99 (Stephen Coombs, Frederic Chiu, Piers Lane, Vladimir Ovchinikov, Artur Pizarro, Jonathan Plowright and Kathryn Stott) Blackheath Halls, London SE3, 20 -24 October 1999
Ivor Gurney's Songs and Poems Ian Partridge (tenor) & Jennifer Partridge (piano) with actors.South Bank Centre 31st October 1999
Max Black at Lyric Hammersmith 29 October 1999
IAN PACE at bmic, The Warehouse 28th October
GEMINI at Goldsmiths Simon Limbrick (percussion) 27 October 1999
Federation of Recorded Music Societies West Midlands Region Conference Birmingham and Midland Institute October 23rd 1999
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA Cardboard Citizens and the Baylis Programme at English National Opera; Bridewell Theatre, London: 30 September to 23 October 1999
MAHLER SYMPHONIES SEEN & HEARD
Schubert Quartet D810 and Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues Op 87 and Piano Quintet Joanna MacGregor with the Brodsky Quartet Cabot Hall, Canary Wharf E 14, 14 October 1999
2 PIANOS 4 HANDS Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt Comedy Theatre, London, 12 October 1999
HANDEL La Resurrezione The English Consort/Trevor Pinnock at The Barbican Centre 6 October 1999
Tosca and Nabucco Chisinau National Opera at Dartford and Kensington (Orchard Theatre, Dartford 8 February and Royal Albert Hall 11 October 1999)
Paul Simmonds (Pedal Clavichord) BCS Recital at Art Worker's Guild, London, 9 October 1999
Zemlinsky Es war einmal... RFH 6th October 1999; BBCSO cond. Sir Andrew Davis, with soloists.
HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA (flute) and SHIV KUMAR SHARMA (santoor) with guests at the Barbican Centre, 1st October 1999
the cutting edge (bmic at the warehouse, waterloo) thursdays 30th september to 16th december 1999LAMBERT - SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. CBSO 23/9/99
MUSICA99 Strasbourg 18 September to 2 October 1999
BEETHOVEN Quartet Cycle at The Space
Giles Swayne: Havoc BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall 8 September 1999
STRAUSS at the Proms 8 September 1999
PARADISE LOST Hespèrion XX at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5 September 1999
SHEWES, REVELS and A NOBLE NOYSE Queen Elizabeth Hall, 4th September 1999
EISLER AT EDINBURGH Queen's Hall, 23 August 1999
Handel's Rinaldo - 1711 and 1731 versions -presented by Birkbeck CollegeBBC SO / Oliver Knussen Royal Albert Hall, London PROM 13, Sunday July 25th, 1999
A Mauricio Kagel Evening Almeida Theatre, Islington, London Friday 19th July 1999
Recital by Pedro Carneiro at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 22 July 1999
Simunye at City of London Festival (July 1999)
Les Boréades at the Proms 19th July 1999
Private viewing and Public hearing at Camberwell Art Gallery (June/July 1999)
LICHFIELD FESTIVAL -and FRANCIS JACKSON 10/07/99PERCY WHITLOCK'S ORGAN SYMPHONY; York University Orchestra/Jonathan Wainwright /Francis Jackson (organ)(York Minster 16/06/99)
JOHN JOUBERT - THE MARTYRDOM OF ST ALBAN St.Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, 7/03/99
THOMAS WILSON - SYMPHONY NO 5 (Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Joseph Swensen) Glasgow City Hall 9/10/98