What's On
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Sun, 2013-06-23 14:30The Young Person’s Guide: Family concert - Aldeburgh FestivalSir Mark Elder, The HalléSnape Maltings Concert Hall Snape IP17 1SPUnited Kingdom
Britten wrote his Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell as a way to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra and the piece has become one of the most popular orchestral works of the 20th century, known primarily by its subtitle, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. If you have ever thought about bringing children to a concert, this is your chance to bring them to perhaps the most exciting introductory piece ever written, performed by one of the UK’s best-loved orchestras and conductors in a very short, family-friendly event.
- The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
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Sun, 2013-06-23 16:00The Hallé OrchestraEmma Bell, Sir Mark Elder, The HalléSnape Maltings Concert Hall Snape IP17 1SPUnited Kingdom
Is there a more joyous, thrilling moment in twentieth century music than the closing pages of Britten’s Purcell-inspired concerto for orchestra. The triumphal return of Purcell’s ancient but familiar theme at the conclusion to this riotously inventive, colourful tour de force simply takes the breath away.
Including the fifth and final Aldeburgh world premiere in the Royal Philharmonic Society/Britten–Pears Foundation commissions, this concert traces Britten’s music from the rarely heard exoticism of an orient-inspired ballet via his first major orchestral song cycle as a fitting celebration to end the centenary Festival. Sir Mark Elder brings his Hallé Orchestra to Snape Maltings less than twelve months after his unforgettable concerts with the Aldeburgh World Orchestra.
- Pas de Six from The Prince of the Pagodas
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- Our Hunting Fathers
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell)
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
£34, £29, £25, £20, £15, under 27s half price Available from 01728 687110 10am - 4pm. -
Sat, 2013-06-22 19:30Come Rain or Come Shine, a miscellany of songs inspired by the weatherGeoffrey Clarke, Richard Archer, The City of Leicester SingersChristchurch Leicester LE2 3AHUnited Kingdom
- Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
- Joseph Horovitz (1926-)
- As Torrents in Summer
- Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
- The Shower
- Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
- A foggy day in London Town
- George Gershwin (1898-1937)
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
- Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
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Sat, 2013-06-22 19:30Concert by Collegium Singers - Classical ViennaCollegium Singers, Peter LeechThe Church of St Peter and St Paul South Petherton TA13 5DYUnited Kingdom
Mozart, Haydn and Schubert are well known for their sacred choral works, but their secular vocal compositions in German are relatively unknown. This concert will include delightful vocal settings of texts by the most famous German classical poets, including Gotthold Lessing (mason and librarian to the Dukes of Wolfenbuttel), Johann Goetz and the immortal Goethe.
Peter Leech, Musical Director will give a pre-concert talk at 7pm
- Gesang der Mönche
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Composition Not Known
- (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Die Harmonie in der Ehe
- (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Aus dem Dankliede zu Gott
- (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Die Beredsamkeit
- (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Schilflied
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)
- Abendruhe
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Nocturne 5: Luci care, luci belle from 6 Nocturnes
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Nocturne No 6: Mi lagneró tacendo, 'Notturno' from 6 Nocturnes
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Weihe des Gesanges from Die Zauberflöte, 'The Magic Flute'
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Chor der Engel
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Die zwei Tugendwege
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Nächtliches Ständchen
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Salve Regina in A
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Mass No 2 in G
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Adults £12; students £6; children under 12 free Available from 01823-430452 Any day between 9 am and 9 pm. -
Fri, 2013-06-21 19:30Mozart's Eine kleine NachtmusikIvor Setterfield, Kerenza Peacock, Trafalgar SinfoniaSt Martin-in-the-Fields London WC2N 4JJUnited Kingdom
- Concerto No 6 in G minor, 'La Stravaganza'
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
- Suite for Strings and Continuo in D Minor
- Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
- Air on the G String from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Concerto Grosso in C minor
- Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
- Concerto for Violin and Strings No 1 in E, 'Spring' RV 269 from Le Quattro Stagioni, 'The Four Seasons'
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
- Divertimento for Strings No 3 in F, 'Salzburg Symphony' No 3
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Canon from Canon and Gigue in D
- Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
- Pastorale from Concerto Grosso No 8 in G minor, 'Christmas Concerto'
- Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
- Serenade No 13 in G, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
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Fri, 2013-06-21 19:30L'Elisir d'Amore by Gaetano DonizettiFerruccio Finetti, Giulio Boschetti, Hiroko Morita, Renato Cordeiro, Riccardo Serenelli, Villa InCantoLauderdale House London N6 5HGUnited Kingdom
Villa InCanto arrives in London direct from Italy and this Italian group will perform in Lauderdale House - London.
This is a brand new way to enjoy the world of opera, where the closeness of the performers to the audience helps to enhance the emotion and transform the drama into reality.
L'Elisir D'Amore, an operatic masterpiece, has been elegantly reworked into touching slices of the original, performed by successful, professional singers in carefully selected dramatic costumes and accompanied by piano.
The expert musical direction is the work of Riccardo Serenelli who manages to maintain all of the integrity and grandeur of the original plots. He fills the operas with emotional energy and captures the audience for the entire performance of an hour and a half.
The key word is 'emotion' and the operas are laced with it in every tiny moment thanks to the skillful performances of the singers. They are taken way beyond pure technique to be able to externalize this emotion and transmit it to the audience. The empathy created is palpable and the Villa InCanto experience is simply unique.
Let yourself be carried away in the delirium of Donizetti's music, an exciting evening that we cannot wait to share with you and our other guests.
Join us in a glass of Italian wine with the performers after the show.
- L'Elisir d'Amore, 'Elixir of Love'
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
£20, £15 with glass of Italian wine after - concession is available for students, people on benefit and senior citizens Available from 07786038761 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. -
Sun, 2013-06-23 14:30Gregynog Festival 2013 - The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter PhillipsPeter Phillips, The Tallis ScholarsSt Nicholas Church Montgomery SY15 6PUUnited Kingdom
Gregynog Festival 2013: Great Britten, celebrates the Britten centenary and the composer's recital at Gregynog Festival 1972 with Peter Pears and Osian Ellis. As part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, The Tallis Scholars revive a Mass by the medieval Welsh composer John Lloyd, a performance regarded by director Peter Phillips as 'a major event'.
The concert takes place in the beautiful Georgian town of Montgomery where St Nicholas Church is splendidly set and has a superb acoustic.
Gregynog Festival is a Signature Event of the Welsh Government and celebrates its 80th anniversary this year as the oldest classical music festival in Wales. Repertoire spans seven centuries from the medieval Welsh composer John Lloyd through Dowland and Purcell to Britten himself. The programme also includes the premieres of four commissions by Hilary Tann, Christopher Painter, Helen Grime and Mark Simpson.
Other headline artists appearing at Gregynog Festival between 20-30 June and 22 November 2013 are the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Andrew Kennedy, Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford, Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Oboe Quartet, Harmonie Universelle, Ricercar Consort, Tenebrae, Escher String Quartet, The Mellstock Band, Guy Johnston, Catrin Finch, Mahan Esfahani and Llyr Williams.
Events take place in Llandinam, Montgomery, Kerry and Manafon, at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, National Museum Cardiff and Gregynog Hall itself, five miles from Newtown, Powys, Mid Wales. See individual Concert Diary listings and the Festival website for full details.
- Missa O quam suavis
- John Lloyd (c.1475-1523)
- Ave Maria, Mater Dei
- William Cornysh (1465-1523)
- Ah! Robin
- William Cornysh (1465-1523)
- Woefully arrayed
- William Cornysh (1465-1523)
- Ne Irascaris, Domine
- William Byrd (1543-1623)
- Plorans ploravit
- William Byrd (1543-1623)
- Vigilate
- William Byrd (1543-1623)
£25. Young people 18 and under, half price. Available from 01686 207100 Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. -
Sat, 2013-06-22 19:30Gregynog Festival 2013 - Iestyn Davies (countertenor) and Thomas Dunford (lute)Iestyn Davies, Thomas DunfordGregynog Hall Tregynon, Nr Newtown SY16 3PWUnited Kingdom
Gregynog Festival 2013: Great Britten celebrates the Britten centenary and the composer's recital at Gregynog Festival 1972 with Peter Pears and Osian Ellis. Following acclaimed international performances this season from Wigmore Hall to Chicago and New York City, the sensational countertenor Iestyn Davies gives an intimate recital of lute song, accompanied by the virtuoso lutenist Thomas Dunford.
Gregynog Festival is a Signature Event of the Welsh Government and celebrates its 80th anniversary this year as the oldest classical music festival in Wales. Repertoire spans seven centuries from the medieval Welsh composer John Lloyd through Dowland and Purcell to Britten himself. The programme also includes the premieres of four commissions by Hilary Tann, Christopher Painter, Helen Grime and Mark Simpson.
Other headline artists appearing at Gregynog Festival between 20-30 June and 22 November 2013 are the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Andrew Kennedy, Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Oboe Quartet, Harmonie Universelle, Ricercar Consort, The Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae, Escher String Quartet, The Mellstock Band, Guy Johnston, Catrin Finch, Mahan Esfahani and Llyr Williams.
Events take place in Llandinam, Montgomery, Kerry and Manafon, at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, National Museum Cardiff and Gregynog Hall itself, five miles from Newtown, Powys, Mid Wales. See individual Concert Diary listings and the Festival website for full details.
- Have you seen the white lily grow?
- Robert Johnson II (c1583 - 1633)
- Care-charming sleep
- Robert Johnson II (c1583 - 1633)
- From the famous peak of Derby
- Robert Johnson II (c1583 - 1633)
- Preludium for Lute
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- Lachrymae
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- Grief, keep within
- John Danyel (1564-c1626)
- Why canst thou not?
- John Danyel (1564-c1626)
- Can doleful notes?
- John Danyel (1564-c1626)
- Never weather-beaten saile more willing bent to shore from First Booke of Ayres
- Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
- I saw my lady weep
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- Come again! Sweet love doth now invite
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- In darkness let me dwell
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- Fortune my foe
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- The King of Denmark's Galliard
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- Can she excuse my wrongs
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- Flow my tears
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- The Frog Galliard
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
- Now, o now I needs must part
- John Dowland (c1563-1626)
£20. Young people 18 and under, half price Available from 01686 207100 Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. -
Mon, 2013-06-24 14:30Gregynog Festival 2013 - West Gallery workshopThe Mellstock BandKerry Church Kerry SY16 4NUUnited Kingdom
Learn more about the West Gallery tradition of music-making which survived in Thomas Hardy's Wessex as well as Welsh Border churches until the early 20th century. Led by the four members of the Mellstock Band, the leading exponents of West Gallery music, and open to singers and instrumentalists of all abilities.
We plan to give the first modern performances of some of the materials which survive in Thomas Owens' Shropshire Harmony at Shropshire Archives. The Mellstock Band will also be giving a concert in Kerry Church on 24 June from 7.30pm.
Part of Gregynog Festival 2013: Great Britten, celebrating the Britten centenary and the composer's recital at Gregynog Festival 1972 with Peter Pears and Osian Ellis.
Gregynog Festival is a Signature Event of the Welsh Government and celebrates its 80th anniversary this year as the oldest classical music festival in Wales. Repertoire spans seven centuries from the medieval Welsh composer John Lloyd through Dowland and Purcell to Britten himself. The programme also includes the premieres of four commissions by Hilary Tann, Christopher Painter, Helen Grime and Mark Simpson.
Other headline artists appearing at Gregynog Festival between 20-30 June and 22 November 2013 are the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Andrew Kennedy, Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford, Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Oboe Quartet, Harmonie Universelle, Ricercar Consort, The Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae, Escher String Quartet, Guy Johnston, Catrin Finch, Mahan Esfahani and Llyr Williams.
Events take place in Llandinam, Montgomery, Kerry and Manafon, at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, National Museum Cardiff and Gregynog Hall itself, five miles from Newtown, Powys, Mid Wales. See individual Concert Diary listings and the Festival website for full details.
£10. Young people 18 and under, half price. Available from 01686 207100 Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. -
Mon, 2013-06-24 19:30Gregynog Festival 2013 - The Mellstock BandThe Mellstock BandKerry Church Kerry SY16 4NUUnited Kingdom
Gregynog Festival 2013: Great Britten celebrates the Britten centenary and the composer's recital at Gregynog Festival 1972 with Peter Pears and Osian Ellis. The Mellstock Band, the leading exponents of West Gallery music, highlight Britten's admiration for Thomas Hardy with a programme of country song and story, accompanied by violin, clarinet, concertina and serpent.
The concert will be preceded by a workshop about West Gallery tradition, led by members of the Mellstock Band and open to singers and instrumentalists of all abilities. Evidence of West Gallery music-making survives from Wales and Border churches, including a bassoon in the Old Bell Museum, Montgomery, and the manuscript of Thomas Owens's Shropshire Harmony at Shropshire Archives.
"You cannot fail to be romanced . . . you are transported back to the time of Hardy and Dickens" (Living Tradition)
Gregynog Festival is a Signature Event of the Welsh Government and celebrates its 80th anniversary this year as the oldest classical music festival in Wales. Repertoire spans seven centuries from the medieval Welsh composer John Lloyd through Dowland and Purcell to Britten himself. The programme also includes the premieres of four commissions by Hilary Tann, Christopher Painter, Helen Grime and Mark Simpson.
Other headline artists appearing at Gregynog Festival between 20-30 June and 22 November 2013 are the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Andrew Kennedy, Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford, Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Oboe Quartet, Harmonie Universelle, Ricercar Consort, The Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae, Escher String Quartet, Guy Johnston, Catrin Finch, Mahan Esfahani and Llyr Williams.
Events take place in Llandinam, Montgomery, Kerry and Manafon, at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, National Museum Cardiff and Gregynog Hall itself, five miles from Newtown, Powys, Mid Wales. See individual Concert Diary listings and the Festival website for full details.
£10. Young people 18 and under, half price. Available from 01686 207100 Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
