Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for.....

[Beef Oven!]

Laibach. London. Tonight.

[P. G. Tipps]

Dunno about 'excited' more like a regular drug "fix" for me ...

Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste
Bruckner: Symphony No 8 (Haas)

Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
London Symphony Orchestra

Thursday 14th April, Barbican.

A veritable "dream of two halves" for PGT but the Editor of The Bruckner Journal is a bit "sniffy" about the unusual pairing saying it tells us something about Rattle's interpretation of the Bruckner even before the concert begins.

Therefore I think that also might tell us quite a bit about his review of the second-half of the concert in the next edition of the magazine ... ?

Particularly looking forward to the Messiaen this time, a piece I've never heard before in live concert.

[ahinton]

Dunno about 'excited' more like a regular drug "fix" for me ...

Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste
Bruckner: Symphony No 8 (Haas)

Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
London Symphony Orchestra

Thursday 14th April, Barbican.

A veritable "dream of two halves" for PGT but the Editor of The Bruckner Journal is a bit "sniffy" about the unusual pairing saying it tells us something about Rattle's interpretation of the Bruckner even before the concert begins.

I do not for the life of me see why it should be thought to do that!

Therefore I think that also might tell us quite a bit about his review of the second-half of the concert in the next edition of the magazine

Sadly it might just do that; indolent reviewers an' all that!

Particularly looking forward to the Messiaen this time, a piece I've never heard before in live concert.

I have - once only - but that was more years ago than I care to remember...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have - once only - but that was more years ago than I care to remember...

Me, too - the London Sinfonietta in Durham Castle (with Oiseaux Exotiques and Ligeti's Melodien and Chamber Concerto) in 1982. Great concert - two of the very few works by Messiaen for which I have unreserved admiration and affection.

This is a highly desirable concert (I would have preferred one of the Nowak Bruckner 8s - surprised Rattle is using the Haas edition - but hey!) indeed.

[french frank]

WNO's Merchant of Venice (A Tchaikowsky) in October. Given my last appearance at a public concert when I contrived to ruin as many people's enjoyment as was possible by passing out in the middle of the stalls, I have booked a small box for me and two friends. First time I've sat in a box.

[aeolium]

ETO's Don Giovanni tomorrow evening at Cheltenham. I am sorry to be missing ETO's Iphigenie en Tauride later in the week but will be away in Wales.

[HighlandDougie]

This looks tempting Weds night night.

13 April at 19:30
Barbican Hall, London

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo

Bax, The Garden of Fand
Dean, Viola Concerto
Elgar, Symphony no. 1 in A flat major, Op.55
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, Conductor
Brett Dean, Viola

might pop along.

I'm going along so if TS opts for it, rather than other attractions tomorrow evening (AAM - just along the road from the Barbican), maybe he can PM me and I'll buy him a drink. It will, though, have to be extra-special to efface the triumph of tonight's RFH OAE/Jurowski Mahler 2nd - I loved it, rough edges and all.

[teamsaint]

I'm going along so if TS opts for it, rather than other attractions tomorrow evening (AAM - just along the road from the Barbican), maybe he can PM me and I'll buy him a drink. It will, though, have to be extra-special to efface the triumph of tonight's RFH OAE/Jurowski Mahler 2nd - I loved it, rough edges and all.

Just caught up with your very kind offer, HD. Thanks very much, much appreciated. Lets hope we can meet up some other time.

In the end time and other things made me opt for the chamber music at SJSS, which rather suited me at the end of a few frazzling work days.

Seems the Elgar over in the City was great , and I'm both sorry to have missed it, and planning a listen at good volume very soon on catch up.

What was the Brett Dean concerto like? sorry to have missed that too.

But the music i did hear at SJSS was enjoyable, I may write a few lines on it at some point.

[teamsaint]

Cecilia Bartoli. Singing Handel, ( programme and performers TBC) November at the Barbican.

Have wanted to hear her sing live for a long time. Very excited at the prospect.

[Beef Oven!]

Cecilia Bartoli. Singing Handel, ( programme and performers TBC) November at the Barbican.

Have wanted to hear her sing live for a long time. Very excited at the prospect.

She was excellent in last year's Singing Doorknob.

[Pulcinella]

Some of the concerts in this Philharmonia 'Stravinsky: Myths and Rituals' series are quite tempting.

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/series/42/myths_and_rituals

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyone got tickets to hear Mitsuko Uchida tomorrow at the RFH? Because you won't .... she's ill....

Instead, the recital is by Krystian Zimerman......!

http://jessicamusic.blogspot.co.uk/2...st-minute.html

[aeolium]

My next concert is the first in the Carducci Quartet's Highnam Festival weekend May 13-15:

http://www.carducciquartet.com/festivals/

The church is in a very beautiful setting and is decorated with frescoes painted by Parry's father:

http://www.highnamchurch.org/

[Richard Tarleton]

Back to the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea on 16 June for BBC NOW's last concert of the season - Nicola Benedetti playing Szymanowski 2, and Mahler 1, with Thomas Søndergård.

[gradus]

Bad news about Uchida I hope that she recovers in time for her Recital at Snape in May - Schubert Impromptus and Diabelli vars.
Went to an excellent performance of the Mendelssohn Octet and Borodin and Brahms sextets given by Kenneth Sillito, colleagues from ASMF and other pros. A great evening at the Avenue Theatre Ipswich, newly built and their first and highly successful foray into classical music.