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

[EdgeleyRob]

Salford freebie next Thursday at Media City

RNCM soloists on the International Artist Diploma course perform under the batons of RNCM student conductors with the BBC Philharmonic

Robert Schumann,Manfred Overture
Franz Liszt,Piano Concerto No. 2
Elizabeth Maconchy,Music for Woodwind and Brass
Edward Elgar,Cello Concerto

[MrGongGong]

I hope with something a little more HIPP than the BBC Concert Orchestra involved

I'm sure it will go off with a bang
(but we might feel a little deflated at the end?)

[Pulcinella]

Wednesday 20 June 2018

Britten: War requiem
Part of the York Festival of ideas.

http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2018/performances/war-requiem/

This will be only the second live performance I will have been to (assuming not sold out: I need to get tickets sharpish or this post will be untrue!), the other being yonks ago in Oxford Town Hall. I imagine that it will sound even more impressive in the minster acoustic.
James Gilchrist as one of the soloists, too!

[LMcD]

Sunday 8th July: The Grange Ensemble led by Kenneth Sillito (Music in Felixstowe's patron). Music by Bridge, Baermann, Britten and Brahms. More details on:

https://www.felixstowemusic.com

[Constantbee]

Negotiations with Piggy Bank procured funds for a trip to London to see M. Rondeau at Cadogan Hall on 23 July. Hoping to fit in a visit to the Handel-Hendrix Museum in the pm.

[Joseph K]

Dave Holland with Aziza at Ronnie Scott's on November the 6th - my birthday!

[Nick Armstrong]

Up early today for a day here: http://www.vaughanwilliamsfestival.c...l-programme-2/

Going to the 12 noon and 7pm concerts with Evensong in between

Especially looking forward to hearing the Howells Fantasy String Quartet...

[verismissimo]

Today: Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra at QEH at 5.

Tomorrow: SEYO at Symphony Hall in Brum at 2:30.

Both! I've done work with them in recent years.

[Bryn]

Just arrived, a ticket for the next Open Ear concert at LSO St Luke's (27th this month).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch hosts a concert of cutting-edge new music in the round, with performances from: House Of Bedlam (ensemble directed by composer Larry Goves); BirdWorld (cello, percussion and electronics); soprano Jessica Aszodi; and the duo of George Barton (percussion) with Siwan Rhys (piano).

[Zucchini]

Not exactly excited , but we wanted tickets for Marios Papadopoulos, his Oxford Philharmonic and his wonderful guests - Anne Sophie Mutter, Maxim Vengerov & Martha Argerich, at the Barbican for a 20th anniversary concert. The Bach double concerto should be very special! Sometime mid-Jan.

[Lat-Literal]

Currently going through the usual agonising regarding a London concert.

I'm not at all looking forward to coming back via trains late at night.

However, if it does happen and that is an if although I do have a ticket:

Moscow Nights : Friday 19 October | 7.30pm | Royal Festival Hall

Free pre-concert event: Behind the Baton : 6.15pm

Alondra de la Parra talks to Southbank Centre's Director of Music, Gillian Moore, about her career to date and her approach to the music of Glinka, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.

Then:

Glinka Overture, Ruslan and Ludmilla
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Alondra de la Parra conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra

[zola]

Currently going through the usual agonising regarding a London concert.

I'm not at all looking forward to coming back via trains late at night.

Festival Hall concerts normally finish around nine thirty and you can be on Waterloo station in ten minutes ( I'm guessing you will be changing at Clapham Junction ? ) Rather than waste the whole ticket, you could even leave at the interval if you were particularly nervous on the night ? Grosvenor is well worth hearing.

[Lat-Literal]

Festival Hall concerts normally finish around nine thirty and you can be on Waterloo station in ten minutes ( I'm guessing you will be changing at Clapham Junction ? ) Rather than waste the whole ticket, you could even leave at the interval if you were particularly nervous on the night ? Grosvenor is well worth hearing.

Thank you ever so much zola.

Yes, you are absolutely right on both the travel arrangements and what I am mainly therefore for which is the Grosvenor/Rachmaninoff.

[Lat-Literal]

No, sadly I didn't get there. I think Central London alone on a dark Friday night and serious stuff going on at home is probably not the best combination for me these days. Once again, I wish I was based in somewhere more manageable with music and recent travels have merely confirmed it. There is no ideal place but I'm almost tempted to say Bournemouth, not that it is at all possible. Sometimes I feel that I am stuck to this region - and even lured back to it - for only all of the miserable things, like a dog on what is only an occasionally long lead.



Anyhow:

Next attempts : Porgy and Bess and La Boeme in Nov and Dec at the Coliseum, both of which I've gone to town with price wise strictly as one-offs at 3pm on Saturdays so perhaps.

[Bryn]

Not actually a ticket, as such, but I have successfully booked a place for this.