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

[teamsaint]

I'm sure this is very boring for everyone else.

or helpful perhaps,if they fancy going to a concert in Cardiff sometime,but don't know about parking, transport etc.

Anyway, hope you get to the concert, RT.

[teamsaint]

I'm contemplating a trip to see this next week.
Any wise thoughts about the band, or their current form?

http://www.anvilarts.org.uk/whats-on/vienna-tonkunstler-orchestra

[Bryn]

John Tilbury playing works by Scriabin and White at Cafe OTO. I have my 'ticket' (paid for the three concerts in the series and thus went on the 'guest' list) but due to its rescheduling, I may have to do the same re. work.

[HighlandDougie]

I
Any wise thoughts about the band, or their current form?
http://www.anvilarts.org.uk/whats-on...tler-orchestra

I've heard them (the orchestra conducted by Andres Orozco Estrada) on Austrian Radio's streamed radio several times and they sounded fine to me. I also much like their recording of Mahler's 1st. Senor Orozco Estrada is about to succeed Yannick N-S as Principal Guest Conductor of the LPO and Barry Douglas is usually worth hearing so I would have thought well worth a punt.

[Stanfordian]

Tomorrow Saturday 29th March I'm looking forward to the Hallé Orchestra & Choir under Sir Mark Elder playing a superb programme of English music:
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Delius: 'Brigg Fair' with soloists Katherine Broderick (soprano) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
Vaughan Williams: 'A Sea Symphony'

[EdgeleyRob]

Tomorrow Saturday 29th March I'm looking forward to the Hallé Orchestra & Choir under Sir Mark Elder playing a superb programme of English music:
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Delius: 'Brigg Fair' with soloists Katherine Broderick (soprano) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
Vaughan Williams: 'A Sea Symphony'

How was this Stan ?

I wish I could have been there.

Will it be on the wireless ?

[Richard Tarleton]

Just over 2 weeks to go until the Orchestra of WNO playing Bruckner 8 with Lothar Koenigs at St David's Hall, Cardiff, preceded by Messiaen's L'Ascension which I don't know at all. Judging by their fine 7th a year or two ago it should be good. I haven't heard any more about what is to become of St David's Hall.

[aeolium]

I'm looking forward to a concert of Mozart and Brahms piano quartets to be given at the Hellensmusic Festival at Hellens Manor near Much Marcle in Herefordshire. Christian Blackshaw, who runs the mini festival, is playing with Markus Daunert, Màtè Szűcs and Oled Kogan:

http://www.hellensmanor.com/events.html

There are also masterclasses and other recitals throughout the weekend.

[jean]

I've just booked several concerts in this year's Lufthansa Baroque Festival - on May 23rd, The admirable Abate Steffani with María Hinojosa Montenegro soprano, Martin Oro counter-tenor, and La Risonanza (Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord & director), followed by Morimur* with Kati Debretzeni (violin) and the Hilliard Ensemble.

Then on the 24th, Handel Joshua - Laurence Cummings brings forces from Göttingen, where he's recently taken over as director of the Handel Festival. The singers are Anna Dennis (soprano), Renata Pokupić (mezzo-sporano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor) and Tobias Berndt (baritone), none of whom I've ever heard of.

*"German musicologist Helge Thoene's theory that Bach's famous Chaconne for solo violin contains an intricate web of references to a German Easter hymn, perhaps motivated by the untimely death of the composer's first wife, is brought audibly and hauntingly to life in a beautiful realisation by one of Europe's most distinguished soloists and concertmasters in collaboration with the world-famous Hilliard Ensemble, currently celebrating its 40th-anniversary season", it says here.

[teamsaint]

Off to the RFH on Thursday I think, for a Czech fest.

Decent looking programme.

[Alison]

Off to the RFH on Thursday I think, for a Czech fest.

Decent looking programme.

Smithy should be good in the Sinfonietta.

Or is Arabella the bigger attraction?

[teamsaint]

Smithy should be good in the Sinfonietta.

Or is Arabella the bigger attraction?

Shhhhhhhhh....Mrs TS may be looking in !!

( Anyway,from the back of the rear stalls, the two may not look too different anyway !!)

It'll be interesting to see how big a fan club she has, and if they all go home at half time Like James Ehnes' fans seem to !!

Edit: do i seem that shallow? .............oh , Ok.........

[Don Petter]

Cherubini Requiem and Brahms choral works in the church of St Mary in the Castle in Hastings.

We've always wanted to see inside this church which, as the name suggests, is built into the Castle Rock.

[DublinJimbo]

Britten's Curlew River at Lyon Opera (21 April).
(A bit bold of them to advertise this as an "opera" and to price tickets at full whack for a piece which lasts for a little over an hour. Still, I've long cherished a desire to visit this fine venue, and I'm not free to catch Peter Grimes on the 19th or the 22nd as part of their Britten Festival, so Curlew River will have to do.

During a forthcoming trip to Berlin:
(1)
Billy Budd in the Deutsche Oper (06 June)
(2)
Richard Goode, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Herbert Blomstedt (Philharmonie, 07 June)
Mozart: Piano Concerto in C major K. 503 / Bruckner: Symphony No. 6
(3)
Bernarda Fink, Staatskapelle Berlin / Lahav Shani (Konzerthaus, 09 June)
Mahler: Rückert Lieder / Symphony No. 1
The concert was due to be conducted by Michael Gielen, who was the main draw for me, but he recently cancelled due to illness. 25-year-old Lahav Shani is a new name to me. He won the Gustav Mahler Conductors Competition last year, and is also a piano soloist. Maestro Gielen is a hard act to stand in for, but we shall see.

Later this year:
The European première of Kevin Puts's Silent Night at the Wexford Opera Festival (14 October)

[teamsaint]

anybody else fancy Hrusa and the Philharmonia playing the Dvorak CC and Suk's Asrael in May?

looks tempting. Hardly any tickets sold except the centre front stalls.