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

[Stanfordian]

Bridgewater Hall, Manchester 7th March - Vasily Petrenko conducting the Olso Phil in Rachmaninov piano concerto 2 featuring Simon Trpčeski & Mahler 5. The opener is excerpts from Grieg Lyric Suite.

[Tony Halstead]

Bridgewater Hall, Manchester 7th March - Vasily Petrenko conducting the Olso Phil in Rachmaninov piano concerto 2 featuring Simon Trpčeski & Mahler 5. The opener is excerpts from Grieg Lyric Suite.

I'm looking forward to going ( from my home in Dover, Kent) to Manchester (my home town) on Saturday 27th February 2016, to hear the Hallé under Mark Elder play Delius' Song of the High Hills' at the wonderful Bridgewater Hall.

[MrGongGong]

at the wonderful Bridgewater Hall.

A wasted journey I'm afraid
because I read that Simon says there's nowhere in the UK with good acoustics

(watch out for the static carpets.... the technicians have special boots)

[Tony Halstead]

Hmmm..../' Simon Says'....
This is nonsense, surely?
I have not only 'played' ( in an orchestra) but have also conducted ( The Hanover Band) in the Bridgewater Hall and I prefer it to the Birmingham Hall!

[David-G]

A wasted journey I'm afraid
because I read that Simon says there's nowhere in the UK with good acoustics

I thought he said there's no hall in London with good acoustics? (Presumably meaning large halls.)

[verismissimo]

I thought he said there's no hall in London with good acoustics? (Presumably meaning large halls.)

Croydon was the only one in London that passed muster in my concert-going lifetime. Do they still do that kind of thing? Does it still stand?

For choice, I go to Symphony Hall in Brum these days.

[verismissimo]

But I also go from time to time to the Sheldonian in Oxford: Renee Fleming in the Four Last Songs with the Oxford Philharmonic there, April 8.

And various forays to operas before that date...

[Stanfordian]

The great Henschel Quartet from Germany at the Chamber Music Festival, RNCM, Manchester, Friday 4 March 7.30pm. Standing in for the Michelangelo Quartet who had to withdraw owing to an injured player.

Programme:
Beethoven String Quartet No 12 in E flat major, Op. 127
String Quintet in C major. D. 956

http://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/henschel-quartett/

[Richard Tarleton]

A double dose of Angela Hewitt next weekend, here - a mixed recital on Saturday (Schubert, Beethoven, Haydn, Scarlatti, Albeniz, Falla) and the Goldberg (which I gather she's just re-recorded) on Sunday. I've been enjoying her new Scarlatti disc.

[teamsaint]

Does anybody know of a one stop shop for information on lunchtime concerts, both free and paid for, in London?

[Nick Armstrong]

Does anybody know of a one stop shop for information on lunchtime concerts, both free and paid for, in London?

This is a question to which I am increasingly interested to know the answer!

[Beef Oven!]

This is a question to which I am increasingly interested to know the answer!

This is quite a treasure-trove of information.

[teamsaint]

This is a question to which I am increasingly interested to know the answer!

Fridays seem to be a rich seam.
At least 4 I found tomorrow, at the Southbank, SMITF, St James Picadilly, and the RAM.

Thinking the RAM looks quite interesting, including the Barshai Chamber version of SQ 8.

[Nick Armstrong]

This is quite a treasure-trove of information, try it.

Is it significant that it's inviting me to look for 'Plumbers and pizza in Chalfont St Giles' ?

Either way, it's not quite the 'specific one stop listing' that I think teamsaint, and certainly, I had in mind...

But thank you

[Nick Armstrong]

Fridays seem to be a rich seam.
At least 4 I found tomorrow, at the Southbank, SMITF, St James Picadilly, and the RAM.

Thinking the RAM looks quite interesting, including the Barshai Chamber version of SQ 8.

The RAM and RCM are the places that over the years have had free events that I've most regretted missing - top flight conductors and instrumentalists working with the students. I've been to a couple (Haitink conducting Shostakovich 8 at the RCM being one unforgettable and ear-splitting occasion )