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

[HighlandDougie]

Sir Simon’s Strauss Metamorphosen & Mahler’s all-male DLVDE with the LSO at the Barbican later this evening. BBM was complimentary about the R3 relay of Wednesday’s performance so have high hopes. Rubbish seats but serves me right for not booking earlier.

[Richard Barrett]

I just checked out what's happening in London during my next visit there and bought tickets for an LSO/Rattle concert in the Barbican on 11 January with Magdalena Kožena - Schubert 8, Mahler Rückert-Lieder, Handel and Rameau. Anyone else going? There seem to be plenty of tickets still left at all prices.

[Nick Armstrong]

Looking forward to dipping a toe or two into the intensive annual music festival in Nantes ("Les Folles Journées de Nantes") where over 5 days, concerts and recitals galore take place, Edinburgh Fringe style, across 9 venues from 10 in the morning through to late evening.

Going to:

Albéniz's Iberia, played in 2 recitals (6 of the pieces in each one) by Luis Fernando Pérez

Dvořák's Piano Quintet in A and American Quartet, played by the Modigliani Quartet

[BBMmk2]

Grenadier Guards Band playing in The Guards Chapel today. Pity I can’t go.

[Zucchini]

Season tickets now in our hands for our local (Chipping Campden) music festival in May. Artists/works include:
Alina Ibragimova/CedricTiberghien
Paul Lewis three Mozart concerts with festival Academy Orchestra(50% each professional& students)
ChristopherMaltman/Julius Drake (Winterreise)
Steven Osborne
Nash Ensemble
Tenebrae & AAM (B Minor Mass)
Aquinas Trio
Imogen Cooper
Alfred Brendel (Talk on playing Mozart)
Stephen Hough (Debussy recital)
Jerusalem Quartet
Michael Collins's London Winds
Ruth Rogers
+ 6 lunchtime concerts by advanced students

Tiring but too good to miss on my doorstep.

[Nick Armstrong]

Season tickets now in our hands for our local (Chipping Campden) music festival in May.

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What a great line-up of performers!

[Historian]

Slightly tempting fate, as I do not have a ticket yet, but hoping to go to Friday's BBCSO concert at the Barbican, under Sir Andrew Davis, mainly for the Finzi Cello Concerto, but also Shostakovich 10. Never heard either live and the Finzi is seldom done. Paul Watkins is the soloist.

[HighlandDougie]

Looking forward to dipping a toe or two into the intensive annual music festival in Nantes ("Les Folles Journées de Nantes") where over 5 days, concerts and recitals galore take place, Edinburgh Fringe style, across 9 venues from 10 in the morning through to late evening.

Going to:

Albéniz's Iberia, played in 2 recitals (6 of the pieces in each one) by Luis Fernando Pérez

Dvořák's Piano Quintet in A and American Quartet, played by the Modigliani Quartet

Very envious! There is a longish feature in February's Diapason about this year's event, the theme being, "Musiciens en exil", which translates better as composers away from their native habitat. I saw L F Pérez at Roque d'Anthéron a couple of years ago and was very impressed with his playing. And Nantes has an impressive tramway network with which to whizz you from concert to concert. Bon weekend!

[vinteuil]

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... not forgetting the patrimoine architectural of the biscuits LU [Lefèvre-Utile] -

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LU_(biscuiterie)

[HighlandDougie]

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... not forgetting the patrimoine architectural of the biscuits LU [Lefèvre-Utile] -

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LU_(biscuiterie)

Even more wildly O/T, my house here in France was designed and built in the 1960s for a member of the Brun family, whose Biscuiterie Brun was merged with LU in 1969. Nothing quite so stylish or grand, alas, as the Nantes building - or, indeed, the Raymond Loewy-designed LU logo. Oops, and I'm looking forward to hearing the LSO with Mark Elder and Nikolaij Znaider in Dvorak, Bruch and Elgar on 11 February in the Barbican.

[Nick Armstrong]

Very envious! There is a longish feature in February's Diapason about this year's event, the theme being, "Musiciens en exil", which translates better as composers away from their native habitat. I saw L F Pérez at Roque d'Anthéron a couple of years ago and was very impressed with his playing. And Nantes has an impressive tramway network with which to whizz you from concert to concert. Bon weekend!

Thanks! - and it's v good to know Mr Pérez is impressive, I'd never heard of him. What was he playing when you heard him?

[HighlandDougie]

Thanks! - and it's v good to know Mr Pérez is impressive, I'd never heard of him. What was he playing when you heard him?

Can it really have been 2014?

https://destimed.fr/On-a-vu-a-La-Roque-d-Antheron-Luis

I also have CDs of him in Soler and in Granados. I hope that the weather is as good as here in the A-M (bees, butterflies - and it's not yet February).

[EdgeleyRob]

Next Wednesday,Salford studio concert,live on Radio 3 at 2pm

Antheil

Time Dance; Archipelago; Spectre of the Rose - waltz; Symphony No 3 (American)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards

24th March - Bridgewater Hall (not free)

BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson - Andrew Haveron (violin)

Copland,Appalachian Spring – Korngold,Violin Concerto - Vaughan Williams,Symphony No. 5

[Simon B]

Happily, there's an imminent glut of events with just the right combination of orchestra/repertoire/conductor for me:

Friday 2/Feb: WNO/Rizzi, La Forza del Destino @ Wales Millennium centre

Sun 4/Feb: LSO/Bychkov Mahler 2 @ Barbican (live on YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdJmC-6ts7w - currently the UK's finest orchestra by some distance IMO so maybe worth a listen)

Thu 8/Feb: LSO/Elder Elgar 1 etc @ Barbican

Sat 10/Feb: LPO/Jurowski Petrushka etc @ RFH

These come after an unusually convincing ROH Salome (in Malin Byström finally a Salome combining dramatic conviction with both sufficient vocal heft and lyricism as and when required) just a few days ago. Quite why they come in bursts like this is a mystery, but it often seems to be the way.

Characteristic BBCPO programming there Rob - I also have a ticket for the RVW 5 in March. Somewhat beneath the radar of all those "John Wilson Orchestra" concerts he's conducted rather a lot of RVW (and other British composers) with various orchestras in recent years - including a properly intense RVW 5 with the Philharmonia a few years ago. Portents therefore good for that...

[Nick Armstrong]

Can it really have been 2014?

https://destimed.fr/On-a-vu-a-La-Roque-d-Antheron-Luis

I also have CDs of him in Soler and in Granados. I hope that the weather is as good as here in the A-M (bees, butterflies - and it's not yet February).

I think Brittany (or is it Britanny? I can never remember.... .. Bretagne, anyway) will be having similar weather to here!

Interesting link, thanks - especially to see the reference to his excellence in Spanish music, and the mention of his Iberia performance...