
Then Sir Mark Elder conducts the LPO on 23 January for the start of what is something of a Mark Elder fest, with two LPO appearances and one with his own orchestra. 23 January's programme is Webern, Schoenberg and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Ekaterina Gubanova and Paul Groves. Then Elder is back with the LPO on 26 Januray for Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius with Paul Groves and Sarah Connolly. The London Philharmonic Choir are joined by the choir of
Before then on 30 January, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the
Philharmonic in Lutoslawski (Musique
Funebre, Piano Concerto) and
Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bach Choir are back
on 5 February with Durufle’s Requiem,
a performance rather larger in scale than I prefer but interestingly coupled
with Poulenc’s Gloria. David Hill
conducts with soloists Sarah Fox, Kitty Whately and Benedict Nelson. They are
also including some of Canteloube’s Songs
of the Auvergne but there is no word as to which soloist is doing them, I hope its Kitty Whately who is currently something of a favourite.
Still in February the London Sinfonietta will be performing
Stravinsky’s Renard (10 February),
the Philharmonia give Britten’s Spring
Symphony an airing (17 February) with Susan Gritton, Christine Rice and
Allan Clayton under Edward Gardner. Marin
Alsop is at the helm with the LPO on 20 February for a rare outing for Varese ’s Ameriques, plus Milhaud’s La Creation du Monde and Dvorak’s 9th
Symphony, preceded by spirituals from the London Adventist Chorale. Certainly
an interesting mix.
March opens with one of those events which will be either
wonderful or awful. Weill’s The
Threepenny Opera performed by the LPO, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski with
Mark Padmore, John Tomlinson, Felicity Palmer, Allison Bell, Nicholas Folwell
and Meow Meow (this latter being a post-modern cabaret diva!). A narrator is
credited so presumably we won’t be having acres of embarrassing dialogue. (2
March)
Goldsmiths Choral Union are giving Handel’s Israel in Egypt on 13 March, the Bach
Choir give their annual Bach Passion performance on 17 March, under David Hill
with James Gilchrist as the Evangelist.
Chelsea Opera Group returns on 17 March with a real rarity,
Wagner’s first opera Die Feen. (No,
I’ve never heard it live either). Another rarity on 18 March, the Orchestra of
St. Paul’s perform Berlioz’s early Messe
solennelle whose score was only recently discovered. The singers include
Philippa Murray, John Upperton and Ian Caddy.
More mainstream fare on 6 April as Hans Graf conducts the
LPO in Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms
and Orff’s Carmina Burana with
soloists Sally Matthews, Andrew Kennedy and Rodion Pogossov. Good to see that
they are using a tenor soloist (rather than a counter-tenor) and will be interesting to hear Kennedy getting
spit roasted.
On 20 April, the Philharmonia bite back under Daniele Gatti
with Verdi’s Requiem and then with a
concert with Jonas Kauffman the following day; we are promised a selection of
his favourite arias and music. Hmm.
April concludes with Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Charles Dutoit conducting the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra with Ruxandra Donose, Paul Groves and Willard White, another must I think.
May at the South Bank starts with the Ryan Wrigglesworth’s
pairing of Vaughan Williams’s Fourth
Symphony with Tippett’s A Child of
Our Time with the LPO. More Vaughan Williams as The London Symphony pops up again when Andrew Davis conducts the
Philharmonia Orchestra on 9 May.
Susan Bullock, Giselle Allen and James Rutherford sings
excerpts from Tannhauser and act
three of Die Walkure with Andrew
Davis conducting the Philharmonia on 22 May. As an antidote, on the day after, the Royal College of Music’s Symphony Orchestra plays Messiaen’s stupendous Turangalila Symphony under Thierry
Fischer.
On 1 June the Philharmonia go to the cinema with, of course,
Carl Davis conducting his own score for the Thief
of Bagdhad with the silent film (from 1924) being screened.
For their final offering of the season on 2 June, Chelsea
Opera Group manage to find a Verdi opera that no-one has ever heard of, Alzira, with Majella Cullagh. Its based
on Voltaire and set in 16th century Peru !
9 June gives a chance to hear the remarkable group, Spira
Mirabilis play Strauss’s Metamorphosen.
Bryn Terfel pops up again on 11 June, this time with the Philharmonia singing
his favourite arias.
More details from the South Bank centre's website.
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