South-African pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar is performing both books of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier in two concerts this week (5,6/12). Cellist Christopher Richter completes his cycle of Bach's Cello Suites and Sonatas (7/12). And Rachel Podger completes her cycle of Bach's Violin Sonatas and Partitas with Marcin Switkiewicz (18/12). The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge is joining the Aurora Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Collon with soloists Malin Christensson, Jennifer Johnston, William Towers, Andrew Kennedy and Benedict Nelson for a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor. A performance which would seem to promise a very traditional take on the forces used (21/12). By contrast, the Platinum Consort and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger will be performing parts I, III, V and VI of the Christmas Oratorio, with just eight singers and with the soloists coming from the choir in what promises to be refreshingly intimate performance. (19/12)
The Christmas theme continues with Britten's Ceremony of Carols performed by Barts Chamber Choir conducted by Ivor Setterfield (20/12), and John Lubbock conducts OSJ Voices and the Orchestra of St Johns in Handel's Messiah with Alice Privett, Roderick Morris, Christopher Turner and Bozidar Smiljanic (22/12).
Pianist Lucy Parham will be joined by a whole pile of celebrity friends for the coffee concert on Sunday 8 December, to perform Schuman's Kinderszenen and Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals. Pianists will include Ed Balls, Simon Russel Beale, Niamh Cusack, Alan Rusbridger, Juliet Stevenson. Sounds like fun (8/12).
The Allegri String Quartet are joined by viola player Martin Outram for a programme which includes Mozart, Haydn and Brahms last string chamber works (8/12). Sr Roger Norrington conducts the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra in a programme which includes Haydn's last symphony plus music by Alessandro Scarlatti and Menselssohn (15/12)
Opera singer Ann Liebeck joins up with dancer Nuno Silva and Cuban jazz/classical violinist Omar Puente and his Tango Quartet for Violetta's Last Tango ! (8/12) Then Carlos Costa will be speaking about his much awaited second book, Pigs Foot (9/12).
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will help the New Year in with concerts on 31/12 and 1/1/2014, performing Bach, Biber, Muffatt, Purcell and Telemann, directed by Matthew Truscott, with soprano Ruby Hughes.
Further information from the Kings Place website.
Elsewhere on this blog:
- Jacques Imbrailo and Alisdair Hogarth at the Wigmore Hall
- Gabrieli Sacrae Symphoniae - CD review
- Britten+ Benyounes Quartet and Philip Higham
- Pianist Ivana Gavric in Grieg and Janacek at the Wigmore Hall
- Sony's new Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy
- Beauty and Control - Songs of Home Njabulo Madlala and William Vann - CD review
- Scraping the Bottom - Christopher Gillett - Book review
- Julian Anderson - The Discovery of Heaven - CD review
- Intriguing new play - Sins of the Fathers by Jessica Duchen
- Spectacular cast - Albert Herring at the Barbican
- Opera or Oratorio - Philip Glass's Satyagraha at ENO
- Second view - Mozart's Magic Flute at the London Coliseum
- Britten - Sacred Choral Music - Choir of New College, Oxford - CD review
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