July 2010 United Kingdom Diary

East Anglia

• 10 July 2010 | Blackthorpe Barn Summer Music Concert 2 | Ovid Trio, Freddy Kempf (piano) | • Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 60 | • Dvořák: Piano Quartet No 2 in E flat, Op 87 (B 162) | Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP30 9LZ, 7.30pm | Box Office tel: 01284 769505 01284 769505 (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds) | Web site: www.blackthorpebarn.com
• 18 July 2010 | Blackthorpe Barn Summer Music Concert 6 | Wihan Quartet | • Beethoven: String Quartet No 6 in B flat, Op 18 | • Paganini: 6 Caprices | • Dvořák: String Quartet No 9 in D minor, Op 34 (B 75) | Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP30 9LZ, 7.30pm | Box Office tel: 01284 769505 01284 769505 (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds) | Web site: www.blackthorpebarn.com

Midlands

• 2 July 2010 | Opera North Orchestra & Chorus, Giselle Allen (Rusalka), Richard Berkeley-Steele (The Prince), Anne-Marie Owens (Ježibaba), Susannah Glanville (The Foreign Princess), Richard Angas (The Water Sprite), Oliver von Dohnányi (conductor) | • Dvořák: Rusalka, Op 114 (B 203) [sung in English] | Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 7.00pm | Tickets tel: 0115 9895555 | Web sites: www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk & www.operanorth.co.uk

London

• 1 July 2010 | London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor), Renaud Capuçon (violin) | • Dvořák: Violin Concerto, Op 53 (B 108) | • Bruckner: Symphony No 7 | Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, 7.30pm | Web sites: lso.co.uk and www.barbican.org.uk
• 3 July 2010 | CANCELLED Claire Wilkins (soprano), Lada Valešová (piano) | • songs and solo piano pieces by Tchaikovsky, Bridge, Quilter and Dvořák | Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Pilgrim’s Place, London NW3 1NG, time TBC | Tickets: on the door before concert | Web site: ladavalesova.com/wordpress/
• 12 July 2010 | BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert | Pavel Haas Quartet, Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) | • Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 “Fifths” | • Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57 | Wigmore Hall, London, 1.00pm | Box Office tel: 020 7935 2141 | Web site: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
• 16 July 2010 | BBC Proms | BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Choristers of St Paul’s Cathedral, Choristers of Westminster Abbey, Choristers of Westminster Cathedral, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Mardi Byers (soprano), Twyla Robinson (soprano), Malin Christensson (soprano), Stephanie Blythe (mezzo soprano), Kelly O’Connor (mezzo soprano), Nikolai Schukoff (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone), Tomasz Konieczny (bass) | • Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E-flat major “Symphony of a Thousand” | Royal Albert Hall, London, 8.00pm | Web site: www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/
• 21 July 2010 | BBC Proms | BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Paul Lewis (piano) | • Beethoven: Egmont Overture | • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C major | • Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus — overture | • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major | Royal Albert Hall, London, 7.00pm | Web site: www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/
• 29 July 2010 | BBC Proms | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paul Lewis (piano), Andris Nelsons (conductor) | • Wagner: Rienzi Overture | • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat Major | • Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (B 178) “New World” | Royal Albert Hall, London, 7.00pm | Web site: www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/
• 29 July 2010 | BBC Proms | Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | • Dvořák: Serenade in D minor, Op 44 (B 77) for wind instruments | • Mozart: Serenade in B flat Major, K361 “Gran Partita” | Royal Albert Hall, London, 10.00pm | Web site: www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/

Southern England

• 2 July 2010 | Music in the Round | • Prokofiev: Quintet, Op 39 | • Martinů: Nonet for wind quintet, string trio & double bass (H 374) | • Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44 | New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, 7.30pm | Tickstes tel: 023 92649000 | Web sites: www.newtheatreroyal.com & www.musicintheround.co.uk
• 4 July 2010 | Milton Keynes City Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor), Dominic Piers Smith (piano) | • Sibelius: Finlandia | • Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2 | • Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (B 178) “New World” | Milton Keynes Theatre, Marlborough Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 3NZ, 7.30pm | Box office tel: 01908 558311 | Web site: www.mkco.org
• 7 July 2010 | Cheltenham Music Festival | ATOS Trio | • Haydn: Piano Trio in F sharp (Hob XV:26) | • Suk: Piano Trio in C minor, Op 2 | • Schubert: Piano Trio in E flat, Op 100 | Pitville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 11.00am | Box office tel: 0844 576 8970 | Web site: cheltenhamfestivals.com/musicevents/
• 24 July 2010 | Max Brod Piano Trio | • Dvořák: Dumky for piano trio, Op 90 (B 166) | • Martinů: Bergerettes (H 275) | • Brahms: Piano Trio in C minor, Op 101 | St Peter’s Church, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 8.00pm | Web site: www.communigate.co.uk/oxford/musicatstpeterswallingford/

Wales

• 10 July 2010 | Sacconi Quartet | • Dvořák: String Quartet No 12 in F Major, Op 96 (B 179) “American” | • Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 76 No 5 | • Janáček: String Quartet No 2 “Intimate Letter” | Fort Belan, Llanwnda, Caernarfon LL54 5TP, 7.30pm | Tickets tel: 01286 830 220 or 07795 053 868 (Svetlana) | Web site: www.fortbelan.co.uk
• 24 July 2010 | Aberystwyth MusicFest International Festival and Summer School | Sacconi Quartet, Tom Poster (piano), Holly Cook (double bass), David Campbell (clarinet), Anthony Halstead (horn), Laurence Perkins (bassoon) | • Dvořák: Piano Quintet No 2 in A Major, Op 81 (B 180) | Schubert: Octet in F | Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DE, 8.00pm | Box office tel: 0197 62 32 32 | Web sites: bit.ly/9XQrpa, www.abermusicfest.org/intro.htm and www.sacconi.com
• 26 July 2010 | Aberystwyth MusicFest International Festival and Summer School | Pavel Fischer (speaker - former member of Škampa Quartet), Sacconi Quartet | • Introduction & talk about Moravian Folk Music roots of Janáček’s Second String Quartet | • Janáček: String Quartet No 2 “Intimate Letter” | Joseph Parry Hall, Laura Place, Aberystwyth, SY23 1AU, 1.30pm | Box office tel: 0197 62 32 32 | Web sites: bit.ly/9XQrpa, www.abermusicfest.org/intro.htm and www.sacconi.com