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Monday, June 4, 2012 at 7.30 pm Kirill Gerstein Recital/Oliver Knussen London Première Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30 Kirill Gerstein
piano
One of the great windfalls of classical music, the prestigious, valuable and happily maverick Gilmore Award is given every four years to a pianist who has no idea that he or she is in the running for it. Past recipients have included Leif Ove Andsnes and Piotr Anderszewski.
In 2010 it fell into the unsuspecting lap of Kirill Gerstein, acknowledging him as a musician who combines high calibre with curiosity and imagination. Born in Russia, he began his studies as a jazz pianist but switched to classical and contemporary. His programme here reflects wide-ranging interests, with a piece by Oliver Knussen that lays to rest an idée fixe of the composer’s scores through the past three decades.
J.S Bach : English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Gigue, Bolero and Variations Oliver Knussen : Ophelia’s Last Dance Carl Maria von Weber : Invitation to the Dance: rondo brillant in Db Franz Liszt : Soirées de Vienna No. 6 from Valses caprices d’après Schubert S427 Robert Schumann : Carnaval Op. 9
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4 Mar
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Monday, June 4, 2012 at 1:00pm Thomas Adès and Schubert Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £12 concs £10 Louis Lortie
piano
Known to Wigmore audiences for a memorable Beethoven sonata cycle and to CD collectors for a sparkling exploration of Ravel’s complete piano music, Louis Lortie doesn’t do things by halves.
His enthusiasm for the work of Thomas Adès has been similarly probing, thorough, and persistent. Recently he gave the German première of Adès’s piano quintet. In this concert he plays an Adès score from the mid-90s inspired by the idea of angels rising heavenwards in shafts of light.
Thomas Ades : Traced Overhead Franz Schubert : Piano Sonata in Bb D960
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Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 7:30pm CBSO The Spirit of Defiance Symphony Hall, Birmingham Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom 0121 200 2000 symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
Tickets: £10-£39.50 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons conductor
Baiba Skride violin
The Soviet censors called it an ‘optimistic tragedy’. Shostakovich simply called it his Tenth Symphony. Dark, impassioned, packed with secret messages and featuring a terrifying musical portrait of Stalin himself, Shostakovich’s Tenth is one of the most powerful of all twentieth-century symphonies. Andris Nelsons’s first Birmingham performance of this modern masterpiece will be keenly awaited – and the young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride is fast becoming a Birmingham favourite too. Sofia Gubaidulina’s Bach-inspired Concerto, written in defiance of Soviet oppression, makes a wonderfully apt prelude to Shostakovich’s epic drama.
Sofia Gubaidulina : Violin Concerto (Offertorium) Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No 10
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