UK Listings – Music
Saturday 14 - Friday 27 June 2008
London
Chelsea Festival
This year’s Chelsea Festival will include a variety of performances from established musicians such as Nigel Kennedy, Nicola Benedetti and Amsterdam’s Nieuw Ensemble. The festival will also host talks, comedy and will open with the first two performances of Pink Floyd’s rock suite Atom Heart Mother.
Fore more information please visit: www.chelseafestival.org.uk
Box Office: 020 7351 1005
Venue and Information
London
various venues
Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 May, 7.30 pm
Wigmore Hall, London
Hagen Quartet
Wednesday 28 May
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135
Janáček String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Dvořák String Quartet in G Op. 106
Thursday 29 May
Janáček String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’
Dvořák Zypressen
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’
Tickets £12, £16, £22 & £24
Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Venue and Information
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore Street
London W1U 2BP
Wednesday 14 - Friday 16 May2008
Loch Schiel, West Highlands
Loch Shiel Spring Festival
This year’s festival will see performances by the Austrian virtuoso Karin Kustner. She and other musicians will be performing music by Hans Gal and Anton Bruckner.
For a complete programme and for more information please visit: www.lochshielfestival.com
Venue and Information
Loch Schiel, West Highlands
Various venues
Saturday 10 May, 7:30pm & Sunday 11 May, 11:30am
Wigmore Hall, London
Vinna Piano Trio
Venue and Information
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP;
Box Office 0207 935 2141; www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Wigmore Hall, London
Bath International Music Festival
Cellist Natalie Clein will perform a new Sonata by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher.
Venue and Information
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP;
Box Office 0207 935 2141; www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Wednesday 25 June 2008, 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London
Alan Berg Quartet
Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A and the String Quintet in C.
Venue and Information
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London
Box Office T: 0871 663 2500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Wednesday 11 & 18 June and Wednesday 9 July 2008
Arts Club at Arts Theatre, London
Impropera
Combining musicianship with the agile wit of improvisation, Impropera creat opera with an anarchic irreverent edge from audience suggestions. In a world of dumbing down here is a show for an audience that revels in the skill and sparkle of such programmes as QI, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Whose Line is it Anyway?
Led by David Pearl, the Impropera Company also features Comedy Store regular Niall Ashdown, soprano Morag McLaren, Soprano Susan Bisatt, clarinettist Peter Furniss (from the ACF Soundings festival), musical director Anthony Ingle on piano and guest artists Louise Crane and Andy Morton.
Box office: 0207 836 2132 or online at ticketmaster.co.uk