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Thursday Lunchtime Concert Series |
MAY 2012 JUNE →
THURSDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES Opus 1 Piano Trio Beethoven Piano Trio No.5 in D op.70 no.1
Ghost £10
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Le Concert des Nations European Union Lully Suite Le Bourgeois gentilhoome 'Establishes a new gold standard for early music' Gramophone £40, £30, £20, £15 Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts
In association with Rolls Royce
N.B. 3.30pm – Pre-concert talk – A Very British Exercise – Dr.
Abigail LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Alva The Sporting Life Voice-and-fiddle duo Vivien Ellis and Giles Lewin make a welcome return to the Lufthansa Festival for another specially researched programme of ballads and popular tunes. For 2012 they take up a sporting theme, searching through the vast legacy of printed verse and music compilations, or 'miscellanies', to find long-lost songs offering insights into 18th-century attitudes to such timeless diversions as wrestling, boxing, cricket and horseracing, as well as forgotten sports such as stoolball, cudgels and quarterstaff. 'Beautiful, vehement playing' Daily Telegraph £15 Unreserved seating Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts (not available online) In association with Rolls Royce
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC La Serenissima Vivaldi L'Olimpiade‡ (concert performance) 'La Serenissima play with such finesse, such precision, and yet
such rollicking £35 / £25 / £18 / £15 Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts
In association with Rolls Royce ***Please note change from published brochure
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Festival Walk – Handel's West End Handel made London his home from 1712 until his death in 1759, a
period during which the West End became the fashionable enclave it
remains to this day. Our Festival Walk, led by a Blue Badge Guide, will begin in Haymarket
at the site of the composer's early operatic triumphs and wend its way
though St. James's and Mayfair to his home in Brook Street, which we
shall visit. The walk and tour of Handel House Museum will take approximately 100 minutes. Walks begin at the entrance to Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, SW1Y
4QL. The nearest underground £12 Please note tickets can not be bought on the day
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Ensemble Meridiana Europe Reconciled – Trios and Quadros by Telemann Consisting of instrumentalists from five different countries,
Ensemble Meridiana has won first prizes at several major early-music
competitions since its formation only five years ago. For us they
journey into the eclectic musical mind of Georg Philipp Telemann, one of
the 18th century's most personable composers, whose delight was to take
the national styles of Italy, France, Germany and Poland and mix them
into a distinctively new and refined manner of his own. '... humerous, exhuberant and original' Göttinger Tageblatt £15 Unreserved seating Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts (not available online) In association with Rolls Royce
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC The Lufthansa Lecture – Andrew Manze The Pursuit of Excellence – A Call to Arms Andrew Manze is known to many for his captivating and daring
performances Free ticketed event
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Musica ad Rhenum Les nations – Couperin the Internationalist Couperin La Françoise (Les nations); Douziême Concert (Les
goûts-réünis); 'Music of days gone by that today goes straight in to the heart
and feet, as if £28 / £22 / £15 / £10 Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts (not available online) In association with Rolls Royce
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Dunedin Consort & Players The Contest of Phoebus and Pan J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3; Cantata No.207
Vereinigte Zwietracht 'No performance could better justify small-scale Bach than this
convincing £35 / £25 / £18 / £15 Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts
In association with Rolls Royce
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Harmonie Universelle Muffat Sonata No.2 in G minor (Armonico tributo); Violin
Sonata in D; 'Sensual and catchy ... seductive freshness and elegance.' Diapason £28 / £22 / £15 / £10 Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts
In association with Rolls Royce
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC The Choir of Westminster Abbey | St. James's Baroque From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony The annual visit to Westminster Abbey, scene of many great national
events, 'This is cathedral choral singing at its finest and most inspiring.' The Daily Telegraph £40* / £30 / £25 / £18 / £15 / £10 (no view)
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Elizabeth Wallfisch violin | Jaap ter
Linden cello/viola da gamba Le Grand Concours – France Plays Italy Uccellini Sonata ottava in D minor 'Professional Baroque music-making at the highest level ... A
memorable concert £28 / £22 / £15 / £10 Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts
In association with Rolls Royce
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Ensemble Savādi Since winning the Early Music Network International Young Artists'
Competition in 'Prepare to be moved and charmed.' Early Music Today £15 Unreserved seating Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts
In association with Rolls Royce
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Festival Tour - Baroque Greenwich Our Festival Tour visits a World Heritage Site described by UNESCO as
Starting from Greenwich Pier, the tour, led by a Blue Badge Guide,
will include Inigo Jones's exquisite Queen's House, the grand design of
Sir Christopher Wren's Royal Hospital for Seamen, and Sir James
Thornhill's majestic Painted Hall within the Hospital. The tour will take approximately 100 minutes. The tour begins by the statue of Sir Walter Raleigh at the entrance
to 'Discover Greenwich', close to £12 Please note tickets can not be bought on the day
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Festival Walk – Handel's West End Handel made London his home from 1712 until his death in 1759, a
period during which the West End became the fashionable enclave it
remains to this day. Our Festival Walk, led by a Blue Badge Guide, will begin in Haymarket
at the site of the composer's early operatic triumphs and wend its way
though St. James's and Mayfair to his home in Brook Street, which we
shall visit. The walk and tour of Handel House Museum will take approximately 100 minutes. Walks begin at the entrance to Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, SW1Y
4QL. The nearest underground £12 Please note tickets can not be bought on the day
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Kimberley Marshall organ The Klais organ at St. John's, Smith Square has only occasionally
been heard 'A multi-faceted musician who pushed the organ to its limit with her virtuosic demands ... A royal performance by one of our royalty!' The American Organist £15 Unreserved seating
LUFTHANSA FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Early Opera Company Please note: For personal reasons, Rosemary Joshua has unfortunately had to withdraw from this concert. The Lufthansa Festival is delighted that Lisa Milne has agreed to take her place at short notice. Handel and the Rival Queens Two feisty modern-day sopranos, aided by one of the rising-star
conductors in the Baroque opera world, take on the roles of the great
rival divas of Handel's London operas of the 1720s, Francesca Cuzzoni
and Faustina Bordoni. So notorious was their competition that a play was
written about them, and even Handel's best attempts to provide them with
precisely equal parts could not prevent their animosity boiling over
into a fight on stage! This programme includes arias from Handel's
Ottone, Giulio Cesare, Admeto and Alessandro, and by Hasse and Porpora,
as well as readings from contemporary sources. 'The Early Opera Company is rapidly establishing itself as one of
the best purveyors of Handel in this country. Christian Curnyn has as
infallible a sense of tempo and musico-dramatic shape as the composer
himself.' £35 / £25 / £18 / £15 Please contact the Box Office for information on series discounts
In association with Rolls Royce
Alexander Ardakov piano Homage to Schumann Schumann Papillons op.2; Symphonic Etudes op.13; In May; The Walnut Tree; The Lotus; Thou’rt like unto a flower; Dedication; Carnaval op.9 £25 / £20 / £15 / £10
THURSDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES Tee Khoon Tang violin Schubert Fantasy in C D.934 £10
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