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ELGAR - A Musical Diary
of concerts and other events
featuring works by Elgar

April 2010


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Thursday 1 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Symphony No. 2
(plus Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra,
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending)

Elena Urioste - violin;
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Sir Mark Elder

For further details: telephone (USA) 312 294 3000

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Friday 2 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, USA

Sea Pictures
Pleading
Speak, Music
(plus music by Quilter, Stanford, Argento, Lehmann, White,
Peel, Warlock, Vaughan Williams and Gurney)

Alice Coote - mezzo-soprano; Julius Drake - piano

Tickets: $49 - $32, telephone (USA) 1 415 677 0325

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Friday 2 April 2010, 6.30 pm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1379 Sherbrooke West, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada

Piano Quintet
(plus Dohnanyi - Serenade for String Trio, Puccini - Crisantemi)

Andrew Beer - violin; Brigitte Rolland - violin;
Lambert Jun-Yuan Chen - viola; Michael Nicolas - cello

Tickets: $25, telephone (Canada) 1 514 285 2000

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Friday 2 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Saturday 3 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Uihlein Hall,
929 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Symphony No. 1
(plus Berlioz - Overture to Beatrice et Benedict,
Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2)

Garrick Ohlsson - piano;
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Edo de Waart

For further details: telephone (USA) 1 414 273 7206

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Saturday 3 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Tuesday 6 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Symphony No. 2
(plus Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra,
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending)

Elena Urioste - violin;
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Sir Mark Elder

For further details: telephone (USA) 312 294 3000

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Thursday 8 April 2010, 7.30 pm
First Baptist New Orleans, 5290 Canal Boulevard,
New Orleans, LA, USA

Enigma Variations
(plus Copland - Quiet City, Bernstein - Serenade)

Vadim Gluzman - violin;
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Carlos Miguel

Tickets: $65 - $15

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Thursday 8 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theater,
2537 Broadway, New York NY, USA

Enigma Variations
(plus Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending,
Sibelius - Symphony No. 3)

Jessica Lee - violin;
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Nathan Madsen

Tickets: $18, telephone (USA) 1 212 864 5400

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Friday 9 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Saturday 10 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Long Center for the Performing Arts,
701 West Riverside Drive, Austin, TX, USA

Chopin - Funeral March
(plus Chopin/Stravinsky - Grande Valse Brillante,
Chopin - Piano Cocnerto No. 2, Schumann - Symphony No. 1)

Ingrid Fliter - piano;
Austin Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Peter Bay

Tickets: $48 - $19, telephone (USA)1 512 476 6064

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Saturday 10 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Orpheum Theatre, 601 Smithe Street, Vancouver, Canada

Enigma Variations
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
(plus Brahms - Hungarian Dances, Grieg - Piano Concerto)

Joyce Yang - piano;
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Bramwell Tovey

Tickets: $56 - $20 telephone (Canada) 1 604 876 3434

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Saturday 10 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Anne S Richardson Auditorium, 90 East Ridge Road,
Ridgefield CT, USA

Cello Concerto
(plus Shostakovich - Festival Overture,
Barber - First Essay for Orchestra,
Respighi - Fountains of Rome)

Melissa Westgate - cello;
The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Gerlad Steichen

Tickets: $50 - $15, telephone (USA) 1 203 438 3889

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Sunday 11 April 2010, 3.00 pm
Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, Sussex

Cello Concerto
Serenade for Strings

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
(plus Walton - Suite from Henry V, Davis - Cranford Suite,
Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden)

Thomas Carroll - cello;
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Carl Davis

Tickets: £28 - £12, telephone 01323 412000

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Sunday 11 April 2010, 6.30 pm
King's Place, York Way, London, N1

Piano Quintet
(plus Haydn - String Quartet Op. 20 No. 4, Kreisler - String Quartet)

Dennis Pascal - piano;
Graffin Quartet

Tickets: £16.50, telephone 0207 520 1490

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Thursday 15 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs Street,
Rochester NY, USA

In the South
(plus Corigliano - Gazebo Dances,
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini,
Schubert - Symphony No. 8)

Misha Dichter - piano;
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Christopher Seaman

For further details: telephone (USA 1 585 454 2100)

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Friday 16 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Saturday 17 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Denver Performing Arts Complex, Boettcher Concert Hall,
1000 14th Street, Denver, CO, USA

Enigma Variations
(plus Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending,
Ravel - Tzigane)

Yumi Hwang-Williams - violin;
Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Douglas Boyd

For further details: telephone (USA) 1 303 623 7876

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Saturday 17 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Kodak Hall at Eastman Tehatre, 60 Gibbs Street,
Rochester NY, USA

In the South
(plus Corigliano - Gazebo Dances,
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini,
Schubert - Symphony No. 8)

Misha Dichter - piano;
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Christopher Seaman

For further details: telephone (USA 1 585 454 2100)

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Saturday 17 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Huddersfield Town Hall, Ramsden Street, Huddersfield, Yorkshire

Symphony No. 1
Froissart
(plus Ellin - Harp Concerto)

Deian Rowlands - piano;
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Benjamin Ellin

Tickets: £14.50 - £7, telephone 01484 223200

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Saturday 17 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Royal Northern College of Music, Oxford Road, Manchester

The Dream of Gerontius

Adrienne Murray - contralto; Mark Wilde - tenor;
Richard Strivens - bass;
Altrincham Choral Society;
Manchester Philharmonia, conductor - Steven Roberts

Tickets: £15 (concessions available), telephone 0161 928 0375

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Saturday 17 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, Dorking, Surrey

The Music Makers
(plus Dyson - Three Songs of Praise)

Anna Stephany - mezzo-soprano;
English Festival Orchestra, conductor Brian Kay

Tickets: £19 - £7, telephone 01403 240093

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Saturday 17 April 2010, 7.30 pm
St. Andrew Church, Station Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Sea Pictures
(plus Rossini - Stabat Mater, Sanders - Festival Te Deum,
Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens)

Philomusica Choir; conductor - Linda Parsons

Tickets: £7

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Saturday 17 April 2010, 7.30 pm
St. Mary's Church, Church Wynd, Richmond, North Yorkshire

From the Bavarian Highlands
(plus Coleridge-Taylor - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast,
Vaughan Williams - In Windsor Forest)

Su McCormack - piano;
Richmondshire Choral Society, conductor - Kathryn Haworth

Tickets: £8, telephone 01325 374112

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Saturday 17 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Gloucester Cathedral, College Green, Gloucester

The Dream of Gerontius

Catherine Wyn-Rogers - mezzo-soprano; Adrian Thompson - tenor;
David Wilson Johnson - baritone;
Cheltenham Bach Choir;
Regency Sinfonia, conductor - Stephen Jackson

Tickets: £22 - £9 (concessions available), telephone 01452 396572

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Thursday 22 April 2010, 7.00 pm
Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13,
Moscow, Russia

Enigma Variations
(plus Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 2)

Russian National Orchestra, conductor - Vassily Sinaisky

For further details: telephone (Russia) 7 095 229 74 12

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Thursday 22 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Exter Cathedral, Devon

Symphony No. 2
(plus Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet, Strauss - Four Last Songs)

Iris Korfker - soprano;
Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Marion Wood

For further details: telephone 01647 252707

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Thursday 22 April 2010, 6.00 pm
Fundacion del Banco de la Republica, Popayan, Colombia

Mazurka
Romance
(plus Haydn - Piano Concerto in Eb, Brahms - Violin Sonata No. 2)

Oriet Nagles - violin; Juan Diego Galindez - piano

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Saturday 24 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

The Wand of Youth - Suite 2

BBC NOW, conductor - Tadaaki Otaka

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Saturday 24 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Pershore Abbey, Pershore, Worcestershire

Sea Pictures
(plus Rossini - Stabat Mater, Sanders - Festival Te Deum,
Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens)

Philomusica Choir; conductor - Linda Parsons

Tickets: £12

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Saturday 24 April 2010, 2.00 pm
Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street,
Kalamazoo MI, USA

Pomp and Circumstance Marches
(plus music by Handel, Lambert, Mendelssohn and Walton)

David Owen Norris - piano

Tickets: $20 (concessions available), telephone (USA) 1 269 387 2300

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Sunday 25 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Stockport Town Hall, Edward Street, Stockport, Cheshire

Symphony No. 1
(plus Rossini - Overture to The Thieving Magpie,
Respighi - Pines of Rome)

Stockport Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Edward Warren

Tickets: £9 (concessions available), telephone 07947 474574

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Sunday 25 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Manchester Cathedral

The Dream of Gerontius

Kathleen Wilkinson - contralto; Adrian Thompson - tenor;
David Soar - bass;
Oldham Choral Society;
East Lancashire Sinfonia, conductor - Nigel Wilkinson

Tickets: £15-£10, telephone 01706 644217

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Tuesday 27 April 2010, 8.00 pm
Chamber Music Hall, Herbert-von-Karajan-Strasse 1,
Berlin, Germany

Cello Concerto
(plus Brahms - Symphony No. 1)

Alisa Weilerstein - cello;
Berlin Philharmoni Orchestra, conductor - Daniel Barenboim

For further details: telephone (Germany) 030 254 88 999

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