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

July 2008


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Saturday 5 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Wilmslow Parish Rooms, Cliff Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire

The Shower
(plus music by Erod, Holst, Bullard, Rutter, McDowall,

The Maia Singers

For further details: telephone 0161 428 5456

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Saturday 5 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Strode Theatre, Street, Somerset

Sea Pictures
Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1
(plus Smyth - Overture to The Wreckers, Arnold - Cornish Dances,
Bax - Tintagel, Arnold - Padstow Lifeboat, Parry - Jerusalem)

Kathy Taylor-Jones - mezzo-soprano;
Mid-Somerset Orchestra, conductor Paul Denegri

Tickets: £9 (concessions available), telephone 01458 442846

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Saturday 5 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Port Regis School, Motcombe Park, Shaftesbury, Dorset

In The South
(plus Schumann - Symphony No. 4, Songs by Strauss and Mahler)

Kate Sayles - soprano;
Dorset County Orchestra - conductor - Ian Pillow

Tickets: £8 (concessions available), telephone 01747 857800

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Saturday 5 July 2008, 8.00 pm
The Old Gym, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire

Enigma Variations
(plus Arnold - Scottish Dances, Dodd - Irish Idyll,
Williams - Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Themes)

Crowthorne Orchestra, conductor - Robert Roscoe

Tickets: £10, telephone 0118 972 2164

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Saturday 5 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Uxbridge College Sports Hall, Park Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex

From the Bavarian Highlands
(plus Coleridge Taylor - Hiawatha's Wedding Fest)

Hillingdon Choral Society, conductor - Peter Williams

Tickets: £10 - £3, telephone 0208 841 6370

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Sunday 6 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Worth Abbey, Paddockhurst Road, Turners Hill, Sussex

The Dream of Gerontius

Neil Jenkins - tenor; Susan Legg - mezzo-soprano;
Jonathan Summers - baritone;
Sussex Chorus, East Sussex Bach Choir,
London Gala Orchestra, conductor - Brian Wright

Tickets: £20 - £9.50, telephone 01273 890598

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Sunday 6 July 2008, 7.00 pm
New Wimbledon Theatre, The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, S.W.

Enigma Variations
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
(plus music by Walton, Clarke, Wood and Arne)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Mark Forkgen

Tickets: £28 - £11, telephone 0870 060 6616

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Sunday 6 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Palace Theatre, Alcester Street, Redditch

Bavarian Dances
Introduction and Allegro
Sea Pictures
Dream Children

Melanie Marshall - mezzo-soprano;
Orchestra of the Swan, conductor - David Curtis

For further details: telephone 01527 65203

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Monday 7 July 2008, 7.00 pm
Banqueting House, Whitehall, London

From the Bavarian Highlands
(plus music by Vaughan Williams, Britten and Chilcott)

Whitehall Choir, conductor - Paul Spicer

For further details: telephone 020 7930 4179

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Tuesday, July 8, 7.30 pm
Wilton's Music Hall, Graces Alley, London, E1 8JB

Elgar and the Violin
Etudes Characteristiques
Sospiri

Peter Sheppard Skaerved - violin;
David Owen Norris - piano

Admission: , pay what you can, telephone: 020 7702 2789

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Town Hall, Vicar Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire

The Wand of Youth - Suite 1
(plus Mozart - overture to The Magic Flute,
Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad,
Borodin - overture to Prince Igor, Borodin - Symphony No. 2)

Wyre Forest Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martin Leigh

Tickets: £10 - £7 (concessions available), telephone 01562 732158

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 7.45 pm
Walthamstow Assembly Hall, Forest Road, London

The Dream of Gerontius

Vox Cordia; South West Essex Choir;
Forest Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Ben Palmer

For further details: telephone 01277 219853

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Central Church, Tor Hill Road, Torquay, Devon

From the Bavarian Highlands
(plus Parry - The Pied Piper of Hamelin,
Coleridge-Taylor - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)

South Devon Choir, conductor - John Hobbs

Tickets: £8, telephone 0870 7070010

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Ely Cathedral, The College, Ely, Cambridgeshire

The Music Makers
(plus Bernstein - Chichester Psalms, Bloch - Schelomo)

Heather Shipp - mezzo-soprano;
Natalie Clein - cello;
Cambridge Philharmonic Society, conductor Timothy Redmond

Tickets: £25 - £15, telephone 01353 660349

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Auden Theatre, Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk

The Dream of Gerontius

Mark Wilde - tenor; Harriet Goodwin - mezzo-soprano;
Geoff Davidson - bass;
Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society, conductor - David McKee

Tickets: £10 (concessions available), telephone 01263 713444

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 9.00 pm
Schlosspark, Land Fleesensee, Germany

Violin Concerto

Nigel Kennedy - violin;
Lutoslawski Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra,
conductor - Jacek Kaspszyk

For further details: telephone (Germany) 0385 591 85 85

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 7.30 pm
St. John's Church, Epping

From the Bavarian Highlands
(plus Gounod - Mass No. 7)

Epping Church Choirs Association, conductor - Simon Winters

Programmes: £2 (retiring collection)

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Tuesday 15 July 2008
St. Edmund's Church, Northwood Hills, Middlesex

24 hour Organ Marathon

Elgar hour - 2 pm
Concert, including the two Chansons, 7.30 pm
Mark Hammond - organ

For further information: telephone 020 8386 1280

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Friday 17 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

The Dream of Gerontius

Paul Groves - tenor; Alice Coote - mezzo-soprano;
Bryn Terfel - bass;
Halle Choir, Halle Youth Choir,
Halle Orchestra, conductor - Mark Elder

For further details: telephone 0161 907 9000/P>

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Saturday 19 July 2008, 8.00 pm
Royal Albert Hall, London

Violin Concerto
(plus Bax - The Garden of Fand, Finzi - Intimations of Immortality

Nigel Kennedy - violin;
BBC Symhony Chorus;
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor - Vernon Handley

For further details: telephone 0845 401 5040

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Saturday 19 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Christchurch Priory, Dorset

Te Deum and Benedictus
(plus Rutter - Requiem, Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens,
Bairstow - Five Poems of The Spirit)

Grange Choral Society conductor - Daniel Cook

Tickets: £14 - £9, telephone 01202 471780

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Tuesday 22 July 2008, 7.00 pm
Royal Albert Hall, London

Symphony No. 1
(plus Rossini - overture to William Tell, Haydn - Cello Concerto No. 1)

Jean-Guihen Queyras - cello;
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Roger Norrington

For further details: telephone 0845 401 5040

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Wednesday 23 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Temple Church, Fleet Street, London

Imperial March
(plus music by Dvorak, Stanley, Davies, Ives, Wagner, Dussek and Lindblad)

Carlo Curley - organ

Tickets: £20 - £10, telephone 020 7427 5640

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Friday 25 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Temple Methodist Church, 1 Pebble Lane,
Budleigh Salterton, Devon

Canto Popolare
(plus music by Mozart, Ireland, Weber, Bernstein,
Messiaen, Chopin and Dankworth)

Emma Johnson - clarinet; Andrew West - piano

Tickets: £12.50, telephone 01395 445275

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