Past events from 2020

• Sunday 18 October 2020 at 3.00PM

  Preview of Haiku 2: Insects

  Haiku 2: Insects performed by Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

  Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, IP17 1SP

  Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani has performed part of Insects, the new piece by Michael Berkeley, at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Insects was written for Esfahani, and is a work that naturally follows on from Berkeley's birds-inspired Haiku for piano. Esfahani is also a master in the performance of Bach's music, and this concert's programme also included the French Dance Suites.

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  Thursday 04 June 2020 at 1.00PM

  Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake live at Wigmore Hall

  A Dark Waltz (extended version) performed by Nicholas Daniel (oboe) & Julius Drake (piano)

  Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP

  BBC Radio 3 broadcast a live Lunchtime Concert from London's Wigmore Hall, including an extended version of Michael Berkeley's 'A Dark Waltz', arranged especially for Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake. The concert took place without an audience present, and is part of a series of twenty recitals - the first live concerts since the start of lockdown. The series features some of the UK's finest instrumentalists and singers in music from the 16th century to the present day.

  Photo: Wigmore Hall, London

• Thursday 23 April 2020 at 7.30PM

  Somewhere: An English-Austrian Song Recital

  Haiku 1: Birds, Ode - In Memoriam, Speaking Silence, Three Cabaret Songs, Three Rilke Sonnets & Three songs to children

  Roter Salon, WipplingerstraBe 20, Wien, 1010, Austria

  This special evening will see the young virtuoso mezzo-soprano Josipa Bainac, accompanied by pianist David Hausknecht and cellist Arne Kircher, interpret recent compositions by Austrian and English composers. The programme includes 'Ode - In Memoriam', 'Blow Northern Wind' from 'Speaking Silence', 'Hard times' from 'Three Cabaret Songs', 'A Cradle Song' & 'A Child Asleep' from 'Three Songs to Children', 'Haiku' and 'Und fast ein Madchen' from 'Three Rilke Sonnets' by Michael Berkeley. Also on the programme are works by Lennox Berkeley, Erich. W. Korngold and Akos Banlaky. The concert has a unique symbiotic twist: English poetry set to Austrian compositions, and vice versa.

• Monday 23 March 2020 at 1.05PM

  St. Martin within Ludgate lunchtime recital

  Ode - In Memoriam

  The Church of St. Martin within Ludgate, 40 Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M 7DE

  Unfortunately this event is postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Watch this space for new dates.
  
  A varied programme of music including 'Ode - In Memoriam' by Michael Berkeley, and works by composers including Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Banlaky and Lennox Berkeley.

• Sunday 22 March 2020 at 7.30PM

  Walpole Street Concert

  Three Rilke Sonnets

  Music Room, 14 Walpole Street, London, SW3 4QP

  Unfortunately this event is postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Watch this space for new dates.
  
  Charles Rose presents a performance of Michael Berkeley's 'Und fast ein Madchen', the second of 'Three Rilke Sonnets', together with a varied programme of works by composers including Handel, Beethover, Wilding, Mahler, Banlaky and Lennox Berkeley. Ticket enquiries to Sarah.Mansfield@unilever.com

• Wednesday 18 March 2020

  Music, Dance and Prince Henrik's poems

  Second Still Life performed by Janne Thomsen (flute)

  Musikteatret Holstebro, Den Rode Pl. 16, Holstebro, 7500, Denmark

  Janne Thomsen performs 'Second Still Life' for flute and guitar at concerts in Holstebro, Denmark, on 18 and 19 March. The concert also includes dance, poetry by Prince Henrik, music by Chick Corea, Golijov, Faure, Ravel, Nielsen, Norgaard, and the premiere of a work by Danish composer Bo Holten.