Gramophone – September 2019

34 GRAMOPHONE SEPTEMBER 2019 gramophone.co.uk

UNITED KINGDOM SEASON PREVIEW 201920

and also a performance of the inal
act of Fidelio and the rare oratorio
Christ on the Mount of Olives, both
under Music Director Mark Elder.
Alice Coote appears in three
concerts, James Ehnes plays the
Britten Violin Concerto and Elder
turns his hand to complete concert
performances of Puccini’s tragic
opera Madama Butterly.
halle.co.uk

Kings Place
Kings Place has made a tremendous
success of its ‘Unwrapped’ series
which this year turns its attention to
Venus – women in classical music
as composers, performers, muses
and more. The series includes
visits from the Elias Quartet, cellists
Zoë Keating and Natalie Clein,
composer Caroline Shaw, Theatre
of Voices, The Sixteen and the
Royal Northern College of Music
Orchestra visiting from Manchester.
kingsplace.co.uk

London Mozart Players
Following an opening gala at
the newly refurbished Fairield
Halls on September 18, the LMP
begin a jam-packed season which
features soloists including Sheku
Kanneh-Mason, Jess Gillam and
Craig Ogden, and unmissable
repertoire such as Haydn’s Creation,
Verdi’s Requiem and a community
production of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde.
londonmozartplayers.com

London Philharmonic Orchestra

The LPO concludes its British music

series ‘Isle of Noises’ with works by

Foulds, Walton and Vaughan Williams

and a celebration of great British

ilm scores. It then launches a new

series, ‘2020 Vision’, focusing on

works written since the turn of the

century. Vladimir Jurowski’s concert

performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle

continues with Siegfried.

lpo.org.uk

London Sinfonietta

London Sinfonietta presents

exciting new works including Philip

Venables’s thought-provoking opera

Denis & Katya, about a modern-day

tragedy, Georg Friedrich Haas’s

world premiere in response to artist

Bridget Riley and a commission

from Norwegian saxophonist

Marius Neset, as well as music by

Harrison Birtwistle, Gerald Barry,

Tansy Davies and others.

londonsinfonietta.org.uk

London Symphony Orchestra

Viola player Antoine Tamestit joins

the LSO at the Barbican as part

of his Artist Portrait tenure, while

Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda

and François-Xavier Roth preside

over a season exploring roots

and origins and containing a fair

amount of Beethoven. Meanwhile,

Michael Tilson Thomas celebrates

50 years of working with the LSO.

lso.co.uk

Manchester Camerata

The Camerata’s quest to perform

all of Mozart’s piano concertos and

opera overtures in Manchester

continues, with Gábor Takács-Nagy

and Jean-Elam Bavouzet returning

to the Bridgewater Hall for a season

opener which takes in Concertos

Nos 8, 9 and 29. The season

continues at Stoller Hall, the RNCM,

the Town Hall and the Cathedral.

manchestercamerata.co.uk

Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras

The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et

Romantique’s contribution to the

Beethoven anniversary will include

a full symphony cycle in the irst

half of 2020, visiting Barcelona,

Chicago, New York and London’s

Barbican Centre. Meanwhile, sister

ensembles the Monteverdi Choir

and English Baroque Soloists take

their programme of Monteverdi,

Domenico Scarlatti, Purcell and

Carissimi on tour to Russia and Brazil.

monteverdi.co.uk

NYO of Great Britain

The National Youth Orchestra tours

Hans Eisler’s Auf den Strassen

zu Singen, Britten’s Sinfonia da

Requiem and Shostakovich’s

cinematic Symphony No 11, The

Year 1905, all under the charismatic

Anglo-Spanish conductor Jaime

Martín. There’s also a Beethoven

Ninth under Marin Alsop.

nyo.org.uk

Opera North

An eclectic season includes Handel’s

Giulio Cesare, Kurt Weill’s Street

Scene and a new production of

Martinů’s The Greek Passion from

Christopher Alden. The company also

leaves Leeds to tour to Newcastle,

Nottingham and Manchester

operanorth.co.uk

Orchestra of the Age

of Enlightenment

Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Masaaki

Suzuki opens the OAE’s season.

Roger Norrington returns for

Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos 2

and 3, Iván Fischer conducts

Mozart’s last three symphonic

scores and Georey Paterson takes

charge of a smorgasbord of works

that relect the Faust legend.

oae.co.uk

Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia’s Weimar Berlin

series spills into a second season,

with a Berlin cabaret at the Queen

Elizabeth Hall. Principal Conductor

Designate Santtu-Matias Rouvali

focuses on Slavic repertoire with

a complete Swan Lake, Prokoiev’s

Symphony No 5 and Khachaturian’s

Violin Concerto, joined for the latter

by Nemanja Radulović.

philharmonia.co.uk

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Orchestra

A decade after his last Mahler cycle

on Merseyside, Vasily Petrenko

returns to the symphonies,

conducting all nine over the course

of 2020. Mezzo Jennifer Johnston is

Artist-in-Residence for the duration

of the season, appearing in Handel’s

Messiah and Beethoven’s Symphony

No 9, while Sheku Kanneh-Mason

is Young-Artist-in-Residence.

liverpoolphil.com

Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera presents Barrie

Kosky’s new Agrippina and a new

Jenůfa from Claus Guth featuring

Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian,

who makes her company debut in

the title-role. Two Britten operas also

receive new productions: Death in

Venice and The Turn of the Screw.

roh.org.uk

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Robert Trevino conducts the season

opener at the Royal Festival Hall

Leeds-based Opera North presents a typically eclectic season of Weil, Martinů and (pictured above) Handel’s Giulio Cesare

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