Event

12 May 2012 to 18 May 2012

Pangolin London N1 9AG[map]

British Silver Week launches at Pangolin London once again this year with five days of themed exhibitions featuring more than 100 of Britain’s finest contemporary silversmiths.

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V&A Museum of Childhood E2 9PA[map]

Project to preserve the archives of four major 20th century British toy manufacturers.

15 February 2012

Royal Academy Of Music NW1 5HT[map]

A classical performance of works by Bowen: Viola Sonata no.1; Wood: Theme and Variations; Tertis: Variations on Handel’s Passacaglia for two violas; James Dillon: Siorram; John Hawkins: Tri for six violas; Howard Blake: Prelude; and George Benjamin: Viola Viola.

15 June 2012

Wigmore Hall W1U 2BP[map]

Amjad Ali Khan concludes his Wigmore Hall series in his guise as composer, giving the world première of his latest work for sarod and an ensemble of western classical instruments. He will be joined by members of one of Britain's most creative and versatile chamber orchestras, the Britten Sinfonia.

21 March 2012

Wigmore Hall W1U 2BP[map]

Franck’s Piano Quintet stands at this programme’s centre. The composition’s 1879 première marked a watershed moment in the history of chamber music, thanks not least to its broad emotional range and abundant passion, possibly inspired by Franck’s infatuation for one of his young students. This concert likewise broadens the repertoire with a new work, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, by Luke Bedford, resident composer at Wigmore Hall. Bedford has been noted for writing music of brooding intensity, in which every note carries maximum expressive impact.

27 February 2012

Queen Elizabeth Hall SE1 8XX[map]

A French strand threads its way through the programme as Thomas Ades conducts works by Couperin, his own Three Studies on Couperin and Ravel's tribute to the memory of 18th-century French music. This compelling concert climaxes with Ades' own Violin Concerto performed by mercurial Pekka Kuusisto. Subtitled Concentric Paths, each of the concerto's three movements has its own circular design containing spiralling high jinks, shifting harmonic sands and other-worldly soundscapes. There is also a pre-concert talk with Pekka Kuusisto.

7 March 2012

Barbican EC2Y 8DS[map]

Featuring the work of Mendelssohn: Elijah.

17 May 2012

Queen Elizabeth Hall SE1 8XX[map]

Leading tenor and regular Britten Sinfonia collaborator Mark Padmore brings all his artistry to this Viennese programme of beguiling song. At its heart lies Mahler's four captivating and haunting songs of love, loneliness and longing, Vier Ruckert-Lieder. In addition Padmore will sing Schubert Lieder in elegant and tender orchestrations by Webern. The concert concludes with Schubert's sparkling Symphony No 5. Written for a private orchestra, with no pretensions of being made public Schubert's Fifth Symphony is one of his most engaging, containing a wonderful inventiveness. There is also a pre-concert talk with Padmore.

2 May 2012

Wigmore Hall W1U 2BP[map]

A new work by Jonathan Dove, commissioned with support from the many donors who generously supported the Tenner for a Tenor campaign, is given its premiere in this concert. This new piece will form the filling for the sandwich at this lunchtime convert with the programme beginning with Vaughan Williams' 10 Blake Songs scored for just tenor and oboe and ending with perhaps Peter Warlock's best work, The Curlew.

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Ferndale Community Sports Centre SW9 8BP[map]

A local dance group teaching children and adults of all ages to streetdance.

Recurring event

Brixton Art Gallery SW9 8PB[map]

Brixtongue is an established performance poetry night.