Classical music and jazz: Latest listings> May 20
Published: 20 May 2010
FRIDAY MAY 21
Chopin cello pieces: Robin Michael, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free
Jazz voice & piano mini-fest: Lea Delaria sings with pianist Janette Mason, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1,020 7520 1490, 7.30pm, from £9.50 super-saver online at www.kingsplace.co.uk
Czech pianist Lada Valesova plays Czech piano music, Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, 07721 592869, 7.30pm, £15/con £10
Contemporary jazz: 14-piece Beats & Pieces Big Band, The Forge, 3 Delancey Street, NW1, 020 7383 7808, 9pm, £7
SATURDAY MAY 22
Nordoff Robbins fundraiser: Tessa Uys, one of South Africa’s most distinguished pianists, plays Haydn, Janacek and Schumann, Nordoff Robbins London Centre, 2 Lissenden Gardens, NW5, 020 7267 4496, 7pm, £10
Jazz voice & piano: Claire Martin sings with Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Kings Place (see Friday)
SUNDAY MAY 23
Trombonist Malcolm Earle Smith joins Pete Chapman Trio, Princess of Wales, 22 Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill, 020 7722 0354, 2pm, free
Journey through Schubert’s Winterreisse and Schoenber’s Buch de Hungenden Garten, Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, 07546 200 732, 7pm, £10/con £7
World Jewish Relief fundraiser: well-loved opera pieces, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6,
020 8907 4564, 8.30pm, £9/con£7.50
MONDAY MAY 24
Maggie Teyte prizewinner: soprano Anna Patalong, Crush Room, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000, 1pm, free/seats 10am RoH box office
La Traviata singalong: no singing experience needed, Clore Studio, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000, 5.30pm/6.30pm, £10/students £6
Tom Challenger’s MA, The Con Bar, 42 St Pancras Way, NW1, 07830 255 958, 8.30pm, £5
Dan Spanner Big Band, Cross Keys, 126 York Way, N1, 020 7278 8318, 8.30pm, free
TUESDAY MAY 25
Mark Lockheart Group, The Oxford, 256 Kentish Town Road, 020 7485 3521, 8.30pm, £5
French romantic songs: radiant young mezzo Esther Brazil, and pianist Hester Crombie, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, 07951 117 359, 8.30pm, £5
WEDNESDAY MAY 26
Alex Garnett joins Michael Janisch Trio, Green Man, 383 Euston Road, NW1, 7.45pm, £10
THURSDAY MAY 27
Cello recital: Peteer Wispelway plays stirring romantic pieces, LSO St Luke’s, 161 Old Street, EC1, 020 7490 3939, 1pm, £9/con £7/under-16s £4
Recital: Mike Parker single action harp and Rosemary Edwards baroque cello, St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, NW1, 020 7388 1461, 1.15pm, free
Double act: cellist Natalie Clein accompanies Greta Garbo in 1926 silent film The Temptress, Kings Place, 90 York Way, Kings Cross, 020 7520 1490, 7.30pm, £9.50 online saver-seat
Martin Drew’s New Jazz Couriers, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6, 020 8348 8716, 8.30pm, £9/con£7.50
Acclaimed young Russian pianist Alexei Volodin plays two late Beethoven sonatas, plus Chopin’s 24 preludes, op 28, Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, W1, 020 7935 2141, 7.30pm, from £15