This year's City of London Festival features Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world. One of the first concerts was on June 24th, featuring the Elias Quartet. They played Villa-Lobos's First String Quartet, and you can hear their concert on BBC Radio 3 on Friday, July 9th, at 13:00 British Summer Time, and on the BBC iPlayer for a week afterwards. Read Ben Hogwood's review of the review at ClassicalSource.com (follow Ben on Twitter @benjammin22).
Another Villa-Lobos concert in the Festival was by pianist Arthur Pizarro, on July 1st. Read Ben's review here - I'm hoping this will also show up on Radio3.
Here are the ten concerts from this year's Festival that include works by Villa-Lobos:
City of London Festival - Events - Artur Pizarro
City of London Festival - Events - 6pm series: Daniela Lehner
City of London Festival - Events - 6pm Series: Tai Murray
City of London Festival - Events - 6pm Series: Elias String Quartet
City of London Festival - Events - Patricia Rozario and Antonio Meneses
City of London Festival - Events - Tomorrow's Artists Today (8): Cellophony cello octet
City of London Festival - Events - 6pm series: Nicolas Altstaedt
City of London Festival - Events - Adam Walker, Morgan Szymanski and O Duo
City of London Festival - Events - BBC Singers
City of London Festival - Events - Joanna MacGregor & Britten Sinfonia
Ben Hogwood's review of the Britten Sinfonia/Joanna MacGregor concert is here: http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=8338
ReplyDeleteListen to the concert on BBC Radio3 July 8 at 19:00.