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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Clements

Classical highlights for the week ahead: 16-23 October

The Kanneh-Mason family - at the Barbican for the first London concert together,
The Kanneh-Mason family - at the Barbican for the first London concert together, Photograph: Stuart McIntyre

Weekend recitals at Snape

Steven Osborne plays Rachmaninov, Alina Ibragimova performs an all-Bach programme for solo violin, and there’s Bach French Suites and a new work for harpsichord by Michael Berkeley from Mahan Esfahani in the latest series of short recitals at the Maltings.
• Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 16-18 October, ticketed live performances

4/4

The first of the Royal Opera’s one-off productions packages four works in a design by Antony Macdonald, with a different director for each. Alexandra Lowe and Jonathan McGovern are the soloists in Handel’s Apollo and Daphne, and Allan Clayton is the protagonist in HK Gruber’s Frankenstein!!; Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha is the soloist in Barber’s Knoxville, and Christine Rice sings Britten’s Phaedra.
• Royal Opera House, London, 17 October, ticketed live performance, streamed online (£)

Alina Ibragimova in a live-streamed concert at the Wigmore Hall earlier this year
Alina Ibragimova in a live-streamed concert at the Wigmore Hall earlier this year Photograph: Wigmore Hall

The Kanneh-Mason Family in concert

The siblings promise a wide-ranging evening ranging from Mozart to Eric Whitacre. There are piano trios from cellist Sheku, violinist brother Braimah and pianist sister Isata, as well as Barber’s Cello Sonata and Schubert impromptus, before all seven siblings get together for their own arrangement of a medley from Fiddler on the Roof.
• Barbican, London, 22 October, ticketed live performance and streamed online (£)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Mark Elder guests with the BBC SSO to conduct Bach (the first of the Brandenburg Concertos), Stravinsky (the ballet score Danses Concertantes), and a rarity that seems to be a special favourite of his, the Chamber Symphony by Franz Schreker.
• City Halls, Glasgow, 22 October, live performance, streamed online

Lyric Solitude

English Touring Opera launches its imaginative autumn touring programme with two one-acters. The mezzo Susan Bickley makes her directorial debut with Argento’s A Water Bird Talk, in which baritone Julien Van Mellaerts is the oppressed ornithologist, and James Conway stages Poulenc’s La Voix humaine, with Paula Sides as the desperate soprano protagonist.
• Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 23 October, ticketed live performances



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