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Sorry, it's the York Symphony Orchestra, soloist in the Sibelius is Will Clark.  Hope this helps.

Another one local to me:

Sir Jack Lyons Concert hall, York University, 30Mar2024 at 7.30pm:

Emile Mayer: Overture in D minor
Bruckner: Symphony no.4
Sibelius: Violin concerto

Might be able to get there!

I also have this in a boxed set and have never listened to it...

Does anyone have any insights into how this compares with the earlier complete piano music recording on Genesis with Adrian Ruiz?

I also have to say that i've yet to hear a piece by Goetz that I don't like!

There's also a recording by Giovanna Gatto on Volume 1 of the complete piano music on Toccata Classics.

Excellent news!

Interesting news of a concert at the York Late Music festival:

Saturday 6th April, 1:00pm - Amabile: Lesley Schatzberger (clarinet), Nicola Tait Baxter (cello) & Paul Nicholson (piano)
The Schatzberger players bring the distinctive blend of clarinet, cello and piano to life with the combination of iconic trios by Brahms and Louise Farrenc.

I shall have to investigate further, by the sounds of it semloh!

Thank you.

Best regards
Jonathan

I also like the piano concerto however, I used to have one of the Marco Polo discs of solo piano music and I found it dull and uninteresting.  That said, the Marco Polo disc of his Liszt transcriptions is superb.  It's about time I gave that a spin again!

Best regards
Jonathan

And later in the same location, the pianist Clare Hammond is playing this very interesting programme:

Sunday 24 March at 11am, The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate

Hélène de Montgeroult - Etudes No. 62, 67, 104, 110, 111
Ravel - Miroirs
Clara Schumann - 3 Romances, Op. 21
Edmund Finnis - Youth
Coleridge-Taylor - 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 3 'Take Nabandji'
Coleridge-Taylor  - 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 8 'The Bamboula'
Coleridge-Taylor - 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 10 'Deep River'
Isaac Albéniz - Iberia Book 1, No. 1 'Evocación' and No. 2 'El Puerto'
Isaac Albéniz - IIberia Book 2, No. 3 'Triana'

Best regards,
Jonathan

Hello All,
In January, the clarinettist Robert Plane and the pianist Tim Horton will be playing an eclectic programme (including some works well outside the forum remit) in The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Here's the programme:
Robert Plane | 11am, 28 January 2024

Witold Lutosławski - Dance Preludes
Pamela Harrison - Drifting Away for Clarinet and Piano
Brahms - Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1
Eleanor Alberga - Duo from Dancing with the Shadow
Josef Holbrooke - Eilean Shona, Op. 74
Josef Holbrooke - Selection from Mezo-Tints, Op. 55
Paquito D'Rivera - The Cape Cod Files

Hope this helps!
Best regards
Jonathan

From my FB feed and concerning my nearest concert hall:

The countdown to the Winter Concert is officially on! Come in and get out of the cold this December 17th for an evening of wonderful music at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York University!🎅🏻❄️🎶

Programme to include:

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No.2

Tickets available on our website as usual... see you there!

I don't know the Coleridge-Taylor at all!

Best regards
Jonathan

Great j-oak!

 

...micro-managers among today's conductors who can't see the (complete) wood for (all the individual) trees. If you get my meaning...

Alan, we'd better pray they never try Raff's 3rd then!

I won't be buying this one either!