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• Noah and the Whale plus support 

  Fri 13 Mar 2009 Town Hall

  Playing their first gig in 2006, 4-piece folk rock band Noah and the Whale burst onto the scene in 2008 with their huge summer hit 5 Years Time , and their album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, which made the UK Top 10 Alubms chart. £12 stalls unreserved standing and circle reserved seating
  
  
  

• Lunchtime Organ Concert - Roger Judd  

  Mon 16 Mar 2009 Town Hall

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• Lunchtime Organ Concert - Thomas Trotter  

  Mon 23 Mar 2009 Town Hall

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• Orchestra of the Swan: Essential Mahler  

  Wed 25 Mar 2009 Town Hall

  
  
  *Debussy* _arr Schoenberg_ L'aprés midi d'un faune *Berlioz* _arr Mathews_ Nuit d’été *Mahler* _arr Stein_ Symphony No 4
  

• Haydn’s Surprise  

  Sat 28 Mar 2009 Town Hall

  Following an electrifying CBSO debut last season, Manze celebrates two of this year’s anniversary composers, in the Town Hall where so much of their music was heard in the Triennial Festivals and which Mendelssohn famously visited on a number of occasions. His Reformation Symphony combines Protestant and Catholic themes in a superbly fresh manner, while Haydn’s music is always full of surprises! We are joined by a well loved pianist for major works by both composers.
  Andrew Manze -conductor Angela Hewitt - piano City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  Haydn: Symphony No. 94 (Surprise) 20' Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 20' Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 52 in E flat 17' Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) 33'
  

• Tokyo Quartet with cellist David Watkin  

  Sun 29 Mar 2009 Town Hall

  Schubert’s String Quintet is one of the jewels in the crown of the chamber music repertoire. Its warm-hearted melodies and the rare beauty of its slow movement have made it one of the most popular Desert Island Discs for countless music-lovers. The incomparable Tokyo Quartet is celebrated for its ravishing refinement of tone and ensemble. They perform Schubert’s masterpiece alongside Haydn’s much-loved Emperor Quartet and the fresh innocence of Mendelssohn’s early Quartet in A minor. Tickets £5-£20
  
  *Haydn* String Quartet in C, Op 76, No 3, Emperor 25’ *Mendelssohn* String Quartet in A minor, Op 13 30’ *Schubert* String Quintet in C, D956 55’
  

• Lunchtime Organ Concert - Margaret Phillips  

  Mon 30 Mar 2009 Town Hall

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• Birmingham Choral Union: Handel Messiah  

  Sat 11 Apr 2009 Town Hall

  Birmingham Choral Union was established in the 1880s and has a long history of involvement with the Town Hall, at one time performing there monthly! However, the annual Easter Messiah was a feature of our programme and it is with great pleasure that we are singing Handel’s great oratorio for the first time since the re-opening.
  
  
  

• Orchestra of the Swan: The English Romantic  

  Wed 15 Apr 2009 Town Hall

  £8.50, £12.50, £16.50, £19.50 Choir benches £6.50 60 plus £7.50, £11.50, £15, £17.50 Orchestra of the Swan is a Town Hall Associate Artist. Please note that the choir area is bench seating, the benches are behind the stage area, and there is limited legroom and no back support. The view of the stage from this area is limited. Book 3 or more OOTS concerts in one transaction and receive a 10% reduction. Book all 6 in transaction and receive a 20% reduction. Please call the Box Office direct on 0121 780 3333 to take advantage of these offer
  *Mark Bebbington* Piano
  *Vaughan Williams* The Wasps *John Ireland* Piano concerto No 1 *Brahms* Symphony No 2
  

• Purcell's Dido & Aeneas  

  Sat 18 Apr 2009 Town Hall

  Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is an emotionally charged drama of love, death, fate and the supernatural. Tonight’s fully-staged performance celebrates the 350th anniversary of Purcell’s birth in 1659. It reveals the hopeless love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, like you’ve never heard it before: a stunning reconstruction of the 1700 Lincoln’s Inn Theatre revival of the opera, which reconstructs additional scenes and longlost music and is accompanied by a large and colourful orchestra of period instruments. *BBC music magazine’s editor, Oliver Condy, explains why he has recommended tonight’s concert:* _"Before Elgar came along, Purcell was seen as England’s greatest composer. For many he still is - and Dido and Aeneas is his masterwork. Bringing it to sparkling life is the heady combination of one of the great authentic performance ensembles around today, a legendary director and some a brilliant cast of singers.”_ "BBC Music Magazine":http://www.bbcmusicmagazine.com *6.15pm pre-concert talk* Tickets £5-£30
  *New London Consort* *Philip Pickett* conductor *Jonathan Miller* director *Sue Lefton* choreography, movement *Eskandar* costumes *Julia Gooding* _Dido_ *Michael George* _Aeneas_ *Joanne Lunn* _Belinda_
  *Purcell* Dido and Aeneas (1700) 100’
  

• A Night At The Theatre With Asia  

  Tue 21 Apr 2009 Town Hall

  
  
  
  

• Celebrity Recital: Christian Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt  

  Fri 24 Apr 2009 Town Hall

  This partnership between two of today’s finest soloists is one of the great musical success stories of recent years. Each is a formidable artist in his own right, and as a duo they combine superb virtuosity and engaging musicianship. They are playing three of the most popular sonatas for violin and piano: a musical journey from the grave beauty of Bach’s F minor Sonata to the full-blooded romantic sweep of Cesar Franck, via the serenity of the much-loved a major Sonata by Brahms. Tickets £5-£20
  *Christian Tetzlaff* violin *Lars Vogt* piano
  *Bach* Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018 18’ *Brahms* Sonata in A major, Op 100 20’ *Franck* Sonata in A major 30’
  

• Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle City of Birmingham Choir 

  Sat 25 Apr 2009 Town Hall

  
  
  
  

• Sunday Morning Coffee Concert -Hendrickje Van Kerckhove & Inge Spinette  

  Sun 26 Apr 2009 Town Hall

  
  
  
  

• Sing Hymns with the City Organist  

  Mon 27 Apr 2009 Town Hall

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• Orchestra of the Swan: Tasmin Little and Sibelius  

  Sun 10 May 2009 Town Hall

  
  *Tasmin Little* Violin
  *Sibelius* Rakastava *Roxanna Panufnik* Tibetan Winter Violin & Orchestra *Sibelius* The Swan of Tuonela *Sibelius* Violin concerto
  

• Handel's Arianna  

  Wed 13 May 2009 Town Hall

  Handel heaven for lovers of great singing! We present a truly starstudded international cast for Arianna, the last in the academy of ancient music’s series of Handel operas in Birmingham and a fitting celebration of the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death. Since its first recording in 1999 Arianna has emerged as a forgotten masterpiece, full of vital, colourful music. It is the perfect vehicle for the sublime voices of Angelika Kirchschlager, Alice Coote, Lisa Milne and their colleagues, and baroque opera is a wonderful experience in the intimate and beautiful surroundings of Town Hall. Tickets £5-£30 Please note - Concert performance sung in italian. There will be two intervals.
  *Academy of Ancient Music* *Christopher Hogwood* conductor *Lisa Milne* _Alceste_ *Angelika Kirchschlager* _Teseo_ *Sonia Prina* _Carilda_ *Alice Coote* _Tauride_ *Antonio Abete* _Minos_
  *Handel* Arianna in Creta (1733) 164’
  

• Andsnes Plays Mozart and Beethoven  

  Sun 17 May 2009 Town Hall

  The outstanding pianist Leif Ove Andsnes plays and directs a pair of contrasting classical concertos with his native Norwegian musicians: sparkling, sunny Mozart and turbulent Beethoven. Two much-loved works from a later era continue the classical and Norwegian themes - Prokofiev’s dashing Classical Symphony and Grieg’s Holberg Suite. *Classic FM’s Anne-Marie Minhall says of tonight’s recommended concert:* _ Leif Ove Andsnes is one of my favourite musicians. Not only is he one of the best pianists on the planet, he’s also deeply passionate about every project he undertakes from playing Grieg on top of a Norwegian mountain to running his own annual summer music festival in Risor, three hours from Oslo. Andsnes is also a devoted chamber musician and regularly works with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra as their first guest leader._ "Classic FM":http://www.classicfm.co.uk Tickets £5-£30
  *Norwegian Chamber Orchestra* *Leif Ove Andsnes* _piano/director_ *Terje Tønnesen* _director_
  *Mozart* Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat, K449 22’ *Prokofiev* Classical Symphony 14’ *Grieg* Holberg Suite 21’ *Beethoven* Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 34’
  

• Lunchtime Organ Concert - Thomas Trotter  

  Mon 18 May 2009 Town Hall

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• Bach - A Beautiful Mind  

  Fri 29 May 2009 - Sun 31 May 2009 Symphony Hall

  Bach is the most universal of all composers. In its perfect balance of humanity, spirituality and god like-invention, his music speaks to all like no other. To many he is the greatest of all composers and his music has the ability to fit into the everyday rhythm of our lives but also to transcend it. To close the concert season, Town Hall and Symphony Hall will reverberate to a weekend of Bach masterpieces in performance, by some of today's leading performers.
  
  
  

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