ALL GROWN UP; Ten years on, Alina returning to wow audience again: ClassicalMusic.Byline: PATSY FULLER YOUNG Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova was a "wisp of a girl" when she first performed in Warwickshire. That was 10 years ago. Now the 23-year-old is a sought-after young virtuoso who wows audiences the world over. Tomorrow she is back at All Saints Church All Saints Church, or All Saints' Church or variations on the name may refer to: Australia
The school educates about sixty boys and girls between the ages of eight and eighteen, who all play at least one musical instrument (stringed all those years ago is still talked about. S Mary-Grace Ogilvie, one of the concert organisers, says: "Alina has been receiving rave reviews wherever she has played over the past few years. "This comes as no surprise to the audience at Music At Leamington Hastings - they were electrified by her 10 years ago when at the age of 13 she led a stunning performance of a Shostakovich quartet. "Many remember Alina as a wisp of a girl, projecting such energy and virtuosity. "Among so many new and talented young violinists, she stands out as quite exceptional," said Mary-Grace. Alina has just released an all-Bach CD but tomorrow she will be playing Beethoven sonatas, accompanied by the dynamic young French pianist Cedric Tiberghien. Catch her while you can. Tickets 07966 584328. A SONG written especially for a group of Warwickshire singers receives its premiere at a big choral event in Warwickshire tomorrow. Worlds in Union - Voices for Hospices Day takes place at Bedworth Civic Hall and features the Song of the Ribbon Weavers, a commissioned work for the Bedworth Singers funded by a National Lottery grant. The Bedworth Singers will be joined by the choir of Blue Coat School, Coventry, and the Holborne Brass Ensemble for the song, which tells of starving Bedworth ribbon weavers who emigrated to Australia in the 1850s. The concert is part of Worlds in Union - an international effort to boost local hospices. The Bedworth event is in support of Nuneaton's Mary Ann Evans Hospice. Also taking part are the Coventry Corps of Drums, the Julie Bromage Dance Academy and the choir from Canon Maggs School, Bedworth. Tickets 024 7637 6707. OPERA buffs can catch New York's Metropolitan Opera 'live' in Coventry this winter. Five operas are being screened at Warwick Arts Centre's theatre as part of The Met Live in HD season which opens tomorrow with Puccini's Tosca. Other operas in the series, which runs until January, are Aida, Turandot, Der Rosenkavalier and Carmen. The operas are being performed in America as matinees and transmitted live to cinemas and theatres across the UK. An arts centre spokesman says: "With a fantastic line-up of operas, shot with the best camera angles and transmitted in crystal-clear HD with fantastic audio, it will be almost as good as having front-row seats in New York - without the jet lag." Tickets at pounds 25 are not cheap, but then neither is a seat at New York's Lincoln Center which could set you back a few hundred dollars. Box office 024 7652 4524. THE voice of Lenin, the sound of gunfire and up to 400 performers will take Midland audiences back to the Russian Revolution next week. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. The orchestra was founded as the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1920, with Edward Elgar conducting its first concert in September of that year. and Chorus and the Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre of St Petersburg will join forces at Birmingham Symphony Hall under the baton of charismatic maestro Valery Gergiev. They will be performing Prokofiev's Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, which has been played only a handful of times. It was seen as too musically revolutionary initially and then, too Stalinist, to be played in full. It had to wait until 1992 for its first complete performance. Also on the programme is Berlioz's rarely-performed Requiem. The concerts on Wednesday and Thursday will be two of the biggest ever to take place on the hall's stage. Box office is 0121 780 3333. CLASSICAL DIARY TODAY Finzi Quartet - Haydn, Debussy: Stratford Town Hall, Sheep Street, Stratford, 1pm. 01789 207100. Passacaglia Duo - Handel, Arne, Bach, Corelli, Telemann: St Helen's Church, Clifford Chambers, Stratford, 7.30pm. 01789 207100. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates, vocalists Rachel Barrell, Jacqui Scott and Simon Bowman - hits from the West End: Birmingham Symphony Hall, 7.30pm. 0121 780 3333. Atrium String Quartet - Mozart, Shostakovich, Brahms: Royal Pump Rooms The Royal Pump Rooms is a building in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK. It was once the most famous building in town and was where people would travel from throughout the country, and indeed Europe, to benefit from treatment using the town's healing waters. , Leamington, 7.30pm. 01926 776438. Drum Blondes: Bedworth Arts Centre, 7.30pm. 024 7664 3255. TOMORROW Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra, violinist Callum Smart, conductor Guy Woolfenden - Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov: Guy Nelson Hall, Myton Road, Warwick, 7.30pm. 01926 850385. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Slobodeniouk, soprano Kristine Opolais - Verdi, Tchaikovsky: Birmingham Symphony Hall, 7pm. 0121 780 3333. Violinist Alina Ibragimova pianist Cedric Tigberghien - Beethoven sonatas: All Saints Church, Leamington Hastings, near Rugby, 7.30pm. 07966 584328. Stratford Chamber Choir, organist Andrew Jones, director Stephen Dodsworth - Palestrina, Purcell, Bach: Holy Trinity Church Holy Trinity Church, or variations on the name, may refer to: Churches In Australia:
New York Metropolitan Opera Live transmission of Tosca: Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, attracting around 280,000 visitors a year to over 2,000 individual events embracing music, drama, , Coventry, 6pm. 024 7652 4524. S Corps of Drums, Julie Bromage Dance Academy, choirs from Canon Maggs School, Bedworth and Blue Coat School, Coventry, Holborne Brass Ensemble - Worlds in Union - Voices for Hospices Day: Bedworth Civic Hall 7.30pm, 024 7637 6707. MONDAY Organist Thomas Trotter - CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment Bach, JS Bach, Mendelssohn, Pierne, Mulet: Birmingham town Hall This article is about Birmingham Town Hall, a concert venue. For the seat of Birmingham City Council, see Council House, Birmingham. Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert and meeting venue in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. , 1pm. 0121 780 3333. TUESDAY Caroline Jones, recorders, Charles Matthews, piano - lunchtime Concert: Warwick Road United Reformed Church
WEDNESDAY Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Valery Gergiev, tenor Sergei Semishkur - Prokofiev, Berlioz: Birmingham Symphony Hall, 7.30pm. 0121 780 3333. THURSDAY Diana Matthews, viola, Jonathan Beatty, piano - free lunchtime concert: Ensemble room Music Centre, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 1.10pm. 024 7652 4524. Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Valery Gergiev, tenor Sergei Semishkur - Prokofiev, Berlioz: Birmingham Symphony Hall, 7.30pm. 0121 780 3333. CAPTION(S): RAVE REVIEWS... Alina now and (inset) as a child in 1991 playing the violin The violin player usually holds the instrument under the chin, supported by the left shoulder (see below for variations of this posture). The strings are sounded either by drawing the bow across them (arco), or sometimes by plucking them (pizzicato). on stage. |
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