Kensington Symphony Orchestra

Glinka, Schoenberg and Rimsky-Korsakov
2013-03-09 19:30 (Europe/London) | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom
Two great Russian classics, from Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov, are separated by Schoenberg’s own arrangement for string orchestra of his famous early work, Verklärte Nacht.

Sponsored Play XIV
2013-02-10 12:00 - 18:00 | Westfield London, Ariel Way, London, W12 7GF, United Kingdom
KSO returns to its tradition of sponsored plays in aid of charity in 2013, with a six hour marathon in support of War Child. The musical theme for the day is “Love and…”.
For a suitable donation, you can have the chance to conduct a full-sized symphony orchestra in one of the exciting works below.

A Night at the Oscars at Queen Elizabeth Hall
2013-01-21 19:30 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
To celebrate their return to Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, KSO would like to invite you to ’A Night at the Oscars’, an evening of music from Oscar-winning films from throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The programme ranges from arguably Max Steiner’s most famous film score, for Gone with the Wind, to memorable music from There will be blood by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.
We also include works from the concert hall by Bernstein and Gershwin that are linked with Oscar-winning movies, as well as a suite from John Williams’s score for the original Star Wars movie. Something for everyone, and a night to remember!

Live Music for Ice-Skating at Westfield London
2012-12-12 19:00 | Westfield London, Ariel Way, London, W12 7GF, United Kingdom

Magnus Lindberg, Prokofiev and Schumann
2012-11-26 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom
The concert opens with Magnus Lindberg’s Gran Duo, a dialogue between woodwind and brass that was described in The Times as “a darkly brooding yet peaceful work that reflects something of a unique landscape”. From this string-free Finnish vista, we bring the violin to the fore, welcoming back Gina McCormack as soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. We end with Schumann’s last symphony, his No. 4 in D minor.

Berlioz, Berg and Stravinsky
2012-10-15 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom
We start our 57th season with an overture by Berlioz. His opera Benvenuto Cellini is nowadays very rarely performed, but its overture remains a popular and energetic concert opener. KSO’s first performance of a work by Berg follows: his Three Pieces for Orchestra, dedicated “to my teacher and friend Arnold Schoenberg in immeasurable gratitude and love”.
We end our concert with the original, full ballet version of Stravinsky’s Firebird, based on the legendary Russian creature that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor.

Edwardes Square Bicentenary Gala Concert
2012-06-16 20:30 | Edwardes Square, London, W8

Sibelius, Brahms and Peter Nagle
2012-06-11 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Puccini’s Tosca
2012-05-14 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Elgar, Walton and Janáček
2012-03-10 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Hindemith, Brahms and Dvořák
2012-01-24 19:30 | Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom

Arvo Pärt, Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams
2011-11-28 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Maxwell Davies, Rachmaninov and Stephen Goss
2011-10-17 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Smetana, Richard Ayres and Dvořák
2011-06-27 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Lutosławski and Mahler
2011-05-10 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Martinů, Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams
2011-03-12 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Poulenc, Rachmaninov and Beethoven
2011-01-25 19:30 | Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom

HK Gruber, Dukas and Tchaikovsky
2010-11-29 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Thomas Adès, David Matthews and Elgar
2010-10-19 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Wagner, Sibelius, Arnold and Nielsen
2010-06-21 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Schubert 8, Bruckner 9
2010-05-10 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Brett Dean, Britten and Holst
2010-03-20 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Dohnányi, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky
2010-01-20 19:30 | Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom

John McCabe, Janáček and Shostakovich
2009-11-23 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Debussy, Ullmann and Stravinsky
2009-10-17 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Elgar, Richard Strauss and Brahms
2009-06-23 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Mahler’s 9th symphony
2009-05-11 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Michael Torke, Ives, Gershwin and Copland
2009-03-07 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Fauré, Beethoven and Sibelius
2009-01-28 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Roberto Gerhard and Tchaikovsky
2008-11-25 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Ravel, Britten and Falla
2008-10-20 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Smetana, Myaskovsky and Dvořák
2008-06-24 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Richard Strauss and Robert Keeley
2008-05-12 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Korngold and Shostakovich
2008-03-08 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Stravinsky, Beethoven and Martinů
2008-01-22 19:30 | Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom

Sibelius 4, Schubert 9
2007-11-27 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Joby Talbot, Julian Anderson and Prokofiev
2007-10-15 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Dvořák, Sibelius and John Woolrich
2007-06-26 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Ravel, Shchedrin and Stravinsky
2007-05-14 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

An Evening with EMI Classics
2007-03-23 19:30 | Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom
On the occasion of the 10th-anniversary of EMI Music Sound Foundation, Walter H.Z. de Villiers shares with us a whimsical and (hopefully) humorous diary entry… Not too obvious a pseudonym, hopefully! (Just a bit of self-protection!)
Went along to an EMI Classics bash on Friday (23 March 2007) at Cadogan Hall, London. Nice to be invited. Took a chum along – will call him ‘Chalky’ to also protect his identity: splendid chap, been involved in lots of record-industry things. Tells you what he thinks! Tickets and wristbands had been sent in advance. Wristbands? You needed one to gain access to the pre-concert Reception. Had a coffee with ‘Chalky’ beforehand when said wristbands were attached to, um, wrists! Had difficulty with mine (and even more difficulty getting it off – took kitchen-scissors to it when I got home). Nice do. The red wine I chose was excellent and the oft-circulated canapés were very tasty. Caught up with other chums, including those who keep one in gainful employment (if under a different name!).
You know how it is at a concert when you get annoyed by late-arriving members of the audience who have no doubt been to a reception … boot on other foot this time! Cadogan Hall full. Some well-known faces to be seen.
The excellent Kensington Symphony Orchestra was in position – do take in one of its concerts with long-standing conductor Russell Keable – and we were greeted by an EMI executive to begin the concert; didn’t quite catch his name – sorry – but he gave a witty introduction. Then Myleene Klass strolled on. Bright, confident, sassy, very nice really – wasn’t absolutely sure who she was though (but then I don’t watch Reality Shows or listen to Classic FM) although I did know she has been signed-up as a pianist to record for EMI. Anyway she introduced the “first act” – bet that’s the first time Russell Keable has been termed an “act”! Anyway, the KSO gave a rousing account of the Overture to Verdi’s opera “The Force of Destiny” – Russell Keable conducting his orchestra with typical musicality and the splendid boys and girls of this fine band responded likewise.
We then had, Myleene told us, Beethoven’s “Emperor Concert” (sic). The soloist was Thomas Kaurich, Head of EMI Classics. No celebrity pianist, Thomas is a graduate of the Juilliard School. He gave a poised, up-tempo performance that could have been more variegated and less hard-edged (at times) but he was certainly sensitive (slow movement) and had a fine sense of momentum (finale) – Russell and the KSO were attentive partners. Expected applause to break out after the first movement … gratifyingly, it didn’t. A lot of people stood at the end … why should such an upright position be thought of as ‘crawling’?!
We then had an interval. Bought ‘Chalky’ and myself an orange juice, one each actually – well, Chalky had bought the cappuccinos (sixth floor, Peter Jones, Sloane Square) – and we chatted with ‘Wilberforce’ (not his real name either!) who was on the (bottled) beer!
Back for Part 2 of the concert. Myleene, just signed to EMI Classics as a pianist (as I said), gave us a taster – a bit of floss by Michael Nyman (The heart asks pleasure first), which appears to be from his score for “The Piano”: so that was “The Piano” played on a piano (Myleene got that one out in her spoken intro). Don’t know what she is to record for EMI. She plays ‘nicely’ though, but she doesn’t need to turn to the audience and smile, unless she’s looking to hire herself out as a Liberace impersonator. Candelabra needed! After her solo, Myleene was still motivating the audience! ‘Chalky’ thought he was at a talent show on commercial telly – you know, where the programmes interrupt the previews and adverts! (BBC not excepted!)
Anyway, Myleene having put Natasha Marsh on the pedestal she didn’t need, on strides the 6-foot (that’s why said pedestal not needed!), all-legs, blonde, provocatively dressed Natasha. But, can she sing? Yes, not bad at all: nice voice, good phrasing, plenty of feeling. Good choice of opera arias (a better word than ‘songs’!) – by Catalani (from “La Wally”) and a rather beautiful example from Nino Rota’s “Romeo and Juliet”, which also featured a lovely flute solo from Mike Copperwhite (the ‘h’ missing from the programme’s listing of KSO-personnel). Has/will Natasha be stepping into fully staged opera with a demanding conductor and director? Or will she just be doing ‘bits of things’?
Then a chair was carried on and placed at an oblique angle, and strategically re-positioned by Russell. He was not provided with seating (told you he was long-standing!) while Natalie Clein stole the evening with some unaccompanied Bach and a (non-credited) arrangement for cello and orchestra of Rachmaninov’s Vocalise. ’Chalky’ thought Natalie was using gut strings – she might have been … lovely sound.
Then to Alfie Boe, introduced as “the finest tenor of his generation”. Well, I thought (uncharitably, maybe), such comment didn’t say much for the rest of them! This was after he had sung the tenor’s showpiece aria from Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” – quite nice but Alfie seems (live, I haven’t heard his new CD) a bit tight tonally, sometimes under the note, and rather literal. (‘Chalky’ was less impressed!) But, like Natasha, at least Alfie sang in the original language (Latin in the case of Rossini) and didn’t need a microphone. Then Alfie, with Myleene at the piano again, gave us “A Living Prayer” by Ron Block.
Finally, Natasha and Alfie brought the ‘Drinking Song’ from Verdi’s “La Traviata”. She carried a bottle of champagne and two glasses, both drank, and Alfie made some daft (not deft!) movements (when he wasn’t singing). Reasonably well done. But Verdi lost!
’Chalky’ (“I want to go”) and myself then left: it was the end of proceedings, as printed. The programme came with a CD, a sampler of the new recordings from Natalie, Natasha and Alfie.
Serious point. Why were we all there? Well, to celebrate the 10th-anniversary of EMI Music’s Sound Foundation, something of a well-kept secret, it seems. It is “an independent music education charity, established in 1997, whose aim is to improve young people’s access to music education.” Natalie spoke with passion about EMI’s enterprise. More about Sound Foundation from the following link.
So, please raise a glass to EMI’s initiative! And, thanks, EMI, and all the musicians, for an interesting evening.
Walter H. Z. de Villiers
www.classicalsource.com
About EMI Sound Foundation
EMI Music Sound Foundation is an independent music education charity, established in 1997 to improve young peoples’ access to music education in the UK & Ireland. The Foundation has helped over six thousand schools, young people and teachers improve their access to music through the purchase of musical instruments and equipment and bursaries to over 500 music students around the UK to help with fees and living costs. The charity has supported 36 specialist Performing Arts schools and has given over £6 million in donations, to date.
Find out more at www.emimusicsoundfoundation.com

Hindemith, Richard Strauss and Brahms
2007-03-10 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

KSO presents Film Music of the 80s and 90s
2007-01-15 19:30 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Arnold 1, Mahler 1
2006-11-28 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

KSO’s 50th anniversary concert
2006-10-18 20:30 | Barbican Hall, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

Britten, Elgar and Hugh Wood
2006-06-24 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

William Alwyn, Colin Matthews and Bartók
2006-05-15 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Handel’s Messiah at Southwark Cathedral
2006-04-06 20:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

Mahler’s 5th symphony
2006-03-18 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Tippett and Beethoven
2005-11-22 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Rachmaninov, Poul Ruders and Aulis Sallinen
2005-10-17 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Sibelius 6, Tchaikovsky 5
2005-06-28 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Bruckner’s 7th Symphony
2005-05-04 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Debussy, Ravel and Vaughan Williams
2005-03-07 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Verdi’s Requiem with the London Oriana Choir
2005-02-13 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Lloyd Webber Symphonic Musicals
2005-02-05 19:30 | Henry Wood Hall, Trinity Church Square, London, SE1 4HU, United Kingdom

KSO presents Film Music of the 70s
2005-01-17 19:30 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Joby Talbot
2004-12-06 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Errollyn Wallen’s Spirit Symphony with KSO & BBC Concert Orchestra
2004-11-05 19:30 | Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Messiaen, Saint-Saëns and Eric Tanguy
2004-10-23 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Dvořák and Elgar
2004-06-29 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Britten, Shostakovich and John Woolrich
2004-05-10 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Stravinsky, Webern and Beethoven
2004-03-13 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Henry Walford Davies’s Everyman
2004-02-09 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Chabrier, Tchaikovsky and Korngold
2004-01-13 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Knussen and Lutosławski
2003-12-01 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Ravel, Rachmaninov and David Matthews
2003-10-18 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Rachmaninov and Sibelius
2003-06-24 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Beethoven, Tippett and Dvořák
2003-05-03 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Mahler’s 10th Symphony
2003-03-15 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

KSO presents Film Music of the 60s
2003-01-21 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Shchedrin, Woolrich and Mussorgsky
2002-12-03 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Donatoni, Wagner and Stravinsky
2002-10-01 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Bax, Dvořák and James MacMillan
2002-06-25 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Two operas in concert: Violanta and Faust et Hélène
2002-05-06 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Brahms 4, McCabe 4
2002-03-01 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Walton, Elgar and Britten
2002-01-14 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Respighi, Bartók and Stravinsky
2001-11-01 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Webern, Richard Strauss and Shostakovich
2001-10-23 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and Robin Holloway
2001-06-25 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Beethoven 4, Sibelius 1
2001-05-09 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Bartók and Mahler
2001-03-10 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

KSO presents Film Music of the 50s
2001-01-15 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Honegger 4, Rachmaninov 2
2000-12-04 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Walton, Richard Strauss and Stravinsky
2000-10-23 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Lutosławski, Sibelius and Brahms
2000-06-19 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Janáček and Prokofiev
2000-05-01 20:30 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Bruckner’s 5th Symphony
2000-03-18 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Nielsen, Gershwin and Michael Torke
2000-01-11 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Dukas, Berlioz and John Woolrich
1999-11-29 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Maxwell Davies, Copland and Richard Strauss
1999-10-18 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Tchaikovsky, Barber and Dvořák
1999-06-21 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Elgar, Stravinsky, David Matthews and Russell Keable
1999-05-24 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Mahler’s 6th Symphony
1999-03-13 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

KSO presents Film Music of the 30s and 40s
1999-01-11 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Die Walküre Act I in concert
1998-11-02 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Rachmaninov, Walton and Richard Strauss
1998-10-05 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

A Leroy Anderson Celebration
1998-06-30 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

John Adams, Prokofiev and Copland
1998-05-01 20:30 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Nielsen, Sibelius and Beethoven
1998-03-14 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Nikolai Demidenko plays Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto
1998-01-12 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Wagner, Schoenberg and Mahler
1997-11-21 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Shostakovich and Richard Strauss
1997-10-18 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Dvořák’s 8th Symphony
1997-06-23 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Bartók, Richard Strauss and Edward Longstaff
1997-05-20 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Kensington Strings at St Paul’s Knightsbridge
1997-04-09 20:30 | St Paul’s Knightsbridge, 32a Wilton Place, London, SW1X 8SH, United Kingdom

Bruckner’s 8th Symphony
1997-03-11 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Sibelius, Brahms and Robert Simpson
1997-01-20 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Berlioz, Stravinsky and Beethoven
1996-12-03 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Bliss, Falla, Debussy and Stravinsky
1996-10-15 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

KSO’s 40th Anniversary Concert
1996-07-02 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Bernstein, Hanson, Barber and Copland
1996-05-20 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Nielsen, Lutosławski and Nicholas Sackman
1996-03-12 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Korngold’s Die tote Stadt
1996-01-14 19:15 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Reviews of the UK premiere performance of Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt:
‘A feast of brilliant playing and singing […] Outstanding performances by Christine Teare (Marietta), Ian Caley (Paul) and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra’
London Evening Standard
‘Keable and his orchestra did magnificently’
The Guardian
‘The rapture of the capacity audience was predictable […] there was never a dull moment’
The Independent
‘The orchestra performed miracles of virtuosity. As one member of the audience put it, after the last transfigured chords died away – ‘Wow!’ Wow indeed’
Opera Now
‘The Kensington Symphony Orchestra, under its able and unflappable conductor Russell Keable, played the gargantuan score extraordinarily well’
Sunday Telegraph

Hovhaness, Martin and Beethoven
1995-11-01 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Shostakovich 15, Tchaikovsky 4
1995-10-17 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Pelléas et Mélisande
1995-09-04 20:30

Stravinsky, Mahler and Judith Weir
1995-07-03 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Kensington Sinfonietta at Chelsea Festival
1995-06-05 20:30 | St Luke’s Chelsea, Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NH, United Kingdom

Tippett and Berlioz
1995-05-15 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Holst, Sullivan and Benedict Mason
1995-03-03 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Walton, Shostakovich and Robert Simpson
1995-01-13 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Sibelius, Tavener and Rachmaninov
1994-12-02 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Sponsored Play 1993 - Tchaikovsky!
1994-10-30 10:00 | Whiteleys, 149 Queensway, London, W2 4BF

Schumann, Beethoven and Dvořák
1994-10-10 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Ibert and Ravel
1994-09-05 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Havering 1994
1994-07-09 20:30 | Bedfords Park, Havering, Broxhill Road, Havering-atte-Bower, Romford, RomfoRM4 1QH, United Kingdom

Debussy, Tchaikovsky and Bartók
1994-06-21 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Beethoven, Stravinsky and Mozart
1994-04-25 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Glinka, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov
1994-03-08 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Grieg, Nielsen and Sibelius
1994-02-10 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Brahms, Beethoven and Dvořák
1994-01-13 19:30, 1993-01-13 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Sponsored Play 1994 - First Symphonies
1993-10-31 10:00 | Whiteleys, 149 Queensway, London, W2 4BF

Beethoven, Bartók and Brahms
1993-10-18 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Dvořák’s Dimitrij
1993-07-13 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Nielsen, Britten and Sibelius
1993-05-31 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Beethoven and Stravinsky
1993-03-30 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Dvořák
1993-02-07 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Mahler, Tippett and Arvo Pärt
1992-12-01 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Sponsored Play 1992 - Sixes & Sevens
1992-10-25 10:00 | Whiteleys, 149 Queensway, London, W2 4BF

Dvořák, Korngold and Brahms
1992-10-03 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Rawsthorne, Britten and Elgar
1992-07-14 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Prokofiev and Mahler
1992-05-10 20:30 | All Hallows, Gospel Oak, Savernake Road, London, NW3 2JP, United Kingdom

Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Fauré and Poulenc
1992-04-04 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Beethoven, Strauss and Britten
1992-03-28 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Elgar and Bruckner
1992-02-08 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Berlioz and Massenet
1991-12-06 19:30 | St Michael’s School, Graham Terrace, London, SW1W 8HN, United Kingdom

Janáček, Sibelius and Debussy
1991-11-02 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Sponsored Play 1991
1991-10-20 11:00 | Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Haydn, Mozart and Schubert
1991-09-28 20:30 | St James’s Clerkenwell, Sekforde Street, London, EC1R 0EG, United Kingdom

Weill and Mahler
1991-07-10 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Paul Parkinson
1991-05-27 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

First Symphonies by Honegger and Rachmaninov
1991-03-23 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Vaughan Williams 5, Walton 1
1991-02-10 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Falla and Dvořák
1990-12-07 19:30 | St Michael’s School, Graham Terrace, London, SW1W 8HN, United Kingdom

Sibelius, Nielsen and Beethoven
1990-11-03 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Sponsored Play 1990
1990-10-21 11:00 | School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AX

Dvořák’s cello concerto with Alexander Baillie
1990-07-17 20:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Tippett and Brahms
1990-05-31 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Sibelius
1990-03-27 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Suk, Schumann and Martinů
1990-02-06 19:30 | St Michael’s School, Graham Terrace, London, SW1W 8HN, United Kingdom

Debussy, Beethoven and Bartók at Southwark Cathedral
1989-11-03 19:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

Sponsored Play I
1989-07-09 11:00 | School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AX

Copland, Barber, Harris and Gershwin
1989-07-04 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Haydn 99, Mahler 6
1989-05-27 20:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Hindemith, Mozart and Stravinsky
1989-03-18 19:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Tippett, Stravinsky and Rachmaninov
1989-02-01 19:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

Elgar, Debussy and Berlioz
1988-10-29 19:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

Beethoven, Sibelius and Brahms
1988-07-09 20:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Weber, Berg and Strauss
1988-06-04 20:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Berlioz, Roussel and Shostakovich
1988-03-20 19:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Beethoven and Stravinsky
1988-02-06 19:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

Chausson, Szymanowski, Debussy and Poulenc
1987-12-12 19:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Smetana, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
1987-10-30 19:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

Grande messe des morts
1987-07-18 20:30 | Ely Cathedral, The College, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4DL, United Kingdom

Wagner and Mahler
1987-06-20 20:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Berlioz Te Deum
1987-04-04 20:30 | Hornsey Town Hall, The Broadway, London, N8 9JJ, United Kingdom

Dvořák and Rachmaninov
1987-03-29 20:30 | Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

Bernstein, Bloch and Copland
1987-02-07 19:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

KSO’s 30th Anniversary Concert
1986-10-30 19:45 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Beethoven and Brahms
1986-06-28 20:30 | St Mark’s Regents Park, St Mark's Square, London, NW1 7TN, United Kingdom

Smythe, Walton and Elgar
1986-05-31 20:30 | St Paul’s Hammersmith, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ, United Kingdom

Bruckner and Martinů
1986-03-01 19:30 | St Paul’s Hammersmith, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ, United Kingdom

Sibelius, Beethoven and Brahms
1986-02-01 19:30 | Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA, United Kingdom

Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
1985-12-13 19:30 | St Michael’s School, Graham Terrace, London, SW1W 8HN, United Kingdom

Strauss, Britten and Prokofiev
1985-11-02 19:30 | St Paul’s Hammersmith, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ, United Kingdom

Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
1985-06-01 20:30 | St Paul’s Hammersmith, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ, United Kingdom

Fricker, Bax and Moeran
1985-05-09 20:30 | St Peter’s Eaton Square, 119 Eaton Square, London, SW1W 9AL

Mahler’s 7th Symphony
1985-02-16 19:30 | St Paul’s Hammersmith, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ, United Kingdom

Ireland, Bruch and Dvořák
1984-11-03 19:30 | St Peter’s Eaton Square, 119 Eaton Square, London, SW1W 9AL

Delius, Harty, Britten and Bax
1984-02-07 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

The Music of Arthur Bliss
1979-03-02 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Verdi’s Requiem
1977-06-11 20:30 | Westminster Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Leslie Head conducts Bax and Baines premières
1974-03-05 00:00 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Kensington Orchestral and Choral Society
1973-11-22 19:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom
http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/8178/

Brian’s Symphony No.2 at St John’s Smith Square
1973-05-24 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Brian’s Symphony No.2 at Victoria Hall, Hanley
1973-05-21 20:30 | Victoria Hall, Hanley, Bagnall Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3AD, United Kingdom

Brian’s Symphony No.2 at Brighton Dome
1973-05-19 20:30 | Brighton Dome, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1UE

Havergal Brian World Premières
1971-01-28 20:30 | Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Walton, Stanford, Brian and Bax
1969-12-11 21:00 | Kensington Town Hall, Kensington High Street, London, W8

Puccini’s La rondine
1965-12-09 19:30 | Fulham Town Hall, 553-561 Fulham Road, London, SW6 1ES, United Kingdom

Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco
1963-11-04 19:30 | Kensington Town Hall, Kensington High Street, London, W8

Prokofiev and Alan Bush
1962-06-06 21:00 | Friends House, 173 - 177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ, United Kingdom

Bliss’s Beatitudes at Westminster Central Hall
1962-02-16 19:30 | Westminster Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Mahler and Vaughan Williams
1962-02-10 19:30 | Westminster Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

Bruckner, Britten and Stravinsky
1961-07-05 21:00 | St Pancras Town Hall, 5 Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE

Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder
1961-03-13 20:00 | Friends House, 173 - 177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ, United Kingdom

Bellini, Menotti and Villa-Lobos British premières
1960-04-11 21:00 | St Pancras Town Hall, 5 Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE
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Berlioz, Brahms and Sibelius
1959-03-09 19:30 | St Pancras Town Hall, 5 Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE

Opera Concert at St Pancras Town Hall
1958-05-22 20:30 | St Pancras Town Hall, 5 Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE
http://opera.archive.netcopy.co.uk/article/may-1958/70/opera-calendar-programmes-subject-to-alteration

Vaughan Williams, Sibelius, Beethoven and Elgar
1958-03-28 20:00 | Holy Trinity Brompton, Brompton Road, London, SW7 1JA, United Kingdom
Date uncertain – could alternatively be Thursday 28 March 1963

Puccini centenary concert
1958-02-17 20:00 | St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL

Puccini’s Messa di Gloria
1957-06-13 21:00 | St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL

Berlioz, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Walton
1956-12-05 19:45 | Queen Alexandra’s House, Bremner Road, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2QT, United Kingdom

Concert in Aid of the Hungarian Relief Fund
1956-12-03 19:30 | Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 4AH
