Part two of our recommendation for London cultural events (January 2015), you can find part one here.
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA – Jurowski Conducts Verdi’s Requiem
Saturday 24th of January 7.30pm
Verdi’s great masterpiece, his Requiem, performed by the one of the world’s greatest orchestras – London Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski
The choice of soloists is impeccable, as it should be – this is one of Verdi’s more demanding vocal scores, and perhaps the most demanding vocal score of any oratorio ever written.
Maija Kovalevska soprano
Ildikó Komlósi mezzo-soprano
Dmtryo Popov tenor
Nikolay Didenko bass
To book tickets: http://www.southbankcentre.co.
A feast of Latin jazz in the 606 club
Friday the 30th of January 9.3pm
Samara + Liliana Chachian
Samara is a six piece jazz/latin band lead by the brilliant vocalist Nicky Schrire, born in South Africa and raised and trained in New York.
She is joined by one of the best Brazillian vocalist working in Europe, Liliana Chachian, And playing with them are the pianist Neil Angiley, bass player Dill Katz, drummer Nic France, and percussionist Dawson Miller – all of which are some of the hottest musicians on the British jazz scene.
This promises to be a truly exciting and fun evening, and in a venue socked with jazz history.
To book tickets:
Monet – The Water Garden at Giverny in the National Gallery
This is the first time the National Gallery’s collection of Monet’s Giverny painting are shown together and the effect is breath taking.
Monet started working on these panting around the time of the First World War, a time of personal tragedy for him: he lost his wife and son and his eyesight started declining. This is truly reflected in the depth of melancholic expression of these paintings, their sad and somewhat mysterious nature.
Free admission, No need to book – just go! And if you can during the week, this rooms gets very busy over the weekend.
A must for an art lover !
http://www.nationalgallery.
– The writer Idit Arad is a Professional singing teacher and International opera singer