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with a pair of with the distinguished Pavel Haas Drawn to fire stylish socks, the Quartet at Wigmore Hall, as they By Don Grant MUSIC childhood friends tackle Shostakovich’s 1940 masterpiece from Copenhagen the Piano Quintet in G minor (Op. 57). promise a night of 7:30pm. From £18 (under 25s free) ROUND UP high-concept pop www.wigmore-hall.org.uk BY GEOFF COWART music guaranteed to delight. Support from former múm Meanwhile, vocalist Kristín the Smith Square concert Anna, who performs material on February 27 n the early years of the First World Whether you prefer breaking from her solo War, Britain did not have an official album, I Must Be is an all-Beethoven solo affair as part of scheme to commission or support boundaries at Kings Place or the Devil. 8pm. the venue’s Bechstein Piano Series. He war artists. It was only after artists From £20 will perform the Funeral March (Op. 26) I blissful Beethoven at St John’s and the Appassionata (Op. 57) sonatas, as serving on the Western Front, such as www.barbican. Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson, and Smith Square, this winter’s org.uk well as the sonatas in E Major (Op. 109) and C Minor (Op. 111). 7pm. £15 , with his brooding The Kensingtons at , displayed concert season is full of www.sjss.org.uk their works in London, that Charles unexpected delights. Masterman, head of the British War Having recently Propaganda Bureau, started to recruit artists to paint images from the home A new series of concerts divided opinion Top left: and field recordings, called Mantis front. The first official was The summer festival season pathological drawings of war injuries for The Kensingtons at at Kings Place aims to baffle, & Bee. Drawing on her 2003 work the Scottish artist , the Royal College of Surgeons. Other Laventie.1915 for his box set of Beethoven sonata Eric Kennington. . Nunu (originally composed for the followed by Nevinson, , inspire and confound may seem a distant point on the horizon. recordings, Russian-German pianist ‘big guns’ were Edward Ardizzone, who Oil painting on glass. London Sinfonietta and a gathering But that’s not stopped Junction 2 from and . served with the British Expeditionary © . Igor Levit arrives at the Barbican with Above: The third instalment of Luminate of live insects) the piece incorporates Responsibility for the war artists was announcing its final line up for June’s a few questions to answer. The 32-year- Force in France and Belgium, followed He was my Friend. Festival promises to shine a light into sonic organic materials with classical dancefloor blowout. The party in Boston passed to the British War Memorials by stints in North Africa and Italy; Arabella Borman. old, who is playing a series of concerts Oil on Canvas. ‘the crucible of new music creation’ instrumentation, dance, and visual Committee, and names like George Manor Park confirmed big-name live in the City until April, will perform Edward Bawden, who served with Left: organisers say with a host of boundary- elements. sets from techno Detroit DJ/producer Clausen, , Augustus the in France and the The Queen’s Royal Lancers his adaptation of Beethoven’s Grosse Patrolling the Border, Maysaan breaking sounds from contemporary For times, tickets and details, visit: John, , William Robert Hood, Jon Hopkins and Fatima Fuge with fellow pianist Markus Becker Middle East, having witnessed the Arabella Borman. orchestral composition to shimmering www.kingsplace.co.uk Oil on canvas. Yamaha. They’ll be joined by Four Tet, (piano) and percussionists Orpen, William Rothenstein, Stanley evacuation of Dunkirk; Henry Moore, electronics. Collection of The Queen’s Blawan, Hessle Audio, Leon Vynehall, Andreas Boettger and Klaus Reda. Spencer and the Nash brothers came to with his drawings of civilians sheltering Royal Lancers. The impressive line-up includes Margaret Dygas and Marcel Dettmann The night also includes works by Bartok the fore. After the war, the BWMC was from and miners working a Spitfire Audio showcase featuring Rockabilly fans take note. for the weekender. Day tickets from and Brahms on February 19. He’s wound up, and some large artworks, like the coal-face; , who the London Contemporary Orchestra £39.50. taken some flak for rushing his tempi The Menin Road by Paul Nash and the painted glass-blowers making cathode and haunting singer Alev Lenz in the ‘Nell’s Jazz and Blues Club’ in West www.junction2.london in his survey of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas. astonishing and deeply moving Gassed by ray tubes for early radar sets; Vivian afternoon on February 22, followed by Kensington is hosting The Polecats Let’s hope it doesn’t lead to a grosse were absorbed into Pitchforth, who painted bomb-damaged a dystopian noise collaboration from on February 22. Formed in 1977, the misunderstanding. 7.30pm. From £15 the Imperial War Museum collection. buildings and maritime subjects; musicians/composers Rafael Anton now legendary band helped launch the You’re not seeing double… Although Frank Brangwyn was not an Graham Sutherland, who also painted Queen’s Royal Lancers in the Maysaan Dorman was adamant that it did, and Irisarri and Oliver Coates later in the fledgling rockabilly scene in www.barbican.org.uk official war artist, he produced dozens bomb damage in London and Wales; desert, although she was not allowed to her work certainly did have an effect evening. thanks to energetic vocalist Tim of posters for charities such as the Red , who had painted the accompany soldiers on patrol. She had in increasing awareness. They agreed On February 27, former Arthur Worman. In 1980, the band signed to The Imperial College Cross and the Belgian and Allied Aid Sandham Memorial Chapel at Beauclere some scary moments near the Iranian to disagree. As well as being a portrait Russell collaborator and adventurous Mercury Records and scored UK chart Leagues. in the twenties, then went to Lithgows border when the vehicles they were in painter, Ms Dorman hung a boat upside New City trombonist Peter success with David Bowie cover, John, Symphony Orchestra In the Second World War, the War Shipyard in Port to produce became bogged down in the marshes, down in the nave of St James’s Church Zummo teams up with experimental I’m Only Dancing. And they’re still will take a short trip Artists’ Advisory Committee, as a some massive canvases of Shipbuilding on including their ambulance and two Piccadilly, entitled Flight. The boat had R’n’B outfit Military Genius for what rocking hard today. 7.30pm. £14 branch of the Ministry of Information, www.nells.co.uk the Clyde. tanks. Even the recovery vehicle became been carrying refugees in the eastern promises to be a wild night. While to Cadogan Hall on February 29 overseen by Kenneth Clarke, Coming up to the present day, stuck, and they were sitting targets for Mediterranean and ended up on Lesbos, March 6 sees Warp Records mainstay to play Walton’s Portsmouth Point, commissioned works from hundreds John Keane was commisssioned by the seven hours in the pouring rain, but the but now it was a piece of installation art, Mira Calix and her ensemble present Stuart Hancock’s new Violin Concerto of artists, including some that had Spell-binding American indie Imperial War Museum as an official soldiers finally managed to rescue the a symbol of exile, desperation, courage a night of music composed and and Mussorgsky’s epic Pictures at an worked in WW1, including Bomberg, war artist in the Gulf War. Peter vehicles, except the recovery vehicle, and hope. She also installed another rearranged for string quartet, electronics band Big Thief Exhibition. Soloist Jack Liebeck features Kennington, Paul Nash, Spencer and Howson was a British official war artist which they had to abandon. She has piece entitled Suspended in 2018 in the for the fine university orchestra at its Rothenstein. was the same church and also in Canterbury and cap off a busy year by making their in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War, also nothing but admiration for the soldiers annual concert in the Sloane Square only woman working for the WAAC on on the ground, adding, in an interview Leicester Cathedrals, comprising clothes third trip to the UK. Last May, they commisssioned by the Imperial War venue, with Oliver Gooch conducting. a full-time salaried basis, painting Land in The Daily Telegraph, ‘They can discarded by the displaced refugees on played songs from their first 4AD album Museum, and produced some harrowing 7.30pm. From £7 Army Girls on the home front, although experience in one day what most people reaching safety, which conjured up a U-.F.O.F. to a sold-out Roundhouse and shocking work of atrocities www.cadoganhall.com there were a number of other female war may not experience in a year: danger, washing-line put up by Cornelia Parker. crowd, before returning to Bush Hall in committed during the conflict. A far cry artists, including Laura Knight, who from his back-lit nudes, limpet Venetian fear, isolation, boredom, friendship, She gave a moving talk about her life August for a fans-only performance of painted the Nuremberg Trials, with the scenes and petricor pavements are Ken humour, bravery, honour and death.’ and work at the National Liberal Club their follow-up 4AD album, Two Hands. In March, Cadogan Hall unusual depiction of Nazi war criminals Howard’s paintings of Northern , She was interviewed by Gerald in January as part of a campaign to raise Now, the busy rockers are playing the Boris Giltburg sitting in the courtroom, which had Cyprus and Berlin, commissioned by the Scarfe, himself no stranger to war zones awareness, and funds, for the ‘Save the Apollo on February 27. welcomes star violinist no side or rear walls, and through British Army. Linda Kitson became the like and , Valletta Skyline’ Appeal for the restoration Expect more big-hearted tunes with Viktoria Mullova which one can see a ruined city, still only female artist to have been officially in a programme called One to One on of St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral in plenty of ragged glory. 7pm. £28.25 smouldering; Mary Kessell, who was commissioned to accompany troops in BBC Radio 4 in January. He maintained Malta. www.eventim.co.uk Superb pianist Boris Giltburg will and the accomplished Swedish asked to document refugees ‘moving battle, in the Falklands conflict, back that he doubted whether his work perform twice in London this month Philharmonia (Gävle Symphony through Europe in the aftermath of the in 1982. Arabella Dorman became the had any influence anywhere, whereas www.savethecathedral.com Oddball Danish trio All eyes are on Boris Giltburg. Orchestra) to Kensington. The Friday German surrender’; first official war artist in Iraq and the The outstanding Russian-born Israeli 13th concert will be lucky for some as worked as a war artist at the Bergen- first woman since Kitson to go to the Efterklang pianist, who won first prize at the Queen they perform a challenging programme Belsen concentration camp in April front line, having been looked after Elisabeth Competition in 2013, is of Mendelssohn’s Reformation symphony, 1945, immediately after its liberation; by, first, the Royal Green Jackets in SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT are playing a rare London gig at the making two high-profile appearances in Prokofiev’s second Violin concerto and her sister, Anna, worked as a Medical Basra Palace, then 2nd Battalion, The KCW LONDON. See page 21 for details Barbican on February 29. Armed London, one at Wigmore Hall and the Sibelius’ masterful Fifth symphony. Jaime Artist and nursing auxiliary at St. Rifles in Sangin, Helmand province Mira Calix with songs from their latest EP Lyset, other at St John’s Smith Square. Martín conducts. 7.30pm. From £18 Mary’s Hospital, , and made in Afghanistan, and a stint with the amusingly released as a cassette bundled On February 19, he’ll be performing www.cadoganhall.com