Michael White’s music news: Moon music at QEH; Hiro Takenouchi plays Mozart; Leonardo da Vinci
Thursday, 25th April 2019 — By Michael White

• DAVID TEMPLE is best-known as conductor of the Crouch Hill Festival Chorus, but he also directs the Hertfordshire Chorus and brings them to London this week for a concert of (loosely based) moon-music: starting with a specially-commissioned piece by James McCarthy called One Giant Leap. Which probably needs no explanation. 3pm, Sunday April 28, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX, 020 3879 9555, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Hiro Takenouchi. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Millot
• JAPANESE pianist Hiro Takenouchi has been engaged in a cycle of Mozart piano sonatas that has, in his own words, been a “voyage of discovery” and reaches its grand conclusion this Sunday. Be there with the chequered flag as he crosses the finishing line. 6.30pm, Conway Hall, Red Lion Sq, Holborn, WC1R 4RL, 020 7405 1818, conwayhall.org.uk
• LEONARDO da Vinci thought music had the “power to shape the invisible”. And to celebrate the 500th anniversary of his death, the élite vocal ensemble I Fagiolini have a concert that pairs images of his work with appropriate sounds – including a new piece by composer Adrian Williams called, as luck would have it, Shaping the Invisible. Sunday April 28, 7.30pm, from £15, Guildhall School of Music’s Milton Court, Barbican, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT, 020 7638 8891, www.barbican.org.uk