Lovely venues both, David.  I wonder what James MacMillan would make of the Landmark - a deconsecrated church iirc.  I remember hearing the Stoneleigh YO doing Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra there several years ago.  That wasn't a piece I ever expected to hear in church.  Anyway, I digress.  The reason I responded to this was to give anyone planning to go there by public transport a warning about buses in the area.  Ordinarily catching the R68 or 33 bus from Richmond would be a sound idea as the former stops outside the LC and the latter goes within a few minutes' walk.  But roadworks in Hill street have resulted in these buses being sent on a quite preposterous diversion to get from Richmond bus station to Richmond bridge.  Yesterday, in light traffic, this added fifteen minutes to what should be a two minute trip from the bus station to the bridge.  In heavy traffic it could easily be a nightmare.  You could avoid actually sitting on the bus for the duration of this diversion by the simple expedient of walking over the bridge from Richmond bus station; but if all the buses are stuck between Richmond & Petersham that still leaves you with no transport!  I suggest taking a different route or allowing extra time for the journey.   I should stress this wouldn't really affect anyone going by car as they wouldn't be mad enough to go over the Star & Garter, but would use Twickenham Bridge as an alternative route.  The transport planners seem to have chosen the more extravagant detour rather than miss out a couple of stops.

HtoHe, I have this one and think Weirich does a very impressive job on all three works...

http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=1013090

...although as you say, a cogent and vivid live performance of the Variations (in particular) is probably hard to beat. I think that's partly to do with the electrifying effects of the piano harmonics Copland uses at the beginning. It's an amazing piece - from 1930, well before Copland started employing folky materials and writing in his famous 'direct' style. Nothing else quite like it in his output.

Yes, David; I should have made it very clear that the bus routes I mentioned were relevant to the Teddington concert only.  I think the Richmond roadworks might be finished by 22 Nov anyway. 

An addendum to David's message about the Twickenham Choral Society, which may either increase or decrease interest:

a certain strinasacchi will be leading the orchestra for the B-minor mass in Kingston on 22 November (and fervently hopes she won't fall off the Laudamus Te violin solo...)

I heard Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith on Wednesday evening playing The Rite of Spring for 1 piano 4 hands and Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos at the Barber Institute. Unfortunately my enjoyment of the music was somewhat attenuated by several people with colds who were coughing rather like fireworks going off on Nov 5th.

Hill & Frith playing Visions de l'Amen was the first piece I ever heard at the Barber, in December 1991. It was a lunchtime concert on the last day of term and there were about 10 people in the audience - a lot more there on Wednesday.

Here's one which hasn't made it through the South Bank publicity machine:

Friday 7 November at 9.30pm
Purcell Room
admission free

A late-night event curated by The Wire as part of the South Bank's Klang Stockhausen festival, featuring live performances by John Wall, FURT and others, and a showing of the film In Absentia made by the Brothers Quay to music by Stockhausen (Two Couples).

AND I suppose I don't need yet again to remind observant members of the Rosman/Knoop duo on Thursday 6 playing music by Butler and Barrett (probably the first time they have ever appeared on the same programme) and other fine things.

There's this, but the full line-up isn't mentioned, indeed as far as I know it was only finalised a few days ago and I don't know all the details myself.