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Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 7.30pm
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF
United Kingdom
0121 767 4050
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Baritone: Leigh Melrose
Works by American experimentalists provide the setting for the world premiere of BCMG/SAM Apprentice Composer-in-Residence Joanna Lee’s new piece for baritone and ensemble, conducted by Oliver Knussen, who has mentored Joanna through her residency.
Young composer Joanna Lee is widely regarded as a strikingly original voice in the musical world, whose music has already received glowing reviews from critics including the Telegraph’s Ivan Hewett and the Birmingham Post’s Christopher Morley.
The beginning of the 20th century saw composers in the United States begin to turn away from the European conventions on which their music had been modelled. It was in this period of change that experimentalism was born and America subsequently became, as it remains, a major source of new musical ideas for European musicians.
There will be a free pre-concert talk from 6.30-7pm with Joanna Lee, open to all ticket holders.
Joanna Lee : new work
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10 Jan
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10 Jan
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Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 9.45pm
Thumb late-night
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: Free
Alexandra Wood Viola
Kyle Horch Saxophone
This concert represents a significant milestone for the Birmingham-based Thumb. It sees the world premiere of the ensemble’s first commission, written by BCMG’s 2011 Apprentice Composer-in-Residence, Seán Clancy – a double concerto for BCMG musicians Alexandra Wood and Kyle Horch.
Through funding from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Thumb seek to be recognised as a commissioner of new and exciting repertoire and build on their current portfolio of over 50 premieres.
Howard Skempton : In Tandem
Joe Cutler : Sikorski B
Seán Clancy : Strange to See You Again
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12 Jan
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7.30pm
Martyn Brabbins conducts Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Jack Liebeck, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A concert devoted to music by one of Britain’s most dynamic composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who regularly works with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and who collaborated with the Orchestra in choosing this programme. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies will introduce each of his pieces, giving the audience a fantastic insight into his compositional practices.
The Sixth Symphony was written with members of the Royal Philharmonic in mind, and was premièred by the RPO. Maxwell Davies’ Violin Concerto combines enthralling originality with the influence of Scottish folk music. Of the irrepressible An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, Gramophone wrote: 'Davies is a master storyteller in this vividly detailed tone-painting of a rustic, often raucous, all-night wedding celebration.' The Independent added: 'It brought the house down.'
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-130312/
Peter Maxwell Davies : Symphony No.6
Peter Maxwell Davies : Violin Concerto No.1
Peter Maxwell Davies : An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
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13 Jan
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 7.30pm
HK Gruber presents Oedipus Rex
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £34, £27, £23, £19, £14, £10
BBC Philharmonic
HK Gruber Conductor
Richard Watkins Horn
Timothy Robinson Tenor
Ian Bostridge Oedipus
Angelika Kirchschlager Jocasta
Darren Jeffery Creon
Matthew Best Tiresias
Timothy Robinson Shepherd
Neal Davies Messenger
Hallé Choir
Expect the unexpected with new music and performance in the foyer of The Bridgewater Hall.
In a ravaged land, a terrified people cry out for deliverance, but even great leaders can hide terrible secrets. Hear a timeless story made startlingly new, as HK Gruber and some of the greatest singers of our time join forces in Stravinsky's astonishing opera Oedipus Rex.
It's the jaw-dropping finish to a night of myth, poetry and basic instincts: from Britten's rapturous Serenade, through the passionate emotion of James MacMillan's The Sacrifice.
Students get discounted tickets for this concert with the Sonic Card.
James MacMillan : The Sacrifice: Three Interludes
Benjamin Britten : Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Igor Stravinsky : Oedipus Rex
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13 Jan
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14 Jan
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7pm
Margaret Leng plays Cage at the Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: Free to The Bride and the Bachelors same-day ticket holders
Margaret Leng Tan Pianist
Pianist and pre-eminent Cage interpreter Margaret Leng Tan performs Cage's monumental Four Walls from 1944.
Hailed as the 'revelation of a masterpiece' when she first premiered it at Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival in 1989, this one-time only performance invites you to engage with Cage's work and its compelling beauty.
John Cage : Four Walls
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14 Jan
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 6pm
Cage’s Water Music
Ikon, Birmingham
1 Oozells Square, B1 2HS
United Kingdom
0121 248 0708
http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/
Tickets: Free
Christopher Hobbs Piano
BCMG and IKON Gallery present Cage’s Water Music for piano (plus radio, whistles, water containers and a deck of cards) as part of a live internet concert curated by the Forum of Contemporary Music Leipzig – the biggest highlight of the international art and music festival CAGE100. The concert will be one of several Water Music performances across Leipzig’s sister cities from 8 – 15 March, including Bologna, Houston and Lyon – all streamed live on www.cage100.com.
The setting for this six-minute piece is Ikon’s exhibition of work by the Russian artist Timur Novikov – who along with Cage and others, created and performed Water Symphony in St. Petersburg in 1988, a piece symbolising the unification of American capitalist and Soviet state culture.
John Cage : Water Music
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Friday, March 15, 2013 at 7pm
Studio Concert: Zhubanov, Gribbin and Prokofiev
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
Tickets: Free
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alan Buribayev conductor
Finghin Collins piano
Kazakh conductor Alan Buribayev conducts Akhmet Zhubanov and Khamidi Latyf’s symphonic arrangement from the opera Abai. Both composers were pivotal in the development of Kazakh musical culture in the 20th century. Irish pianist Finghin Collins joins the BBC SO for the UK premiere of The Binding of the Years, by Belfast-born composer Deirdre Gribbin. The concert opens with three new chamber works by composers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and closes with Prokofiev’s nostalgic final symphony, completed in 1952, the year before his death.
Contemporary Composers : Guildhall Octets
Zhubanov/ Hamidi : Wedding Dances from the opera Abai
Deidre Gribbin : The Binding of the Years
Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 7
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 7.30pm
The Gospel According to the Other Mary / John Adams
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £15-65
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Peter Sellars director / librettist
Kelley O’Connor Mary
Tamara Mumford Martha
Russell Thomas Lazarus
Daniel Bubeck countertenor
Brian Cummings countertenor
Nathan Medley countertenor
Michael Schumacher dancer
Anani Sanouvi dancer
Troy Ogilvie dancer
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon music director
Their 1987 music drama Nixon in China has become the most popular American opera since Porgy and Bess. Now the powerhouse creative partnership that is John Adams and Peter Sellars unveil their new work for Barbican audiences, played and conducted by the musicians for whom it was written. The Gospel According to the Other Mary is a 90-minute oratorio for orchestra, chorus and soloists, based on the New Testament stories of Lazarus and Jesus’s Passion and which draws on evocative Mexican poetry. The score is played here in its European premiere by the orchestra which Adams has described as ‘one of the most supple and flexible of any in the world.’
John Adams : The Gospel According to the Other Mary
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17 Jan
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 7.30
Beethoven, Osvaldo Golijov and Dvořák
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £12-28
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Since winning the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 1992, the St. Lawrence Quartet has delighted audiences with its spontaneous, passionate and dynamic performances. The St. Lawrences, noted Alex Ross in The New Yorker, ‘are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music-making … but for the joy they take in the act of connection.’
The programme opens with the last of Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets, in which the composer showed his unfailing mastery of the style developed by Haydn and Mozart. Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov enhanced his long and fruitful association with the St. Lawrences in 2011 when he created Qoheleth for the group, a new work inspired by core texts from the book of Ecclesiastes. Dvořák’s final string quartet brings the concert to a joyful close.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6
Osvaldo Golijov : New work (UK première)
Antonin Dvorak : String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Op. 105
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 8pm
Manchester Camerata: UpClose III
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £10
Camerata Principal Players
UpClose is our eclectic series of laid-back concerts in smaller, more intimate venues around the city, shining a light on hidden gems, both in terms of the music and the venues themselves. Relax and unwind with a drink and enjoy a blend of classical and contemporary music at close quarters. Arrive early for contemporary sound-based artworks by John Hyatt and Lewis Sykes, taking inspiration from the music at each event.
The centre-piece of this concert is Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, one of the most emotionally wrenching and spiritually reflective works written for chamber group. Written for the unusual combination of piano, violin, cello and clarinet, the work received its first performance outside in the rain in a German prisoner of war camp in 1941 on a collection of damaged instruments. This reflective programme also features a performance by Camerata’s principal cellist, Hannah Roberts, of Bach’s D minor Cello Suite, and a new chamber work by Camerata’s composer in residence.
J.S. Bach : Suite for solo cello No.2 in D minor
Chris Mayo : World Première by Manchester Camerata’s Composer in Residence
Olivier Messiaen : Quartet for the End of Time
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