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10 Oct
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 20.00 Aphex Twin: Remote Orchestra Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £25 - 35 Aphex Twin
The Heritage Orchestra and Choir
We are excited to announce a one-off evening of music from the most influential electronic musician of his generation, with assistance from The Heritage Orchestra and Choir.
The show will include the first UK performance of Aphex Twin's groundbreaking Remote Orchestra concept, plus 'Interactive Tuned Feedback Pendulum Array' - a piece which expands on Steve Reich's 'Pendulum Music' - and more.
First developed last year for the European Culture Congress in Poland, the Remote Orchestra performance sees Aphex Twin conducting a 28-piece string section and a 12-strong choir by remote control.
Aphex Twin : Various
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11 Oct
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11 Oct
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 8.15pm Wij zijn ons brein Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam Netherlands http://www.concertgebouw.nl
Tickets: € 28.80 Dick Swaab - spreker
Etienne Siebens - dirigent
Carina Vinke - alt
Asko|Schönberg
Zoran Dukic - gitaar
Scherpdenkers brengt gesproken woord en muziek samen in één concert. Een kunstenaar, wetenschapper, schrijver of politicus geeft eerst een lezing van een half uur over een onderwerp uit zijn of haar vakgebied. Daarna volgt een concert met avontuurlijke muziek die thematisch aansluit op de lezing.
Dick Swaab
Met het boek Wij zijn ons brein maakte neurobioloog en arts Dick Swaab van de hersenen een publieke discussie. Swaab bepleit de rationaliteit van het menselijk wezen en wijst een onafhankelijke geest of ziel af. Is het determinisme van Swaab een verlossing voor allen die de verantwoordelijkheid over hun leven liever niet 'zelf' dragen? De surrealistische gedichten van René Char in Le marteau sans maître bevrijden ons in ieder geval van de strakke werkelijkheid en geven onze fantasie en onderbewuste de vrije loop.
Pierre Boulez
De Franse componist Pierre Boulez staat te boek als een van de meest strikte en georganiseerde componisten ter wereld. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog omarmde Boulez het serialisme en verloste zich van de oude tradities. Ook in Le marteau sans maître. In het werk uit 1955 zijn vele organisatieprincipes werkzaam en toch weet Boulez er een onverwacht mooi en lyrisch werk van te maken. Dick Swaab kan vast uitleggen hoe dat werkt.
Kijk ook op www.scherpdenkers.nl
J.S. Bach : Chaconne (uit 'Tweede partita' in d, BWV 1004) (bew. Z. Dukic) Pierre Boulez : Le Marteau sans maître
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11 Oct
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 7.30pm Libor Pešek conducts Smetana, Chopin and Dvorák Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom 02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15 Conductor - Libor Pešek
Piano - Leon McCawley
SMETANA The Bartered Bride Overture
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1
DVORÁK Symphony No.7
Czech conductor Libor Pešek has enjoyed an international career spanning fifty years, and this irresistible programme is the perfect showcase for his celebrated interpretations of Czech music. Smetana’s exuberant Overture to his comic opera, The Bartered Bride, brims with infectious energy, whereas Dvorák’s impassioned Symphony No.7 captures the full emotional spectrum of Czech musical styles. With its profound depth of feeling and masterful orchestral balance, this is considered by many to be Dvorák’s greatest symphonic achievement. At the heart of this programme, Leon McCawley performs the First Piano Concerto by Polish composer Chopin, whose exquisite writing for the soloist overflows with romance.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Bedøich Smetana : The Bartered Bride Overture Frederyk Chopin : Symphony No.7 Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No.7
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14 Oct
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Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 7:15PM Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Continues DROM Concert Series OCT - DEC DROM, New York , 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village United States (212) 777-1157 http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $15 Chico Hamilton
LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM
Sundays this Fall: 10.14 + 11.11 + 12.09
WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico” Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a "Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers.
DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Fall (OCT - DEC) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”
WHEN: Sunday, October 14 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 11 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 9 @ 7:15PM
WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A, New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue
HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.
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17 Oct
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 8pm Réponses Cité de la musique, Paris 221, avenue Jean Jaurès 75019 Paris, France France +33 (0)1 44 84 44 84 http://www.cite-musique.fr
Tickets: 18€ Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophèle, Matteo Cesari, flutes
Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor Alejo Pérez
IRCAM computer music design Andrew Gerzso
A tribute to a master, gone but forever alive, this is the principle that creates an elective chain among the works in this program.
Igor Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, composed in 1920, is dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy, who died ten years earlier. In 1971, when Stravinsky passed away, Pierre Boulez imagined a project for a work shaped like a tomb ...explosante-fixe... that would become an element of the mixed music repertoire. Steine by Peter Eötvös, composed in 1985, is dedicated "from Peter to Pierre" to Pierre Boulez in celebration of his 60th birthday. And The Severed Garden, by the young German Genoël von Lilienstern, is a tribute to Eötvös completing this avalanche of dedications, replies, and apostrophes, beyond historical distances.
Genoël von Lilienstern : The Severed Garden Peter Eotvos : Steine Igor Stravinsky : Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 version) Pierre Boulez : ...explosante-fixe...
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19 Oct
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Friday, October 19, 2012 at 8pm Musi & Musica at BEA - Joao Kouyoumdjian BEA - Brazilian Endowment for the Arts 240 E. 52nd street, New York, NY, 10022 United States http://www.brazilianendowment.org contact@brazilianendowment.org
Tickets: $15 and $10 Joao Kouyoumdjian (classical guitar)
Music & Música at BEA and Ticún Brasil present a solo classical guitar concert with the young virtuoso João Kouyoumdjian.
Mr. Kouyoumdjian will present an eclectic repertory written or arranged for solo guitar by Brazilian composers. Kouyoumdjian explores and pushes the instrument sonority and at the same time deals with an exemplar and traditional technique. The program will include works by Marco Pereira, Villa-Lobos, Tom Jobim, Raimundo Penaforte, Ricardo Calderoni, Garoto (Annibal Augusto Sardinha), among others.
Ricardo Calderoni : Balaio (Suíte Dois Povos) Raimundo Penaforte : Zurraço (Two Pieces for Guitar Solo) Joao Pernambuco : Sons de Carrilhões Marco Pereira : Bate-Coxa
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19 Oct
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20 Oct
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Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 7.30pm Chilly Gonzales with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £15 - 20 Chilly Gonzales with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
All-round entertainer, pianist, rapper and self-proclaimed ‘musical genius’, Chilly Gonzales brings his iconoclastic orchestral hip hop to the Barbican stage. The concert also includes orchestral versions of material from his recent Solo Piano II and the world premiere of his new Piano Concerto.
Chilly Gonzales : Various
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20 Oct
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21 Oct
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Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 7.30pm Central England Ensemble Town Hall, Birmingham Victoria Square B3 3DQ United Kingdom 0121 780 3333 http://www.thsh.co.uk/
Tickets: £11, £13 Anthony Bradbury music director
Ondøej Vrabec french horn
This unique event, generously sponsored by Irwin Mitchell solicitors, features the world premiere performance of Concerto for French Horn and Symphony Orchestra by Birmingham born composer Andrew Downes, who is himself wheelchair bound as a result of a spinal injury.
The soloist is Ondøej Vrabec, solo and principal horn of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Also in the programme is Walton’s Crown Imperial and Brahms’s Second Symphony. The leader of the orchestra is the composer’s daughter Anna Downes, and the conductor Anthony Bradbury. This promises to be a great concert, not to be missed!
William Walton : Crown Imperial Andrew Downes : Concerto for French horn and Symphony Orchestra (World Premiere) Johannes Brahms : Symphony No 2
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22 Oct
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Monday, October 22, 2012 at 8:00pm - 11:00pm The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble: John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music Stern Auditorium New York, NY United States
Tickets: $25 general / $15 Students, Seniors Joseph Kubera & Ursula Oppens, piano
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Kicking off the BEYOND CAGE festival (New York City, oct. 22-Nov. 7), the 86-piece Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble will perform John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis and Winter Music with pianist Ursula Oppens and Joseph Kubera at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. This performance will mark the first time these works are heard together in their entirety, as well as the 20th anniversary of Atlas Eclipticalis' first complete performance (The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, with David Tudor on the piano, 1992). An historical performance not to be missed! www.semensemble.org/beyond-cage
John Cage : Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music Christian Marclay : Shuffle
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23 Oct
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 7.30pm Vaughan Williams, Philip Venables and Dohnányi Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30 Endymion
Wigmore Hall’s mighty tally of world premières grows with the appearance of a specially commissioned work by Endymion’s artistic director, Philip Venables.
The Chester-born composer’s music, praised for its ‘delicately spun melodies’ and ‘gritty, soulful’ character, has been championed worldwide by Endymion. His Sextet takes its place in an absorbing programme, complete with Vaughan Williams’s early Quintet for clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano, written in 1898 and first performed three years later.
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Quintet in D Philip Venables : Sextet (commissioned by Wigmore Hall) E Dohnanyi : Sextet in C Op. 37
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24 Oct
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 7.30pm Steve Reich's Drumming St David's Hall St David's Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AH United Kingdom 029 2087 8444 http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/ sdhreception@cardiff.gov.uk
The Colin Currie Group with Synergy Vocals
Legendary New York minimalist Steve Reich travelled to Africa to study traditional drumming techniques with master-drummer Gideon Alorwoyie. The result was Drumming: a 90-minute journey for percussion and female voices that, at the time of its 1971 premiere, redefined Western music's relationship with rhythm. Moving from drums through the glowing resonance of glockenspiels and marimbas and voices, Drumming is a primeval and uplifting experience engaging both mind and body.
Unmissable
Steve Reich : Drumming
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25 Oct
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 1.15pm Music at St Pancras St Pancras Parish Church London United Kingdom
Tickets: Free Felicity Vincent: Cello
Roger Black: Piano
'Not the Manchester School, Part 2'
David Dubery : Cello Sonata
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26 Oct
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26 Oct
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27 Oct
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27 Oct
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28 Oct
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30 Oct
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7.30pm Laura van der Heijden performs Walton Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom 02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15 Conductor - Paul Daniel
Cello - Laura van der Heijden
Winner of BBC Young Musician 2012, dazzling cellist Laura van der Heijden performs Walton’s Cello Concerto – the piece with which she won the title, aged only 15. With its singing, complex cello part and rich orchestral writing, Walton’s Concerto is the perfect vehicle for Laura van der Heijden’s unique gifts. Framing Walton’s powerful music are gems by his fellow Englishmen: a witty overture from Vaughan Williams, the hauntingly beautiful A Song of the Night by Holst, featuring acclaimed violinist Clio Gould, and Elgar’s incomparable ‘Enigma’ Variations.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Ralph Vaughan Williams : The Wasps Overture William Walton : Cello Concerto Gustav Holst : A Song of the Night Edward Elgar : 'Enigma' Variations
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31 Oct
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 7.30pm Max Richter: Vivaldi Recomposed Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £15 – 20 Featuring Britten Sinfonia, conducted by André de Ridder with violinist Daniel Hope
Contemporary composer Max Richter re-imagines Vivaldi’s timeless set of Baroque concertos, The Four Seasons, featuring Britten Sinfonia conducted by André de Ridder with violinist Daniel Hope, and also performs a special set including music from his most recent album, Infra.
Max Richter : Vivaldi Recomposed
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31 Oct
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 7.30pm Premières Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £10 Arditti Quartet
JACK Quartet
Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly’s commitment to the creation of new works of chamber music is ideally served by this spectacular recital of UK premières, a clear jewel in the 2012/13 season’s crown.
The Arditti Quartet’s worldwide reputation rests secure on almost 40 years of excellence in the performance and development of contemporary music. The JACK Quartet can likewise cite a glorious record of achievement in bringing new work to life, underpinned by its players’ close association with composers such as Matthias Pintscher, Helmut Lachenmann and Julia Wolfe.
This showcase concert, part of a landmark Arditti and JACK Quartet project, offers audiences the thrilling prospect of hearing the birth of two string quartets and two string octets by Hans Abrahamsen (b.1952), Mauro Lanza (b.1975) and the English composers Rebecca Saunders (b.1967) and James Clarke (b.1957).
James Clarke : 2012S for 2 string quartets Hans Abrahamsen : Quartet No.4 Mauro Lanza : Der Kampf zwischen Karneval und Faasten for octet
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6 Nov
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 7.30pm Grzegorz Nowak conducts Borodin, Tchaikovsky and Dvorák Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom 02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15 Conductor - Grzegorz Nowak
Cello - Dimitri Maslennikov
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, from his opera Prince Igor, are amongst his most famous pieces, full of exotic melodies and vibrant orchestration. Cellist Dimitri Maslennikov has a special affinity for Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a delightful set of variations on an elegant theme inspired by Mozart. While living in America, Czech composer Dvorák was enchanted by the music he heard there, declaring: ‘These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America’. For his Ninth Symphony, Dvorák emulated this style, while also recalling the music of his homeland. The result is his most popular symphony, its famous Largo just one of many glorious moments.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Alexander Borodin : Polovtsian Dances Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Variations on a Rococo Theme Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No.9, 'From the New World'
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7 Nov
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9 Nov
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Friday, November 9, 2012 at 7:00pm - c. 9:30pm Morton Feldman's "Triadic Memories" Holywell Music Room, Oxford Holywell Street, Oxford United Kingdom aphekhayasidlala@tiscali.co.uk
Tickets: £10 / £8 seniors / £5 students Luke Berryman
"Triadic Memories" is a vast single-movement work lasting approximately two hours. Like other compositions of Morton Feldman's final years, it's closely related to the aesthetics of Mark Rothko's paintings, and is characterised by stasis and extremely quiet dynamics. The unusual title refers partly to an attempt to evoke memory itself: listening to this piece is like flicking through an old photograph album. Its delicate, slowly-shifting harmonies reach toward something that was once definite, but is now lost in time. It was perhaps this fragility that led the composer to aptly describe the piece as "the largest butterfly in captivity".
"Triadic Memories" has only been performed a handful of times across the world, and the 25th anniversary of Feldman's death falls this year. All in all, this concert promises to be a special occasion.
Rob Keeley : Ballade Karlheinz Stockhausen : Klavierstück IX Morton Feldman : Triadic Memories
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