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United Kingdom
 Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7.30pm 
JAMES MACMILLAN
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt

James MacMillan conductor
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta

James MacMillan’s music has long been moving and exciting British audiences, and his choral music in particular can create a profound and powerful impact.

The London Sinfonietta and BBC Singers perform works ranging from the deeply spiritual Cum vidisset Jesus, through the philosophically moral After Virtue to the intensely personal Catherine’s Lullabies, written for the birth of the composer’s daughter.

The programme also includes a selection of some recently unearthed Church Songs by Polish composer Henryk Górecki.


James MacMillan : After Virtue
Henryk Gorecki : Church Songs
James MacMillan : Sun Dogs
James MacMillan : Cum vidisset Jesus (When Jesus had seen his Mother)
James MacMillan : They saw the stone had been rolled away
James MacMillan : Alleluia
James MacMillan : Catherine’s Lullabies

13 Oct 
 
14 Oct



United Kingdom
 Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Kate Royal soprano
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
London Symphony Chorus
CBSO Chorus

Sir Simon Rattle concludes The London Residency by conducting Mahler's epic Second symphony, a suitably climactic work to celebrate this landmark series.

Composed a century apart, Mahler’s 85-minute Symphony No.2 Resurrection and Helmut Lachenmann’s 15-minute Tableau share an intense engagement with the natural and imagined world. The alluring textures of Lachenmann’s virtuosic musique concrète instrumentale provide a prelude to the climax of The London Residency: Mahler’s dramatic symphonic epic with Dies Irae plainchant, pastoral dance, teeming fish, a nightingale, off-stage brass, transcendent solo voices and a vast choir.

Also on 15th February


Helmut Lachenmann : Tableau
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)

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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 1.10pm 
Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Manchester M1 5HA
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Tickets: £11.50, £9.50, £7.00
Cavaleri Quartet
Martyn Jackson violin
Ciaran McCabe violin
Ann Beilby viola
Rowena Calvert cello



Leos Janacek : Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters
David Dubery : Cuarteto Iberico: (Los fantasmas de los tiempos pasados)

19 Oct



United States
 Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7:30 pm 
Connecting in the Chamber
Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co
224 W Bruce St
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/connectinginthechamber.aspx

Tickets: $25
Present Music

Schubert, Bruce Adolphe, Joplin, Bach, Gesualdo, Brett Dean, Debussy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brahms, Marcos Balter and Kamran Ince all come together for a series of intimate concerts connecting the old to the new. (Program subject to change.)


20 Oct



United States
 Friday, February 20, 2015 at 7:30 pm 
Connecting in the Chamber
Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co
224 W Bruce St
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/connectinginthechamber.aspx

Tickets: $35
Present Music

Schubert, Bruce Adolphe, Joplin, Bach, Gesualdo, Brett Dean, Debussy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brahms, Marcos Balter and Kamran Ince all come together for a series of intimate concerts connecting the old to the new. (Program subject to change.)


20 Oct



United States
 Friday, February 20, 2015 at 11am 
Connecting in the Chamber
Villa Terrace
2220 N Terrace Ave, Milwaukee WI
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/connectinginthechamber.aspx

Tickets: $25
Present Music

Schubert, Bruce Adolphe, Joplin, Bach, Gesualdo, Brett Dean, Debussy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brahms, Marcos Balter and Kamran Ince all come together for a series of intimate concerts connecting the old to the new. (Program subject to change.)


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United Kingdom
 Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 7pm 
CBSO Youth Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp

CBSO Youth Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Denis Kozhukhin piano

Mahler’s First Symphony begins by creating the world – and ends by storming Heaven itself. Well, the CBSO Youth Orchestra likes a challenge, and if you’ve heard our inspirational young players before, you’ll know that under the baton of CBSO principal guest conductor Edward Gardner we’re in for something very special indeed. Twentieth century classics by Lutoslawski and Prokofiev raise the curtain with an explosion of colour.

Witold Lutoslawski : Symphony No 4
Sergei Prokofiev : Piano Concerto No 1
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No 1

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24 Oct



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 7.30pm 
The Songbook
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Conductor: Jonathan Berman
Sopranos: Gillian Keith
Rebecca von Lipinski

BCMG



This special Songbook programme is a rare opportunity to hear a hand-picked selection of 17 songs for soprano and small ensemble, commissioned over a ten year period from the late 1980s by composer/BCMG Artist-in-Association John Woolrich and soprano Mary Wiegold. In addition we celebrate the 75th Sound Investment premiere since the commissioning scheme launched in 1992.

In total, around 200 works were commissioned for The Songbook by inviting composers to write a ‘song’ (whatever that suggested to them in terms of choice of text, duration and musical language) and not a piece of vocal chamber music.

Along with distinguished soloists Gillian Keith and Rebecca von Lipinski, BCMG presents a programme focusing on songs from the collection by European composers (plus an American and an Argentinian) in a concert that helps to establish these pieces as part of the repertoire. Complementing these will be a new ‘song’ by Gerald Barry, himself a brilliant writer for voice as anyone who heard BCMG’s European premiere performances of his acclaimed opera The Importance of Being Earnest in April 2012 will know.

Today, Woolrich and Wiegold’s Songbook compendium is a portrait of what a wide range of composers were up to at the end of the 20th century. Most British composers are represented in the collection, plus music from many other countries, and not just contemporary classical: there are songs by jazz composers (Mike Garrick, Keith Tippett) and rock composers (Joby Talbot and Elvis Costello).

Jonathan Harvey: You
Milton Babbitt: Quatrains
Gerald Barry: Crossing the Bar (world premiere / BCMG Sound Investment commission)
Thomas Adès: Life Story
Kurt Schwertsik: Human Existence…
Der Herr weis was der Wil
singt meine schwäne
Harrison Birtwistle: White and Light
Night
Tenebrae
Olga Neuwirth: The Cartographer Song
Poul Ruders: Alone
Osvaldo Golijov: Sarajevo
Detlev Glanert: Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine
Niccolo Castiglioni: Vallis Clausa
Salvatore Sciarrino: Due Risvegli e il Vento
Aldo Clementi: Wiegenlied
Franco Donatoni: An angel within my heart


Contemporary Composers : Various

25 Oct



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 17:30 
Tokaido Road: A Journey after Hiroshige
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt

Nicola LeFanu music
Nancy Gaffield libretto
Caroline Clegg director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Okeanos

Nicola LeFanu’s acclaimed piece of music theatre, composed for Okeanos’s unique blend of Western and Japanese instruments, receives its London premiere. Through art, poetry, mime and music, Tokaido Road tells the story of the artist Hiroshige and his travels on Japan’s ancient Eastern sea road from Edo to Kyoto.

Nicola LeFanu : Tokaido Road: A Journey after Hiroshige

25 Oct



Netherlands
 Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 20.15 
Ten Holt's Canto Ostinato: 4 pianos and string quartet
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Polo de Haas (piano)
Ivo Janssen (piano)
Kees Wieringa (piano)
Arielle Vernède (piano)
Mondriaan Kwartet
Lotte Bovi (mezzosopraan)



Ten Holt : Canto ostinato

25 Oct



Wales
 Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Composer Portrait: B Tommy Andersson
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård Conductor
Markus Leoson Percussion

The Orchestra explore a selection of B Tommy Andersson’s works, as part of his role as Composer-in-Association. The works are conducted by Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård, long-time friend and colleague of B Tommy.


B Tommy Andersson : Death in Venice
B Tommy Andersson : Passacaglia
B Tommy Andersson : Apollo (percussion concerto)
B Tommy Andersson : Warriors

26 Oct 
 
27 Oct



United Kingdom
 Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7.45pm 
SPECTRUM OF SOUND: PART 1
Purcell Room, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08703 800400
http://www.rfh.org.uk

André de Ridder conductor
London Sinfonietta

This two-part series explores the extraordinary advances in sonic manipulation over recent years, from the maverick pioneers of the second half of the 20th century to spectral music of the 21st. Using quarter-tones to destabilise harmony and pulsing rhythms to obscure a sense of meter, yesterday’s composers opened up the possibilities for new directions in tuning and texture, a baton now passed to the mixed-media, computer-led, electronic composers of today.

Iannis Xenakis : Aroura
Claude Vivier : Zipangu
Georg Friedrich Haas : Open Spaces
Mica Levi : New work

27 Oct



United Kingdom
 Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7.30pm 
The Songbook
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk

Conductor: Jonathan Berman
Sopranos: Gillian Keith
Rebecca von Lipinski

BCMG

This special Songbook programme is a rare opportunity to hear a hand-picked selection of 17 songs for soprano and small ensemble, commissioned over a ten year period from the late 1980s by composer/BCMG Artist-in-Association John Woolrich and soprano Mary Wiegold. In addition we celebrate the 75th Sound Investment premiere since the commissioning scheme launched in 1992.

In total, around 200 works were commissioned for The Songbook by inviting composers to write a ‘song’ (whatever that suggested to them in terms of choice of text, duration and musical language) and not a piece of vocal chamber music.

Along with distinguished soloists Gillian Keith and Rebecca von Lipinski, BCMG presents a programme focusing on songs from the collection by European composers (plus an American and an Argentinian) in a concert that helps to establish these pieces as part of the repertoire. Complementing these will be a new ‘song’ by Gerald Barry, himself a brilliant writer for voice as anyone who heard BCMG’s European premiere performances of his acclaimed opera The Importance of Being Earnest in April 2012 will know.

Today, Woolrich and Wiegold’s Songbook compendium is a portrait of what a wide range of composers were up to at the end of the 20th century. Most British composers are represented in the collection, plus music from many other countries, and not just contemporary classical: there are songs by jazz composers (Mike Garrick, Keith Tippett) and rock composers (Joby Talbot and Elvis Costello).

Jonathan Harvey: You
Milton Babbitt: Quatrains
Gerald Barry: Crossing the Bar (world premiere / BCMG Sound Investment commission)
Thomas Adès: Life Story
Kurt Schwertsik: Human Existence…
Der Herr weis was der Wil
singt meine schwäne
Harrison Birtwistle: White and Light
Night
Tenebrae
Olga Neuwirth: The Cartographer Song
Poul Ruders: Alone
Osvaldo Golijov: Sarajevo
Detlev Glanert: Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine
Niccolo Castiglioni: Vallis Clausa
Salvatore Sciarrino: Due Risvegli e il Vento
Aldo Clementi: Wiegenlied
Franco Donatoni: An angel within my heart


Contemporary Composers : Various

28 Oct



Scotland
 Saturday, February 28, 2015 at  
Hear and Now
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Roy Amotz MIDI-flute
Saar Berger horn
Sound Intermedia
Matthias Pintscher conductor

…explosante-fixe…, for flute with live electronics and ensemble, was given its UK Premiere in Edinburgh more than 20 years ago by Ensemble InterContemporain. The conductor on that occasion was Pierre Boulez himself, who next month will celebrate his 90th birthday. Here, Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble InterContemporain’s current music director, who is also the BBC SSO’s Artist-in-Association, brings together members of the BBC SSO and guest soloists for an evening which also features a work from one of Pintscher’s composition teachers, Manfred Trojahn, a recent composition from Serbian-born Marko Nikodijevic, and the UK Premiere of a horn concerto from Slovenian-born Vito Žuraj. To be recorded for future broadcast in BBC Radio 3’s Saturday night contemporary music programme, Hear and Now.

Marko Nikodijevic : Cvetic, Kucica…/La Lugubre Gondola
Manfred Trojahn : Herbstmusik/Sinfonischer Satz
Vito Žuraj : Hawk-eye (horn concerto)
Pierre Boulez : ...explosante-fixe...

28 Oct



United Kingdom
 Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 7.00pm 
Piano Recital - Anthony Green
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
Shaftesbury Avenue
United Kingdom

Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions)
Saturday February 28th 2015, 7.00pm

Piano Recital - Anthony Green

Anthony Green with another concert of contemporary and some repertoire works. He starts with Haydn's Sonata No.58 in C and ends with Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata Op.53. In a sequel to his concert last May he plays the second half of Nick Ray's Symphony in the composer's piano arrangement, and the second half of his own John Cowper Powys Symphony (movements 4-6) arranged for solo piano. Anthony does not know when a full orchestral performance will happen, so this may be the only chance for some time to assess this impressive work. There will also be in the programme Charles Ives' Three Page Sonata and Skalkottas' Reverie in the Old Style and Reverie in the New Style.

Tickets: £10 full, £7 concessions on the door or in advance from 0207 534 0710




Nick Ray : Symphony movements 3 and 4 (piano arrangement by composer)

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