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12 Oct
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Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 11am
Jörg Widmann Quartet No 3 ‘The Hunt’
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
GRINGOLTS QUARTET
Led by international violin soloist Ilya Gringolts, the Gringolts Quartet has dazzled audiences from Salzburg to London’s Wigmore Hall with its remarkable technical prowess and its raw, radiant, revealing accounts of music old and new.
Brahms’s bright, sunny and exquisitely crafted Third Quartet closes their rich, witty International Festival debut recital. It follows Haydn’s brilliantly comic ‘The Frog’ Quartet, and the darker humour of contemporary German composer Jörg Widmann’s fantastical ‘The Hunt’ Quartet – which ends in a literal musical hunt of one of the quartet players.
This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 14 August
Joseph Haydn : String Quartet in D Op 50 No 6 ‘The Frog’
Johannes Brahms : String Quartet No 3 in B flat Op 67
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12 Oct
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Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 3pm
Proms at ... Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral
London Bridge, SE1
United Kingdom
BBC Singers
‘I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart.’ Palestrina’s joyous Passiontide motet provides the starting point for the Proms’s first ever visit to Southwark Cathedral in a programme that sets faith against doubt and 16th-century Italian polyphony against a world premiere by British composer and Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir.
Palestrina’s radiant Mass glows with spiritual certainty, whether in its dancing Hosanna or long-limbed Sanctus. The BBC Singers are joined by the Nash Ensemble and tenor Adrian Thompson for Weir’s In the Land of Uz, which takes inspiration from the story of Job, whose faith in God is shaken repeatedly through suffering and disaster.
There will be no interval
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina : Offertorium 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina : Missa 'Confitebor tibi'
Judith Weir : In the Land of Uz
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13 Oct
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Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 4pm
Michel van der Aa Blank Out
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
A coproduction of Dutch National Opera Amsterdam with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Imagine 3D glasses at the opera! The Dutchman Michel van der Aa is not only a composer but also a filmmaker and director. And he combines these various artistic identities in virtuosic Gesamtkunstwerk projects. As, for instance, in his multimedia chamber opera, Blank Out, which was first performed in the spring of 2016 in Amsterdam and is now receiving its Swiss premiere as the start of a van der Aa retrospective for Lucerne’s composer-in-residence. A single singer, the soprano Miah Persson, appears onstage. Opposite her is the baritone Roderick Williams, but he is present only virtually: in a 3D film that blends pre-produced material with live-recorded video sequences. What is reality and what is fiction become harder and harder to distinguish in this tragic story of a mother-son relationship that is based on the life and texts of the South African writer Ingrid Jonker. A major event that combines emotional power with high tech.
Michael van der Aa : Blank Out
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15 Oct
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 10.15pm
Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Britten Sinfonia
Anoushka Shankar
Ravichandra Kulur
Gaurav Mazumdar
Karen Kamensek
Blending Glass’s American Minimalism with traditional Hindustani classical music, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar joins the Britten Sinfonia for the first complete live performance of Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar’s 1964 concept album Passages.
Glass Shankar : Passages
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17 Oct
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Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 11am
Matthias Pintscher New Work
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
Benjamin Appl Baritone
Pavel Kolesnikov Piano
Lieder and songs by Schubert, Schumann, Grieg and Matthias Pintscher
Charismatic, perceptive, and performing with a striking identification with his songs, young German baritone Benjamin Appl has been hailed as one of the finest of his generation of Lieder singers – for his seductive expressiveness, his honeyed voice and his astonishing balance of power and sensitivity.
He is joined by the remarkable young Siberianborn pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, celebrated for the astonishing freshness of his spellbinding playing, for a wide-ranging recital of classic Lieder.
They open with a broad Schubert collection – from the joyous affirmation of Die Taubenpost to the gruesome Romantic horror of Der Zwerg – and travel through dramatic songs by Schumann and Grieg’s achingly melodious Sechs Lieder to a new work by contemporary German composer Matthias Pintscher.
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Matthias Pintscher : New Work
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19 Oct
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Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 11am
Helena Winkelman World Premiere
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
sCHpillit
Ghost Choir (Peter Siegwart chorus master)
Dani Mangisch speaker
Sylvia Nopper voice
Starting in the mid-1970s the group known as Oberwalliser Spillit became a sensation. With clarinet, hammered dulcimer, and such new-fangled instruments as the Tenundi Titschini (a tuned wooden drum), as well as plenty of wit, the “Oberwalliser Spielleute” (“the bandsmen from Valais”) devoted themselves to the old tunes and dances of the Swiss Confederation – but without a hint of old-fashioned stuffiness. And they proved that folk music and the avant-garde can get along by having contemporary composers write new works tailor-made for them. Composers like Heinz Holliger. In Alb-Chehr he set a Valais legend about two shepherds and a cantankerous dairyman who run into some music-making ghosts – with a fatal outcome for the dairyman. Shortly after Oberwalliser Spillit broke up in 2001, the clarinetist Elmar Schmid founded the ensemble sCHpillit, which is now coming together again to present not only Holliger’s classic but also a brand-new score by the composer and violinist Helena Winkelman.
Heinz Holliger : Fünf Kinderlieder
Heinz Holliger : Alb-Cher. “Geischter- and Älplermüsig”
Heinz Holliger : Gränzä – Grenzen
Helena Winkelman : Ronde des Lutins
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26 Oct
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27 Oct
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Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 3pm
Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Frédérique Cambreling
In 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály went on the road together in order to systematically research the folk music of southeastern Europe. They made their way to secluded regions and had old peasant women sing them songs their grandmothers had sung and asked goatherds to play the flute and village musicians to play the fiddle. This archaic, unadulterated peasant music, which they heard and recorded in the process, served both composers as a way to renew the musical language and development of a specific identity: “from musical forces that have sprung up from the earth,” as Bartók put it.
The Special Event Day Museum Concerts will explore Bartók’s and Kodály’s revolution – and pose the question of what their contemporaries and the ensuing generation made of it. The Romanian George Enescu and the Frenchman Maurice Ravel, for instance, took up their innovations, while Sándor Veress (who was also the teacher of Heinz Holliger), György Ligeti, and György Kurtág initially carried them forward but ultimately freed themselves from the overwhelming influence of their early models. A wide variety of ensembles from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY – from duo and string quartet to wind quintet, brass ensemble, and string orchestra – will present this musical excursion across the Balkans. The centerpiece is a longer concert featuring this summer’s two “artistes étoiles”: the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the cellist Jay Campbell, who will be joined on their program by the Russian pianist Polina Leschenko. Whoever is interested in knowing whether all of this is still of relevance for the young generation of composers can find answers at the opening Composer Seminar workshop concert.
Béla Bartók : Selected Duos for two violins
Heinz Holliger : Partita for harp
Sandor Veress : Diptychon for wind quintet
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28 Oct
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Monday, August 28, 2017 at 9pm
Donald Shaw New Work
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Clark Rundell Conductor
Karen Matheson Vocalist
Glittering pyrotechnics illuminating Edinburgh’s iconic Castle. The thrilling emotions of glorious classics, loved by millions.
Soak up the magical party atmosphere in Princes Street Gardens with family and friends – enjoy a picnic, and toast the electrifying conclusion to the International Festival 2017.
Renowned Scottish folk singer Karen Matheson, vocalist of Celtic supergroup Capercaillie, joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for traditional Scottish tunes and the world premiere of a new work composed for Karen by Capercaillie founder Donald Shaw. The evening continues with an epic 40 minute fireworks display specially choreographed to beloved classics – including delectable dance music from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty.
Get Edinburgh’s most thrilling view for this special evening of sparkling celebration.
Over 100,000 fireworks launched from the castle make this one of the biggest fireworks concerts in the world. Around a quarter of a million people gather across the city and beyond to share in this annual International Festival finale each year.
Malcolm Arnold : Scottish Dances
Donald Shaw : New Work
James MacMillan : Stomp
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Selection
Peter Maxwell Davies : An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
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6 Nov
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 5pm–until 14th Oct
Jana Winderen: Rats - Secret Soundscapes of the City
Ultima Festival
Oslo
Finland
http://www.ultima.no
Jana Winderen: Rats - Secret Soundscapes of the City (WP)
Munchmuseet on the Move, Bjřrvika
Nylandsbrua
Opens 6 September – 5 pm (open until 14 October)
Free entry
Parallel to the world of people is another bustling society – a world of rats.
Parallel to the world of people is another bustling society – a world of rats. Some of their communication with each other cannot be registered by human ears, as it is located in an ultrasound frequency range – over 20.000 Hz.
A stone’s throw from the white-marbled Opera house, and based on the hypothesis that rats serenade one another with love songs, Jana Winderen will record the ultrasonic landscape of Bjřrvika and slow the sound down to human hearing levels. Based on her fieldwork and findings, she will create a new multichannel composition for Munchmuseet on the Move 2017 with spatial audio software by Tony Myatt (University of Surrey). The new, multi-channel sound piece will be installed at the mouth of Akerselva, where the river meets the sea in this rapidly developing district of Oslo. It opens Wednesday 6 September 2017 as part of the Ultima Festival.
Oslo-based artist Jana Winderen creates immersive multi-channel installations and concerts, which she has performed all over the world. She was educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, and has a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology from the University in Oslo. Previous projects include an installation in Park Avenue Tunnel, New York City (2014), and MoMA New York (2013). She was awarded the Golden Nica for Digital Music & Sound Art at Ars Electronica in 2011.
Jana Winderen’s project is a collaboration between Munchmuseet on the Move and nyMusikk, curated by Natalie Hope O’Donnell and Anne Hilde Neset. It will also include the seminar Sounds of the City, on 22 September at the Munch Museum.
Jana Winderen : Rats - Secret Soundscapes of the City
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