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New Music Concert Listings - United Kingdom
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Friday, September 13, 2013 at 7.30pm
Collaborations: performers and composers together now
Lauderdale House
Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London N6 5HG
United Kingdom
07878676644
http://www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk
Tickets: £11, £9
Niall O'Riordan, flute
Yeu-Meng Chan, piano
Felicity Hayward, soprano
Catherine Herriott, piano
British and French music from 1913-2013, including new work by Alex Butters, Miriam Mackie and Jacob Shirley
Alex Butters : Triskaidekaphobia
Jacob Shirley : A soft-edged reed of light
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13 Oct
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13 Oct
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13 Oct
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Friday, September 13, 2013 at 7.30
American Lulu: eight nights at the Young Vic
Young Vic
66 The Cut, London, SE1 8LZ, UK
United Kingdom
020 7922 2922
Tickets: £10, £19.50, £25, £32.50
Angel Blue
Jacqui Dankworth
Donald Maxwell
Robert Winslade Anderson
Jonathan Stoughton
Paul Curievici
Simon Wilding
Paul Reeves
John Fulljames director
Gerry Cornelius conductor
Magda Willi design
Finn Ross video
Guy Hoare light
Carolyn Downing sound design
Emma Woodvine dialect coach
Unfinished at his death in 1935, Alban Berg’s opera Lulu is a tantalising prospect for anyone grappling with its completion. Setting her own libretto Olga Neuwirth re-works the first two acts and composes an entirely original third, transporting Berg’s femme fatale to the smoky jazz clubs of 1950s America where Lulu, a young and aspiring dancer, finds herself at the mercy of some dark, predatory characters. As Lulu looks back at her life, scarred by its tumultuous events, she must come to terms with a sordid history of sex, murder and suicide.
A co-production between The Opera Group, Young Vic, Scottish Opera and Bregenzer Festspiele, in association with the London Sinfonietta.
Music of Act I and II adapted and reorchestrated by Olga Neuwirth
Text of Act I and II adapted by Olga Neuwirth and Helga Utz using translations into English by Richard Stokes and Catherine Kerkhoff-Saxon
Music and text for Act III by Olga Neuwirth and translated into English by Catherine Kerkhoff-Saxon
Alban Berg : Lulu
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13 Oct
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Friday, September 13, 2013 at 8.00 pm
Saxology in Recital
All Saints Church
Little Totham, Essex CM9 8LU
United Kingdom
01621 852844
Tickets: £7.50 Concs £6.50
The talented members of the Saxology quartet display the virtuosity of their instruments in a programme of contemporary British music and fresh arrangements of American jazz standards.
Jeffery Wilson : Circus Acts and Folk Song Suite
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15 Oct
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Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 9.30pm
Postal Pieces
Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
United Kingdom
020 7520 1440
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/
info@kingsplace.co.uk
Tickets: £4.50
Paul Silverthorne solo viola
Tim Gill solo cello
John Constable solo piano
London Sinfonietta
What transforms silence into music? And can one exist without the other? Our traditional methods of listening are grounded in something we rarely even acknowledge, but silence, space and cognition are at the heart of both Morton Feldman and James Tenney’s music. While Feldman’s spacious works have echoes of Rothko’s contemplative, abstract canvasses, Tenney’s music asks the audience to ‘really listen to the sounds, get inside them, notice the details’. Often sparsely notated, with cryptic instructions, they will transform the way you perceive your experience as a listener.
James Tenney : Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Morton Feldman : The Viola in my Life 3
James Tenney : Cellogram
Morton Feldman : Last Pieces, No. 1
James Tenney : Swell Piece for Alison Knowles
Morton Feldman : Four Instruments
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18 Oct
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18 Oct
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 8pm
Kronos Quartet / Kimmo Pohjonen / Samuli Kosminen – Uniko
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £20-35
Kronos Quartet / Kimmo Pohjonen / Samuli Kosminen – Uniko
Maverick accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and sampling guru Samuli Kosminen join forces with Kronos Quartet in a stimulating and emotionally charged show around the concept of dreams.
With its lighting effects, surround sound and projections, Uniko opens up a multidimensional field of experience - reaching new emotional levels through the processing of expressive accordion and accordion samples with the electrified sound of the string quartet, together with electronic live loops and images.
Commisioned by Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen composed Uniko over an eighteen month period before the Uniko World premiere in Helsinki in 2004.
Kimmo Pohjonen : Uniko
Samuli Kosminen : Uniko
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19 Oct
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 7.30pm
CBSO Opening Concert: The Rite of Spring
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
Tickets: £20 - £45
CBSO
Andris Nelsons conductor
Kristine Opolais soprano
When The Rite of Spring was premiered in Paris in 1913, it caused a riot and 100 years on Stravinsky’s revolutionary ballet makes for an electrifying opening to the CBSO’s season.
Andris Nelsons conducts it for the first time, and joins his wife Kristine Opolais in music close to both their hearts – Wagner’s star-crossed Wesendonck Lieder, and the piece that first made him fall in love with music: the overture to Tannhäuser.
Richard Wagner : Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner : Wesendonck Lieder
Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring
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19 Oct
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 4pm
Bedroom Eyes
CENTQUATRE
CENTQUATRE 5 rue Curial Paris (19e arr.) - m° Riquet
United Kingdom
01 53 35 50 00
Tickets: 12€ (full price 15€) for IRCAM members
Text Frédéric Vossier
Director Cyril Teste
Music Nihil Bordures
IRCAM Computer Music Design Thomas Goepfer
With Thierry Raynaud
Cyril Teste, artist in residence at the CENTQUATRE, has embarked on a journey with the intent of renewing theater codes so the use of real-time technology becomes an essential component.
During the first In vivo Théâtre (ManiFeste-2012), he and his collective MxM entitled this work Bedroom eyes. A virtual reality system evocative of the video game world guides the protagonist on stage through his suppressed visual and acoustic memories.
September 19, 21, 22, 2013, CENTQUATRE
Nihil Bordures : Bedroom Eyes
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22 Oct
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Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 10.30am
Total Immersion: The Rite of Spring 1913
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £32 £26 £21 £15 £10
BBCSO
To mark the 100th anniversary of the riotous premiere of The Rite of Spring, a whole day of events, culminating in an evening concert that recreates the explosive musical cocktail of that concert. Immerse yourself in the Parisian artistic world of 1913 with two retrospective films, Riot at the Rite and Ballet Russes, an intimate portrait of the surviving dancers in Diaghilev’s ground-breaking company. In the evening, Russian conductor Alexander Vedernikov leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme that places Stravinsky’s ballet in the context of the dance music tradition, including Borodin’s colourful Polovtsian Dances, Weber’s Invitation to the Dance and Stravinsky’s own orchestration of Chopin’s Grande valse brilliante.
Film, 10.30am, Barbican Cinema 2 or 3
Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes is an intimate and moving portrait of a company in transition and a group of pioneering artists who gave birth to modern ballet, featuring a treasure trove of archival footage and fascinating interviews with the dancers.
US 2005 Dir. Daniel Geller, Danya Goldfine 118mins
Tickets £6
Film, 2.00pm, Barbican Cinemas
Riot at the Rite
A BBC film bringing to life the events leading up to the infamous and riotous first 1913 performance of The Rite of Spring, with a cast including Alex Jennings, Adam Garcia, Rachael Stirling and Griff Rhys Jones.
UK 2005 Dir. Andy Wilson 90mins
Tickets £6
Talk, 5.00pm, Frobisher Rooms
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Admission free. Limited capacity but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
6.00pm Fountain Room
BBC SO Plus Family
An introduction to tonight's concert for families. A free family-friendly workshop followed by the concert in the Barbican Hall for just £5 a ticket (plus booking fee).
BBC SO Plus Family is specifically designed for family groups with children between the ages of 8 and 16 and at least one of your group must be aged 16 or under. These concerts are not recommended for children under the age of 8. Call the Barbican Box Office and quote ‘BBC SO Plus Family' to buy your tickets, or book online and quote 040679 for a reduced booking fee. Please note that spaces are limited.
Concert 7.30pm Barbican Hall
Weber, orch. Berlioz Invitation to the Dance
Chopin Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Chopin, arr. Stravinsky Grande valse brillante
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov conductor
Alexei Volodin piano
Tickets £32 £26 £21 £15 £10
Total Immersion: Rite of Spring 1913 Day Pass
Save money and guarantee entry to all events on Saturday 22 September with a Total Immersion Day Pass. Day Passes are available by telephone on 020 7638 8891 or in person only.
Day Pass £35 £30 £26 £22 £18
Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring
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27 Oct
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Friday, September 27, 2013 at 8pm
Unsound: Lutmord + Pianohooligan
Jerwood Hall
London
United Kingdom
Tickets: £20
Lutmord + Pianohooligan
Welsh-born, California-based Brian Williams (aka Lustmord) brings his solo A/V show to London. First emerged as an associate of industrial outfit SPK in the early ‘80s, Williams subsequently embarked on a solo career which has seen him at the forefront of dark and daring ambient for over 30 years.
His new album, The Word As Power (Blackest Ever Black) presents us with a desolate landscape populated by electronics, immense sub-bass and acoustic phenomena harnessed and arranged to stimulate feelings of dread, but also escape, renewal and rebirth.
Polish jazz pianist and composer Piotr Orzechowski (aka Pianohooligan) completes the double-bill. One of the most awarded musicians of his generation, the 23-year-old has been the recipient of the first prize at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition and has collaborated with an eclectic list of artists including Krzysztof Penderecki and Adrian Utley from Portishead.
Brian Williams : Various
Piotr Orzechowski : Various
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2 Nov
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 7.45
The Wasp Factory
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
Tickets: £20-40
Royal Opera
Director Ben Frost
Libretto David Pountney
Set designs Mirella Weingarten
Costume designs Boris Bidjan Saberi
Lighting design Lucy Carter
The Wasp Factory recounts the disturbing acts of a troubled teenager on a remote Scottish island. The Sacrifice Poles, Boiling Pool, Ice Chamber and Volt Room are names Frank has given to places in his world – an isolated environment, where he is left to his own devices by his reclusive father. Frank invents his own warrior cult and, using a homemade device called the Wasp Factory, develops a brutal way of predicting the future.
Director and composer Frost creates three-dimensional sonic structures that envelop an audience in extremes of volume and texture. Mirella Weingarten’s set designs evoke a bleak, natural landscape. With lighting by Lucy Carter, The Wasp Factory promises to be as chilling as it is powerful.
Wednesday 2 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
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9 Tickets
£20–£40
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Thursday 3 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
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27 Tickets
£20–£40
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Friday 4 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
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Last few tickets
£20–£40
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Saturday 5 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
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9 Tickets
£20–£40
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Monday 7 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
De WildeRichterWallentin
39 Tickets
£20–£40
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Tuesday 8 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
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Ben Frost : The Wasp Factory
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4 Nov
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4 Nov
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Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8pm
In C with Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory, Matthew Herbert & stargaze and Joshua Light Show
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £17.50 - 22.50
Acknowledged by many as the father of minimalism and hypnotic repetition, Terry Riley gets a fitting celebration with two of today’s most innovative electronic artists re-interpreting his most influential piece from 1964 – In C.
Matthew Herbert collaborates with the young European music collective stargaze to create his version of In C, sampling their live acoustic patterns, digitally processing them before blending the results back in with the instruments.
Pantha Du Prince revisits his highly successful collaboration with the percussion ensemble The Bell Laboratory to weave chimes, bells and his trademark electronic pulses into Riley's composition.
To make it even a more special event, the performance will be immersed in stunning psychedelic visuals created live by the legendary Joshua Light Show.
Making their UK debut with founder Joshua White, the masters of hallucinogenic lighting who were resident artists at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East during the late 1960s and performed at Woodstock, Newport Jazz Festival and other historic events of that era. They produced the live and colourful projections behind great bands including The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and The Who.
'It felt like a sudden explosion of dancing wasn't far off, but what happened instead was a standing ovation' Resident Advisor on Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory at Queen Elizabeth Hall (February 2013)
Terry Riley : In C
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Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 7.30pm
Graphic Scores
Jerwood Hall
London
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10 £15 £22
Joanna MacGregor piano
Elaine Mitchener voice
Tom Arthurs trumpet
Oliver Coates cello
Isambard Khroustaliov electronics
How do you play a picture? Composers and artists from John Cage to Brian Eno have experimented with notation to create extraordinary visual scores that rival the best contemporary art.
This transatlantic programme spans classical, experimental and jazz, in works featuring graphic art, comic strip and abstract art. Innovative pianist Joanna MacGregor is at the heart of a super group of the UK’s most original musicians who perform music by George Crumb, Cathy Berberian, Fred Frith, John Cage, Wadada Leo Smith, Cornelius Cardew, Tom Phillips RA and Jennifer Walshe against the striking visual backdrop of their projected scores.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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6 Nov
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Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 7.30pm
20th century classics: Ligeti and Schoenberg
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: £1-£14
BCMG
Cond. Oliver Knussen
Ligeti, a composer whose music has infiltrated popular consciousness thanks to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, remained a maverick throughout his career, consistently challenging the received wisdoms and ideologies of the composing avant-garde. His four-movement Chamber Concerto is considered one of his greatest works. Each movement strongly contrasts in character – from the shimmering ‘micro-polyphonic’ texture of the first, to the strongly mechanical, clockwork rhythms of the third.
Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony Op. 9 was a model for Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto (in instrumentation if not textures or forms). His later masterpiece Five Pieces for Orchestra, here given in its arrangement for ensemble, serves as a superb example that atonal music can be as moving and expressive as tonal music – from terror, anxiety and chaos to wistfulness and beauty.
Completing this exhilarating programme are two pieces by composers with connections to these two greats and a recent work by one of today’s most promising young British composers.
Alexander Goehr, whose father studied under Schoenberg in the 1920s, composed his impeccably crafted Suite for flute and harp with string trio, clarinet and horn at the behest of Benjamin Britten. Castiglioni, like his friend and champion Ligeti, was an ‘outsider’ from the mainstream European avant-garde – Tropi is characterised by the interchange of loud, virtuosic passages with ones of mute sparseness. Helen Grime’s Luna, premiered by the Scottish Red Note Ensemble in 2011, takes its inspiration from the Ted Hughes poem Harvest Moon.
Niccolò Castiglioni : Tropi
Arnold Schoenberg : Five Pieces for Orchestra (ensemble version)
Helen Grime : Luna
Alexander Goehr : Suite Op.11
Gyorgy Ligeti : Chamber Concerto
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Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 6pm
Stockhausen: Gruppen
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Tickets: £25, £15
Luigi Nono’s uncompromising post-war meditations on form, silence and timbre form a fitting precursor to one of the pinnacles of the Darmstadt School’s output. A landmark in 20th century composition, Gruppen must be seen to be believed. Stockhausen’s testament to serial composition is scored for three independent orchestras, each with its own conductor, bringing over 100 players together on stage to create a momentous tower of sound. As the music ebbs and flows, Stockhausen’s kaleidoscopic colours and shifting textures evoke the rise and fall of the Graubünder Alps which were the work’s inspiration. Rarely performed, few other pieces have such a dramatic impact in live performance.
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Baldur Bronnimann conductor
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
London Sinfonietta
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Gruppen
Luigi Nono : Canti per 13
Luigi Nono : Polifonica – Monodia – Ritmica
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