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12 Nov
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 8.30pm
Peter Eötvös: The Sirens Cycle
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Audrey Luna Soprano
Quatuor Calder
Benjamin Jacobson Violin
Andrew Bulbrook Violin
Jonathan Moerschel Viola
Eric Byers Cello
Serge Lemouton IRCAM Computer Music Design
Serge Lacourt IRCAM Sound engineer
The oeuvre of Peter Eötvös is marked by the inherent bond he has established between music and language, as Janáček once did. Composer and conductor, Eötvös has asserted himself in the world of contemporary opera since the stunning Trois sœurs. In his new quartet, he takes advantage of the expressive and "linguistic" power of strings to which he adds a voice. The starting point for Sirens is a short text written by Kafka in 1918 in which the sirens’ fatal weapon is silence. "But Odysseus, if one may so express it, did not hear their silence; he thought they were singing and that he alone did not hear them." Other sirens from Joyce and Homer spring out from behind the quartet: three languages, three speeches for this "chamber opera".
Peter Eötvös : Korrespondenz ; The Sirens Cycle
Leos Janacek : Quatuor n° 2 « Lettres intimes »
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13 Nov
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 7.30pm
Suckling: Piano Concerto, World Premiere
Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati: conductor; Tom Poster: piano
Strauss once claimed that “the human soul was first revealed… in Mozart’s melodies”. Tonight’s programme juxtaposes the sparkling overture to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, an opera Strauss conducted many times, with a distinctly retrospective work – the charming, dance-like incidental music to Molière’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme. The programme includes a new Piano Concerto by Martin Suckling, written for the SCO, Robin Ticciati and Tom Poster. Suckling blurs the lines between soloist and orchestra, abandoning traditional ideas of the concerto as a vehicle for display for one in which “the piano sings the world into existence”.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Overture, The Marriage of Figaro
Martin Suckling : Piano Concerto
Richard Strauss : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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13 Nov
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 7.30pm
SALVATORE SCIARRINO
St John's, Smith Square
London, SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7222 1061
http://sjss.org.uk
info@sjss.org.uk
Marco Angius conductor
Anna Radziejewska mezzo soprano
London Sinfonietta
Each time Salvatore Sciarrino begins a new composition, he finds himself “staring into a black hole”, uncertain which way to turn. This teetering sensation is what makes his music so compelling live, as we hover on the edge of the abyss with him. At times it is fragile and sparse, at others a frenzy of activity, all the while threatening to collapse into silence. Now the elder statesman of Italian music, Sciarrino has just been awarded the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion. He has paved the way for a new wave of emerging composers, whose music is paired here with that of Luciano Berio – the grandfather of the Italian avant-garde.
Daniela Terranova : Notturno in forma di rosa
Francesco Filidei : Ballata No. 2
Salvatore Sciarrino : Immagina il deserto
Salvatore Sciarrino : ... da un divertimento
Luciano Berio : Folksong Suite
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14 Nov
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Friday, October 14, 2016 at 7.30pm
The Seven Ages of Man | a choral journey through life
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London
Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 2DQ
United Kingdom
020 7236 1145
http://stsepulchres.org/music/concerts/
office@stsepulchres.org
Tickets: £12 (until 9 October) / £15 (£10 students) http://www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events/
Londinium (chamber choir)
Andrew Griffiths (conductor)
Inspired by Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" monologue from 'As You Like It', this beguiling programme of unaccompanied choral music traces a course from the cradle to the grave. An intriguing and eclectic journey begins with the tender sounds of Eric Whitacre's 'Sleep My Child', and ends with William Harris' luscious 'Bring us, O Lord God', taking in music old (Dufay, Tallis, Gabrieli, Byrd) and new (Dominick Argento's 'There was a naughty boy', Bob Chilcott’s 'Even such is time'), as well as evergreen works by Bruckner, Parry and Holst. The centrepiece of is Thea Musgrave's 2014 Proms commission 'Ithaca', a celebration of life's journey in all its splendour.
Thea Musgrave : Ithaca
Eric Whitacre : Sleep My Child
Dominick Argento : There was a naughty boy
Bob Chilcott : Even Such is Time
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15 Nov
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Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 7.00pm
Stephen Beville - Piano Recital
South Street Baptist Church, Exeter
25 South Street, Exeter EX1 1EB
United Kingdom
01392 667080
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Tickets: £10 in advance or from the door
Stephen Beville
Another chance to hear Stephen Beville's Four Sacred Pieces (2011/12) - Exeter Premiere, alongside music by Beethoven and Chopin.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Sonata in D, 'Pastoral', Op 28
Stephen Beville : Four Sacred Pieces
Frederick Chopin : Four Impromptus (Op 29, 36, 51 and Fantasie-Impromptu)
Frederick Chopin : Fantasie in F minor, Op 49
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19 Nov
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 19:00
Solos, Duos and Trios by Birtwistle, Benjamin, Silvina Milstein & Rob Keeley
The Great Hall, King's College London
Strand, WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
https://www.kcl.ac.uk
Tickets: free
Lontano, conducted by Odaline de la Martinez;
Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov Piano Duo
Listening to the expressive interplay of simultaneously unfolding melodies tends to make us oblivious to the material source of the sounds. The solos, duos, and trios in this concert feature pairs of violins, trumpets, double basses and pianos, or single instruments playing pairs of lines. Submerged in the interactions between distinct, yet inseparable, musical lines, as for Shakespeare’s Trinculo in The Tempest, the music magically becomes disembodied and we find ourselves enthralled by the ‘tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody’.
Tickets free from https://playedbythepicture.eventbrite.co.uk
Harrison Birtwistle : Five Antiphonies for Amelia, for 2 trumpets
Silvina Milstein : While your sound lingered on in lions and rocks for 2 trumpets and harp
Rob Keeley : Six Duos for 2 violins
George Benjmain : Piano Figures
Silvina Milstein : in a bowl of grey-blue leaves for 2 pianos
George Benjamin : Three Miniatures for Solo Violin
Harrison Birtwistle : Harrison's Clocks 1 & 4
Rob Keeley : Fiestas for 2 pianos
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22 Nov
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22 Nov
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Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 7:00pm
Contemporary Insights presents: Sky Macklay (composer portrait concert)
Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, NYC
United States
http://https://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC
Tickets: $20/15 (students/seniors) at the door
Sky Macklay, oboe and electronics
Karisa Antonio, oboe
Josh Modney, violin
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Jennifer Goode Cooper, soprano
Tookah Sapper, soprano
Michael Weyandt, baritone
Mila Henry, piano
Lucy Dhegrae, soprano
Lucie Vítková, accordion, hichiriki, and voice
Erica Dicker, violin
Contemporary Insights presents a program of recent instrumental and vocal chamber music by composer and oboist Sky Macklay. Pieces include Macklay’s chamber opera Why We Bleed, a battle of wills between a uterus and a zygote, aggressive oboe pieces such as Macklay’s Doppelgänger III for two oboes and keyboard and Lucie Vítková’s Visable for oboe and accordion, and Macklay’s structuralist process-pieces FastLowHighSlow for two violins and piano four-hands and Lessina, Levlen, Levlite, Levora for speaking violinist and electronics. The concert features heavy-hitting contemporary music performers such as singers Lucy Dhegrae and Jennifer Goode Cooper, violinist Josh Modney and pianist Jacob Greenberg of ICE, and many more.
Sky Macklay : Doppelgänger III
Sky Macklay : Lessina, Levlen, Levlite, Levora
Sky Macklay : Why We Bleed
Sky Macklay : Glossolalia
Sky Macklay : FastLowHighSlow
Lucie Vítková : Visable
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22 Nov
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23 Nov
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25 Nov
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7.30pm
Jane Eyre: a world premiere concert-performance of the opera by John Joubert
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
King Edward's School Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2UA
United Kingdom
0121 472 9585
http://www.ruddockpac.co.uk/index.html
ruddockpac@kes.org.uk
Tickets: £33, £24, £19, £18, £10
English Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, Conductor
April Fredrick, Soprano - as Jane Eyre
David Stout, Baritone - as Rochester
with full supporting cast
Since its first publication in 1847, Charlotte Bronte’s fatalistic masterpiece ‘Jane Eyre’ has inspired countless re-readings and retellings.
Now, marking Bronte’s 200th anniversary and his own 90th birthday, the revered British composer John Joubert will finally see the world premiere concert and recording of Jane Eyre, his long-awaited third opera.
The unforgettable tale of an obsessive love threatened by an unutterable secret, the opera has been more than 20 years in the gestation. It is, says conductor Kenneth Woods, “Joubert’s undoubted magnum opus”.
With a single public showing as an amateur production some years ago, Joubert has since substantially revised it for this official world premiere, but the idea had taken root as far back as 1969. That’s when, while writing his song-cycle, ‘Six Poems of Emily Bronte’, he was drawn into the world of the Bronte sisters and, inexorably, ‘Jane Eyre’. The result is a major operatic work, with a score of translucent beauty, of foreboding; suffused with a sense of the destiny that may hold terrors, may hold love – but may not be withheld.
“Those words did not die inarticulate on your lips. I heard them clear and soft: a thought too solemn perhaps, but sweet as music...” – Edward Rochester, ‘Jane Eyre’
Further information:
www.eso.co.uk/jane-eyre-the-opera
English Symphony Orchestra: The International Orchestra of Elgar Country
www.eso.co.uk
Somm Recordings
http://www.somm-recordings.com
John Joubert : Jane Eyre - an opera in two acts
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26 Nov
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 7.30pm
St. George's Hall Concert Hall
St. George's Hall, Liverpool
United Kingdom
Ensemble 10/10, Clark Rundell, conductor
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27 Nov
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28 Nov
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Friday, October 28, 2016 at 7.30pm
Stephen Hough UK Premiere
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
The Prince Consort
Christina Gansch soprano
Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano
Tim Mead countertenor
Andrew Staples tenor
Jacques Imbrailo baritone
Alisdair Hogarth artistic director, piano
Stephen Hough piano
Stephen Hough, named by The Economist as one of twenty living polymaths, has achieved distinction not only as a concert pianist but also as a composer, poet, essayist and writer.
His collaboration with The Prince Consort has yielded an acclaimed recording and continues with this programme of new works, including the first performance of Hough’s Dappled Things.
Stephen Hough : Herbstlieder
Stephen Hough : Dappled Things
Stephen Hough : Three Grave Songs
Stephen Hough : Other Love Songs
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29 Nov
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Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 7:30-9pm
PhiloSonia Opening Concert -
The Old Stone House
336 Third Street, btw. 4th/5th Avenues, Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
http://www.theoldstonehouse.org
info@theoldstonehouse.org
Tickets: $20/10
Stanichka Dimitrova, violin
Spencer Myer, piano
“The Composer as Architect” is the first of four concerts in PhiloSonia’s inagural season, Revelations. A heart-beat-like rhythm, melodies evoking a composer’s native folklore; this concert looks at the different elements composers use to unify their work.
About PhiloSonia:
PhiloSonia is an innovative concert experience, designed to create a personal connection between audience members and classical music. PhiloSonia offers an insight into established and new works from the chamber music repertoire. Through compelling programming and interactive elements listeners are guided through an in-depth exploration of a wide variety of works.
For more info visit: www.PhiloSonia.com
Johannes Brahms : Violin Sonata No. 1, Op 78
Edvard Grieg : Violin Sonata No. 3 in c minor
Witold Lutoslawski : Subito.
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4 Dec
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Friday, November 4, 2016 at 7:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs in Kalamazoo
St. Augustine R.C. Cathedral
542 W. Michigan Avenue
United States
269-345-5147
wwwdiokzoo.org
Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)
Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series including Max Reger: The Last Romantic, The Muse’s Voice, An American Idyll, Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008; Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as “Best of 2008” of classical music and opera.
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5 Dec
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5 Dec
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Saturday, November 5, 2016 at All day event
STEVE REICH AT 80
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Steve Reich at 80: Tehillim (Psalms)
Part of: Steve Reich at 80
5 - 6 Nov 16 / 11:00, 10:00 / Stalls Lounge
The Sounds that Changed America: a talk by Alex Ross
5 Nov 16 / 13:00 / Milton Court Concert Hall
Steve Reich at 80: Drumming
Part of: Steve Reich at 80
5 Nov 16 / 15:00 / Milton Court Concert Hall
Steve Reich at 80: Reich Electric, Pulse, Three Tales
Part of: Contemporary Music concerts
5 Nov 16 / 18:30 / Hall
Steve Reich : Various
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6 Dec
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Sunday, November 6, 2016 at All day event
STEVE REICH AT 80
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Steve Reich at 80: Tehillim (Psalms)
Part of: Steve Reich at 80
5 - 6 Nov 16 / 11:00, 10:00 / Stalls Lounge
LSO Discovery Day: Steve Reich
Part of: Steve Reich at 80
6 Nov 16 / 11:00 / LSO Discovery Event
London Symphony Orchestra / Steve Reich at 80
Part of: Steve Reich at 80
6 Nov 16 / 19:00 / Hall
Steve Reich : Various
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7 Dec
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Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
The Dessoff Choirs Begins 92nd Season at Alice Tully Hall
Alice Tully Hall
New York
United States
Tickets: $45-75
The Dessoff Choirs
Sarah Brailey soprano Melissa Attebury mezzo-soprano
Marc Andrew Day tenor Joe Damon Chappel bass
Malcolm J. Merriweather conductor
The Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra
Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs, with soloists and orchestra, opens its 92nd season at Alice Tully Hall. For one night only, Dessoff presents We Remember including Mozart’s Requiem and contemporary choral works reflecting on the lives of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and paying tribute to composer Steven Stucky, a champion of new music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem
Steven Stucky : Take Him, Earth
Steven Stucky : Whispers
David Hurd : In Honor of Martin
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8 Dec
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 7.30
STEVE REICH AT 80
Corn Exchange, Cambridge
3 Parson's Court, Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QE
United Kingdom
01223 357851
www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/cornex
Steve Reich & Colin Currie*
Colin Currie Group
Synergy Vocals
If you enjoyed the Philip Glass Ensemble in the 2014 Festival, you will love this.
Steve Reich is the godfather of Minimalism and ‘Clapping’ is the essence of that style. Two people (Colin Currie with Reich himself) clap a short repeated rhythm that is phased in and out of focus, creating three minutes of mesmerising, interlocking rhythms.
At the other end of the spectrum, ‘Music for 18 Musicians’ is one of Reich’s large-scale masterpieces. Four grand pianos, marimbas, xylophones, female vocalists, strings and clarinets combine to create pulsing rhythms, shifting patterns and long-breathed phrases that build like waves. The effect is overwhelming.
Steve Reich : Clapping Music
Steve Reich : Music for pieces of wood
Steve Reich : Mallet Quartet
Steve Reich : Music for 18 Musicians
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8 Dec
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 2pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
Continuing its focus on rarely-performed British music this autumn, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Seal give a concert of music by Malcolm Arnold, Britten and Adrian Sutton at Maida Vale Studios.
Malcolm Arnold's fifth symphony is a remembrance of four of his friends who tragically died at a young age. With its underlying dark tensions, and Adagio, it has a clear Mahlerian influence, and was said to be the composer's favourite of his nine symphonies. Hear Britten's highly virtuosic Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra performed by the gifted young pianist and BBC New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov, plus a new short orchestral piece by Adrian Sutton, composer for the National Theatre's production of War Horse.
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3's Afternoon on 3.
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that as not everyone who asks for tickets uses them, to make sure we have a full house we send out more tickets than there are places. We do our best to get the numbers right, but unfortunately we occasionally have to disappoint people so please arrive early.
Adrian Sutton : A Fist Full of Fives
Benjamin Britten : Diversions, Op 21
Malcolm Arnold : Symphony no. 5, op. 74
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