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Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 8pm Harmonielehre @ Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park Peckham Rye Multi-Storey Car Park
United Kingdom http://www.trosp.me/harm
Tickets: Free TROSP Orchestra
This July the 100 piece TROSP Orchestra returns to Peckham Rye Multi-Storey car park to play John Adams' HARMONIELEHRE: a huge orchestral piece which Adams says was inspired by a dream in which he "watched a gigantic supertanker take off and thrust itself into the sky like a Saturn rocket".
John Adams : HARMONIELEHRE
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15 Nov
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Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 19:30 London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10 / 15 / 19.50 / 27 / 35 Valery Gergiev conductor
Renée Fleming soprano*
London Symphony Orchestra
La mer is an ambient, rich depiction of the ever-changing face of the sea. Originally composed for soprano Renée Fleming, Dutilleux said while writing Le temps l’horloge (Time and the clock), that for inspiration he ‘constantly thought of her voice’s character, of her power of lyrical expression’. Shéhérazade tells the tale of how one lucky maiden saves her head night after night by keeping the sultan enthralled with her stories of Arabian legends. Petrushka is the magical story of a straw and sawdust puppet that comes to life complete with human thoughts and emotions.
Change of programme
Please note the change of programme from some early listings
Pre-concert performance
6 – 6.45pm, Barbican Hall
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican
Ravel Piano Trio performed by the Rhodes Piano Trio
Free entry
Claude Debussy : La Mer Henri Dutilleux : Le temps l’horloge Maurice Ravel : Shéhérazade Igor Stravinsky : Petrushka
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16 Nov
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Monday, July 16, 2012 at 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm The Turn of the Screw Buxton Festival 3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ United Kingdom 01298 70395 http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/ lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk
Tickets: £10 - £48 NI Opera
Opera in a prologue and two acts.
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after the story by Henry James, sung in English
Based on Henry James’s classic ghost story, Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece is a compact and chilling tale of the supernatural.
When an eager young governess is sent from London to look after two orphaned children in a remote English country house, she quickly discovers that the apparent idyll is not as it seems. Mystery envelops the house as sinister spirits from the past return to reveal a terrible secret of innocence lost, and we begin to wonder who is really possessed, the naïve young governess or the two strange children in her care?
This tense and compelling tale, combined with a scintillating score of radiant and haunting music, creates one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most gripping operas.
NI Opera, an ambitious and imaginative new company, has assembled a wonderful cast for this new production including Fiona Murphy, Andrew Tortise, Giselle Allen and Yvonne Howard.
Benjamin Britten : The Turn of the Screw
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17 Nov
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 6:00PM BBC Proms Plus Portrait 2012: Saariaho Royal College of Music, London Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 United Kingdom
Tom Service presenter
Kaija Saariaho in conversation
London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble
The London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble are joined by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and broadcaster Tom Service to present a BBC Proms Plus Portrait.
In Tocar, the title of which translates, from Spanish, as 'to touch, to play', Saariaho explores 'how two instruments can touch each other'. Meanwhile, Serenatas, a collection of five small pieces, the order of which is chosen by the performers, reflects on material from two of Saariaho's orchestral works Mirage and Notes on Light.
Kaija Saariaho : Tocar Kaija Saariaho : Serenatas
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18 Nov
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 7.30 p.m Solaris Bregenz Festival
Austria http://www.bregenzerfestspiele.com
Tickets: 40-95 EURO
Responsibility, guilt, memory
What would it be like if some unimaginable force were able to give material form to all our repressed emotions and thoughts? To resurrect, from our memories, people who once were close to us – as beings that confront us with our past and yet remain permanently out of reach and beyond our comprehension? What would happen to us as a result? That is exactly what Solaris is about, the famous novel by Polish science fiction author Stanis³aw Lem published in 1961, and which the German composer Detlev Glanert has now turned into an opera.
Solaris is the story of the psychologist Kelvin, who is dispatched to a space station which is orbiting the distant planet Solaris and on which strange things have been happening. Arriving on board, Kelvin is straight away warned about weird apparitions of the kind that relentlessly plague the crew members. None of the crew seem able to rid themselves of the "guests". It isn't long before Kelvin's personal phantasm appears in the form of his former wife, Harey, who killed herself at the age of nineteen, and who now starts revisiting him.
It is the planet's gigantic ocean which makes all these strange beings materialise, projecting the crew members' feelings of guilt into their lives once again, with persistence and indifference. Haunted by guilty memories, the rational scientist Kelvin is increasingly beset by irrational thoughts and feelings. In the end he is the one most deeply affected by the nightly visitations of beings which the plant bodies forth from the crew members' own memories.
Further performances
22 July - 11.00 a.m.
25 July - 7.30 p.m.
Introductory talk in the Festspielhaus will be start one hour before performance
Detlev Glanert : Solaris
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Friday, July 20, 2012 at Hilltown 5th New Music Festival Hilltown New Music Festival Castlepollard Ireland http://www.hilltown.ie/buytickets.html http://www.hilltown.ie
Tickets: http://www.hilltown.ie/buytickets.html Quiet Music Esnemble, David Toop, Barbara Luneburg, Hilltown Ensemble, Strange Attractor, Kirkos Ensemble, Karen Power.
John Cage:
Child of Tree, Chorales, Four, Four4, Four6
Ryoanji , Inlets, Music for Clarinet
ASLSP, Radio Music, One10
Sculptures Musicales
Music also by: Oliver Knussen, Norah Constance Walsh, Sinéad Finegan, Conal Ryan, Trevor Furlong, Derek Ball, Gráinne Mulvey
Hilltown New Music Festival 2012
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd July
The Hilltown New Music Festival is an international weekend festival of contemporary music, sonic and visual installations around the medieval castle keep in the grounds of Hilltown House, Castlepollard, Co.Westmeath.
Karen Power : some things just are
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21 Nov
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Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 7:30pm - 10:00pm Cool Fusion All Saints Church, West Dulwich Lovelace Road, SE21 7JY United Kingdom 020 8676 4550 http://www.all-saints.org.uk vicar@all-saints.org.uk
Tickets: £12/£10 concessions, from ticketline.co.uk/cool-fusion or 0844 888 9991, booking fee applies Lambeth Wind Orchestra
Putney Arts Theatre
Coronel Percussion
Cool Fusion Jazz
Cool Fusion Electronica
Mark Pampel (piano)
Cool Fusion is one of the largest voluntary-arts initiatives in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It presents a series of four performances of new music and drama in historic London venues, celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics within London's vibrant culture. It is a partnership of London Composers Forum, Colchester New Music and Putney Writers' Circle.
Developed collaboratively by twelve composers and four writers, Cool Fusion uses wind orchestra, percussion ensemble, electronics and actors to weave a narrative of exceptional human endeavour. The performance is framed by historical episodes, from sandals to scandals, chariots to wheelchairs, outside track to winners’ podium. These are interwoven with works exploring the parallels between music and physical culture, in rhythms of pace, endurance, determination and achievement.
Texts and libretti for musical works are contributed by Rita Adam (Four Minute Mile), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Dorando : An Olympic Tale) and Linda Redshaw (Outside Track). Additional non-musical drama pieces are contributed by Marcia Kelson and Dan Clarke.
In the run-up to the world premiere at All Saints West Dulwich, Cool Fusion is working on a local outreach project with Kids' Company in Lambeth, exploring the Cool Fusion's themes through percussion, movement, visual art and English. Some of the results will be unveiled at the All Saints performance.
This performance and outreach project are supported by public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Mark Garnham : Fanfare for the Olympic Flame (London 2012) David Arditti : Time and Tide Cedric Peachey : Gold, Silver & Bronze Alan Parsons : Fanfare for 2012 Mark Pampel : THE FINAL Martin Jones : Four Minute Mile Phil Baker : Triumphal Laurels – Canzona ii from Canzonae Olympiae for Brass Quartet & Timpani Luca Tieppo : Dorando: An Olympic Tale Mark Pampel : Against the Odds Stuart Russell : Distance/Time Alan Taylor : Episode I from Five Incomplete Episodes Andy Bungay : Outside Track Alan Hilton : Olympic Fanfare
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21 Nov
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Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 3.00pm Songs from the Exotic King's Head Theatre, London 115 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1QN United Kingdom 02074780160 http://kingsheadtheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873482965/events
Tickets: £12 Cerys Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Tim Watts (piano)
Quests for spiritual enlightenment and sensual discovery...memories of lovers, long ago and faraway...the incomparable strangeness of the everyday...
Ideas of the exotic are explored in all their mystery and potency in a programme of songs based on translations of Hindu, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, German and Gaelic poetry.
Gustav Holst : Vedic Hymns, Op. 24 (selection) Samuel Barber : Three Songs, Op. 45 Foulds John : 'Exotic' (from 'Essays in the modes') Judith Weir : Songs from the exotic Tim Watts : White Shadow
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Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 7:30pm - 10:00pm Cool Fusion Cecil Sharp House 2 Regent's Park Road, Camden, London NW1 7AY United Kingdom http://www.efdss.org
Tickets: £12/£10 concessions, from ticketline.co.uk/cool-fusion or 0844 888 9991, booking fee applies Lambeth Wind Orchestra
Putney Arts Theatre
Coronel Percussion
Cool Fusion Jazz
Cool Fusion Electronica
Mark Pampel (piano)
Cool Fusion is one of the largest voluntary-arts initiatives in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It presents a series of four performances of new music and drama in historic London venues, celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics within London's vibrant culture. It is a partnership of London Composers Forum, Colchester New Music and Putney Writers' Circle.
Developed collaboratively by twelve composers and four writers, Cool Fusion uses wind orchestra, percussion ensemble, electronics and actors to weave a narrative of exceptional human endeavour. The performance is framed by historical episodes, from sandals to scandals, chariots to wheelchairs, outside track to winners’ podium. These are interwoven with works exploring the parallels between music and physical culture, in rhythms of pace, endurance, determination and achievement.
Texts and libretti for musical works are contributed by Rita Adam (Four Minute Mile), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Dorando : An Olympic Tale) and Linda Redshaw (Outside Track). Additional non-musical drama pieces are contributed by Marcia Kelson and Dan Clarke.
For the Cecil Sharp House performance, Cool Fusion is running a local outreach project with Kids' Company in Camden, exploring the Cool Fusion's themes through percussion and other art forms. Some of the results will be unveiled at this performance.
This performance and outreach project are supported by public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Mark Garnham : Fanfare for the Olympic Flame (London 2012) David Arditti : Time and Tide Cedric Peachey : Gold, Silver & Bronze Alan Parsons : Fanfare for 2012 Mark Pampel : THE FINAL Martin Jones : Four Minute Mile Phil Baker : Triumphal Laurels – Canzona ii from Canzonae Olympiae for Brass Quartet & Timpani Luca Tieppo : Dorando: An Olympic Tale Mark Pampel : Against the Odds Stuart Russell : Distance/Time Alan Taylor : Episode I from Five Incomplete Episodes Andy Bungay : Outside Track Alan Hilton : Olympic Fanfare
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28 Nov
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Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 7.30pm John Cage at 100 City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Tickets: Free (unreserved seating) limited to 4 tickets per application (not suitable for young children). BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Tilbury piano+
Ilan Volkov conductor
Endlessly innovative, John Cage's music defied category and blurred the lines between composition, improvisation and performance art. A theorist, philosopher and artist, he remained at the forefront of the American avant-garde until his death in 1992. The BBC SSO celebrates the centenary of Cage's birth with an evening of genre-defying performances. His tireless experimentations in sound questioned what music can be. As well as his Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra, the concert features music for the human voice, cassette players, percussion, and an amplified cactus played by the evening's curator and BBC SSO Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov.
The concert, which is also part of this year's Merchant City Festival, will be recorded for future broadcast in BBC Radio 3's Saturday late-night new music programme Hear and Now.
John Cage : Concerto for Prepared Piano John Cage : Atlas Eclipticalis, Winter Music John Cage : But what about the noise... John Cage : ear for EAR (Antiphonies) John Cage : Improvisation III John Cage : Child of Tree
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1 Dec
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 1.00-2.00pm Lunchtime concert series St John-at-Hampstead, London Church Row, London NW3 United Kingdom
Tickets: Free concert John Campbell Trumpet
Graeme Thewlis- Piano and Baritone
Chamber music-performances of works for Trumpet and Piano. Selection of English and British Sea Songs for Baritone and Piano.
Esther Hopkins : Kings Quoit (i) Dwelling Places
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4 Dec
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Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 7:30pm - 10:00pm Cool Fusion St Mary's Church, Putney High Street, Putney, London SW15 1SN United Kingdom http://www.parishofputney.co.uk/stmarys/
Tickets: £12/£10 concessions, from ticketline.co.uk/cool-fusion or 0844 888 9991, booking fee applies Lambeth Wind Orchestra
Putney Arts Theatre
Coronel Percussion
Cool Fusion Jazz
Cool Fusion Electronica
Mark Pampel (piano)
Cool Fusion is one of the largest voluntary-arts initiatives in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It presents a series of four performances of new music and drama in historic London venues, celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics within London's vibrant culture. It is a partnership of London Composers Forum, Colchester New Music and Putney Writers' Circle.
Developed collaboratively by twelve composers and four writers, Cool Fusion uses wind orchestra, percussion ensemble, electronics and actors to weave a narrative of exceptional human endeavour. The performance is framed by historical episodes, from sandals to scandals, chariots to wheelchairs, outside track to winners’ podium. These are interwoven with works exploring the parallels between music and physical culture, in rhythms of pace, endurance, determination and achievement.
Texts and libretti for musical works are contributed by Rita Adam (Four Minute Mile), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Dorando : An Olympic Tale) and Linda Redshaw (Outside Track). Additional non-musical drama pieces are contributed by Marcia Kelson and Dan Clarke.
For this Wandsworth performance, Cool Fusion has been running outreach projects with Paddock School and local charity Regenerate-RISE.
This performance and outreach are supported by Wandsworth Borough Council and by public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Mark Garnham : Fanfare for the Olympic Flame (London 2012) David Arditti : Time and Tide Cedric Peachey : Gold, Silver & Bronze Alan Parsons : Fanfare for 2012 Mark Pampel : THE FINAL Martin Jones : Four Minute Mile Phil Baker : Triumphal Laurels – Canzona ii from Canzonae Olympiae for Brass Quartet & Timpani Luca Tieppo : Dorando: An Olympic Tale Mark Pampel : Against the Odds Stuart Russell : Distance/Time Alan Taylor : Episode I from Five Incomplete Episodes Andy Bungay : Outside Track Alan Hilton : Olympic Fanfare
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5 Dec
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5 Dec
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Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 8.30 pm Salzburg contemporary 4 Salzburger Festspiele various, Salzburg, Austria Austria ttel.: +43-662-8045-500 http://www.salzburgfestival.at/ info@salzburgfestival.at
Heinz Holliger, Conductor
Felix Renggli, Flute
Latvian Radio Choir
Kaspars Putnins, Chorus Master
Ensemble Contrechamps
Holliger’s works are shot through with such ghost-like webs of reference, which contain his life’s experiences, dreams, but also music he has conducted and performed. That is why as an interpreter, he loves those composers who write porous music, music that remains fragile and fleeting. The two composers whose works are performed atSalzburg contemporary next to Holliger fit this description: the Pole Witold Lutos³awski and the German Bernd Alois Zimmermann. They suffered under fascism and communism, and only escaped death narrowly during their youth. They wrote music that questioned itself, confessed its own insecurity, but also bore the inscription of rebellion, even crying out at times. The most extreme work is presumably Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten, and it is a significant event that one of the most important operas since Mozart will now finally be produced in Salzburg.
Die Soldaten contains the full breadth of musical history, from the Middle Ages until today, from the most complex art music to folk music and jazz, a polyphonic web of references, stories, dreams and catastrophes, fed by a life experience that, in Zimmermann’s case, became so unbearable that he committed suicide. What is still relatively contained within the workings of the opera in Die Soldatenfinally breaks out openly in the Ekklesiastische Aktion: the tension of his times, the armament race, the bankrupting of all values, and Zimmermann’s own hopelessness are combined into one monumental gesture of desperation.
Alongside these works, Holliger’s Scardanelli-Zyklus seems like an ecclesiastical exercise. In 1806, Hölderlin, 36 years old at the time, sought refuge in the Tower in Tübingen, where he was to live for 37 years as a so-called madman, a recluse from the world, and only wrote occasionally in exchange for pipe tobacco, poems that are bright and cheerful and betray nothing of his former pains. He often signed them “Scardanelli”. Heinz Holliger was 36 when he began to study these late Hölderlin poems in 1975, and over the course of 15 years, he turned them into an ever-growing Scardanelli Cycle. This Scardanelli Cycle is another web into which Hölderlin’s life, his work, the flute music he played are woven.
Heinz Holliger’s second commission from the Salzburg Festival is a work for the winds and brass of the Vienna Philharmonic. During a serious illness, as he experienced breathlessness and a shortness of air – especially frightening to an oboist – Holliger conceived this music. We will hear sounds that might revive the Bunsen burner dream of Heinz Holliger’s boyhood.
Heinz Holliger : Scardanelli-Zyklus for solo flute, small orchestra, tape and mixed choir
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6 Dec
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Monday, August 6, 2012 at 7 pm Bernstein Mass Royal Albert Hall, London Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP United Kingdom 020 7589 8212 http://www.royalalberthall.com/ boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Tickets: £7.50-£36 Morten Frank Larsen Bass-baritone
Julius Foo Treble
National Youth Choir of Wales
Aelwyd y Waun Ddyfal
Musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Conductor Kristjan Järvi
Less a religious work than a theatrical happening, Bernstein's Mass receives its first complete Proms performance, conducted by one of its most ardent champions, and supported by a spectrum of talented Welsh children and adult musicians. Using a mix of highbrow and vernacular styles, Bernstein created a rich, quintessentially American score that has recently begun to emerge as a modern classic.
Leonard Bernstein : Mass
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7 Dec
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7 Dec
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at 7.30 pm Wagner, Bruckner & MacMillan Royal Albert Hall, London Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP United Kingdom 020 7589 8212 http://www.royalalberthall.com/ boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Juanjo Mena conductor
Manchester Chamber Choir (Proms debut)
Northern Sinfonia Chorus (Proms debut)
Rushley Singers (Proms debut)
Juanjo Mena presents a major world premiere before offering his acclaimed reading of a sonorous yet dangerously eruptive Bruckner symphony.
First though, there's the emblematic love of Tristan and Isolde, expressed through music dark in sound and revolutionary in harmony. James MacMillan's works have enjoyed regular success at the Proms since the first performance of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was given here in 1990.
As with Bruckner, MacMillan's communicative power is often associated with expressions of faith, and the unveiling of Credo, has been keenly awaited.
Richard Wagner : Tristan and Isolde - Prelude (Act 1) James MacMillan : Credo (BBC co-commission; World Premiere) Anton Bruckner : Symphony No. 6 in A major
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