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11 Nov
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Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 10am
MUSIKFEST BERLIN
Philharmonie Hall, Berlin
Germany
JUNGE DEUTSCHE PHILHARMONIE
JONATHAN NOTT Conductor
Pekka Kuusisto Violin
Paul Jeukendrup Sound Direction
Edgard Varèse’s admiration for Beethoven has been documented in multiple ways. A photograph shows a Beethoven portrait on his desk. For him, Beethoven embodied the prototype of a modern composer. Beethoven was also the model for the title figure Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland, who was a friend of Varèse’s. The author incorporated some of Varèse’s characteristics into his fictitious character. The world premiere of Déserts in 1954 in Paris under Hermann Scherchen was a scandal. The audience reacted with incomprehension to the audio tape recordings Varèse used to enrich his musical language. In Hamburg, however, where Déserts was performed in the same year under Bruno Maderna, the work met with great success. This time, Karlheinz Stockhausen modulated the audiotape interpolations. The fusion of exterior impulses and impressions with inner images are as applicable to Varèse’s Déserts piece as they are to Ligeti’s Concert for Violin and Orchestra. In Ligeti’s music, an amalgam of heterogeneous impressions – impressions of African music, geometry, untempered tuning systems – leads to new rhythmic constellations, harmonious colours and moulding processes.
Edgard Varèse : Déserts für 15 Instrumentalisten, Schlagzeuger und Tonband
Gyorgy Ligeti : Violin Concerto
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Eroica
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12 Nov
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14 Nov
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 7pm
Répliques
Helsinki Music Centre
MUSIIKKITALO MANNERHEIMINTIE 13 A FI-00100 HELSINKI
Finland
http://www.musiikkitalo.fi/en
Nicolas Tulliez Harp
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki Conductor
Thomas Goepfer IRCAM Computer Music Design
Adrien Mamou-Mani IRCAM Scientific Advisor (Instrumental Acoustics team at IRCAM-STMS, SmartInstruments project)
In Sul Segno in 2004, Yan Maresz gave free reign to his passion for plucked strings that find their full resonant extension in the universe of electronics. Here, Maresz meets the harp again, but as a solo instrument, this time an "augmented" instrument; an instrument physically modified through its coupling with an integrated digital real-time system that exploits the instrument's acoustic radiation without the addition of any loudspeakers.
Wednesday, September 14 and Thursday, 15, 2016, 7pm / Helsinki Music Centre
Pierre Boulez : Livre pour cordes
Yan Maresz : Répliques
Hector Berlioz : La Symphonie fantastique opus 14
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16 Nov
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Friday, September 16, 2016 at 7:30pm
Odyssey Opera Premieres Dimitrij 9/16
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $30 and up
Odyssey Opera
Dimitrij: Aleš Briscein (tenor)
Marina: Dana Burešová (soprano)
Xenie: Olga Jelínková (soprano)
Šujskij: Mark S. Doss (bass-baritone)
Conductor: Gil Rose
Boston’s most original and innovative opera company, Odyssey Opera, today announced its season-opening performance of Antonín Dvořák’s epic work Dimitrij, marking the opera’s Boston premiere. Sung in Czech with projected English translations, this concert production is led by conductor Gil Rose, with performances by the Odyssey Opera Orchestra and the award-winning tenor Aleš Briscein in the role of Dimitrij.
Antonin Dvorak : Dimitrij
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17 Nov
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Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 7:00pm
Contemporary Insights presents: Julia Den Boer
Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, NYC
United States
http://https://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC
Tickets: $20/15 (students & seniors) at the door
Julia Den Boer, piano
w/ Ashkan Behzadi, electronics
BIOGRAPHY:
French-American pianist Julia Den Boer is a strong advocate of contemporary music. Based in New York city, she performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and has commissioned and premiered numerous works. She is committed to exploring and pushing her instrument’s boundaries through close collaboration with composers and has had the opportunity to work with some of the most prominent composers of our time such as Heinz Holliger, Philippe Leroux, Martin Matalon and Kaija Saariaho.
Julia is a recipient of the Solti Foundation award, was awarded the Prix Mention Speciale Maurice Ohana at the 2012 International Orleans Competition, and won the ninth annual Mikhashoff Trust Fund for New Music Pianist/Composer Commissioning Project with composer Zosha Di Castri.
Recent and upcoming performances include solo and ensemble performances at Unerhörte Musik in Berlin, the CMC in Toronto, the Banff Center, Miller Theater (NYC), the North Carolina New Music Initiative, the SWR in Freiburg, New Music Concerts in Toronto, the MATA Festival, the International Computer Music Conference, the Klangspuren Festival in Austria, Poets Out Loud at Lincoln Center, and Manifeste at IRCAM. Her performances have been broadcasted on Q2, CBC Radio 2, the SWR and France Musique.
In addition to her performing activities Julia is a dedicated educator. She is on faculty at Third Street Music Settlement and the Bloomingdale School of Music and maintains an extensive private studio in NYC.
Julia is a native of Lyon, France. She holds a Bachelor of Music from McGill University where she studied with Sara Laimon and holds a Master and Doctorate of Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook University where she studied with Gilbert Kalish.
Alvin Lucier : Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillator
Michael Finnissy : Folklore I
Rebecca Saunders : Crimson
Ashkan Behzadi : Cronistoria Plastico
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18 Nov
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19 Nov
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20 Nov
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22 Nov
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 7pm
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Philharmonie Hall, Berlin
Germany
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
DANIELE GATTI Conductor
With La Mer, “three symphonic sketches for orchestra” premiered in Paris in 1905, Claude Debussy created a work that many classical music lovers consider a high point of impressionism in music. The composer himself, however, reacted sensitively when the term, first used in 1874 in connection with a painting by Claude Monet, was applied to his compositions: “It is only journalists doing their job who call them that,” he had his literary alter ego, the self-titled anti-dilettante Monsieur Croche, proclaim: “That’s of no importance”. It was less fear that his compositions would be compared with paintings than a general aversion to overly facile categorisations that inspired Debussy to call for an attack against all “-isms”. Nonetheless, precisely a piece like his compositional seascape La Mer contributed to the word “impressionism” soon being used in the field of music without negative connotations.
Like many French composers of the following generation, Henri Dutilleux was also influenced by Debussy’s music – at times more to distinguish his own from it. Thus the composer, who died in 2013 at the age of 97, once confessed: “I have a tendency – it’s almost entirely intuitive – not to present the theme in its definitive state at the beginning. It is not cyclic form, that is different; in cyclic form, the theme is a given from the beginning, as for instance in Debussy’s Quartet. It’s different in my music: I use small cells which develop bit by bit.” The orchestral composition Métaboles from 1964 that will be played in this programme is considered a milestone in Dutilleux’s compositional development. Daniele Gatti, who took up his duties as chief conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra at the beginning of this season and who could last be experienced conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2014, will kick off the evening with Swiss composer Arthur Honegger’s Third Symphony, the so-called Liturgical. Composed in the years 1945-46, inspired by psalm texts and passages of the mediaeval requiem mass, the work, according to the composer, represents “an unabashedly personal dialogue with the specific liturgical texts”, but nonetheless has a clear message to his listeners: “It is the inner peace of mind that faith gives, the peace of the heart, nature, life – how things could be if humanity had the goodwill.”
Concerts 22, 23, 24th
Arthur Honegger : Symphonie liturgique (Symphony No. 3)
Henri Dutilleux : Métaboles
Claude Debussy : La Mer
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22 Nov
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23 Nov
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Friday, September 23, 2016 at 7.30pm
BBC Singers perform Jonathan Harvey
LSO St Luke's, London
161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/
admin@lso.co.uk
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Marco Blaauw trumpet
Sound Intermedia electronics
BBC Singers
Haunting, spiritual, ecstatic: Jonathan Harvey’s music blurs the boundaries between east and west, body and soul. Its lucid, bell-like resonances and pioneering use of electronics will take you on a journey into new and transformative worlds. Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco is an electro-acoustic masterpiece. Spinning sonorities ring out as it blends sound samples of a cathedral bell and the voice of a chorister. The looped, harmonised trumpet parts in Other Presences weave sounds that echo the music of Tibetan Buddhist purification rituals. Forms of emptiness sets the vivid flashes of joy in poetry by E.E Cummings against a Buddhist Sanskrit chant, creating moments that feel transient and scarcely real.
Experience Harvey’s compelling music among Britten’s virtuosic cantata Ad Majoren Dei Gloriam and a new work by Wim Henderickx, whose music reflects his fascination for eastern sound-worlds and philosophies.
Jonathan Harvey : Mortuos plango, vivos voco
Jonathan Harvey : I Love the Lord
Jonathan Harvey : The Annunciation
Jonathan Harvey : Other Presences
Jonathan Harvey : Forms of Emptiness
Jonathan Harvey : How Could this Soul not take flight
Benjamin Britten : Ad Majoren Dei Gloriam
Wim Henderickx : Blossomings
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24 Nov
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24 Nov
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Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 7.30pm
Ligeti, Strauss, Anna Meredith and Beethoven
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Aurora Orchestra
Aurora Orchestra’s imaginative programmes and support for new music combine here, aided by a Wigmore Hall commission from Anna Meredith, herself a fearless genre-hopping, boundary-pushing composer, and Ligeti’s Ten pieces for wind quintet, a collection of intense avant-garde miniatures completed in 1968. Beethoven’s Septet still sounds as fresh today as when it was first performed over two centuries ago.
Gyorgy Ligeti : 10 Pieces for wind quintet
Richard Strauss : Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28 (arr. Brett Dean for nonet)
Anna Meredith : new work
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24 Nov
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25 Nov
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Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 7pm
London Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Harding
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Daniel Harding conductor
Nikolaj Znaider violin
Christiane Karg soprano
London Symphony Orchestra
The only concerto Sibelius ever wrote and a vision of heaven from Mahler share the bill in Daniel Harding’s first concert of the season with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Many listeners describe Sibelius’s Violin Concerto as symphonic, with the orchestra pushing to the fore, but that doesn’t make the solo part any less demanding. Danish virtuoso Nikolaj Znaider is sure to take on the challenge with usual technical prowess and lyricism.
Well known for bringing together huge orchestral forces, for his fourth symphony Mahler decided to dial things back – by his standards at least. Taking inspiration from a set of folk poems, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, this more intimate of symphonies embarks on a journey to innocence and ends with a child’s naive vision of heaven where 'Wine doesn't cost a penny and the angels bake the bread'.
Jack Sheen : Lung
Jean Sibelius : Violin Concerto
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No 4
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25 Nov
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Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 4:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs in Indiana 9/25
Christ Lutheran Church
3401 South Dixon Road
United States
http://www.christlutherankokomo.org
Tickets: Free
Organist Gail Archer
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.
Max Reger : Ein feste
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28 Nov
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Russell Braun baritone
BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo launches the 2016-17 season with a UK premiere from Brett Dean and Richard Strauss’s extravagant tone poem.
Knocking at the Hellgate is drawn from the BBC SO’s Artist in Association Dean’s much-admired 2010 opera Bliss and the orchestra are joined by the Canadian baritone Russell Braun for the work. Richard Strauss’s epic and autobiographical celebration of a hero’s life, one of his most extravagant and popular tone-poems, provides late-romantic splendour.
Brett Dean : Knocking at the Hellgate (Suite from Bliss)
Richard Strauss : Ein Heldenleben
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1 Dec
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1 Dec
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Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 19.00
GLASSWORLDS
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr
Nicolas Horvath Piano
During a twelve hour straight through run, the pianist Nicolas Horvath, who adores epic concerts and other types of ‘outsize’ projets, interprets the totality of the works for piano by Philip Glass in the chronological order of composition.This pilgrimage is tantamount to a total immersion into the universe of one of the greatest American minimalist composers.
Philip Glass : Complete Works for Piano
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6 Dec
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7 Dec
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Friday, October 7, 2016 at 8.30pm
Souverain moteur de toutes choses
Théâtre Jean-Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine
Théâtre Jean-Vilar - 1, place Jean-Vilar - 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine
France
01 55 53 10 60
http://www.theatrejeanvilar.com/
Zad Moultaka Music and Conception
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Ars Nova ensemble instrumental
Philippe Nahon Conductor
Gilbert Nouno IRCAM Computer-Music Design
In this sonorous meditation inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo thödol) where voice, instrument, and electronics share a stage, the Lebanese composer Zad Moultaka explores the notion of the sacred in the West. Six singers, surrounded by eleven musicians and loudspeakers—either suspended around the singers or placed on the floor—weave connections between the limits of the sound spectrum, infrabasses and extreme highs. UM is not only a mantra, it is also an acronym for United Motors that can be taken literally. From the sound a car motor, inordinately slowed down, an unforeseen poetic and incantatory path is born.
Zad Moultaka : SOUVERAIN MOTEUR DE TOUTES CHOSES
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8 Dec
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8 Dec
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8 Dec
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Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 8:00pm
BMOP Salutes American Masters 10/8
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
On Saturday, October 8, at Jordan Hall, BMOP presents distinctive and exciting symphonic works by four prominent voices that have helped to shape the American concert scene over the past three-quarters of a century: The Schubert Birds by Michael Colgrass; Symphony Concertante by Gail Kubik, featuring soloists Terry Everson (trumpet), Jing Peng (viola), and Vivian Choi (piano), and Partita in C by Harold Shapero featuring Vivian Choi (piano). Highlighting the evening’s program is Steven Stucky’s Chamber Concerto: a special tribute to one of new music’s leading champions.
Michael Colgrass : The Schubert Bird
Gail Kubik : Symphony Concertante
Harold Shapero : Partita in C
Steven Stucky : Chamber Concerto
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9 Dec
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Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 4:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert
St Anthony of Padua Church
501 East Orange Street
United States
717-394-0069
http://www.stanthonylancaster.com
info@stanthonylancaster.com
Tickets: Free
Gail Archer
What: Gail Archer, Organ
Where: St. Anthony of Padua Church, 501 East Orange Street, Lancaster, PA, 17602
When: Sunday, October 9th at 4:00 p.m.
How: FREE. For more info, contact the church at 717.394.0669 or visit stanthonylancaster.com.
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.
J.S. Bach : BMV
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