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14 Dec



United States
 Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 7:15PM 
Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Continues DROM Concert Series OCT - DEC
DROM, New York
, 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village
United States
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party

Tickets: $15
Chico Hamilton


LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM

Sundays this Fall: 10.14 + 11.11 + 12.09






WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico” Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a "Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers.

DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Fall (OCT - DEC) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”

WHEN: Sunday, October 14 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 11 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 9 @ 7:15PM

WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A, New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue

HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.

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16 Dec



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Swiss Ambassador's Award Concert 2012
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £12
Medea Trio

The Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert was established in the UK with the aim of presenting some of the most talented young Swiss musicians or ensembles in a concert at Wigmore Hall, London.

The annual event is organised by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain (SCFB), a charity promoting Swiss artistic excellence in the UK. The Medea Trio, founded in Basel in 2005, is a promising young piano trio which has been selected to perform at the 2012 concert.


Claude Debussy : Piano Trio in G
David Philip Hefti : Piano Trio No. 2
Antonin Dvorak : Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 'Dumky'

17 Dec



France
 Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 8pm 
Réponses
Cité de la musique, Paris
221, avenue Jean Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://www.cite-musique.fr

Tickets: 18€
Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophèle, Matteo Cesari, flutes
Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor Alejo Pérez
IRCAM computer music design Andrew Gerzso

A tribute to a master, gone but forever alive, this is the principle that creates an elective chain among the works in this program.

Igor Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, composed in 1920, is dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy, who died ten years earlier. In 1971, when Stravinsky passed away, Pierre Boulez imagined a project for a work shaped like a tomb ...explosante-fixe... that would become an element of the mixed music repertoire. Steine by Peter Eötvös, composed in 1985, is dedicated "from Peter to Pierre" to Pierre Boulez in celebration of his 60th birthday. And The Severed Garden, by the young German Genoël von Lilienstern, is a tribute to Eötvös completing this avalanche of dedications, replies, and apostrophes, beyond historical distances.


Genoël von Lilienstern : The Severed Garden
Peter Eotvos : Steine
Igor Stravinsky : Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 version)
Pierre Boulez : ...explosante-fixe...

18 Dec 
 
19 Dec



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 19, 2012 at 1.00-1.50 
Lunchtime concert
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead
Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Pilgrims Place, London NW3 1NG
United Kingdom
020 73267
http://www.rosslynhillchapel.org
admin@rosslynhillchapel.org

Tickets: Free concert
Graeme Thewlis (Piano)
John Campbell (Trumpet)




Esther Hopkins : Mysterious Light

19 Dec



United States
 Friday, October 19, 2012 at 8pm 
Musi & Musica at BEA - Joao Kouyoumdjian
BEA - Brazilian Endowment for the Arts
240 E. 52nd street, New York, NY, 10022
United States
http://www.brazilianendowment.org
contact@brazilianendowment.org

Tickets: $15 and $10
Joao Kouyoumdjian (classical guitar)

Music & Música at BEA and Ticún Brasil present a solo classical guitar concert with the young virtuoso João Kouyoumdjian.
Mr. Kouyoumdjian will present an eclectic repertory written or arranged for solo guitar by Brazilian composers. Kouyoumdjian explores and pushes the instrument sonority and at the same time deals with an exemplar and traditional technique. The program will include works by Marco Pereira, Villa-Lobos, Tom Jobim, Raimundo Penaforte, Ricardo Calderoni, Garoto (Annibal Augusto Sardinha), among others.


Ricardo Calderoni : Balaio (Suíte Dois Povos)
Raimundo Penaforte : Zurraço (Two Pieces for Guitar Solo)
Joao Pernambuco : Sons de Carrilhões
Marco Pereira : Bate-Coxa

20 Dec



United Kingdom
 Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Chilly Gonzales with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: £15 - 20
Chilly Gonzales with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

All-round entertainer, pianist, rapper and self-proclaimed ‘musical genius’, Chilly Gonzales brings his iconoclastic orchestral hip hop to the Barbican stage. The concert also includes orchestral versions of material from his recent Solo Piano II and the world premiere of his new Piano Concerto.

Chilly Gonzales : Various

20 Dec



Austria
 Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 7.30pm 
A Far Cry
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at

A Far Cry
Markus Schirmer, Klavier



Osvaldo Golijov : Last Round
Arvo Pärt : "Fratres"; Fassung für Streichorchester, Aufführung in chorischer Besetzung
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Konzert für Klavier und Orchester C - Dur, KV 415
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Serenade für Streichorchester C - Dur, op. 48

21 Dec



United Kingdom
 Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Central England Ensemble
Town Hall, Birmingham
Victoria Square B3 3DQ
United Kingdom
0121 780 3333
http://www.thsh.co.uk/

Tickets: £11, £13
Anthony Bradbury music director
Ondøej Vrabec french horn

This unique event, generously sponsored by Irwin Mitchell solicitors, features the world premiere performance of Concerto for French Horn and Symphony Orchestra by Birmingham born composer Andrew Downes, who is himself wheelchair bound as a result of a spinal injury.

The soloist is Ondøej Vrabec, solo and principal horn of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Also in the programme is Walton’s Crown Imperial and Brahms’s Second Symphony. The leader of the orchestra is the composer’s daughter Anna Downes, and the conductor Anthony Bradbury. This promises to be a great concert, not to be missed!


William Walton : Crown Imperial
Andrew Downes : Concerto for French horn and Symphony Orchestra (World Premiere)
Johannes Brahms : Symphony No 2

22 Dec



United States
 Monday, October 22, 2012 at 8:00pm - 11:00pm 
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble: John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music
Stern Auditorium
New York, NY
United States

Tickets: $25 general / $15 Students, Seniors
Joseph Kubera & Ursula Oppens, piano
Petr Kotik, Conductor

Kicking off the BEYOND CAGE festival (New York City, oct. 22-Nov. 7), the 86-piece Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble will perform John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis and Winter Music with pianist Ursula Oppens and Joseph Kubera at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. This performance will mark the first time these works are heard together in their entirety, as well as the 20th anniversary of Atlas Eclipticalis' first complete performance (The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, with David Tudor on the piano, 1992). An historical performance not to be missed! www.semensemble.org/beyond-cage


John Cage : Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music
Christian Marclay : Shuffle

23 Dec



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Vaughan Williams, Philip Venables and Dohnányi
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30
Endymion

Wigmore Hall’s mighty tally of world premières grows with the appearance of a specially commissioned work by Endymion’s artistic director, Philip Venables.

The Chester-born composer’s music, praised for its ‘delicately spun melodies’ and ‘gritty, soulful’ character, has been championed worldwide by Endymion. His Sextet takes its place in an absorbing programme, complete with Vaughan Williams’s early Quintet for clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano, written in 1898 and first performed three years later.


Ralph Vaughan Williams : Quintet in D
Philip Venables : Sextet (commissioned by Wigmore Hall)
E Dohnanyi : Sextet in C Op. 37

24 Dec



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Steve Reich's Drumming
St David's Hall
St David's Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AH
United Kingdom
029 2087 8444
http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/
sdhreception@cardiff.gov.uk

The Colin Currie Group with Synergy Vocals

Legendary New York minimalist Steve Reich travelled to Africa to study traditional drumming techniques with master-drummer Gideon Alorwoyie. The result was Drumming: a 90-minute journey for percussion and female voices that, at the time of its 1971 premiere, redefined Western music's relationship with rhythm. Moving from drums through the glowing resonance of glockenspiels and marimbas and voices, Drumming is a primeval and uplifting experience engaging both mind and body.
Unmissable


Steve Reich : Drumming

25 Dec



United Kingdom
 Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 1.15pm 
Music at St Pancras
St Pancras Parish Church
London
United Kingdom

Tickets: Free
Felicity Vincent: Cello
Roger Black: Piano

'Not the Manchester School, Part 2'

David Dubery : Cello Sonata

26 Dec



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 26, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Exchanges
Bolivar Hall
54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL
United Kingdom
http://www.cultura.embavenez-uk.org/

Sylvia Hinz (recorders)
Cordula Heiland (piano)



Martin Gaughan : Immortal Beloved

26 Dec



Wales
 Friday, October 26, 2012 at 7pm 
Contemporary Evenings: Camberwell Composers Collective
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales

Tickets: £8.50-£11.50
Conductor Andrew Gourlay

Singer Mara Carlyle

Trombone Donal Bannister


Initially formed by a group of young composers performing in pubs and jazz clubs, the Camberwell Collective now contains some of Britain's most highly tipped composers, including Mark Bowden, BBC National Orchestra of Wales's new Resident Composer. Streetwise, sassy, raucous and gutsy, their music takes its inspiration from many sources from beat-boxing to Varèse.

Chris Mayo : The Llano Curve
Anna Meredith : Barchan
Charlie Piper : Kick up the fire
Emily Hall : Love Songs
Mark Bowden : Sudden Light

27 Dec



United Kingdom
 Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Britten Sinfonia / 20th Birthday Concert
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: £8 – 32
Britten Sinfonia
Kuljit Bhamra tabla
Thomas Gould violin/director
Tom Herbert bass
Alina Ibragimova violin
Pekka Kuusisto violin/director
Joanna MacGregor piano/director
Mark Padmore tenor
Seb Rochford drums
Jacqueline Shave violin/director
Andy Sheppard saxophones
Britten Sinfonia Voices
Eamonn Dougan choir director
Plus special guests

Britten Sinfonia proudly launches its new association with the Barbican with a gala concert and free stage events that also celebrate the orchestra’s 20th birthday.

Journeying through 400 years of music, the evening celebrates the orchestra’s bold artistic outlook and showcases the talents of Britten Sinfonia musicians as well as close collaborators including Alina Ibragimova, Pekka Kuusisto, Mark Padmore , Joanna MacGregor and special guests. The concert also features two specially commissioned premieres from James MacMillan and Nico Muhly.


Henry Purcell : Hear my Prayer
Nico Muhly : Birthday piece
J.S. Bach : Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Benjamin Britten : Les Illuminations
James MacMillan : Birthday piece
Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No 1 ‘Classical’
J.S. Bach : Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor
Moondog arr. MacGregor : Sidewalk Dances

27 Dec



Netherlands
 Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 14.15 
Navolgers van Webern en Kurtags Anna Achmatova Liederen
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Tickets: € 28.80


Asko|Schönberg
Reinbert de Leeuw- dirigent
Natalya Zagorinskaya- sopraan


Matty Niël : Drie koralen voor orgel
Gyorgy Kurtág : Vier capriccio's
Anton Webern : Fünf Stücke für Orchester, op. 10
Luigi Dallapiccola : uit Liriche greche: 5 frammenti di Saffo
Anton Webern : Sechs Stücke für Orchester, op. 6
Gyorgy Kurtág : Liederen op gedichten van Anna Achmatova, op. 46

28 Dec



Austria
 Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at

Tickets: 1-19 Euros
Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
Brad Lubman, Dirigent
Emanuele Arciuli, Klavier



Elliott Carter : "Symphonia. Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei" - Partita
John Cage : Konzert für präpariertes Klavier
Augusta Read Thomas : Helios Choros I - 1. Satz
Jay Schwartz : Music for Orchestra II

29 Dec 
 
30 Dec



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Laura van der Heijden performs Walton
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212

Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15
Conductor - Paul Daniel
Cello - Laura van der Heijden



Winner of BBC Young Musician 2012, dazzling cellist Laura van der Heijden performs Walton’s Cello Concerto – the piece with which she won the title, aged only 15. With its singing, complex cello part and rich orchestral writing, Walton’s Concerto is the perfect vehicle for Laura van der Heijden’s unique gifts. Framing Walton’s powerful music are gems by his fellow Englishmen: a witty overture from Vaughan Williams, the hauntingly beautiful A Song of the Night by Holst, featuring acclaimed violinist Clio Gould, and Elgar’s incomparable ‘Enigma’ Variations.

Box Office: 020 7730 4500



Ralph Vaughan Williams : The Wasps Overture
William Walton : Cello Concerto
Gustav Holst : A Song of the Night
Edward Elgar : 'Enigma' Variations

31 Dec



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Premières
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £10
Arditti Quartet



JACK Quartet

Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly’s commitment to the creation of new works of chamber music is ideally served by this spectacular recital of UK premières, a clear jewel in the 2012/13 season’s crown.

The Arditti Quartet’s worldwide reputation rests secure on almost 40 years of excellence in the performance and development of contemporary music. The JACK Quartet can likewise cite a glorious record of achievement in bringing new work to life, underpinned by its players’ close association with composers such as Matthias Pintscher, Helmut Lachenmann and Julia Wolfe.

This showcase concert, part of a landmark Arditti and JACK Quartet project, offers audiences the thrilling prospect of hearing the birth of two string quartets and two string octets by Hans Abrahamsen (b.1952), Mauro Lanza (b.1975) and the English composers Rebecca Saunders (b.1967) and James Clarke (b.1957).


James Clarke : 2012S for 2 string quartets
Hans Abrahamsen : Quartet No.4
Mauro Lanza : Der Kampf zwischen Karneval und Faasten for octet

31 Dec



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Max Richter: Vivaldi Recomposed
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: £15 – 20
Featuring Britten Sinfonia, conducted by André de Ridder with violinist Daniel Hope

Contemporary composer Max Richter re-imagines Vivaldi’s timeless set of Baroque concertos, The Four Seasons, featuring Britten Sinfonia conducted by André de Ridder with violinist Daniel Hope, and also performs a special set including music from his most recent album, Infra.

Max Richter : Vivaldi Recomposed

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Netherlands
 Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 14.15 
World premiere by Martin Fröst and Danish fundamentals
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Tickets: € 28.80--€ 33.30
Radio Kamer Filharmonie
Michael Schønwandt- dirigent
Martin Fröst- klarinet




Christian Horneman : Delen uit de toneelmuziek voor Gurre
Bent Sorensen : Klarinetconcert 'Serenidad'
Niels Gade : Efterklange af Ossian, op. 1
Jean Sibelius : Derde symfonie in C, op. 52

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United Kingdom
 Monday, November 5, 2012 at 7:30pm 
The Monday Platform
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £8 £10 £13 £15
Diana Galvydyte

violin

Christopher Guild

piano

Martynas Levickis

accordion


Diana Galvydyte and Christopher Guild excelled in the PLG New Year Series 2012.

Daily Telegraph: ‘…rounded, fully achieved performance…beautifully crafted…melodic grace.’ The Times: ‘…dazzled us…expressive panache…admirable aplomb’. Classical Source: ‘…extremely fine and accomplished …extraordinary’. Independent on Sunday: ‘Galvydyte, a name to remember’. Martynas Levickis was another success of the Series. The Times: ‘…Levicki’s mastery of the instrument…cosmic richness…such finesse…’. Classical Source: ‘…extraordinary virtuosity…magically played’…a superstar in Lithuania.’

Levickis introduces a brilliant work by one of today’s notable Russian composers, Efrem Podgaits.

Park Lane Group Young Artists


Edward Elgar : Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82
J.S. Bach : Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BVW561 (arr. for accordion)
Efrem Podgaits : Sonata No. 1 for accordion
Karol Szymanowski : Nocturne and Tarantella for violin and piano Op. 28
Per Nørgård : Suite No. 1 from Nine Friends for solo accordion
Astor Piazzolla : Café 1930 and Nightclub from Histoire du Tango for violin and accordion
Jonas Tamulionis : Rondo for violin and accordion





France
 Monday, November 5, 2012 at 8pm 
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Manfred Honeck - Nikolaj Znaider
Salle Pleyel
252 rue u Fauborg Saint-Honore, 75008 Paris
France

Tickets: 10--85 Euros
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck : conducting
Nikolaj Znaider : violin




Steven Stucky : Silent Spring
Jean Sibelius : Concerto pour violon
Antonin Dvorak : Symphonie n° 9 "Du nouveau monde"





United Kingdom
 Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 7.30pm 
Grzegorz Nowak conducts Borodin, Tchaikovsky and Dvorák
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212

Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15
Conductor - Grzegorz Nowak
Cello - Dimitri Maslennikov
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra


Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, from his opera Prince Igor, are amongst his most famous pieces, full of exotic melodies and vibrant orchestration. Cellist Dimitri Maslennikov has a special affinity for Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a delightful set of variations on an elegant theme inspired by Mozart. While living in America, Czech composer Dvorák was enchanted by the music he heard there, declaring: ‘These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America’. For his Ninth Symphony, Dvorák emulated this style, while also recalling the music of his homeland. The result is his most popular symphony, its famous Largo just one of many glorious moments.

Box Office: 020 7730 4500



Alexander Borodin : Polovtsian Dances
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Variations on a Rococo Theme
Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No.9, 'From the New World'





France
 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 8pm 
Orchestre de Paris - Paavo Järvi - Christian Tetzlaff
Salle Pleyel
252 rue u Fauborg Saint-Honore, 75008 Paris
France

Tickets: 10--60 Euros
Orchestre de Paris
Paavo Järvi : conducting
Christian Tetzlaff : violin




Maurice Ravel : Le Tombeau de Couperin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Concerto pour violon n° 3
Henri Dutilleux : Sur le même accord
Igor Stravinsky : Le Sacre du printemps





Austria
 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 7.30 pm 
Kammersymphonie der Wiener Symphoniker
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at

Tickets: 22 euros
Wiener Symphoniker



Richard Strauss : "Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!"
John Adams : Chamber Symphony





United Kingdom
 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 7:30pm 
Dante Quartet perform Chamber Music from Lebanon
St. John's Smith Square, London
Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
020 7222 1061
http://www.sjss.org.uk/

Tickets: £10, £15, £20
Dante Quartet perform with

Benjamin Frith - piano
Robert Plane - clarinet



The acclaimed Dante String Quartet and guests perform contemporary chamber music by leading Lebanese composers. Pre-concert talk at 6:30pm chaired by Professor Peter Wiegold

Sponsored by the Makhzoumi Foundation

Musicstage – Brunel Institute for Contemporary Middle Eastern Music


Houtaf Khoury : Gardens of Love
Abdalla El-Masri : Elegie
Boghos Gelalian : Canzona & Toccata
Bechara El Khoury : Meditation; Sonata
Bushra El-Turk : Dramaticule II
Toufic Succar : String Quartet No.2

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United Kingdom
 Friday, November 9, 2012 at 7:00pm - c. 9:30pm 
Morton Feldman's "Triadic Memories"
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Holywell Street, Oxford
United Kingdom
aphekhayasidlala@tiscali.co.uk

Tickets: £10 / £8 seniors / £5 students
Luke Berryman

"Triadic Memories" is a vast single-movement work lasting approximately two hours. Like other compositions of Morton Feldman's final years, it's closely related to the aesthetics of Mark Rothko's paintings, and is characterised by stasis and extremely quiet dynamics. The unusual title refers partly to an attempt to evoke memory itself: listening to this piece is like flicking through an old photograph album. Its delicate, slowly-shifting harmonies reach toward something that was once definite, but is now lost in time. It was perhaps this fragility that led the composer to aptly describe the piece as "the largest butterfly in captivity".

"Triadic Memories" has only been performed a handful of times across the world, and the 25th anniversary of Feldman's death falls this year. All in all, this concert promises to be a special occasion.


Rob Keeley : Ballade
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Klavierstück IX
Morton Feldman : Triadic Memories

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