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Friday, October 13, 2017 at 7.30pm
Birtwistle Earth Dances
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s large-scale orchestral work from 1986 explores the element of Earth with a primordial power and colossal ambition: it’s one of his greatest scores and impresses with its strength and ambition 30 years on. Martyn Brabbins, a master of music like this, then turns his attention to the element of Water – Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral A Sea Symphony, one of the most confident first symphonies ever, first heard in 1910, with its two singers lifting the poetry of Walt Whitman into song. Two superb singers of the younger generation – Elizabeth Watts and Marcus Farnsworth – and the BBC Symphony Chorus join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a programme that exults in the power of nature.
Harrison Birtwistle : Earth dances
Vaughan Williams : Symphony No 1, A Sea Symphony
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14 Dec
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Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 7.30pm
Ballet Cymru: The Light Princess
Grand Theatre, Swansea
Swansea Grand Theatre, Singleton Street, Swansea, SA1 3QJ
Wales
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/swanseagrandtheatre
Ballet Cymru
A new full length ballet for 2017 with a new score by brilliant Welsh harpist, composer and recording artist Catrin Finch in collaboration with The Riverfront Theatre in Newport, The Light Princess is the lightest and brightest dance event of the year.
Using elements of circus and outstanding classical choreography, the story draws inspiration from Sleeping Beauty, telling the story of a princess afflicted by a constant weightlessness, unable to get her feet on the ground, until she finds a love that brings her down to earth.
Tickets: £8.50 & £14.50
Catrin Finch : The Light Princess
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15 Dec
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Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 2pm
Modern Times: music for voice and percussion
Morley College
61 Westminster Bridge Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 7HT
United Kingdom
020 7450 1889
www.morleycollege.ac.uk/
Tickets: £12, £10 from wegottickets.com/event/413162
Jillian Bain Christie, soprano
Rosie Bergonzi, percussion
Catherine Herriott, piano and percussion
Music from Britain and America for this exciting line-up, featuring two new pieces composed for the concert. Another event from Collaborations, putting composers and performers together.
Janet Oates : Riddle Time
Paul Burnell : And she flew
Stephen Montague : Philup Glass
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15 Dec
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15 Dec
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Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 4:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Tours New Album in Bozeman
Holy Rosary Church
220 West Main Street
United States
406-587-4581
www.holyrosarybozeman.org
Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)
What: Renowned Organist Gail Archer Celebrates Russian Composers with New Album and International Concert Tour
Where: Holy Rosary Church, 220 West Main Street, Bozeman, MT 59715
When: Sunday, October 15, 2017, at 4:00 p.m.
How: FREE. For more info, contact the Church at 406.587.4581 or call HolyRosaryBozeman.org.
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Internationally renowned concert organist and recording artist Gail Archer releases her eighth solo album A Russian Journey (TBR 09.25.17 Meyer Media) featuring works by 19th and 20th Century Russian composers including members of the Russian Five and their successors. Featuring hidden Russian gems from the organ canon, A Russian Journey enthralls listeners with Archer’s musicality, sensitivity, and visceral quality. Starting this fall, Archer celebrates the album release with an international concert tour at some of the world’s finest churches.
Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen. Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as "Best of 2008" in classical music and opera. Her recordings include A Russian Journey, The Muse’s Voice, Franz Lizst: A Hungarian Rhapsody, Bach: The Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic in the Making (Meyer Media), and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils (CALA Records). Ms. Archer’s 2017 European tour took her to Germany, Italy, the British Isles, Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Highlights include St. Nicholas Church, Stuttgart, Germany, Church of San Domenico, Palermo, Sicily, the Temple of the Renaissance, Bryansk, Russia, the Philharmonic Hall, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine, and the Basilika Mariaska, Gdansk, Poland. She is the founder of Musforum, an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work.
Cesar Cui : Prelude and Fugue in D Minor
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 1pm-2pm
Ratiocinate - Stace Constantinou (Electronics, Cello, Voice)
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: Admission free
Stace Constantinou - cello, found sounds, live electronics
"Exploring the musical and sonic possibilities of improvised solo cello, immersive soundscape, found-sounds and audience participation, to move into a new musical realm using technology and musical thought inspired by philosophy."
Stace Constantinou : Some A is B
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19 Dec
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20 Dec
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Friday, October 20, 2017 at 8pm
George Benjamin: Written on Skin
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
LSO
Oliver Zeffman conductor
Lauren Fagan Agnès
Ross Ramgobin The Protector
Patrick Terry The Boy/Angel 1
Written on Skin, by George Benjamin with a libretto by Martin Crimp drawn from a 13th-century Occitan legend, has been universally acclaimed since its première at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2012.
In addition to this performance at LSO St. Luke's, the production will tour to West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge and to the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
George Benjamin : Written on Skin
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21 Dec
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Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 14.30
Royal Albert Hall presents UK Premiere of Jaws in Concert
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Spielberg’s original summer movie blockbuster Jaws will be screened at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time, accompanied by a live performance of the iconic score which won John Williams his first Academy Award®.
Upon its release, Jaws became the most successful movie of all time, and Spielberg has often credited Williams’ iconic score with much of the film’s success. Now audiences will have the chance to experience the power of a live symphony orchestra performing the entire score in sync with one of the greatest motion pictures of all time – the ultimate film-with-live-orchestra experience!
A Film Concerts Live! production
Jaws is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLC. All Rights Reserved
Academy Awards © A.M.P.A.S.
John Williams : Jaws
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Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 7.30pm
BBC SO Total Immersion: Julian Anderson
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Carolin Widmann violin
Edward Gardner conducts the BBC SO in his first Total Immersion concert. Julian Anderson’s Eden (2005) celebrates the sculptor Constantin Brancusi while Imagin’d Corners (2002) revolves around Anderson’s attraction to the French horn. Carolin Widmann, a passionate champion of new music, joins the BBC SO for In lieblicher Bläue, a work that uses space in a way that only a live performance can reveal. Symphony (2003) is a study in immobility and gradual growth while Fantasias (2009) is, in Anderson’s words, ‘for all its wild contrasts, a celebration of the modern symphony orchestra’. Originally written for the Cleveland Orchestra, its virtuosity should prove a perfect climax to a weekend celebrating one of the UK’s most distinctive and original musical voices.
Julian Anderson : Eden
Julian Anderson : Imagin’d Corners
Julian Anderson : In lieblicher Blaue, Poem for Violin and Orchestra
Julian Anderson : Symphony
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 8.30pm
Woodlands and beyond... - Berio, Ravel, Takemitsu, Berg, Debussy...
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr
Hélène Grimaud
Mat Hennek
A couple both on stage and off, French pianist Hélène Grimaud and German photographer Mat Hennek fuse their two arts for an experience that is unique to both hear and see. A recital of eclectic classic works conversing with images of nature.
Luciano Berio
Wasserklavier
Nitin Sawhney
Water - Transition 1
Toru Takemitsu
Rain Tree Sketch II
Nitin Sawhney
Water - Transition 2
Gabriel Fauré
Barcarolle n° 5
Nitin Sawhney
Water - Transition 1
Maurice Ravel
Jeux d'eau
Nitin Sawhney
Water - Transition 4
Isaac Albéniz
Almeria
Nitin Sawhney
Water - Transition 5
Franz Liszt
Les Jeux d'eau à la villa d'Este
Nitin Sawhney
Water - Transition 6
Leoš Janácek
In the Mists : No. 1
Nitin Sawhney
Water - Transition 7
Claude Debussy
La Cathédrale engloutie
various composers : Various
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Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:30pm
Odyssey Opera Continues Joan of Arc Season with L'assedio di Calais
The Huntginton Theatre
284 Huntington Avenue
United States
Tickets: $25 and Up
Odyssey Opera
One of the nation’s most innovative opera companies, Odyssey Opera, continues Trial by Fire: Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, a season-long exploration of operatic works inspired by martyr, saint, and military leader Joan of Arc (1412-1431). For two nights, Odyssey Opera presents a fully-staged Italian-language performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s neglected opera, L’assedio di Calais (1836). Based on Luigi Marchionni’s play L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais) with libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, this rarely-heard Italian bel canto work has undeservedly been absent from the operatic stage. Conducted by Gil Rose with full orchestra and chorus and directed by Joshua Major, L’assedio di Calais features three singers making their company debut: baritone James Westman (Mayor of Calais), mezzo-soprano Magda Gartner (Aurelio) and Lucia Cesaroni (Eleanora).
Gaetano Donizetti : L'assedio di Calais
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Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 3:00pm
BMOP Celebrates New Music Champions
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Matt Haimovitz
Conor Hanick
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, kick-starts its 22nd season with an appreciative salute to multi-generational composers and artists who have led and continue to be leading the contemporary music vanguard. Featuring two resolute proponents of new music, guest soloists Conor Hanick (piano) and Matt Haimovitz (cello), the program includes the regional premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s first concerto, as well as pieces by William Schuman, David Sanford, and John Harbison.
William Schuman : Judith, Choreographic Poem
Matthew Aucoin : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
David Sanford : Scherzo Grosso
John Harbison : Diotima
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Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 7 for 7.30
Philomena
Brunel Museum
Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, London SE16 4LF
United Kingdom
0207 231 3840
brunel-museum.org.uk
info@brunel-museum.org.uk
Tickets: £12.50
New ensemble Philomena: six sopranos
Newly commissioned work alongside 17th century song
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Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 7.30pm
Vaughan Williams, Jonathan Dove and Schumann
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
James Gilchrist tenor;
Anna Tilbrook piano
James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook have developed their reading of Schumann’s Dichterliebe over many acclaimed performances and hours of deep thinking. They return to the composer’s Heine settings in a special programme, celebrating twenty years of their artistic collaboration, which also includes Vaughan Williams’s evocative first song cycle.
This concert also marks the end of a project many years in the making, that has seen the duo pairing new commissions with Schumann song cycles. This programme is crowned with the world première of Under Alter’d Skies by Royal Philharmonic Society Award-winner Jonathan Dove.
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Songs of Travel
Jonathan Dove : Under Alter'd Skies
Robert Schumann : Dichterliebe Op. 48
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Friday, November 3, 2017 at 7.30pm
Mahler, Jolas and Boulanger
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Storgårds
The doyenne of French composers, Betsy Jolas, brings one of her latest works to London, presented alongside music by Lili Boulanger and Gustav Mahler.
Betsy Jolas, born in 1926 and therefore a contemporary of Pierre Boulez, is one of French music’s greats and this concert features her work for piano, trumpet and orchestra, Histoires vraies from 2015 and written for the Festival Printemps des Arts in Monte-Carlo. The piece’s ‘stories’ aim to work with the ‘sounds we try not to hear’ and also bring together two players whose musical paths rarely cross: Håkan Hardenberger and Roger Muraro, one of France’s finest modernist pianists, who makes a rare UK appearance. Lili Boulanger, who died aged 24, gives us her atmospheric orchestral diptych juxtaposing morning and evening and Gustav Mahler’s folk-infused Fourth Symphony literally bursts into song to close the programme.
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4
Lili Boulanger : D’un matin de printemps; D’un soir triste
Betsy Jolas : Histoires Vraies
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Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 8pm
Cian Ciarán Presents: Rhys & Meinir
Hoddinott Hall
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff
United Kingdom
Cian Ciarán
BBCNOW
For 20 years and counting a member of Super Furry Animals, Cian Ciarán comes together with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The World premiere performance of a work that has been almost two-decades in development features a full 84 piece orchestra and Cian Ciarán’s Rhys & Meinir promises a rare, aural experience that encapsulates the drama of ancient Welsh folklore, the envisioned splendour of rural Wales and the innate, musical curiosity of the intrepid composer.
Rhys and Meinir found love in the village of Nant Gwrtheyrn, North Wales and their childhood romance blossomed for all to see. On the day of their marriage, Meinir is nowhere to be found and the mystery leads Rhys into months of despair. When finally a thunder strike reveals Meinir’s final hiding place, Rhys is unable to live a second longer.
Cian Ciaran : Rhys & Meinir
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Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 4.30pm
TURNING POINTS: BERIO
Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
United Kingdom
020 7520 1440
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/
info@kingsplace.co.uk
Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano
Michael Cox flute
Darragh Morgan violin
Paul Silverthorne viola
Timothy Lines clarinet
Lucy Wakeford harp
London Sinfonietta
Curated by John Woolrich
Get to know Luciano Berio; one of the towering musical personalities of the post-war avantgarde, who constantly reinvented musical sound and form. His music drew inspiration from and reworked the vernacular of folk, pop and other classical music and indeed his own compositions. The London Sinfonietta collaborated a great deal with Berio during the 1970s and 1980s, helping both ensemble and composer to establish an international reputation.
Luciano Berio : Traditional folk song fragments
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 1pm - 2pm
Last Words - Soprano, Flute, Cello & Piano
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: Free admission
Patricia Auchterlonie (soprano), Antonia Berg (flute), Ben Smith (piano), Yoanna Prodanova (cello)
Series 3 of Borough New Music opens with works by composers from Italy, Canada and the UK. Songs by Sciarrino are set either side of the two centrepieces of this recital: the UK premiere of Kate Soper's 'Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say'(2010-11), and a world premiere by exciting young pianist-composer Ben Smith (b. 1991).
Kate Soper : Only the words themselves mean what they say (2010-11)
Ben Smith : New Work
Salvatore Sciarrino : Ultime rose (from Vanitas) (1981)
Salvatore Sciarrino : Due melodie per soprano e pianoforte (1978)
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