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Friday, November 13, 2015 at 13–28 NOVEMBER 2015 7.30
Morgen und Abend
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
ROH
Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas is fast becoming one of the leading composers of his generation. Morgen und Abend (Morning and Evening) marks his first commission from The Royal Opera. Award-winning Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse provides the libretto – an adaptation of his acclaimed 2000 novel of the same name, which describes with meditative, near incantatory simplicity the life of a fisherman from birth to death. This world premiere is directed by Graham Vick, Artistic Director of Birmingham Opera Company and former Director of Productions with Scottish Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Haas shot to international fame with in vain (2000), described by Simon Rattle as ‘an astonishing work of art and an acknowledged masterpiece of the 21st century’. Common to all of his works is an intense and highly charged atmosphere, constructed from shifting sound worlds that coalesce suddenly into opulent richness. Haas’s latest works have continued his experimentation with sound and the interplay of light and dark, in works such as ins Licht (2007) and ATTHIS (2009, heard in the Linbury Studio Theatre spring 2015).
Georg Friedrich Haas : Morgen und Abend
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Friday, November 13, 2015 at 1.10pm
Pioneers of Percussion
Mumford Theatre, Anglia
United Kingdom
Joby Burgess percussion & electronics
Three musical cultures clash in these rarely heard and pioneering percussion pieces. The loud, muscular music of Xenakis contrasts with Takemitsu’s meditative stillness and Morton Feldman’s ‘anti-percussion’ is softer still – with fingertips playing woody almost weightless sounds ‘like dust in the breeze’. A magical experience.
The concert lasts approximately 50 minutes.
Presented in association with Anglia Ruskin University
Toru Takemitsu : Seasons
Morton Feldman : The King of Denmark
Iannis Xenakis : Psappha
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Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 7.30pm
The Comedy of Change
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
BCMG
This ballet-tinged programme frames the world premiere of Melinda Maxwell’s Sound Investment commission, FRACTURES: Monk Unpacked, which uses Thelonious Monk’s Round Midnight as its ‘creative lever’.
Composed both for the concert hall, and for choreographer Mark Baldwin, who staged it as a ballet with Rambert Dance Company, Julian Anderson’s The Comedy of Change takes inspiration from the notions of change in nature. Through seven greatly contrasting movements, Anderson’s vibrant music continually evolves, with its many time cycles, melodies and rhythms mirroring nature’s continual march.
Premiered in 2014, Schuller’s Games for wind quintet and strings has the composer’s characteristic clear textures, snappy rhythms, overlapping phrases and spiky dissonances – with several name-that-tune quotations from familiar repertoire offering moments of light-hearted fun.
Providing a tumultuous climax, Stravinsky’s magnificent one-act chamber opera-ballet Renard, sees BCMG joined by four exceptional singers from RSVP Voices for a concert performance of this farmyard fairy tale with a bloody end.
The programme for this concert has changed slightly, with Carl Nielsen/Hans Abrahamsen’s Three Piano Pieces Op. 59 recomposed for 10 instruments replaced by Abrahamsen’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces, and Gunther Schuller’s Games, the latter included as a tribute to the composer who died in June.
Gunter Schuller : Games
Arnold Schoenberg : Vier Stücke – aus 6. Kleine Klavierstücke op. 19
Hans Abrahamsen : Liebeslied
Julian Anderson : The Comedy of Change
Patrick Brennan : Polly Roe
Melinda Maxwell : FRACTURES: Monk Unpacked
Igor Stravinsky : Renard
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 7.30pm
Arvo Pärt: 'Passio'
King's College Chapel
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Ben Johnson Pilate
Edward Grint Christ
Choir of King’s College Cambridge
Endymion
Stephen Cleobury
Arvo Part’s setting of the Passion according to St John is among his greatest works, rarely performed and yet, through recordings, one of his most popular.
The music is simple, austere and hypnotic with undulating, ‘bell-like’ harmonies. Yet as the story steadily unfolds, the power and drama of the text takes over. The effect is ‘profoundly moving, unsettling and humbling’ THE GUARDIAN.
The concert runs without an interval for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
With kind permission of the Provost and Fellows of King’s College
Arvo Pärt : Passio
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Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 7.00 pm
Thinking aLoud!
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F7BB
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10, £7 concessions
Kerry Andrews, cello
Karen Burnell, horn
Paul Burnell, oboe, recorder
Deborah Broderick Edwards, piano
Derek Foster, piano
Some classic works, some new works - Some rehearsed, some spontaneous -
All thinking through sound - and aloud!
John Cage : Cheap Imitation
John Cage : Readings from Silence
John Cage : Perpetual Tango
Erik Satie : Tango Perpetuelle
Morton Feldman : A very short trumpet piece
Morton Feldman : Two Pianos
Steve Reich : Clapping Music
Earle Brown : December '52
Hugh Shrapnel : Oxleas Wood
Hugh Shrapnel : Lullaby
Dave Smith : Bunnahabhain
Dave Smith : Caol Ila
Ann Wolff : OneTwoThree
Kerry Andrews : Tract
Paul Burnell : Is that you, or is it just me?
Deborah Broderick Edwards : The Touring Machine
Derek Foster : Re-Jig
Derek Foster : Letter
Dave Smith : Six 1-minute piano pieces
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Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 12:30pm
The London Sinfonietta
University of Huddersfield
Huddersfield HD1 3DH
United Kingdom
Garry Walker conductor
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta returns to hcmf// to perform a repeat of our October concert at St John's Smith Square in London. A new work by composer and multidisciplinary artist Marisol Jiménez – whose output focusses on the tactile process of creating sound – bristles against Laurance Crane's understated style. Morton Feldman's intimate portrait For Samuel Beckett, much admired and rarely performed, completes the bill.
Edmund Finnis : Seeing is Flux
Marisol Jiménez : XLIII MEMORIAM VIVIRE
Laurence Crane : Chamber Symphony No. 2 `The Australian’
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Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8pm
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
BCMG
BCMG presents works by two outstanding British composers, forming another chapter in both artists’ long-established relationships with the Group.
The premiere of Howard Skempton’s substantial setting of Coleridge’s masterpiece The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written for Roderick Williams and BCMG, forms the second half of the concert. This is the second major commission for Skempton from friends and patrons Maurice and Sheila Millward; their first, Only the Sound Remains for viola and ensemble, was premiered to much acclaim in February 2010.
It’s always a delight to revive past BCMG commissions and Dominic Muldowney’s 2011 Sound Investment commission, a series of songs setting poetry by Thomas, Auden and Betjeman, is one of several works by the former Music Director of the National Theatre that form this evening’s first half. Complementing these will be three further settings – two of Shakespeare, and the world premiere of a song setting A E Housman’s Smooth between sea and land.
Dominic Muldowney : Five cabaret songs #: Adlestrop (Edward Thomas); At Last the Secret is Out, Foxtrot, Funeral Blues (WH Auden); Uffington (John Betjeman)
Dominic Muldowney : Two Shakespeare settings #: Winter, Fear No More
Dominic Muldowney : Smooth between sea and land (World premiere / BCMG commission) #
Howard Skempton : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Friday, December 4, 2015 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Alsop
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Nicholas Daniel oboe
A programme of supernatural-inspired works from Tchaikovsky, Judith Bingham, and a UK premiere of James MacMillan's Woman of the Apocalypse, under celebrated conductor Marin Alsop.
James Macmillan composed his colourful Woman of the Apocalypse for Alsop's own festival in Cabrillo, California. It evokes the mystical appearance of an angelic woman at times of crisis, whilst Judith Bingham's dramatic oboe concerto, The Angel of Mons, depicts just such a shimmering vision, this time at the Battle of Mons, performed by the peerless Nicholas Daniel. It is the 'inscrutable predesination of fate' that haunts Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony, transforming tragedy to triumph.
James MacMillan : Woman of the Apocalypse
Judith Bingham : The Angel of Mons
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Symphony No 5 in E minor
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Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 7.30pm
STOCKHAUSEN & BOULEZ
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Wolfgang Lischke conductor
Clio Gould solo violin
Sound Intermedia sound projection
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
London Sinfonietta
Now celebrating his 90th year, Pierre Boulez remains an indomitable force in contemporary music – a true legend in his own lifetime. His works project an image of a brave new world, purged of historical clutter: music that breaks the rules, in his words, ‘for the pleasure of breaking them’. Facing off against two of Boulez’s iconic chamber works is Region III of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s masterpiece Hymnen – whose survey of national anthems presents a powerful portrait of a collective human spirit.
Pierre Boulez : Dérive I for 6 instruments
Pierre Boulez : Anthèmes 2 for violin & live electronics
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Region III from Hymnen
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Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00
JAZZ
St Andrew's Church
The Tye, Sloe Lane, Alfriston, BN26 5TL
United Kingdom
http://www.musicfromthesofa.com
Tickets: £5.00 on the door
Nigel Goss keyboards, Jasmine Selby flute, Evelyn Harrison soprano/alto sax, Jacqui Gough, Jane Richards, Deborah Moy vocals, Sal Martin drum kit, Mark Hurst bass.
Band/ ensemble established to perform the songs of Nigel Goss.
Nigel Goss : Berlin Radio
Nigel Goss : Sam's Space Tune
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Monday, December 7, 2015 at 7pm
THE RIOT ENSEMBLE
Spitalfields Festival
London
United Kingdom
The Riot Ensemble
Exciting contemporary music group, The Riot Ensemble, offer an explosive exploration of new music in their festival debut, pairing contemplative music by Serbian-Swedish composer Djuro Zivkovic, including the UK premiere of Night Music, with much-loved works by JS Bach, one of Zivkovic’s main influences. They’re also performing Moon Dance by the Winter Festival’s youngest composer, 10-year-old Marie-Louise Ptohos.
The Ensemble also premiere a new commission by Spanish composer Helga Arias Parra, who entered the Riot Ensemble’s 2015 ‘Call for Scores’, and describes her music as experimentation, risk and control in that exact order.”
J.S Bach : Excerpts from Cello Suite No.5 in C minor BWV1011
Ðuro Živković : I Shall Contemplate Night Music
J.S. Bach : Excerpts from Goldberg Variations BWV998
Helga Arias Parra : Incipit
Marie-Louise Ptohos : Moon Dance
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 14:00
Wirén Symphony No. 3
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
Michael Cox flute
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba conductor
Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba for a concert of contemporary music by Nordic composers at Maida Vale studios.
Hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal flautist Michael Cox delve into the rich and colourful sound world of Soie, the three-movement concerto for flute and orchestra by Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski, inspired by images of fabrics and textures. Rumon Gamba also conducts Dag Wirén's high-spirited Third Symphony and Harald Sæverud's protest against German occupation of Norway in his 1943 overture Kjempeviseslåtten (Ballad of Revolt).
This concert is 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.
Harald Sæverud : Kjempeviseslåtten
Oliver Weeks : Soie
Dag Wirén : Symphony No. 3, Op. 20
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7.30pm
World Premiere of Lindberg’s Violin Concerto No. 2
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Jaap van Zweden conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Not until the upheavals of the 20th century would another composer conceive of a piece so controlled and driven by rhythm as Beethoven did in his Seventh Symphony. Here is a work in which you hear the controlling rhythms in almost every bar, whether in the propulsive energy of the outer movements or in the inevitable tread of the slow march. Beethoven’s most unusual, fascinating and bold symphony is preceded here by the world premiere of the Second Violin Concerto by Magnus Lindberg, just a month after the Orchestra’s performance of his first concerto for the instrument (11 November). Jaap van Zweden takes to the podium for this concert of bold orchestral statements.
John Wagenaar : Overture, Cyrano de Bergerac
Magnus Lindberg : Violin Concerto No. 2
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 7
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 13:55
RautavaaraThe BBC Philharmonic performs Sibelius, Saariaho and Rautavaara
MediaCityUK
The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50 2EQ
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 161 886 5300
http://www.mediacityuk.co.uk
hello@mediacityuk.co.uk
BBC Philharmonic
Carlos Miguel Prieto Conductor
Adam Walker Flute
Today’s concert is set to capture the very best of Finland and of course, Sibelius, as we celebrate what would have been his 150th birthday.
Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts one of Sibelius’s masterpieces, plus a stunning pair of works from living Finish masters. The programme opens with a selection from Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen - the Finnish Karavela myths.
The orchestra also performs Saariaho’s major work for flute L'aile du songe, played today by the talented flautist, Adam Walker. It concludes with the spiritual Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Symphony No. 7 subtitled “Angel of Light”.
Jean Sibelius : Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Saari
Jean Sibelius : Lemminkäinen's return
Kaija Saariaho : L'aile du songe
Einojuhani Rautavaara : Symphony No 7
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