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14 Dec
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Monday, December 14, 2015 at 14:00
Discovering Music 1: Elisabeth Lutyens
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Johnson presenter
Jac van Steen conductor
With the help of the BBC SSO, guest conductor Jac van Steen, and recordings from the BBC’s sound archive, Stephen Johnson explores the life and some of the music of eccentric English composer Elisabeth Lutyens. As well as embracing atonality and modernism, Lutyens wrote for feature films, for a number of Hammer horror films and she composed incidental music for radio and television. For several decades she was at the forefront of the British contemporary music scene, but then quite quickly fell out of fashion, leaving behind much startlingly original music, full of hidden depths. There will be one interval of approximately 15 minutes. Works played by the BBC SSO will include complete performances of Music for Orchestra II, Op.48; Rondel, Op.108; and Music for Orchestra IV, Op.152.
Free tickets available from Monday 2 November 2015.
Elisabeth Lutyens : Various
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16 Dec
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 7.25pm
The BBC Philharmonic performs Gade, Norgard, Nielsen, Maxwell Davies and Sibelius.
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BBC Philharmonic
Michael Francis Conductor
Jakob Kullberg Cello
Michael Francis and the BBC Philharmonic perform a programme that begins with Gade’s Hamlet Overture – a true dramatic musical portrayal of Shakespeare’s play.
Before the interval, cellist Jakob Kullberg shares one of Norgard’s most intimate compositions, Between, exploring the relationship between soloist and orchestra.
Then, after the interval, there’s Carl Nielsen's rhapsody overture An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands, followed by Maxwell Davies’s, Ebb of Winter, inspired by the ever-changing Orkney weather.
The concert concludes with The Oceanides, Sibelus’s tone poem for orchestra, denoting the nymphs in Greek mythology who inhabited the Mediterranean Sea.
This is a live broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and will be presented by Andrew McGregor.
Niels Gade : Concert Overture 'Hamlet', Op 37
Per Nørgård : Between
Carl Nielsen : Rhapsodic Overture 'A Imaginary Journey to the Faroes', FS123
Peter Maxwell Davies : Ebb of Winter
Jean Sibelius : The Oceanides, Op 73
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17 Dec
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 14:00
BBC Singers at Maida Vale
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
BBC Singers
David Hill conductor
Join the BBC Singers and Chief Conductor David Hill for a short 40-minute concert of festive new music at the BBC Maida Vale Studios, as they perform the six brand new Christmas carols shortlisted in the 2015 BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition.
Launched in August, the competition invited amateur composers from across the country to set ‘Comes the Light’, a specially-written poem by leading poet and author Roger McGough, for SATB choir. The six finalists whose works we will hear in this short afternoon performance, were all selected by a team of expert judges, including Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s Music, and David Hill, Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers.
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.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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17 Dec
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Gardner
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
BBC Symphony Chorus
Sarah Tynan soprano
Robert Murray tenor
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Brindley Sherratt bass
Louis Schwizgebel piano
Edward Gardner directs Tippett's moving oratorio A Child of Our Time, prefaced by Beethoven's Apollonian fourth piano concerto and Knussen's delightful suite from Higgledy Piggledy Pop.
An ideal cast feature in Tippett's extraordinarily prescient work, begun at the start of the Second World War, prefiguring its atrocities. Gifted New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel takes on Beethoven's graceful fourth concerto, while we follow Maurice Sendak's dog Jennie to heaven in Knussen's affectionate requiem The Way to Castle Yonder.
Oliver Knussen : The Way to Castle Yonder
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Piano Concerto No 4 in G major
Michael Tippett : A Child of Our Time
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26 Dec
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Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 8:00pm
Classical Pianist Katya Grineva Performs Holiday Concert
Stern Auditorium
New York, NY
United States
Tickets: $35 and Up
Katya Grineva, piano
Celebrating her 15th solo appearance at Carnegie Hall, classical pianist Katya Grineva presents an evening of holiday music and virtuoso romantic masterpieces for one night only, Saturday, December 26th. The Russian native, whose dream it was to one day play at the iconic venue, is the first woman to perform as a soloist at Carnegie this many times. Known for her deep connetion to the Romantics, Katya mixes staples by Mozart and Chopin with various seasonal chestnuts. Performing works from her latest album A Classical Holiday, Katya showcases new arrangements of Christmas classics including Silent Night, Sleigh Ride, and My Favorite Things as well as traditional carols and pieces from The Nutcracker.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Nutcracker
Franz Gruber : Silent Night
Richard Rodgers : My Favorite Things
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