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13 Dec
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Friday, June 13, 2014 at
The Fall of the House of Usher
Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales
United Kingdom
WNO
Dare you enter the House of Usher? It’s a dark, mysterious place, seemingly with a mind of its own. In their one act operas Claude Debussy and Gordon Getty bring Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre tale to the operatic stage.
Both operas cast a magnificently oppressive spell of menace and unease. Opera is rarely associated with the chills of the horror genre but this double bill achieves the nerve shredding effect of the best horror films.
Step inside the House of Usher but look out behind you.
Cities
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
13 Jun - 15 Jun
Birmingham Hippodrome
20 Jun
Gordon Getty : Usher House
Claude Debussy : La Chute de la Maison Usher
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13 Dec
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Friday, June 13, 2014 at 2.30pm
Music from Sweden
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba conductor
Clare Hammond piano
Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios for a concert of Swedish orchestral music.
The concert opens with Transit Underground, a powerful and rhythmic piece from one of Sweden's premiere young contemporary composers, Tobias Broström. Immerse yourself into Nordic landscapes with the rich colourful romantic sounds of Alfvén’s Mountain King Suite and the finale, Gothe’s intense and brooding Second Symphony. Hear pianist Clare Hammond give a delightful solo interlude, with piano music from early twentieth century Swedish composer Ture Rangström.
Tobias Broström : Transit Underground
Hugo Alfvén : Mountain King Suite
Anders Rangström : Mälarlegender
Mats Larsson Gothe : Symphony no.2
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14 Dec
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 at 8pm
Registre des lumières
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
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Ensemble musikFabrik
Conductor Marcus Creed
Computer Music Design IRCAM Grégory Beller
The time of beginning based on Ovid, the time of the first men, the time of civilizations: Raphaël Cendo has arranged his epic for choir, ensemble, and electronics in three large chapters, with, by way of an epilogue, uses this fragment of Heraclitus: If one does not hope, one will not find the unhoped-for, since there is no trail leading to it and no path. Registre des lumières, according to the composer, designates the book of memories, "memory of lights that transmitted a common, far away, past, milestones of our Humanity". What inexorable force can push the limits of the possible? As an epilogue, but not a reply, this fragment by Heraclitus, "If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible."
Gyorgy Ligeti : Lux aeterna
Hans Zender : Warum
Raphaël Cendo : Registre des lumières
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17 Dec
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 15:00 - 17:00
New Music Day
Detford Town Hall - Council Chamber
Deptford Town Hall, London SE14 6AF
United Kingdom
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION
Composers:
Milena Mateus,
Rodrigo B. Camacho,
Sara Rodrigues
Performers:
Milena Mateus (Electric Bass),
Jack Newton (Vibraphone),
Rodrigo B. Camacho (Percussion),
Roxana Albayati (Cello),
Sara Rodrigues (Piano),
Will Smith (Violin).
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1 - American Candy - "What the hell is red 40?!?" (45') [Rodrigo B. Camacho]
FDA notions on the pureness of food, hysterically colorful candy brands, self disintegration, a never ending joke about a swedish guy... all in one package!
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2 - From Stone to Man, From Man to (10') [Sara Rodrigues]
The disintegration of the linguistic corpus studies from an online dictionary
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3 - Mandala Cycle - for ensemble (35') [Milena Mateus]
un)Guided improvisation through meditation
Rodrigo B. Camacho : No. 46 - American Candy - "What the hell is Red 40?!?"
Milena Mateus : Mandala Cycle
Sara Rodrigues : From Stone to Man, From Man to
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18 Dec
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at
Francesconi: Quartett at the Royal Opera House
Lindbury Studio
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
United Kingdom
http://www.roh.org.uk
John Fulljames director
Soutra Gilmour designs
Ravi Deepres video projection
Bruno Poet lighting design
Sound Intermedia sound design
Andrew Gourlay conductor
London Sinfonietta
Two lovers find themselves trapped in a bitter power battle, a demonstration of humanity's appalling capacity for hatred that will eventually tear them apart. This intense tale of love, heartbreak and obsessive manipulation exposes the raw, primeval foundations that lurk beneath all our carefully manicured lives.
Heiner Müller took inspiration from Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses for his 1980 play Quartett, and Francesconi set it almost word for word in this chamber opera, using his own English translation. Quartett was acclaimed at its 2011 premiere at La Scala, Milan, praised for its unique and profoundly affecting musical vocabulary. The UK premiere uses a new staging created by director John Fulljames for the Linbury Studio Theatre. It is the second of two major music theatre collaborations that bookend the London Sinfonietta season.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 19:45 to Saturday, June 28, 2014 - 18:00
Luca Francesconi : Quartett
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19 Dec
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Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 7.30pm
Celebrating Peter Maxwell Davies’ 80th birthday
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Chloë Hanslip violin
Michael Seal conductor
A concert at Maida Vale Studios to celebrate the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in the year of his 80th birthday.
Hear two London premieres from the composer, Throstle's Nest Junction and A Spell for Green Corn performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, soloist Chloë Hanslip and conductor Michael Seal. The concert finale is his monumental masterwork Worldes Blis, a piece which Davies himself conducted for the notorious world premiere with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1969.
Please note Michael Seal replaces Peter Rundel as conductor for this concert.
Peter Maxwell Davies : Throstle's Nest Junction
Peter Maxwell Davies : A Spell for Green Corn -The MacDonald Dances
Peter Maxwell Davies : Worldes Blis
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19 Dec
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Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 8:00pm
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York, NY
United States
212-864-5400
http://www.symphonyspace.org
info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $46
A script based on Wilde’s correspondence, plays, and short stories (performed by Broadway’s Michael Halling as Oscar Wilde and esteemed Robert Ian Mackenzie as Lord Queensbury) provides a dramatic backdrop for chamber music by French and English composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries including Chausson's masterful Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet, and works by Satie, Elgar, Fauré and Franck in performances by the dynamic Amphion String Quartet, violinist Susie Park, pianist Max Barros and a romping barbershop quartet.
Fresh off its recent Tchaikovsky production at BAM Fisher, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) presents another fully staged theatrical concert interweaving drama and music about one of the most famous trials of the 19th century. Delivered by a top-caliber cast in an intimate setting, The Trial of Oscar Wilde focuses on the tragic shackling, public scrutiny, and subsequent imprisonment of the homosexual playwright/writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
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20 Dec
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Friday, June 20, 2014 at 8:00pm
Trial of Oscar Wilde
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York, NY
United States
212-864-5400
http://www.symphonyspace.org
info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $46
A script based on Wilde’s correspondence, plays, and short stories (performed by Broadway’s Michael Halling as Oscar Wilde and esteemed Robert Ian Mackenzie as Lord Queensbury) provides a dramatic backdrop for chamber music by French and English composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries including Chausson's masterful Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet, and works by Satie, Elgar, Fauré and Franck in performances by the dynamic Amphion String Quartet, violinist Susie Park, pianist Max Barros and a romping barbershop quartet.
Fresh off its recent Tchaikovsky production at BAM Fisher, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) presents another fully staged theatrical concert interweaving drama and music about one of the most famous trials of the 19th century. Delivered by a top-caliber cast in an intimate setting, The Trial of Oscar Wilde focuses on the tragic shackling, public scrutiny, and subsequent imprisonment of the homosexual playwright/writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
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20 Dec
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Friday, June 20, 2014 at 7pm
Elliott Carter, Colin Matthews, Thomas Ades and more
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Alexandra Wood violin, viola
Ulrich Heinen cello
Anthony Robb flute, alto flute
Stuart King clarinet, bass clarinet
Malcolm Wilson piano
Since its formation in 1987, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has given the world première performances of over 150 works and brought many other scores to life in the UK.
The ensemble’s Wigmore Hall programme includes chamber works by BCMG’s two Artists-in-Association, Oliver Knussen and John Woolrich, together with pieces by other composers central to contemporary classical music’s development. Elliott Carter’s piano trio Epigrams, first performed by BCMG at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, is introduced to London, framed by Colin Matthews’s Berceuse for Elliott, written shortly after Carter’s death, and Hans Werner Henze’s hauntingly beautiful serenade for violin, cello and piano, Adagio adagio.
Oliver Knussen : Upon one note
Gerald Barry : Aeneas and Dido
Peter Maxwell Davies : Unbroken Circle
Tansy Davies : Undertow
Aldo Clementi : Berceuse
Philip Cashian : Caprichos
Hans Werne Henze : Adagio Adagio
Elliott Carter : Epigrams
Colin Matthews : Berceuse for Elliott
John Woolrich : In the Mirrors of Asleep
Thomas Ades : Court Studies
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21 Dec
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Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 7.00pm
Tilt
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F7BB
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10, £7 concessions
Contakt: Paul Burnell (oboe), Karen Burnell (tenor horn), Derek Foster (piano), Molly Wilcock (violin), Kerry Andrew (cello), Deborah Edwards (piano)
Contakt, composer/performer ensemble of contemporary experimental music, present a concert of music for the summer solstice.
Arvo Part : Spiegel im Spiegel
Howard Skempton : Sotto Voce
Howard Skempton : Wedding Tune
John White : The Drinking and Hooting Machine
Philip Glass : Two Pages
Paul Burnell : Three Opaques
Ann Wolff : Moonshine
Ann Wolff : Tough on Time
Derek Foster : Midsummer Night Extreme
Kerry Andrews : As it falls
Deborah Broderick Edwards : Rotations
Deborah Broderick Edwards : Over the heel stone
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21 Dec
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Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 7:00PM
Home Place
Broadway Theatre Center
158 N Broadway
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/home-place.aspx
Tickets: $35, $25, $15
For Present Music’s season finale, this community inspired event will reunite Milwaukee Opera Theatre with Present Music for an exploration of home and place in Home Place, June 21 at 7:00pm, at the Broadway Theatre Center. The Present Music Ensemble will perform Shelter, (composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Gordon), accompanied by a film by Bill Morrison, and Aheym (Bryce Dessner). This event will include a performance of original music and art by students and seniors in Milwaukee.
Bryce Dessner : Aheym
David Lang : Shelter
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21 Dec
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Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 2:00pm
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York, NY
United States
212-864-5400
http://www.symphonyspace.org
info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $46
A script based on Wilde’s correspondence, plays, and short stories (performed by Broadway’s Michael Halling as Oscar Wilde and esteemed Robert Ian Mackenzie as Lord Queensbury) provides a dramatic backdrop for chamber music by French and English composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries including Chausson's masterful Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet, and works by Satie, Elgar, Fauré and Franck in performances by the dynamic Amphion String Quartet, violinist Susie Park, pianist Max Barros and a romping barbershop quartet.
Fresh off its recent Tchaikovsky production at BAM Fisher, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) presents another fully staged theatrical concert interweaving drama and music about one of the most famous trials of the 19th century. Delivered by a top-caliber cast in an intimate setting, The Trial of Oscar Wilde focuses on the tragic shackling, public scrutiny, and subsequent imprisonment of the homosexual playwright/writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
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21 Dec
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Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 8:00pm
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York, NY
United States
212-864-5400
http://www.symphonyspace.org
info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $46
A script based on Wilde’s correspondence, plays, and short stories (performed by Broadway’s Michael Halling as Oscar Wilde and esteemed Robert Ian Mackenzie as Lord Queensbury) provides a dramatic backdrop for chamber music by French and English composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries including Chausson's masterful Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet, and works by Satie, Elgar, Fauré and Franck in performances by the dynamic Amphion String Quartet, violinist Susie Park, pianist Max Barros and a romping barbershop quartet.
Fresh off its recent Tchaikovsky production at BAM Fisher, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) presents another fully staged theatrical concert interweaving drama and music about one of the most famous trials of the 19th century. Delivered by a top-caliber cast in an intimate setting, The Trial of Oscar Wilde focuses on the tragic shackling, public scrutiny, and subsequent imprisonment of the homosexual playwright/writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 7:30pm
Guitar Virtuoso Kaki King + ETHEL Join Forces 6/24
World Financial Center
New York
United States
Tickets: Free
Kaki King (guitar)
ETHEL string quartet
Acclaimed new-classic string quartet, ETHEL, and groundbreaking guitarist KAKI KING, today announced a multi-city national tour of their debut collaborative concert “...And Other Stories.” These prolific non-conformists celebrate their disparate sound worlds in an epic strings/guitar exchange filled with brilliant instrumental flair, rich sonic adventures and flights of fantastic storytelling.
Kaki King : Great Round Burn
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Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 7.30pm
Soundhub Showcase
Jerwood Hall
London
United Kingdom
LSO
Soundhub Showcase
Soundhub, the Orchestra’s initiative to support up-and-coming composers across a wide range of musical genres, showcases extracts from the latest projects at LSO St Luke’s.
First-year Soundhub composers Maxim Boon, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Laurence Osborn, Helen Papaioannou, Robert Szymanek and Laurence Tompkins have spent the year pushing their work in unexpected directions. When music meets film, theatre and technology, audiences should expect an eclectic and horizon-broadening evening!
Contemporary Composers : Various
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29 Dec
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Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 3pm
The Hallé Once upon a time ...
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Manchester M1 5HA
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Stephen Bell conductor | Hallé Children’s Choir | Greater Manchester Music Hub Junior Choir | Actors from the Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre
As delightful as they are dark, fairy tales fire the imaginations of every generation. Composers have never been able to resist their appeal. Here the Hallé offers an enchanting afternoon which opens with the overture to Humperdinck’s ginger-bread opera, 'Hansel and Gretel', and includes music from Ravel’s 'Mother Goose'.
Coming right up to date, there will be a premiere of a new piece based on Hans Christian Andersen’s 'The Wild Swans' – written specially for the Hallé Children’s Choir, featuring young actors from Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as over 200 young singers from Greater Manchester.
Engelbert Humperdinck : Hansel and Gretel Overture
Maurice Ravel : Mother Goose: Suite
Lin Marsh : The Wild Swans
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Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Mozart, Beamish, Cashian
Pitville Pump Room, Cheltenham
United Kingdom
http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk
NEW LONDON CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Mozart and Machines could be the subtitle to this intriguing programme of music for wind instruments. Beginning with arrangements for wind quintet of works that Mozart wrote originally for mechanical organ and glass harmonica, it ends with the beloved Serenade for 13 winds (well, actually 12 winds and double bass). Philip Cashian’s rhythmic, witty work takes its inspiration from another mechanical curiosity, Settala’s Machine, a 17th century mechanical devil.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Andante for mechanical organ (arr. Cashian)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Adagio for glass harmonica (arr. Beamish)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Adagio/Allegro for mechanical organ (arr. Butler)
Philip Cashian : Dectet ‘Settala’s Machine’
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Serenade No 10 ‘Gran Partita’
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Friday, July 4, 2014 at 10:00PM - 11:15PM
DIFFERENT TRAINS
Parabola Arts Centre
Parabola Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 3AA
United Kingdom
+44 1242 707338
http://www.parabolaartscentre.co.uk
THE SMITH QUARTET
JOBY BURGESS PERCUSSION
Memory and reflection run through this evening of rhythmic, dancing music. Reich’s powerful, haunting Different Trains weaves the recorded recollections of Pullman Porters, a 1940s nanny and holocaust survivors through the colours of the string quartet, while Martland’s work for marimba and quartet dances through memories of Africa beneath a starry sky.
Steve Martland : Starry Night
Steve Reich : Different Trains
Graham Fitkin : new quintet
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Saturday, July 5, 2014 at 9:30PM - 11:30PM
THE WILL GREGORY MOOG ENSEMBLE
Parabola Arts Centre
Parabola Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 3AA
United Kingdom
+44 1242 707338
http://www.parabolaartscentre.co.uk
50 years after Robert Moog first presented his monophonic synthesizer to the world, Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory brings together no fewer than 10 Moogs on stage.
With a lineup including composer Graham Fitkin and Portishead’s Adrian Utley, the Ensemble performs Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No 3, excerpts from John Carpenter’s sci-fi fantasy Escape From New York and a new piece by Gregory featuring a specially developed device that synchronises the synths together like a huge player piano. The second half features a score by Will Gregory played live to a poignant film The Service Of Tim Henman.
The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble first performed together in 2005 as part of the Bath Festival, recreating some of the ‘Switched on Bach’ arrangements of Wendy Carlos in the Seventies. As one half of the electronic music sensation Goldfrapp, the keyboard-player and composer Will Gregory is one of the UK’s leading advocates of using synthesizers and electronic instruments to create new sounds and reinvent old ones. The band perform a mixture of specially composed music, transcriptions of classical works, and their own versions of music from popular culture and film scores.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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