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Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 7pm
David Philip Hefti Premiere
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Germany
0431-23 70 70
http://www.shmf.de/en/Home
Baiba Skride, Violin
Lauma Skride, Piano
Since 1990, the Paul Hindemith Prize has been awarded every year as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. The prize is awarded to and intended to promote exceptional young composers of contemporary music. At the same time, the prize honors the music educator, Paul Hindemith, who was commissioned in 1932 to compose the "Plöner Musiktag" work for the State Education Board in Plön. Past prize winners include Lera Auerbach (2005), Michel van der Aa (2006), Dai Fujikura (2007), Márton Illés (2008), Johannes Maria Staud (2009), Sascha Lino Lemke (2010), Markus Lehmann-Horn (2011), Li Bo (2012), Maximilian Schnaus (2013) and Bernd Richard Deutsch (2014). In 2015 the Swiss composer David Philip Hefti was awared. At the same time he obtained the commission to compose a new work for the SHMF, which will be premiered by the renowned Latvian sisters Baiba and Lauma Skride . In addition, works composed by Paul Hindemith and the new prizewinner will also be played.
David Philip Hefti : Poème noctambule for violine and piano
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 9.30pm
A NIGHT FOR CREATION
Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Benjamin de la Fuente sets the tone for this one-off evening with a work in an unusual format. Playing on different perceptions of sound, from electronic music to chamber music, this versatile artist is particularly alive to the subtle notions of “gesture” and musical invention. Echoing this world premiere, creations by today’s composers complete the program, highlighting the richness and diversity of the contemporary repertoire. Ever eager to support and promote contemporary creation, the Académie is teaming up with SACEM to commission new works from young composers. In a world premiere, they are interpreted by former Académie artists.
Benjamin de la Fuente : Piece for two string quartets, drums and recorded voice
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Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 8pm
Sally Beamish Showcase
Cheltenham Festival
United Kingdom
Red Note Ensemble
Crawford Logan actor
Hailing from Scotland, like Sally Beamish herself, the outstanding Red Note Ensemble comes to Cheltenham with a 60th birthday tribute to this ever-distinctive composer. The Sins is a semi-theatrical work for actor and ensemble, taking as its starting point a new translation by Phil Hind of the ‘seven deadly sins’ section from Langland’s 14th century narrative poem Piers Plowman. Modern and medieval allegories merge powerfully with Beamish’s own emotionally vivid language.
Sally Beamish : Commedia
Sally Beamish : Piobaireachd for piano
Sally Beamish : The Sins
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Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 3.30pm
Howells and Lancaster
Three Choirs Festival
Three Choirs Festival Association 7c College Green Gloucester GL1 2LX
United Kingdom
01452 768928
http://www.3choirs.org
Anna Gillingham soprano
Juliet Curnow contralto
Peter Harris tenor
James Geidt baritone
St Cecilia Singers
The Bristol Ensemble
Jonathan Hope conductor
3.30 pm Cirencester Parish Church
£27, £22
A coach will depart from Lower Westgate Street at 2.15 pm. Ticket £9 return
Philip Lancaster's new War Passion for chamber choir and ensemble is a telling of the Passion story interspersed with words by nine First World War poets, offering both a commentary on the Passion and a parallel narrative recounting the experience and sacrifice of that war. It is paired with the searing Requiem by Herbert Howells, inspired by the death from polio of the composer's nine-year-old son Michael.
Herbert Howells : Requiem
Philip Lancaster : War Passion
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 7pm
Michael Berkeley Premiere
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Paul Dukas’s brief, intoxicating ballet La Péri opens tonight’s Prom, before Chloë Hanslip gives the world premiere of a new Violin Concerto by Michael Berkeley.
Jac van Steen conducts excerpts from one of the most dramatic and colourfully scored of all ballets, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, a highlight of our series marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare.
Chloë Hanslip violin
Diego Espinosa tabla
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen conductor
Paul Dukas : La Péri – Fanfare
Michael Berkeley : Violin Concerto
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo and Juliet
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28 Dec
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28 Dec
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Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 7pm
The Exterminating Angel
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at
With its fusion of realistic, surreal and religious elements, El ángel exterminador constitutes a summa of Buñuel’s oeuvre prior to his late French works. Thomas Adès has chosen the film as the basis for his third opera: ‘It’s territory that I like very much because it looks as though the people are in a room, but it’s not really about the room, they’re actually trapped in their own heads.’ The enclosed, self-contained situation links the subject with both of Adès’s earlier works for the stage: with the hotel room of the Duchess of Argyll in his chamber opera Powder Her Face (1995), described in a recent article in the Observer as already having the status of a modern classic, and with Prospero’s island in the Shakespeare-based opera The Tempest, which since its first performance in London in 2004 has also impressed audiences at the Met, the Vienna State Opera and other houses, further cementing Adès’s reputation as one of today’s most exciting (opera) composers. The librettist of The Exterminating Angel, Tom Cairns, who is also directing the premiere, has reduced the twenty-one main characters of Buñuel’s film to fifteen by merging a number of figures, still an astonishing number of protagonists, making The Exterminating Angel a true ensemble opera. In musical terms this means that it will deal less with the psychology of the individual figures than express the often abrupt changes in emotional temperature of the communication and human relationships, realizing individual and collective moods. ‘Particularly in opera, you have to deal with the creation of atmos-phere, of emotional atmosphere’, emphasizes Adès; however, this atmosphere should not have the character of decorative accompaniment but arise directly from the musical fabric. The fact that the situations in The Exterminating Angel constantly tip over into the absurd and surreal makes the story all the more attractive for Adès: the musicologist Richard Taruskin had already called him ‘a surrealist composer’ in 1999, and Tom Service, a writer on music intimately familiar with Adès’s works, admires how the composer casts even very familiar musical ingredients – major and minor chords, say, or sequences of simple intervals – in a wholly new light, making them sound ‘rich and strange’.
SCHEDULE
July 28, 2016 19:00:00
August 01, 2016 19:00:00
August 05, 2016 19:00:00
August 08, 2016 19:00:00
Thomas Ades : The Exterminating Angel
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Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 3.45pm
Aurora Orchestra – Wolfgang Rihm, Strauss and Mozart
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
François Leleux oboe
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
Tom Service presenter
It’s difficult to imagine how Mozart could have followed his final symphony, the ‘Jupiter’ – a work of such scale, majesty and intensity. Tom Service and Nicholas Collon unpick Mozart’s continuous stream of joy and invention, allowing us to get under the skin of this great work, which the Aurora Orchestra plays from memory.
Before it, one of the world’s leading oboists, François Leleux, plays Strauss’s twisting, singing Oboe Concerto – itself preceded by Wolfgang Rihm’s Hunted Form, whose animal energy suggests a pursuit more physical than a search merely for musical structure.
Wolfgang Rihm : Gejagte Form
Richard Strauss : Oboe Concerto in D major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony No 41 in C major, 'Jupiter'
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CERHA UND KURTÁG
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at
Thomas Adès, Piano
Calder Quartet
Benjamin Jacobson, Violin
Andrew Bulbrook, Violin
Jonathan Moerschel, Viola
Eric Byers, Cello
Thomas Ades : Piano Quintet
Gyorgy Kurtag : 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 44
Thomas Ades : Arcadiana
Franz Schubert : String Quartet No. 14 in D minor
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Friday, August 5, 2016 at 7.30pm
National Youth Orchestra of Wales
St David's Hall
Cardiff
United Kingdom
National Youth Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
This year the oldest national youth orchestra in the world celebrates 70 years of first class music making, and returns to St David's Hall for this its final concert of the 2016 tour, once again showcasing the fantastic talent of its members. Carlo Rizzi conducts the Orchestra in a wonderful programme which includes a specially written piece by NYOW Alumnus Gareth Wood in celebration of this incredible milestone anniversary.
Gareth Wood : A Fanfare for Our Youth
Béla Bartók : Concerto for Orchestra
Richard Strauss : Ein Heldenleben
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Friday, August 5, 2016 at 1pm
National Youth Orchestra of Wales - Young Composers
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
Chamber ensembles of NYOW players
Young Composers is the latest addition to the National Youth Arts Wales family and features some of Wales' most exciting creative young talent.
In this lunchtime concert the composers present their brand new music, written during the preceding residency specifically for and performed by chamber ensembles of NYOW players.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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Friday, August 5, 2016 at 7.30pm
NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Edward Gardner conductor
Open your ears to the music of the universe as the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers embarks on a voyage back through a century of space discovery.
The journey begins with Gravitational Waves by German composer Iris ter Schiphorst. This is music for the here and now, for the beginning of a new era in astronomy. Fasten your seat belts and prepare for a thrilling ride to new musical frontiers as the original sound of the gravitational wave echoes through the orchestra and individual players gradually become one united force.
Next are two of classical music’s must-hear pieces: Strauss’sAlso Sprach Zarathustra, with its glorious, spine-tingling opening fanfare made famous by Stanley Kubrik’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Holst’sThe Planets completed by Colin Matthews’ Pluto:The Renewer. This music never fails to stir the emotions with its huge melodies and luscious harmonies and in the hands of these young musicians, it will fizz with an explosive, barely containable energy.
The countdown is on - join us for a fearless, totally teenage cosmic adventure.
Richard Strauss : Also Sprach Zarathustra
Gustav Holst : The Planets
Iris ter Schiphorst : Gravitational Waves
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