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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 12pm 
Brett Dean Gertrude Fragments
Buxton Festival
3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ
United Kingdom
01298 70395
http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/
lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk

Andrey Lebedev, guitar; Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano



Both these exciting artists are already much travelled, and not only because they hail from Australia but have now settled in London, although Andrey moved there shortly after his birth in Moscow. The pairing of Mezzo-Soprano with Guitar has produced a programme full of exquisite delicacy, combining music from 4 composers all of whom had an exceptional innate sympathy with both guitar and the voice. Both artists share a passion for breaking boundaries across repertoire, which is both refreshing and inspirational. They have found connections such as between Britten and Dowland, and Brett Dean is without doubt one of the most successful and accessible of today’s composers.



John Dowland : Selection of lute songs arranged for voice and guitar
Benjamin Britten : Folksong Arrangements for voice and guitar
Brett Dean : Gertrude Fragments
Manuel de Falla : Canciones Populares Espanolas

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United Kingdom
 Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 6pm 
Ryan Wigglesworth Premiere
Cheltenham Festival

United Kingdom

The Hallé
Roderick Williams baritone
Jonathon Heyward conductor

Hailed by Mark Elder as ‘a bright rising star’, American conductor Jonathon Heyward takes to the Town Hall stage with one of the Music Festival’s long-standing favourites, The Hallé.

Alongside one of the most beloved of romantic symphonies, and Mahler’s ‘songs of a wayfarer’ performed by captivating baritone Roderick Williams, Ryan Wigglesworth’s new work is inspired by themes from his 2017 opera for ENO, The Winter’s Tale, and is a co-commission with The Hallé, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Bergen Philharmonic.



Ryan Wigglesworth : Clocks from a Winter’s Tale
Gustav Mahler : Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Symphony No 4

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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 7.30pm 
John Casken Kokoschka’s Doll
Buxton Festival
3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ
United Kingdom
01298 70395
http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/
lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk

Sir John Tomlinson, bass-baritone/ speaker; Rozanna Madylus, mezzo-soprano



The Art of Love Alma Mahler’s Life and Music: a sequence incorporating music by Alma and Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Webern and Wagner

John Casken Kokoschka’s Doll (text by John Casken and Barry Millington)

From the middle of the 20th century onwards a fascination with Gustav Mahler’s music has gone hand in hand with exploration of his unique tortured sensibilities, and been coloured by his emotionally turbulent marriage to the extraordinary Alma Schindler. This imaginative programme, characteristic of Counterpoise’s keen focus on the blend of words with music in heightened dramatic settings, looks at Alma’s intense relationship with her husband, his music and that of his contemporaries, and brings a newly commissioned work for Sir John Tomlinson by the eminent composer John Casken. Counterpoise’s innovative projects always make for thought provoking and affecting music drama. This new work explores the passionate and overwrought relationship between Alma and expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, promising a moving and striking concert event to remember, with unequivocally one of our generation’s most prominent and well-loved artists.



John Casken : Kokoschka’s Doll

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United Kingdom
 Monday, July 24, 2017 at 3pm 
Paradise Remembered
Three Choirs Festival
Three Choirs Festival Association 7c College Green Gloucester GL1 2LX
United Kingdom
01452 768928
http://www.3choirs.org

Voice vocal trio
Matthew Sharp cello (baritone)

This concert takes its title from the autobiography of Ursula Vaughan
Williams, whose life and poetry provides
a programmatic thread. Performed and arranged by female vocal trio Voice and
‘cellist Matthew Sharp, songs of myth and memory celebrate Vaughan Williams’ (and lifelong friend Holst’s) enthusiasm for English folksong. At the heart of this programme
is a new suite of madrigals, Silence and
Music, composed for the quartet by Roderick Williams, setting Ursula Vaughan Williams’ poetry. The composer will give a short introduction to the piece and the ‘subtle, sensuous music’ of the poetry that inspired him.


Filipe Sousa : Like As the Waves
James Francis Brown : Rough Magic
Vaughan Williams : Lovely Joan; Early in the Spring; She’s Like the Swallow
Gustav Holst : I Love my Love; O Swallow, Swallow; In Youth Is Pleasure; Eight Canons
Giovanni Sollima : Lamentatio
Roderick Williams : Silence and Music

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United Kingdom
 Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 9.15pm 
ID Please
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
Various, London
United Kingdom
www.tete-a-tete.org.uk

Music | Soosan Lolavar
Words | Daniel Hirsch
Director | Stephen M Eckert
Conductor | Daniel Nesta Curtis

Media Design | Jessica Medenbach
Costume Design | Nina Bova
Scenic Design | Caitlin Ayer

Border Agent | Robbie Raso
Female Traveller | Shannyn Rinker
Male Traveller | Patrick Dailey


ID, Please is an opera for the age of Brexit and Trump, set at border control and exploring themes of immigration, identity and xenophobia. The work took on new relevance when its British-Iranian composer was almost prevented from attending rehearsals in the US as part of the first ‘Muslim Ban’.


Soosan Lolavar : ID Please

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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 7pm 
The United Kingdom of Earth: A Brexit Opera
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
Various, London
United Kingdom
www.tete-a-tete.org.uk

Music & Words | Dominic Robertson
Director | Dominic Robertson


In a not-too-distant future, following some nuclear-misunderstanding the isolated island managed to avoid, a post-Brexit Britain finds itself surrounded by nothing but scorched earth. How do people from the everyday family home to the corridors of power cope with this? And what on earth is Boris doing in Downing Street in a tie-dye suit?


Dominic Robertson : The United Kingdom of Earth: A Brexit Opera

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United Kingdom
 Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Mozart and Brahms
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its Artistic Director Paavo Järvi return to the Proms, joined by British violist Lawrence Power and Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Mozart’s genial Sinfonia concertante. Sitting somewhere between a concerto and a symphony, it’s a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of this ensemble and its sunny good humour offers a striking contrast to Erkki-Sven Tüür’s arresting Flamma – a vivid musical portrait of fire as both purifying force and agent of destruction.

Smoke clears and sunshine returns in Brahms’s optimistic Second Symphony, with its free-flowing melodies and irrepressible closing dance.


Erkki-Sven Tuur : Flamma
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 364
Johannes Brahms : Symphony No 2 in D major

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United Kingdom
 Saturday, August 5, 2017 at 7.30pm 
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com

NYOGB

Hear the UK’s finest young musical talent in a vibrant programme conducted by Thomas Adès. Two vast sonic soundscapes open a programme that climaxes in Stravinsky’s thrilling The Rite of Spring, with its frenzied rhythms and provocative harmonies.

Francisco Coll : Mural
Thomas Ades : Polaris
Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring

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