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2 Mar



Austria
 Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7.30pm 
ENSEMBLE KONTRAPUNKTE
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at



Ensemble Kontrapunkte
Peter Keuschnig, Dirigent


Judith Unterpertinger : MIND THE GAP
Norbert Sterk : Mandragora (Uraufführung)
Gerhard Schedl : Short cuts. Concertino für Klarinette und Kammerensemble
Manuela Kerer : Aneddoto für acht Instrumente
Shih . : Die Überquerung des Flusses nach Marguerite Duras
Gernot Wolfgang : Mr. Z. In Erinnerung an Joe Zawinul

2 Mar



Wales
 Monday, December 2, 2013 at 2pm 
Americana with Carlos Kalmar
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales

Tickets: £9 - 12
Conductor Carlos Kalmar
Flute Adam Walker

BBCNOW

The infectious Mexican rhythms of Copland’s El Salon Mexico entranced a generation of Americans, including Leonard Bernstein, whose Halil, for flute and orchestra, was composed in memory of an Israeli flautist killed in war. On a lighter note experience Walter Piston’s classic ballet, The Incredible Flutist, and Randall Thompson’s intrinsically rhythmic Second Symphony.

Aaron Copland : El Salon Mexico
Randall Thompon : Symphony No 2
Leonard Bernstein : Halil
Walter Piston : The Incredible Flutist
Howard Hanson : Elegy

3 Mar



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Heath Quartet plays Tippett
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £15-£30
Mark Padmore
tenor
James Baillieu
piano

A visionary artist who probed deep into the human psyche, Michael Tippett sought to unite apparently conflicting styles and celebrate the vast energy of cultural diversity in his music.
Wigmore Hall’s Tippett Series marks the fifteenth anniversary of the composer’s death with a retrospective survey of works central to his creative development, opening with the Beethoven-inspired first string quartet and exploring the cantata Boyhood’s End, first performed at Morley College in 1943 by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten.


Michael Tippett : String Quartet No. 1
Michael Tippett : The Heart’s Assurance
Michael Tippett : Boyhood’s End
Michael Tippett : String Quartet No. 3

3 Mar



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 8pm 
Benslow Music WinterFest Series
Benslow Music, Peter Morrison Hall
Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 9RB
United Kingdom
01462 459446
http://www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=13
info@benslowmusic.org

Tickets: £12 (free entry for full time students and young people)
The London Klezmer Quartet - www.londonklezmerquartet.com

Box Office: 01462 459446


4 Mar



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 2pm 
Afternoon on 3: The Great American Songbook
The Mermaid
Puddle Dock Blackfriars, London EC4V 3DB
United Kingdom

Kitty Whately soprano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth conductor

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra, their Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth and BBC Radio 3 New Generation artist Kitty Whately as they celebrate the Great American Songbook.

Hear avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor George Antheil's ‘American' Symphony alongside Aaron Copland's popular suite from his music to Appalachian Spring and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's orchestral version of the Lilliburlero Variations.

Kitty Whately joins the orchestra to perform favourites from the Great American Songbook including songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern from Carousel, The King and I, Kiss Me Kate and Show Boat.


Georges Antheil : Symphony No.3 'American'
Aaron Copland : Appalachian Spring: Suite
Richard Rodney Bennett : Lilliburlero Variations

5 Mar



United Kingdom
 Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Rolf Hind, piano
Barbican, Milton Concert Hall
Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS, UK
United Kingdom
tickets@barbican.org.uk

Tickets: £15
Rolf Hind, piano

The Guildhall School's series of exclusive performances by senior professors and their colleagues gives public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country's finest musicians perform in the stunning new Milton Court Concert Hall.

Per Nørgård : Turn
Rolf Hind : A single hair, a jasmine petal, seven mattresses, a pea
John Adams : Phrygian Gates
Mark Simpson : Barkham Fantasy
Helmut Lachenmann : Serynade

6 Mar



United Kingdom
 Friday, December 6, 2013 at 8pm 
Benslow Music WinterFest Series
Benslow Music, Peter Morrison Hall
Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 9RB
United Kingdom
01462 459446
http://www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=13
info@benslowmusic.org

Tickets: £12 (free entry for full time students and young people)
The Bingham String Quartet
www.stevebingham.co.uk/bsq.htm

Box Office: 01462 459446


6 Mar



United Kingdom
 Friday, December 6, 2013 at 8pm 
Haas: in vain
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Tickets: £10/£20
Emilio Pomàrico conductor
London Sinfonietta

“How to describe it? An astonishing work of art that has become a cult wherever it is played. One of the first great masterpieces of the C21st.”
Sir Simon Rattle

Premiered in 2000 and now receiving its much-awaited premiere in London, Haas’ in vain is an extraordinary work of contradictions and juxtapositions, exploring a heightened sensory world where darkness and light collide. Written in protest to the rise of the far-right Freedom Party in the 1999 Austrian elections, in vain hints at a frightening world where dark, unnatural forces are at work. As familiar harmonies meet microtonal systems, Haas evokes an otherworldly realm that oscillates between the past and the present, between clarity and dystopia. Performed partly in complete darkness, in vain transforms the concert hall into a mysterious new landscape, where you must trust your ears and relinquish your sight.


Georg Friedrich Haas : in vain

6 Mar



United Kingdom
 Friday, December 6, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Juanjo Mena and Colin Currie
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Manchester M1 5HA
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Tickets: £35 - £10
Juanjo Mena Conductor
Colin Currie Percussion

It's all about rhythm. Musical revolutions in Manchester have always started on the dancefloor, and whether it's the punchy latin rhythms of Turina's flamboyant ballet, or the young Thomas Adès These Premises Are Alarmed commissioned for the opening of The Bridgewater Hall, Juanjo Mena knows exactly how to get a party started.

John Adams blasts musical theory right out of the classroom in the outrageous Slonimsky's Earbox, percussion virtuoso Colin Currie performs a concerto by our very own HK "Nali" Gruber, and the BBC Philharmonic adventure through the bareback thrills of Ginastera's exuberant cowboy ballet. Hold tight: the future has never sounded so much fun.


Joaquín Turina : Ritmos
HK Gruber : Rough Music
Thomas Ades : These premises are alarmed
John Adams : Slonimsky's Earbox
Alberto Ginastera : Estancia

6 Mar



United Kingdom
 Friday, December 6, 2013 at 2pm 
Studio Concert: Gershwin & Bernstein
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227

Tickets: Free
Joshua Weilerstein conductor
Martin Roscoe piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a feast of all-American works from the twentieth century. The overture for Barber’s first work for orchestra, The School for a Scandal, reflecting Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic play, opens the concert with a flourish. Premiered in 1933, the work won Barber a Bearns Prize from Columbia University as well as instant national recognition.

Two giants of the American stage also feature here. Pianist Martin Roscoe joins the orchestra for Gershwin’s playful and melodious Piano Concerto, which was published just a year after Rhapsody in Blue, in 1925. The inimitable dances from Bernstein’s 1957 Broadway hit West Side Story complete the programme in style, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.


Samuel Barber : The School for Scandal – Overture
George Gershwin : Piano Concerto
Leonard Bernstein : West Side Story - Symphonic Dances

7 Mar 
 
8 Mar



United Kingdom
 Sunday, December 8, 2013 at Starts at midday 
FESTIVAL-IN-A-DAY
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Tickets: £20 day ticket
London Sinfonietta

Falling on the last weekend of Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest Is Noise festival, we bring their story bang up to date with four sets of brand new music from today's most cutting edge composers. Twelve world premieres include major London Sinfonietta commissions from Edmund Finnis and Francisco Coll, alongside UK premieres of works by Rebecca Saunders and Simon Steen-Andersen.

For more information: http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/event/new-music-show


Contemporary Composers : Various

8 Mar



United States
 Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 7:30pm 
Pianist Aleck Karis Performs Late Works of Morton Feldman 12/8
Merkin Concert Hall, The Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street, NY, NY
United States
212.501.3330
http://kaufman-center.org/mch

Tickets: $20
Pianist Aleck Karis
featuring special guest artists Curt Macomber (violin), Danielle Farina (viola) and Chris Finckel (cello).

Pianist Aleck Karis presents a one-night only concert dedicated to late works of the iconoclastic composer Morton Feldman. As an extension of Karis’s latest album Wolpe, Feldman & Webern (Bridge Records), this performance casts the composer in a fresh light by showcasing music written by Feldman’s teacher, Stefan Wolpe, as well as Wolpe’s teacher, Anton Webern. Program opens with solo piano works including Feldman’s Piano and Palais de Mari juxtaposed with Wolpe’s Form, Form IV and Webern’s Piano Variations, culminating with Feldman’s Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello featuring special guest artists Curt Macomber (violin), Danielle Farina (viola) and Chris Finckel (cello).

Morton Feldman : Palais de mari
Morton Feldman : Piano
Stefan Wolpe : Form
Stefan Wolpe : Form IV
Anton Webern : Piano Variations
Morton Feldman : Piano, Violin, Viola Cello

9 Mar



France
 Monday, December 9, 2013 at 8pm 
Trio
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris

France

Tickets: 14€ | 10€ | 5€
In 1944, a year before his death, Bartók composed an immense sonata for violin has no equal since the sonatas by Bach. Song, polyphonic density, large forms. The final Liszt is the opposite of a miniature, of harmonic ambiguity, and of the premonition in 1883 of a tonal world in decomposition.
Three exceptional musicians brought together by the composer Marc Monnet summon these pivotal works around the creation of an unfaithful disciple of Kagel. In his critical passion of electronics, Monnet prefers the rapidity of instrumental gesture to a display of a pirouetting fiction of technology.

Tedi Papavrami violin
François-Frédéric Guy piano
Xavier Phillips cello
IRCAM Computer Music Design Carlo Laurenzi


Franz Liszt : Pensées des morts (extract from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
Marc Monnet : Trio n°3
Marc Monnet : Imaginary Travel
Béla Bartók : Sonata for Solo Violin

9 Mar



United Kingdom
 Monday, December 9, 2013 at 1pm 
Mark Simpson clarinet; Richard Uttley piano
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £12.50
Mark Simpson
clarinet
Richard Uttley
piano

Mark Simpson, born in Liverpool in 1988, was only seventeen when he became the first person to win both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the BBC Proms /Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions.
He was subsequently commissioned to write the opening work for the 2012 Last Night of the Proms and joined BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme as a clarinettist.


Herbert Howells : Clarinet Sonata
Gavin Higgins : Three Broken Love Songs
Johannes Brahms : Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

10 Mar



Austria
 Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 7.30pm 
ALTENBERG TRIO
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at

Tickets: 5-41 Euros
ALTENBERG TRIO



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Trio für Klavier, Violine und Violoncello E-Dur, KV 542
Henryk Gorecki : Sechs Bagatellen
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Trio für Klavier, Violine und Violoncello a-Moll, op. 50

11 Mar



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 8pm 
Benslow Music WinterFest Series
Benslow Music, Peter Morrison Hall
Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 9RB
United Kingdom
01462 459446
http://www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=13
info@benslowmusic.org

Tickets: £12 (free entry for full time students and young people)
The Tedesca Quartet
www.tedesca.co.uk

Box office: 01462 459446


12 Mar



Scotland
 Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 7.30pm 
John Adams: City Noir
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland

Tickets: £11-£24
James Ehnes violin
Donald Runnicles conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

It's one of the most talked-about new scores of recent years. And there's absolutely nothing minimal about John Adams's City Noir, a sassy, bluesy symphony of Los Angeles, inspired by classic movies and scored for a Mahler-size orchestra. This is music that demands to be heard, and Donald Runnicles has set it alongside the dazzling rightness of Beethoven's headlong Fourth Symphony and the ominous twilight of Shostakovich's tormented First Violin Concerto, performed here by James Ehnes - whose "indelible, intellectually gripping" Shostakovich performances have left critics reeling. Three masterworks from three centuries, each speaking to the other - and, more importantly, to us: right here and right now.

Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No.4
Dmitri Shostakovich : Violin Concerto No.1
John Adams : City Noir

13 Mar 
 

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