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1 Mar
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Thursday, March 01, 2012 at 7.30pm
The Death of Klinghoffer
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
ENO
Following highly successful productions of John Adams’s Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, ENO presents the London stage premiere of the American composer’s controversial ‘docu-opera’ about the killing of a Jewish-American tourist during the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Palestinian militants.
Alice Goodman’s eloquently poetic and dispassionately even-handed libretto mixes Biblical and Koranic references with real and imagined accounts of what happened on board. Adams’s intensely expressive score captures the private thoughts and emotions of individuals caught up in the complexities of a political and religious conflict that still defies solution. More of a meditation in the style of a Bach Passion than a conventional operatic drama, the result is an utterly compelling and unique piece of theatre.
Tom Morris, co-director of the National Theatre’s War Horse, makes his opera directing debut, while Baldur Brönnimann, who conducted ENO’s Lost Highway and Le Grand Macabre, applies his contemporary expertise to what many regard as Adams’s finest opera.
NB: Additional performances on 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th March
John Adams : The Death of Klinghoffer
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2 Mar
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Friday, March 02, 2012 at 7.30pm
BCMG Chamber Players
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc
Flute: Marie-Christine Zupancic
Clarinet: Timothy Lines
Piano: Malcolm Wilson
Violin: Alexandra Wood
Cello: Ulrich Heinen
Despite its chamber scale – this programme contains an embarrassment of riches, a lucky dip of superbly crafted chamber pieces from the last 30 years, full of contrast, some tiny, some substantial, performed by a crack quintet of BCMG soloists.
Some of these works are memorials or tributes; many of them use forms or techniques from music of the past – fugues, chaconnes, canons, inventions; some come from a fascination with past composers. Knussen’s Upon One Note distorts the rhythms and pitches of Purcell’s five part fantasia; Barry’s two minute Aeneas and Dido revisits Purcell’s opera as the composer “felt that Aeneas needed to be given his due”; Machaut can be found lurking behind Birtwistle’s Double Hocket; whilst Philip Cashian’s blistering Caprichos explores the dark, nightmarish world depicted in Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos etchings.
The performance of Aldo Clementi’s Berceuse is a tribute in itself – to the last of the great Italian 20th century modernists, who died almost a year ago to the day – 3 March 2011.
The Adès studies condense and refashion music from his acclaimed opera The Tempest into a single movement for four instruments. The result is a kaleidoscopic succession of musical portraits –each depicting a shipwrecked character on Prospero’s island – Antonio, Ferdinand, Alonso and Gonzalo.
Oliver Knussen : Upon one note
Gerald Barry : Aeneas and Dido
Colin Matthews : Elegiac Chaconne
Aldo Clementi : Berceuse
Tansy Davies : Undertow
Philip Cashian : Caprichos
Harrison Birtwistle : Double Hocket
Peter Maxwell Davies : Unbroken Circle
John Woolrich : In the Mirrors of Asleep
John Woolrich : In the Mirrors of Asleep
Franco Donatoni : Het
Thomas Ades : Court Studies from the Tempest
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3 Mar
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3 Mar
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Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 1.40pm prompt
ENO presents John Cage’s Musicircus
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
Celebrating John Cage’s centennial year, and his innovation and philosophy, ENO is the first opera company to create, produce and present the composer’s ‘omnium gatherum’ piece. This exciting free event will take place as part of Music Nation, an official countdown event to the London Festival 2012.
In a promenade experience of spectacular and extraordinary performances throughout the London Coliseum, ENO's Musicircus will feature artists including Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and composer Michael Finnissy alongside ENO Music Director Edward Gardner, the ENO Community Choir, ENO Opera Works singers, and an intriguing collective of professional and amateur talents.
ENO's Musicircus is curated by award winning Proms-commissioned composer Stephen Montague. Montague worked with Cage in Europe for fifteen years, touring with him and premiering several of Cage's works. Visual artist Alex Julyan is Montague's long-term collaborator whose prior projects have included work with Punchdrunk and The Wellcome Trust.
John Cage : Musicircus
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3 Mar
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Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 7.30pm
BBC Philharmonic
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £10.00 - £33.50
BBC Philharmonic
Yutaka Sado conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii piano
Life, liberty and big, big tunes! Maybe it’s the raw energy, maybe it’s those swinging rhythms, maybe it’s the sense of ordinary folk doing extraordinary things, but there’s just something about American music and whether we’re hearing the plain-speaking pioneers of Aaron Copland’s Appalachia, or the high-kicking hustlers of Leonard Bernstein’s New York, it’s unmistakable.
Tis The Gift To Be Simple, Somewhere, Mambo!…you already know how they go. So join the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Yutaka Sado, and come share the American dream. As for Chopin’s dreamy First Piano Concerto, if you heard Nobuyuki Tsujii’s remarkable performances with us last season, you’ll already have experienced the almost magical way he communicates with an audience. Expect eloquence, expect fireworks, and expect some truly extraordinary chemistry as he tackles the most romantic concerto by the supreme keyboard poet.
A Journey Through Music event.
Aaron Copland : Appalachian Spring - Suite
Frederyk Chopin : Piano Concerto No. 1
Leonard Bernstein : Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Leonard Bernstein : West Side Story - Symphonic Dances
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4 Mar
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Sunday, March 04, 2012 at 3.00pm - 4.00 pm
Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble at Blackheath Halls
Blackheath Halls
23 Lee Road, London SE3 9RQ
United Kingdom
020 8463 0100
http://www.blackheathhalls.com
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions
Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble (Panayotis Archontides & Natalie Tsaldarakis, pianists)
Pianists Natalie Tsaldarakis and Panayotis Archontides, who form the husband-and-wife piano team Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble, will present a recital for piano four-hands at Blackheath Halls, London on Sunday 4 March, 2012.
The pianists boast many distinctions, including Panayotis’ Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians 2007, and Natalie’s election to membership of the American National Music Honour Society in 1994. The ensemble has performed hundreds of acclaimed concerts in the UK and abroad in such venues as Sibelius Academy, Athenaeum Concert Hall, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, St James Piccadilly, St John’s Smith Square, Reform Club, Jacqueline du Pre Music Building (Oxford) etc. The duo has also been featured on Greek radio and TV, as well as on London’s Resonance FM (Sound Out with Carole Finer).
Franz Schubert : Characteristic March op.121 no.1
Franz Schubert : Fantasy in F minor
Claude Debussy : Petite Suite
Alex North : Spartacus
John Williams : Monsignor
Miklos Rozsa : Lydia Suite
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4 Mar
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5 Mar
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5 Mar
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Monday, March 05, 2012 at 7:45pm
New Town Concerts Society
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble, amongst our most frequent and welcome visitors over the years, return with a varied programme that highlights the versatility and range of this extraordinary ensemble’s repertoire – from the Horn Quintet, written for the Ensemble by our foremost composer James MacMillan, by way of Brahms at his most romantic to a pinnacle of Dvoøák’s chamber music, his glorious Piano Quintet.
James MacMillan : Horn Quintet
Johannes Brahms : Horn Trio in E flat, Op.40
Antonin Dvorak : Piano Quintet in A, Op.81
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9 Mar
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Friday, March 09, 2012 at 7.30pm
Premiere of 'Music in the Marble'
Royal College of Music, London
Prince Consort Rd, London SW7
United Kingdom
Tickets: £15 / Students £5
Symphonic work in 7 short movements: reactions to 7 sculptures.
City of London Sinfonia
Conducted by Oliver Gilmour
www.boxoffice.rcm.ac.uk / 020 7591 4314
(NB £1.95 booking fee per transaction for online and telephone bookings)
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11 Mar
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12 Mar
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Monday, March 12, 2012 at 7.30pm
Judith Weir: Miss Fortune
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
Tickets: Various
Conductor
Paul Daniel
Tina (Miss Fortune)
Emma Bell
Lord Fortune
Alan Ewing
Lady Fortune
Kathryn Harries
Fate
Andrew Watts
Hassan
Noah Stewart
Donna
Anne-Marie Owens
Simon
Jacques Imbrailo
Chorus
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
The UK premiere of a new opera takes a roller-coaster ride through life in the company of fate. Leading British opera composer Judith Weir transposes the Sicilian folktale Misfortune to today as the daughter of a rich family turns her back on wealth to make her own way in the world – too often with unfortunate results. Not many operas combine great music with breakdancing and a burning kebab van, but Miss Fortune does all this and more under the direction of Chen Shi-Zheng (his spectacular staging of Monkey: Journey to the West was presented at the Royal Opera House in 2008). This new, approachable and engaging opera had its premiere at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2011 and now comes to the Royal Opera stage with the same acclaimed cast – Emma Bell sings the title role and former Jette Parker Young Artist singer Jacques Imbrailo plays her eventual love Simon. Paul Daniel conducts this effective and atmospheric score in a visually beautiful and inventive production whose story is funny, touching, moral and contemporary. Miss Fortune continues the series of high-profile new works of recent years that have included Anna Nicole, The Tempest and The Minotaur. With the added impact of the world-class Royal Opera Chorus Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune is a highlight of this Royal Opera Season.
Judith Weir : Miss Fortune
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13 Mar
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 1.10 pm
A Manchester Mid-day Concert
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £9.00
Richard Uttley, piano
Richard Uttley began piano lessons at the age of nine. He studied with Ian Buckle at the Junior School of the Royal Northern College of Music before reading music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in Music in 2008. His dance-inspired programme contrasts the precision of Bach with the clarity and the deft colours of Debussy. Richard completed his Master’s of Performance (with Distinction) in September 2010 at the Guildhall School of Music in Drama in London, where he studied with Martin Roscoe.
J.S Bach : Partita No.1 in B flat BWV 825
Frederyk Chopin : Five Mazurkas, Op.7
Claude Debussy : Images from Book 1
Thomas Ades : Three Mazurkas, Op.27
Frederyk Chopin : Polonaise in A flat, Op.53 ‘Heroic’
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13 Mar
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7.30pm
Nash Inventions
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £12 £14 £18 £22
Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Claire Booth
soprano
Lionel Friend
conductor
The Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s renowned chamber ensemble in residence, presents its annual selection of Nash Inventions, consisting of music by a roll-call of Britain’s leading composers.
There are revivals of recent works written specially for the Ensemble and two works by senior figures of the highest international standing.
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Returning, for string sextet
Colin Matthews : The Island, for soprano and seven instruments
Alexander Goehr : Clarinet Quintet
Peter Maxwell Davies : Clarinet Quintet
Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia on all the notes, for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp
Jonathan Harvey : Song Offerings, for soprano and eight instruments
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17 Mar
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 7.30pm
Circus Tricks
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Crisp Road Hammersmith London W6 9RL
United Kingdom
020 8237 1111
http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Tickets: £18
Cast:
Alice (Trapeze Artist): Yvette Bonner
Xiu (Mongolian Contortionist): Lilly Papaioannou
Tanya (Knife Thrower’s Assistant): Alison Crookendale
Jack (Knife Thrower): Daniel Broad
Barney (Trick Pony): Christopher Diffey
Tom (Acrobat): Daniel Keating-Roberts
Jemmy (Acrobat, brother of Tom): Simon Wilding
Chroma:
Sarah O’Flynn Flute/Piccolo
Stuart King (16 March Massimo di Trolio) Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Heidi Bennett Trumpet
Clare O’Connell (20 March Chris Allan) Cello
Steve Gibson Percussion
Elena Hull Bass
Music Director: Gerry Cornelius
Circus Tricks by Michael Henry & Adey Grummet is set in the spellbinding, fleeting world of the circus, where laughter is tragic, tears are hilarious and wonder both wrenches the heart and makes it soar!
The knife thrower’s assistant cannot stand the pain of her secret love for the knife thrower, an acrobat fights the world through the bottle, his brother struggles to catch him one more time, the trapeze artist is entranced by the pursuit of a single moment of weightlessness, the horse dreams of running in straight lines and the contortionist is just plain lonely.
And then there’s the elephant…
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17 Mar
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17 Mar
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at
Total Immersion: Brett Dean
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £31 / 28 / 25 / 22 / 18/ free
Brett Dean in conversation plus a performance by the composer of his Intimate Decisions for solo viola.
Various concerts during the day. Please visit:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/series.asp?id=968
There are a range of Total Immersion day passes available, which include admission to all events on Thursday 17 March and reflect the prices for tickets in the Barbican Hall. Total Immersion Day passes are not available to book online, but can be booked by calling the Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or in person.
Brett Dean : Various Concerts
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