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5 Mar
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Friday, September 5, 2014 at 20:00
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Philharmonie Hall, Berlin
Germany
GIDON KREMER violin
SÄCHSISCHE STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN
CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN conductor
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, who was born in 1931, once wrote that “as an ideal, I regard a kind of relationship to tradition and to new compositional means in which the artist masters all the means – both the new ones and the traditional ones – but in such a way as if he were not paying attention to either. There are composers who construct their works very consciously, but I am one of those who instead tend to ‘cultivate’ their works. And this is why the entire world as I perceive it forms more or less the roots of a tree, and the work which grows out of it represents the branches and the leaves. One can call them new, but they are nonetheless leaves, and from this point of view they are always traditional, old.”
This Sächsische Staatskapelle Berlin concert under Christian Thielemann will present Gubaidulina’s Second Violin Concert, which was composed in 2007 and is titled “In Tempus prasens”; the soloist is Gidon Kremer. Also on the programme is the Ninth Symphony by Anton Bruckner, a composer who also “cultivated” his works – even if for entirely different reasons than Gubaidulina. The lack of understanding that Bruckner’s symphonies were met with – Eduard Hanslick once chastised them as “gigantic snakes” – led to the composer revising many of his works multiple times. Unfinished at the time of Bruckner’s death in 1896, the Ninth was time and again interrupted by work on new versions of the composer’s First, Third and Eighth Symphonies.
Sofia Gubaidulina : In Tempus praesens Concerto for violin and orchestra
Anton Bruckner : Symphony No. 9
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6 Mar
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Saturday, September 6, 2014 at 3.00pm
A Portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
http://www.royalalberthall.com
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Exaudi
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Oliver Knussen conductor
Along with fellow Lancastrian composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir Harrison Birtwistle celebrates his 80th birthday this year. The Proms marks the occasion with a concert from one of the UK’s leading new music ensembles, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
The group’s relationship with Birtwistle’s music is a long one, and here it performs three of the composer’s classic early works. Each explores the spatial dramatisation of music, playing aural games with the audience and exposing them to intriguing and unfamiliar textures, while never neglecting the ever-unfolding melody that is at the core of all Birtwistle’s music.
Harrison Birtwistle : Verses for Ensembles
Harrison Birtwistle : Dinah and Nick's Love Song
Harrison Birtwistle : Meridian
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7 Mar
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Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 17:00
Musikfest Berlin
Philharmonie Hall, Berlin
Germany
Nicolas Hodges
In “Serynade”, the piano piece Helmut Lachenmann composed between 1997 and 2000, he traces new sounds the instrument can produce, how they might emerge through differentiated touch techniques or a new way of using the pedals. The wordplay in the title of the approximately 30-minute composition alludes to the first letter of the first name of Lachenmann’s wife, Japanese pianist Yukiko Sugawara. This title, however, also places the composition in a series of piano works by other composers, who took up the tradition of the serenade as a form of sophisticated 18th century entertainment music and sublimated it into subtle musical character portraits. English pianist Nicolas Hodges’ repertoire has included Lachenmann’s “Serynade” for over a decade now, and his interpretation has received high praise, not least from the composer himself. In the first part of his piano evening, Hodges presents “Zwei Linien”, a piece that Wolfgang Rihm spent 13 years on as a kind of “work in progress”. The title of the composition reflects Rihm’s focus on the two-part piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach such as the Inventions or Duetti. Rihm used Bach’s music as a starting point for his own creative work, and Hodges highlights this by opening the recital with Bach’s 4 Duetti BWV 802-805.
J.S. Bach : Four Duets from Clavier-Übung III BWV 802-805
Wolfgang Rihm : Zwei Linien
Franz Schubert : Plaintes d’un troubadour in A flat major from Six Moments musicaux D 780
Helmut Lachenmann : Serynade for piano
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8 Mar
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Monday, September 8, 2014 at 20:00
Bamberger Symphoniker
Philharmonie Hall, Berlin
Germany
CHRISTINE SCHÄFER soprano
PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD piano
CHRISTIAN SCHMITT organ
BAMBERGER SYMPHONIKER
JONATHAN NOTT conductor
“In ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Musil commented on the zeitgeist of the early 20th century to the effect that: “some spotted new ideas, and others, knowing they would have to move out, really ‘lived’ in the old building one last time. Strauss does it with a huge orchestral apparatus.” (Helmut Lachenmann)
The composer Helmut Lachenmann, who like no other moulded the instrumental language of our time, reveals in this comment his deep admiration for Richard Strauss, man of the fin de siècle, and the link between the two composers also becomes apparent. Richard Strauss features on this evening’s concert programme with his “Four Final Songs” for soprano and orchestra, which was composed a year before his death in 1948 – yet another of his works that explore the possibilities of the late Romantic orchestral apparatus with great expertise and artistry in orchestration. 36 years later, Helmut Lachenmann devoted himself to a musical form that was certainly called into question after 1945 and developed a contemporary redefinition of the genre – the piano concerto. Fragments of material are subjected to a permanent metamorphosis in “Ausklang”, his work piano and orchestra. Max Reger, too, showed in particular in his organ compositions how one could redefine “old forms and genres” – such as choral preludes, fantasies and fugues – that had already been confined to the annals of history.
With this programme and the renowned soloists Christine Schäfer (soprano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) and Christian Schmitt (organ), the Bamberger Symphoniker under Jonathan Nott are once again guests at Musikfest Berlin.
Max Reger : Fantasy and Fugue for organ in D minor op. 135b
Richard Strauss : Four Last Songs
Helmut Lachenmann : Ausklang
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8 Mar
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Monday, September 8, 2014 at 10.15pm – c11.30pm
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Birthday Concert
Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
http://www.royalalberthall.com
Dimitri Ashkenazy clarinet, Proms debut artist
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ben Gernon conductor, Proms debut artist
On Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 80th birthday the Proms pays tribute to this leading figure in contemporary British music with a late-night programme of works selected by the composer.
The concert overture Ebb of Winter, commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as part of its 40th-anniversary celebrations, captures the rugged, rough-hewn beauty of Davies’s Orkney home. We see a different side of island life in the joyous ebullience of the much-loved An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise. The fourth Strathclyde Concerto, for clarinet and orchestra, completes the concert – a thrilling tour de force, demanding equal virtuosity from soloist and ensemble.
Peter Maxwell Davies : Concert Overture 'Ebb of Winter'
Peter Maxwell Davies : Strathclyde Concerto No. 4
Peter Maxwell Davies : An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
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9 Mar
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9 Mar
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 20:00
REINFORCEMENT FROM RUSSIA
La Redoute
Bonn
Germany
Borodin Quartet - Quartet in Residence 2012-2014
Ruben Aharonian (Violin)
Sergey Lomovsky (Violin)
Igor Naidin (Viola)
Vladimir Balshin (Cello)
With German Galynin and Igor Raykhelson, the Borodin Quartet are presenting two Russian composers of the 20th and 21st century and thus continuing the development of this cycle. Galynin, who was taught at the Moscow Conservatory by Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Miaskovski, left two string quartets, both of which were first performed and recorded by the Borodin Quartet. In his works, Igor Raykhelson, who was born in St Petersburg in 1961, combines Romantic references with jazz elements to create what he himself describes as ‘lyrical and melodious music’. The programme concludes with Beethoven’s final completed work.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 11 in F minor op. 95 ("Quartetto serioso")
Igor Raykhelson : Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 1 in F minor
German Galynin : Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 2 in F minor
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 16 in F major op. 135
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