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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 8:00pm - 10:30pm Morton Feldman's "Triadic Memories" The Great Hall, King's College London London United Kingdom http://www.lukeberryman.com administration@lukeberryman.com
Tickets: Free! Luke Berryman
Triadic Memories is a vast single-movement work lasting approximately two hours. Like other works of the composer's final years, it's closely related to the aesthetics of Mark Rothko's paintings, and is characterised by stasis and extremely quiet dynamics. The unusual title refers partly to Feldman's attempt to evoke memory itself: listening to this piece is like flicking through an old photograph album. Its delicate, slowly-shifting harmonies reach toward an experience lost in time. It was perhaps this fragility that led the composer to describe the piece as 'the largest butterfly in captivity'.
Triadic Memories has only been performed a handful of times across the world, and the programme also features Karlheinz Stockhausen's evergreen Klavierstück IX.
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Klavierstück IX Morton Feldman : Triadic Memories
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Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7.30pm Janina Fialkowska performs Chopin Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom 02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15 Conductor - Fabien Gabel
Piano - Janina Fialkowska
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Brahms composed his Tragic Overture while on holiday in 1880, writing that 'I could not refuse my melancholy nature the satisfaction of composing an overture for a tragedy'. Whether or not Brahms had a particular tragedy in mind remains a mystery, but the Overture encompasses imposing, turbulent ideas, poignant lyricism and memorable rhythms. Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 boasts one of his best-loved movements, the irresistibly romantic Larghetto, framed by an animated, intricate opening movement and a lively finale in the style of Polish folk-music. Beethoven’s expansive ‘Pastoral’ Symphony is a magnificent mixture of charm and innovation, brimming with evocative melodies which create a vivid impression of the countryside in all its majesty.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Johannes Brahms : Tragic Overture Frederyk Chopin : Piano Concerto No.2 Ludwig Beethoven : Symphony No.6, 'Pastoral'
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Monday, January 28, 2013 at 7:30PM Organist Gail Archer Performs St. Paul's Chapel 117th Street and Amsterdam Ave United States http://www.colubmia.ed
Tickets: Free Organist Gail Archer
“…Dr. Archer’s approach is always first at the service of the music.” – Diapason Mag
Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who specializing in drawing attention to composer anniversaries with her annual recital series in New York City: Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008. Her recordings include Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsody, Bach, the Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic In the Making on Meyer-Media LLC and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils on CALA Records, London. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at NYC’s historic Central Synagogue. www.gailarcher.com
Judith Bingham : The Everlasting Crown
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Friday, February 1, 2013 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 - £34.00 BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor/violin
Håkan Hardenberger conductor/trumpet
Preview 6.30pm: John Storgårds and Håkan Hardenberger discuss this unique concert in which each will conduct and perform as soloists.
The BBC Philharmonic launch their celebration of the big three ballets of Stravinsky with Petrushka, the Russian composer’s colourful tale of love and death at a fairground. Closer to home, prepare to be amazed as Håkan Hardenberger, probably the world’s greatest trumpeter, joins conductor John Storgårds in a showpiece written specially for him, then swaps places to conduct while Storgårds plays a concerto written to display his own incredible violin playing. Hearing is believing.
Students get discounted tickets for this concert with the Sonic Card.
Igor Stravinsky : Symphony of Wind Instruments Kimmo Hakola : Violin Concerto Tobias Broström : Lucernaris Trumpet Concerto Igor Stravinsky : Petrushka (1911 version)
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Friday, February 1, 2013 at 8.30pm Bach Unwrapped: Bach, Reich and Stravinsky Kings Place 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG United Kingdom 020 7520 1440 http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/ info@kingsplace.co.uk
Tickets: £9.50-29.50 Timothy Gill cello
Michael Cox flute
JS Bach’s work is so powerful – and has been so influential - perhaps because of his ability to write music that provokes a profound emotional response at the same time as being highly intellectually satisfying.
While Steve Reich’s series of solo instrument counterpoints are no direct homage to Bach, they are a contemporary expression of some of those compositional techniques that Bach so brilliantly mastered and used to powerful effect, as shown in his solo instrumental sonatas which are performed alongside. Reich’s soloist performs pulsed and fragmented musical phrases that are echoed, interlocked and sustained by a pre-recorded tape line. The listener is left picking out new melodic patterns that emerge from the resulting mutil-layered, hugely satisfying canonic textures.
Openly inspired by Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, Igor Stravinsky’s own reinvention of the baroque concerto was written for performance in the magnificent music room of Dumbarton Oaks, a house outside Washington DC. The music’s figurations, sonorities and counterpoints all echo Bach, but without any plagiarism. Stravinsky’s arrangement of four preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier (the last thing the composer worked on) is another kind of homage – a re-orchestration of Bach’s music using the colour palette of modern instruments
J.S. Bach : Sonata for Viola da Gamba + Keyboard No 1 in G major, BWV 1027 Steve Reich : Cello Counterpoint J.S. Bach : Flute Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034 Steve Reich : Vermont Counterpoint J.S. Bach : (arr. Igor Stravinsky) Four Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier Igor Stravinsky : Concerto in E flat major, 'Dumbarton Oaks'
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