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6 May
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Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 7.15pm
Wagner Dream
Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales
United Kingdom
WNO
Wagner is dying in Venice. He will leave behind some of Western art’s greatest works. But he hasn’t finished his life’s work; he is tormented by his need to write a music drama about the Buddha.
Welsh National Opera is proud to present the UK staged première of the late Jonathan Harvey’s extraordinary opera. Wagner Dream is part biography, part fantasy that will transport you into another realm.
Supported by members of the Getty Family as part of British Firsts and by a lead gift from The Kobler Trust.
Original production: commission and co-production: De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Holland Festival and IRCAM -Centre Pompidou, Paris
Also 7th June and 12th June Birmingham Hippodrome.
Jonathan Harvey : Wagner Dream
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10 May
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Monday, June 10, 2013 at 19.30
'Hot Potato' - Concert
Birmingham Conservatoire, Recital Hall
Paradise Place, Birmingham, B3 3HG
United Kingdom
0121 331 5901
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire
conservatoire@bcu.ac.uk
Tickets: £5.00 (£3cons)
All Members of 'Hot Potato' Ensemble
Conducted and directed by Robert Nettleship
We are a Contemporary ensemble who play Jazz-Infused Contemporary music, sometimes with electronics and tape-loops.
All music composed by Robert Nettleship
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12 May
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14 May
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Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7.30pm
Death in Venice
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
ENO
Two unspoken themes run throughout Britten’s much-admired opera: the impossible passion that a troubled writer forms for a fellow hotel guest, and the cholera epidemic which the authorities are all too keen to hush up. In Death in Venice, Britten revisits the subject of corruption of youth and innocence that so fascinated him and delivers a haunting theatrical experience of consummate power.
Deborah Warner’s production of Britten’s final opera celebrates the composer’s centenary year and reaffirms ENO’s position as the world’s leading producer of his operas. This production reunites award-winning director Warner with ENO Music Director Edward Gardner, who returns to Britten following ENO’s productions of Billy Budd (2012) and Peter Grimes (2009), for which his conducting was described as ‘deeply musical’ (Financial Times).
Warner’s relationship with ENO continues to flourish having directed Diary of One Who Vanished, St John Passion, Messiah and most recently Eugene Onegin, ENO’s sumptuous, elegant and epic co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Fri 14 Jun 2013 19:30
Tue 18 Jun 2013 19:30
Fri 21 Jun 2013 19:30
Mon 24 Jun 2013 19:30
Wed 26 Jun 2013 19:30
Benjamin Britten : Death in Venice
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17 May
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Monday, June 17, 2013 at 7.30pm
Voices and Saxophones
St Paul's Knightsbridge
32a Wilton Place, London SW1X 8SH
United Kingdom
Tickets: Free
BBC Singers
Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
James Morgan conductor
As unusual a musical collaboration as you're likely to hear, this concert brings together the expert choral forces of the BBC Singers with the instrumental ones of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet. Founded in 1969 by one of the modern pioneers of the instrument, Sigurd Raschèr, the quartet are renowned for their virtuosity - and a German critic has written "If there were an Olympic discipline for wind playing, the Raschèr Quartet would definitely receive a gold medal."
In tonight's wide-ranging programme they give, with the BBC Singers, the British premieres of three of the many pieces they have commissioned from living composers. The Estonian Erkki-Sven Tüür sets a Latin prayer by St Anselm of Canterbury, Giya Kancheli has based his piece on a variety of sacred texts from his native Georgia, while Belfast composer Ian Wilson sets words by the Austrian Expressionist poet and artist Oscar Kokoschka.
Alongside these pieces, the BBC Singers perform two fascinating works for unaccompanied voices by Per Norgard and Knut Nystedt, while the Raschèr Quartet demonstrate that four saxophones are just as well suited to the music of the Baroque as to contemporary scores.
Erkki-Sven Tüür : Meditatio
Per Nørgård : Wie ein Kind
Henry Purcell : Fantasia no 7, Z.738
Ian Wilson : Little Red Fish
Knut Nystedt : Immortal Bach
J.S. Bach : Contrapunctus IV from The Art of Fugue
Giya Kancheli : Amao omi
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19 May
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 7.30pm
The Gloaming
Union Chapel
Compton Terrace, N1 2UN
United Kingdom
http://www.unionchapel.org.uk
Tickets: £20
The Gloaming
In a much anticipated UK premiere, The Gloaming collective carves new paths connecting the rich Irish folk tradition and the New York contemporary music scene. From haunting sean-nós songs to raucous folk explosions, they make music that is both ancient and utterly new.
The super-group came together at Grouse Lodge Studios in West Meath in early 2011 and features New York pianist Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill, fiddle master Martin Hayes, hardanger innovator Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh and Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionaird – well known for his contribution to the legendary Afro Celt Sound System and arguably the finest singer of his generation.
'Neither slavishly traditional nor willfully contemporary, it sought out uncharted terrain (some of which was undoubtedly familiar) – and, most impressively, welcomed their audience as essential passengers on that journey' Irish Times
The Gloaming : Various
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19 May
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 7.00pm-8.00pm
Peri Mauer LIFE ON EARTH, for chamber orchestra. Music With a View Festival 2013
Flea Theater
New York, NY
United States
Tickets: Free
LIFE ON EARTH, for chamber ensemble [2013]
PERI MAUER composer, conductor, cellist
Art Baron, Kevin Clark - trombone
Sandy Coffin, Jack Walrath, Jordan Hirsch - trumpet
Carolyn Clark - french horn
Isabel Kim, Armando Vazquez - clarinet
Virginia Chang Chien - oboe
Lisa Loren, Stephanie Bazirjian, Don Hagar - flute
Judith Insell - viola
Jennifer Axelson, Inna Langerman - violin
Clarissa Howell, Peri Mauer - cello
Phil Smith - bass
Peri Mauer : LIFE ON EARTH, for chamber ensemble [2013]
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21 May
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Friday, June 21, 2013 at 7.30pm
Conflux: organ and brass
St Michael's
Chester Square, London SW1W 9HH
United Kingdom
020 7730 8889
http://www.stmichaelschurch.org.uk
office@stmichaelschurch.org.uk
Tickets: £12, £8
Tom Bell, organ
Total Brass Quintet
New music by London composers for organ and brass separately, and together
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22 May
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Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 7.00 p.m.
Anthony Green, piano: Derek Foster at 70, Janet Graham at 65, Nick Ray at 40
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F7BB
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions)
Anthony Green, piano
Ludwig Beethoven : Piano Sonata in F, Op.10 no.2
Nick Ray : Sonatina (2006)
Nick Ray : Recollections, Book 1 (2009)
Derek Foster : Prelude - Elaboration - Precis
Derek Foster : Two inventions
Derek Foster : Variations on a Swedish Nursery Tune
Derek Foster : 70 Years
Anthony Green : Caprice on the name Derek Foster
Anthony Green : Improvisation on the name Janet Graham
Anthony Green : Scherzo-Mosaic on the name Nick Ray
Anthony Green : Homage to Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter : 90+
Ferruccio Busoni : Sonatina Seconda
Franz Liszt : Variations on Bach's "Weinen, Klagen"
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28 May
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Friday, June 28, 2013 at 8pm
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £20 - 35
Kronos Quartet
Two legendary forces in new music come together on stage in a major new commission and their first-ever collaboration.
Landfall: Scenes From My New Novel is a collection of works composed on hyper violin and adapted to the string quartet. Like a series of short stories, the pieces are linked by passages inspired by weather - roaring, all enveloping and atmospheric.
For this piece Laurie Anderson has designed software that brings the harmonics and overtones up off the noises floor creating an instrument that breathes in a completely new way. Kronos Quartet has adapted and built on this musical language so that electronics and traditional strings sing together.
'Quiet, poignant and very human' Washington Post
The start time of this concert has changed to 8pm. The performance will last approximately 70 minutes without interval.
Laurie Anderson : Landfall: Scenes from my New Novel
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