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8 May
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at
THE MONSTER IN THE MAZE
Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Musical direction: Sir Simon Rattle
Stage direction (semi-staged version): Marie-Ève Signeyrole*
Stage design: Fabien Teigné
Light Philippe: Berthomé
Theseus: Damien Bigourdan
Theseus' mother: Lucie Roche*
Dedalus: Damien Pass*
Minos: Miloud Khétib
Chorus: Amateur choristers (children, teenagers and adults)
Chorus Director: Simon Halsey
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra and Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
The King of Crete has defeated Greece. He imposes a terrible tribute on the vanquished population: each year the city of Athens has to send young men who will be thrown into Dedalus’s labyrinth and eventually be devoured by the beast locked up in it, the notorious minotaur, half-man, half-bull. Appropriating this epic drama, British composer Jonathan Dove has written an opera for the young and the old, interpreted by a handful of soloists, a youth orchestra that will be trained with the help of the London Symphony Orchestra musicians, and 300 amateur choristers from the region of Aix, including children, teenagers and adults. Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, all embark on an adventure which promises to breathe much life and spirit into this great mythological saga. A pedagogical project par excellence, this performance will be the culmination of a series of workshops for amateur choristers, organised throughout the year by the Festival’s Passerelles department.
On 8 July 2015 at 8pm and on 9 July 2015 at 11am
Jonathan Dove : The Monster in the Maze
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9 May
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Thursday, July 9, 2015 at Times of choir to be announced
Richter / Pärt
Manchester International Festival
Manchester
United Kingdom
Tickets: Free
This extraordinary project, several years in the planning, brings together two of the world’s most influential and enduring cultural figures.
In early autumn 2013, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alex Poots introduced artist Gerhard Richter and composer Arvo Pärt for the first time. As a result of that meeting in Dresden, both men made work inspired by and dedicated to the other.
The work that has developed from this remarkable creative partnership will be premiéred at MIF15 in a significant new show. A suite of four new works by Richter, Ashes (2015) and his Doppelgrau (2014), will be presented with Pärt’s Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima in the newly renovated landscape gallery of the Whitworth.
Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima will be performed live throughout the day from Thu 9 to Sat 11 July by celebrated Estonian choir Vox Clamantis and thereafter by local choirs.
Dates and Times
Thu 9July 2pm - 9pm Vox Clamantis performance
Fri 10July 10am - 9pm Vox Clamantis performance
Sat 11July 10am - 9pm Vox Clamantis performance
Sun 12July 10am - 5pm
Mon 13July 10am - 5pm
Tue 14July 10am - 5pm
Wed 15July 10am - 5pm
Thu 16July 10am - 9pm
Fri 17July 10am - 5pm
Sat 18July 10am - 5pm
Sun 19July 10am - 5pm
Arvo Part : Various
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9 May
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10 May
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12 May
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Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 7.30pm
Arvo Pärt
Manchester International Festival
Manchester
United Kingdom
Music director Gábor Takács-Nagy
Choir Vox Clamantis
Choir artistic director Jaan-Eik Tulve
Arvo Pärt’s music, at once ancient and modern, seeks to communicate what the composer has described as “love for every note”. His music is utterly unique and of huge appeal with audiences internationally; today, Pärt is the most performed living composer in the world.
Arvo Pärt, Manchester Camerata’s Music Director Gábor Takács-Nagy and MIF have curated a special evening of orchestral and choral works that perfectly demonstrates the overwhelmingly spiritual quality of his music.
This one-off concert celebrates Pärt’s first visit to Manchester and the extraordinary project that brings together the work of Gerhard Richter and Arvo Pärt at the Whitworth as part of MIF15.
'I love his music, and I love the fact that he is such a brave, talented man... He’s completely out of step with the zeitgeist and yet he’s enormously popular, which is so inspiring. His music fulfills a deep human need that has nothing to do with fashion.' Steve Reich on Arvo Pärt
Arvo Part : Fratres
Arvo Part : Stabat Mater
Arvo Part : Como cierva Sedienta
Arvo Part : Da pacem Domine
Arvo Part : Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima
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13 May
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17 May
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19 May
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Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 7.30pm
John Woolrich: Falling Down
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Margaret Cookhorn contra-bassoon
Lucy Crowe soprano
Gerhild Romberger mezzo-soprano
Dmytro Popov tenor
Kostas Smoriginas bass-baritone
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons conductor
Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony is a celebration of human endeavour, as is his ballet score The Creatures of Prometheus. Andris Nelsons gives his final concert as Music Director of the CBSO before returning (see Proms 49 and 51) with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which became Music Director last season. John Woolrich’s dark, sardonic contra-bassoon concerto was written for the CBSO’s own contra-bassoonist Margaret Cookhorn.
John Woolrich : Falling Down
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral'
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20 May
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20 May
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Monday, July 20, 2015 at 7.30pm
Haydn, HK Gruber & Stravinsky
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Colin Currie percussion
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor
Petrushka, with its bustling Shrovetide fair and colourful carnival characters, launches a week dominated by the music of Stravinsky. All three of the composer’s great scores for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes are performed this season – bright, folkloric textures gradually giving way to new musical brutality. Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphony set the City of Light talking over a century earlier. The second movement of ‘La reine’ (The Queen) shares Stravinsky’s sophisticated approach to folk music, while Viennese maverick HK Gruber’s into the open … echoes the ballet’s vivid scoring with instruments from Thailand, Africa and South America. Former BBC Young Musician of the Year Colin Currie joins the BBC Philharmonic under its Principal Guest Conductor John Storgårds.
HK Gruber : into the open …
Igor Stravinsky : Petrushka (1911 version)
Joseph Haydn : Symphony No. 85 in B flat major 'La reine'
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22 May
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25 May
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25 May
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25 May
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26 May
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27 May
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Monday, July 27, 2015 at 7.30pm
Pierre Boulez: Notations 1–4 & 7
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Leila Josefowicz violin
Elysian Singers (women's voices)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Once an irascible enfant terrible, Pierre Boulez was born 90 years ago. The Proms celebrations continue with one of his earliest works. Originally a series of 12 brilliant miniatures for piano, Notations is gradually being expanded by the composer into an orchestral cycle. Holst’s The Planets brings musical imagery of a different kind. Violinist Leila Josefowicz makes a welcome return to the Proms, with a new concerto composed specially for her by one of Italy’s greatest living composers.
Pierre Boulez : Notations 1–4 & 7
Luca Francesconi : Duende – The Dark Notes
Gustav Holst : The Planets
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29 May
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 7.30pm
Prokofiev, Qigang Chen & Rachmaninov
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Meng Meng soprano
Anu Komsi soprano
Piia Komsi soprano
Jia Li pipa
Jing Chang zheng
Nan Wang erhu
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang conductor
Following last night’s Prokofiev piano concerto cycle, tonight’s Prom opens with the Russian’s bright and joyous ‘Classical’ Symphony, which surprised critics of the young firebrand composer with its formal elegance. It’s paired with Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony – beloved for its intimate, lyrical slow movement. Rachmaninov might be the original composer of the ‘big tune’, but it’s an instinct China’s Qigang Chen – a pupil of Messiaen – shares. East and West come together for his evocative Iris dévoilée, pairing traditional Chinese instruments with Western harmonies.
Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 1 in D major, 'Classical'
Qigang Chen : Iris dévoilée
Sergei Rachmaninov : Symphony No. 2 in E minor
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30 May
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Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 7.30pm
SALZBURG CONTEMPORARY • BOULEZ • ORF RADIO-SYMPHONIEORCHESTER WIEN
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at
JACK Quartet
Ari Streisfeld, Violin
Christopher Otto, Violin
John Pickford Richards, Viola
Kevin McFarland, Cello
‘It is not enough to construct one’s revolution, one must also dream it’: thus, Pierre Boulez once formulated his artistic credo. It would never have been enough for him to appear only as a prophet of the avant-garde and a radical revolutionary, administering fundamental criticism to rigid, anti-modernist structures with his notorious demand to blow up all opera houses. Instead, as a composer he was always a sensuous poet of sound, striving quite traditionally for technical mastery and personal expression in equal measure, also and especially when experimenting with the latest techniques, such as guided chance and live electronics – a dedicated explorer and reformer. Reflecting his search for perfection and the ideal implementation of his thoughts, many of his pieces have undergone various stages of development, growing in scope, instrumentation and duration and thereby becoming others, as if they were living organisms undergoing maturation. If Salzburg contemporary takes Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday as an occasion to focus on his eminent œuvre, naturally this includes some of the great key works of New Music of the past 70 years – interpreted by the friends, students and comrades-in-arms of this singular musician, who has also made history as a conductor. With the French tradition ranging from Debussy to Boulez’s influential teacher Olivier Messiaen, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, the series also highlights some of the music of the past that influenced Boulez. These works are complemented by a new piece by Olga Neuwirth, whose music Pierre Boulez is very fond of: a portrait of the artist as an ageless man.
Pierre Boulez : Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna pour orchestre en huit groupes
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 1 in D
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31 May
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Friday, July 31, 2015 at 7.30pm
Happenstance: Galvanize Ensemble
Bluecoat Theatre
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Tickets: £4, £5
Joel Bell e.guitar, Kate Halsall harmonium/piano, Paul Fretwell electronics, Phil Maguire sampler, Marjolaine Charbin piano, Jennifer Allum violin, Stephen Hiscock percussion, Donna Lennard Soprano.
Happenstance creates a series of inter and un-connected performances based around the surrealist parlour game (exquisite corpse), using ‘cut up’ techniques. With improvised music by Galvanize ensemble, other music/installation by Tansy Davies, Helen Papaioannou, Robert Szymanek (LSO Soundhub composers’ scheme), Paul Fretwell, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Christian Wolff, Stockhausen, Ryoko Akama.
Commissions for the project are by Manchester based sound artist Angie Atmadjaja and this performance includes the world premiere of composer Edward Jessen’s MAIDEN NAME.
Supported by Arts Council England
Edward Jessen : MAIDEN NAME
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2 Jun
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Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 3.30pm
Aurora Orchestra
Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
http://www.royalalberthall.com
Francesco Piemontesi piano
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
The Aurora Orchestra staged a Proms first last year when it performed Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 from memory. Now the dynamic young ensemble returns to continue this season’s sequence of family-friendly matinees, giving Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony the same direct, communicative treatment. It is paired with Australian composer Brett Dean’s own homage to nature – a work, he explains, inspired by ‘glorious birdsong, the threat that it faces, the loss, and the soulless noise that we’re left with when they’re all gone’. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi joins the orchestra for Mozart’s late ‘Coronation’ Concerto, and the afternoon also features the premiere of a new commission from British composer Anna Meredith – also performed from memory.
Brett Dean : Pastoral Symphony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K537 'Coronation'
Anna Meredith : Smatter Hauler
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral'
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3 Jun
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Monday, August 3, 2015 at 7.30pm
James MacMillan & Mahler
Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
http://www.royalalberthall.com
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor
Mahler’s mighty Symphony No. 5 is the climax of this second Prom from Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The work’s intense, contrasting moods – the bitter solemnity of the funeral march, the violence of the second movement and the tenderness of the famous Adagietto – make this one of the great orchestral showpieces. The evening opens with the world premiere of a dramatic new symphony from Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan.
James MacMillan : Symphony No. 4
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
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