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Scotland
 Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7.30pm 
John Adams: Absolute Jest at City Halls
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Doric String Quartet

Markus Stenz
conductor

Comedy is a serious business. Beethoven knew that when his exuberant Second Symphony cheerfully booted the classical rule-book out of the window; and John Adams certainly knew it when he leafed through the scherzos of Beethoven’s late string quartets and transformed them into Absolute Jest: a one-off concerto for string quartet that takes Beethoven seriously enough to laugh along with him. As soloists, the Doric String Quartet definitely get it: and guest conductor Markus Stenz gets it too, pairing Beethoven and Adams with two riotously inventive French Baroque showpieces that prove that the best jokes never get old.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Markus Stenz in conversation.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the main concert)
Why not stay on in the auditorium as the Doric String Quartet play Janáček’s String Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (1923).

The main concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, presented by Andrew McGregor.


Jean-Philippe Rameau : Suite No.1 from Les Indes Galantes
John Adams : Absolute Jest for string quartet and orchestra
Jean-Féry Rebel : Chaos (from Les Élémens)
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 2 in D major

7 Jul



United Kingdom
 Friday, November 7, 2014 at 7.30pm - 9.30pm 
Contemporary British Piano Music - a living tradition
St John's, Smith Square
London, SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7222 1061
http://sjss.org.uk
info@sjss.org.uk

Tickets: £20, £15, £10 (£18, £13.50, £9)
Mark Bebbington, piano


The piano lies at the heart of contemporary British music; yet its discreet presence is often taken for granted - or even ignored. In this exploratory recital, Mark Bebbington, a leading British pianist with an international reputation for his recordings and performances of British music, reveals these contrasting contemporary works and amply demonstrates the vitality and enduring presence of the piano into the 21st century.


Franz Liszt : La Lugubre Gondola
John McCabe : Tenebrae
Robert Matthew-Walker : Fantasy Sonata: Hamlet (Piano Sonata No.3) Op.34
Richard Causton : Non mi comporto male
Ian Venables : Caprice, Op.35
David Briggs : Piano Sonata

8 Jul



United Kingdom
 Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 7.00 pm 
Piano duet recital
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F7BB
United Kingdom

Tickets: £10(£7 concessions)
ANTHONY GREEN & DEREK FOSTER

Classics, 20th-century classics and contemporary.
including works by Frank Bayford, John Mitchell, Janet Graham and:


Wolfgang Mozart : Andante with Variations, K 501
Paul Hindemith : Sonata
Franz Schubert : Duo (Lebenssturme)
Anthony Green : Variations, Collages and Epilogue on a theme by Frank Bayford
Derek Foster : Two Chrysalids
Derek Foster : Three Albumtracks
Richard Rodney Bennett : Capriccio

8 Jul



United Kingdom
 Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 7.30pm 
Birtwistle at 80
King's College Chapel
Cambridge
United Kingdom

BCMG
Oliver Knussen

Harrison Birtwistle is one of the major musical figures internationally and this concert sees BCMG and Oliver Knussen showcase works from across his career in his 80th birthday year – the fourth such concert of 2014 following performances in Birmingham, London, and at the BBC Proms.

Silbury Air (1977, revised 2003), a Birtwistle classic, brings to the fore the composer’s continuing fascination in the medieval and the mythic, taking its inspiration from the prehistoric mound of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (The Perpetual Song of Mechanical Arcady – 1977) is much more clockwork and pulse dominated then the melody focused Silbury Air. The main inspiration for the piece coming from artist Paul Klee, whose influence on Birtwistle has been paramount. Fantasia on all the notes (2012), employs two groups of instruments, winds and strings, which are linked and fused by means of a third force, a harp.

Completing the programme will be: the UK premiere of Goehr’s chamber symphony … between the Lines, which was premiered in May 2014 in Berlin; a repeat performance of Richard Causton’s Chamber Symphony, a piece dominated by bristling brass, winds, and percussion; and a new work by student composer Patrick Brennan.

Secret Theatres: the Music of Harrison Birtwistle brings some of the world’s finest performers to Cambridge for a celebration of one of Britain’s leading composers in his 80th year.



Harrison Birtwistle : Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum
Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia on all the notes
Alexander Goehr : … between the Lines
Patrick Brennan : Polly Roe
Richard Causton : Chamber Symphony
Harrison Birtwistle : Silbury Air

9 Jul



United Kingdom
 Sunday, November 9, 2014 at 3 pm 
Still in this world
St James, Piccadilly
Piccadilly, London
United Kingdom

Tickets: £10
Jan Goodkin, soprano
Vincent Lawlor, baritone
Laurel Pardue, violin
Catherine Herriott, piano

Music for Remembrance Sunday by Ravel, Britten, Arvo Part, Oliver Knussen and "Still in this world", a new piece by Miriam Mackie, reflecting on life in Britain during the last war.


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