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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 2pm Studio Concert: Gershwin & Bernstein BBC Maida Vale Studios, London Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London United Kingdom 02085761227
Tickets: Free Joshua Weilerstein conductor
Martin Roscoe piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a feast of all-American works from the twentieth century. The overture for Barber’s first work for orchestra, The School for a Scandal, reflecting Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic play, opens the concert with a flourish. Premiered in 1933, the work won Barber a Bearns Prize from Columbia University as well as instant national recognition.
Two giants of the American stage also feature here. Pianist Martin Roscoe joins the orchestra for Gershwin’s playful and melodious Piano Concerto, which was published just a year after Rhapsody in Blue, in 1925. The inimitable dances from Bernstein’s 1957 Broadway hit West Side Story complete the programme in style, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Samuel Barber : The School for Scandal – Overture George Gershwin : Piano Concerto Leonard Bernstein : West Side Story - Symphonic Dances
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6 Jul
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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 8pm Haas: in vain Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank, London SE1 United Kingdom 08700 606 096 http://www.rfh.org.uk
Tickets: £10/£20 Emilio Pomàrico conductor
London Sinfonietta
“How to describe it? An astonishing work of art that has become a cult wherever it is played. One of the first great masterpieces of the C21st.”
Sir Simon Rattle
Premiered in 2000 and now receiving its much-awaited premiere in London, Haas’ in vain is an extraordinary work of contradictions and juxtapositions, exploring a heightened sensory world where darkness and light collide. Written in protest to the rise of the far-right Freedom Party in the 1999 Austrian elections, in vain hints at a frightening world where dark, unnatural forces are at work. As familiar harmonies meet microtonal systems, Haas evokes an otherworldly realm that oscillates between the past and the present, between clarity and dystopia. Performed partly in complete darkness, in vain transforms the concert hall into a mysterious new landscape, where you must trust your ears and relinquish your sight.
Georg Friedrich Haas : in vain
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6 Jul
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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 7.30pm Juanjo Mena and Colin Currie Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Manchester M1 5HA United Kingdom 44 (0) 161 907 9000 http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £35 - £10 Juanjo Mena Conductor
Colin Currie Percussion
It's all about rhythm. Musical revolutions in Manchester have always started on the dancefloor, and whether it's the punchy latin rhythms of Turina's flamboyant ballet, or the young Thomas Adès These Premises Are Alarmed commissioned for the opening of The Bridgewater Hall, Juanjo Mena knows exactly how to get a party started.
John Adams blasts musical theory right out of the classroom in the outrageous Slonimsky's Earbox, percussion virtuoso Colin Currie performs a concerto by our very own HK "Nali" Gruber, and the BBC Philharmonic adventure through the bareback thrills of Ginastera's exuberant cowboy ballet. Hold tight: the future has never sounded so much fun.
Joaquín Turina : Ritmos HK Gruber : Rough Music Thomas Ades : These premises are alarmed John Adams : Slonimsky's Earbox Alberto Ginastera : Estancia
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8 Jul
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Sunday, December 8, 2013 at Starts at midday FESTIVAL-IN-A-DAY Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank, London SE1 United Kingdom 08700 606 096 http://www.rfh.org.uk
Tickets: £20 day ticket London Sinfonietta
Falling on the last weekend of Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest Is Noise festival, we bring their story bang up to date with four sets of brand new music from today's most cutting edge composers. Twelve world premieres include major London Sinfonietta commissions from Edmund Finnis and Francisco Coll, alongside UK premieres of works by Rebecca Saunders and Simon Steen-Andersen.
For more information: http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/event/new-music-show
Contemporary Composers : Various
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8 Jul
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Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 7:30pm Pianist Aleck Karis Performs Late Works of Morton Feldman 12/8 Merkin Concert Hall, The Kaufman Center 129 West 67th Street, NY, NY United States 212.501.3330 http://kaufman-center.org/mch
Tickets: $20 Pianist Aleck Karis
featuring special guest artists Curt Macomber (violin), Danielle Farina (viola) and Chris Finckel (cello).
Pianist Aleck Karis presents a one-night only concert dedicated to late works of the iconoclastic composer Morton Feldman. As an extension of Karis’s latest album Wolpe, Feldman & Webern (Bridge Records), this performance casts the composer in a fresh light by showcasing music written by Feldman’s teacher, Stefan Wolpe, as well as Wolpe’s teacher, Anton Webern. Program opens with solo piano works including Feldman’s Piano and Palais de Mari juxtaposed with Wolpe’s Form, Form IV and Webern’s Piano Variations, culminating with Feldman’s Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello featuring special guest artists Curt Macomber (violin), Danielle Farina (viola) and Chris Finckel (cello).
Morton Feldman : Palais de mari Morton Feldman : Piano Stefan Wolpe : Form Stefan Wolpe : Form IV Anton Webern : Piano Variations Morton Feldman : Piano, Violin, Viola Cello
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9 Jul
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9 Jul
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Monday, December 9, 2013 at 8pm Trio IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: 14€ | 10€ | 5€ In 1944, a year before his death, Bartók composed an immense sonata for violin has no equal since the sonatas by Bach. Song, polyphonic density, large forms. The final Liszt is the opposite of a miniature, of harmonic ambiguity, and of the premonition in 1883 of a tonal world in decomposition.
Three exceptional musicians brought together by the composer Marc Monnet summon these pivotal works around the creation of an unfaithful disciple of Kagel. In his critical passion of electronics, Monnet prefers the rapidity of instrumental gesture to a display of a pirouetting fiction of technology.
Tedi Papavrami violin
François-Frédéric Guy piano
Xavier Phillips cello
IRCAM Computer Music Design Carlo Laurenzi
Franz Liszt : Pensées des morts (extract from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses) Marc Monnet : Trio n°3 Marc Monnet : Imaginary Travel Béla Bartók : Sonata for Solo Violin
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10 Jul
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12 Jul
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Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 7.30pm John Adams: City Noir City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Tickets: £11-£24 James Ehnes violin
Donald Runnicles conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
It's one of the most talked-about new scores of recent years. And there's absolutely nothing minimal about John Adams's City Noir, a sassy, bluesy symphony of Los Angeles, inspired by classic movies and scored for a Mahler-size orchestra. This is music that demands to be heard, and Donald Runnicles has set it alongside the dazzling rightness of Beethoven's headlong Fourth Symphony and the ominous twilight of Shostakovich's tormented First Violin Concerto, performed here by James Ehnes - whose "indelible, intellectually gripping" Shostakovich performances have left critics reeling. Three masterworks from three centuries, each speaking to the other - and, more importantly, to us: right here and right now.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No.4 Dmitri Shostakovich : Violin Concerto No.1 John Adams : City Noir
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