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Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 7.30pm Parallel Colour CBSO Centre Berkley Street. B1 2LF United Kingdom http://www.bcmg.org.uk info@bcmg.org.uk
Conductor: Richard Baker
Soprano: Allison Bell
Percussion: Joby Burgess
Clarinet: Timothy Lines
Framed by striking pieces for singer and ensemble, the symmetry of this exciting programme sees the Group journey towards premieres by Edmund Finnis and Rozalie Hirs, with works for solo percussion and solo clarinet either side.
Finnis’ glistening, dancing music has an air of quiet mystery, possessing the elusive quality of being both familiar and strange at once. His first BCMG Sound Investment commission departs from the standard ensemble line-up, with pairs of instruments providing unusual sound combinations. Like Finnis, Hirs writes music of a refreshingly original character. She examines and dissects sounds to a microscopic degree, creating exceptionally captivating ‘sonic spaces’. Her Platonic ID elegantly unfolds in rustling waves of rapid notes, halted by moments of calm in which short, luminous chorales suddenly shine forth.
The expressive intensity of Claude Vivier’s music, together with its compositional skill and innovation, make his oeuvre among the most compelling and distinctive of the late 20th century. Trois Airs pour un opéra imaginaire is his last completed work, and one of his best. Premiered just 17 days following his violent and untimely end in Paris in March 1983, the music inhabits a twilight realm between reality and the imagination, hinting at future directions in which his music might have travelled.
Claude Vivier : Trois Airs pour un opéra imaginaire Tansy Davies : Dark Ground Edmund Finnis : Parallel Colour Rozalie Hirs : Platonic ID Jonathan Harvey : Cirrus Light Franco Donatoni : Still
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 7.30pm THE JOURNEY BETWEEN US Southwark Playhouse 77-85 Newington Causeway London SE1 6BD United Kingdom 020 7407 0234 http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Lisa Dwan reader
London Sinfonietta
Join us as we take up a week-long residency at Southwark Playhouse and explore the intricate links between music and storytelling. Personal, compelling and deeply powerful, four short stories traverse the challenges of personal relationships at different stages in life. A new work by RPS award-winning composer Samantha Fernando intersperses the words, giving space for a different kind of listening. Retreat inside your own world and let the musical interludes add depths of meaning to the stories.
Samantha Fernando : New Work
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12 Jun
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Friday, February 12, 2016 at 7.30pm Louis Andriessen: La Commedia Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Claron McFadden soprano
Cristina Zavalloni female voice
Andrew Sauvageau male voice
Synergy vocals
As the climax of Andriessen: M is for Man, Music & Mystery, a performance of La Commedia: his huge, riotous reinvention of Dante.
Hell, Heaven, and a whole teeming world in between: Dante’s Divine Comedy was the inspiration for Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia, but Andriessen crams every scene of this opera with invention, anarchy and raw creative energy.
The story of La Commedia may be timeless, but Andriessen offers a startlingly new vision of everything he touches. Referencing everything from Bach to Hollywood by way of Stravinsky and electronics, this remains, unmistakably 'a rich, important achievement by one of Europe's greatest living composers' (The Guardian).
Louis Andriessen : La Commedia
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Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 7.30pm BBC Philharmonic Rhapsody In Blue 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
Nicholas Collon conductor | Lawrence Power viola | Jonathan Scott piano
One spark is all it takes. A flash of light, a tiny shard of fire – and the imagination ignites. Tonight, we’ve a whole shower of Sparks from our new Composer in Association Mark Simpson.
And what follows is a positive starburst of musical colour, whether it’s James MacMillan’s wild, fantastic Viola Concerto – played by the artist who gave its first ever performance in 2014, Lawrence Power – or the smouldering clarinet opening of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. It used to be one of Leonard Bernstein’s party pieces; tonight, Mancunian keyboard star Jonathan Scott will really go to town.
And finally: Stravinsky’s The Firebird, a tale of green-clawed demons, beautiful princesses and a magical bird of flame. The dynamic young British conductor Nicholas Collon will really set things ablaze.
Preview at 6.30pm:
Recently appointed as the BBC Philharmonic's Composer in Association at the age of just 26, Mark Simpson talks about his future plans with the orchestra.
Mark Simpson : Sparks James MacMillan : Viola Concerto George Gershwin : Rhapsody in Blue
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Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 7.30pm BCMG at CrossCurrents Bramall Music Building University of Birmingham, Edgbaston United Kingdom
BCMG
CrossCurrents is a new nine-day University of Birmingham festival that brings together internationally acclaimed professional performers and student musicians, as well as some of the UK’s most respected composers.
BCMG close the inaugural CrossCurrents festival with a multifaceted and scintillating programme featuring no fewer than twelve world premieres. As the New Music Ensemble presented Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs on the first day of CrossCurrents, BCMG close the festival performing a new set of specially commissioned songs by eleven composers, including compositional staff at the University of Birmingham and Birmingham Conservatoire. Along with Charlotte Bray, Judith Weir, Richard Baker and post-graduates from each institution, these composers have been invited to write their own ‘folk songs’ inspired by Berio’s 1964 original.
CrossCurrents presents concerts interspersed with workshops, talks, foyer performances and exhibitions. For full concert and events listings, including ticket prices, please go to: birmingham.ac.uk/events
Luciano Berio : Erdenklavier Luciano Berio : Wasserklavier Tansy Davies : Grind Show Judith Weir : Distance and Enchantment Judith Weir : On Buying a Horse Judith Weir : Blackbirds and Thrushes Morton Feldman : The Viola in My Life II Richard Baker : crank Michael Zev Gordon : Seize The Day Contemporary Composers : CrossCurrents
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Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 7.15pm Figaro Gets a Divorce Elena Langer Millennium Centre, Cardiff Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom
Conductor Justin Brown (TBA 24 March)
Director David Pountney
Set Designer Ralph Koltai
Costume Designer Sue Blane
Lighting Designer Linus Fellbom
Assistant Set Designer Robin Don
Cast
Figaro David Stout
Susanna Marie Arnet
Count Mark Stone
Countess Elizabeth Watts
Serafin Naomi O’Connell
The Cherub Andrew Watts
The Major Alan Oke
Angelica Rhian Lois
So, was it really happy ever after for the Almaviva household? Has the distant thunder of revolution turned into a storm from which they cannot escape? What does the world of Figaro sound like in the hands of a contemporary composer?
These questions have intrigued David Pountney. So much so that he decided to provide some answers. He’s done this by commissioning a new opera by Elena Langer for which he has written the libretto. Comic moments collide with touching ones in an opera which is part comedy, part political thriller. Langer and Pountney have created an affectionate sequel to Mozart’s classic, a testimony to human courage and resilience.
The characters of The Marriage of Figaro are some of the best-loved in opera. For those of us who have seen the opera before, they can feel like people we know, even friends. Figaro Gets a Divorce, therefore, is a one-off reunion, a chance to catch-up with these old friends.
• Performances start at 7.15pm, except Cardiff on Sunday 21 February at 4pm
• Running time approximately two hours including one interval
• Sung in English with surtitles in English (and Welsh in Cardiff and Llandudno)
Co-production with Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Supported by The Boltini Trust, WNO Commissions Group and WNO Partners.
Performances: Sunday, February 21, 2016 - Thursday, April 7, 2016
Cities
The Bristol Hippodrome
17 Mar
Milton Keynes Theatre
31 Mar
Venue Cymru, Llandudno
10 Mar
Birmingham Hippodrome
3 Mar
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
21 Feb - 27 Feb
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
7 Apr
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
24 Mar
Elena Langer : Figaro Gets a Divorce
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 7.30pm VAN DER AA: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Coronet Theatre 28 New Kent Road London SE1 6TJ United Kingdom +44 (0)20 7701 1500 http://coronettheatre.co.uk/contact/ info@coronetlondon.co.uk
Joana Carneiro conductor
Michel van der Aa director
Samuel West actor
Sound Intermedia sound projection
London Sinfonietta
When Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa died in 1935 he left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece The Book of Disquiet – the autobiography of his alter ego Bernando Soares. Michael Van der Aa’s score transforms Pessoa’s collection of dream vignettes and autobiographical anecdotes into a hypnotic work that mixes spoken word, performed by Samuel West, with music, electronics and video, probing the true nature of the ever-elusive self.
Michael van der Aa : THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 20:05 Nothing Glyndebourne Glyndebourne, Lewes, BN8 5UU United Kingdom +44 (0)1273 815000 http://glyndebourne.com info@glyndebourne.com
Creative team
Composer David Bruce
Librettist Glyn Maxwell
Conductor Sîan Edwards
Director Bijan Sheibani
Designer Giles Cadle
Lighting designer Paule Constable
Movement director Aline David
Assistant director Lucy Bradley
Assistant conductor Lee Reynolds
Music preparation Matt Fletcher, Ashley Beauchamp
Cast
Pierre Stuart Jackson
Karl Tristan Hambleton
Johan James Hall
Ursula Marta Fontanals-Simmons
Agnes Robyn Allegra Parton
GYO Chorus
Youth Orchestra
Southbank Sinfonia
If someone you knew declared that life had no meaning, how would you convince them it does?
That’s the question a group of teenagers ask themselves in Nothing, a compelling new youth opera that premieres at Glyndebourne this February.
They decide that each of the group must give up an object that means something to them. This starts with toys and clothes, but things quickly escalate as the classmates go to ever more extreme lengths to try to persuade their friend there are things worth caring about.
In Nothing members of Glyndebourne Youth Opera aged 14-19 perform alongside professional singers. It is the latest in a line of pioneering youth operas that have premiered on the main stage at Glyndebourne.
The opera has been adapted from Danish author Janne Teller’s award-winning novel by composer David Bruce and librettist Glyn Maxwell. Their popular adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Firework Maker’s Daughter wowed audiences in the UK and New York.
We recommend this production for those aged 12 and over.
Performances: 25–27 February
David Bruce : Nothing
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Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 7.30pm Egidija Medekšaitė, Leo Chadburn, Martin Arnold and more Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Apartment House
Wigmore Hall’s contribution to contemporary chamber music and repertoire development goes from strength to strength, as this unmissable programme richly demonstrates.
Apartment House, formed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze in 1995, became the first contemporary music ensemble to win the coveted Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music and Song in 2012.
In this programme for string quartet, piano, percussion and harmonium, the ensemble gives the first performance of Freezywater, a Wigmore Hall commission by Leo Chadburn, known to many as the ‘transgressive pop’ artist Simon Bookish. Works by Lithuanian composer Egidija Medekšaitė, Toronto-based composer and performer Martin Arnold, and Dutch/Brazilian composer Luiz Henrique Yudo add to the concert’s ear-catching mix of world and UK premičres.
Egidija Medekšaitė : Pratiksha Luiz Henrique Yudo : A QUARTET FOR FRANÇOIS MORELLET Henning Christiansen : Modeller: First Series Op. 33 Leo Chadburn : Freezywater Martin Arnold : Stain Ballad Luiz Henrique Yudo : A QUARTET FOR CLAUDE MOLLET John White : Newspaper Reading Machine
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