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6 Jun



United States
 Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 4:00pm 
Organist Gail Archer Performs in Oakland
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
2619 Broadway
United States
510-444-3555
http://www.firstchurchoakland.org

Tickets: Suggested donation $10
organist Gail Archer

Gail Archer is a Grammy-nominated, international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer. Lucid Culture proclaimed, "Like the composers she chooses, Archer's playing spans the range of human emotions—with Bach, there’s always plenty to communicate, but this time out it was mostly an irresistibly celebratory vibe." Ms. Archer's recordings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, a festive discography that highlights her musical mastery on grand Romantic instruments as well as Baroque tracker organs. Her most recent compact disc, Bach, the Transcendent Genius, celebrates the brilliant improvisations on Lutheran hymn tunes of the "Great 18" chorale preludes (MM1013). Ms. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.

J.S. Bach : Great 18

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9 Jun



Netherlands
 Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 9pm 
Lunatree: Arvo Pärt in context
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Lunatree



Frederik Van Rossum : Arvo Pärt in Santiago de Compostela
Arvo Part : Es sang vor langen Jahren (arr. Lunatree)
Arnold Marinissen : De nachtegaal en de roos
Philip Glass : Music in Similar Motion
Ramūnas Motiekaitis : After Sunset Cycles
Brian Eno : Discreet Music
Arvo Part : Darf ich...
Steve Reich : Double Sextet
Arvo Part : Arbos (arr. Lunatree)

9 Jun



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Composer Focus: Thomas Adès
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Thomas Adès conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
Samuel Dale Johnson baritone
London Symphony Orchestra

In recent years composer-conductor Thomas Adès has become an unstoppable creative force. In this LSO composer focus series he conducts his own works alongside the music that influenced and informed his development as a composer.

Adès’ striking ‘voyage for orchestra’ Polaris is inspired by the magnetic pole-star, with its harmonies rotating hypnotically around a central pitch. Brahms’ legendary Violin Concerto is then performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter in anticipation of Adès’ own work Brahms for Baritone and Orchestra. Brahms is an ‘anti-homage’ to the composer inspired by the cold logic of his music, taking his compositional compulsions to extreme conclusions.

The programme closes with Adès’ one-movement symphony Tevot. As ever with Adès the dual meaning of the title is key to understanding the work fully, in this case ‘Tevot’ is both the Hebrew for ‘bars of music’ and used in the Bible to refer to Noah’s ark. Over its one-movement span the listener is guided through a monumental journey contrasting moments of incredible turbulence with sudden stasis and calm.


Thomas Ades : Polaris
Johannes Brahms : Violin Concerto
Thomas Ades : Brahms
Thomas Ades : Tevot

10 Jun



United Kingdom
 Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7.30pm 
POPPE: SPEICHER
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

Susanna Malkki conductor
London Sinfonietta


Much more than just a piece of music, Enno Poppe’s Speicher is a complex structure of variations and repetitions that pushes its 22 players to their interpretative and technical extremes. But it is just as immersive for its audience as it is for those on stage. Speicher is an adventure in active listening –gradually revealing clues as to what might be coming next through an unpredictable network of derivations. As we, too, become part of the unfolding music, so it truly comes alive. Developed over five years and premiered in Europe in 2013, this will be its landmark UK premiere.


Enno Poppe : Speicher

11 Jun



United Kingdom
 Friday, March 11, 2016 at 7pm 
Luigi Nono Concert
The Warehouse
13 Theed Street London
United Kingdom

Roberto Fabbriciani (flute) Mary Dullea (piano) , Silje Aker Johnsen (soprano), Thorolf Thuestad (sound)




Luigi Nono : Sofferte Onde Serene
Luigi Nono : La Fabbrica Illuminata
Luigi Nono : Das Atmende Klarsein

12 Jun



United Kingdom
 Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 7.30 pm 
The Musket Ball - Oratorio
Old Royal Naval Chapel
Greenwich
United Kingdom
http://www.ornc.org/Event/the-musket-ball-oratorio-120316

Tickets: £10 - £15
Christina Birchall-Sampson - Soprano
Lynette Alcantara - Mezzo
Mark Dobell - Tenor
Benjamin Bevan - Baritone

Epsom Chamber Choir
EC4 Orchestra

Piers Maxim - Composer/Conductor

A Threnody to the memory of The Honourable Admiral John Byng

piers maxim : The Musket Ball

13 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 7pm 
LSO FUTURES: CONCERT 2
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

François-Xavier Roth conductor
Synergy Vocals
London Symphony Orchestra


LSO Futures, the LSO's biennial festival of contemporary music, returns with two 20th-century masterpieces and a world premiere for the 21st.

François-Xavier Roth opens with Ligeti's Atmosphères, a swirling sound mass that rebelled as much against traditional forms as it did against the prevailing dogma of serialism. And Berio's Sinfonia, a monumental work from the Italian master, famous for its haunting ode to the late Martin Luther King and a middle movement that weaves three centuries of musical fragments into a rich tapestry of familiar quotations. 50 years on from their premieres, these two works provide a fitting frame for a new work by former LSO Panufnik composer Elizabeth Ogonek.


Gyorgy Ligeti : Atmosphères
Elizabeth Ogonek : Sleep & Unremembrance
Luciano Berio : Sinfonia

13 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 4pm 
LSO Futures: Concert 1
LSO St Luke's, London
161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/
admin@lso.co.uk

François-Xavier Roth conductor
LSO Chamber Orchestra

LSO Futures, the LSO's biennial festival of contemporary music, returns with two chamber symphonies written at opposite ends of the 20th century that follow a world premier from the 21st.

Donald Glaser won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber, a piece of equipment used for the study of subatomic particles. This is how we begin the 2016 edition of LSO Futures, with a breakthrough: a world premiere from Darren Bloom inspired by this landmark scientific event. Then it’s two chamber symphonies, two more breakthroughs and two very different composers: Schoenberg’s chamber symphony, written on the brink of his revolutionary break with tonality, and Thomas Adès’s, a work of staggering maturity and accomplishment from the 19 year old who would go on to become one of Britain’s leading living composers.


Darren Bloom : Dr Glaser's Experiment
Thomas Ades : Chamber Symphony
Arnold Schoenberg : Chamber Symphony

13 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 5.00pm - 7.00pm 
Celebration of Spring
Alyth, London
NW11 7EN
United Kingdom
http://www.alyth.org.uk/
katie@alyth.org.uk

Tickets: £12 (under 16s free)
VIVIENNE BELOS (MBE), CONDUCTOR
Vivienne Belos, soprano
Tami Tal, soprano
Katie Hainbach, mezzo soprano
Rachel Broadbent, oboe
Stephen Dickinson, piano
Kimon Pallikaropoulos, piano
Kelvin Thomson, piano
Kevin Vockerodt, piano
Noam Solomons-Wise, percussion
Lior Solomons-Wise, shofar
ALYTH CHORAL SOCIETY
ALYTH CHILDREN'S CHOIR





Bob Chilcott : Songs and Cries of London Town
Julian Dawes : Psalm 140
Julian Dawes : Priestly Blessing
Julian Dawes : Limericks from Edward Lear
Julian Dawes : Love Songs
Julian Dawes : Siren Song
Kelvin Thomson : Song's Eternity
Kelvin Thomson : Babel
Kelvin Thomson : There is only...

13 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 6.30pm 
Uroboros Ensemble
The Warehouse
13 Theed Street London
United Kingdom

Uroboros Ensemble

This concert will be followed by the announcement of the prize winners of the London Ear Festival Composers’ Competition 2016


Harrison Birtwistle : Quartet for oboe and string trio
Suzanne Stelzenbach : New work
Michael Finnissy : June
Helmut Zapf : Trio 1
Heinz Holliger : Mobile
Elliott Carter : Trilogy

14 Jun 
 
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16 Jun



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Recorder Futures
Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservaotire
Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place, Birmingham, B3 3HG.
United Kingdom
0121 331 5901
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire



Works by Berio, Buck, Tedde, plus new works for recorders by Conservatoire student composers

Take this opportunity to hear brand new works alongside modern classics for recorder solo and ensemble.


Gavin Bryars : A Family Likeness for Recorder Sextet
Arvo Part : Pari Intervallo

17 Jun 
 
18 Jun



United Kingdom
 Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Student Composers' Concert
Sherwell Theatre
Sherwell Theatre, Plymouth University
United Kingdom
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=24543



The focus of this year's concert will be neo-classical, film and modern music. It is a reflection on modernity and music styles. The programme will feature new music from Plymouth University BA (Hons) Music students including final year composers.
Admission free


Contemporary Composers : Various

18 Jun



Scotland
 Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm 
MacMillan Little Mass
Usher Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland

Peter Oundjian Conductor
Nicola Benedetti Violin

Crazy in love…when Hector Berlioz couldn’t win the girl of his dreams, he went for broke. The result? His astonishing Symphonie fantastique – a wild-eyed, opium-fuelled blockbuster that still sets hairs on end today. With Peter Oundjian at the helm, a specially-written choral work by one of Scotland’s greatest living composers sung by the RSNO Junior Chorus, and the nation’s favourite Nicola Benedetti playing Szymanowski’s sensuous, shimmering concerto, this is a special 125 performance not to be missed.


Karol Szymanowski : Violin Concerto No.2
James MacMillan : Little Mass
Hector Berlioz : Symphony Fantastique

18 Jun



United Kingdom
 Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Debussy, Benjamin & Stravinsky
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen Conductor
Iestyn Davies counter-tenor
BBC Singers

Night music and mysterious voices infuse both Debussy's evocative Nocturnes and George Benjamin's new work for star counter tenor Iestyn Davies, Dream of the Song. Expect thrilling dynamism and crystalline detail from Oliver Knussen's performance of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, the composer's turbulent, chromatic war-time masterpiece.

Part of the Barbican’s Benjamin at the Barbican


Gunter Schuller : Dreamscape
Claude Debussy : Nocturnes
George Benjamin : Dream of the Song
Igor Stravinsky : Symphony in Three Movements

18 Jun



United Kingdom
 Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Anthony Payne Visions and Journeys
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

Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor | Leonard Elschenbroich cello

Visions and journeys: from a scented garden high above the Mediterranean, Walton imagined a cello concerto that blossoms with song; Albert Roussel took the elegance of the French baroque, and exploded it to release a burst of energy and waves of glittering sound; Anthony Payne takes a sea voyage to the Scilly Isles (tonight’s performance is an 80th birthday gift to this last of the British romantics); and Georges Bizet conjures up the sunlight, fragrance and passion of Spain, in what’s surely got to be the world’s favourite opera.

Sexy melodies and ravishing colours: Yan Pascal Tortelier will be in his element, joined by rising star Leonard Elschenbroich, and reunited with the BBC Philharmonic.


Anthony Payne : Visions and Journeys
William Walton : Cello Concerto
Albert Roussel : Suite in F major
Georges Bizet : Carmen – orchestral extracts

19 Jun



United States
 Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 7:30pm 
PhiloSonia Inaugural Concert - "Revelations"
The Old Stone House
336 Third Street, btw. 4th/5th Avenues, Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
http://www.theoldstonehouse.org
info@theoldstonehouse.org

Tickets: $20/15
Stanichka Dimitrova,violin
Igor Pikayzen violin    
Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola    
Adrian Daurov, cello


PhiloSonia is an innovative concert experience, designed to create a personal connection between audience members and classical music. 
PhiloSonia offers an insight into established and new works from the chamber music repertoire. Through compelling programming and interactive elements listeners are guided through an in-depth exploration of a wide variety of works.


Ludwig Beethoven : String Quartet Op. 59 #1, Allegro
Ludwig Beethoven : String Quartet Op. 59 #3, Menuetto; Allegro Molto
Bedøich Smetana : String Quartet # 1 "From My Life", Vivace
Franz Schubert : String Quartet D 810 "Death and The Maiden", Andante con moto
Felix Mendelssohn : String Quartet #6 in F minor, Allegro; Adagio

20 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 1.00pm to 5.00pm and 7.00pm to 9.00 pm 
Soundmarks
Hoxton Hall
130 Hoxton St, London N1 6SH
United Kingdom
020 7684 0060
http://https://www.hoxtonhall.co.uk/

Tickets: Daytime £15, £10 and Evening £10, £7
Jerry Wigens, composer, bass clarinet, with:
Evie O’Driscoll, cello
Rosie Bergonzi, percussion
Dylan Bates, bongos

Janet Oates, composer, voice, with
CoMA Singers:
Gordon Banner
Katie Boot
Elizabeth Dobson
Imogen Dyer
Jill House
John McCleod
Sonja Mes
Page Starr

CoMA Winds:
Adam Lewin - clarinet
Emily Nevis - flute
Karen Burnell - tenor horn
Ian Mitchell - bass clarinet

Shamim Azad, poet, story teller
Yousuf Ali Kahn - tabla


Isabel White, performance poet, with:
James Hodgson - performance poet
Sabina Virtuso - violin
Robin Pilcher – performance poet
Cassandra Mathews – Guitar/Lute
Emma O’Rourke – designer
Irene Wernli – dancer, choreographer

Ilze Ikse, flute
Daniel Figols, composer, laptop

Paula Newbery, artist
Marjorie Lazaro, poet

Contakt:
Kerry Andrews, cello
Karen Burnell, tenor horn
Paul Burnell, oboe
Deborah Edwards, laptop
Derek Foster, vibes


Soundmarks is a contemporary variety show - a series of ‘events’ throughout the day in various spaces in the building, organized by Contakt, a contemporary music ensemble.
Soundmarks aims to explore the significance of place in music and our collective and individual lives.

Supported using public fundings by Arts Council England.


Kerry Andrews : TBA
Janet Oates : Off the wall
Janet Oates : Shop
Janet Oates : Cecilia
John King : Lux Aeterna
Robert Percy : Hakka
Deborah Broderick Edwards : Coasts
Derek Foster : Colours of Meditation
Daniel Figols : SVIRA
Jerry Wigens : ACPT
Shamim Azad : A Story
Isabel White : Warp and Weft

20 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 3pm 
James MacMillan: Seven Last Words From the Cross
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia chorus
Eamonn Dougan conductor


James MacMillan may well be the finest British composer since Britten, and his music – driven by passionate personal beliefs – simply burns to communicate. His Seven Last Words are already a modern classic; here they’re the climax of a powerfully-conceived Palm Sunday sequence from some of our foremost champions of contemporary music, the Britten Sinfonia and Chorus.


William Byrd : Miserere mei
Dmitri Shostakovich : Chamber Symphony Op 110a
J.S. Bach : Cantata O Jesu Christ,mein’s Lebens Licht BWV 118
James MacMillan : Seven Last Words from the Cross

20 Jun



United States
 Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 7pm 
Equinox: light and dark
Turner Hall
1040 N 4th St
United States
414-271-0711
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/equinox.aspx
emwoehlke@presentmusic.org

Tickets: 15, 25, 35
Present Music

Last season's Equinox was "aglow with promise" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), contrasting light and dark, death and life, and this year is no different as Present Music presents Equinox: light and dark, March 20, 2016. Performing the brooding, atmospheric Night Scenes from the Ospedale by Robert Honstein (written as part of the Vivaldi Project, the goal of which was to weave early and new music together seamlessly) will make an intriguing contrast to Vivaldi’s sunny L’Estro Armonico. Judd Greenstein’s Clearing, Dawn and Dance (“…an epically high flying work reminiscent of Glass's dance and cinema pieces while never abandoning Greenstein's own signature palette of sounds” - wqxr), Andrew Norman’s Music in Circles (a “5 minute static electricity storm” - Pitchfork) and music by Ligeti and Gubaidulina will connect as we cross the divide from winter to spring.


21 Jun



United Kingdom
 Monday, March 21, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Marta Kowalczyk violin; Somi Kim piano; Maxwell String Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Marta Kowalczyk violin
Somi Kim piano
Maxwell String Quartet



Igor Stravinsky : Three Pieces for String Quartet
Robert Schumann : Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in D minor Op. 121
Krzysztof Penderecki : La Follia for solo violin
Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quartet in E flat major Op. 127

22 Jun



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 6pm 
Berio Sequenzas
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Philippa Davies flute
Gareth Hulse oboe
Lucy Wakeford harp
Lawrence Power viola
Ian Brown piano
Chris Brannick percussion




Luciano Berio : Sequenzas I, II, IV & VII
Luciano Berio : Naturale for viola, percussion and tape

22 Jun



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 7.30pm 
American Soundscapes from John Williams, Ginastera and Copland
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Sergio Tiempo piano


Gustavo Dudamel’s name is a byword for innovation and energy, just as the LA Philharmonic is renowned for its virtuosity and flair. And they start their London residency the way they intend to go on: giving a jolt of electricity to New World classics by Ginastera and Copland, and sharing the colour and optimism of John Williams and Andrew Norman, composers aglow with Californian sunshine.


John Williams : Soundings
Alberto Ginastera : Piano concerto No 1
Andrew Norman : Play: Level 1
Aaron Copland : Appalachian spring

22 Jun



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 7.30pm 
A Celebration of Music by Female Composers
Old Brumby United Church
185, Ashby Road, Scunthorpe
United Kingdom

Tickets: Free Admission (retiring collection)
Isle of Axholme Orchestra

A range of music by female composers from early to present day.

Esther Hopkins : Bowthorpe Oak

22 Jun



United States
 Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 8PM 

Redcat
Disney Hall Los Angeles
United States
http://pianospheres.com
pianospheres@gmail.com

Mark Robson--piano



Hugh Levick : The Story of ' I '

23 Jun



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7.30pm 
A musical journey through Holy Week
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL
United Kingdom
http://www.botolph.org.uk/

Tickets: £12 (inc glass of wine), under 25's £5
London Concord Singers
Jessica Norton (conductor)

For their Easter Concert on Wednesday 23 March 2016, London Concord Singers, with their new conductor Jessica Norton, are presenting a musical journey through events of Holy Week, combining contemporary works such as John Tavener's The Lamb, James MacMillan's Tenebrae Responsories, Gabriel Jackson's O Sacrum Convivium and Robert Hugill's Resurrexi, with motets and anthems by Bruckner, Brahms, Weelkes and Byrd, concluding with JS Bach's great motet Jesu, meine Freude.


John Tavener : The Lamb
James MacMillan : Tenebrae Responsories
Gabriel Jackson : O Sacrum Convivium
Robert Hugill : Resurrexi

23 Jun



Netherlands
 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at  
TRIBUTE TO HENRI DUTILLEUX
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

MUSICIANS

Lisa Batiashvili - viool
Valeriy Sokolov - viool
Gérard Caussé - altviool
Gautier Capuçon - cello
Frank Braley - piano




Henri Dutilleux : Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher
Henri Dutilleux : Drie préludes
Maurice Ravel : Pianotrio in a
Claude Debussy : Sonate in g
Henri Dutilleux : Ainsi la nuit...

23 Jun



France
 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 8.30pm 
LE MIRACLE DE LA ROSE
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr

Ensemble intercontemporain

In his semi-autobiographical novel The Miracle of the Rose (1946), Jean Genet transfigures experience. This is the inspiration for Henze’s Imaginary Theatre, in which the solo clarinet incarnates the book’s central character.

Coproduction Ensemble Intercontemporain Philharmonie de Paris

Ce concert est enregistré par France musique


Manfred Trojahn : Nocturne - Minotauromachia, pour ensemble
Matthias Pintscher : Mar'eh, pour violon et ensemble
Hans Werne Henze : Le Miracle de la Rose. Musique pour un clarinettiste et treize musiciens Ensemble

24 Jun 
 
25 Jun



United States
 Friday, March 25, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. 
BMOP Presents Song Cycle Child Alice 3/25
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu

Tickets: $20-50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Soprano Courtenay Budd

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the 2016 Musical America Ensemble of the Year, ends its 20th anniversary season with the Boston premiere of David Del Tredici’s complete Child Alice (1981) featuring the acclaimed soprano Courtenay Budd. Based on poems prefacing Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this 135-minute evening-length work changed the course of 20th century music.

David Del Tredici : Child Alice

26 Jun 
 
27 Jun 
 
28 Jun 
 
29 Jun



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at  
The Importance of Being Earnest
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home

ROH

Irish composer Gerald Barry’s wildly inventive and idiosyncratic setting of Wilde’s classic play The Importance of Being Earnest has been an extraordinary success. Since its 2011 concert premiere in Los Angeles and its 2013 stage premiere in Nancy, it has enchanted audiences with its high-energy madcap humour, and in 2013 it won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best large-scale composition. Ramin Gray’s fabulously ridiculous production for the Royal Opera House marked the work’s UK stage premiere.

Barry’s hyperactive score runs helter-skelter through numerous musical languages – everything from serialist pastiche to galumphing concerto grosso gets a look in, riveted through with increasingly giddy variations on ‘Auld Lang Syne’. From the basso profundo Lady Bracknell’s spluttered Beethovenian Schiller to Gwendolen and Cecily’s Sprechstimme battle of spite through megaphones to the accompaniment of 40 solemnly smashed plates, The Importance of Being Earnest is insanely virtuoso, brilliantly hilarious and packed with invention.

Performances until April 3rd.


Gerald Barry : The Importance of Being Earnest

30 Jun 
 
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