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7 Jun



Scotland
 Thursday, April 7, 2016 at  
Hände/Hesketh: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts
Woodend Barn
Banchory AB31 5QA
Scotland
+44 (0)1330 825431
http://www.woodendbarn.co.uk
mail@woodendbarn.co.uk

Clare Hammond, piano

Clare will perform two new works in the 2015-16 concert season for piano and film, Hände, by Ken Hesketh, and The Nose, by Ed Hughes. These were premiered at the 2015 Cornerstone Arts Festival of Liverpool Hope University in November. Clare will perform them again at Kings Place in London on the 9 April, at Cardiff University on the 12 April, and at the Cheltenham Festival on the 10 July 2016, with a further performance for the Sound Festival Aberdeen at Woodend Barn in the autumn.

Ken has chosen Hände: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts, a visually arresting and surreal masterpiece by Stella F. Simon and Miklos Blandy, as the backdrop for his work. The music reflects Ken's interest in the bizarre and eerie on celluloid and was written specifically with Clare's pianism in mind.

The plot uses humans’ hands as “characters in a dance-inspired narrative exploring female experience and representation” (Jennifer Wild). As hands are used to communicate meaning and context, their shapes, groupings and physicality can be interpreted as a form of gestural hand or sign language. It is this interpretation that informs the musical score and role of the pianist in this work.


Kenneth Hesketh : Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts

7 Jun



United Kingdom
 Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7.15pm 
Figaro Gets a Divorce
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Royal Parade Plymouth PL1 2TR United Kingdom
United Kingdom
01752 267222
http://www.theatreroyal.com
info@theatreroyal.com

WNO

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.


Elena Langer : Figaro Gets a Divorce

7 Jun



United Kingdom
 Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7.30pm 
John Casken Apollinaire’s Bird
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

The Hallé
Sir Mark Elder conductor | Stéphane Rancourt oboe



In 2014, the Hallé’s principal oboist Stéphane Rancourt wowed us with the world premiere of John Casken’s Apollinaire’s Bird. The concerto (which has been short-listed for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award) was such a success with audiences, Sir Mark wanted to repeat the performance as soon as possible. It takes as its inspiration a poem Apollinaire wrote while fighting in the trenches during the First World War.

We also hear two fascinating Elgar works composed during that same conflict. When Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony was premiered in 1935, the work seemed to presage the coming of another war. It is a symphony of extraordinary, almost apocalyptic power that never fails to make a massive impression.


Edward Elgar : Une voix dans le desert
John Casken : Apollinaire’s Bird
Edward Elgar : Le drapeau belge
Maurice Ravel : Pavane pour une infante défunte
Vaughan Williams : Symphony No.4

8 Jun 
 
9 Jun



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Hände/Hesketh: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts
Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
United Kingdom
020 7520 1440
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/
info@kingsplace.co.uk

Clare Hammond, piano

Recently selected as BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Rising Star’, pianist Clare Hammond returns to Kings Place with an imaginative and enterprising programme, featuring two new works for piano and film. Hände, by Ken Hesketh, and The Nose, by Ed Hughes, both use silent film as the backdrop for works of breath-taking ingenuity and beauty. These have been programmed alongside Mazurkas by Szymanowski and Adès, Bach's imposing Toccata in D minor, and Medtner's passionate and turbulent Sonata Romantica.

Acclaimed for the ‘unfaltering bravura and conviction’ of her performances (Gramophone Magazine), Clare is rapidly developing a reputation for ‘brilliantly imaginative concert programmes’ (BBC Music Magazine). Her Panufnik Festival at Kings Place with the Brodsky Quartet in 2014 was acclaimed as the ‘culmination of this year’s centenary’ by the Telegraph while the Guardian noted the ‘great flair’ with which she premiered Ken Hesketh’s Horae at the Cheltenham Festival. Join her in this exhilarating exploration of contemporary music and film!


Karol Szymanowski : Three Mazurkas, Op. 50 Nos, 2, 9 and 6
Thomas Ades : Mazurkas, Op. 27
Kenneth Hesketh : Hände (for piano and film)
J.S. Bach : Toccata in D minor, BWV 913
Ed Hughes : The Nose (for piano and film)
Nicolas Medtner : Sonata Romantica, Op. 53 No. 1

9 Jun



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 2.15pm 
Kenneth Hesketh: In Ictu Oculi (World Premiere)
Royal College of Music, London
Prince Consort Rd, London SW7
United Kingdom

National Youth Wind Ensemble, Phillip Scott, conductor



Kenneth Hesketh : In Ictu Oculi

10 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 3.30pm 
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Blaze of Youth
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

NYOGB
Kristjan Järvi conductor | Chad Hoopes soloist

The world's greatest orchestra of teenagers burns bright in this electrifying sound experience conducted by vibrant musical personality Kristjan Järvi.

Join virtuosic young soloist Chad Hoopes and 'the most uplifting orchestra in the world' (The Times), for Fire and Blood, a concerto by one of America's greatest composers Michael Daugherty. It's highly charged music, describing the fiery furnances of 1930's America car assembly lines, with colourful orchestration and pulsing rhythms.

In contrast Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Firebird is a romantic sparkling fairy-tale ballet based on the Russian legend, weaving human and supernatural worlds, and wonderfully showcasing every instrument in the orchestra.

A production of NYO in association with the Menuhin Competition.


Igor Stravinsky : Fireworks
Michael Daugherty : Fire and Blood
Igor Stravinsky : The Firebird

10 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 3pm 
Schumann, Judith Weir and Ravel
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Johnny Herford baritone; James Baillieu piano

Storytelling is central to the work of Judith Weir, one of Britain’s finest contemporary composers.

Johnny Herford and James Baillieu enter Weir’s bold soundworld, exploring the confrontations and dramatic twists and turns of her Songs from the Exotic and other landmark compositions.

Their programme is crowned by Ravel’s Histoires naturelles, witty settings of verse about the individual characteristics of five animals.


Robert Schumann : Liederkreis Op. 24
Judith Weir : Ständchen
Judith Weir : Blackbirds and Thrushes
Judith Weir : On Buying a Horse
Judith Weir : Songs from the exotic
Maurice Ravel : Histoires naturelles

11 Jun 
 
12 Jun



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home

Royal Ballet

Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014. His earlier creation Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the Company’s first full-length ballet since 1995 and is now one of its great popular successes. The Winter’s Tale has built on that success, and on its premiere was acclaimed by critics and audiences as an intelligent, distinctive and emotionally powerful story, told through exquisite dance.

The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through remorse and regret – and after a statue of Hermione appears to come miraculously to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. With powerful designs by Bob Crowley and atmospheric music by Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale is a masterful modern narrative ballet.

Performances:

12 APRIL—10 JUNE 2016


Joby Talbot : The Winter's Tale

13 Jun



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 1pm 
Bartók, Bryce Dessner and Schumann
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Thomas Gould violin
Clare Finnimore viola
Caroline Dearnley cello
Huw Watkins piano


Bryce Dessner, known to many as the guitarist from The National, has been leading a double life as a prolific composer and curator in the realm of creative new music.

His compositions, marked by a keen sensitivity to instrumental colour and texture, feature in this hour-long programme alongside Bartók’s folklore-inspired Duos and Schumann’s evergreen Piano Quartet.


Bela Bartok : Duos for 2 violins BB104
Bryce Dessner : El Chan
Robert Schumann : Piano Quartet in E flat major Op. 47

14 Jun



Netherlands
 Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 9.15pm 
Adès, Martinů
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
Thomas Adès - dirigent
Jennifer Johnston - mezzosopraan
Simon Keenlyside - bariton



Thomas Ades : These Premises are Alarmed, op. 16
Bohuslav Martinù : Les fresques de Piero della Francesca, H. 352
Thomas Ades : Totentanz

15 Jun 
 
16 Jun



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Sun, Moon and Stars
Bristol Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TJ
United Kingdom
0117 926 4879
http://bristol-cathedral.co.uk
reception@bristol-cathedral.co.uk

UWE Singers, Lydbrook Band and members of the South-West Open Youth Orchestra

The conductor will be Ian Holmes, with narrator Barry Farrimond and organist Alison Howell.

The UWE Singers join forces with a brass band for the first time in this sparkling concert of choral, brass and organ music within the beautiful surroundings of Bristol Cathedral. Lydbrook Band, one of the South-West’s premier brass bands, will accompany the UWE Singers in a programme of music conducted by Ian Holmes, including John Rutter’s acclaimed Gloria for choir, brass ensemble, timpani, percussion and organ.

Choir and brass can also be heard together in the third performance of Liz Lane Silver Rose for brass band and narrator, commissioned by Bristol 2014. First performed in November 2014 with actor Robert Hardy CBE, this new version will see the addition of voices and also feature members of the South-West Open Youth Orchestra, the UK’s first disabled-led orchestra for young musicians. The work will be narrated by actor Barry Farrimond, Managing Director of OpenUp Music, also known as Ed Grundy from BBC Radio 4 The Archers.

Lydbrook Band, whose association with Bristol includes performances at Colston Hall and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, will also play the final movement of Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 (‘Organ’) in a glorious arrangement by Philip Wilby, the theme to which featured in the 1995 Disney film Babe. Other brass band arrangements include the magnificent Wagner Procession to the Minster (from his opera ‘Lohengrin’), Boëllmann Suite Gothique with its rousing finale featuring the lower brass, and the sweet melody of Dvorak Rusalka’s Song to the Moon.


Léon Boëllmann : Suite Gothique Op. 25
Antonin Dvorak : Rusalka’s Song to the Moon
Liz Lane : Silver Rose
John Rutter : Gloria
Camille Saint-Saëns : Movement 2 from Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78
Richard Wagner : Procession to the Minster (from ‘Lohengrin’)

17 Jun 
 
18 Jun 
 
19 Jun



Austria
 Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 8pm 
Takemitsu, Cage, Varèse, Hiller
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at

Josef Gumpinger, künstlerische Leitung
Johannes Wildner, Dirigent
Miriam Fussenegger, Schauspiel (Maria Stuart)



Toru Takemitsu : Rain Tree Sketch
John Cage : Third Construction
Edgar Varèse : Ionisation
Wilfried Hiller : An diesem heutigen Tage. Monodram für Schauspielerin und Schlagzeug

19 Jun



Hungary
 Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 7.30pm 
The King’s Singers
Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.mupa.hu
info@mupa.hu

The King’s Singers

The works by Morley, Reger, Ligeti, Bartók, Biebl, Kodály and Bob Chilcott, along with a popular selection from the repertoire of The King’s Singers.

The royal vocal ensemble are returning guests to Budapest, where their performances are always greatly anticipated. Their concert programmes cover a wide range of works from Renaissance madrigals to the covers of current pop hits, and their ethereally clear sound has become a byword over the years.

46 years, over 2000 musical pieces, more than 150 records, two Grammy Awards, the premiere of some 200 contemporary works, and thousands of sell-out concerts in Europe, the United States and the Far East. Figures that characterize what is one the best, if not the best, a cappella ensembles today, which made its debut at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 1 May, 1968.

Though 22 singers have held tenures in the ensemble during its history of almost five decades, The King’s Singers owns an inimitable sound that can only be compared to that of the Vienna Philharmonic or the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. What makes these gentlemen truly unique is that whatever music they perform, the quality is world-class: they apply the same consistent enthusiasm, team spirit and professionalism to everything they sing, be it a Renaissance motet, a mass, a chanson, a Romantic choral song, a spiritual, a contemporary piece or a pop hit.


Contemporary Composers : Various

20 Jun 
 
21 Jun



United Kingdom
 Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 19:30 
210416
The Yard
Unit 2A, Queen’s Yard White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN
United Kingdom
http://www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/event/210416/

Tickets: £5 in advance / £8 on the door

210416|JS#r1|Ltpor/bot|TPsfm|JW/ajftggb|JSripcm2016|JFcm2



ddmmyy commences its long awaited London series with 210416, an evening dedicated to experimental music for ensemble, electronics and objects.

James Saunders: reassigned #1 (world premiere)
Laurie Tompkins: Puddles of Rain / Buckets of Tears
Tim Parkinson: Song For Many
Jennifer Walshe: /AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
Jack Sheen: Rest in peace club music 2016 (world premiere)
Jürg Frey: Circular Music no.2



21 Jun



United Kingdom
 Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7pm-8pm 
No Dice: Stillness
The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus Christ
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PG
United Kingdom
http://https://www.facebook.com/events/1264415096906762/

Tickets: £2


There are few acoustics in the UK like Holy Name Church with its imposing exterior and Tardis-like interior, sustaining sounds long after they begin. No Dice brings you an evening celebrating the space inside a building heavy in symbolism and ritual with five specially commissioned pieces on the theme of modern spirituality. This concert will feature works by local composers such as Rob Corrin, Sophie Sully, and Luke Mather


22 Jun



Hungary
 Friday, April 22, 2016 at 8pm 
Light from the Outside World
Budapest Spring Festival
Various, Budapest
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.bsf.hu
info@btf.hu

Light from the Outside World

Jeff Mills and the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda

The American Jeff Mills is one of today’s best-known and most innovative DJs, who also started to work with symphonic orchestras in recent years. He presented Light from the Outside World in 2012 at the Paris Salle Pleyel, and the project has since met with great success in Portugal, Belgium and Australia. At the Budapest concert, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda will be directed by Christophe Mangou, the conductor of the Paris premiere.

One of the greatest stars of techno clubs, Jeff Mills came up with a unique project in 2000, composing a new musical score for Metropolis (1926), Fritz Lang’s cultic film. This monumental work effected a great breakthrough. It was wild, timeless and narrative in nature at the same time. It was shown at several places in the world, including the Paris Music Museum, the London Royal Albert Hall and the International Festival of Vienna.

It was at this time Mills started to explore a different sound, a different kind of musical dramaturgy. “Music always tells a story. Some we understand, some we don’t, and sometimes it all comes together only later,” which is one of the greatest adventures.


Jeff Mills : Light from the Outside World

22 Jun



Hungary
 Friday, April 22, 2016 at 7.30pm 
László Dubrovay: Faust, the Damned
Budapest Spring Festival
Various, Budapest
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.bsf.hu
info@btf.hu

Featuring:
Ballet Pécs, Zugló Philharmonia – King Saint Stephen Symphony Orchestra

Set, costumes:
Zsuzsa Molnár

Choreography:
Balázs Vincze

Conductor:
Kálmán Záborszky


László Dubrovay finished his grand ballet more than twenty years ago. The story of Faust the Damned is based on the two parts of Goethe’s masterpiece, and like that philosophical drama, the music of this piece also strives for an encyclopaedic thoroughness. “All I know about the apparatus of contemporary music is in there,” said the composer once. And indeed: the orchestra bathes in special colours, the dance scenes shape living characters, the notes turn into images on their own account, as it were.

Production choreographer Balázs Vincze thinks Dubrovay’s vision of Faust is “monumental, its story worked out in great detail; it is astonishingly colourful, you can almost visualize the composition without the dance: the composer’s personality is at least as inspiring as Faust’s wanderings, loves and descent into hell.”

“Is damnation possible at the end of an honest, exemplary life? Can the forces of evil be victorious?” asks László Dubrovay. “This is the question addressed by this dance drama, whose music is one of the most extensive ballet compositions of the past seventy years. The dramaturgy of the plot allowed me to create a great many kinds of moods, and musical material rich in gestures and movements, all of which serves, together with the way dance and motion communicate, a harmonious presentation on the stage.”


László Dubrovay : Faust, the Damned

22 Jun



Germany
 Friday, April 22, 2016 at 10.30pm 
Cantate égale pays
Saalbau Witten
Bergerstraße 25, 58452 Witten
Germany
02302 581 24 24
http://www.kulturforum-witten.de/saalbauhauswitten/?no_cache=1
kulturforum@stadt-witten.de

Lighting Design and Direction Daniel Lévy
IRCAM Computer Music Designer Sébastien Roux


First imagined in 2007 and then further defined through the reading of Bach’s cantatas, this work by Gérard Pesson marks the his first acquaintance with electronics and virtual instruments.

The French composer's poetry – a theater of lights and intermittence – envelops the cantata’s entire scenic space: a meticulous machine of instrumental gestures, of found objects, adapted or created, "acoustic skies", the glass organ. The dramatic art is reminiscent of Baroque divisions with its movements of variable configurations, the rhythms of dance, the alternate performances of the soloists and the ensemble.

In this "country-cantata" which is made of traces and memories, origins and destinations, the lively writing of today present (texts by the young Mathieu Nuss and Elena Andreyev) is interrupted with a visitation from the past; here is the immense poetry of Gérard Manley Hopkins and his vision of nature transfigured.


Gérard Pesson : Cantate égale pays

23 Jun



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Shakespeare 400
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

BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay Conductor


“How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!”

Shakespeare’s star-cross’d lovers have inspired composers for centuries, but there’s still nothing to quite match Prokofiev’s great Soviet ballet-score: Romeo and Juliet retold in music that’s as sharp as a rapier and as tender as a kiss.

It’s a true 20th century classic, and on the day that marks both the exact 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the traditional date of his birth, we could hardly celebrate the bard with anything else. But we haven’t stopped there, BBC Radio 3 has commissioned five of the freshest young talents amongst Manchester composers each to write music for one of Shakespeare’s plays, and we’ve invited Andrew Gourlay, one of our brightest young conductors, to give the world premieres.

“So all my best is dressing old words new…”

Preview, 6.30pm: Michael Symmons Roberts hosts a debate on the place of music in the work of Shakespeare.


Nina Whiteman : The map of days outworn Aaron
Aaron Parker : After sunset fades
Chiu-yu Chou : The Tongue
Tom Coult : Sonnet machine
Daniel Kidane : Incidental music (based on Shakespeare Sonnet 154 )
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo and Juliet - selection

24 Jun



Scotland
 Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 3pm 
Glass Symphony No.9
Usher Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland

Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies Conductor
Melvyn Tan Piano

Dennis Russell Davies has an unquestioned commitment to the music of our age and has recorded several Philip Glass symphonies to great acclaim with this leading Central European orchestra. Not only do they anchor the Bruckner Festival in Austria, as their name might suggest, they tour extensively. Joining them on this tour is celebrated pianist Melvyn Tan for some powerful Beethoven.


Ludwig Van Beethoven : King Stephan Overture
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Piano Concerto No.4
Philip Glass : Symphony No.9

24 Jun



United States
 Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. 
Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert
Grace Episcopal Church
254 Hicks Street
United States
718-624-1850
http://www.gracebrooklyn.org
info@gracebrooklyn.org

Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)

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

24 Jun



United Kingdom
 Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 3pm 
Song recital of Shakespeare Songs
Peninsula Arts
Plymouth University Drake Circus Plymouth Devon PL4 8AA United Kingdom
United Kingdom
+44 1752 600600
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/your-university/peninsula-arts

Alexander Robin Baker - baritone, Jo Ramadan - piano

Song recital of Shakespeare Songs including works by Clive Jenkins, Roxana Panufnik, Gerald Finzie and new Shakespeare songs by Plymouth University student composers.
Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA, Artory, from Peninsula Arts Tel: 01752 585050


Contemporary Composers : Various

25 Jun 
 
26 Jun 
 
27 Jun



United States
 Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 7:30pm 
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century

Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.

Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet

27 Jun



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) Piano Sonata No. 2 (world première)
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Rolf Hind piano

Rolf Hind’s recital features the world première of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Second Piano Sonata, a major new work commissioned by Wigmore Hall from the octogenarian composer.

Hind, an acclaimed pianist-composer, considers impermanence and transcendence in his own work Thus Have I Heard, which recalls the opening lines of Buddhist scriptural texts, reflecting the aural tradition of the Buddha’s teachings.

The programme also includes the keenly awaited UK première of Ten Studies (1984–98) by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, who refers to his creation as ‘studies of the piano’s character or soul. A soul that has been created by all the music… written for the instrument, from its childhood until today.’


Rolf Hind : Thus Have I Heard
Hans Abrahamsen : Ten Studies
Simon Steen-Andersen : Rerendered (for piano and two assistants)
Peter Maxwell Davies : Piano Sonata No. 2

28 Jun



United Kingdom
 Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Hans Abrahamsen Concerto for the Left Hand
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

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov Conductor
Alexandre Tharaud Piano
Sarah Tynan Soprano


Gustav Mahler never wrote anything happier than his Fourth Symphony. Jangling sleighbells, Mozart-like melodies, and a child’s vision of heaven… if it almost sounds too sweet, trust Ilan Volkov to find the black comedy beneath the playful surface. First, though, we’ve a charming new version of Debussy’s Children’s Corner – and the first UK performance of a new piano concerto, specially written for tonight’s soloist by the Danish sonic magician Hans Abrahamsen.



Claude Debussy : Children’s Corner
Hans Abrahamsen : Concerto for the Left Hand
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4

28 Jun



United States
 Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Anthèmes 2 Pierre Boulez
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave.
United States
617.478.3103
http://www.icaboston.org
info@icaboston.org

With the ensemble Sound Icon (direction, Jeffrey Means).

Anthèmes 2 is an extanded version of Anthèmes 1 which has been revised for violin and live electronics at IRCAM in 1997. Compared to the first version, the question was to find how to coordonate the artist’s interpretation with the computer’s one.
The piece of Boulez work also uses a much more sophisticated system based on a perceptive approach of the spatial sound which enables the auditors to clearly hear the sounds wherever they are, regardless of the place and number of loudspeakers.



Pierre Boulez : Anthèmes 2 for violin and electronics
Beat Furrer : Gaspra et Aria
Tristan Murail : L'esprit des dunes

28 Jun



United States
 Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:30pm 
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century

Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.

Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet

29 Jun



United States
 Friday, April 29, 2016 at 7:30pm 
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century

Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.

Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet

29 Jun



United States
 Friday, April 29, 2016 at 7.30pm 
HIDDEN Chaya Czernowin
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave.
United States
617.478.3103
http://www.icaboston.org
info@icaboston.org

Chaya Czernoiwn plunges her vast creation HIDDEN in a subaquatic landscape, devoid of all human presence and pierced by sonorous monoliths. In this writing of observation and perception, silence plays an essential role. Here, this silence, not often a form of rhetoric, measures the distance to the object and imparts the work's spatial dimension. In the words of Gurnemanz' prophecy made to Parsifal, "here time becomes space".

According to Harvey, his fourth serie of String Quartet adopts “a simpler and more direct musical discourse (than the first, second, or third series) using pentatonic harmonies. While memories, or traces, of former movements occasionally surge forth, it is silence that dominates….. The desired effect is that of stasis; here there is no climax, but a state of meditation, vibrant and alert. We could imagine the life of a monk, a life dedicated to spiritual aspiration.”


JACK QUARTET
Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld violin
John Pickford Richards alto
Kevin McFarland violoncello


Chaya Czernowin : HIDDEN
Jonathan Harvey : String Quartet n°4

30 Jun



United States
 Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 2:00pm + 7:30pm 
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century

Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.

Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet

30 Jun



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Concert In Aid Of Refugees
All Saints Church
Hertford SG13 8AY
United Kingdom
vissi.darte@yahoo.co.uk

Tickets: £15 - concessions £12
Denise Alonzo - Soprano
Magnus Gilljam - Piano
Ralph Lane - Clarinet
Sophie Besse - Speaker


Poems by Refugees

All proceeds go to Refugee Charities


Franz Schubert : The Shepherd on the Rock
G F Handel : Arias
Rebecca Clarke : Songs
Robert Schumann : Romances
Marilyn Herman : Michal 06

30 Jun



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Concert In Aid Of Refugees
All Saints Church
Hertford SG13 8AY
United Kingdom
vissi.darte@yahoo.co.uk

Tickets: £15 - concessions £12
Juliet Stevenson CBE - Special guest speaker
Denise Alonzo - Soprano
Magnus Gilljam - Piano
Ralph Lane - Clarinet
Sophie Besse - Speaker

Includes poems by/about refugees

Franz Schubert : The Shepherd on the Rock
G F Handel : Arias
Rebecca Clarke : Songs
Robert Schumann : Romances
Marilyn Herman : Michal 06

1 Jul



United States
 Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 5:00-7:00 PM 
Parisian Spring
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
2700 F Street NW
United States
202-467-4600
http://www.thewashingtonchorus.org
laurel@thewashingtonchorus.org

Tickets: $18-$72
The Washington Chorus
Washington National Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls
Thierry Escaich, organist

An evening filled with glorious gems of the French repertoire showcasing the sumptuous Requiem of Maurice Durufle.

Julian Wachner : At the Lighting of the Lamps
Maurice Duruflé : Requiem
Louis Vierne : Kyrie from Messe Solennelle
G Faure : Cantique de Jean Racine
Maurice Duruflé : Messe Cum Jubilo

1 Jul



United States
 Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 4:00pm 
Organist Gail Archer Performs at Dartmouth 5/1
Church of Christ at Dartmouth
40 College Street
United States
603-643-3150
http://www.ccdccc.org

Tickets: Free
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."

J.S Bach : Great 18

2 Jul 
 
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