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Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 7.30pm
FIREWHEEL
University of York
York
United Kingdom
Dark Inventions
Folk songs and brand new British music weave together in Dark Inventions’ 2014 Firewheel Tour.
Joined by singer, composer and songwriter Stef Conner, the group performs old songs interwoven with music by emerging composers of the contemporary British scene.
Central to the tour is Firewheel, a brand new work from leading British composer Philip Cashian.
Dark Inventions is a young chamber ensemble that seeks to highlight the links between traditionally disparate music. Established by composers Christopher Leedham and Martin Scheuregger, the group focuses on combining music of different periods, curating projects that aim to entertain and inspire audiences whilst introducing some hidden gems from past and present repertoire.
Firewheel was commissioned with financial assistance from Britten-Pears Foundation. Dark Inventions’ Firewheel Tour is presented in partnership with Sound and Music.
Philip Cashian : Firewheel
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Saturday, May 16, 2015 at
Peter Pan
Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales
United Kingdom
WNO
Follow Peter Pan out through the window and fly with us to a land filled with wonder. Pirates, fairies and a ticking crocodile all await in Neverland - a place of unending imagination.
JM Barrie's eternally enchanting story is now a major new opera. With its battle between love and freedom, Peter Pan is perfect for opera. British composer Richard Ayres and librettist Lavinia Greenlaw have created an original yet faithful take on this much-loved tale. Keith Warner's inventive production, his first for WNO, promises pure Edwardian fantasy. This is an ideal opportunity to introduce young family members aged 8 and over to the magic of opera.
Peter Pan children's tickets - Tickets for £1 for under 16s accompanied by at least one adult. Not available online.
Production supported by the Getty Family as part of British Firsts, Colwinston Charitable Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation and The N Smith Charitable Settlement.
WNO gratefully acknowledges support from PRS for Music Foundation.
Performances at the Royal Opera House are supported by the Welsh Government.
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
16 May - 31 May
Birmingham Hippodrome
11 Jun
Royal Opera House, London
24 Jul - 25 Jul
Richard Ayres : Peter Pan
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at
Britten, Berio, Bach
Church of Our Lady of the Snows
Jungmannovo náměstí 4 110 00 Prague 1
United Kingdom
(+420) 222 246 243
http://www.pms.ofm.cz
Tickets: 9.30pm
Charles-Antoine Duflot - cello
“A cellist caught my eye – a Frenchman, Charles- Antoine Duflot, who managed to play Suite No. 6 – the most difficult of them all – with delicacy and wit.” (The Guardian)
One can hardly imagine more stylistically and technically diverse repertoire for solo cello than the works chosen for his Prague Spring evening recital by the French cellist Charles-Antoine Duflot. This young artist, who is often called one of the most prominent talents of the younger generation, will be presenting on a single evening a combination of works by Baroque and contemporary composers, who share in common above all the extreme demands they place on performers.
For his Suite No. 3 Op. 37, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) took inspiration from the personality and playing of the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered the work in 1974. Britten, who had been captivated by Rostropovich’s interpretation of Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello, placed in his work a number of fragmentary references to Russian music, including a hymn of the Orthodox Church.
On the other hand, in Sequenza XIV (2002) Luciano Berio (1925-2003) introduces the cello right at the beginning of his composition in a less familiar role – as a percussion instrument. In addition to that, the work presents perhaps every sonic possibility that the cello has to offer.
Another interesting feature of the programme will be Bach’s Suite in D major BWV 1012, which the composer wrote for the fivestring ‘violoncello piccolo’. Although the work has traditionally been played on a modern four-string instrument, Duflot, who learned to play the Baroque cello during his university studies in Basel, will be performing the work on an 18th-century Italian Baroque instrument. This evening will be a unique opportunity to experience the colorful sound world of classical music through three phenomenally original compositions.
The French cellist Charles-Antoine Duflot has devoted himself to music since he was five years old. He first studied in Paris and Stuttgart, then he completed his master’s studies at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where he studied performance on the Baroque cello. He is a laureate of a number of international competitions (the International J&A Beare Solo Bach Competition in London and the Beethoven’s Hradec International Music Competition), and he has appeared as a soloist under the baton of such conductors as Christoph Alstaedt, Nicolás Pasquet, and Christoph Prick. He plays an instrument made by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in 1865 and an Italian five-string cello from the 18th century.
Benjamin Britten : Suite No. 3 Op. 87
Luciano Berio : Sequenza XIV
J.S Bach : Suite in D major BWV 1012
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