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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 7.30pm
Sakari Oramo conducts Beethoven, Schumann and Matthews
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10-£32
Sakari Oramo conductor
Horn players of the BBC SO - Martin Owen, Michael Murray, Andrew Antcliff and Nicholas Hougham
For his second programme in the season, Sakari Oramo offers an exhilarating menu of Beethoven, Schumann and Colin Matthews. Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony was, and remains, a revolutionary statement of genius. The blazing ‘hunting’ horns in the symphony’s trio, perfectly echoe Schumann’s glorious Konzertstück for four horns, showcasing soloists from the BBC SO, and the heroic, romantic and soulful qualities of the instrument. Traces Remain, a new commission from Colin Matthews, takes its name and inspiration from a book of essays by Charles Nicholl: ‘the sudden presence, the glimpse behind the curtain, the episode measured in minutes and preserved across the centuries’.
Robert Schumann : Konzertstück
Colin Matthews : Traces Remain
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No.3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’
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10 Jul
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Friday, January 10, 2014 at 1.10pm
CBSO Centre Stage - Lars Vogt
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: £9.50
Lars Vogt piano
Zoë Beyers violin
Eduardo Vassallo cello
Part of the CBSO Centre Stage season, a series of 50-minute informal and friendly concerts finding the performers ‘at home’ in the CBSO Centre.
Emotion recollected in tranquility: the young Brahms was tormented by an impossible love. Years later, he re-crafted his Op.8 into a trio which distills youthful ardour into music of epic power and deep poetry. Today, it’s the personal choice of one of the world’s greatest living pianists – the incomparable Lars Vogt, who will be performing in close quarters at CBSO Centre.
Juan Maria Solare : Fénix
Johannes Brahms : Piano Trio No 1
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11 Jul
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Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 8pm
Hear and Now: MacMillan conducts MacMillan
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
Tickets: Free
Laura Samuel violin
James MacMillan conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
This will be the BBC SSO’s first major musical event of 2014, and a fascinating overview of a life in music, conducted by the composer himself.
For the first time in over a decade, Scotland’s foremost composer James MacMillan takes to the podium in his native country for a public concert. The programme, to be recorded for of BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, features two World Premieres from opposite ends of MacMillan’s career: his latest work The Keening and his early Symphonic Study, written as a graduation piece.
There’s also the Scottish Premiere of A Deep but Dazzling Darkness, a stunningly dramatic reflection on the ability of music to bring comfort, and in this performance a tremendous showcase for the skills of BBC SSO leader Laura Samuel. For Sonny, a gentle elegy in memory of a young child, is premiered in a new arrangement, and Exsultet, his 1998 fanfare for brass quintet (in the revised version for symphonic brass), conjures up a typically MacMillan-like journey from darkness into light.
James MacMillan : Symphonic Study
James MacMillan : For Sonny
James MacMillan : A Deep but Dazzling Darkness
James MacMillan : Exsultet
James MacMillan : The Keening
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13 Jul
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Monday, January 13, 2014 at 8pm
Isis & Osiris
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: €5-14
Ensemble Multilatérale
IRCAM Computer Music Design Serge Lemouton
"The memory of the Isis-Osiris couple came back to me. It contains the novel in nucleo." In his diary, Robert Musil noted this quick comparison between his poem from 1923 and the large work in progress, l’Homme sans qualités. Brother and sister, figures of twinship, a superhumain and violent effort to go beyond duality?
Isis & Osiris, the program of creation by Jacques Lenot divided between a symphony of wind instruments, the earth, and electronics, the sky. Musicians perform under a virtual dome (ambisonics) in IRCAM's Espace de projection where four virtual orchestras are "suspended", meticulously arranged in the room's space.
From the sky, a sonorous dust haze.
Jacques Lenot : Isis & Osiris
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17 Jul
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17 Jul
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18 Jul
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20 Jul
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20 Jul
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21 Jul
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22 Jul
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 7.30pm
Ilan Volkov conducts Beethoven, Boulez and Grisey
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10-£32
Ilan Volkov conductor
Nicolas Hodges piano
BBC Singers
Beethoven’s powerful Seventh Symphony is prefaced by a trio of beguiling modern French works in the first of two concerts pairing Beethoven with recent French music. The BBC Singers have had great success with Boulez’s now-classic work cummings ist der Dichter, which sets the poetry of ee cummings for vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov, known for his high-voltage performances and radical programmes, presents the UK premiere of Hugues Dufourt’s piano concerto with Nicolas Hodges as soloist. Dufourt’s own world of sonorities reflects that of one of France’s greatest 20th century composers, Gérard Grisey. In his monumental early work Mégalithes, 15 brass players scattered around the hall hurl sonic clusters of shimmering dissonance into the auditorium – a not-to-be-missed experience.
Gérard Grisey : Mégalithes
Hugues Dufourt : Piano Concerto
Pierre Boulez : cummings ist der Dichter
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 7 In A major
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22 Jul
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 8pm
UBS Soundscapes: Eclectica - An Eastern Vigil
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
Tickets: £10 - £22
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Daniel Reuss conductor
Grammy award-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, one of the most famous choirs in the world, collaborates with Gilad Atzmon, a writer and an award-winning jazz saxophonist and member of The Blockheads living in London.
They explore the mystical soundworlds of Arvo Pärt, Cyrillus Kreek, Vasyl Barvinski, Nikolai Kedrov and Rachmaninov combined with Atzmon’s swirling improvisations.
Arvo Pärt : Two slavonic psalms
Alfred Schnittke : Three sacred hymns
Arvo Pärt : Magnificat
Arvo Pärt : Nunc Dimittis
Cyrillus Kreek : Psalm 22
Cyrillus Kreek : Psalm 104
Vasyl Barvinskyi : Oh, What a Wonder!
Nikolai Kedrov : Otsche Nash
Sergei Rachmaninov : All-Night Vigil (‘Vespers’)
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23 Jul
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 7.30pm
Jack Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15-£30
JACK Quartet
The JACK Quartet’s concerts prove time and again that we belong to a golden age of chamber music composition, one in which creative diversity and difference are encouraged and celebrated.
This programme, devised by Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson, opens with a seminal work composed in 1931 by Ohio-born Ruth Crawford Seeger, the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and closes with Horaţiu Rădulescu’s evocatively titled Fifth String Quartet of 1995.
Brian Ferneyhough’s wild Exordium, written in honour of Elliott Carter’s 100th birthday in 2008, stands in bold contrast to Julian Anderson’s ‘Light Music’ and the world première of a new score by Christopher Trapani, winner of the 2007 Gaudeamus Prize.
Ruth Crawford Seeger : String Quartet
Christopher Trapani : New work
Brian Ferneyhough : Exordium
Julian Anderson : String Quartet No. 1 ‘Light Music’
Horaţiu Rădulescu : String Quartet No. 5 ‘before the universe was born’
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23 Jul
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 7.30pm
Meditations on the Sea
Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net
Tickets: £10-£30
Garry Walker: conductor; Maximiliano Martín: clarinet
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
To Scots, living on so many islands and dependent on it for so much, the sea is a constant presence to be loved and admired, but also feared and respected. This complicated relationship with the sea is reflected here in pieces by two of the most important and widely performed living composers.
MacMillan’s Tuireadh laments the dead of the Piper Alpha disaster in great tidal movements of sound and grief. South African composer Volan’s Symphony offers a beautiful and oblique reflection “on the sea and the role of ships and their cargoes in our history”.
Jean Sibelius : Pelléas et Mélisande
Kevin Volans : Symphony: Daar Kom die Alibama
James MacMillan : Tuireadh
Zoltán Kodály : Dances of Galanta
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24 Jul
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Friday, January 24, 2014 at 7.30pm
Max Richter: Memoryhouse
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £17.50 - 25
Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Max Richter, conducted by André de Ridder
Contemporary composer Max Richter premieres his 2002 debut album Memoryhouse with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by André de Ridder.
An homage to Europe and the haunting power of memories, Memoryhouse is the stunning album that announced Max Richter as a major talent. With echoes of his earlier collaborations with Roni Size and electronic duo FSOL, influences of post-rock acts such as Sigur Rós and classical forebears like Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass, this work shows the unique mix of contemporary classical and electronics that would become the signature language in Richter’s musical universe.
Max Richter : Memoryhouse
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7.30pm
Contemporary with Thomas Søndergård
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales
Tickets: £8 - 10
BBCNOW
Conductor Thomas Søndergård
Come and experience music by two leading Danish composers. The different levels of mood and emotion created by Poul Ruders have established him as one of the world’s leading composers. Kafkapriccio includes score from his opera, based on Kafka’s The Trial. In contrast, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s compelling, ritualistic command of sound creates music that nags at the imagination long after the performance has ended.
Poul Ruders : KafKapriccio
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Symphony Antiphony
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31 Jul
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Friday, January 31, 2014 at 7pm
Peter Grimes
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
Peter Grimes Stuart Skelton
Ellen Orford Elza van den Heever
Balstrode Iain Paterson
Auntie Rebecca de Pont Davies
Swallow Matthew Best
Ned Keene Leigh Melrose
Bob Boles Michael Colvin
Mrs Sedley Felicity Palmer
Hobson Matthew Trevino
Reverend Horace Adams Tim Robinson
First Niece Rhian Lois
Second Niece Mary Bevan Conductor Edward Gardner
Director David Alden
Set Designer Paul Steinberg
Costume Designer Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer Adam Silverman
Choreographer Maxine Braham
ENO
The bleak, enclosed world of a fishing village provides the backdrop for the story of fisherman Peter Grimes and his uneasy relationship with the other inhabitants. Following the death of Grimes's apprentice, the community presumes Grimes to be guilty. Although he is cleared of any blame, the villagers no longer trust him, and when his new apprentice accidentally falls to his death, Grimes spirals towards a tragic breakdown.
The most significant British opera in over two centuries, Peter Grimes is a work of visceral and sustained beauty, and is notable for the orchestral interludes that depict the sea in different moods.
This is the first revival of David Alden's 2009 five-star sell-out production. ENO Music Director Edward Gardner again conducts the electrifying score, with Stuart Skelton heading an outstanding cast in his return to the title role.
Co-produced by ENO, De Vlaamse Opera, Opera de Oviedo and Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Further performances: 1st, 6th, 8th, 14th, 21st, 23rd, 27th February
Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes
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31 Jul
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31 Jul
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Friday, January 31, 2014 at 8.30pm
Sebastian Rivas. Aliados (Alliés)
Théâtre de St-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Place Georges Pompidou - CS 80317 78054 Saint Quentin en Yvelines Cedex
France
01 30 96 99 30
http://www.theatresqy.org/index.cfm
Music Sebastian Rivas, commissioned by the French governement | Libretto Esteban Buch | Director Antoine Gindt | Live Production Philippe Béziat | Conductor Léo Warynski
Artistic Collaboration and Assistant Director Élodie Brémaud | Stage Design Élise Capdenat | Lighting Daniel Lévy | Costumes Fanny Brouste | IRCAM Computer Music Design Robin Meier
Nora Petrocenko Lady Margaret Thatcher
Lionel Peintre Général Augusto Pinochet
Mélanie Boisvert The nurse
Thill Mantero The aide-de-camp
Richard Dubelski The conscript
Ensemble Multilatérale
Antoine Maisonhaute violin
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe electric guitar
Benoît Savin bass clarinet
Mathieu Adam trombone
Lise Baudouin piano
Hélène Colombotti percussion
"We're also very much aware that it’s you who brought democracy to Chile" said Lady Thatcher when she invited the senator Augusto Pinochet to tea in London in 1999, sparing not the slightest compliment for the man who would soon have to stand trial for his crimes. Following the example of Nixon in China by John Adams, the opera Aliados inspired by political history, in this case by the Falklands War in 1982 and the improbable alliance of the Iron Lady, champion of liberalism, with the Chilian general during the Cold War.
The failing memories of the two aged leaders retired from roles of power, revealing archives, and collective history are at the heart of this project by Sebastian Rivas and Esteban Buch, two Argentineans looking back at a decisive event for their generation and their identity. On the theater stage, designed by Antoine Gindt to look like the set of a television program, reality strikes through visual manipulation and stylized singing. An opera in real-time in every sense of the word; historical time and computer time.
Sebastian Rivas : Aliados
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31 Jul
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Friday, January 31, 2014 at 12.30 pm
Saxology Sax Quartet
Chelmsford Cathedral
53 New St, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1TY
United Kingdom
01245 294492
info@chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk
Tickets: free
Saxology Saxophone Quartet
Contemporary ensemble of some 25 years standing offer a programme of arranged and original music.
Jeffery Wilson : Threnody
Jeffery Wilson : Circus Acts
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