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Friday, March 9, 2012 at 7.30pm
Premiere of 'Music in the Marble'
Royal College of Music, London
Prince Consort Rd, London SW7
United Kingdom
Tickets: £15 / Students £5
Symphonic work in 7 short movements: reactions to 7 sculptures.
City of London Sinfonia
Conducted by Oliver Gilmour
www.boxoffice.rcm.ac.uk / 020 7591 4314
(NB £1.95 booking fee per transaction for online and telephone bookings)
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Monday, March 12, 2012 at 7.30pm
Judith Weir: Miss Fortune
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
Tickets: Various
Conductor
Paul Daniel
Tina (Miss Fortune)
Emma Bell
Lord Fortune
Alan Ewing
Lady Fortune
Kathryn Harries
Fate
Andrew Watts
Hassan
Noah Stewart
Donna
Anne-Marie Owens
Simon
Jacques Imbrailo
Chorus
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
The UK premiere of a new opera takes a roller-coaster ride through life in the company of fate. Leading British opera composer Judith Weir transposes the Sicilian folktale Misfortune to today as the daughter of a rich family turns her back on wealth to make her own way in the world – too often with unfortunate results. Not many operas combine great music with breakdancing and a burning kebab van, but Miss Fortune does all this and more under the direction of Chen Shi-Zheng (his spectacular staging of Monkey: Journey to the West was presented at the Royal Opera House in 2008). This new, approachable and engaging opera had its premiere at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2011 and now comes to the Royal Opera stage with the same acclaimed cast – Emma Bell sings the title role and former Jette Parker Young Artist singer Jacques Imbrailo plays her eventual love Simon. Paul Daniel conducts this effective and atmospheric score in a visually beautiful and inventive production whose story is funny, touching, moral and contemporary. Miss Fortune continues the series of high-profile new works of recent years that have included Anna Nicole, The Tempest and The Minotaur. With the added impact of the world-class Royal Opera Chorus Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune is a highlight of this Royal Opera Season.
Judith Weir : Miss Fortune
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13 Jul
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 1.10 pm
A Manchester Mid-day Concert
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
Tickets: £9.00
Richard Uttley, piano
Richard Uttley began piano lessons at the age of nine. He studied with Ian Buckle at the Junior School of the Royal Northern College of Music before reading music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in Music in 2008. His dance-inspired programme contrasts the precision of Bach with the clarity and the deft colours of Debussy. Richard completed his Master’s of Performance (with Distinction) in September 2010 at the Guildhall School of Music in Drama in London, where he studied with Martin Roscoe.
J.S Bach : Partita No.1 in B flat BWV 825
Frederyk Chopin : Five Mazurkas, Op.7
Claude Debussy : Images from Book 1
Thomas Ades : Three Mazurkas, Op.27
Frederyk Chopin : Polonaise in A flat, Op.53 ‘Heroic’
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7.30pm
Nash Inventions
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £12 £14 £18 £22
Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Claire Booth
soprano
Lionel Friend
conductor
The Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s renowned chamber ensemble in residence, presents its annual selection of Nash Inventions, consisting of music by a roll-call of Britain’s leading composers.
There are revivals of recent works written specially for the Ensemble and two works by senior figures of the highest international standing.
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Returning, for string sextet
Colin Matthews : The Island, for soprano and seven instruments
Alexander Goehr : Clarinet Quintet
Peter Maxwell Davies : Clarinet Quintet
Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia on all the notes, for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp
Jonathan Harvey : Song Offerings, for soprano and eight instruments
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17 Jul
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 7.30pm
Circus Tricks
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Crisp Road Hammersmith London W6 9RL
United Kingdom
020 8237 1111
http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Tickets: £18
Cast:
Alice (Trapeze Artist): Yvette Bonner
Xiu (Mongolian Contortionist): Lilly Papaioannou
Tanya (Knife Thrower’s Assistant): Alison Crookendale
Jack (Knife Thrower): Daniel Broad
Barney (Trick Pony): Christopher Diffey
Tom (Acrobat): Daniel Keating-Roberts
Jemmy (Acrobat, brother of Tom): Simon Wilding
Chroma:
Sarah O’Flynn Flute/Piccolo
Stuart King (16 March Massimo di Trolio) Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Heidi Bennett Trumpet
Clare O’Connell (20 March Chris Allan) Cello
Steve Gibson Percussion
Elena Hull Bass
Music Director: Gerry Cornelius
Circus Tricks by Michael Henry & Adey Grummet is set in the spellbinding, fleeting world of the circus, where laughter is tragic, tears are hilarious and wonder both wrenches the heart and makes it soar!
The knife thrower’s assistant cannot stand the pain of her secret love for the knife thrower, an acrobat fights the world through the bottle, his brother struggles to catch him one more time, the trapeze artist is entranced by the pursuit of a single moment of weightlessness, the horse dreams of running in straight lines and the contortionist is just plain lonely.
And then there’s the elephant…
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17 Jul
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at
Total Immersion: Brett Dean
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £31 / 28 / 25 / 22 / 18/ free
Brett Dean in conversation plus a performance by the composer of his Intimate Decisions for solo viola.
Various concerts during the day. Please visit:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/series.asp?id=968
There are a range of Total Immersion day passes available, which include admission to all events on Thursday 17 March and reflect the prices for tickets in the Barbican Hall. Total Immersion Day passes are not available to book online, but can be booked by calling the Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or in person.
Brett Dean : Various Concerts
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7.30pm
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
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
Tickets: £10.00 - £40.00
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Lambert Orkis piano
2011 marked the 35th anniversary of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Lucerne Festival debut at the age of 13. Ever since, the renowned German virtuoso has been an advocate of new music. Lutoslawski wrote his Partita for her in 1984; a work considered among the finest for violin and piano since 1945. In a programme revealing the full breadth of her musicianship, Anne-Sophie Mutter performs a youthful work by Mozart; Schubert’s technically demanding Fantasy, concluding with an epic Sonata by Saint-Saëns.
‘Mutter’s gold thread is reduced to a dusky murmur, before shifting through tones as subtle as they are various. Orkis’s contribution is equally vital…pedalling up a penumbra of resonance to balance Mutter’s whispers.’ - The Sunday Times
CD Signing with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis
Part of The Bridgewater Hall's International Concert Series.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Violin Sonata in G, KV379
Franz Schubert : Fantasy in C, D934
Witold Lutoslawski : Partita (for ASM)
Camille Saint-Saëns : Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.75
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 7.30pm
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
Tickets: £9.50 - £45
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Simon Trpèeski piano
There’s nothing like seeing a legendary Russian orchestra unleashing the full power and passion of the great Russian masterworks. The St Petersburg Philharmonic enjoyed close associations with both Prokofiev and Shostakovich, whose works they perform tonight, alongside Rachmaninov’s richly romantic Second Piano Concerto with virtuoso Simon Trpèeski.
Classic FM’s Anne-Marie Minhall, recommends tonight’s concert: “A few years ago I got to hear the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra perform under its conductor, Yuri Temirkanov, in its home city – I’ve never forgotten what a wonderful experience it was… this all-Russian programme looks to be a knockout.”
Sergei Prokofiev : Classical Symphony
Sergei Rachmaninov : Piano Concerto No 2
Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No 5
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 7.00 pm
Shape-Shifting
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F7BB
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10 £7 (concessions)
Contakt, an experimental ensemble of composers and performers:
Karen Burnell: horn/percussion, Paul Burnell: oboe/percussion, Ann Wolff: voice, Derek Foster: piano, Deborah Edwards: piano, Kerry Andrews: cello; with Sally Davies: voice/violin and Jonathan Ticher: piano
Shifting back and leaning forward, samples of British and American sound works
John Cage : Winter Music with Sound Anonymously Received
Cornelius Cardew : Octet '61
Morton Feldman : Piece for 4 Pianos
David Lumsdaine : Six Postcards
Steve Reich : Clapping Music
Kerry Andrews : Ghost Studies
Paul Burnell : Take Flight
Paul Burnell : This is not a rehearsal
Derek Foster : Re-Jig
Deborah Broderick Edwards : shape-shifting
Ann Wolff : Take That
Ann Wolff : Tessa's Tale
Ann Wolff : Long Scissors
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