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9 Jul
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Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 7.30pm
Beethoven, Steve MacKey and Elgar
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Brentano String Quartet
Steven Mackey’s fascination with movement and transformation in music surfaces in One Red Rose, his new work for the Brentano String Quartet, written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The American composer’s score here stands as a bridge between the introspection of Beethoven’s earliest string quartet, completed in January 1799, and Elgar’s elegiac E minor quartet, heard for the first time at Wigmore Hall in 1919.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3
Steven Mackey : One Red Rose
Edward Elgar : String Quartet in E minor Op. 83
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11 Jul
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 7.30pm
Canadian Carnival
Watford Colosseum
Rickmansworth Road, Watford, WD17 3JN
United Kingdom
0845 075 3993
http://watfordcolosseum.co.uk/Online/default.asp
BBCSO
The vast serenity of the North American countryside forms the backdrop of Ivor Novello Award-winning Robert Farnon’s Lake of the Woods. Benjamin Britten chooses the music of Canada as his inspiration for the folk-flavoured Canadian Carnival, which includes the popular 'Alouette'. Back on British soil, we bring you an epic landmark of English composition; the first symphony from William Walton.
Award-winning Canadian composer Howard Shore,best known for The Lord of the Rings film scores, forms the centrepiece with his cello concerto Mythic Gardens. Beautiful and dramatic, taking us on a virtual tour of Italy, Sophie Shao performs this UK premiere.
Benjamin Britten : Canadian Carnival, Op 19
Robert Farnon : Canadian Carnival
Howard Shore : Mythic Gardens
William Walton : Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
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12 Jul
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 7.30pm
Steen-Andersen: Black Box Music
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk
London Sinfonietta
Gerry Cornelius conductor
A pair of hands is thrust inside a black box; their gestures are projected live onto the stage, directing an ensemble of musicians that surround the audience.
Simon Steen-Andersen leads the cohort of young composers defining Denmark’s cutting edge. The London Sinfonietta takes on Black Box Music, an extraordinary example of his style that demonstrates why his work has been widely performed and acclaimed across Europe already.
This is a musical 'follow the leader' that verges on the chaotic, even humorous. Yet in the hands of Steen-Andersen, the sonic results make for a compelling experience that exists somewhere between concert music and installation art.
His video piece RunTime Error is also a tour de force. Made from a pre-recorded film of him racing through the aisles and backstage spaces of the Southbank Centre, he replays and manipulates the footage live with two joysticks.
Simon Steen-Andersen : RunTime Error
Christian Winter Christensen : String Trio
Rune Glerup : Quartettsatz
Nicolai Worssae : New Work
Simon Steen-Andersen : Black Box Music
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12 Jul
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 6pm
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Flow My Tears
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX
United Kingdom
0844 875 0073
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/
London Sinfonietta
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier conductor
Elegant and deeply moving, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s music redefines the concept of simplicity. Regarded as a pivotal elder statesman of Danish musical life, his works are as humorous as they are contemplative, as violent as they are beautiful.
This performance consists of a set of pieces recently composed for his 80th birthday, and he has made a programme that perfectly contrasts and then unites the forces of the London Sinfonietta with Theatre of Voices, led by Paul Hillier. The music is extraordinary: curious, inventive, quirky, intense and ultimately beautiful. Across the course of the evening, he deconstructs Dowland’s haunting madrigal Flow My Tears, exploring and expanding its harmony and syllables.
This programme has already received 5* reviews for performances in Denmark and Huddersfield; if you don’t know Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s music yet, you will be glad you heard it live.
4.45pm Composer Conversation with Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Sound I
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Sound II
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Song
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Run
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Turn II
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Company
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13 Jul
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Thursday, March 13, 2014 at
Commonwealth Concert
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
BBCSO
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers join forces for a concert to celebrate music of the Commonwealth, concluding with Elgar’s Symphony No.1. Hear earthy, gripping soundscapes and thrilling percussion writing in Tasmanian-born Peter Sulthorpe’s From Oceania, a work which incorporates elements of Australian, Japanese and southeast Asian music. Errollyn Wallen’s orchestral work Mighty River commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery, a piece that makes reference to the hymn Amazing Grace and the spirituals Deep River and Go Down Moses. The BBC Singers perform two a cappella movements from Australian composer Stephen Leek’s Great Southern Spirits, which explores the Dreaming of the Australian Aboriginal people.
Peter Sculthorpe : From Oceania
Stephen Leek : Wirindji and Uluru from Great Southern Spirits
Errolyn Wallen : Mighty River
Edward Elgar : Symphony No. 1 in A flat major
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14 Jul
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Friday, March 14, 2014 at
Anon Errollyn Wallen
Various
United Kingdom
Composer & Writer Errollyn Wallen
Director Wils Wilson
Movement Consultant Piali Ray
Soprano Claire Wild
Soprano Sara Lian Owen
Soprano Joanna Foote
Soprano cover Rebecca Van Den Berg
Musical Director & Keyboard Stuart Wild
Cello Joseph Spooner
Percussion James Gambold
Soundscape Steve Lewinson
Actor Shin-Fei Chen
Actor Ronke Adekoluejo
Programme Manager Urmala Jassal
Education Programme Co-ordinator Rabiyah K Latif
Designer Amanda Stoodley
Costume Co-ordinator Charlotte Neville
Stage Manager Helen Gorton
Lighting Design Anna Barrett
Production Manager Michael Robinson
Producer Åsa Malmsten
Project Manager Louise Carey
Anon is the secret journey of millions of women, a journey continuing every day, in the shadows. You will be immersed in this new opera as you travel through hidden worlds and find yourself at the centre of heartbreaking stories.
Welsh National Opera mix voices, live soundscapes and contemporary theatre in a groundbreaking new opera.
Written by Paralympic Games opening ceremony composer Errollyn Wallen and directed by Wils Wilson, (The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart and Praxis Males Perfect).
Friday 14 March 4pm & 7pm
Llanover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff
Booking 029 2030 4400 | chapter.org
Tickets £5
Monday 17 March 4pm & 7pm
Wickham Theatre Bristol
Booking 029 2030 4400 | chapter.org
Tickets £5
Tuesday 18 March 4pm & 7pm
Gloucester Guildhall
Booking 029 2030 4400 | chapter.org
Tickets £5
Tuesday 25 March 4pm & 7pm
Newhampton Arts Centre
Booking 01902 572090 | newhamptonarts.co.uk
Tickets £5 plus 10% (online) or £1 (credit/
debit card) transaction fee*
*excludes cash or cheque payments
Wednesday 26 March 4pm & 7pm
mac birmingham
Booking 0121 446 3232 | macarts.co.uk
Tickets £5
- See more at: http://www.wno.org.uk/anon#sthash.aw3s8gfG.dpuf
Errolyn Wallen : Anon
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18 Jul
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 7.30pm
Usurp Chance Tour 2014
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
BCMG
An evening of two dynamic, ensemble performances: John Cage’s Indeterminacy performed by Stewart Lee (reader) Steve Beresford and Tania Chen (piano and objects) and The Conspirators of Pleasure – an improvisational group with Poulomi Desai (augmented sitar), Simon Underwood (modified toys and electronics) and Seth Ayyaz (daaf, ghaita and electronics).
Cage’s Indeterminacy is a box of 90 cards of 90 stories of different lengths, and a leaflet of instructions: “Read the stories aloud, with or without accompaniment, paced so that each takes one minute. A stop-watch or watch with a second hand will help keep time. Read all 90 stories in order or select a smaller number, using chance procedures or not”. Beresford and Chen improvise on prepared pianos and found objects while Lee reads Cage’s stories in a random order.
The Conspirators of Pleasure create live, improvised, soundscape compositions using unusual, modified and self-made instruments, using technology to transform organic sounds into intense waves, structured pulsating rhythms and lyrical interplays.
John Cage : Indeterminacy
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19 Jul
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 7.30pm
Messiaen Éclairs sur l’Au-delà
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBCSO
This promises to be a night of the sublime and the numinous, in which Messiaen’s visionary epic is prefaced with Mozart’s inimitable double concerto for violin and viola, featuring two of Europe’s leading young string players. The BBC Symphony Orchestra will be joined by students from the Royal Academy of Music for the performance of Messaien’s Éclairs sur l’Au-delà... or ‘Illuminations on the Beyond’. Scored for vast orchestral forces, this was Messaien's final completed work. Months before his death he spoke of its inspiration - ‘I imagined myself in front of a curtain, in darkness, apprehensive about what lay beyond: Resurrection, Eternity, the other life.’
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 364
Olivier Messiaen : Éclairs sur l'Au-delà...
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21 Jul
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Friday, March 21, 2014 at 3.15pm
Ravel, Duparc and Panisello
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
BBC Symphony Orchestra orchestra
Jean Deroyer
Louis Schiwzgebel piano
Robin Tritschler tenor
Jean Deroyer conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, pianist Louis Schiwzgebel and tenor Robin Tritschler in a short afternoon concert, broadcast live in Afternoon on 3 on BBC Radio 3. Hear the jazz inflected harmonies of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, while his Cinq mélodies populaires grecques set popular Greek songs from the island of Chios, mixing the flippant Tait gai! with the more profound Là-bas, vers l’église. The concert concludes with the UK premiere of Argentinian composer Fabian Panisello’s Cuadernos for orchestra.
Maurice Ravel : Piano Concerto in G major
Maurice Ravel : Cinq melodies populaires grecques
Henri Duparc : Phidylé
Henri Duparc : Chanson triste
Fabián Panisello : Cuadernos para orchestra
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22 Jul
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 7.30pm
MacMillan’s Strathclyde Motets
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Stile Antico
Stile Antico’s breath-taking artistry is shaped by the deep experience and expertise of its individual members. The early music vocal ensemble effectively works as a chamber music collective, delivering eloquent readings of sacred polyphony without a conductor or single director.
Each work in Stile Antico’s large repertoire unfolds in performance like the interior space of a medieval cathedral, vast and transcendent yet exquisitely rich in surface detail.
The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme explores fascinating parallels between two composers working four centuries apart, alternating MacMillan’s Strathclyde motets with Byrd’s dazzling liturgical cycle Gradualia. Crowning this memorable juxtaposition is Byrd’s longest and perhaps greatest work, Infelix ego.
William Byrd : Gradualia
William Byrd : Infelix ego
James MacMillan : Strathclyde Motets
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22 Jul
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 7.30pm
Neil Hannon's Guide to the Organ
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Hear the premiere of Neil Hannon's new work for the Royal Festival Hall organ.
The Divine Comedy frontman Neil Hannon reconnects with the sound of the organ, a sonic backdrop to his childhood as the son of a Church of Ireland bishop.
In this specially commissioned work, Neil has created a series of vivid musical scenes for organ and choir which evoke the constriction, the mystery and magic, the boredom, and the hard-won freedoms of a childhood Sunday.
Renowned organist Tom Bell performs the evocative playlist, alongside a specially formed choir for Neil Hannon's new work To Our Fathers In Distress.
Produced by Southbank Centre.
BBC Concert Orchestra strings only
Tom Bell organ
Rebecca Miller conductor
Louis Vierne : Pièces de fantaisie, Suite No. 3, Op 54
John David Edwards : Rhosymedre
Vaughan Williams : 3 Preludes on Welsh hymn tunes for organ
Thomas Tallis : Third Mode Melody
Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Neil Hannon : To Our Fathers in Distress
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26 Jul
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 7.30pm
Carter, Adams, Birtwistle
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
BBC Singers
Nicholas Kok
conductor
The Nash Ensemble’s annual new music showcase is both a final instalment of its American Series – with John Adams’s seminal Shaker Loops and three characteristic pieces by the late, great Elliott Carter – and an eightieth birthday tribute to Sir Harrison Birtwistle, complete with a performance of his entrancing recent work for voices evoking the mysterious world of moths.
Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia upon all the notes for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp
John Adams : Shaker Loops for string septet
Elliott Carter : Mosaic for flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, string trio and double bass
Harrison Birtwistle : The Moth Requiem for 12 female singers, three harps and alto flute
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26 Jul
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26 Jul
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oramo
Barbican Theatre
United Kingdom
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Leila Josefowicz violin
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2009 award-winning Violin Concerto ‘Out of Nowhere’ is a portrait of the phenomenal soloist Leila Josefowicz, who will give this UK premiere. Praised at its LA Philharmonic premiere for its ‘pure, euphoric poetry’, it’s a work which lends itself to Josefowicz’s visceral intensity. In its pulsing central movements, we may find echoes of Sibelius’s driving repetitions in his dark re-telling of Pojhola’s Daughter, in which the daughter of the north, astride a rainbow, mocks the love-lorn Väinämöinen. This concert ends with one of Shostakovich’s most popular symphonies, No 5: its heroic classicism may have affected the composer’s political rehabilitation, but its essential defiance comes blazing through.
Jean Sibelius : Pohjola’s Daughter
Esa-Pekka Salonen : Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No 5 in D minor
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7.30pm
Marc-André Hamelin, Dvoøák and Ornstein
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Marc-André Hamelin
piano
Pacifica Quartet
Composer-pianists, once the norm, occupy a small but remarkable minority today. Marc-André Hamelin’s growing catalogue of compositions includes works for solo piano and a dark-hued set of nineteen variations for piano quintet. His Passacaglia serves as the ideal companion to Dvoøák’s Piano Quintet in A Op. 81, recognised among the genre’s masterworks.
The Pacifica Quartet and Hamelin turn to Leo Ornstein’s enchanting Piano Quintet of 1927, a monumental work brimming with scintillating energy, strong echoes of Jewish cantorial chant and vivid emotions.
Marc-André Hamelin : Passacaglia for piano quintet
Antonin Dvorak : Piano Quintet in A Op. 81
Leo Ornstein : Piano Quintet
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2 Aug
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 7.30pm
Powder Her Face
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
Conductor: Timothy Redmond
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Designer: Ultz
Lighting Designer: Adam Silverman
Movement Director: Imogen Knight
Librettist: Philip Hensher
Duchess: Amanda Roocroft
Maid: Clare Eggington
Hotel Manager: Alan Ewing
Electrician: Alexander Sprague
Powder Her Face charts the glamorous rise and seedy fall of the notorious socialite beauty Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. A former deb of the year, the ‘Dirty Duchess’ was at the centre of a scandalous divorce case in 1963, the year of the Profumo Affair, when the Establishment was caught with its pin-striped trousers round its ankles. Drawing on episodes from the Duchess’s colourful life, not least her sexually voracious appetite, a mythical portrayal of this elegant yet ultimately tragic figure emerges
Powder Her Face launched Adès’s international career in 1995 and remains one of his most performed works. His dazzlingly precocious score is as witty, poignant and memorable as the Duchess herself, paying homage to the popular idioms of cabaret and tango, as well as to Weill, Berg and Stravinsky.
Making his opera directing debut is Joe Hill-Gibbins, one of the most exciting talents in British theatre, in a new site-specific production created within Ambika P3, London’s newest performing environment. Productions at the Royal Court (The Village Bike) and Young Vic (The Glass Menagerie) have earned Hill-Gibbins a loyal following and his recent National Theatre staging of Marlowe’s Edward II has only served to confirm his reputation. Returning to ENO after triumphs in Janácek, Britten and Strauss is Olivier Award-winning soprano Amanda Roocroft as the infamous Duchess.
Performances until April 19th.
Thomas Ades : Powder Her Face
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