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Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 7.30pm
CBSO Centre Berkley Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF United Kingdom http://www.cbso.co.uk info@cbso.co.uk
Tickets: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 concession / £6 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor: George Benjamin
Soprano: Rebecca Bottone
Contralto: Hilary Summers
George Benjamin’s jewel-like, award-winning chamber opera - a contemporary re-imagining of The Pied Piper fable – has gone on to enjoy worldwide success since its premiere in 2006.
The opera tells the tale of a morally bankrupt politician who, desperate to shore up a flagging public vote, promises to exterminate a plague of rats. A faceless stranger arrives and offers his services; but when the Mayor refuses to pay up, his actions have terrible repercussions. All the roles in Into the Little Hill are performed by two female singers, while the richly-expressive and alluring score combines conventional instruments with basset-horns, cornets, a cimbalom, and even banjo and mandolin.
Also drawing on a classic fable, David Sawer’s stage work, Rumpelstiltskin, was premiered and toured by BCMG in 2009/10 to universal acclaim. In this concert we give the Birmingham premiere of Sawer’s 30-minute instrumental Rumpelstiltskin Suite, compiled from his scintillating Rumpelstiltskin score.
Completing the programme is Italian composer Franceso Antonioni’s BCMG 2009 Sound Investment commission Ballata (dell’abbandono e della fortuna), which takes its sources from two songs: a lullaby from southern Italy and a ballade, Ecco la primavera, composed in the 15th century by the Florentine Franceso Landini.
There will be a free pre-concert talk from 6.30-7pm with George Benjamin, David Sawer and Francesco Antonioni, open to all ticket holders.
Franceso Antonioni : Ballata David Sawer : Rumpelstiltskin Suite George Benjamin : Into the Little Hill
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9 Jul
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 8pm UBS Soundscapes: Eclectica - Tansy Davies: Troubairtiz 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 £15 £22 LSO
British composer Tansy Davies first worked with the LSO in 2005, composing her work Tilting as part of the UBS Sound Adventures scheme. This Eclectica evening at St Luke’s places Davies’ music, with its hints of funk, experimental rock, industrial techno, atonalism and electronica, centre stage - her darkly powerful and acclaimed album Troubairitz is recreated by the Azalea Ensemble, duo Anna Snow and Damien Harron, and conductor Chris Austin. Ensemble New Noise will give a rare performance of Aquatic, while percussionist Joby Burgess will play ritualistic funk hybrid Dark Ground.
Tansy Davies : Troubairtiz
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Friday, April 12, 2013 at 7.30pm Sunken Garden Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £50-£16 ENO
A world premiere and a brand new collaboration with the Barbican, Sunken Garden tells a multi-layered story of a missing person and those who are searching for him. What connects the disappearance of a software engineer, a neurotic film-maker and a gullible patroness of the arts? This new film-opera explores hoax and dark truth, with a libretto from Cloud Atlas novelist David Mitchell.
Composer, director and film-maker Michel van der Aa makes his ENO debut with this enthralling multimedia ‘occult mystery’, combining live performance, music, 2D and 3D film. Van der Aa’s technique of mixing live and recorded images and sounds have won him great international acclaim, with The Guardian praising him for ‘his ability to fuse music, text and visual images into a totally organic whole’. His prize-winning music theatre piece After Life premiered at the Barbican in 2010.
Baritone Roderick Williams takes the main role, conducted by ENO guest André de Ridder.
Performances
Apr 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 at 7.30pm
7 performances. Running time: 1hr 40mins approx (no interval)
Pre-performance talk, Mon Apr 15, 5.15–6.00pm, £5/£2.50 concs
Michael van der Aa : Sunken Garden
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12 Jul
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Friday, April 12, 2013 at 7.30pm Jonathan Lloyd, Brahms and Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Sir Andrew Davis conductor
Stephen Hough piano
Our Artist in Focus, Stephen Hough, returns to perform Brahms’s tumultuous first Piano Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis. Hough has written of the ‘burst of utter, natural, divine genius’ that propels this concerto, ‘it’s flame flares with such intensity, and such promise of more to come, that I find myself overwhelmed by it’. As part of our Tippett retrospective, we come to his fourth and final symphony, which follows a life-cycle from birth to death in a single movement, complete with breathing effects; an astonishing example of the imaginative vitality of the composer’s late years. Jonathan Lloyd, whose own fourth symphony was written for the BBC SO, makes a welcome return with a new work for strings.
Jonathan Lloyd : old racket Johannes Brahms : Piano Concerto No. 1, in D minor Michael Tippett : Symphony No. 4
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13 Jul
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Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 7.30pm London Symphony Orchestra: LSO Futures - Symphonic Sound Worlds Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10 £15 £19.50 £27 £36 François-Xavier Roth conductor
London Symphony Orchestra
At the centre of this concert, which showcases the full forces of the LSO, is the world premiere of Panufnik Variations, a project that brings together graduates from across the Panufnik Scheme’s seven-year history. Taking a theme from Andrzej Panufnik’s Universal Prayer as a starting-point, the work features a series of variations showcasing the sounds and styles of nine Panufnik Scheme alumni, bookended by an opening and conclusion by Colin Matthews.
Anton Webern : Passacaglia Pierre Boulez : Notations Colin Matthews : Panufnik Variations Claude Debussy : La Mer
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13 Jul
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14 Jul
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Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 7.30pm Illuminating Britten Wiltshire Music Centre Bradford upon Avon United Kingdom
Tickets: £18 full price / £16-17 concession BCMG
Concert introduced by BCMG Artist-in-Association John Woolrich.
BCMG celebrates Britten’s centenary with a programme of early works, framing them with similarly small-scale pieces from composers with close connections to him.
Elegy for solo viola is an affecting, technically assured work, composed in a single day by the 17 year-old Britten. Crafted a year later, Going down Hill on a Bicycle is an experimental, almost Schoenbergian piece for violin and piano. Throughout his life Britten enjoyed writing for specific performers and composed his Phantasy Quartet, when just 19, for the leading English oboist of the day, Leon Goossens.
One the fascinating things about these early Britten works is that although beautifully crafted, they show Britten at a crossroads, before he knew what direction his music would take. His Suite for violin and piano from 1935 is more characteristically Britten, showing that at 21 the young composer had started to find his voice.
No composer mattered more to young Britten than Alban Berg, whose Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano are the composer’s only true miniatures. Oliver Knussen met and was encouraged by Britten when young, and Henze’s Olly on the Shore pictures BCMG’s Artist-in-Association standing on the same stretch of Suffolk shoreline that Britten called home. Copland’s smoky, blues-inspired Nocturne and ukulele pastiche Serenade date back to before he first met Britten at his home in Snape.
Alban Berg : Four Pieces Op. 5, for Clarinet and Piano Benjamin Britten : Elegy for solo viola Aaron Copland : Nocturne Aaron Copland : Ukelele Serenade Benjamin Britten : Going down Hill on a Bicycle (A Boy’s Song), for violin and piano (1931) Oliver Knussen : Cantata Op. 15, for oboe and string trio Hans Werne Henze : Olly on the Shore, for piano Alban Berg : Adagio, for violin, clarinet and piano Benjamin Britten : March, Lullaby and Waltz, three pieces for violin and piano from ‘Suite Op. 6’, for violin and piano Benjamin Britten : Phantasy Quartet, for oboe and string trio
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Friday, April 19, 2013 at 7.30pm Beethoven, Simpson and Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Martyn Brabbins conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Tippett found inspiration for the Promethean energy and structural force of his Second Symphony in Beethoven’s own symphonies: the vigorously assertive opening Allegro, and balletic curlicues of the scherzo-like Presto owe much to his hero’s example, while the mosaic-like orchestration of the slow movement hint at the shimmering orchestral tapestries Tippett was to explore later in his career. Appropriately, Beethoven’s Apollonian Violin Concerto prefaces the performance, presented by Nicola Benedetti. One of our most promising young composers, Mark Simpson, clarinettist winner of the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year and already a BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year, is represented by his richly imagined tone poem A Mirror-Fragment …
Mark Simpson : A mirror-fragment… Ludwig Van Beethoven : Violin Concerto in D major Michael Tippett : Symphony No. 2
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at Mopomoso On Tour Various
United Kingdom
Mopomoso
"Improvising is important to me", says guitarist, John Russell, "because it is the closest I get to what music is."
We are very excited to have the opportunity to work with Mopomoso co-founder John Russell to produce the first UK tour of Mopomoso.
MOPOMOSO stands for MOdernismPOstMOdernism SO what? and was founded in 1991 by guitarist John Russell and pianist, trumpeter and composer Chris Burn to promote improvised music and its relationship to other forms of contemporary music making Mopomoso has since then presented hundreds of concerts, special events and workshops.
The tour aims to both showcase the work of Mopomoso to a wider audience, and promote the ideas and artists in each city. A series of sets from some of Mopomoso's core players will be complemented with improvisers from each city. With a firm focus on free improvisation, musical references could range from jazz, rock, folk, classical, electronic, world and computer-generated music, representing the broad brush stroke spirit of inclusion embodied in the Mopomoso aesthetic.
About this tour, John Russell says:
“In its monthly series, which takes place at The Vortex - ‘London’s listening jazz club’, Mopomoso offers audiences the chance to hear some of the best music around, in an intimate and friendly setting. Programmed by myself, and now in its 21st year, this tour will recreate some of that ambience with a varied programme of contrasting approaches to free improvisation. By its very nature no two concerts will be the same and we can safely guarantee you won’t have heard anything like this before!”
http://www.mopomoso.com/
Date: April 23 - April 30 2013
Venue: UK tour
Produced by: Sound and Music and Mopomoso
MOPOMOSO . : Various
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23 Jul
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 7.30pm Heart of Darkness Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom 02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15 Nicholas Collon, conductor
Samuel West, narrator
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A heady mixture of new music and established classics, this concert combines two renowned masterworks with the London première of the Suite from Tarik O’Regan’s recent opera, Heart of Darkness. Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novella, O’Regan’s opera has already met with great acclaim for its ‘music of startling beauty’ (The Observer) and ‘a magical and haunting sound-world’ (The Telegraph).
Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture is a vibrant celebration of London, depicting a couple exploring the metropolis, enjoying sounds from church bells to a brass band. The Second Symphony by Sibelius is one of his most engaging and beautiful compositions, overflowing with exhilarating orchestral textures.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Edward Elgar : Cockaigne Overture Tarik O'Reagan : Suite from Heart of Dearkness for narrator and orchestra Jean Sibelius : Symphony No.2
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26 Jul
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Friday, April 26, 2013 at 7.30-9.00 pm Concert St. Cyprian's Church Baker Street, London United Kingdom
Tickets: £10 The Arch Orchestra, conducted by Chloé Vansoeterstede.
Tom Smail : Soliloquy for Strings
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Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 1.30pm and 4pm BCMG Family Concerts CBSO Centre, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: £6 adults / £4 under 16s / £16 group ticket (admits four people – the group must contain at least o Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor: Richard Baker
Piano: Nicolas Hodges
Our Family Concerts introduce young people and their families to the exciting world of contemporary music. These hour-long performances weave theatre with the music to create fun, colourful and engaging concerts to ignite young imaginations.
Before and after the performances there will be a fun activity café where young people can create their own music using BCMG’s wonderful array of instruments - and gobble a few cakes! Activities will run around an hour before each performance so please turn up early and enjoy the whole BCMG Family Concerts experience.
Best suited to children aged 7+
Performances will last around one hour
Duncan Chapman : New work for electronics Judith Weir : Musicians Wrestle Everywhere BCMG/SAM Apprentice composer-in-residence : new work Julian Anderson : Scherzo (with trains) Olivier Messiaen : Oiseaux Exotiques
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