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7 Jul
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 7.30pm
Edge of Sound
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk
BBC Concert Orchestra
A Hawk and a Hacksaw Jeremy Barnes | Heather Trost | Balázs Ungar
Synergy Vocals
André de Ridder conductor
Immerse yourself in the folk cultures of Eastern Europe. Explore the gritty, rustic and evocative music of the original folk collector Béla Bartók in Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. We evoke the spirit of Romania in Ligeti’s full-blooded Concert românesc.
Discover A Hawk and A Hacksaw. An American duo, with cimbalom maestro Balázs Unger as special guest, they seek to create and document an ecstatic sound much like the village bands of old where the communal aspect of folk tradition is the key factor. They will weave their music into Bartók’s Three Village Scenes.
Experience something new when BBC Concert Orchestra and A Hawk and A Hacksaw come together to perform a brand new piece written specially for their combined forces in a unique collaboration.
Béla Bartók : Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106
Gyorgy Ligeti : Concert Românesc
Béla Bartók : Three Village Scenes, Sz 79
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9 Jul
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Friday, May 9, 2014 at 7.30pm
Bright Sheng Violin Concerto
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Gil Shaham violin
This kaleidoscopic programme will delight old and young alike, from Dukas’s vividly imagined Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Bartók’s dizzingly virtuoso celebration of the symphony orchestra. Far Eastern colours and sonorities give Chinese-born composer Bright Sheng’s music a distinctive appeal. Sakari Oramo is joined by distinguished Israeli-American violinist Gil Shaham for a performance of the composer’s recent violin concerto.
The concert finishes at approximately 9.45pm
Paul Dukas : The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Bright Sheng : Violin Concerto
Béla Bartók : Concerto for Orchestra
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10 Jul
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10 Jul
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Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 7.30pm
Fantasia on all the notes: celebrating Harrison Birtwistle
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
BCMG, Oliver Knussen
Harrison Birtwistle is one of the major musical figures internationally and this concert sees BCMG and Oliver Knussen showcase works from across his career in his 80th birthday year.
An early breakthrough work, Tragoedia (1965) not only marked Birtwistle out as an independent voice but was also one of the first major scores to draw on what would prove to be a continuing interest in his music – Greek theatre, myth and ritual. Today Tragoedia is a classic of modern chamber repertoire, and like the most recent piece in the programme, Fantasia Upon All the Notes (2012), employs two groups of instruments, winds and strings, which are linked and fused by means of a third force, a harp.
All Birtwistle’s music is in essence a single melodic line that is filled out – a compositional trait that perhaps carried over from his early days as a clarinettist – and nowhere is this more evident than in the soaring lines he wrote in the opera Gawain, and in 4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski (1991), written in its wake and here sung by rising young Belgian soprano Katrien Baerts.
Another of Birtwistle’s continuing fascinations, the medieval and the mythic, comes to the fore in earlier classic Silbury Air (1977, revised 2003), which takes its inspiration from the prehistoric mound of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.
Birtwistle’s music has been an important influence for Tansy Davies. Premiered by these forces in May 2012, Davies’ funky, hyperactive and sumptuously scored piano concerto Nature has already enjoyed repeat performances by both BCMG and other ensembles.
Harrison Birtwistle : Tragoedia
Tansy Davies : Nature
Harrison Birtwistle : Cantata
Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia on all the notes
Harrison Birtwistle : 4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski
Harrison Birtwistle : Silbury Air
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13 Jul
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 8pm
Kronos at 40
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Kronos Quartet
San Francisco's Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet continues its tradition of storied Barbican appearances in this one-of-a-kind 40th-anniversary celebration.
The evening features commissioned works by favourite composers and collaborators from throughout Kronos' history, including a UK premiere by Philip Glass and world premieres of pieces by Bryce Dessner (guitarist of The National) and Jarvis Cocker.
Ukranian singer and composer Mariana Sadovska also joins Kronos on stage for the UK premiere of her composition, Chernobyl.The Harvest. A piece for one voice and string quartet, based on ancient-ceremonial music of norhtern Ukraine and contemporary sound scales, it is a 'pagan requiem' which uses the nuclear catastrophy of Chernobyl as a starting point to experiment with distruction and creation of musical structures and stories.
Terry Riley : The Serquent Risadome
Philip Glass : String Quartet No. 6
Bryce Dessner : 40 Canons
Jarvis Cocker : NEW WORK
Mariana Sadovska : Chernobyl. The Harvest
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15 Jul
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Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 7.30pm
Scelsi, Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág and Julian Anderson
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Arditti Quartet
The Arditti Quartet celebrates its fortieth anniversary, catching the diversity and expressive range of works created over the past half century.
Giacinto Scelsi’s music, with its highly original soundworld and mystical qualities, has been championed worldwide by the Ardittis since the 1970s. They open the programme with the Italian composer’s Fourth String Quartet of 1964, a ten-minute study in microtonality and formal symmetry, before exploring Helmut Lachenmann’s white-hot deconstruction of Gluck’s ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’.
The second half includes the world premičre of a major new work by Julian Anderson, Wigmore Hall’s second Composer in Residence, distinguished by its luminous textural and tonal contrasts and irresistible rhythmic energy.
Giacinto Scelsi : String Quartet No. 4
Helmut Lachenmann : String Quartet No. 2 ‘Reigen seliger Geister’
Gyorgy Kurtág : Officium breve Op. 28
Julian Anderson : String Quartet No. 2
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16 Jul
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16 Jul
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Friday, May 16, 2014 at 8:00pm
BMOP in Concert: A Fine Centennial
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-$50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, partners with The Fine Family, The Irving Fine Society, and Brandeis University and its Department of Music to pay tribute to three central figures of the mid-century Boston musical landscape - Irving Fine, Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger.
Irving Fine : Symphony
Irving Fine : Blue Towers
Irving Fine : Diversions for Orchestra
Arthur Berger : Prelude, Aria, and Waltz for String Orchestra
Harold Shapero : Serenade in D for string orchestra
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18 Jul
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18 Jul
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18 Jul
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Sunday, May 18, 2014 at 7.30pm
Explorations Weekend: Session Five
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Concert Orchestra
André de Ridder conductor
Jessica Rivera soprano
Jonny Greenwood electric guitar, ondes martenot
Radiohead guitarist and former BBC Concert Orchestra composer-in-residence, Jonny Greenwood performs Reich’s legendary piece for electric guitar and tape, Electric Counterpoint – and plays the early electronic instrument ondes martenot with the orchestra on his own score from Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood.
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, also known as Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, is recognised as one of the most affecting and spellbinding works of the late 20th century. Inspired by stories of children separated from their families during World War II, the piece premiered in 1977 and – since its release by Nonesuch in 1992 – it has become one of the biggest classical music sellers of all time.
Steve Reich : Electric Counterpoint
Jonny Greenwood : There Will Be Blood Suite
Henryk Gorecki : Symphony no. 3
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21 Jul
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23 Jul
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Friday, May 23, 2014 at 7:30pm
Music at First Presents the Music of Jerome Kitzke 5/23
First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn
124 Henry Street
United States
212-567-1520
http://www.musicatfirstsite.com
Tickets: $10
ETHEL
The Mad Coyote
Ensemble Moto Perpetuo
Jennifer Kathryn Marshall
and more...
Music at First presents the music of American composer/storyteller Jerome Kitzke in a concert celebrating his upcoming album The Paha Sapa Give-Back (Innova – tbr 7/29/14) and the New York City premiere of an excerpt from Buffalo Nation (Bison bison) (2012), a theatrical musical historical survey of the bison in North America. Known for creating works inspired by American life, politics and literature, the program also includes The Character of American Sunlight (1996) featuring Kitzke’s ensemble The Mad Coyote, and Winter Count (2008) performed by premier string quartet, ETHEL, and actor Jennifer Kathryn Marshall.
Jerome Kitzke : Winter Count
Jerome Kitzke : The Character of American Sunlight
Jerome Kitzke : Buffalo Nation
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24 Jul
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24 Jul
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Saturday, May 24, 2014 at 7.30pm
Laura Bowler Premičre
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
Gábor Takács-Nagy conductor | Benjamin Grosvenor piano | Giovanni Guzzo violin | Hannah Roberts cello
Pre-concert performance at 6.30pm: REmix: Young people from Greater Manchester use their own musical influences to create new fusion music inspired by Beethoven.
Considered one of the most talented and respected pianists of the younger generation, Benjamin Grosvenor joins Camerata’s leader, Giovanni Guzzo, and principal cellist, Hannah Roberts, in Beethoven’s beautifully lyrical Triple Concerto.
Gábor Takács-Nagy will bring his limitless musical imagination, emotional depth and sizzling energy to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – the most iconic and timeless of all orchestral works. Legend has it that Beethoven’s famous motif came to the composer from a yellow-hammer’s song as he walked through the Prater Park in Vienna. You will also hear a miniature masterpiece by Camerata’s 2013/14 Sound and Music ‘Embedded’ Composer-in-Residence, Laura Bowler.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Triple Concerto Op.56
Laura Bowler : New Work
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No.5 Op.67
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24 Jul
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Saturday, May 24, 2014 at
Moses und Aron
Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales
United Kingdom
WNO
Imagine you’ve been told the most important thing man has ever been told. What you have been told will change the world and save mankind. You must now share what you have heard, you are God’s spokesperson on earth. Imagine, however, that you are overcome with despair that you find yourself unable to find the right words to communicate God’s will. This is Moses’ tragedy in Moses und Aron.
It is impossible not to listen to Schoenberg’s ‘fragmentary masterpiece’ and not be stunned by his achievement. Moses und Aron reaches to the outer limits of what opera was capable of in the last century. It’s a sound so unique, so urgent that you might be forgiven for thinking that it has come down from heaven itself.
Welsh National Opera is proud to stage this rarely performed opera in Sergio Morabito and Jossi Wieler’s highly charged production. Moses und Aron is a huge undertaking for both performers and audiences but the rewards will be extraordinary.
Performances until 26th July
Arnold Schoenberg : Moses und Aron
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25 Jul
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Sunday, May 25, 2014 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
New Strings
Human Resources, Los Angeles
410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States
213-290-4752
http://humanresourcesla.com
info@humanresourcesla.com
Tickets: $15 - http://newstrings.brownpapertickets.com
Fiato Quartet
New Strings is a concert dedicated to the exploration of the string quartet in all its facets. Economical but lush, traditional but often avant-garde, the string quartet is unique among ensembles in its ability to embody a composer's vision in distilled form. For this reason, the string quartet has historically been a proving-ground for composers eager to voice their ideas. In New Strings, the members of the Los Angeles Composers Collective take on this challenge with the help of the young and brilliant Fiato Quartet, proving once again that the string quartet can be fresh, relevant, and unexpected.
Nicholas White : Four Impressions
Alicia Byer : Thoughts on Spring
Tu Nguyen : String Quartet No. 1
Max Mueller : Scenes from My Parents' Cocktail Party
Gregory Lenczycki : Miniature for String Quartet No. 6
Derek Dobbs : Mr. Billings and David Fist Fight in Heaven
Carlos Carlos : At the Warren
Jon Brenner : String Quartet 1
Matthew Allen : 3 Dirges for the Death of Man
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30 Jul
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30 Jul
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Friday, May 30, 2014 at 1:10pm
CBSO Centre Stage - Reich, Bradley, Radiohead & Rush
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
Adrian Spillett & Sophie Hastings percussion
Alan Thomas trumpet
Ed Jones trombone
Ben Dawson piano
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.
Centre Stage aims to give every CBSO player a chance to shine, and today our percussionist Adrian Spillett steps into the limelight with this electrifying contemporary programme. From Steve Reich’s Marimba Phase to Radiohead like you’ve never heard them before, this is a concert to fascinate and thrill. Bring an open mind.
Steve Reich : Marimba Phase
Jan Bradley : Chieba
Radiohead : Pyramid Song
Stephen Rush : Rebellion
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31 Jul
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 7.30pm
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Gerald Finley
baritone
Julius Drake
piano
Gerald Finley has essayed many landmark successes in the opera house and concert hall over the past two decades. The Canadian baritone’s appearances at Wigmore Hall rank in company with his finest achievements, recognised and reinforced this season with a Residency comprising works drawn from the heart of his repertoire.
For the final concert in his series, Gerald Finley performs Schwanengesang alongside the world premičre of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s songcycle Rubáiyát, which was written specially for him.
Franz Schubert : Schwanengesang
Einojuhani Rautavaara : Rubáiyát
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