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10 Aug
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 1pm -2pm
Reinvent
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: Free admission
Solasta Folk Band
Elisabeth Flett - Fiddle
Hannah Thomas - Cello
Jamie Leeming - Guitar
Original and reinvented folk arrangements.
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11 Aug
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 7.30pm
HANS WERNER HENZE: VOICES
St. John's Smith Square, London
Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
020 7222 1061
http://www.sjss.org.uk/
David Atherton conductor
Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano
Daniel Norman tenor
London Sinfonietta
One of the London Sinfonietta's landmark commissions of the past fifty years, Henze’s Voices is a collection of 22 folk songs from all over the world, spanning the soundworld of the Italian resistance, former Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh’s ‘Prison Song’, and African American poet Dudley Randall’s Roses and Revolution.
Henze suggests "these are the voices of the offended or humiliated…of defeated people finding other value, other notes, other voices for themselves". Written for mezzo-soprano, tenor, electronics and fifteen musicians playing around 70 different instruments, it’s a feat of contemporary composition. London Sinfonietta co-founder David Atherton conducts this provocative tour de force.
Hans Werne Henze : Voices
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13 Aug
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Friday, October 13, 2017 at 7.30pm
Birtwistle Earth Dances
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s large-scale orchestral work from 1986 explores the element of Earth with a primordial power and colossal ambition: it’s one of his greatest scores and impresses with its strength and ambition 30 years on. Martyn Brabbins, a master of music like this, then turns his attention to the element of Water – Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral A Sea Symphony, one of the most confident first symphonies ever, first heard in 1910, with its two singers lifting the poetry of Walt Whitman into song. Two superb singers of the younger generation – Elizabeth Watts and Marcus Farnsworth – and the BBC Symphony Chorus join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a programme that exults in the power of nature.
Harrison Birtwistle : Earth dances
Vaughan Williams : Symphony No 1, A Sea Symphony
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14 Aug
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14 Aug
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14 Aug
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15 Aug
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Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 2pm
Modern Times: music for voice and percussion
Morley College
61 Westminster Bridge Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 7HT
United Kingdom
020 7450 1889
www.morleycollege.ac.uk/
Tickets: £12, £10 from wegottickets.com/event/413162
Jillian Bain Christie, soprano
Rosie Bergonzi, percussion
Catherine Herriott, piano and percussion
Music from Britain and America for this exciting line-up, featuring two new pieces composed for the concert. Another event from Collaborations, putting composers and performers together.
Janet Oates : Riddle Time
Paul Burnell : And she flew
Stephen Montague : Philup Glass
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15 Aug
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17 Aug
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 1pm-2pm
Ratiocinate - Stace Constantinou (Electronics, Cello, Voice)
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: Admission free
Stace Constantinou - cello, found sounds, live electronics
"Exploring the musical and sonic possibilities of improvised solo cello, immersive soundscape, found-sounds and audience participation, to move into a new musical realm using technology and musical thought inspired by philosophy."
Stace Constantinou : Some A is B
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20 Aug
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Friday, October 20, 2017 at 8pm
George Benjamin: Written on Skin
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
LSO
Oliver Zeffman conductor
Lauren Fagan Agnès
Ross Ramgobin The Protector
Patrick Terry The Boy/Angel 1
Written on Skin, by George Benjamin with a libretto by Martin Crimp drawn from a 13th-century Occitan legend, has been universally acclaimed since its première at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2012.
In addition to this performance at LSO St. Luke's, the production will tour to West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge and to the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
George Benjamin : Written on Skin
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21 Aug
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Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 14.30
Royal Albert Hall presents UK Premiere of Jaws in Concert
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Spielberg’s original summer movie blockbuster Jaws will be screened at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time, accompanied by a live performance of the iconic score which won John Williams his first Academy Award®.
Upon its release, Jaws became the most successful movie of all time, and Spielberg has often credited Williams’ iconic score with much of the film’s success. Now audiences will have the chance to experience the power of a live symphony orchestra performing the entire score in sync with one of the greatest motion pictures of all time – the ultimate film-with-live-orchestra experience!
A Film Concerts Live! production
Jaws is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLC. All Rights Reserved
Academy Awards © A.M.P.A.S.
John Williams : Jaws
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21 Aug
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Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 7.30pm
BBC SO Total Immersion: Julian Anderson
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Carolin Widmann violin
Edward Gardner conducts the BBC SO in his first Total Immersion concert. Julian Anderson’s Eden (2005) celebrates the sculptor Constantin Brancusi while Imagin’d Corners (2002) revolves around Anderson’s attraction to the French horn. Carolin Widmann, a passionate champion of new music, joins the BBC SO for In lieblicher Bläue, a work that uses space in a way that only a live performance can reveal. Symphony (2003) is a study in immobility and gradual growth while Fantasias (2009) is, in Anderson’s words, ‘for all its wild contrasts, a celebration of the modern symphony orchestra’. Originally written for the Cleveland Orchestra, its virtuosity should prove a perfect climax to a weekend celebrating one of the UK’s most distinctive and original musical voices.
Julian Anderson : Eden
Julian Anderson : Imagin’d Corners
Julian Anderson : In lieblicher Blaue, Poem for Violin and Orchestra
Julian Anderson : Symphony
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23 Aug
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24 Aug
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31 Aug
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2 Sep
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Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 7.30pm
Vaughan Williams, Jonathan Dove and Schumann
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
James Gilchrist tenor;
Anna Tilbrook piano
James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook have developed their reading of Schumann’s Dichterliebe over many acclaimed performances and hours of deep thinking. They return to the composer’s Heine settings in a special programme, celebrating twenty years of their artistic collaboration, which also includes Vaughan Williams’s evocative first song cycle.
This concert also marks the end of a project many years in the making, that has seen the duo pairing new commissions with Schumann song cycles. This programme is crowned with the world première of Under Alter’d Skies by Royal Philharmonic Society Award-winner Jonathan Dove.
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Songs of Travel
Jonathan Dove : Under Alter'd Skies
Robert Schumann : Dichterliebe Op. 48
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2 Sep
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Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 7 for 7.30
Philomena
Brunel Museum
Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, London SE16 4LF
United Kingdom
0207 231 3840
brunel-museum.org.uk
info@brunel-museum.org.uk
Tickets: £12.50
New ensemble Philomena: six sopranos
Newly commissioned work alongside 17th century song
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3 Sep
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Friday, November 3, 2017 at 7.30pm
Mahler, Jolas and Boulanger
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Storgårds
The doyenne of French composers, Betsy Jolas, brings one of her latest works to London, presented alongside music by Lili Boulanger and Gustav Mahler.
Betsy Jolas, born in 1926 and therefore a contemporary of Pierre Boulez, is one of French music’s greats and this concert features her work for piano, trumpet and orchestra, Histoires vraies from 2015 and written for the Festival Printemps des Arts in Monte-Carlo. The piece’s ‘stories’ aim to work with the ‘sounds we try not to hear’ and also bring together two players whose musical paths rarely cross: Håkan Hardenberger and Roger Muraro, one of France’s finest modernist pianists, who makes a rare UK appearance. Lili Boulanger, who died aged 24, gives us her atmospheric orchestral diptych juxtaposing morning and evening and Gustav Mahler’s folk-infused Fourth Symphony literally bursts into song to close the programme.
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4
Lili Boulanger : D’un matin de printemps; D’un soir triste
Betsy Jolas : Histoires Vraies
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4 Sep
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4 Sep
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Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 8pm
Cian Ciarán Presents: Rhys & Meinir
Hoddinott Hall
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff
United Kingdom
Cian Ciarán
BBCNOW
For 20 years and counting a member of Super Furry Animals, Cian Ciarán comes together with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The World premiere performance of a work that has been almost two-decades in development features a full 84 piece orchestra and Cian Ciarán’s Rhys & Meinir promises a rare, aural experience that encapsulates the drama of ancient Welsh folklore, the envisioned splendour of rural Wales and the innate, musical curiosity of the intrepid composer.
Rhys and Meinir found love in the village of Nant Gwrtheyrn, North Wales and their childhood romance blossomed for all to see. On the day of their marriage, Meinir is nowhere to be found and the mystery leads Rhys into months of despair. When finally a thunder strike reveals Meinir’s final hiding place, Rhys is unable to live a second longer.
Cian Ciaran : Rhys & Meinir
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4 Sep
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Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 4.30pm
TURNING POINTS: BERIO
Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
United Kingdom
020 7520 1440
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/
info@kingsplace.co.uk
Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano
Michael Cox flute
Darragh Morgan violin
Paul Silverthorne viola
Timothy Lines clarinet
Lucy Wakeford harp
London Sinfonietta
Curated by John Woolrich
Get to know Luciano Berio; one of the towering musical personalities of the post-war avantgarde, who constantly reinvented musical sound and form. His music drew inspiration from and reworked the vernacular of folk, pop and other classical music and indeed his own compositions. The London Sinfonietta collaborated a great deal with Berio during the 1970s and 1980s, helping both ensemble and composer to establish an international reputation.
Luciano Berio : Traditional folk song fragments
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7 Sep
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 1pm - 2pm
Last Words - Soprano, Flute, Cello & Piano
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: Free admission
Patricia Auchterlonie (soprano), Antonia Berg (flute), Ben Smith (piano), Yoanna Prodanova (cello)
Series 3 of Borough New Music opens with works by composers from Italy, Canada and the UK. Songs by Sciarrino are set either side of the two centrepieces of this recital: the UK premiere of Kate Soper's 'Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say'(2010-11), and a world premiere by exciting young pianist-composer Ben Smith (b. 1991).
Kate Soper : Only the words themselves mean what they say (2010-11)
Ben Smith : New Work
Salvatore Sciarrino : Ultime rose (from Vanitas) (1981)
Salvatore Sciarrino : Due melodie per soprano e pianoforte (1978)
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