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Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 6:30PM Harrison Birtwistle's Bow Down at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival Spitalfields Festival London United Kingdom
Presented by The Opera Group, in association with the London Sinfonietta.
A macabre folktale is brought to percussive and visceral life in this interdisciplinary performance. When The Fair Sister is courted by The Suitor, The Dark Sister commits a terrible act of betrayal. But as her crime echoes through the land and across the ages will she finally receive retribution?
Bow Down is an ancient murder ballad reimagined by young performers and players.
Harrison Birtwistle : Bow Down
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Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 7.30 pm Mertz, Giuliani, Barrios Mangoré and more Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £10 £14 £17 £20 Dimitris Dekavallas
guitar
Multiple award winner Dimitris Dekavallas has established himself as one of the most talented guitarists of his age. Much in demand as a soloist worldwide, he has been praised for his ‘truly phenomenal performances’ (Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation), and ‘his warm tone and lyrical expression’ (Classical Guitar Magazine)
Johann Mertz : Variations Mignonnes Johann Mertz : Tarantelle Mauro Giuliani : Variations on a theme of Handel Op. 107 Barrios Mangore : Una limosna por el amor de dios Barrios Mangore : Vals Op. 8 No. 4 Jenny Jackson : FanTango (world première, dedicated to Dimitris Dekavallas) Jorge Morel : Danza Brasilera Jorge Morel : Misionera Mauricio Kagel : Sonata II (world première, dedicated to Dimitris Dekavallas)
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17 Aug
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Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 6pm Birtwistle, Carter and Knussen at the Aldeburgh Festival Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Tickets: £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group +
EXAUDI
Ives’ delight in forming a ‘set’ from an assemblage of apparently independent parts is matched by the serious originality of Knussen’s programme-building.
Three Places in New England and The Fourth of July are a blend of an understated yet all-American grandeur with music of raucous celebration, a carefully crafted chaos of borrowed popular tunes and sophisticated collision of multiple musics.
Birtwistle’s ebullient perpetual motion seems in harmony with the earthy joys of Bartók’s rustic miniatures. Carter’s anti-concerto, lyrical and feisty, prefaces a modern-day classic of a Requiem.
An Elliott Carter premiere by two of the leading exponents of his music that continues the recent sequence of Carter premieres at Aldeburgh.
Harrison Birtwistle : Cantus Iambeus Bela Bartok : Three Village Scenes Elliott Carter : Interventions for piano and orchestra Oliver Knussen : Requiem – Songs for Sue Charles Ives : The Fourth of July; Three Places in New England
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18 Aug
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Monday, June 18, 2012 at 7pm Billy Budd English National Opera London Coliseum United Kingdom
ENO
ENO continues to refresh its Britten repertoire with this new production by the team behind ENO’s award-winning Peter Grimes.
A metaphysical battle between good and evil fought out aboard a British man-o'-war, Britten’s richly orchestrated all-male opera was originally commissioned for the 1951 Festival of Britain and is considered to be one of the composer’s finest works.
Starring Benedict Nelson (a ‘standout’ Demetrius in 2011’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) as Billy, Matthew Rose as Claggart, the malevolent master-at-arms, and Kim Begley as Vere, the morally conflicted captain, this new staging reunites the award-winning director-conductor partnership of David Alden and Edward Gardner from 2009’s Peter Grimes.
Mon 18 Jun 2012
Sat 23 Jun 2012
Wed 27 Jun 2012
Sat 30 Jun 2012
Tue 03 Jul 2012
Thu 05 Jul 2012
Sun 08 Jul 2012
Benjamin Britten : Billy Budd
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 7:30pm CBSO London 2012 Festival Opening Concert 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: £20 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
CBSO Chorus
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Children’s Chorus
The world’s greatest music – made in Birmingham. On the opening night of the London 2012 Festival, CBSO are thrilled to present the latest masterpiece from Jonathan Harvey, one of the world’s greatest living composers, who was born in Sutton Coldfield. An epic choral work, Weltethos is inspired by the shared spiritual heritage of humanity and founded on texts from six of the world’s greatest religions: Confucianism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Expansive, visionary and awe-inspiringly beautiful, it’s a perfect way to kick off the nationwide celebrations in the summer of 2012. Join the CBSO to welcome the world and hear sounds like you’ve never heard before.
6.15pm Pre-concert talk: Premiere! Jonathan Harvey
Stephen Maddock talks to the great Birmingham-born composer about his new choral work.
Jonathan Harvey : Weltethos
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22 Aug
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Friday, June 22, 2012 at 7.30 pm Evelyn Glennie and Philip Smith Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30 Evelyn Glennie
percussion
Philip Smith
piano
Famous for hitting anything that neither moves nor flinches, Evelyn Glennie does so with a flair, invention and imagination that has made her without doubt the world’s most celebrated percussionist. She creates new instruments, with a whole body of new repertoire for them to play. Here, collaborating with the pianist Philip Smith, she reconfigures old, established works for new, exploratory sound-worlds.
Toshiro Mayuzumi : Concertino for xylophone and piano Evelyn Glennie : Waterphone improvisation Christos Hatzis : Eternity’s heartbeat Evelyn Glennie : Orologeria Aureola John Psathas : Drum Dances Antonio Vivaldi : Concerto in C for piccolo recorder Philip Sheppard : New Work Astor Piazzolla : Libertango Nebojsa Zivkovic : Quasi una sonata
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Monday, June 25, 2012 at 7.30 pm Damon Albarn's Dr Dee English National Opera London Coliseum United Kingdom
ENO
About the production starring Damon Albarn
Following the success of Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West, ENO presents the London premiere of Albarn’s visionary new opera Dr Dee.
Although largely unknown today, Doctor Dee was the quintessential Renaissance Man. From astrology to alchemy and physics to philosophy, his thirst for knowledge was insatiable and, as a key advisor to Elizabeth I, he is credited with providing much of the intelligence which shaped ‘the British Empire’ established under her rule. Dee also dabbled in the occult and, ultimately, this fascination destroyed him. Conned by a deranged medium, Dee’s career ended in disgrace and sexual scandal and he died discredited and penniless.
This fascinating figure is bought to life by the extraordinary talents of composer and musician Damon Albarn, and director Rufus Norris. Albarn’s music is an ingenious mix of pop vocals, much of which he will perform live on-stage, with contemporary orchestral music played on 16th-century period instruments. Rufus Norris’s staging presents five centuries of English history and the three realms of earth, heaven and hell, with the virtuosic flare which has secured him a raft of awards and five-star reviews from London to Broadway.
Performances
June 25, 26, 28, 29 & July 4, 6, 7 at 7.30pm , July 7 at 2.30pm
8 performances. Running time: 2hrs.
Pre-performance talk: Thur June 28, 5.30-6.15pm, £5
Damon Albarn : Dr Dee
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 7.30 pm LSO Discovery Celebration Concert Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £4 Kristjan Järvi conductor
Rachel Leach presenter
LSO On Track: Next Generation
Music Maker Schools
London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Discovery brings music into the lives of 60,000 Londoners every year, and the annual summer celebration concert takes just a small slice of these participants and brings them together on the Barbican stage. Conductor Kristjan Järvi directs the LSO in an evening which begins with River Journey, a work commissioned by John Stephens OBE especially to be performed with children from three primary schools close to LSO St Luke's led by animateur Neil Valentine. East London's most gifted young musicians then perform in a new piece they have written with Howard Moody - Terrors of Red Flame.
Jeff Moore : River Journey (LSO commission) Manuel de Falla : The Three Cornered Hat – Suite Howard Moody : Terrors of Red Flame (LSO commission)
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29 Aug
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Friday, June 29, 2012 at 7pm Studio Concert: Knussen conducts Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky BBC Maida Vale Studios, London Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London United Kingdom 02085761227
Tickets: FREE (subject to availability) Oliver Knussen, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra invites you to a live studio recording of playful, song and dance infused music conducted by Oliver Knussen. Stravinsky’s famous symphonic poem ‘The Song of the Nightingale’ is presented alongside Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger’s symphonic movement Rugby which, inspired by the game, presents exchanges between orchestral forces suggestive of opposing sides. This is preceded by French waltzes and a berceuse from Ravel and Debussy, as well as Boulez’s orchestration of Ravel’s Frontispice, originally scored for five hands on two pianos.
Maurice Ravel : Valses nobles et sentimentales Claude Debussy : Berceuse Heroique Maurice Ravel : Frontispice (arr. Boulez) Igor Stravinsky : Le Chant du Rossignol Arthur Honegger : Rugby
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