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11 Aug
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Friday, September 11, 2015 at 8pm
Religious Force
BEETHOVENHALLE
Wachsbleiche 16 53111 Bonn
Germany
0228 / 7222-0
http://www.beethovenhalle.de
Julius Berger (Cello)
Hyun-Jung Berger (Cello)
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Stefan Blunier (Conductor)
Sofia Gubaidulina – of Russian Tartar origin, Orthodox faith and a pupil of Shostakovich – is no longer just an insider tip in the West either. Two Paths, originally for two violas and orchestra, here in a version for two cellos and orchestra. The sub-title ‘in A Dedication to Mary and Martha’ refers to the biblical figures. Their contradictory experience of worldly and spiritual love forms the dramatic inspiration for this music. Posterity has sometimes referred to Bruckner’s fifth symphony as the ‘Church of Faith’, but he called it his ‘Fantastic’, and it is fantastic, through its inventiveness, variety and its overwhelming architecture: it ends with a magnificent double fugue on the main theme of the final movement and a chorale-like climax.
Sofia Gubaidulina : Two Paths
Anton Bruckner : Symphony no. 5 in B flat major
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11 Aug
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Friday, September 11, 2015 at 7.30pm
OSLO SINFONIETTA / DANS LES ARBES
Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Sentralen, Postboks 183 Sentrum, 0102 Oslo, Norway
Norway
http://ultima.no
Concept: Henrik Hellstenius
Dramaturgy: Kai Johnsen
Video: Boya Bøckman
Soloists: Njål Sparbo, Silje Aker Johnsen, Stine Janvin Motland
Conductor: Andrea Pestalozza
Oslo Sinfonietta
Dans les arbres
Classical works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Edvard Grieg meet contemporary works by Henrik Hellstenius, Salvatore Sciarrino, the Norwegian-French quartet Dans les arbres, and improvisations in Ørets teater: om naturen. A collaboration between composer Henrik Hellstenius, instructor and dramaturg Kai Johnsen and video artist Boya Bøckman.
Nature – the romantic, the tedious, the unpredictable, the tiny, the vast, the dangerous and cruel; the underlying idea for the performance is to use nature as material for a concert of music, texts and video. Nature is form, motion and sound. Sounds that change during the course of the day and the seasons of the year. Or could it be that the days and the seasons transform the sounds of nature, just as they also transform the sounds of people?
The solo vocalists are Njål Sparboe, Silje Aker Johnsen and Stine Janvin Motland. Also performing will be two of Norway’s leading music ensembles, Oslo Sinfonietta and the critically acclaimed jazz quartet Dans les arbres.
Ørets teater: om naturen is a continuation of Henrik Hellstenius’ four-concert series performed at the Bergen International Festival in 2011.
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12 Aug
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Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 7pm
Berliner Philharmoniker
Musikfest Berlin
Berliner Festspiele Schaperstraße 24 10719 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 254 89-244
http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/
musikfest@berlinerfestspiele.de
RENAUD CAPUÇON violin
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER conductor
It was not only painting that experienced the emancipation of colour around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, but also music. And the first place was in France, where Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy countered the impressionism of a Monet, Renoir or Pissarro with their very own new colour schemes. Arnold Schönberg, who – like his two French colleagues – was inspired to write his own composition for the drama “Pelléas et Mélisande” (which is not coincidentally marked by an impalpably dazzling water symbolism), intended in 1911 to formulate the vision of a “timbre melody”. Turning this vision into reality continues today to be an exercise in an unbroken force of fascination. Matthias Pintscher’s 2nd Violin Concert, which the composer will conduct himself at the Berliner Philharmoniker, represents one of the most exciting and contemporary solutions. And it also interprets the term impression in its own way – after all, the title “Mar’eh” can also refer to the “aura of a face” according to the composer: “a beautiful appearance, something wonderful that can suddenly appear in front of you.”
Also:
SUN 13 SEP 2015, 20:00
G Faure : Pelléas et Mélisande
Matthias Pintscher : Violin Concerto No. 2 Mar’eh
Arnold Schoenberg : Chamber Symphony No. 2 in E flat minor op. 38
Claude Debussy : La Mer
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12 Aug
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Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 7pm
BLACK BOX TEATER
Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Sentralen, Postboks 183 Sentrum, 0102 Oslo, Norway
Norway
http://ultima.no
Concept & Direction: Heine Avdal, Yukiko Shinozaki.
Visual artist: Arnaud Meuleman.
Dramaturge: André Eiermann.
Created & performed by: Andrey Andrianov, Heine Avdal, André Eiermann,
Ingrid Haakstad, Arnaud Meuleman, Kayoko Minami, Eivind Seljeseth, Yukiko Shinozaki. Sound design: Roeland Luyten. Sound technique: Mathieu Virot.
Technical support: Protocol Room.
Production: fieldworks vzw, Heine Avdal.
Co-production: STUK (Leuven), APAP Network: BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk) and Pact Zollverein (Essen), Kana Theatrical Centre (Szczecin), CO2 festival (Beirut). In collaboration with: Kaaitheater (Brussel).
With the support of: Norsk Kulturråd, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie. Illustrasjon: Arnaud Meuleman.
In the past few years, the Norwegian-Japanese duo Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki, who have bases in Oslo and Brussels, have made their mark on the international scene in the interface between dance, visual art, video, music and technology. Their art projects have a strong performative element, and they often perform in semi-public spaces.
In Distant voices, they return to the traditional theatre stage and take the physical space in which they find themselves as their theme. By using moving objects, the space is transformed into a kind of transformable sculpture that serves as installation, stage design and architectural element. The duo explores the tension and contrast between reality and fiction, and between bodies and objects, in a room that is in constant motion. Here the imagination can pass through its memory of what it thinks it just saw, its perception of what is actually happening, and its anticipation of what is to come. How are physical experiences affected by the space, and what happens when something breaks free of its spatial limitations?
Avdal and Shinozaki are joined by, among others, André Eiermann, creator of the concept of post-spectacular theatre.
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14 Aug
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Monday, September 14, 2015 at 8pm
Royal Danish Orchestra
Musikfest Berlin
Berliner Festspiele Schaperstraße 24 10719 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 254 89-244
http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/
musikfest@berlinerfestspiele.de
MAGDALENA ANNA HOFMANN mezzo soprano
ROYAL DANISH ORCHESTRA
MICHAEL BODER conductor
Today, the Royal Danish Orchestra is considered to be the oldest orchestra in the world. Its history begins in 1448, when Det Kongelige Kapel was founded as a royal trumpet corps with twelve trumpets, timpanis and six trombones and an associated choir at Copenhagen’s royal court. Even though it was transferred into state hands in the middle of the 19th century, the Kongelige Kapel’s ties to the royal house were never eradicated. An expression of this solidarity is that guest performances by the Royal Danish Orchestra remain under the patronage of I.K.H. Princess Benedikte of Denmark.
Approximately 440 years after the orchestra’s foundation, a composer was to be found among the second violins who was become the Danish central star among European composers of the turn of the last century: Carl Nielsen. His Fifth Symphony, which was composed in the shadow of World War I and represents a musical manifestation of the struggle between the most elementary natural forces – is considered to be his most sonically most advanced work. In this concert, it is flanked by Arnold Schönberg’s monodrama “Erwartung” (Expectation), an attempt to formulate the moment of highest emotional excitement stretched temporally using musical means.
Per Nørgård : Iris for orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg : Erwartung
Carl Nielsen : Symphony No. 5 op. 50
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14 Aug
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14 Aug
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Monday, September 14, 2015 at 8pm
KULTURKIRKEN JAKOB
Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Sentralen, Postboks 183 Sentrum, 0102 Oslo, Norway
Norway
http://ultima.no
ENSEMBLE ASAMISIMASA is an established Norwegian ensemble dedicated to new music, and is known for combining classic avant-garde with new works specially written for them, often with elements of electronics, video and other media. The members are: Kristine Tjøgersen (clarinet), Håkon Stene (percussion), Anders Førisdal (guitar), Ellen Ugelvik (piano) and Tanja Orning (cello).
Motivated by a steady focus on the new, on development, and with an unwavering faith in music and in the expressive potential of musicians, MATHIAS SPAHLINGER‘s music is constantly evolving. Spahlinger uses elements from a broad spectrum of genres and techniques, and this seventy-year-old modernist has managed to leave his mark on the German and European music scenes as composer, thinker, and teacher. Ensemble asamisimasa has collaborated with Spahlinger on several occasions, and is currently planning a Spahlinger festival in Oslo in October.
At this concert, the ensemble will give a first performance of Spahlinger’s new work, no 10, nachtstück mit sonne. This concert also marks ØYVIND TORVUND‘s first portrait CD, Neon Forest Space. Torvud has also closely collaborated with asamisimasa in connection with first performances and concerts of his others works. Plastic Waves (2013) for piano and quartet is a different kind of work in that it mixes sounds from snare drums, piano melodies, harmonica and bass clarinet with broken glass and references to circus sounds.
Mathias Spahlinger : NO 10, NACHTSTÜCK MIT SONNE
Øyvind Torvund : NEON FOREST SPACE
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15 Aug
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 7pm
UNIVERSITETETS AULA
Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Sentralen, Postboks 183 Sentrum, 0102 Oslo, Norway
Norway
http://ultima.no
Det Norske Kammerorkester
Terje Tønnesen conductor
THE NORWEGIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND COMPOSER EIVIND BUENE BUILD BRIDGES FROM OUR OWN TIME TO THE PAST
They will perform two works that were previously commissioned by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra as well as the works by which they were inspired. Buene’s Stilleben for 15 solo strings serves as an atmospheric prelude when played together with Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 17 (2nd movement). Using the first tones of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Buene treats Wagner’s building blocks in a slow, translucent meditation. Garland is a comment on Baroque composer Matthew Locke’s string suites.
Combining the works like this shows how recognition and repetition are two different things. Buene assumes that we interpret everything we experience based on prior experience – and that is not a bad thing, not even in contemporary music. By also focusing on the perceptible sound experience, the works bridge the classical dichotomy between body and mind.
Eivind Buene (born 1973) is a Norwegian composer and writer whose music has been performed by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Cikada, among others. The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra is one of Norway’s leading chamber orchestras, and places emphasis on a solid classical repertoire, new works, and creative outreach. The concert also marks the opening of the orchestra’s season opening.
Eivind Buene : Stilleben
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Klaverkonsert nr. 17
Eivind Buene : Langsam und Schmachtend
Richard Wagner : Forspill fra Tristan og Isolde
Eivind Buene : Palimpsest
Eivind Buene : Garland
Matthew Locke : Consort of Four Parts, Suite nr. 3 & Suite nr. 1
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16 Aug
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 7pm
GÉRARD GRISEYS SPEKTAKULÆRE LE NOIR DE L’ETOILE
Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Sentralen, Postboks 183 Sentrum, 0102 Oslo, Norway
Norway
http://ultima.no
At this year’s Ultima the PERCUSSION TRIO PINQUINS and the SISU PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE will perform Gérard Grisey’s spectacular Le Noir de l’Etoile. The concert offers a rare opportunity to experience this magnificent work, which has never before been performed in Norway. Grisey derived the inspiration for this work in his fascination for the stars and outer space. The work, in which six percussionists are positioned in different places among the audience, is based on radio signals generated by rotating neutron stars called pulsars.
GÉRARD GRISEY studied with names like Olivier Messiaen, Henri Dutilleux and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and was one of the leading composers of spectral music, a compositional technique developed in the 1970s that uses computers to analyse the quality of timbre in music.
Gerard Grisey : Le Noir de l'Étoile
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18 Aug
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Friday, September 18, 2015 at 7.30pm
18th London New Wind Festival
Regent Hall
275 Oxford St., London W1 2DJ
United Kingdom
Tickets: £8 (£5)
Catherine Pluygers - Oboes, Phil Edwards - Clarinets, Henryk Sienkiewicz - Horn, Alan Tomlinson - Trombone, Robert Coleridge - Piano, Ellie Blackshaw - Violin & Viola.
New music for winds.
Howard Skempton orch Stephen Barchan : Merry-go-round for Solo Violin & Ensemble
Louis Johnson : Chant: Kyrie Study 4 with Alleluia
Marilyn Herman : Michal 06 for Solo Clarinet
Elizabeth Winters : Clarinet Sonata for Clarinet & Piano
Paul Patterson : Barcarolle for Violin & Piano
Lelei Tian : Om for Horn & Tape
Anthony Green : From Cross Fell to Garrigill (The Corpse Road) For Eb Clarinet, Cor Anglais & Trombone
Arthur Gottschalk : Sonata for Tenor Trombone & Piano
Vadim Mikhailov : The Garden of Stones for Violin, Oboe & Electronic Sound Track
R. Michael Daugherty : Elegy for the Victims of Ebola for Horn & Piano
Lawrence Casserley : Sette Pagine Su L'Enigma Del Bianco for Ensemble & Live Electronics
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18 Aug
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Friday, September 18, 2015 at 7:30pm
Odyssey Opera Premieres Le Cid 9/18
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-100
Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera, a Boston-‐‑based opera company dedicated to exploring the full spectrum of adventurous repertoire, presents the Boston premiere of one of France’s great operas, Le Cid (1885), composed by Jules Massenet (1842-‐‑1912). A rarity that has been sadly absent from opera houses worldwide in the 20th and 21st centuries, Le Cid is rarely produced in the United States. With its grand themes of honor, love, bravery, and sacrifice, Le Cid encompasses the sweep of historical epic and the depths of the heart. Conducted by Gil Rose, this one-‐‑night-‐‑only performance breathes new dramatic life into the legendary medieval Spanish warrior Rodrigue, known as “Le Cid” (“The Lord”) (played by American tenor Paul Groves.)
Jules Massenet : Le Cid
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28 Aug
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Monday, September 28, 2015 at 3.30pm
Kinderkonzert
Post Tower Lounge
Bonn
Germany
Přemysl Vojta (Horn)
Tobias Koch (Klavier)
Mit Ausschnitten aus Werken von Ludwig van Beethoven und Giselher Klebe.
In diesem Familienkonzert erfährt man viel über die beiden Instrumente Horn und Klavier: Wie funktionieren sie und wie erzeugt man darauf eigentlich Töne? Die beiden Musiker werden gemeinsam mit den Kindern improvisieren und verschiedene Instrumente zum Klingen bringen.
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5 Sep
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Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7.30pm
Cinderella
Grand Theatre, Swansea
Swansea Grand Theatre, Singleton Street, Swansea, SA1 3QJ
Wales
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/swanseagrandtheatre
Choreography: Darius James and Amy Doughty; Music: Jack White; Costume and Set Design: Steve Denton; Lighting Design: Chris Illingworth
Award-winning Ballet Cymru presents a sparkling and refreshing ballet based on the eternal fairy tale. The company prides itself on being different and their unique blend of classical technique and storytelling is combined with elements of circus to conjure up a surprising world of wonder and magic.
Jack White : Cinderella
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8 Sep
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Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 7.30pm
Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Richard Ayres
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
Ilan Volkov Conductor
Ilan Volkov, known for the dynamic clarity of his performances, creates an intriguing sea-inspired frame for a world premiere. Both Mendelssohn and Beethoven conjured the scene for A Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, while the BBC Singers join us for Schubert's delicately atmospheric Song of the spirits over the water. Before the salt-fresh elemental energy of Haydn's Symphony No. 52 in C minor, comes a new work by Richard Ayres, a composer whose playful theatricality is attuned to the classical past.
Felix Mendelssohn : Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Ludwig Beethoven : Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op 112
Richard Ayres : No. 48
Franz Schubert : Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D 714
Joseph Haydn : Symphony No. 52 in C minor
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