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9 Aug



United Kingdom
 Saturday, September 9, 2017 at 14.00 
Bantock, Bowen & Musgrave
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

BBC Philharmonic

A celebration of British musical talent, today's concert includes music by three of UK's finest composers: Bantock, Bowen and Musgrave.

The metaphorical curtain rises on this afternoon’s concert with an opener from Bantock – the comedy overture to The Frogs.

Former BBC New Generation Artist, Lawrence Power, is today’s soloist – taking centre stage for Bowen’s imaginative Viola Concerto – before the programme closes with Musgrave’s orchestral autumn-to-summer cycle, The Seasons.


Granville Bantock : Overture 'The Frogs'
Edwin York Bowen : Viola Concerto
Thea Musgrave : The Seasons

10 Aug 
 
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14 Aug



United Kingdom
 Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 7.30pm 
LSO 2017–18 Opening Concert Live Relay
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Christian Tetzlaff violin

Sir Simon Rattle's first concert as LSO Music Director, beamed live to our outdoor cinema screen.



Helen Grime : Fanfares
Thomas Ades : Asyla
Harrison Birtwistle : Violin Concerto
Oliver Knussen : Symphony No 3
Edward Elgar : Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma

15 Aug



Scotland
 Friday, September 15, 2017 at 19.45pm 
Rolf Riehm at Lammermuir
Lammermuir Festival
Elizabeth Hamilton Buildings, Poldrate, Haddington, East Lothian, EH41 4DA.
Scotland
0131 473 2000
http://www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk

BBCSSO

The young Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman joins the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov in the greatest of all violin concertos. Brahms’s 3rd Symphony wonderfully combines drama with some of the most warmly songful music he ever wrote and Volkov’s close and intense relationship with this orchestra guarantees a memorable performance.

He begins with an intriguing nod to musical history in German composer Rolf Riehm’s quirkily colourful take on mediaeval French songs.


Ludwig Van Beethoven : Violin Concerto in D major
Rolf Riehm : He, très doulz roussignol joly
Johannes Brahms : Symphony No 3 in F major

16 Aug



United Kingdom
 Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 13.55 
Knussen, Elgar, Payne, Finzi & Britten
BBC Philharmonic Studio
MediaCityUK, Broadway, Salford, M50 2HQ
United Kingdom

BBC Philharmonic

Andrew Gourlay raises his baton to open today’s programme with Knussen's delightful
The Way to Castle Yonder.
Taken from fantasy opera, Higglety Pigglety Pop – a collaboration between Knussen and American author Maurice Sendak – this piece brings vividly coloured illustrations from page to note. Of his opera, Knusson said ‘Higglety is an evocation of the music I wanted to write [as a child] but didn’t know how’.
Continuing the thread of youth, the orchestra advance with Nursey Suite, a piece which Elgar, in his later years, ‘worked up’ from his youthful and unpublished compositions.
The afternoon continues with Payne’s Half-heard in the Stillness, a ten-minute orchestral tone-poem. Payne describes himself as ‘a passionate Elgarian’ and uses Elgar’s Memorial Chimes - written for the Loughborough Carillon - as his starting point.
The gestation of today’s penultimate piece, Finzi’s Farewell to Arms, took place over many years and reflects his enthusiasm for seventeenth-century poets – brought to life today by Tenor, Robin Tritschler.
Closing the programme is Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, a powerful orchestral work inspired by the texts from the Requiem Mass and dedicated to the memory of Britten’s parents. With this dedication in mind, the final movement, ‘Requiem aeternam’ – meaning ‘eternal rest grant to them’ is particularly poignant.
This concert is a live broadcast for BBC Radio 3.


Oliver Knussen : The Way to Castle Yonder
Edward Elgar : Nursery Suite
Anthony Payne : Half-heard in the stillness
Gerald Finzi : Farewell to Arms

16 Aug



United States
 Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 7:30pm 
Odyssey Opera Performs The Maid of Orleans
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu

Tickets: $20 and Up
Odyssey Opera

Odyssey Opera kicks off its 2017-2018 season, Trial By Fire: Joan of Arc and the Hundred Year War, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans." This one-night-only concert opera performance will be at Jordan Hall September 16, 2017, at 7:30pm. In Maid of Orléans (1878), Tchaikovsky’s sixth opera, Joan falls for a British soldier who switches alliances to the French army, a more accurate story. Tchaikovsky remains true to Joan’s fiery martyrdom, and her legendary encounter with Charles VII, and creates a musical portrait of an intrepid girl leading the French army.


Pyotr Tchaikovsky : The Maid of Orleans

17 Aug 
 
18 Aug



United Kingdom
 Monday, September 18, 2017 at 7.30pm 
This is Rattle: Adès
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Guildhall Musicians


An evening of music by living composers, personally chosen by Thomas Adès to celebrate the arrival of Sir Simon Rattle at the LSO.

As Sir Simon Rattle begins his London tenure, he’s renewing his commitment to the music of living composers. In celebration, one of those composers – Thomas Adès – has chosen eight inspirational works by some of the most distinctive voices of our time.

It’s a wonderfully diverse evening too – a real ‘state of the art’ survey of classical music in the 21st century, from the concentrated poetry of Kurtág and Birtwistle to the communicative energy of Osvaldo Golijov and the late Nicholas Maw. Up close in Milton Court, the young players of the Guildhall School are the ideal team to celebrate a new chapter in British music.


Per Nørgård : Hut Ab!
Nicholas Maw : The Head of Orpheus
Judith Weir : The Alps
Harrison Birtwistle : Célan settings
Niccolò Castiglioni : Vallis Clausa
Gyorgy Kurtág : Eletut
Osvaldo Golijov : Sarajevo
John Woolrich : A Farewell
, Madness : Cardiac Arrest (arr Adès)

19 Aug 
 
20 Aug



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 7.30pm 
This is Rattle: Helen Grime
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Britten Sinfonia
Jacqueline Shave violin/director

The British composer Helen Grime celebrates Sir Simon Rattle’s arrival with a personally-curated programme of her own music and its inspirations.

Helen Grime is one of many living composers being championed by Sir Simon Rattle as Music Director of the LSO. She’s responded with a programme that places her own richly-imagined music amidst the works – from Purcell to Stravinsky – that helped shape it.

So there are many living friends and inspirations in the mix: lovingly-crafted works by Oliver Knussen, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin. Britten Sinfonia has this music in its artistic DNA, just as it’s superbly placed to trace Grimes’s roots through Stravinsky and Britten and right back to Henry Purcell: the acorn from which a living tradition took root.


Henry Purcell : Fantasia Upon One Note
Contemporary Composers : A Purcell Garland
Helen Grime : Into the Faded Air
Oliver Knussen : Cantata
Helen Grime : A Cold Spring
Thomas Ades : Court Studies from the Tempest
Benjamin Britten : Sinfonietta
Igor Stravinsky : Dumbarton Oaks

21 Aug 
 
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23 Aug



United Kingdom
 Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Other Presences: The Music of Jonathan Harvey
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

BBC Singers

Haunting, spiritual, ecstatic: Jonathan Harvey’s music blurs the boundaries between east and west, body and soul. Its lucid, bell-like resonances and pioneering use of electronics will take you on a journey into new and transformative worlds.
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco is an electro-acoustic masterpiece. Spinning sonorities ring out as it blends sound samples of a cathedral bell and the voice of a chorister.
The looped, harmonised trumpet parts in Other Presences weave sounds that echo the music of Tibetan Buddhist purification rituals.
Forms of emptiness sets the vivid flashes of joy in poetry by E.E Cummings against a Buddhist Sanskrit chant, creating moments that feel transient and scarcely real.
Experience Harvey’s compelling music among Britten’s virtuosic cantata AMDG and a new work by Wim Henderickx, whose music reflects his fascination for eastern sound-worlds and philosophies.


Benjamin Britten : A.M.D.G. Op.17
Jonathan Harvey : Mortuos plango, vivos voco
Jonathan Harvey : I Love the Lord
Jonathan Harvey : The Annunication
Jonathan Harvey : Other Presences
Jonathan Harvey : Forms of Emptiness
Wim Henderickx : Blossomings
Jonathan Harvey : How could the soul not take flight

23 Aug



United Kingdom
 Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7.30pm 
This is Rattle: Birtwistle
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

BBC Singers
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Philippa Davies flute
Helen Tunstall, Hugh Webb & Lucy Wakeford harps

Ancient and modern meet in an intriguing programme that folds time back across the centuries, juxtaposing Varèse, Machaut, Byrd and Birtwistle.

Simon Rattle has long championed Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s music. Now Birtwistle returns the compliment with a personally-curated musical greeting.

In his first concerts with the LSO, Rattle reaffirms his commitment to the powerful, unmistakably personal music of Harrison Birtwistle. Birtwistle’s own vocal music – and that of his forebears – forms the heart of this musical tribute from composer to conductor.

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Singers in the intimate but atmospheric space of Milton Court, in a work that they co-commissioned: the poignant and profoundly beautiful Moth Requiem of 2012. But Birtwistle layers the concert with memories and echoing voices from across eight centuries - from Machaut to Byrd and Varèse. A programme as subtle and provocative as one of Rattle’s own.


Edgard Varèse : Octandre
De Machaut : Messe de Nostre Dame
Harrison Birtwistle : Pulse Sampler
William Byrd : Lamentations
Harrison Birtwistle : The Moth Requiem

24 Aug



United Kingdom
 Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 7.30pm 
William Mathias with WNO soloists and NEW Sinfonia
St Asaph Cathedral
St Asaph Cathedral, High Street St Asaph, Denbighshire LL17 0RD
United Kingdom
0800 411 8881



Bach Magnificat along with Magnificats by William Mathias, Paul Mealor (Welsh première) and Oliver Tarney (Welsh première), performed by our newly formed Festival Community Chorus in partnership with Welsh National Opera and Venue Cymru.

WNO Soloists - Soprano: Katy Thomson, Mezzo: Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Tenor: Huw Llywelyn, Baritone: Dyfed Wyn Evans



Bishop Gregory will interview Paul Mealor, Oliver Tarney and Rhiannon Mathias


J.S. Bach : Magnificat
William Mathias : Magnificat
Paul Mealor : Magnificat
Oliver Tarney : Magnificat

25 Aug



United States
 Monday, September 25, 2017 at 10.00am - 1.00pm 
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Netherlands
 Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 2.15pm 
MARKUS STENZ CONDUCTS: LIGETI, DUSAPIN AND LARCHER
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest
Markus Stenz - conductor
Viktoria Mullova - violin
Matthew Barley - cello



Gyorgy Ligeti : Lontano
Pascal Dusapin : At Swim-Two-Birds
Thomas Larcher : Tweede symfonie 'Kenotaph'

31 Aug 
 
1 Sep



United States
 Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 7:30pm 
Renowned Organist Gail Archer Performs in Lewiston
Sts Peter and Paul
122 Ash Street
United States
207-777-1200
www.princeofpeace.me

Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)

What: Renowned Organist Gail Archer Celebrates Russian Composers with New Album and International Concert Tour
Where: Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, 122 Ash Street, Lewiston, ME, 04240
When: Sunday, October 1, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.
How: FREE. For more info, contact the Church at 207.777.1200 or visit princeofpeace.me.

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Internationally renowned concert organist and recording artist Gail Archer releases her eighth solo album A Russian Journey (TBR 09.25.17 Meyer Media) featuring works by 19th and 20th Century Russian composers including members of the Russian Five and their successors. Featuring hidden Russian gems from the organ canon, A Russian Journey enthralls listeners with Archer’s musicality, sensitivity, and visceral quality. Starting this fall, Archer celebrates the album release with an international concert tour at some of the world’s finest churches.
Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen. Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as "Best of 2008" in classical music and opera. Her recordings include A Russian Journey, The Muse’s Voice, Franz Lizst: A Hungarian Rhapsody, Bach: The Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic in the Making (Meyer Media), and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils (CALA Records). Ms. Archer’s 2017 European tour took her to Germany, Italy, the British Isles, Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Highlights include St. Nicholas Church, Stuttgart, Germany, Church of San Domenico, Palermo, Sicily, the Temple of the Renaissance, Bryansk, Russia, the Philharmonic Hall, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine, and the Basilika Mariaska, Gdansk, Poland. She is the founder of Musforum, an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work.


Cesar Cui : Prelude
Alexander Glazunov : Prelude and Fugue in D minor
Sergej Slonimsky : Night at Bald Mountain

2 Sep 
 
3 Sep



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 1pm - 2pm 
Series 2: Resonate - Jose Menor, Piano
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom

Tickets: Admission free
Jose Menor - Piano

Virtuso pianist Jose Menor performs three premieres at the opening recital of Series 2 of Borough New Music, celebrating the featured instrument of the Series: the piano.

Sam Hayden : Becomings
Patrick Nunn : Cryptograms
Tomas Peire Serrate : Toccata
Gyorgy Ligeti : Etude No 9 Book II: Vertige

4 Sep



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Mauricio Sotelo Premiere
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Cuarteto Casals

Spanish composer Mauricio Sotelo completed his training in Vienna, a move which he describes as ‘essential to his artistic development’. His latest piece for string quartet is presented in company with the music of another composer who flourished in the city.

Cuarteto Casals surveys three works from Beethoven’s early, middle and late years in Vienna, including the sublime seven-movement Op. 131.



Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4
Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quartet in C major Op. 59 No. 3 'Razumovsky'
Mauricio Sotelo : New Work
Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131

4 Sep



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 7.30pm 
TURNING POINTS: LONDON SINFONIETTA
Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
United Kingdom
020 7520 1440
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/
info@kingsplace.co.uk

London Sinfonietta

What would the future hold without new music? What if all we ever heard were the same 10 symphonies again and again? “A civilisation that conserves”, said Boulez, “is one that will decay because it is afraid of going forward”. Now in our 50th year, the London Sinfonietta has never been afraid to take risks. Join us for an exclusive conversation with co-founders David Atherton and Nicholas Snowman and Principal Pianist John Constable as they look back at how the orchestra first came to life. Part of the Kings Place Turning Points series, here we explore our own turning point: how two forward-thinking individuals set in motion one of the most pioneering musical organisations in Britain. The evening will also include archive footage and chamber music from the ensemble’s early programming.



Arnold Schoenberg : Phantasy
Anton Webern : Drei Stücke
Olivier Messiaen : Le merle noir
Maurice Ravel : Piece en forme de habanera
Harrison Birtwistle : Verses
Edgard Varèse : Density 21.5
Igor Stravinsky : movements from The Soldiers Tale

4 Sep



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Thomas Larcher UK Premiere
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Vedernikov

A programme of variety and invention from a quartet of Austro-German composers opens with music by a BBC SO favourite, Thomas Larcher (whose Symphony made such an impact at the 2016 BBC Proms). It is followed by a UK premiere of Bruch’s Double Piano Concerto (with two of today’s most exciting young pianists), a work from 1912 of unashamed Romantic sensibility. Anton Webern’s exquisite Six Pieces from two years earlier show a very different musical language. The concert ends with a rare chance to hear Haydn’s Farewell Symphony with its closing plea to the composer’s employer to move his court back to Vienna – all these years later it retains its powerful originality, invention and humour.



Thomas Larcher : Red and Green
Max Bruch : Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Anton Webern : Six Pieces, Op 6
Joseph Haydn : Symphony No 45, Farewell

5 Sep



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6 Sep



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 6, 2017 at 4.30pm 
Lindberg, James MacMillan & Messiaen
BBC Philharmonic Studio
MediaCityUK, Broadway, Salford, M50 2HQ
United Kingdom

BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Clark Rundell

Conductor Clark Rundell opens this afternoon’s programme with Lindberg’s Ottoni – an emotional tour de force for orchestral brass. Completed in 2005 for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, this highly expressive piece shines with instrumental colour.

Next, the orchestra play Ayrshire-born James MacMillan’s 2012 Olympic commission Fanfare Upon One Note – a two minute blaze of brass.

Completing this afternoon is Messiaen’s Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum, a musical commemoration of the victims of two world wars. With a huge dynamic range, this powerful piece will resonate with you long after the final note.


James MacMillan : Fanfare Upon One Note
Magnus Lindberg : Ottoni
Olivier Messiaen : Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum(

7 Sep 
 
8 Sep



United States
 Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 3:00pm 
Organist Gail Archer Tours New Album in Ohio
Divinity LUtheran Church
11877 Blossom Avenue
United States
440-845-2060
www.divinitylutheran.com

Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)

Internationally renowned concert organist and recording artist Gail Archer releases her eighth solo album A Russian Journey (TBR 09.25.17 Meyer Media) featuring works by 19th and 20th Century Russian composers including members of the Russian Five and their successors. Featuring hidden Russian gems from the organ canon, A Russian Journey enthralls listeners with Archer’s musicality, sensitivity, and visceral quality. Starting this fall, Archer celebrates the album release with an international concert tour at some of the world’s finest churches.

Cesar Cui : Prelude and Fugue in D Minor

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