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Friday, January 10, 2014 at 1.10pm CBSO Centre Stage - Lars Vogt CBSO Centre Berkley Street. B1 2LF United Kingdom http://www.bcmg.org.uk info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: £9.50 Lars Vogt piano
Zoë Beyers violin
Eduardo Vassallo cello
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.
Emotion recollected in tranquility: the young Brahms was tormented by an impossible love. Years later, he re-crafted his Op.8 into a trio which distills youthful ardour into music of epic power and deep poetry. Today, it’s the personal choice of one of the world’s greatest living pianists – the incomparable Lars Vogt, who will be performing in close quarters at CBSO Centre.
Juan Maria Solare : Fénix Johannes Brahms : Piano Trio No 1
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11 Sep
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Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 8pm Hear and Now: MacMillan conducts MacMillan City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Tickets: Free Laura Samuel violin
James MacMillan conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
This will be the BBC SSO’s first major musical event of 2014, and a fascinating overview of a life in music, conducted by the composer himself.
For the first time in over a decade, Scotland’s foremost composer James MacMillan takes to the podium in his native country for a public concert. The programme, to be recorded for of BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, features two World Premieres from opposite ends of MacMillan’s career: his latest work The Keening and his early Symphonic Study, written as a graduation piece.
There’s also the Scottish Premiere of A Deep but Dazzling Darkness, a stunningly dramatic reflection on the ability of music to bring comfort, and in this performance a tremendous showcase for the skills of BBC SSO leader Laura Samuel. For Sonny, a gentle elegy in memory of a young child, is premiered in a new arrangement, and Exsultet, his 1998 fanfare for brass quintet (in the revised version for symphonic brass), conjures up a typically MacMillan-like journey from darkness into light.
James MacMillan : Symphonic Study James MacMillan : For Sonny James MacMillan : A Deep but Dazzling Darkness James MacMillan : Exsultet James MacMillan : The Keening
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Monday, January 13, 2014 at 8pm Isis & Osiris IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: €5-14 Ensemble Multilatérale
IRCAM Computer Music Design Serge Lemouton
"The memory of the Isis-Osiris couple came back to me. It contains the novel in nucleo." In his diary, Robert Musil noted this quick comparison between his poem from 1923 and the large work in progress, l’Homme sans qualités. Brother and sister, figures of twinship, a superhumain and violent effort to go beyond duality?
Isis & Osiris, the program of creation by Jacques Lenot divided between a symphony of wind instruments, the earth, and electronics, the sky. Musicians perform under a virtual dome (ambisonics) in IRCAM's Espace de projection where four virtual orchestras are "suspended", meticulously arranged in the room's space.
From the sky, a sonorous dust haze.
Jacques Lenot : Isis & Osiris
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 8pm UBS Soundscapes: Eclectica - An Eastern Vigil 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
Tickets: £10 - £22 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Daniel Reuss conductor
Grammy award-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, one of the most famous choirs in the world, collaborates with Gilad Atzmon, a writer and an award-winning jazz saxophonist and member of The Blockheads living in London.
They explore the mystical soundworlds of Arvo Pärt, Cyrillus Kreek, Vasyl Barvinski, Nikolai Kedrov and Rachmaninov combined with Atzmon’s swirling improvisations.
Arvo Pärt : Two slavonic psalms Alfred Schnittke : Three sacred hymns Arvo Pärt : Magnificat Arvo Pärt : Nunc Dimittis Cyrillus Kreek : Psalm 22 Cyrillus Kreek : Psalm 104 Vasyl Barvinskyi : Oh, What a Wonder! Nikolai Kedrov : Otsche Nash Sergei Rachmaninov : All-Night Vigil (‘Vespers’)
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22 Sep
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 7.30pm Ilan Volkov conducts Beethoven, Boulez and Grisey Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10-£32 Ilan Volkov conductor
Nicolas Hodges piano
BBC Singers
Beethoven’s powerful Seventh Symphony is prefaced by a trio of beguiling modern French works in the first of two concerts pairing Beethoven with recent French music. The BBC Singers have had great success with Boulez’s now-classic work cummings ist der Dichter, which sets the poetry of ee cummings for vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov, known for his high-voltage performances and radical programmes, presents the UK premiere of Hugues Dufourt’s piano concerto with Nicolas Hodges as soloist. Dufourt’s own world of sonorities reflects that of one of France’s greatest 20th century composers, Gérard Grisey. In his monumental early work Mégalithes, 15 brass players scattered around the hall hurl sonic clusters of shimmering dissonance into the auditorium – a not-to-be-missed experience.
Gérard Grisey : Mégalithes Hugues Dufourt : Piano Concerto Pierre Boulez : cummings ist der Dichter Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 7 In A major
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23 Sep
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 7.30pm Meditations on the Sea Queens Hall Edinburgh Scotland 0131 668 2019 http://www.thequeenshall.net
Tickets: £10-£30 Garry Walker: conductor; Maximiliano Martín: clarinet
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
To Scots, living on so many islands and dependent on it for so much, the sea is a constant presence to be loved and admired, but also feared and respected. This complicated relationship with the sea is reflected here in pieces by two of the most important and widely performed living composers.
MacMillan’s Tuireadh laments the dead of the Piper Alpha disaster in great tidal movements of sound and grief. South African composer Volan’s Symphony offers a beautiful and oblique reflection “on the sea and the role of ships and their cargoes in our history”.
Jean Sibelius : Pelléas et Mélisande Kevin Volans : Symphony: Daar Kom die Alibama James MacMillan : Tuireadh Zoltán Kodály : Dances of Galanta
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23 Sep
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 7.30pm Jack Quartet Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15-£30 JACK Quartet
The JACK Quartet’s concerts prove time and again that we belong to a golden age of chamber music composition, one in which creative diversity and difference are encouraged and celebrated.
This programme, devised by Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson, opens with a seminal work composed in 1931 by Ohio-born Ruth Crawford Seeger, the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and closes with Horaţiu Rădulescu’s evocatively titled Fifth String Quartet of 1995.
Brian Ferneyhough’s wild Exordium, written in honour of Elliott Carter’s 100th birthday in 2008, stands in bold contrast to Julian Anderson’s ‘Light Music’ and the world première of a new score by Christopher Trapani, winner of the 2007 Gaudeamus Prize.
Ruth Crawford Seeger : String Quartet Christopher Trapani : New work Brian Ferneyhough : Exordium Julian Anderson : String Quartet No. 1 ‘Light Music’ Horaţiu Rădulescu : String Quartet No. 5 ‘before the universe was born’
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24 Sep
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Friday, January 24, 2014 at 7.30pm Max Richter: Memoryhouse Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £17.50 - 25 Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Max Richter, conducted by André de Ridder
Contemporary composer Max Richter premieres his 2002 debut album Memoryhouse with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by André de Ridder.
An homage to Europe and the haunting power of memories, Memoryhouse is the stunning album that announced Max Richter as a major talent. With echoes of his earlier collaborations with Roni Size and electronic duo FSOL, influences of post-rock acts such as Sigur Rós and classical forebears like Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass, this work shows the unique mix of contemporary classical and electronics that would become the signature language in Richter’s musical universe.
Max Richter : Memoryhouse
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7.30pm Contemporary with Thomas Søndergård BBC Hoddinott Hall Cardiff Wales
Tickets: £8 - 10 BBCNOW
Conductor Thomas Søndergård
Come and experience music by two leading Danish composers. The different levels of mood and emotion created by Poul Ruders have established him as one of the world’s leading composers. Kafkapriccio includes score from his opera, based on Kafka’s The Trial. In contrast, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s compelling, ritualistic command of sound creates music that nags at the imagination long after the performance has ended.
Poul Ruders : KafKapriccio Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Symphony Antiphony
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