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18 Sep
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 7.30pm
Jack Liebeck performs Sibelius
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15
Conductor - Enrique Batiz
Violin - Jack Liebeck
A brand-new season of orchestral masterpieces gets off to a dramatic start with Wagner's exhilarating Overture to The Flying Dutchman, one of his earliest operas. The Violin Concerto by Sibelius is among his best-loved works, combining passionate lyricism with dazzling display. The Concerto finds an exciting exponent in violinist Jack Liebeck, winner of the 2010 Classical BRIT Award for 'Young British Performer of the Year'.
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony is one of his most powerful works, charting an intense struggle against the caprices of Fate, culminating in an electrifying finale in which the battle seems to have been won.
Richard Wagner : The Flying Dutchman Overture
Jean Sibelius : Violin Concerto
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Symphony No.4
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21 Sep
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22 Sep
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23 Sep
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24 Sep
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25 Sep
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 7.30pm
Dmitry Yablonsky conducts Amirov and Stravinsky
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15
Conductor - Dmitry Yablonsky
Piano - Farhad Badalbeyli
AMIROV Azerbaijan Capriccio
AMIROV Piano Concerto after Arabian Themes
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947)
A colourful programme featuring two rare gems from Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov. Overlooking the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan is a cultural melting pot bubbling with influences from Eastern Europe, Western Asia and the Middle East. Fusing Azerbaijani folkmusic with powerful orchestration, Amirov transports us to his homeland in the mysterious Azerbaijan Capriccio and exotic Piano Concerto, which was influenced by Arabic music. The piano is also featured in Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka, a mesmerising depiction of an unfortunate Russian puppet. Written early in the twentieth century and revised in 1947, this is a masterpiece full of intricate rhythms and inventive orchestration.
Free for all concert ticket holders: The Mountains of Gabala; a 30-minute film documenting the city of Gabala and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s residency at the Gabala International Music Festival, featuring conductor Dmitry Yablonsky and pianist Farhad Badalbeyli, Artistic Directors of Gabala Festival. Main auditorium 6.15pm.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Fikret Amirov : Azerbaijan Capriccio
Fikret Amirov : Piano Concerto after Arabian Themes
Igor Stravinsky : Petrushka (1947)
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27 Sep
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Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 7.45 pm
In the Locked Room
Lindbury Studio
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
United Kingdom
http://www.roh.org.uk
Royal Opera House Associate Company Music Theatre Wales, and Scottish Opera
This one-act opera, an adaptation of a short story by Thomas Hardy, explores the power of the imagination and the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Huw Watkins is admired across the UK for his work as a composer and pianist, and has an impressive body of orchestra, chamber and vocal works. For In the Locked Room, he teams up with poet and librettist David Harsent, with whom he previously collaborated in 2009 on the chamber opera Crime Fiction. Harsent’s work in opera also includes his libretto for Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur, which was given its premiere at the Royal Opera House in 2008.
In the Locked Room is brought to the Linbury Studio Theatre by Music Theatre Wales in collaboration with Scottish Opera. The production is directed by Michael McCarthy and Matthew Richardson.
PERFORMANCES ALSO ON 28TH AND 29TH SEPTEMBER
Huw Watkins : In the Locked Room
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30 Sep
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Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 7.30pm
The Fathers are Watching
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Tenor: Andrew Staples
Members of CBSO Youth Chorus
This concert marks the start of BCMG’s 25th anniversary season, a landmark we will be celebrating throughout 2012/13.
A substantial new work for tenor, ensemble and girls choir - the world premiere of Alexander Goehr’s Sound Investment commission To These Dark Steps – is the main feature of the programme. To These Dark Steps sets a series of striking poems and prose commentary by Gabriel Levin, written in the shadow of Israel’s bombardment and incursion into Gaza in 2008. The texts view the depredations of war through the prism of music by Webern, Messiaen, Bartók and Ligeti - all favourite composers of Alexander Goehr. This provides the context for the other pieces in the programme.
A late work by French composer Olivier Messiaen opens the concert. This three minute, marvellously incisive tribute to the publisher Alfred Schlee has at its heart a piano solo based on the song of the Garden Warbler, one of Messiaen’s favourite birds.
Following this opening are Webern’s Six Pieces for Orchestra in his arrangement for chamber ensemble; Goehr’s recent violin duos, behind which hovers the ghost of Bartók; and György Ligeti’s 12-minute Melodien, which superimposes waves of melody in a piece rich in allusions to Ives, Mahler and Brahms.
There will be a free pre-concert talk from 6.30-7pm with Alexander Goehr and Gabriel Levin, open to all ticket holders.
Olivier Messiaen : Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes
Anton Webern : Six Pieces for Orchestra
Alexander Goehr : Duos (for two violins)
Gyorgy Ligeti : Melodien
Alexander Goehr : To These Dark Steps
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2 Oct
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012 at 3pm to 7pm
Composers Concordance's Festival II: Concert #3: Composers Play Composers Marathon
DROM, New York
, 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village
United States
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $15 (includes one drink)
30 composers including:
1. Dan Cooper
2. daniel palkowski
3. Molly Joyce
4. Gene Pritsker
5. Lynn Bechtold
6. kinan azmeh
7. Lisa Dowling
8. Loop
9. David Morneau
11. Luis cobo
12. Nataliya Medvedovskaya
13 Rubens Salles
14 Cristian Amigo
15 Joseph Pehrson
16 Jon Diaz
17 Franz Hackl
18 Val Coleman
19 Debra Kaye
20 Milica Paranosic
21Alon Nechushtan
22 Paul Pinto
23 Daniel Schnyder
24 Robert Voisey
25 Angela Babin
26 alon nechushtan
27 Larry Simon
28 John Clark
29 Daniel Reyes Llinas
30 Pat Grant
When did composers become non-performers? We can trace the tradition of the composer-as-performer back to the beginnings of western classical music. This 4th Annual Composers Play Composers Marathon, presented at the lower east side's most excellent venue Drom NYC, explores the connection between composers and their given instruments, as well as how composers go about writing music in which they know that they will be the performer. This matinée event features no fewer than 30 different composers performing on their own succinct solos, duos, and trios. http://www.dromnyc.com/events/2077/composer-play-composers
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3 Oct
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 at 8.15pm
The Concertgebouw Orchestra with Andris Nelsons Voyage
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Andris Nelsons - conductor
Hakan Hardenberg - trumpet
The Concertgebouw Orchestra voyage
traveled Last season Andris Nelsons with the orchestra in Europe, now he takes us on a voyage. From the Wreckage is a solo concerto written for the virtuoso trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger. It is a psychological journey that leads from fear, from anger and unbridled anger to calmness. Along the way Hardenberger all facets of his instrument - or rather instruments, because not only ordinary berry-trumpet, but also the piccolo and flugelhorn are covered - show. With such a star player can naturally trumpet concerto, that of Haydn, not missing. Andris Nelsons The stormy underway conducting career Andris Nelsons has quickly solid form adopted by the RCO. After his earlier successes, the Latvian conductor leading the orchestra on this voyage including Britten and Debussy.
Benjamin Britten : Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from 'Peter Grimes', op. 33a and 33b
Joseph Haydn : Trumpet Concerto in Eb, Hob.VIIe: 1
Mark-Anthony Turnage : From the Wreckage (Trumpet Concerto)
Claude Debussy : La Mer
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4 Oct
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Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 8pm
Tremplin / Cursus 2
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: 14€
Ensemble intercontemporain | Conductor Susanna Mälkki | IRCAM Computer Music Design Rune Glerup | IRCAM Pedagogical Advisor Jean Lochard
Selected by a jury, these artists from the four corners of the globe have the possibility of working with the musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain or studying at IRCAM during the second year of the Cursus program for computer music. The results of this laboratory are found in the Tremplin concerts where the creations of young composers are performed together with works from the youth of their elders, in this case, the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. Now with worldwide renown, Lindberg shook up the beginning of the 1980s with the fierce, energetic, malleable expression of his music.
Lu Wang : New Work
Anthony Cheung : New Work
Einar Torfi Einarsson : Desiring-Machines
Rune Glerup : Examples of Dust
Magnus Lindberg : Tendenza
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5 Oct
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Friday, October 05, 2012 at 7.30pm
RSNO - Oundjian Conducts Shostakovich
Usher Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
Tickets: £35, £25.50, £19, £14.50, £11.50
Peter Oundjian (conductor)
Vadim Gluzman (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Time to celebrate! Glinka's Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla has been called a musical firecracker – so what better way to launch Peter Oundjian's very first concert as RSNO Music Director? That's just the start of this thrilling all-Russian programme, which sweeps from the heart-melting song of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto – played by the superb Vadim Gluzman – to the revolutionary fervour of Shostakovich's mighty Eleventh Symphony. Be there, as we raise a glass to a very special night for Scottish music.
Mikhail Glinka : Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No11 The Year 1905
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5 Oct
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5 Oct
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Friday, October 05, 2012 at 6pm
London Sinfonietta in Sweden
Palladium, Malmö
Sweden
040 19 19 21
http://www.palladium.nu/
Ben Gernon conductor
Jonathan Morton violin
Gareth Hulse oboe
The London Sinfonietta visit Malmö, Sweden, to perform a programme featuring works by a variety of composers including Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen and British composers Oliver Knussen, Tansy Davies, Thomas Adès, and Simon Bainbridge. Edmund Finnis' Unfolds, written on the London Sinfonietta's Writing the Future scheme, will also be performed.
London Sinfonietta Academy alumnus Ben Gernon conducts, while London Sinfonietta Principal players Jonathan Morton and Gareth Hulse take solo spots in Oliver Knussen's Secret Psalm and Simon Bainbridge's Concertante in Moto Perpetuo.
Oliver Knussen : Secret Psalm
Tansy Davies : inside out 2
Thomas Ades : Catch
Oliver Knussen : Songs Without Voices
Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen : Near Still, Distant Still
Edmund Finnis : Unfolds
Thomas Ades : Court Studies from the Tempest
Simon Bainbridge : Concertant in Moto Perpetuo
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10 Oct
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 20.00
Aphex Twin: Remote Orchestra
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £25 - 35
Aphex Twin
The Heritage Orchestra and Choir
We are excited to announce a one-off evening of music from the most influential electronic musician of his generation, with assistance from The Heritage Orchestra and Choir.
The show will include the first UK performance of Aphex Twin's groundbreaking Remote Orchestra concept, plus 'Interactive Tuned Feedback Pendulum Array' - a piece which expands on Steve Reich's 'Pendulum Music' - and more.
First developed last year for the European Culture Congress in Poland, the Remote Orchestra performance sees Aphex Twin conducting a 28-piece string section and a 12-strong choir by remote control.
Aphex Twin : Various
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11 Oct
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 7.30pm
Libor Pešek conducts Smetana, Chopin and Dvorák
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15
Conductor - Libor Pešek
Piano - Leon McCawley
SMETANA The Bartered Bride Overture
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1
DVORÁK Symphony No.7
Czech conductor Libor Pešek has enjoyed an international career spanning fifty years, and this irresistible programme is the perfect showcase for his celebrated interpretations of Czech music. Smetana’s exuberant Overture to his comic opera, The Bartered Bride, brims with infectious energy, whereas Dvorák’s impassioned Symphony No.7 captures the full emotional spectrum of Czech musical styles. With its profound depth of feeling and masterful orchestral balance, this is considered by many to be Dvorák’s greatest symphonic achievement. At the heart of this programme, Leon McCawley performs the First Piano Concerto by Polish composer Chopin, whose exquisite writing for the soloist overflows with romance.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Bedøich Smetana : The Bartered Bride Overture
Frederyk Chopin : Symphony No.7
Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No.7
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11 Oct
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11 Oct
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 8.15pm
Wij zijn ons brein
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl
Tickets: € 28.80
Dick Swaab - spreker
Etienne Siebens - dirigent
Carina Vinke - alt
Asko|Schönberg
Zoran Dukic - gitaar
Scherpdenkers brengt gesproken woord en muziek samen in één concert. Een kunstenaar, wetenschapper, schrijver of politicus geeft eerst een lezing van een half uur over een onderwerp uit zijn of haar vakgebied. Daarna volgt een concert met avontuurlijke muziek die thematisch aansluit op de lezing.
Dick Swaab
Met het boek Wij zijn ons brein maakte neurobioloog en arts Dick Swaab van de hersenen een publieke discussie. Swaab bepleit de rationaliteit van het menselijk wezen en wijst een onafhankelijke geest of ziel af. Is het determinisme van Swaab een verlossing voor allen die de verantwoordelijkheid over hun leven liever niet 'zelf' dragen? De surrealistische gedichten van René Char in Le marteau sans maître bevrijden ons in ieder geval van de strakke werkelijkheid en geven onze fantasie en onderbewuste de vrije loop.
Pierre Boulez
De Franse componist Pierre Boulez staat te boek als een van de meest strikte en georganiseerde componisten ter wereld. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog omarmde Boulez het serialisme en verloste zich van de oude tradities. Ook in Le marteau sans maître. In het werk uit 1955 zijn vele organisatieprincipes werkzaam en toch weet Boulez er een onverwacht mooi en lyrisch werk van te maken. Dick Swaab kan vast uitleggen hoe dat werkt.
Kijk ook op www.scherpdenkers.nl
J.S. Bach : Chaconne (uit 'Tweede partita' in d, BWV 1004) (bew. Z. Dukic)
Pierre Boulez : Le Marteau sans maître
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Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 7:15PM
Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Continues DROM Concert Series OCT - DEC
DROM, New York
, 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village
United States
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $15
Chico Hamilton
LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM
Sundays this Fall: 10.14 + 11.11 + 12.09
WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico” Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a "Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers.
DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Fall (OCT - DEC) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”
WHEN: Sunday, October 14 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 11 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 9 @ 7:15PM
WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A, New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue
HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 8pm
Réponses
Cité de la musique, Paris
221, avenue Jean Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://www.cite-musique.fr
Tickets: 18€
Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophèle, Matteo Cesari, flutes
Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor Alejo Pérez
IRCAM computer music design Andrew Gerzso
A tribute to a master, gone but forever alive, this is the principle that creates an elective chain among the works in this program.
Igor Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, composed in 1920, is dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy, who died ten years earlier. In 1971, when Stravinsky passed away, Pierre Boulez imagined a project for a work shaped like a tomb ...explosante-fixe... that would become an element of the mixed music repertoire. Steine by Peter Eötvös, composed in 1985, is dedicated "from Peter to Pierre" to Pierre Boulez in celebration of his 60th birthday. And The Severed Garden, by the young German Genoël von Lilienstern, is a tribute to Eötvös completing this avalanche of dedications, replies, and apostrophes, beyond historical distances.
Genoël von Lilienstern : The Severed Garden
Peter Eotvos : Steine
Igor Stravinsky : Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 version)
Pierre Boulez : ...explosante-fixe...
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