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28 Sep
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Russell Braun baritone
BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo launches the 2016-17 season with a UK premiere from Brett Dean and Richard Strauss’s extravagant tone poem.
Knocking at the Hellgate is drawn from the BBC SO’s Artist in Association Dean’s much-admired 2010 opera Bliss and the orchestra are joined by the Canadian baritone Russell Braun for the work. Richard Strauss’s epic and autobiographical celebration of a hero’s life, one of his most extravagant and popular tone-poems, provides late-romantic splendour.
Brett Dean : Knocking at the Hellgate (Suite from Bliss)
Richard Strauss : Ein Heldenleben
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1 Oct
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1 Oct
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Saturday, October 01, 2016 at 19.00
GLASSWORLDS
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr
Nicolas Horvath Piano
During a twelve hour straight through run, the pianist Nicolas Horvath, who adores epic concerts and other types of ‘outsize’ projets, interprets the totality of the works for piano by Philip Glass in the chronological order of composition.This pilgrimage is tantamount to a total immersion into the universe of one of the greatest American minimalist composers.
Philip Glass : Complete Works for Piano
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6 Oct
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7 Oct
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Friday, October 07, 2016 at 8.30pm
Souverain moteur de toutes choses
Théâtre Jean-Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine
Théâtre Jean-Vilar - 1, place Jean-Vilar - 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine
France
01 55 53 10 60
http://www.theatrejeanvilar.com/
Zad Moultaka Music and Conception
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Ars Nova ensemble instrumental
Philippe Nahon Conductor
Gilbert Nouno IRCAM Computer-Music Design
In this sonorous meditation inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo thödol) where voice, instrument, and electronics share a stage, the Lebanese composer Zad Moultaka explores the notion of the sacred in the West. Six singers, surrounded by eleven musicians and loudspeakers—either suspended around the singers or placed on the floor—weave connections between the limits of the sound spectrum, infrabasses and extreme highs. UM is not only a mantra, it is also an acronym for United Motors that can be taken literally. From the sound a car motor, inordinately slowed down, an unforeseen poetic and incantatory path is born.
Zad Moultaka : SOUVERAIN MOTEUR DE TOUTES CHOSES
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8 Oct
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8 Oct
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Saturday, October 08, 2016 at 8:00pm
BMOP Salutes American Masters 10/8
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
On Saturday, October 8, at Jordan Hall, BMOP presents distinctive and exciting symphonic works by four prominent voices that have helped to shape the American concert scene over the past three-quarters of a century: The Schubert Birds by Michael Colgrass; Symphony Concertante by Gail Kubik, featuring soloists Terry Everson (trumpet), Jing Peng (viola), and Vivian Choi (piano), and Partita in C by Harold Shapero featuring Vivian Choi (piano). Highlighting the evening’s program is Steven Stucky’s Chamber Concerto: a special tribute to one of new music’s leading champions.
Michael Colgrass : The Schubert Bird
Gail Kubik : Symphony Concertante
Harold Shapero : Partita in C
Steven Stucky : Chamber Concerto
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9 Oct
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Sunday, October 09, 2016 at 4:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert
St Anthony of Padua Church
501 East Orange Street
United States
717-394-0069
http://www.stanthonylancaster.com
info@stanthonylancaster.com
Tickets: Free
Gail Archer
What: Gail Archer, Organ
Where: St. Anthony of Padua Church, 501 East Orange Street, Lancaster, PA, 17602
When: Sunday, October 9th at 4:00 p.m.
How: FREE. For more info, contact the church at 717.394.0669 or visit stanthonylancaster.com.
Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series including Max Reger: The Last Romantic, The Muse’s Voice, An American Idyll, Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008; Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as “Best of 2008” of classical music and opera.
J.S. Bach : BMV
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12 Oct
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 8.30pm
Peter Eötvös: The Sirens Cycle
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Audrey Luna Soprano
Quatuor Calder
Benjamin Jacobson Violin
Andrew Bulbrook Violin
Jonathan Moerschel Viola
Eric Byers Cello
Serge Lemouton IRCAM Computer Music Design
Serge Lacourt IRCAM Sound engineer
The oeuvre of Peter Eötvös is marked by the inherent bond he has established between music and language, as Janáček once did. Composer and conductor, Eötvös has asserted himself in the world of contemporary opera since the stunning Trois sœurs. In his new quartet, he takes advantage of the expressive and "linguistic" power of strings to which he adds a voice. The starting point for Sirens is a short text written by Kafka in 1918 in which the sirens’ fatal weapon is silence. "But Odysseus, if one may so express it, did not hear their silence; he thought they were singing and that he alone did not hear them." Other sirens from Joyce and Homer spring out from behind the quartet: three languages, three speeches for this "chamber opera".
Peter Eötvös : Korrespondenz ; The Sirens Cycle
Leos Janacek : Quatuor n° 2 « Lettres intimes »
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13 Oct
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 7.30pm
Suckling: Piano Concerto, World Premiere
Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati: conductor; Tom Poster: piano
Strauss once claimed that “the human soul was first revealed… in Mozart’s melodies”. Tonight’s programme juxtaposes the sparkling overture to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, an opera Strauss conducted many times, with a distinctly retrospective work – the charming, dance-like incidental music to Molière’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme. The programme includes a new Piano Concerto by Martin Suckling, written for the SCO, Robin Ticciati and Tom Poster. Suckling blurs the lines between soloist and orchestra, abandoning traditional ideas of the concerto as a vehicle for display for one in which “the piano sings the world into existence”.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Overture, The Marriage of Figaro
Martin Suckling : Piano Concerto
Richard Strauss : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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13 Oct
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 7.30pm
SALVATORE SCIARRINO
St John's, Smith Square
London, SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7222 1061
http://sjss.org.uk
info@sjss.org.uk
Marco Angius conductor
Anna Radziejewska mezzo soprano
London Sinfonietta
Each time Salvatore Sciarrino begins a new composition, he finds himself “staring into a black hole”, uncertain which way to turn. This teetering sensation is what makes his music so compelling live, as we hover on the edge of the abyss with him. At times it is fragile and sparse, at others a frenzy of activity, all the while threatening to collapse into silence. Now the elder statesman of Italian music, Sciarrino has just been awarded the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion. He has paved the way for a new wave of emerging composers, whose music is paired here with that of Luciano Berio – the grandfather of the Italian avant-garde.
Daniela Terranova : Notturno in forma di rosa
Francesco Filidei : Ballata No. 2
Salvatore Sciarrino : Immagina il deserto
Salvatore Sciarrino : ... da un divertimento
Luciano Berio : Folksong Suite
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14 Oct
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Friday, October 14, 2016 at 7.30pm
The Seven Ages of Man | a choral journey through life
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London
Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 2DQ
United Kingdom
020 7236 1145
http://stsepulchres.org/music/concerts/
office@stsepulchres.org
Tickets: £12 (until 9 October) / £15 (£10 students) http://www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events/
Londinium (chamber choir)
Andrew Griffiths (conductor)
Inspired by Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" monologue from 'As You Like It', this beguiling programme of unaccompanied choral music traces a course from the cradle to the grave. An intriguing and eclectic journey begins with the tender sounds of Eric Whitacre's 'Sleep My Child', and ends with William Harris' luscious 'Bring us, O Lord God', taking in music old (Dufay, Tallis, Gabrieli, Byrd) and new (Dominick Argento's 'There was a naughty boy', Bob Chilcott’s 'Even such is time'), as well as evergreen works by Bruckner, Parry and Holst. The centrepiece of is Thea Musgrave's 2014 Proms commission 'Ithaca', a celebration of life's journey in all its splendour.
Thea Musgrave : Ithaca
Eric Whitacre : Sleep My Child
Dominick Argento : There was a naughty boy
Bob Chilcott : Even Such is Time
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17 Oct
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19 Oct
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 19:00
Solos, Duos and Trios by Birtwistle, Benjamin, Silvina Milstein & Rob Keeley
The Great Hall, King's College London
Strand, WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
https://www.kcl.ac.uk
Tickets: free
Lontano, conducted by Odaline de la Martinez;
Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov Piano Duo
Listening to the expressive interplay of simultaneously unfolding melodies tends to make us oblivious to the material source of the sounds. The solos, duos, and trios in this concert feature pairs of violins, trumpets, double basses and pianos, or single instruments playing pairs of lines. Submerged in the interactions between distinct, yet inseparable, musical lines, as for Shakespeare’s Trinculo in The Tempest, the music magically becomes disembodied and we find ourselves enthralled by the ‘tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody’.
Tickets free from https://playedbythepicture.eventbrite.co.uk
Harrison Birtwistle : Five Antiphonies for Amelia, for 2 trumpets
Silvina Milstein : While your sound lingered on in lions and rocks for 2 trumpets and harp
Rob Keeley : Six Duos for 2 violins
George Benjmain : Piano Figures
Silvina Milstein : in a bowl of grey-blue leaves for 2 pianos
George Benjamin : Three Miniatures for Solo Violin
Harrison Birtwistle : Harrison's Clocks 1 & 4
Rob Keeley : Fiestas for 2 pianos
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22 Oct
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22 Oct
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Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 7:00pm
Contemporary Insights presents: Sky Macklay (composer portrait concert)
Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, NYC
United States
http://https://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC
Tickets: $20/15 (students/seniors) at the door
Sky Macklay, oboe and electronics
Karisa Antonio, oboe
Josh Modney, violin
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Jennifer Goode Cooper, soprano
Tookah Sapper, soprano
Michael Weyandt, baritone
Mila Henry, piano
Lucy Dhegrae, soprano
Lucie Vítková, accordion, hichiriki, and voice
Erica Dicker, violin
Contemporary Insights presents a program of recent instrumental and vocal chamber music by composer and oboist Sky Macklay. Pieces include Macklay’s chamber opera Why We Bleed, a battle of wills between a uterus and a zygote, aggressive oboe pieces such as Macklay’s Doppelgänger III for two oboes and keyboard and Lucie Vítková’s Visable for oboe and accordion, and Macklay’s structuralist process-pieces FastLowHighSlow for two violins and piano four-hands and Lessina, Levlen, Levlite, Levora for speaking violinist and electronics. The concert features heavy-hitting contemporary music performers such as singers Lucy Dhegrae and Jennifer Goode Cooper, violinist Josh Modney and pianist Jacob Greenberg of ICE, and many more.
Sky Macklay : Doppelgänger III
Sky Macklay : Lessina, Levlen, Levlite, Levora
Sky Macklay : Why We Bleed
Sky Macklay : Glossolalia
Sky Macklay : FastLowHighSlow
Lucie Vítková : Visable
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23 Oct
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7.30pm
Jane Eyre: a world premiere concert-performance of the opera by John Joubert
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
King Edward's School Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2UA
United Kingdom
0121 472 9585
http://www.ruddockpac.co.uk/index.html
ruddockpac@kes.org.uk
Tickets: £33, £24, £19, £18, £10
English Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, Conductor
April Fredrick, Soprano - as Jane Eyre
David Stout, Baritone - as Rochester
with full supporting cast
Since its first publication in 1847, Charlotte Bronte’s fatalistic masterpiece ‘Jane Eyre’ has inspired countless re-readings and retellings.
Now, marking Bronte’s 200th anniversary and his own 90th birthday, the revered British composer John Joubert will finally see the world premiere concert and recording of Jane Eyre, his long-awaited third opera.
The unforgettable tale of an obsessive love threatened by an unutterable secret, the opera has been more than 20 years in the gestation. It is, says conductor Kenneth Woods, “Joubert’s undoubted magnum opus”.
With a single public showing as an amateur production some years ago, Joubert has since substantially revised it for this official world premiere, but the idea had taken root as far back as 1969. That’s when, while writing his song-cycle, ‘Six Poems of Emily Bronte’, he was drawn into the world of the Bronte sisters and, inexorably, ‘Jane Eyre’. The result is a major operatic work, with a score of translucent beauty, of foreboding; suffused with a sense of the destiny that may hold terrors, may hold love – but may not be withheld.
“Those words did not die inarticulate on your lips. I heard them clear and soft: a thought too solemn perhaps, but sweet as music...” – Edward Rochester, ‘Jane Eyre’
Further information:
www.eso.co.uk/jane-eyre-the-opera
English Symphony Orchestra: The International Orchestra of Elgar Country
www.eso.co.uk
Somm Recordings
http://www.somm-recordings.com
John Joubert : Jane Eyre - an opera in two acts
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26 Oct
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 7.30pm
St. George's Hall Concert Hall
St. George's Hall, Liverpool
United Kingdom
Ensemble 10/10, Clark Rundell, conductor
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