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Thursday, August 03, 2017 at 7.30pm
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Mozart and Brahms
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its Artistic Director Paavo Järvi return to the Proms, joined by British violist Lawrence Power and Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Mozart’s genial Sinfonia concertante. Sitting somewhere between a concerto and a symphony, it’s a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of this ensemble and its sunny good humour offers a striking contrast to Erkki-Sven Tüür’s arresting Flamma – a vivid musical portrait of fire as both purifying force and agent of destruction.
Smoke clears and sunshine returns in Brahms’s optimistic Second Symphony, with its free-flowing melodies and irrepressible closing dance.
Erkki-Sven Tuur : Flamma
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 364
Johannes Brahms : Symphony No 2 in D major
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Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 11am
Jörg Widmann Quartet No 3 ‘The Hunt’
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
GRINGOLTS QUARTET
Led by international violin soloist Ilya Gringolts, the Gringolts Quartet has dazzled audiences from Salzburg to London’s Wigmore Hall with its remarkable technical prowess and its raw, radiant, revealing accounts of music old and new.
Brahms’s bright, sunny and exquisitely crafted Third Quartet closes their rich, witty International Festival debut recital. It follows Haydn’s brilliantly comic ‘The Frog’ Quartet, and the darker humour of contemporary German composer Jörg Widmann’s fantastical ‘The Hunt’ Quartet – which ends in a literal musical hunt of one of the quartet players.
This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 14 August
Joseph Haydn : String Quartet in D Op 50 No 6 ‘The Frog’
Johannes Brahms : String Quartet No 3 in B flat Op 67
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12 Aug
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Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 3pm
Proms at ... Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral
London Bridge, SE1
United Kingdom
BBC Singers
‘I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart.’ Palestrina’s joyous Passiontide motet provides the starting point for the Proms’s first ever visit to Southwark Cathedral in a programme that sets faith against doubt and 16th-century Italian polyphony against a world premiere by British composer and Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir.
Palestrina’s radiant Mass glows with spiritual certainty, whether in its dancing Hosanna or long-limbed Sanctus. The BBC Singers are joined by the Nash Ensemble and tenor Adrian Thompson for Weir’s In the Land of Uz, which takes inspiration from the story of Job, whose faith in God is shaken repeatedly through suffering and disaster.
There will be no interval
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina : Offertorium 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina : Missa 'Confitebor tibi'
Judith Weir : In the Land of Uz
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Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 4pm
Michel van der Aa Blank Out
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
A coproduction of Dutch National Opera Amsterdam with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Imagine 3D glasses at the opera! The Dutchman Michel van der Aa is not only a composer but also a filmmaker and director. And he combines these various artistic identities in virtuosic Gesamtkunstwerk projects. As, for instance, in his multimedia chamber opera, Blank Out, which was first performed in the spring of 2016 in Amsterdam and is now receiving its Swiss premiere as the start of a van der Aa retrospective for Lucerne’s composer-in-residence. A single singer, the soprano Miah Persson, appears onstage. Opposite her is the baritone Roderick Williams, but he is present only virtually: in a 3D film that blends pre-produced material with live-recorded video sequences. What is reality and what is fiction become harder and harder to distinguish in this tragic story of a mother-son relationship that is based on the life and texts of the South African writer Ingrid Jonker. A major event that combines emotional power with high tech.
Michael van der Aa : Blank Out
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 10.15pm
Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Britten Sinfonia
Anoushka Shankar
Ravichandra Kulur
Gaurav Mazumdar
Karen Kamensek
Blending Glass’s American Minimalism with traditional Hindustani classical music, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar joins the Britten Sinfonia for the first complete live performance of Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar’s 1964 concept album Passages.
Glass Shankar : Passages
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Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 11am
Matthias Pintscher New Work
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
Benjamin Appl Baritone
Pavel Kolesnikov Piano
Lieder and songs by Schubert, Schumann, Grieg and Matthias Pintscher
Charismatic, perceptive, and performing with a striking identification with his songs, young German baritone Benjamin Appl has been hailed as one of the finest of his generation of Lieder singers – for his seductive expressiveness, his honeyed voice and his astonishing balance of power and sensitivity.
He is joined by the remarkable young Siberianborn pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, celebrated for the astonishing freshness of his spellbinding playing, for a wide-ranging recital of classic Lieder.
They open with a broad Schubert collection – from the joyous affirmation of Die Taubenpost to the gruesome Romantic horror of Der Zwerg – and travel through dramatic songs by Schumann and Grieg’s achingly melodious Sechs Lieder to a new work by contemporary German composer Matthias Pintscher.
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Matthias Pintscher : New Work
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Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 11am
Helena Winkelman World Premiere
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
sCHpillit
Ghost Choir (Peter Siegwart chorus master)
Dani Mangisch speaker
Sylvia Nopper voice
Starting in the mid-1970s the group known as Oberwalliser Spillit became a sensation. With clarinet, hammered dulcimer, and such new-fangled instruments as the Tenundi Titschini (a tuned wooden drum), as well as plenty of wit, the “Oberwalliser Spielleute” (“the bandsmen from Valais”) devoted themselves to the old tunes and dances of the Swiss Confederation – but without a hint of old-fashioned stuffiness. And they proved that folk music and the avant-garde can get along by having contemporary composers write new works tailor-made for them. Composers like Heinz Holliger. In Alb-Chehr he set a Valais legend about two shepherds and a cantankerous dairyman who run into some music-making ghosts – with a fatal outcome for the dairyman. Shortly after Oberwalliser Spillit broke up in 2001, the clarinetist Elmar Schmid founded the ensemble sCHpillit, which is now coming together again to present not only Holliger’s classic but also a brand-new score by the composer and violinist Helena Winkelman.
Heinz Holliger : Fünf Kinderlieder
Heinz Holliger : Alb-Cher. “Geischter- and Älplermüsig”
Heinz Holliger : Gränzä – Grenzen
Helena Winkelman : Ronde des Lutins
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