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2 Feb
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Sunday, November 2, 2014 at 7.30pm
Sally Beamish Equal Voices
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Nelson Freire piano
Shuna Sendall soprano
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey chorus director
London Symphony Orchestra
One of the season’s highlights features a new choral work by Sally Beamish based on poetry by Andrew Motion, commissioned by the LSO to commemorate the centenary of World War I.
Gianandrea Noseda directs an Elgar rarity first performed in London in January 1915 to demonstrate sympathy with Belgian suffering during World War I. Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire first performed Beethoven’s 'Emperor' Concerto at the age of 12, and it has remained a centrepiece of his repertoire.
Edward Elgar : Carillon
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Piano Concerto No 5 (‘Emperor’)
Sally Beamish : Equal Voices
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3 Feb
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Monday, November 3, 2014 at 8pm
Interference Patterns
Kings Place
Kings Cross, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: £11.50, online savers £9.50
Ensemble Matisse
New Dots presents the world premieres of four audio-visual collaborations, combining film and live music performed by the acclaimed Ensemble Matisse. Created by 4 pairs of composers and film-makers, this specially commissioned program is a bold exploration of the creative interplay between music and film, showing artistic diversity from abstract animation to the exploration of natural visual effects and everyday sounds. Our creative pairs have wrestled with imposing boundaries for themselves in order to have the freedom to create something truly collaborative, that could not have come about any other way. We’re thrilled to also present the latest work by Jan Vriend that explores this idea: freedom cannot exist without boundaries. Jan has written Degrees of Freedom for Ensemble Matisse; it seeks to test the boundaries to breaking point
Jan Vriend : Degrees of Freedom
Daniel Kidane : New work
Ewan Campbell : New work
Lisa Illean : Passage
Liam Taylor-West : of Joy
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3 Feb
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Monday, November 3, 2014 at
Philip Glass : The Trial
Various Venues
http://composersconcordance.com/festival.php
United States
(646) 522-9442
http://composersconcordance.com/festival.php
composersconcordancerecords@gmail.com
Music Theatre Wales
The meeting of two extraordinary minds – Philip Glass and Franz Kafka.
Kafka’s nightmarish tale of a man arrested and prosecuted for an unknown crime by a relentless and inaccessible authority has lost none of its chilling potency down the years. Now, Philip Glass brings his signature music and dramatic force to this literary classic. Working with Christopher Hampton as librettist, this new opera, sung in English, faithfully follows Kafka’s original story, relishing the author’s notorious paranoia and bizarre sense of humour.
Philip Glass and Music Theatre Wales have developed a striking creative relationship over the years, and Glass has long cherished the idea of turning The Trial into an opera. Join them in experiencing this creative partnership’s unique reimagining of Kafka’s prophetic tale.
The Trial is a co-commission and co-production between Music Theatre Wales, the Royal Opera House, Theater Magdeburg and Scottish Opera. It is in two acts with one interval and will last approximately 2 hours 20 minutes.
Oxford Playhouse
Mon 3 November | 7.30pm
oxfordplayhouse.com
01865 305305
The Anvil
Basingstoke
Tue 4 November | 7.45pm
anvilarts.org.uk
01256 844244
Theatr y Sherman Theatre
Cardiff
Fri 7 November | 7.30pm
shermancymru.co.uk
029 2064 6900
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Mold
Sun 9 November | 7.30pm
clwyd-theatr-cymru.co.uk
0845 330 3565
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Mon 10 November | 7.30pm
birmingham-rep.co.uk
0121 236 4455
Philip Glass : The Trial
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6 Feb
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Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7.30pm
John Adams: Absolute Jest at City Halls
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Doric String Quartet
Markus Stenz
conductor
Comedy is a serious business. Beethoven knew that when his exuberant Second Symphony cheerfully booted the classical rule-book out of the window; and John Adams certainly knew it when he leafed through the scherzos of Beethoven’s late string quartets and transformed them into Absolute Jest: a one-off concerto for string quartet that takes Beethoven seriously enough to laugh along with him. As soloists, the Doric String Quartet definitely get it: and guest conductor Markus Stenz gets it too, pairing Beethoven and Adams with two riotously inventive French Baroque showpieces that prove that the best jokes never get old.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Markus Stenz in conversation.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the main concert)
Why not stay on in the auditorium as the Doric String Quartet play Janáček’s String Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (1923).
The main concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, presented by Andrew McGregor.
Jean-Philippe Rameau : Suite No.1 from Les Indes Galantes
John Adams : Absolute Jest for string quartet and orchestra
Jean-Féry Rebel : Chaos (from Les Élémens)
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 2 in D major
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7 Feb
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Friday, November 7, 2014 at 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Contemporary British Piano Music - a living tradition
St John's, Smith Square
London, SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7222 1061
http://sjss.org.uk
info@sjss.org.uk
Tickets: £20, £15, £10 (£18, £13.50, £9)
Mark Bebbington, piano
The piano lies at the heart of contemporary British music; yet its discreet presence is often taken for granted - or even ignored. In this exploratory recital, Mark Bebbington, a leading British pianist with an international reputation for his recordings and performances of British music, reveals these contrasting contemporary works and amply demonstrates the vitality and enduring presence of the piano into the 21st century.
Franz Liszt : La Lugubre Gondola
John McCabe : Tenebrae
Robert Matthew-Walker : Fantasy Sonata: Hamlet (Piano Sonata No.3) Op.34
Richard Causton : Non mi comporto male
Ian Venables : Caprice, Op.35
David Briggs : Piano Sonata
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8 Feb
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8 Feb
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Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 7.30pm
Birtwistle at 80
King's College Chapel
Cambridge
United Kingdom
BCMG
Oliver Knussen
Harrison Birtwistle is one of the major musical figures internationally and this concert sees BCMG and Oliver Knussen showcase works from across his career in his 80th birthday year – the fourth such concert of 2014 following performances in Birmingham, London, and at the BBC Proms.
Silbury Air (1977, revised 2003), a Birtwistle classic, brings to the fore the composer’s continuing fascination in the medieval and the mythic, taking its inspiration from the prehistoric mound of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (The Perpetual Song of Mechanical Arcady – 1977) is much more clockwork and pulse dominated then the melody focused Silbury Air. The main inspiration for the piece coming from artist Paul Klee, whose influence on Birtwistle has been paramount. Fantasia on all the notes (2012), employs two groups of instruments, winds and strings, which are linked and fused by means of a third force, a harp.
Completing the programme will be: the UK premiere of Goehr’s chamber symphony … between the Lines, which was premiered in May 2014 in Berlin; a repeat performance of Richard Causton’s Chamber Symphony, a piece dominated by bristling brass, winds, and percussion; and a new work by student composer Patrick Brennan.
Secret Theatres: the Music of Harrison Birtwistle brings some of the world’s finest performers to Cambridge for a celebration of one of Britain’s leading composers in his 80th year.
Harrison Birtwistle : Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum
Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia on all the notes
Alexander Goehr : … between the Lines
Patrick Brennan : Polly Roe
Richard Causton : Chamber Symphony
Harrison Birtwistle : Silbury Air
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9 Feb
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Sunday, November 9, 2014 at 3 pm
Still in this world
St James, Piccadilly
Piccadilly, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10
Jan Goodkin, soprano
Vincent Lawlor, baritone
Laurel Pardue, violin
Catherine Herriott, piano
Music for Remembrance Sunday by Ravel, Britten, Arvo Part, Oliver Knussen and "Still in this world", a new piece by Miriam Mackie, reflecting on life in Britain during the last war.
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