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7 Jan
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Friday, July 7, 2017 at 8pm Matthew Herbert Requiem Live Premiere Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Quartet Quatuor Van Kuijk
Electronic Music Matthew Herbert
The Van Kuijk Quartet steps up to play electronic music as it delivers one of the most iconic works of the genre into the hands of the unmissable British electronic musician, Matthew Herbert. First heard in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast, Requiem reveals all the modernity of the string quartet of yesterday and today through the prism of electronics.
Matthew Herbert : Requiem
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8 Jan
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9 Jan
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Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 3pm Kokoschka's Doll Cheltenham Festival
United Kingdom
Rozanna Madylus mezzo-soprano
John Tomlinson bass
Counterpoise
For Alma Mahler, the painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was just one of a string of eminent lovers, but for Kokoschka his brief affair with the widow of Mahler was to haunt the rest of his life. Shortly after the liaison ended, in 1914, he commissioned a life-size doll of Alma, which he took to concerts and other public events, finally destroying it at a party to which all his friends were invited. The Counterpoise ensemble explores their tempestuous affair and subsequent obsession through a sequence of music and text featuring the work of Gustav and Alma Mahler, Wagner, Webern and Zemlinsky, followed by the premiere of John Casken’s Kokoschka’s Doll.
As seen through the eyes of Kokoschka as an older man, world-renowned bass John Tomlinson evokes the passions unleashed by the affair against the background of the physical and psychological traumas the artist suffered in the First World War.
David Matthews : The Art of Love: Alma Mahler’s Life and Music John Casken : Kokoschka’s Doll
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 12pm Brett Dean Gertrude Fragments Buxton Festival 3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ United Kingdom 01298 70395 http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/ lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk
Andrey Lebedev, guitar; Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Both these exciting artists are already much travelled, and not only because they hail from Australia but have now settled in London, although Andrey moved there shortly after his birth in Moscow. The pairing of Mezzo-Soprano with Guitar has produced a programme full of exquisite delicacy, combining music from 4 composers all of whom had an exceptional innate sympathy with both guitar and the voice. Both artists share a passion for breaking boundaries across repertoire, which is both refreshing and inspirational. They have found connections such as between Britten and Dowland, and Brett Dean is without doubt one of the most successful and accessible of today’s composers.
John Dowland : Selection of lute songs arranged for voice and guitar Benjamin Britten : Folksong Arrangements for voice and guitar Brett Dean : Gertrude Fragments Manuel de Falla : Canciones Populares Espanolas
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Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 6pm Ryan Wigglesworth Premiere Cheltenham Festival
United Kingdom
The Hallé
Roderick Williams baritone
Jonathon Heyward conductor
Hailed by Mark Elder as ‘a bright rising star’, American conductor Jonathon Heyward takes to the Town Hall stage with one of the Music Festival’s long-standing favourites, The Hallé.
Alongside one of the most beloved of romantic symphonies, and Mahler’s ‘songs of a wayfarer’ performed by captivating baritone Roderick Williams, Ryan Wigglesworth’s new work is inspired by themes from his 2017 opera for ENO, The Winter’s Tale, and is a co-commission with The Hallé, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Bergen Philharmonic.
Ryan Wigglesworth : Clocks from a Winter’s Tale Gustav Mahler : Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Symphony No 4
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 7.30pm John Casken Kokoschka’s Doll Buxton Festival 3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ United Kingdom 01298 70395 http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/ lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk
Sir John Tomlinson, bass-baritone/ speaker; Rozanna Madylus, mezzo-soprano
The Art of Love Alma Mahler’s Life and Music: a sequence incorporating music by Alma and Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Webern and Wagner
John Casken Kokoschka’s Doll (text by John Casken and Barry Millington)
From the middle of the 20th century onwards a fascination with Gustav Mahler’s music has gone hand in hand with exploration of his unique tortured sensibilities, and been coloured by his emotionally turbulent marriage to the extraordinary Alma Schindler. This imaginative programme, characteristic of Counterpoise’s keen focus on the blend of words with music in heightened dramatic settings, looks at Alma’s intense relationship with her husband, his music and that of his contemporaries, and brings a newly commissioned work for Sir John Tomlinson by the eminent composer John Casken. Counterpoise’s innovative projects always make for thought provoking and affecting music drama. This new work explores the passionate and overwrought relationship between Alma and expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, promising a moving and striking concert event to remember, with unequivocally one of our generation’s most prominent and well-loved artists.
John Casken : Kokoschka’s Doll
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 9.15pm ID Please Tête à Tête Opera Festival Various, London United Kingdom www.tete-a-tete.org.uk
Music | Soosan Lolavar
Words | Daniel Hirsch
Director | Stephen M Eckert
Conductor | Daniel Nesta Curtis
Media Design | Jessica Medenbach
Costume Design | Nina Bova
Scenic Design | Caitlin Ayer
Border Agent | Robbie Raso
Female Traveller | Shannyn Rinker
Male Traveller | Patrick Dailey
ID, Please is an opera for the age of Brexit and Trump, set at border control and exploring themes of immigration, identity and xenophobia. The work took on new relevance when its British-Iranian composer was almost prevented from attending rehearsals in the US as part of the first ‘Muslim Ban’.
Soosan Lolavar : ID Please
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