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10 Nov 
 
11 Nov



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 11, 2013 at 19.00 
John Turner & Friends. Celebrating English Music
St Edmund's Church, Southwold
Bartholomew Green, Southwold
United Kingdom
http://www.williamalwyn.co.uk/festival/

John Turner, Recorder
Lesley-Jane Rogers, Soprano
Harvey Davies, Piano
Heather Bills, Cello



William Alwyn : Seascapes for soprano, recorder & piano
Peter Dickinson : Sonatina
Christopher Wright : Helter Skelter for cello & piano
Sebastian Forbes : Southwold Serenade
Joseph Phibbs : Pierrot for recorder & piano
Geraint Lewis : A Blackbird Singing for recorder & piano
John Joubert : Three Villanelles
Nicholas Marshall : The Swallows of Summer
Malcolm Lipkin : Naboth's Vineyard
Robin Orr : Fugue in C minor
Kenneth Leighton : Animal Heaven
David Dubery : Three Songs to Poems by Robert Graves
David Matthews : Night Sky
Gordon Crosse : The Thing with Feathers
Anthony Gilbert : Behind all This
Karel Janovicky : Festive Fantasia and Fugue
Thomas Pitfield : Prelude, Minuet and Reel
Peter Hope : June Notes
Alan Bullard : Canonic Proverbs
Richard Rastell : Three Songs for Our Time
Mervyn Burtch : Three Kipling Songs

12 Nov



United States
 Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 7:30 pm 
Third Coast
Marcus Center - Vogel Hall
929 N. Water Street
United States
http://www.marcuscenter.org/

Tickets: Best Tickets - $35; Good Tickets - $25; Bargain Tickets - $15; Student Tickets 50% off
Present Music, along with Chicago's Third Coast Percussion



Steve Reich : Daniel Variations

12 Nov



United Kingdom
 Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 8pm 
Zbigniew Preisner & Lisa Gerrard Diaries of Hope (UK premiere)
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: £20-30


Leading Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner conducts the Britten Sinfonia strings and Crouch End Festival Chorus in the UK premiere of Diaries of Hope – a new work inspired by the diaries and poems of Polish children who were victims of the Holocaust.

Lisa Gerrard from spellbinding duo Dead Can Dance – nominated for an Oscar for her vocals on major film Gladiator and two Golden Globes for The Insider and Ali – performs in the principal vocal role alongside boy soprano Archie Buchanan.

Best known for his scores for the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Dekalog, The Double Life Of Veronique, Three Colours Blue and more) and for Requiem for my friend, his moving tribute to Kieslowski, Preisner is one of the most celebrated film composers of his generation and recipient of many accolades including a Silver Bear from the Berlin Film Festival and two Césars from the French Film Academy.


Zbigniew Preisner : Diaries of Hope

12 Nov



Netherlands
 Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 14:45 
Duruflé, Wolfgang Rihm and a new Manneke Work
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Tickets: 30 Euros
Groot Omroepkoor
Gijs Leenaars (dirigent)
Olivia Vermeulen (mezzosopraan)
Falko Hönisch (bariton)
Leo van Doeselaar (orgel)



Daan Menneke : Canti
Wolfgang Rihm : Passions-Texte
Maurice Duruflé : Requiem

12 Nov



Netherlands
 Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 9pm 
Asko|Schönberg goes retro: Stravinsky and Elvis in 'The Fifties'
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Tickets: 21-36 Euros
Asko|Schönberg
Etienne Siebens (dirigent)
Lauren Armishaw (sopraan)
Jeannet Landré (fluit)
Margreet Bongers (fagot)



André Jolivet : Rhapsodie à sept
Igor Stravinsky : Septet
Bruno Maderna : Musica su due dimensioni
Kees van Baaren : Septet
Igor Stravinsky : Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Michael Daugherty : Dead Elvis

13 Nov



United Kingdom
 Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Quatuor Ebène
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30
Quatuor Ebène

French composer Bruno Mantovani has forged a major international career since graduating from the Paris Conservatoire in the late 1990s.
His String Quintet receives its UK première in this concert. Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor K516, completed in May 1787, distils the restless energy of its composer’s professional setbacks to deliver a transcendent response to personal cares.


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : String Quintet in C K515
Bruno Mantovani : String Quintet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : String Quintet in G minor K516

13 Nov



United Kingdom
 Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 4pm 
The Arcomis International Brass Event: Closing Gala
St David's Hall
St David's Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AH
United Kingdom
029 2087 8444
http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/
sdhreception@cardiff.gov.uk

Tickets: £10-£28.50
BBCNOW
Conductor Clark Rundell
Trumpet Håkan Hardenberger

The Brass Event is designed to ignite the imagination and broaden horizons, as audiences draw inspiration from exceptional performances and experience some of the world’s leading brass players. An extraordinary event over the long weekend and an unrepeatable opportunity to see and hear some of the best musicians from across the world of brass.

A concert of works featuring BBC National Orchestra of Wales and soloist Håkan Hardenberger whose thirty-year career has redefined the instrument for the twenty-first century.


Paul Hindemith : Konzertmusik for brass and strings, Op. 50
Tobias Broström : Lucernaris
HK Gruber : 3 MOB Pieces
Malcolm Arnold : Symphony No. 5

14 Nov 
 
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16 Nov



Scotland
 Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Hebrides Ensemble
Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net

Tickets: £14
Hebrides Ensemble

Jane Irwin, Soprano

The celebrated Hebrides Ensemble welcomes back the fabulous Jane Irwin to sing Berio's captivating Folk Songs. This rich, colourful programme is full of beautiful melody, exotic harmony and haunting nostalgia.

“phenomenal playing... fired with authority” (The Scotsman)


Herbert Howells : Rhapsodic Quintet Op31
Toru Takemitsu : And then I knew 'twas Wind
Maurice Ravel : Introduction and Allegro
Minoru Miki : Marimba Spiritual
Luciano Berio : Folk Songs

16 Nov



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Arditti Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30
Arditti Quartet

To celebrate his 60th birthday, Irvine Arditti has assembled a captivating collection of works to demonstrate the Arditti Quartet’s brilliance, artistic vitality and uncanny understanding of contemporary chamber music.
The world première of Akira Nishimura’s fifth string quartet, written as a birthday present to Irvine Arditti, crowns a programme that also offers two UK premières and two modern masterpieces for solo violin. The concert opens with Brian Ferneyhough’s hypnotic Intermedio alla ciaccona, first performed by Irvine Arditti in 1986.


Brian Ferneyhough : Intermedio alla ciaccona (for solo violin)
Robert HP Platz : strings (Echo VII)
Hilda Paredes : Cuerdas del destino
Francisco Guerrero : Zayin I + II (for string trio)
John Cage : Eight Whiskus (for solo violin)
Akira Nishimura : Quartet No. 5

17 Nov 
 
18 Nov



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 18, 2013 at 7.30pm 
BBC Philharmonic Mahler’s Companions
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Tickets: £10-35
HK Gruber conductor | Lucy Hall soprano

Manchester has always welcomed musicians from different lands. During his time as the BBC Philharmonic's official Composer /Conductor, the Austrian maverick HK "Nali" Gruber has shown us a few things that we never realised about ourselves - like just how close Vienna is to the Mancunian way. In 2010 during the Mahler in Manchester festival we asked a number of composers to take their inspiration from Mahler and create new works to accompany all of his symphonies. Tonight Nali gives you a second chance to enjoy four of these Mahler companions again.

Kurt Schwertsik : Nachtmusiken
Anthony Payne : The Period of Cosmographie
Detlev Glanert : Einsamkeit
David Matthews : Symphony No. 7

19 Nov 
 
20 Nov



United States
 Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 7:15pm 
Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton performs 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
Euphoria band

LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM
Sundays this Fall: 10.20 + 11.17 + 12.15



WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
In yet another strong showing by this venerable drummer, 92 year-old percussionist and band leader Foreststorn “Chico” Hamilton celebrates his working life in a trio of concerts – EUPHORIC: Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton. Known for fashioning finely textured sounds with small ensembles, Chico leads his long-time working group Euphoria 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 some new original material as well as works off of Chico’s latest vivacious albums: Revelation and Euphoric (Joyous Shout!). 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. According to Jazz Improv NY, “he sounds more creative and artistic than ever.”

WHEN: Sunday, October 20 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 17 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 15 @ 7:15PM

WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th St), New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue, 10009

HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.

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Chico Hamilton : Euphoria

21 Nov



Austria
 Monday, October 21, 2013 at 8pm 
ARMIDA QUARTETT
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at

Tickets: 5-26 Euros
ARMIDA QUARTETT



Franz Schubert : Quartettsatz c-Moll, D 703
Gyorgy Ligeti : Streichquartett Nr. 1, „Métamorphoses nocturnes“
Gyorgy Kurtág : Streichquartett, op. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Streichquartett A-Dur, KV 464

22 Nov



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 7pm/7.15pm/7.30pm 
The Rape of Lucretia
Various

United Kingdom

Tickets: £8-£85
Conductor Nicholas Collon / Jack Ridley (15 Nov)
Director Fiona Shaw
Set Designer Michael Levine
Costume Designer Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting Designer Paul Anderson

The Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra

Cast
Male Chorus Allan Clayton / Andrew Dickinson (15, 22 Nov)
Female Chorus Kate Valentine
Collatinus David Soar
Junius Oliver Dunn
Tarquinius Duncan Rock
Lucretia Claudia Huckle
Bianca Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Lucia Ellie Laugharne

Given its first ever performance at Glyndebourne in 1946, Benjamin Britten created this opera with the poet Ronald Duncan, who wrote about their collaboration: ‘Britten and I worked at the same desk. We first discussed the shape of the whole drama and then spent several days working over this in order to reduce it to its essential simplicity. We kept our work fluid – even after it had gone to the printer and engraver, much to their dismay.’

The result of this close collaboration is an extraordinary and tightly focussed treatment of a legend which has acquired numerous layers in painting, poetry and drama. Lucretia is raped by the tyrant Tarquinius Superbus, ruler of Rome, and elects to kill herself rather than live with the shame. The action of the opera is commented on throughout by a Male and Female Chorus who occupy another dimension, at times narrating the story and at times voicing the thoughts of the different characters.

The central role of Lucretia is one which engages the talents of a singing actress to the utmost and one with which director Fiona Shaw will empathise keenly, drawing on her own experiences as both a performer and a director.

It was in describing this work that Britten coined the term ‘chamber opera’, creating a work of distilled power and refinement with a cast of eight and an orchestra of 12 players and piano.

For full list of venues and dates, see here: http://glyndebourne.com/production/rape-of-lucretia-tour-2013


Benjamin Britten : The Rape of Lucretia

23 Nov



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 7.30 p.m. 
Birthday Composers and Friends
Regent Hall
275 Oxford St., London W1 2DJ
United Kingdom

Tickets: £8 (£5)
Catherine Pluygers (oboes), Phil Edwards (clarinets), Henryk Sienkewicz (horn), Alan Tomlinson (trombone), Robert Coleridge (piano)

16th London New Wind Festival - 2nd concert

Anthony Green : Cornish Headland, Balkan Lake and Moonscape
Derek Foster : Piano Piece 1975
Jane Serter : To reach and to hold on
Witold Lutoslawski : Epitaph for oboe and piano
Priaulx Rainier : Suite for clarinet and piano
George Nicholson : Darkness Visible
Luca Vanneschi : Canto Notturno for solo oboe

24 Nov



Germany
 Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 8pm 
Funkhause am Wallrafplatz, Köln
Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz
Klaus-von-Bismacksaal, Köln
Germany

SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Ensemble musikFabrik
Conductor Marcus Creed
IRCAM computer music design Gregory Beller

The time of beginning based on Ovid, the time of the first men, the time of civilizations: Raphaël Cendo has arranged his epic for choir, ensemble, and electronics in three large chapters, with, by way of an epilogue, uses this fragment of Heraclitus: If one does not hope, one will not find the unhoped-for, since there is no trail leading to it and no path. Registre, according to the composer, designates the book of memories, "memory of lights that transmitted a common, far away, past, milestones of our Humanity".


Raphaël Cendo : Registre des lumières
Francesco Filidei : Finito ogni gesto

24 Nov



United Kingdom
 Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 7.30pm 
The Hallé
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Manchester M1 5HA
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Tickets: £11-38
The Hallé
Markus Stenz conductor | Carolyn Sampson soprano | Neal Davies bass-baritone | Hallé Choir

This event celebrates The Royal Philharmonic Society Bicentenary 1813-2013.

Principal Guest Conductor Markus Stenz has forged a strong relationship with the Hallé Choir and here directs one of the great masterpieces of the choral repertoire, Brahms’s German Requiem. Its title aside, the work has an appeal that transcends both national boundaries and religious beliefs (Brahms even considered naming it a ‘Human Requiem’) and it remains a deeply moving experience for audiences everywhere. While its musical language is unmistakably that of Brahms, it also looks back to Bach and to the composers of the Renaissance. Brahms’s progression from suffering to eventual consolation is thus both dramatically and musically fascinating. Wolfgang Rihm is a composer who never fails to confound and enthral. The concert opens with his Tribute (Über die Linie VIII), an homage to Benjamin Britten commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and given its world premiere by Sir Mark and the Hallé at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival.


Wolfgang Rihm : A Tribute (Über die Linie VIII)
Johannes Brahms : A German Requiem

25 Nov



Poland
 Friday, October 25, 2013 at 7pm 
Musica Electronica Nova Festival, Wroclaw
Wroclaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
Wroclaw
Poland

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger piano
The Wrocław Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Pascal Rophé
IRCAM computer music design Thomas Goepfer*, Arshia Cont**, Gilbert Nouno**



Zygmunt Krauze : Rzeka podziemna
Philippe Manoury : Echo-Daimónon
Jonathan Harvey : Speakings

26 Nov 
 
27 Nov



Canada
 Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 4 pm 
Fall Extravaganza, Musical Matinees Concert Series
St. Philip's Anglican Church, Vancouver, B.C.
3737 W. 27th Ave. Vancouver, BC V6S 1R2
Canada
http://www.stphilipsdunbar.com/category/upcoming/
michale_murray@telus.net

Tickets: $20 adults, $15 seniors and children 11+ years old, children under 11 free
Corey Hamm - piano
Michael Murray - piano
Brenda Campbell - soprani

Fall Extravaganza Concert
Sunday October 27, 2013 at 4:00pm
Featuring world-famous pianist Corey Hamm


Glenn Sutherland : Two Songs from the firmament

28 Nov



United Kingdom
 Monday, October 28, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Michael Nyman Solo Piano and Film: Music from and for Film
Town Hall, Birmingham
Victoria Square B3 3DQ
United Kingdom
0121 780 3333
http://www.thsh.co.uk/

Tickets: £22.50/£27.50
Michael Nyman

British composer Michael Nyman returns to Birmingham in an intimate performance at Town Hall, playing solo piano music from films that he has collaborated on with directors including Peter Greenaway, Jane Campion and Neil Jordan.

Accompanied by a selection of films that Nyman personally recorded whilst on his travels, the evening provides a fascinating insight into the visual and musical world.


Michael Nyman : Various

29 Nov



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Frank Zappa: 200 Motels
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Tickets: £25-£45
Claron McFadden soprano
Southbank Sinfonia
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jurjen Hempel conductor

One of the music events of the year Frank Zappa's legendary 1971 work 200 Motels is performed live in concert for the first ever time in the UK.

This colossal piece, one of the most ambitious that Zappa ever wrote, is performed by the full forces of the BBC Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, London Voices and a large cast of rock musicians, singers and actors.

Banned from live performance at the time of its composition, and a cult classic on film and on record ever since, 200 Motels can finally be heard on stage in its full glory.

Please note, this event contains sexually explicit material and is suitable for audiences aged 18+


Frank Zappa : 200 Motels

29 Nov



Wales
 Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 7.30 
Contemporary Concert | The Yellow Wallpaper
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales

Tickets: £8 - £10
BBCNOW

Conductor | Thierry Fischer
Soprano | Elizabeth Atherton
Violin | Baiba Skride

Simon Holt's The Yellow Wallpaper tells the story of feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gillman. Experience the story of this woman's obsession with her enclosed surroundings. Accompanied by two 1930s masterpieces: Franz Schmidt's Fourth Symphony and Berg's Violin Concerto. Composed with furious intensity and pre-emptive of Berg's own untimely death, the Concerto is best known as his own requiem.

Alban Berg : Violin Concerto
Simon Holt : The Yellow Wallpaper
Franz Schmidt : Symphony No 4

30 Nov



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 1.15 pm 
Notus Winds Wind Quintet
Victoria Rooms, Bristol

United Kingdom

Tickets: Free
Charlotte Ashton (flute), Eleanor Tinlin (oboe), Jordan Black (clarinet), Jonathan Davies (bassoon), Carys Evans (horn)

Chamber Music Recital

Jonathan Palmer : Crystal Eyes for Wind Quintet

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