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Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 7.30pm
Arvo Pärt
Manchester International Festival
Manchester
United Kingdom
Music director Gábor Takács-Nagy
Choir Vox Clamantis
Choir artistic director Jaan-Eik Tulve
Arvo Pärt’s music, at once ancient and modern, seeks to communicate what the composer has described as “love for every note”. His music is utterly unique and of huge appeal with audiences internationally; today, Pärt is the most performed living composer in the world.
Arvo Pärt, Manchester Camerata’s Music Director Gábor Takács-Nagy and MIF have curated a special evening of orchestral and choral works that perfectly demonstrates the overwhelmingly spiritual quality of his music.
This one-off concert celebrates Pärt’s first visit to Manchester and the extraordinary project that brings together the work of Gerhard Richter and Arvo Pärt at the Whitworth as part of MIF15.
'I love his music, and I love the fact that he is such a brave, talented man... He’s completely out of step with the zeitgeist and yet he’s enormously popular, which is so inspiring. His music fulfills a deep human need that has nothing to do with fashion.' Steve Reich on Arvo Pärt
Arvo Part : Fratres
Arvo Part : Stabat Mater
Arvo Part : Como cierva Sedienta
Arvo Part : Da pacem Domine
Arvo Part : Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima
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19 Nov
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Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 7.30pm
John Woolrich: Falling Down
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
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Margaret Cookhorn contra-bassoon
Lucy Crowe soprano
Gerhild Romberger mezzo-soprano
Dmytro Popov tenor
Kostas Smoriginas bass-baritone
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons conductor
Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony is a celebration of human endeavour, as is his ballet score The Creatures of Prometheus. Andris Nelsons gives his final concert as Music Director of the CBSO before returning (see Proms 49 and 51) with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which became Music Director last season. John Woolrich’s dark, sardonic contra-bassoon concerto was written for the CBSO’s own contra-bassoonist Margaret Cookhorn.
John Woolrich : Falling Down
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral'
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20 Nov
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20 Nov
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Monday, July 20, 2015 at 7.30pm
Haydn, HK Gruber & Stravinsky
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
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Colin Currie percussion
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor
Petrushka, with its bustling Shrovetide fair and colourful carnival characters, launches a week dominated by the music of Stravinsky. All three of the composer’s great scores for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes are performed this season – bright, folkloric textures gradually giving way to new musical brutality. Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphony set the City of Light talking over a century earlier. The second movement of ‘La reine’ (The Queen) shares Stravinsky’s sophisticated approach to folk music, while Viennese maverick HK Gruber’s into the open … echoes the ballet’s vivid scoring with instruments from Thailand, Africa and South America. Former BBC Young Musician of the Year Colin Currie joins the BBC Philharmonic under its Principal Guest Conductor John Storgårds.
HK Gruber : into the open …
Igor Stravinsky : Petrushka (1911 version)
Joseph Haydn : Symphony No. 85 in B flat major 'La reine'
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27 Nov
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Monday, July 27, 2015 at 7.30pm
Pierre Boulez: Notations 1–4 & 7
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Leila Josefowicz violin
Elysian Singers (women's voices)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Once an irascible enfant terrible, Pierre Boulez was born 90 years ago. The Proms celebrations continue with one of his earliest works. Originally a series of 12 brilliant miniatures for piano, Notations is gradually being expanded by the composer into an orchestral cycle. Holst’s The Planets brings musical imagery of a different kind. Violinist Leila Josefowicz makes a welcome return to the Proms, with a new concerto composed specially for her by one of Italy’s greatest living composers.
Pierre Boulez : Notations 1–4 & 7
Luca Francesconi : Duende – The Dark Notes
Gustav Holst : The Planets
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29 Nov
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 7.30pm
Prokofiev, Qigang Chen & Rachmaninov
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
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boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
Meng Meng soprano
Anu Komsi soprano
Piia Komsi soprano
Jia Li pipa
Jing Chang zheng
Nan Wang erhu
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang conductor
Following last night’s Prokofiev piano concerto cycle, tonight’s Prom opens with the Russian’s bright and joyous ‘Classical’ Symphony, which surprised critics of the young firebrand composer with its formal elegance. It’s paired with Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony – beloved for its intimate, lyrical slow movement. Rachmaninov might be the original composer of the ‘big tune’, but it’s an instinct China’s Qigang Chen – a pupil of Messiaen – shares. East and West come together for his evocative Iris dévoilée, pairing traditional Chinese instruments with Western harmonies.
Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 1 in D major, 'Classical'
Qigang Chen : Iris dévoilée
Sergei Rachmaninov : Symphony No. 2 in E minor
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30 Nov
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Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 7.30pm
SALZBURG CONTEMPORARY • BOULEZ • ORF RADIO-SYMPHONIEORCHESTER WIEN
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at
JACK Quartet
Ari Streisfeld, Violin
Christopher Otto, Violin
John Pickford Richards, Viola
Kevin McFarland, Cello
‘It is not enough to construct one’s revolution, one must also dream it’: thus, Pierre Boulez once formulated his artistic credo. It would never have been enough for him to appear only as a prophet of the avant-garde and a radical revolutionary, administering fundamental criticism to rigid, anti-modernist structures with his notorious demand to blow up all opera houses. Instead, as a composer he was always a sensuous poet of sound, striving quite traditionally for technical mastery and personal expression in equal measure, also and especially when experimenting with the latest techniques, such as guided chance and live electronics – a dedicated explorer and reformer. Reflecting his search for perfection and the ideal implementation of his thoughts, many of his pieces have undergone various stages of development, growing in scope, instrumentation and duration and thereby becoming others, as if they were living organisms undergoing maturation. If Salzburg contemporary takes Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday as an occasion to focus on his eminent œuvre, naturally this includes some of the great key works of New Music of the past 70 years – interpreted by the friends, students and comrades-in-arms of this singular musician, who has also made history as a conductor. With the French tradition ranging from Debussy to Boulez’s influential teacher Olivier Messiaen, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, the series also highlights some of the music of the past that influenced Boulez. These works are complemented by a new piece by Olga Neuwirth, whose music Pierre Boulez is very fond of: a portrait of the artist as an ageless man.
Pierre Boulez : Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna pour orchestre en huit groupes
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 1 in D
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