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Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 02:00pm Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) Performs "Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon" BAM Fisher 321 Ashland Place United States 718.636.4100 http://www.bam.org
Tickets: $70 and Up Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC)
Celebrating its 14th season, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for a five-day performances series of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon. A phenomenal hybrid of drama, film and chamber music, this fully staged production dramatizes the face-to-face meeting between the French writer Jules Verne and the young American journalist Nelly Bly.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 7.30pm Camille Claudel: Into the Fire / Brentano Quartet Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt
The climax of Joyce DiDonato’s Artist Spotlight: a new song cycle written specially for her by Jake Heggie, with the composer at the piano.
As the centrepiece of her Artist Spotlight, Joyce DiDonato has herself curated this programme, which pairs the belle-époque subtleties of Hahn and Debussy with a new song-cycle by Jake Heggie. “Joyce is its perfect champion” says Heggie – who accompanies DiDonato in this deeply personal evening of song.
The artist Camille Claudel was many things – lover, muse, friend of Debussy, Proust and Hahn, and creator of sculptures that, in the words of Jake Heggie, “dance and sing to us through time”. Inspired by the passionate life of this misunderstood figure, Heggie - the pre-eminent living composer of American art-song - created Camille Claudel: Into the Fire specially for his friend Joyce DiDonato. With Heggie joining the Brentano String Quartet at the piano, this will be its European premiere – a fitting climax to DiDonato’s Artist Spotlight, and an intimate portrait of a very special creative relationship.
Joyce DiDonato mezzo soprano
Jake Heggie piano
Brentano String Quartet
Claude Debussy : String Quartet Renaldo Hahn : Venezia Jake Heggie : Camille Claudel: Into the Fire
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Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7.30pm HK Gruber Presents… 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
BBC Philharmonic
HK Gruber Conductor
Matthew Barley Cello
In Weimar Berlin, the workers plot a musical revolution. A cello flies as high as Icarus – then crashes in flames. And an Austrian composer clambers up a tree, and listens to its songs. Whether it is the poetry of Kurt Schwertsik, Kurt Weill’s reports from Berlin, or his very own cello concerto, no-one makes new music sing, dance, and laugh quite like our Composer / Conductor HK ‘Nali’ Gruber. Add a brand-new symphony by national treasure David Matthews, and this concert might change the way you think about music of our time.
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17 Dec
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Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7.30pm Barbican International Associate Residency Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert conductor
Joyce DiDonato mezzo soprano
Joyce DiDonato, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic perform sensuous, colourful scores by Strauss, Ravel and Esa-Peka Salonen.
The New York Philharmonic has a sound like few other orchestras. To open its Barbican residency, Alan Gilbert conducts a ravishing programme: from the sonic chiaroscuro of Esa-Pekka Salonen to the silken richness of Ravel and Strauss, by way of another exquisite showcase for Joyce DiDonato.
With a tradition that stretches back through Bernstein, Barbirolli and Mahler, the New York sound has been shaped over 170 years. Music director Alan Gilbert understands that tradition innately, and tonight’s programme plays directly to his orchestra’s strengths. The iridescent hues of Ravel’s Valses Nobles et Sentimentales form a discreet contrast to Strauss’s sensuous Rosenkavalier suite; both demand brilliant virtuosity and effortless style. Joyce DiDonato’s performance of Ravel’s Shéhérazade is a gorgeous coda to her Artist Spotlight season, and Gilbert opens with a UK premiere: a shimmering 21st century nocturne for orchestra by a living master of tone-colour.
Esa-Pekka Salonen : Nyx Maurice Ravel : Shéhérazade Maurice Ravel : Valses nobles et sentimentales Richard Strauss : Rosenkavalier Suite
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17 Dec
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Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7pm LSO Soundhub LSO St Luke's, London 161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/ admin@lso.co.uk
LSO
Daniel Cohen conductor *
Aaron Holloway-Nahum conductor ^
LSO Soundhub provides a flexible space where composers can explore, collaborate and experiment. This concert is a chance to meet six of the composers in their second year of Soundhub membership who have spent the year pushing their work in unexpected directions with a series of new chamber pieces written for the musicians of the LSO to perform.
Featured composers: Maxim Boon*, Laurence Osborn*, Helen Papaioannou*, Robert Szymanek*, Laurie Tompkins and Aaron Holloway-Nahum^.
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17 Dec
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Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7pm NONCLASSICAL // TOKYO VOL.1 SuperDeluxe ,スーパー・デラックス 東京都港区西麻布3-1-25 B1F Tokyo Japan 03-5412-0515 http://www.super-deluxe.com
Nonclassical
We're immensely excited to announce that in collaboration with the legendary Tokyo venue Superdeluxe we are making our debut in Asia this April with a clubnight celebrating the links between the alternative classical scenes in London and Tokyo.
Traversing the common ground between contemporary classical and electronic soundscapes, from London we welcome Premieres and Asian Premieres from founder Gabriel Prokofiev and associated artists Tansy Davies ("a live wire … impossible to pigeonhole" - The Times) and avant-electronics guru John Richards. Plus new work from Sam Mackay & James Greer.
Representing the local scene are virtuosic performances and new music from Emiko Miura and Shohei Amimori (Music Competition Japan 2013 composition 1st Prize, J-Wave Radio Sakamoto finalist, Messiaen Prize, Academie de Musique Francaise, Kyoto 2013), alongside brain-shatteringly intense free improvisation from Atsuko Hatano.
Headlining the bill is a once in a lifetime Medieval DJ set from legendary Tokyo musician Keiji Haino. Seven years ago Haino performed a one-off DJ set of purely medieval music in Superdeluxe, which has become the stuff of legend. After a long wait, this will be only the second time he has performed in this guise so we can expect more than a few surprises.
Direct from London, Nonclassical resident DJs Sam Mackay, Nwando and James Greer are hosting the evening, spinning Nonclassical label favourites, leftfield electronica, glitch, and premieres of their own brand new remixes.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 13.00 Piano Recital Southend Civic Centre Victoria Avenue, Southend, SS2 6ER United Kingdom 01702 215000 http://www.southend.gov.uk
Tickets: £5.00 Simone Green
Award-winning pianist Simone Green will perform a programme of classical music for solo piano with readings by presenter Thomas Cleary.
Tom Lawrie : Displaced Hope
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 7.45pm HAAS: ATTHIS Covent Garden - Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London United Kingdom http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
Pierre-André Valade conductor
Claire Booth soprano
Netia Jones director and video artist
London Sinfonietta
Written more than two and a half thousand years ago, the beauty of Sappho’s lyric love poetry continues to cast a spell over composers. With Atthis, a setting of Sappho’s fragments, Haas said he wanted to write ‘a modern Winterreise with a happy ending’. Although the texts evoke the same expressive spirit of Schubert’s masterpiece, Haas’ rich use of overtones – seamlessly blended here with lighting and video created by Netia Jones – will lure you into a brilliantly intense 21st century soundworld.
Thursday 23, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 April 2015 at 7.45pm
Georg Friedrich Haas : String Quartet No 2 Georg Friedrich Haas : Atthis
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24 Dec
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Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7.30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein conductor
Jonathan Biss piano
Jonathan Biss performs Beethoven’s majestic ‘Emporer’ piano concerto alongside the UK premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Edgar Allan Poe-inspired Prospero’s Rooms and Lutosławski 's Concerto for Orchestra.
Expect a feast of dazzling virtuosity from the BBC SO’s players throughout Lutosławski 's ingenious stylisation of Polish folk melodies, led by the fast-rising conductor Joshua Weilerstein. Christopher Rouse draws on Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Leonid Andreyev’s symbolist play The Black Maskers for the musical narrative of his recent orchestral work.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Piano Concerto No 5 Christopher Rouse : Prospero’s Rooms Witold Lutoslawski : Concerto for Orchestra
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24 Dec
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Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7.30pm Hilarious Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI United States
Present Music
Laugh along with us in this humorous concert presenting Richard Ayres’ In the Alps. Featuring stage direction by Milwaukee Opera Theater's Jill Anna Ponasik, lighting design by Jason Fassl, and the world premiere of the Delightfully Playful Present Music Toy Theater Company (DPPMTTC), come frolic on the mountainside with a young girl who is raised by goats. There will be speaking in trumpets, playful puppets, and zoological coloratura in our most animated event yet! (Program subject to change.)
Richard Ayres : In the Alps Phillip Bimstein : Garland Hirshi's Cows Michael Daugherty : Elvis Everywhere John Adams : Road Movies
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7.30pm The Miracle of the Rose CBSO Centre Berkley Street. B1 2LF United Kingdom http://www.bcmg.org.uk info@bcmg.org.uk
CBSO
The only Birmingham concert of BCMG’s 2014/15 season with the masterful Oliver Knussen at the helm, sets three American works (Stravinsky was a naturalised U.S. citizen by the time he wrote Septet in 1953) alongside two by German composers – including a world premiere from Arne Gieshoff. Plus a late addition to the programme, Alexander Goehr’s chamber symphony between the Lines following BCMG’s premiere of the piece in Cambridge in November 2014.
The most substantial piece in the programme, Henze’s 40-minute Le Miracle de la Rose, is a musical evocation of a literary work of the same title by the French poet and playwright Jean Genet. The poetic content is transposed entirely into instrumental terms, with the exceptional Timothy Lines as soloist evoking the principal characters: the sixteen-year-old murderer Harcomone who awaits execution (solo clarinet); and the poet himself (bass clarinet). Many of the other thirteen instruments represent figures from the Genet book – the judge expresses himself through the trumpet, the priest is represented by the horn, the trombone stands for the lawyer, while the heckelphone stands for the executioner.
Of the American modernist composers to emerge in the second half of the 20th century, George Perle proved to be one of the most delectable craftsmen. Born in 1915, his first encounter with the music of Schoenberg in the late 1930s made a profound impression, ultimately leading him to develop his own rich and complex musical language. His late works Critical Moments (1996) and Critical Moments 2 (2001) are collections of pithy movements (six and nine respectively) in which flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion exchange piquant thematic fragments.
Igor Stravinsky : Septet George Perle : Critical Moments Alexander Goehr : between the Lines Arne Gieshoff : katá George Perle : Critical Moments 2 Hans Werne Henze : Le Miracle de la Rose
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 7.30pm Ensemble Intercontemporain / Boulez at 90 Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher conductor
Ensemble Intercontemporain offers a 90th birthday salute to its founder Pierre Boulez, with music by Debussy, Robin, Pintscher - and Boulez himself.
For eight decades, Pierre Boulez has challenged the world of music – and Ensemble Intercontemporain has explored the pathways he’s opened. Tonight, under Mattthias Pintscher it continues to explore, and pays a 90th birthday tribute to its founder: Boulez himself, and two modern classics that never sound any less new.
Boulez founded Ensemble Intercontemporain in 1976, and he’s the presiding genius tonight - his influence resonates through the music of IRCAM graduate Yann Robin. Current music director Matthias Pintscher is an increasingly influential creative force, and his performance of Choc, his powerful “Antiphon” from 1996 will have a special energy and authority. But behind each of these works is the towering presence of Boulez himself, and performances of his Memoriale and the astonishing Sur Incises for three pianos, three harps and percussion will reveal afresh the beauty and sheer creative power of this great modernist mind.
Claude Debussy : Syrinx Pierre Boulez : Memoriale Matthias Pintscher : Choc (Monumento IV) Yann Robin : Asymétriades Pierre Boulez : Sur Incises
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