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22 Dec
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 7.30pm
Ilan Volkov conducts Beethoven, Boulez and Grisey
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10-£32
Ilan Volkov conductor
Nicolas Hodges piano
BBC Singers
Beethoven’s powerful Seventh Symphony is prefaced by a trio of beguiling modern French works in the first of two concerts pairing Beethoven with recent French music. The BBC Singers have had great success with Boulez’s now-classic work cummings ist der Dichter, which sets the poetry of ee cummings for vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov, known for his high-voltage performances and radical programmes, presents the UK premiere of Hugues Dufourt’s piano concerto with Nicolas Hodges as soloist. Dufourt’s own world of sonorities reflects that of one of France’s greatest 20th century composers, Gérard Grisey. In his monumental early work Mégalithes, 15 brass players scattered around the hall hurl sonic clusters of shimmering dissonance into the auditorium – a not-to-be-missed experience.
Gérard Grisey : Mégalithes
Hugues Dufourt : Piano Concerto
Pierre Boulez : cummings ist der Dichter
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 7 In A major
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22 Dec
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 8pm
UBS Soundscapes: Eclectica - An Eastern Vigil
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
Tickets: £10 - £22
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Daniel Reuss conductor
Grammy award-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, one of the most famous choirs in the world, collaborates with Gilad Atzmon, a writer and an award-winning jazz saxophonist and member of The Blockheads living in London.
They explore the mystical soundworlds of Arvo Pärt, Cyrillus Kreek, Vasyl Barvinski, Nikolai Kedrov and Rachmaninov combined with Atzmon’s swirling improvisations.
Arvo Pärt : Two slavonic psalms
Alfred Schnittke : Three sacred hymns
Arvo Pärt : Magnificat
Arvo Pärt : Nunc Dimittis
Cyrillus Kreek : Psalm 22
Cyrillus Kreek : Psalm 104
Vasyl Barvinskyi : Oh, What a Wonder!
Nikolai Kedrov : Otsche Nash
Sergei Rachmaninov : All-Night Vigil (‘Vespers’)
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23 Dec
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 7.30pm
Jack Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15-£30
JACK Quartet
The JACK Quartet’s concerts prove time and again that we belong to a golden age of chamber music composition, one in which creative diversity and difference are encouraged and celebrated.
This programme, devised by Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson, opens with a seminal work composed in 1931 by Ohio-born Ruth Crawford Seeger, the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and closes with Horaţiu Rădulescu’s evocatively titled Fifth String Quartet of 1995.
Brian Ferneyhough’s wild Exordium, written in honour of Elliott Carter’s 100th birthday in 2008, stands in bold contrast to Julian Anderson’s ‘Light Music’ and the world première of a new score by Christopher Trapani, winner of the 2007 Gaudeamus Prize.
Ruth Crawford Seeger : String Quartet
Christopher Trapani : New work
Brian Ferneyhough : Exordium
Julian Anderson : String Quartet No. 1 ‘Light Music’
Horaţiu Rădulescu : String Quartet No. 5 ‘before the universe was born’
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24 Dec
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Friday, January 24, 2014 at 7.30pm
Max Richter: Memoryhouse
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £17.50 - 25
Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Max Richter, conducted by André de Ridder
Contemporary composer Max Richter premieres his 2002 debut album Memoryhouse with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by André de Ridder.
An homage to Europe and the haunting power of memories, Memoryhouse is the stunning album that announced Max Richter as a major talent. With echoes of his earlier collaborations with Roni Size and electronic duo FSOL, influences of post-rock acts such as Sigur Rós and classical forebears like Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass, this work shows the unique mix of contemporary classical and electronics that would become the signature language in Richter’s musical universe.
Max Richter : Memoryhouse
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Friday, January 31, 2014 at 7pm
Peter Grimes
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
Peter Grimes Stuart Skelton
Ellen Orford Elza van den Heever
Balstrode Iain Paterson
Auntie Rebecca de Pont Davies
Swallow Matthew Best
Ned Keene Leigh Melrose
Bob Boles Michael Colvin
Mrs Sedley Felicity Palmer
Hobson Matthew Trevino
Reverend Horace Adams Tim Robinson
First Niece Rhian Lois
Second Niece Mary Bevan Conductor Edward Gardner
Director David Alden
Set Designer Paul Steinberg
Costume Designer Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer Adam Silverman
Choreographer Maxine Braham
ENO
The bleak, enclosed world of a fishing village provides the backdrop for the story of fisherman Peter Grimes and his uneasy relationship with the other inhabitants. Following the death of Grimes's apprentice, the community presumes Grimes to be guilty. Although he is cleared of any blame, the villagers no longer trust him, and when his new apprentice accidentally falls to his death, Grimes spirals towards a tragic breakdown.
The most significant British opera in over two centuries, Peter Grimes is a work of visceral and sustained beauty, and is notable for the orchestral interludes that depict the sea in different moods.
This is the first revival of David Alden's 2009 five-star sell-out production. ENO Music Director Edward Gardner again conducts the electrifying score, with Stuart Skelton heading an outstanding cast in his return to the title role.
Co-produced by ENO, De Vlaamse Opera, Opera de Oviedo and Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Further performances: 1st, 6th, 8th, 14th, 21st, 23rd, 27th February
Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes
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31 Dec
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Friday, January 31, 2014 at 12.30 pm
Saxology Sax Quartet
Chelmsford Cathedral
53 New St, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1TY
United Kingdom
01245 294492
info@chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk
Tickets: free
Saxology Saxophone Quartet
Contemporary ensemble of some 25 years standing offer a programme of arranged and original music.
Jeffery Wilson : Threnody
Jeffery Wilson : Circus Acts
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