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4 Feb
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 1pm
Britten Sinfonia At Lunch 3
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Jacqueline Shave, Miranda Dale violins Clare Finnimore, Catherine Musker violas Caroline Dearnley cello
Vaughan Williams’ Phantasy for string quintet, which displays his distinctive and expressive style, was dedicated to William Wilson Cobbett, whose famous competition encouraged young composers to write chamber music. Winner of our own Cambridge University Composers workshop , Ben Comeau’s work receives its premiere and we hear Beethoven’s transitional and tumultuous quintet “The Storm”.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quintet in C major, Op.29
Ben Comeau : New work
Vaughan Williams : Phantasy Quintet
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5 Feb
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 08:00pm
ETHEL Premieres Mazzoli at Miller Theatre 2/5
Miller Theatre, NYC
Columbia University, 2960 Broadway ,New York, NY 10027
United States
(212) 854-7740
http://www.millertheater.com/
Tickets: $20-30
ETHEL
Versatile and dynamic, American composer Missy Mazzoli has been called “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). Her work includes commissions from Carnegie Hall, the Kronos Quartet, the LA Phil, and the Whitney Museum of Art, as well as a co-commission from Miller Theatre—Quartet for Queen Mab—that will have its world premiere as part of her Composer Portrait, performed by ETHEL. This concert highlights Mazzoli’s diverse works for strings, from solo pieces for cello and violin to works such as Harp and Altar, a love song to the Brooklyn Bridge that fuses string quartet with pre-recorded electronics and the poetry of Hart Crane.
Missy Mazzoli : Quartet for Queen Mab
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8 Feb
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 7.30pm
Miscontinuum
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
Jan St Werner
Taigen Kawabe
Kathy Alberici
Zoya Bassi
One half of the iconoclastic German duo Mouse on Mars, sometime member of Microstoria, and creator of numerous questing solo projects, Jan St. Werner has been making electronic music for over 20 years
Inspired by the concepts of time and memory, and based on the acoustic phenomena derived by phrasing and musical time-stretching, Miscontinuum has been developed and refined over a period of four years.
Featuring live video from Zoya Bassi and contributions from Dylan Carlson (Earth), Markus Popp (Oval), Taigen Kawabe (Bo Ningen) and Kathy Alberici (Drum Eyes), Werner brings his electronic opera to London for the first time.
Jan St Werner : Miscontinuum
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12 Feb
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14 Feb
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Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 7.30pm
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Kate Royal soprano
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
London Symphony Chorus
CBSO Chorus
Sir Simon Rattle concludes The London Residency by conducting Mahler's epic Second symphony, a suitably climactic work to celebrate this landmark series.
Composed a century apart, Mahler’s 85-minute Symphony No.2 Resurrection and Helmut Lachenmann’s 15-minute Tableau share an intense engagement with the natural and imagined world. The alluring textures of Lachenmann’s virtuosic musique concrète instrumentale provide a prelude to the climax of The London Residency: Mahler’s dramatic symphonic epic with Dies Irae plainchant, pastoral dance, teeming fish, a nightingale, off-stage brass, transcendent solo voices and a vast choir.
Also on 15th February
Helmut Lachenmann : Tableau
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)
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18 Feb
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19 Feb
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Connecting in the Chamber
Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co
224 W Bruce St
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/connectinginthechamber.aspx
Tickets: $25
Present Music
Schubert, Bruce Adolphe, Joplin, Bach, Gesualdo, Brett Dean, Debussy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brahms, Marcos Balter and Kamran Ince all come together for a series of intimate concerts connecting the old to the new. (Program subject to change.)
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20 Feb
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Friday, February 20, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Connecting in the Chamber
Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co
224 W Bruce St
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/connectinginthechamber.aspx
Tickets: $35
Present Music
Schubert, Bruce Adolphe, Joplin, Bach, Gesualdo, Brett Dean, Debussy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brahms, Marcos Balter and Kamran Ince all come together for a series of intimate concerts connecting the old to the new. (Program subject to change.)
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20 Feb
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Friday, February 20, 2015 at 11am
Connecting in the Chamber
Villa Terrace
2220 N Terrace Ave, Milwaukee WI
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/connectinginthechamber.aspx
Tickets: $25
Present Music
Schubert, Bruce Adolphe, Joplin, Bach, Gesualdo, Brett Dean, Debussy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Brahms, Marcos Balter and Kamran Ince all come together for a series of intimate concerts connecting the old to the new. (Program subject to change.)
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22 Feb
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Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 7pm
CBSO Youth Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
CBSO Youth Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Denis Kozhukhin piano
Mahler’s First Symphony begins by creating the world – and ends by storming Heaven itself. Well, the CBSO Youth Orchestra likes a challenge, and if you’ve heard our inspirational young players before, you’ll know that under the baton of CBSO principal guest conductor Edward Gardner we’re in for something very special indeed. Twentieth century classics by Lutoslawski and Prokofiev raise the curtain with an explosion of colour.
Witold Lutoslawski : Symphony No 4
Sergei Prokofiev : Piano Concerto No 1
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No 1
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24 Feb
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 7.30pm
The Songbook
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Conductor: Jonathan Berman
Sopranos: Gillian Keith
Rebecca von Lipinski
BCMG
This special Songbook programme is a rare opportunity to hear a hand-picked selection of 17 songs for soprano and small ensemble, commissioned over a ten year period from the late 1980s by composer/BCMG Artist-in-Association John Woolrich and soprano Mary Wiegold. In addition we celebrate the 75th Sound Investment premiere since the commissioning scheme launched in 1992.
In total, around 200 works were commissioned for The Songbook by inviting composers to write a ‘song’ (whatever that suggested to them in terms of choice of text, duration and musical language) and not a piece of vocal chamber music.
Along with distinguished soloists Gillian Keith and Rebecca von Lipinski, BCMG presents a programme focusing on songs from the collection by European composers (plus an American and an Argentinian) in a concert that helps to establish these pieces as part of the repertoire. Complementing these will be a new ‘song’ by Gerald Barry, himself a brilliant writer for voice as anyone who heard BCMG’s European premiere performances of his acclaimed opera The Importance of Being Earnest in April 2012 will know.
Today, Woolrich and Wiegold’s Songbook compendium is a portrait of what a wide range of composers were up to at the end of the 20th century. Most British composers are represented in the collection, plus music from many other countries, and not just contemporary classical: there are songs by jazz composers (Mike Garrick, Keith Tippett) and rock composers (Joby Talbot and Elvis Costello).
Jonathan Harvey: You
Milton Babbitt: Quatrains
Gerald Barry: Crossing the Bar (world premiere / BCMG Sound Investment commission)
Thomas Adès: Life Story
Kurt Schwertsik: Human Existence…
Der Herr weis was der Wil
singt meine schwäne
Harrison Birtwistle: White and Light
Night
Tenebrae
Olga Neuwirth: The Cartographer Song
Poul Ruders: Alone
Osvaldo Golijov: Sarajevo
Detlev Glanert: Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine
Niccolo Castiglioni: Vallis Clausa
Salvatore Sciarrino: Due Risvegli e il Vento
Aldo Clementi: Wiegenlied
Franco Donatoni: An angel within my heart
Contemporary Composers : Various
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 17:30
Tokaido Road: A Journey after Hiroshige
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
Nicola LeFanu music
Nancy Gaffield libretto
Caroline Clegg director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Okeanos
Nicola LeFanu’s acclaimed piece of music theatre, composed for Okeanos’s unique blend of Western and Japanese instruments, receives its London premiere. Through art, poetry, mime and music, Tokaido Road tells the story of the artist Hiroshige and his travels on Japan’s ancient Eastern sea road from Edo to Kyoto.
Nicola LeFanu : Tokaido Road: A Journey after Hiroshige
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27 Feb
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Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7.30pm
The Songbook
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Conductor: Jonathan Berman
Sopranos: Gillian Keith
Rebecca von Lipinski
BCMG
This special Songbook programme is a rare opportunity to hear a hand-picked selection of 17 songs for soprano and small ensemble, commissioned over a ten year period from the late 1980s by composer/BCMG Artist-in-Association John Woolrich and soprano Mary Wiegold. In addition we celebrate the 75th Sound Investment premiere since the commissioning scheme launched in 1992.
In total, around 200 works were commissioned for The Songbook by inviting composers to write a ‘song’ (whatever that suggested to them in terms of choice of text, duration and musical language) and not a piece of vocal chamber music.
Along with distinguished soloists Gillian Keith and Rebecca von Lipinski, BCMG presents a programme focusing on songs from the collection by European composers (plus an American and an Argentinian) in a concert that helps to establish these pieces as part of the repertoire. Complementing these will be a new ‘song’ by Gerald Barry, himself a brilliant writer for voice as anyone who heard BCMG’s European premiere performances of his acclaimed opera The Importance of Being Earnest in April 2012 will know.
Today, Woolrich and Wiegold’s Songbook compendium is a portrait of what a wide range of composers were up to at the end of the 20th century. Most British composers are represented in the collection, plus music from many other countries, and not just contemporary classical: there are songs by jazz composers (Mike Garrick, Keith Tippett) and rock composers (Joby Talbot and Elvis Costello).
Jonathan Harvey: You
Milton Babbitt: Quatrains
Gerald Barry: Crossing the Bar (world premiere / BCMG Sound Investment commission)
Thomas Adès: Life Story
Kurt Schwertsik: Human Existence…
Der Herr weis was der Wil
singt meine schwäne
Harrison Birtwistle: White and Light
Night
Tenebrae
Olga Neuwirth: The Cartographer Song
Poul Ruders: Alone
Osvaldo Golijov: Sarajevo
Detlev Glanert: Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine
Niccolo Castiglioni: Vallis Clausa
Salvatore Sciarrino: Due Risvegli e il Vento
Aldo Clementi: Wiegenlied
Franco Donatoni: An angel within my heart
Contemporary Composers : Various
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27 Feb
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Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7.45pm
SPECTRUM OF SOUND: PART 1
Purcell Room, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08703 800400
http://www.rfh.org.uk
André de Ridder conductor
London Sinfonietta
This two-part series explores the extraordinary advances in sonic manipulation over recent years, from the maverick pioneers of the second half of the 20th century to spectral music of the 21st. Using quarter-tones to destabilise harmony and pulsing rhythms to obscure a sense of meter, yesterday’s composers opened up the possibilities for new directions in tuning and texture, a baton now passed to the mixed-media, computer-led, electronic composers of today.
Iannis Xenakis : Aroura
Claude Vivier : Zipangu
Georg Friedrich Haas : Open Spaces
Mica Levi : New work
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28 Feb
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Saturday, February 28, 2015 at
Hear and Now
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Roy Amotz MIDI-flute
Saar Berger horn
Sound Intermedia
Matthias Pintscher conductor
…explosante-fixe…, for flute with live electronics and ensemble, was given its UK Premiere in Edinburgh more than 20 years ago by Ensemble InterContemporain. The conductor on that occasion was Pierre Boulez himself, who next month will celebrate his 90th birthday. Here, Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble InterContemporain’s current music director, who is also the BBC SSO’s Artist-in-Association, brings together members of the BBC SSO and guest soloists for an evening which also features a work from one of Pintscher’s composition teachers, Manfred Trojahn, a recent composition from Serbian-born Marko Nikodijevic, and the UK Premiere of a horn concerto from Slovenian-born Vito Žuraj. To be recorded for future broadcast in BBC Radio 3’s Saturday night contemporary music programme, Hear and Now.
Marko Nikodijevic : Cvetic, Kucica…/La Lugubre Gondola
Manfred Trojahn : Herbstmusik/Sinfonischer Satz
Vito Žuraj : Hawk-eye (horn concerto)
Pierre Boulez : ...explosante-fixe...
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28 Feb
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Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 7.00pm
Piano Recital - Anthony Green
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
Shaftesbury Avenue
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions)
Saturday February 28th 2015, 7.00pm
Piano Recital - Anthony Green
Anthony Green with another concert of contemporary and some repertoire works. He starts with Haydn's Sonata No.58 in C and ends with Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata Op.53. In a sequel to his concert last May he plays the second half of Nick Ray's Symphony in the composer's piano arrangement, and the second half of his own John Cowper Powys Symphony (movements 4-6) arranged for solo piano. Anthony does not know when a full orchestral performance will happen, so this may be the only chance for some time to assess this impressive work. There will also be in the programme Charles Ives' Three Page Sonata and Skalkottas' Reverie in the Old Style and Reverie in the New Style.
Tickets: £10 full, £7 concessions on the door or in advance from 0207 534 0710
Nick Ray : Symphony movements 3 and 4 (piano arrangement by composer)
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