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3 Apr
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 7.30pm
NOISE Opera: Hirda
Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net
Hirda: Shetlandic. n. chaos, confusion, extreme untidiness
This new opera tells the story of Alastair, a once successful actor who returns to his island home for the wedding of his brother Iain to Muireall, a young archivist working in the local museum. Everyone's world is turned upside down when Alastair and his sister-in-law find that they have a strong attraction to each other. This contemporary story is woven together with another story about a 19th century woman and her sailor fiancée which is told through the letters they write to each other.
Hirda was commissioned by NOISE, (New Opera In Scotland Events) and is a collaboration between Chris Stout, Shetland fiddler and composer, with Gareth Williams, a contemporary classical composer based in Scotland. The librettist is Siân Evans, a Welsh playwright and linguist. It will be directed by James Robert Carson.
Gareth Williams : Hirda
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3 Apr
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 7.30pm
BBC SSO 80th Birthday Concert
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Francois Leleux oboe
Sarah Connolly contralto
Andrew Staples tenor
Matthias Pintscher conductor
Gustav Mahler’s last word was “Mozart”, but he’d already said his farewells in music, and nowhere more movingly than in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth): six heart-rending songs that wring out every last drop of life’s sorrow and sweetness. 80 years almost to the day since the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was formed, it’s a wonderfully reflective way to mark the occasion, perfectly paired with the life-affirming sunshine of Mozart’s Oboe Concerto – performed tonight by a true poet of the oboe. BBC SSO Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher brings a composer’s empathy, and conducts his own beautiful Idyll: a musical journey towards the light, written in memory of a friend.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Oboist François Leleux in conversation.
Post-concert Coda
(approximately 10 minutes after the main concert)
François Leleux gives a short solo recital.
Matthias Pintscher : Idyll
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Oboe Concerto in C major, K314
Gustav Mahler : Das Lied von der Erde
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4 Apr
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Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8.30pm
GRAND SOIR APERGHIS
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr
Ensemble intercontemporain
Baldur Brönnimann
Donatienne Michel-Dansac
Dimitri Vassilakis
Eric-Maria Couturier
Technique EIC
Like Paul Klee's watercolour Before the Lightning, Aperghis's works reach towards the instant when lightning flashes – whether in the micro-dramas of his musical theatre pieces or in his 2010 piano concerto Champ-Contrechamp with its continual changes in perspective.
Pierre Boulez : Sonatine, pour flûte et piano
Januibe Tejera : Flashforward I, pour ensemble
Georges Aperghis : Champ-contrechamp , pour piano et ensemble
Aurélio Edler-Copes : Como el aire, pour ensemble
Helmut Lachenmann : Pression, pour violoncelle
Luciano Berio : Calmo , pour mezzo-soprano et vingt deux instrumentistes
Georges Aperghis : Contretemps , pour soprano et ensemble
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4 Apr
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Friday, December 4, 2015 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Alsop
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Nicholas Daniel oboe
A programme of supernatural-inspired works from Tchaikovsky, Judith Bingham, and a UK premiere of James MacMillan's Woman of the Apocalypse, under celebrated conductor Marin Alsop.
James Macmillan composed his colourful Woman of the Apocalypse for Alsop's own festival in Cabrillo, California. It evokes the mystical appearance of an angelic woman at times of crisis, whilst Judith Bingham's dramatic oboe concerto, The Angel of Mons, depicts just such a shimmering vision, this time at the Battle of Mons, performed by the peerless Nicholas Daniel. It is the 'inscrutable predesination of fate' that haunts Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony, transforming tragedy to triumph.
James MacMillan : Woman of the Apocalypse
Judith Bingham : The Angel of Mons
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Symphony No 5 in E minor
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4 Apr
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4 Apr
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Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8pm
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
BCMG
BCMG presents works by two outstanding British composers, forming another chapter in both artists’ long-established relationships with the Group.
The premiere of Howard Skempton’s substantial setting of Coleridge’s masterpiece The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written for Roderick Williams and BCMG, forms the second half of the concert. This is the second major commission for Skempton from friends and patrons Maurice and Sheila Millward; their first, Only the Sound Remains for viola and ensemble, was premiered to much acclaim in February 2010.
It’s always a delight to revive past BCMG commissions and Dominic Muldowney’s 2011 Sound Investment commission, a series of songs setting poetry by Thomas, Auden and Betjeman, is one of several works by the former Music Director of the National Theatre that form this evening’s first half. Complementing these will be three further settings – two of Shakespeare, and the world premiere of a song setting A E Housman’s Smooth between sea and land.
Dominic Muldowney : Five cabaret songs #: Adlestrop (Edward Thomas); At Last the Secret is Out, Foxtrot, Funeral Blues (WH Auden); Uffington (John Betjeman)
Dominic Muldowney : Two Shakespeare settings #: Winter, Fear No More
Dominic Muldowney : Smooth between sea and land (World premiere / BCMG commission) #
Howard Skempton : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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4 Apr
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Friday, December 4, 2015 at 07:00 p.m.
ECCE Ensemble Performs "December 1952"
Le Laboratoire
650 East Kendall Street
United States
617-945-7515
http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com
Tickets: $20
ECCE Ensemble
As the contemporary music ensemble-in- residence at Cambridge’s Le Laboratoire, ECCE presents a one-night only performance of Earle Brown’s December 1952, in conjunction with the gallery’s current exhibit, BIRDLY by Max Rheiner. Featuring dispersed acoustic performances by ECCE (violinist Karen Kim, bass clarinetist Vasko Dukovski, tubaist Ben Stapp, bassoonist Sarah Schoenbeck) interspersed with recorded polyphony by sound designer Ricardo Romaneiro, this spatial rendering of December 1952 is an aural analog to BIRDLY’s virtual reality experience.
Earle Brown : December 1952
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5 Apr
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Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00
JAZZ
St Andrew's Church
The Tye, Sloe Lane, Alfriston, BN26 5TL
United Kingdom
http://www.musicfromthesofa.com
Tickets: £5.00 on the door
Nigel Goss keyboards, Jasmine Selby flute, Evelyn Harrison soprano/alto sax, Jacqui Gough, Jane Richards, Deborah Moy vocals, Sal Martin drum kit, Mark Hurst bass.
Band/ ensemble established to perform the songs of Nigel Goss.
Nigel Goss : Berlin Radio
Nigel Goss : Sam's Space Tune
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5 Apr
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Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 7.30pm
STOCKHAUSEN & BOULEZ
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Wolfgang Lischke conductor
Clio Gould solo violin
Sound Intermedia sound projection
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
London Sinfonietta
Now celebrating his 90th year, Pierre Boulez remains an indomitable force in contemporary music – a true legend in his own lifetime. His works project an image of a brave new world, purged of historical clutter: music that breaks the rules, in his words, ‘for the pleasure of breaking them’. Facing off against two of Boulez’s iconic chamber works is Region III of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s masterpiece Hymnen – whose survey of national anthems presents a powerful portrait of a collective human spirit.
Pierre Boulez : Dérive I for 6 instruments
Pierre Boulez : Anthèmes 2 for violin & live electronics
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Region III from Hymnen
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6 Apr
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6 Apr
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Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 3.30pm - 5.30pm
Composers Concordance MultiBand Festival: Bands of Gypsies
St. Mark's Church in the Bowery
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
United States
(212) 674-6377
http://stmarksbowery.org/welcome/
office@stmarksbowery.org
Tickets: free
Guitars:
Skolnick Getter Arnold Guitar Trio; SoldierKane; Anderson / Fader Duo; My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama Guitar Quartet; Swarmius; Greg Baker, Andrew McKenna Lee, Sean Satin, Nadav Lev, Gene Pritsker
Composers:
Bruce Arnold, Greg Baker, Dan Cooper, Damon Ferrante, Jane Getter, Masatora Goya, Jimi Hendrix, Bryan Johanson, Sean Hickey, Andrew McKenna Lee, Gene Pritsker, David Saperstein, Alex Skolnick, David Soldier, Joseph Waters
Composers Concordance presents the third concert of its annual MultiBand festival: ‘Band of Gypsies.’ Guitarists and composers will take over NYC’s St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery 12/6 @3:30 pm
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7 Apr
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7 Apr
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Monday, December 7, 2015 at 8.30pm
PROMETEO
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr
Orchestre symphonique du SWR Baden-Baden et Freiburg
Ensemble recherche
Schola Heidelberg
SWR Experimentalstudio de la Fondation Heinrich Strobel
Ingo Metzmacher
Matilda Hofman
Susanna Andersson
Christina Daletska
Els Janssens
Markus Francke
Caroline Chaniolleau
Matthias Jung
André Richard
Walter Nussbaum
In Luigi Nono's Prometeo, a sort of 'subversion of the different Prometheuses in the tradition', suspended sounds resonate throughout the acoustic space.
Coproduction Festival d’Automne à Paris, Philharmonie de Paris avec le soutien de la Fondation Ernst von Siemens pour la musique, de Mécénat musical Société Générale et de la Fondation Orange
Luigi Nono : Prometeo, tragedia dell' ascolto
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7 Apr
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Monday, December 7, 2015 at 7pm
THE RIOT ENSEMBLE
Spitalfields Festival
London
United Kingdom
The Riot Ensemble
Exciting contemporary music group, The Riot Ensemble, offer an explosive exploration of new music in their festival debut, pairing contemplative music by Serbian-Swedish composer Djuro Zivkovic, including the UK premiere of Night Music, with much-loved works by JS Bach, one of Zivkovic’s main influences. They’re also performing Moon Dance by the Winter Festival’s youngest composer, 10-year-old Marie-Louise Ptohos.
The Ensemble also premiere a new commission by Spanish composer Helga Arias Parra, who entered the Riot Ensemble’s 2015 ‘Call for Scores’, and describes her music as experimentation, risk and control in that exact order.”
J.S Bach : Excerpts from Cello Suite No.5 in C minor BWV1011
Ðuro Živković : I Shall Contemplate Night Music
J.S. Bach : Excerpts from Goldberg Variations BWV998
Helga Arias Parra : Incipit
Marie-Louise Ptohos : Moon Dance
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8 Apr
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 14:00
Wirén Symphony No. 3
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
Michael Cox flute
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba conductor
Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba for a concert of contemporary music by Nordic composers at Maida Vale studios.
Hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal flautist Michael Cox delve into the rich and colourful sound world of Soie, the three-movement concerto for flute and orchestra by Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski, inspired by images of fabrics and textures. Rumon Gamba also conducts Dag Wirén's high-spirited Third Symphony and Harald Sæverud's protest against German occupation of Norway in his 1943 overture Kjempeviseslåtten (Ballad of Revolt).
This concert is broadcast live on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Afternoon on 3’
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that as not everyone who asks for tickets uses them, to make sure we have a full house we send out more tickets than there are places. We do our best to get the numbers right, but unfortunately we occasionally have to disappoint people so please arrive early.
Harald Sæverud : Kjempeviseslåtten
Oliver Weeks : Soie
Dag Wirén : Symphony No. 3, Op. 20
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9 Apr
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7.30pm
World Premiere of Lindberg’s Violin Concerto No. 2
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Jaap van Zweden conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Not until the upheavals of the 20th century would another composer conceive of a piece so controlled and driven by rhythm as Beethoven did in his Seventh Symphony. Here is a work in which you hear the controlling rhythms in almost every bar, whether in the propulsive energy of the outer movements or in the inevitable tread of the slow march. Beethoven’s most unusual, fascinating and bold symphony is preceded here by the world premiere of the Second Violin Concerto by Magnus Lindberg, just a month after the Orchestra’s performance of his first concerto for the instrument (11 November). Jaap van Zweden takes to the podium for this concert of bold orchestral statements.
John Wagenaar : Overture, Cyrano de Bergerac
Magnus Lindberg : Violin Concerto No. 2
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 7
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9 Apr
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 13:55
RautavaaraThe BBC Philharmonic performs Sibelius, Saariaho and Rautavaara
MediaCityUK
The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50 2EQ
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 161 886 5300
http://www.mediacityuk.co.uk
hello@mediacityuk.co.uk
BBC Philharmonic
Carlos Miguel Prieto Conductor
Adam Walker Flute
Today’s concert is set to capture the very best of Finland and of course, Sibelius, as we celebrate what would have been his 150th birthday.
Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts one of Sibelius’s masterpieces, plus a stunning pair of works from living Finish masters. The programme opens with a selection from Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen - the Finnish Karavela myths.
The orchestra also performs Saariaho’s major work for flute L'aile du songe, played today by the talented flautist, Adam Walker. It concludes with the spiritual Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Symphony No. 7 subtitled “Angel of Light”.
Jean Sibelius : Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Saari
Jean Sibelius : Lemminkäinen's return
Kaija Saariaho : L'aile du songe
Einojuhani Rautavaara : Symphony No 7
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11 Apr
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Friday, December 11, 2015 at 14:00
An afternoon of new music
MediaCityUK
The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50 2EQ
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 161 886 5300
http://www.mediacityuk.co.uk
hello@mediacityuk.co.uk
BBC Philharmonic
James MacMillan Conductor
Radio 3 and the BBC Philharmonic celebrate new music, with work by MacMillan and Capperauld.
The concert opens with Symphony no.4- a dramatic new symphony from Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan, which was premiered last summer. This is followed by Jay Capperauld’s Inertia of a Bona Fide Psychopath, a piece which won the Craig Armstrong Prize for Composition in 2014.
This is a studio recording for BBC Radio 3.
James MacMillan : Symphony No. 4
Jay Capperauld : Inertia of a Bona Fide Psychopath
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11 Apr
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Friday, December 11, 2015 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Colin Currie percussion
Chief conductor Sakari Oramo leads the ascent of two great orchestral mountains by Hovhaness and Strauss, which frame a delightful new percussion concerto.
Mysterious Mountain is one of Alan Hovhaness's best-loved works, a symphony of spiritual transcendence and the perfect foil to Strauss's grandly ambitious alpine adventure. Dubbed 'the world's finest and most daring percussionist' Colin Currie is the dedicatee of Switch, a new work from the exciting young American composer Andrew Norman.
Alan Hovhaness : Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain
Andrew Norman : Switch
Richard Strauss : An Alpine symphony
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