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Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7.15pm
Figaro Gets a Divorce
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Royal Parade Plymouth PL1 2TR United Kingdom
United Kingdom
01752 267222
http://www.theatreroyal.com
info@theatreroyal.com
WNO
So, was it really happy ever after for the Almaviva household? Has the distant thunder of revolution turned into a storm from which they cannot escape? What does the world of Figaro sound like in the hands of a contemporary composer?
These questions have intrigued David Pountney. So much so that he decided to provide some answers. He’s done this by commissioning a new opera by Elena Langer for which he has written the libretto. Comic moments collide with touching ones in an opera which is part comedy, part political thriller. Langer and Pountney have created an affectionate sequel to Mozart’s classic, a testimony to human courage and resilience.
The characters of The Marriage of Figaro are some of the best-loved in opera. For those of us who have seen the opera before, they can feel like people we know, even friends. Figaro Gets a Divorce, therefore, is a one-off reunion, a chance to catch-up with these old friends.
Elena Langer : Figaro Gets a Divorce
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9 Apr
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Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 7.30pm
Hände/Hesketh: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts
Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
United Kingdom
020 7520 1440
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/
info@kingsplace.co.uk
Clare Hammond, piano
Recently selected as BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Rising Star’, pianist Clare Hammond returns to Kings Place with an imaginative and enterprising programme, featuring two new works for piano and film. Hände, by Ken Hesketh, and The Nose, by Ed Hughes, both use silent film as the backdrop for works of breath-taking ingenuity and beauty. These have been programmed alongside Mazurkas by Szymanowski and Adès, Bach's imposing Toccata in D minor, and Medtner's passionate and turbulent Sonata Romantica.
Acclaimed for the ‘unfaltering bravura and conviction’ of her performances (Gramophone Magazine), Clare is rapidly developing a reputation for ‘brilliantly imaginative concert programmes’ (BBC Music Magazine). Her Panufnik Festival at Kings Place with the Brodsky Quartet in 2014 was acclaimed as the ‘culmination of this year’s centenary’ by the Telegraph while the Guardian noted the ‘great flair’ with which she premiered Ken Hesketh’s Horae at the Cheltenham Festival. Join her in this exhilarating exploration of contemporary music and film!
Karol Szymanowski : Three Mazurkas, Op. 50 Nos, 2, 9 and 6
Thomas Ades : Mazurkas, Op. 27
Kenneth Hesketh : Hände (for piano and film)
J.S. Bach : Toccata in D minor, BWV 913
Ed Hughes : The Nose (for piano and film)
Nicolas Medtner : Sonata Romantica, Op. 53 No. 1
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10 Apr
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Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 3.30pm
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Blaze of Youth
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
NYOGB
Kristjan Järvi conductor | Chad Hoopes soloist
The world's greatest orchestra of teenagers burns bright in this electrifying sound experience conducted by vibrant musical personality Kristjan Järvi.
Join virtuosic young soloist Chad Hoopes and 'the most uplifting orchestra in the world' (The Times), for Fire and Blood, a concerto by one of America's greatest composers Michael Daugherty. It's highly charged music, describing the fiery furnances of 1930's America car assembly lines, with colourful orchestration and pulsing rhythms.
In contrast Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Firebird is a romantic sparkling fairy-tale ballet based on the Russian legend, weaving human and supernatural worlds, and wonderfully showcasing every instrument in the orchestra.
A production of NYO in association with the Menuhin Competition.
Igor Stravinsky : Fireworks
Michael Daugherty : Fire and Blood
Igor Stravinsky : The Firebird
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7.30pm
Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
Royal Ballet
Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014. His earlier creation Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the Company’s first full-length ballet since 1995 and is now one of its great popular successes. The Winter’s Tale has built on that success, and on its premiere was acclaimed by critics and audiences as an intelligent, distinctive and emotionally powerful story, told through exquisite dance.
The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through remorse and regret – and after a statue of Hermione appears to come miraculously to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. With powerful designs by Bob Crowley and atmospheric music by Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale is a masterful modern narrative ballet.
Performances:
12 APRIL—10 JUNE 2016
Joby Talbot : The Winter's Tale
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16 Apr
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Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 7.30pm
Sun, Moon and Stars
Bristol Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TJ
United Kingdom
0117 926 4879
http://bristol-cathedral.co.uk
reception@bristol-cathedral.co.uk
UWE Singers, Lydbrook Band and members of the South-West Open Youth Orchestra
The conductor will be Ian Holmes, with narrator Barry Farrimond and organist Alison Howell.
The UWE Singers join forces with a brass band for the first time in this sparkling concert of choral, brass and organ music within the beautiful surroundings of Bristol Cathedral. Lydbrook Band, one of the South-West’s premier brass bands, will accompany the UWE Singers in a programme of music conducted by Ian Holmes, including John Rutter’s acclaimed Gloria for choir, brass ensemble, timpani, percussion and organ.
Choir and brass can also be heard together in the third performance of Liz Lane Silver Rose for brass band and narrator, commissioned by Bristol 2014. First performed in November 2014 with actor Robert Hardy CBE, this new version will see the addition of voices and also feature members of the South-West Open Youth Orchestra, the UK’s first disabled-led orchestra for young musicians. The work will be narrated by actor Barry Farrimond, Managing Director of OpenUp Music, also known as Ed Grundy from BBC Radio 4 The Archers.
Lydbrook Band, whose association with Bristol includes performances at Colston Hall and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, will also play the final movement of Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 (‘Organ’) in a glorious arrangement by Philip Wilby, the theme to which featured in the 1995 Disney film Babe. Other brass band arrangements include the magnificent Wagner Procession to the Minster (from his opera ‘Lohengrin’), Boëllmann Suite Gothique with its rousing finale featuring the lower brass, and the sweet melody of Dvorak Rusalka’s Song to the Moon.
Léon Boëllmann : Suite Gothique Op. 25
Antonin Dvorak : Rusalka’s Song to the Moon
Liz Lane : Silver Rose
John Rutter : Gloria
Camille Saint-Saëns : Movement 2 from Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78
Richard Wagner : Procession to the Minster (from ‘Lohengrin’)
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Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 19:30
210416
The Yard
Unit 2A, Queen’s Yard White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN
United Kingdom
http://www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/event/210416/
Tickets: £5 in advance / £8 on the door
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ddmmyy commences its long awaited London series with 210416, an evening dedicated to experimental music for ensemble, electronics and objects.
James Saunders: reassigned #1 (world premiere)
Laurie Tompkins: Puddles of Rain / Buckets of Tears
Tim Parkinson: Song For Many
Jennifer Walshe: /AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
Jack Sheen: Rest in peace club music 2016 (world premiere)
Jürg Frey: Circular Music no.2
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21 Apr
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Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7pm-8pm
No Dice: Stillness
The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus Christ
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PG
United Kingdom
http://https://www.facebook.com/events/1264415096906762/
Tickets: £2
There are few acoustics in the UK like Holy Name Church with its imposing exterior and Tardis-like interior, sustaining sounds long after they begin. No Dice brings you an evening celebrating the space inside a building heavy in symbolism and ritual with five specially commissioned pieces on the theme of modern spirituality. This concert will feature works by local composers such as Rob Corrin, Sophie Sully, and Luke Mather
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Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 7.30pm
Shakespeare 400
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
Andrew Gourlay Conductor
“How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!”
Shakespeare’s star-cross’d lovers have inspired composers for centuries, but there’s still nothing to quite match Prokofiev’s great Soviet ballet-score: Romeo and Juliet retold in music that’s as sharp as a rapier and as tender as a kiss.
It’s a true 20th century classic, and on the day that marks both the exact 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the traditional date of his birth, we could hardly celebrate the bard with anything else. But we haven’t stopped there, BBC Radio 3 has commissioned five of the freshest young talents amongst Manchester composers each to write music for one of Shakespeare’s plays, and we’ve invited Andrew Gourlay, one of our brightest young conductors, to give the world premieres.
“So all my best is dressing old words new…”
Preview, 6.30pm: Michael Symmons Roberts hosts a debate on the place of music in the work of Shakespeare.
Nina Whiteman : The map of days outworn Aaron
Aaron Parker : After sunset fades
Chiu-yu Chou : The Tongue
Tom Coult : Sonnet machine
Daniel Kidane : Incidental music (based on Shakespeare Sonnet 154 )
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo and Juliet - selection
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 7.30pm
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) Piano Sonata No. 2 (world première)
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Rolf Hind piano
Rolf Hind’s recital features the world première of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Second Piano Sonata, a major new work commissioned by Wigmore Hall from the octogenarian composer.
Hind, an acclaimed pianist-composer, considers impermanence and transcendence in his own work Thus Have I Heard, which recalls the opening lines of Buddhist scriptural texts, reflecting the aural tradition of the Buddha’s teachings.
The programme also includes the keenly awaited UK première of Ten Studies (1984–98) by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, who refers to his creation as ‘studies of the piano’s character or soul. A soul that has been created by all the music… written for the instrument, from its childhood until today.’
Rolf Hind : Thus Have I Heard
Hans Abrahamsen : Ten Studies
Simon Steen-Andersen : Rerendered (for piano and two assistants)
Peter Maxwell Davies : Piano Sonata No. 2
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7.30pm
Hans Abrahamsen Concerto for the Left Hand
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
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov Conductor
Alexandre Tharaud Piano
Sarah Tynan Soprano
Gustav Mahler never wrote anything happier than his Fourth Symphony. Jangling sleighbells, Mozart-like melodies, and a child’s vision of heaven… if it almost sounds too sweet, trust Ilan Volkov to find the black comedy beneath the playful surface. First, though, we’ve a charming new version of Debussy’s Children’s Corner – and the first UK performance of a new piano concerto, specially written for tonight’s soloist by the Danish sonic magician Hans Abrahamsen.
Claude Debussy : Children’s Corner
Hans Abrahamsen : Concerto for the Left Hand
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4
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