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7 Jun
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Friday, July 7, 2017 at 8pm
Matthew Herbert Requiem Live Premiere
Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Quartet Quatuor Van Kuijk
Electronic Music Matthew Herbert
The Van Kuijk Quartet steps up to play electronic music as it delivers one of the most iconic works of the genre into the hands of the unmissable British electronic musician, Matthew Herbert. First heard in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast, Requiem reveals all the modernity of the string quartet of yesterday and today through the prism of electronics.
Matthew Herbert : Requiem
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8 Jun
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9 Jun
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Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 3pm
Kokoschka's Doll
Cheltenham Festival
United Kingdom
Rozanna Madylus mezzo-soprano
John Tomlinson bass
Counterpoise
For Alma Mahler, the painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was just one of a string of eminent lovers, but for Kokoschka his brief affair with the widow of Mahler was to haunt the rest of his life. Shortly after the liaison ended, in 1914, he commissioned a life-size doll of Alma, which he took to concerts and other public events, finally destroying it at a party to which all his friends were invited. The Counterpoise ensemble explores their tempestuous affair and subsequent obsession through a sequence of music and text featuring the work of Gustav and Alma Mahler, Wagner, Webern and Zemlinsky, followed by the premiere of John Casken’s Kokoschka’s Doll.
As seen through the eyes of Kokoschka as an older man, world-renowned bass John Tomlinson evokes the passions unleashed by the affair against the background of the physical and psychological traumas the artist suffered in the First World War.
David Matthews : The Art of Love: Alma Mahler’s Life and Music
John Casken : Kokoschka’s Doll
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9 Jun
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Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 8pm
Philip Glass' 80th birthday
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Germany
0431-23 70 70
http://www.shmf.de/en/Home
Daniel Hope, Violin
hr Symphony Orchestra
Hugh Wolff, Conductor
There is hardly anyone in the Western world who doesn’t know his music, as he wrote the film music to popular movies such as “The Hours” and “Kundun.” Philip Glass is like no other contemporary composer. With his radical reductions to repetitive motifs and rhythms, he creates a kind of trance-like effect that only a few can escape. His music has long been familiar to everyone - especially when Glass, as in the case of his first symphony, used three songs by David Bowie from his album “Low.” At the time, Glass was already 55 years old, and his first instrumental concerto, the Violin Concerto No. 1, had also been written just a few years earlier. But “age” is quite relative, and Philip Glass, who is celebrating his 80th birthday in 2017, still composes music that attracts old and young, establishment and underground alike.
Maurice Ravel : Une barque sur l’océan
Philip Glass : Violin Concerto no.1
Philip Glass : Symphony no.1 "Low Symphony“
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12 Jun
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 12pm
Brett Dean Gertrude Fragments
Buxton Festival
3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ
United Kingdom
01298 70395
http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/
lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk
Andrey Lebedev, guitar; Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Both these exciting artists are already much travelled, and not only because they hail from Australia but have now settled in London, although Andrey moved there shortly after his birth in Moscow. The pairing of Mezzo-Soprano with Guitar has produced a programme full of exquisite delicacy, combining music from 4 composers all of whom had an exceptional innate sympathy with both guitar and the voice. Both artists share a passion for breaking boundaries across repertoire, which is both refreshing and inspirational. They have found connections such as between Britten and Dowland, and Brett Dean is without doubt one of the most successful and accessible of today’s composers.
John Dowland : Selection of lute songs arranged for voice and guitar
Benjamin Britten : Folksong Arrangements for voice and guitar
Brett Dean : Gertrude Fragments
Manuel de Falla : Canciones Populares Espanolas
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15 Jun
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Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 6pm
Ryan Wigglesworth Premiere
Cheltenham Festival
United Kingdom
The Hallé
Roderick Williams baritone
Jonathon Heyward conductor
Hailed by Mark Elder as ‘a bright rising star’, American conductor Jonathon Heyward takes to the Town Hall stage with one of the Music Festival’s long-standing favourites, The Hallé.
Alongside one of the most beloved of romantic symphonies, and Mahler’s ‘songs of a wayfarer’ performed by captivating baritone Roderick Williams, Ryan Wigglesworth’s new work is inspired by themes from his 2017 opera for ENO, The Winter’s Tale, and is a co-commission with The Hallé, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Bergen Philharmonic.
Ryan Wigglesworth : Clocks from a Winter’s Tale
Gustav Mahler : Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Symphony No 4
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19 Jun
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 7.30pm
John Casken Kokoschka’s Doll
Buxton Festival
3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ
United Kingdom
01298 70395
http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/
lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk
Sir John Tomlinson, bass-baritone/ speaker; Rozanna Madylus, mezzo-soprano
The Art of Love Alma Mahler’s Life and Music: a sequence incorporating music by Alma and Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Webern and Wagner
John Casken Kokoschka’s Doll (text by John Casken and Barry Millington)
From the middle of the 20th century onwards a fascination with Gustav Mahler’s music has gone hand in hand with exploration of his unique tortured sensibilities, and been coloured by his emotionally turbulent marriage to the extraordinary Alma Schindler. This imaginative programme, characteristic of Counterpoise’s keen focus on the blend of words with music in heightened dramatic settings, looks at Alma’s intense relationship with her husband, his music and that of his contemporaries, and brings a newly commissioned work for Sir John Tomlinson by the eminent composer John Casken. Counterpoise’s innovative projects always make for thought provoking and affecting music drama. This new work explores the passionate and overwrought relationship between Alma and expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, promising a moving and striking concert event to remember, with unequivocally one of our generation’s most prominent and well-loved artists.
John Casken : Kokoschka’s Doll
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24 Jun
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24 Jun
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Monday, July 24, 2017 at 9pm
The Tallis Scholars · Klangforum Wien · Pomárico
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at
Lukas Schiske, Percussion
Björn Wilker, Percussion
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, Conductor (Ockeghem)
Katrien Baerts, Soprano
Klangforum Wien
Emilio Pomàrico, Conductor (Grisey)
‘His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as the light’, comments the Gospel of Matthew. The miraculous transfiguration of Jesus allowed the apostles to apprehend his divine nature, which transcended the boundaries of this world. Of all the arts, music may well most convincingly convey the feeling of an experience that goes beyond our material realm, promising a better state of being and the revelation of our true essence, freed from worldly constraints.
Sacred music, religiously inspired works and sounds which escape from earthly bonds will spark off one another in this year’s Ouverture spirituelle: from the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance to baroque, classical and romantic repertoire, and beyond, to the music of the twentieth century. With varying trajectories, the works chosen all revolve around the central idea of transfiguration. In Olivier Messiaen’s Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ for soloists, chorus and orchestra – an explosion of ringing light and blazing sounds – the term even appears in the title. The radiance of this work emanates throughout the rest of the programme, perhaps reaching its greatest potency in sacred spaces and the darkness of night. For this reason, some concerts are removed from the usual hustle and bustle of the Festival and scheduled to begin at a later hour.
We shall also join Monteverdi’s Orpheus as he descends to the underworld to rescue Eurydice, and perhaps our own senses of perception will themselves be transfigured by music which depicts the crossing of this same final threshold – specifically, music from great last works fully completed or left unfinished, including Mozart’s Requiem, the Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil by Gérard Grisey and Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony with its dying final pages, in which the musical line is slowly extinguished.
Gerard Grisey : Stèle for two percussionists
Johannes Ockeghem : Missa pro defunctis
Gerard Grisey : Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil for soprano and 15 musicians
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25 Jun
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 9.15pm
ID Please
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
Various, London
United Kingdom
www.tete-a-tete.org.uk
Music | Soosan Lolavar
Words | Daniel Hirsch
Director | Stephen M Eckert
Conductor | Daniel Nesta Curtis
Media Design | Jessica Medenbach
Costume Design | Nina Bova
Scenic Design | Caitlin Ayer
Border Agent | Robbie Raso
Female Traveller | Shannyn Rinker
Male Traveller | Patrick Dailey
ID, Please is an opera for the age of Brexit and Trump, set at border control and exploring themes of immigration, identity and xenophobia. The work took on new relevance when its British-Iranian composer was almost prevented from attending rehearsals in the US as part of the first ‘Muslim Ban’.
Soosan Lolavar : ID Please
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3 Jul
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Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 7.30pm
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Mozart and Brahms
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its Artistic Director Paavo Järvi return to the Proms, joined by British violist Lawrence Power and Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Mozart’s genial Sinfonia concertante. Sitting somewhere between a concerto and a symphony, it’s a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of this ensemble and its sunny good humour offers a striking contrast to Erkki-Sven Tüür’s arresting Flamma – a vivid musical portrait of fire as both purifying force and agent of destruction.
Smoke clears and sunshine returns in Brahms’s optimistic Second Symphony, with its free-flowing melodies and irrepressible closing dance.
Erkki-Sven Tuur : Flamma
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 364
Johannes Brahms : Symphony No 2 in D major
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