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United Kingdom
 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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United Kingdom
 Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7.30pm 
JAMES MACMILLAN
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

James MacMillan conductor
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta

James MacMillan’s music has long been moving and exciting British audiences, and his choral music in particular can create a profound and powerful impact.

The London Sinfonietta and BBC Singers perform works ranging from the deeply spiritual Cum vidisset Jesus, through the philosophically moral After Virtue to the intensely personal Catherine’s Lullabies, written for the birth of the composer’s daughter.

The programme also includes a selection of some recently unearthed Church Songs by Polish composer Henryk Górecki.


James MacMillan : After Virtue
Henryk Gorecki : Church Songs
James MacMillan : Sun Dogs
James MacMillan : Cum vidisset Jesus (When Jesus had seen his Mother)
James MacMillan : They saw the stone had been rolled away
James MacMillan : Alleluia
James MacMillan : Catherine’s Lullabies

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United Kingdom
 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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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 1.10pm 
Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Manchester M1 5HA
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Tickets: £11.50, £9.50, £7.00
Cavaleri Quartet
Martyn Jackson violin
Ciaran McCabe violin
Ann Beilby viola
Rowena Calvert cello



Leos Janacek : Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters
David Dubery : Cuarteto Iberico: (Los fantasmas de los tiempos pasados)

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United Kingdom
 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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United Kingdom
 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

25 Jun



United Kingdom
 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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United Kingdom
 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

27 Jun



United Kingdom
 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

28 Jun



United Kingdom
 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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