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| Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm |
 St Mary at Hill, LondonReverie presents 'When Music Sounds' |
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| St Mary at Hill, London, St Mary at Hill, Eastcheep, London EC3R 8EE, United Kingdom Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm Reverie presents 'When Music Sounds' | ||
| Saturday 8-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Snape Maltings Concert Hall Les Illuminations Aldeburgh Festival |
Britten, Three songs for Les Illuminations, orch Colin Matthews |
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| Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape IP17 1SP, United Kingdom Saturday 8-Jun-13 08:00pm Les Illuminations In Britten’s Rimbaud songs the sensuality of the texts is matched in agile, feverish music for strings which trembles, shimmers and seduces. The French soprano Sandrine Piau, who premiered Colin Matthews’ completion of Britten’s three additional Rimbaud songs, makes her Aldeburgh debut. Judith Weir, citing Tippett’s work as a model, sets a small group of soloists against a larger body of strings in the style of a baroque concerto grosso. Bartok’s masterpiece weaves its magic from threads of folk music, sprightly dance rhythms and a compelling ‘night music’ episode that conjures an atmosphere of fantasy and dreams. Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), Three songs for Les Illuminations, orch Colin Matthews | ||
| Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset Bournemouth Bach Choir - The Armed Man |
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| Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 1BU, United Kingdom Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm Bournemouth Bach Choir - The Armed Man | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 03:00pm |
Aldeburgh Church Britten–Pears Young Artists II Aldeburgh Festival |
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| Aldeburgh Church, Aldeburgh IP15 5DY, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 03:00pm Britten–Pears Young Artists II A concert that juxtaposes the sounds of a horn quartet with viola – Hindemith and Britten’s own instrument – is an alluring prospect, and the instruments’ very essence seems to be represented here. The viola’s burnished eloquence weeps in memorials by Hindemith and Bridge and spins fantastical tales in Schumann’s fairy stories; the horn’s heritage celebrated in smooth cantilenas and quicksilver caprice. Ghosts lurk here too – the horn virtuoso Dennis Brain and his quartet, and Britten, whose deft arrangements of other people’s music so often blends poetry and polish, working with the grain to reveal new beauty beneath the veneer. | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Town Hall Britten World Première: Chaos and Cosmos Delius and Ireland: A Celebration |
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| Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham B3 3DQ, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm Britten World Première: Chaos and Cosmos ‘Delius and Ireland: A Celebration’ is a five-day Festival, one of the biggest the Conservatoire has ever hosted, involving over 60 individuals from the senior and junior Conservatoire, students and Faculty (including those famously associated with this repertoire), as well as orchestras, choirs and guest artists. Fifteen concert programmes will showcase songs, piano pieces, chamber and orchestral works - including performances of the complete solo piano works by John Ireland, the Delius Double and Ireland Piano Concerto – and culminate in a performance of Delius's masterpiece, Seadrift, with the Conservatoire Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Lionel Friend in Birmingham Town Hall on 21st June. This programme also includes the world première of an early work by Benjamin Britten entitled Chaos and Cosmos, which the Conservatoire’s students have been preparing and recording as part of the Britten Thematic Catalogue. Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra Birmingham Conservatoire Chorus Lionel Friend, Conductor Yu-Fen Lin, Piano Gwion Thomas, Baritone Price type: Low cost, half at £10 or less | ||
| Sunday 14-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall Festival Finale - Tenor, Horn & Strings Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Sunday 14-Jul-13 06:00pm Festival Finale - Tenor, Horn & Strings | ||
| Thursday 1-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 26 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Thursday 1-Aug-13 07:30pm Prom 26 Composer-conductor Oliver Knussen directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tippett’s Symphony No 2, inspired by the rhythmic energy of a Vivaldi bassline and the first in a series of works by Tippett to be featured in parallel with the Britten centenary. The revered American pianist Peter Serkin makes his Proms debut in Stravinsky’s neo-Classical Concerto for piano and winds and compact serialist conceit Movements. Written in memory of his friend Paul Dessau, the late Hans Werner Henze’s 1979 Barcarola opens this programme of 20th-century masterpieces.Tickets £7.50 - £36. | ||
| Saturday 3-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Cadogan Hall, London Proms Saturday Matinée 2 BBC Proms |
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| Cadogan Hall, London, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom Saturday 3-Aug-13 03:00pm Proms Saturday Matinée 2 Two great British works for voice and string orchestra appear in the second Proms Saturday Matinee, which focuses on Britten and his peers. Sarah Connolly joins conductor Sian Edwards and the Britten Sinfonia in Britten’s searing final vocal work, Phaedra, and a rare performance of Lennox Berkeley’s intensely felt Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila, premiered by Kathleen Ferrier in 1948. In addition to featuring classics of the string orchestra repertoire in Holst’s St Paul’s Suite and Tippett’s Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli, the programme includes Britten’s inventive Prelude and Fugue for 18-part string orchestra.Tickets £10 - £12. | ||
| Friday 16-Aug-13 06:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 45 BBC Proms |
Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage (concert performance) Paul Groves, Tenor: Mark Erin Wall, Soprano: Jenifer Peter Sidhom, Baritone: King Fisher Ailish Tynan, Soprano: Bella Allan Clayton, Tenor: Jack Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Sosostris David Soar, Bass: He-Ancient Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: She-Ancient BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Friday 16-Aug-13 06:30pm Prom 45 Last heard at the Proms in 1977, The Midsummer Marriage is Tippett’s answer to Mozart’s The Magic Flute, an opera rich in symbolism and psychology, trials and transformations. Paul Groves and Erin Wall are Mark and Jenifer, Ailish Tynan and Allan Clayton, Bella and Jack, two couples tested by a series of supernatural interventions on the shortest night of the year. One of today’s leading Tippett exponents, Sir Andrew Davis conducts the centrepiece of this summer’s Proms focus on Tippett’s music alongside Britten’s centenary.Tickets £9.50 - £46. Tippett, Michael (1905-1998), The Midsummer Marriage (concert performance) Paul Groves, Tenor: Mark Erin Wall, Soprano: Jenifer Peter Sidhom, Baritone: King Fisher Ailish Tynan, Soprano: Bella Allan Clayton, Tenor: Jack Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Sosostris David Soar, Bass: He-Ancient Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: She-Ancient BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor | ||
| Tuesday 20-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 51 BBC Proms |
Tippett, The Mask of Time (Fanfare no. 5) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Tuesday 20-Aug-13 07:30pm Prom 51 Venetian polychoral motets, Northumbrian bagpipe melodies and the blues can be heard in Tippett’s most popular orchestral work, completed, like Britten’s flamboyant sequence of Rimbaud settings, in 1939. Fanfare No. 5, from Tippett’s vast, humanist oratorio of 1980–82, The Mask of Time, opens a concert that ends in the forests of Finland with Sibelius’s atmospheric Second Symphony.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Tippett, Michael (1905-1998), The Mask of Time (Fanfare no. 5) | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Cadogan Hall, London Proms Saturday Matinée 4 BBC Proms |
Purcell, Sonata no. 6 in G minor "Chaconne", in four parts, Z 807 (arr. Britten) Walton, Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round": Variation 6 "Finale, Fuga à la gigue" (Presto giocoso) Davies, Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round" (BBC commission, world première) Woolrich, Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round" (BBC commission, world première) |
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| Cadogan Hall, London, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom Saturday 24-Aug-13 03:00pm Proms Saturday Matinée 4 To mark the coronation in 1953, Lennox Berkeley, Britten, Arthur Oldham, Humphrey Searle, Tippett and Walton composed a series of variations on ‘Sellinger’s Round’, a melody harmonised four centuries earlier by William Byrd and orchestrated in 1953 by Imogen Holst. Today the English Chamber Orchestra adds two new variations to the set, by John Woolrich and Tansy Davies, in a matinee that also features two vivid works written for tenor Peter Pears: Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings and Lutosławski’s Paroles tissées.Tickets 10 - £12. Berkeley, Sir Lennox (1903-1989), Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round": Variation 3 (Andante) Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Selleiger's Round": Variation 4 (Quick and Gay) Oldham, Arthur (1926-2003), Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round": Variation 1 (Allegro non troppo) Searle, Humphrey (1915-1982), Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round": Variation 5 "Nocturne" (Adagio) Tippett, Michael (1905-1998), Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round": Variation 2 "Lament" Walton, William (1902-1983), Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round": Variation 6 "Finale, Fuga à la gigue" (Presto giocoso) Davies, Tansy, Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round" (BBC commission, world première) Woolrich, John (b. 1954), Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round" (BBC commission, world première) | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Cadogan Hall, London Proms Saturday Matinée 5 BBC Proms |
Britten, Elegy for strings (world première) |
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| Cadogan Hall, London, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom Saturday 31-Aug-13 03:00pm Proms Saturday Matinée 5 The focus on Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries continues with the world premiere of his Elegy for strings. Written six years before the Simple Symphony, this eloquent early miniature is contrasted with works by Tippett and Walton in the Proms debut of Camerata Nordica. Violinist Terje Tønnesen directs the Swedish ensemble as well as viola player Catherine Bullock in Lachrymae, arranged for string orchestra by Britten in the last year of his life. Tippett’s Little Music for strings and Walton’s Sonata for strings, another 1970s arrangement of a 1940s work, complete an all-British string ensemble matinee.Tickets 10 - £12. Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), Elegy for strings (world première) | ||
| Friday 8-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Barbican Britten: Bostridge sings Our Hunting Fathers |
Purcell, Chacony in G minor, Z807 (arr. Britten) |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Friday 8-Nov-13 07:30pm Barbican Britten: Bostridge sings Our Hunting Fathers Benjamin Britten arrived in north America in 1939 – talented, idealistic and hungry for success. One of his first creations was the fanfare Young Apollo, inspired by Keats’s ‘new dazzling sun-god, quivering with radiant vitality’, a work of consistent and almost overwhelming brilliance. Young rising star pianist and 2010 BBC Young Musician of the Year Lara Melda performs the solo sections this evening. At the other end of his life Britten became preoccupied with the recollection of times lost. His Suite on English Folk Tunes is a touching act of homage to both the country he felt so rooted to and the tradition of folksong to which he owed so much. Guardian of Britten’s very distinct vocal tradition Ian Bostridge sings the composer’s savage view of man’s inhumanity to man, the visceral song cycle Our Hunting Fathers.
Tickets: £10-35 Purcell, Henry (1659-1695), Chacony in G minor, Z807 (arr. Britten) | ||
| Thursday 29-May-14 07:30pm |
Fairfield, Croydon, London London Mozart Players |
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| Fairfield, Croydon, London, Park Ln, Croydon, London CR9 1DG, United Kingdom Thursday 29-May-14 07:30pm London Mozart Players The LMP rounds off their season with one of the most outstanding pianists of her generation, Angela Hewitt. Renowned the world over for her performances and recordings, we are delighted to welcome her to Fairfield Halls and to work with the London Mozart Players for the first time to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17. Tippett’s Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra opens the concert, a set of variations based on an Irish dance tune harmonised by the Elizabethan Composer William Byrd, called ‘Sellinger’s Round’. We conclude our season with Beethoven’s Second Symphony, the final work in the composer’s ‘early period’, remarkable for evoking the natural world’s beauty. | ||
