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classical music<br />
2013 –14<br />
Contents<br />
Welcome 2<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Presents 3<br />
London Symphony Orchestra –<br />
our Resident Orchestra 5<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Associate Ensembles 7<br />
2013–14 concert listings 9<br />
Gergiev’s Berlioz 9<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> International<br />
Associate Residencies 15<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten 19<br />
Young Artists at the <strong>Barbican</strong> 21<br />
Baroque Opera and Oratorio 23<br />
Milton Court 29<br />
Birtwistle at 80 39<br />
Do more at the <strong>Barbican</strong> 47<br />
Information and booking 51<br />
Index of performers 53<br />
Find out more<br />
Find out more about the concerts<br />
across the <strong>season</strong> by visiting<br />
barbican.org.uk where you can:<br />
watch concert footage<br />
and interviews<br />
listen to music clips<br />
download our <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
Classical Music podcast
Welcome to our 2013–14<br />
<strong>season</strong>. I am delighted to<br />
introduce another superb<br />
programme of the best that<br />
classical music has to offer.<br />
This is an exciting <strong>season</strong> for us, and in so<br />
many ways. Across several of our venues, we<br />
host <strong>Barbican</strong> Britten – an incisive exploration<br />
of Benjamin Britten’s music in his centenary<br />
year – taking in music both sacred and secular<br />
with the involvement of students from the<br />
Guildhall School of Music & Drama. We also<br />
celebrate the 80th birthday of one of Britain’s<br />
most significant contemporary composers, Sir<br />
Harrison Birtwistle. Valery Gergiev and the<br />
London Symphony Orchestra explore in depth<br />
the music of Berlioz, and Yuja Wang is the<br />
focus of this <strong>season</strong>’s UBS Soundscapes LSO<br />
Artist Portrait. The BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
welcomes its exciting new chief conductor,<br />
Sakari Oramo. The Academy of Ancient<br />
Music and Britten Sinfonia perform their first<br />
full <strong>season</strong>s here as associate ensembles,<br />
with many of their concerts in Milton Court<br />
Concert Hall, the Guildhall School of Music<br />
& Drama’s new state-of-the-art venue, about<br />
which you can read more on page 29.<br />
We are incredibly fortunate to have such a<br />
remarkable array of prestigious international<br />
ensembles making the <strong>Barbican</strong> their London<br />
home, and it is these close artistic partnerships<br />
that make it possible for us to offer such a<br />
rich and diverse <strong>season</strong> of concerts stretching<br />
from Baroque opera to the most cuttingedge<br />
contemporary classical music.<br />
Alongside the concerts of our resident and<br />
associate orchestras and ensembles, this<br />
<strong>season</strong> the <strong>Barbican</strong> brings together its<br />
own distinctive <strong>season</strong> of concerts under<br />
the banner of <strong>Barbican</strong> Presents. We look<br />
forward to international associate residencies<br />
from Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam,<br />
a Maxim Vengerov artist spotlight and our<br />
Baroque opera series.<br />
I’d like to thank the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s growing<br />
community of supporters, without whom<br />
it would not be possible to present<br />
this outstanding <strong>season</strong>. We are very<br />
grateful for their commitment.<br />
To find out more about how you can<br />
support the <strong>Barbican</strong> and its work<br />
visit barbican.org.uk/support-us<br />
I hope you will be able to enjoy<br />
the many wonderful experiences<br />
that this <strong>season</strong> will bring.<br />
Angela Dixon<br />
Head of Music<br />
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Associate<br />
Associate<br />
Orchestra<br />
Ensembles<br />
International Associates<br />
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<strong>Barbican</strong><br />
Presents<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Presents is our own<br />
curated <strong>season</strong> of concerts<br />
by the very best international<br />
ensembles and artists.<br />
Alongside concerts by our resident and<br />
associate ensembles, this ambitious series of<br />
concerts features an extraordinary line-up<br />
of artists and covers an eclectic spectrum<br />
of music from Baroque to new commissions.<br />
Solo instrumental recitals sit in contrast to<br />
semi-staged opera, and many of our concerts<br />
form part of larger focuses that benefit<br />
from performances across the <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
Centre and beyond, making this the most<br />
comprehensive and diverse international<br />
series in London. Regardless of age or<br />
experience audiences and local communities<br />
have plenty of opportunities to get involved<br />
in our programme.
<strong>Barbican</strong> Presents ...<br />
the music of our time<br />
We are constantly seeking new voices,<br />
and contemporary music is a vital part<br />
of our series. Working closely with our<br />
international partners, we commission new<br />
music from the world’s foremost composers<br />
and present it in innovative ways.<br />
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<strong>Barbican</strong> Presents ...<br />
outstanding<br />
international artists<br />
Each <strong>season</strong> we are proud to feature the<br />
world’s finest instrumentalists and singers.<br />
Some have been coming to the <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
regularly for many years and others have<br />
recently shot to stardom. Across our venues,<br />
we can feature artists in recital, concerto<br />
or opera. Working closely with the artists<br />
themselves, we are able to present innovative<br />
projects that allow them to express new sides<br />
to their artistry. Many of today’s greatest<br />
artists call the <strong>Barbican</strong> their London home.<br />
Riccardo Chailly<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Presents ...<br />
early music<br />
We celebrate a broad range of Baroque<br />
music featuring the finest operas, oratorios<br />
and instrumental works rarely heard in the<br />
concert hall, brought to life in captivating<br />
performances by specialist period instrument<br />
ensembles from across the UK and Europe.<br />
Maxim Vengerov © Naim Chidiac<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Presents ...<br />
international associate<br />
orchestras<br />
In partnership with our five international<br />
associate orchestras, we are bringing<br />
a unique orchestral experience to<br />
London audiences. Listen to their best<br />
programmes and projects, engage<br />
with their new commissions and<br />
chamber music and get involved in<br />
creative family and learning events.<br />
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Resident<br />
Orchestra
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LSO clarinettist Chi-Yu Mo © Kevin Leighton<br />
London<br />
Symphony<br />
Orchestra<br />
Resident Orchestra<br />
Sensational performances have made the<br />
LSO one of the best-loved and most inspiring<br />
orchestras in the world.<br />
A typical week might see them on stage in<br />
the <strong>Barbican</strong> Hall with Principal Conductor<br />
Valery Gergiev; recording the soundtrack<br />
to the latest Hollywood blockbuster (the<br />
LSO have an 80-year partnership with<br />
Abbey Road Studios where they recorded<br />
Star Wars and Harry Potter); or making<br />
ground-breaking contributions to digital<br />
music-making (they pioneered the YouTube<br />
Symphony Orchestra, the world’s first online<br />
youth orchestra, and set up their own label,<br />
LSO Live, to capture the excitement and<br />
power of the live concert experience).<br />
The year 2012 was a special one for the<br />
LSO: they appeared at both the opening<br />
and closing ceremonies of the London 2012<br />
Olympics as well as at every major European<br />
festival (including the BBC Proms) over the<br />
summer, and gave the first of their annual<br />
outdoor concerts with Valery Gergiev in<br />
Trafalgar Square to over 10,000 people.<br />
They have been the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s Resident<br />
Orchestra for 31 years, ever since the<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> first opened its doors, and in March<br />
2013 they celebrated ten years since LSO<br />
St Luke’s was transformed from a former<br />
church to the dynamic music education and<br />
performance centre it is today – the home of<br />
LSO Discovery, with community at its heart.<br />
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Associate<br />
Ensembles<br />
Sakari Oramo © Heiki Tuuli and Octavia<br />
BBC Symphony<br />
Orchestra<br />
Associate Orchestra<br />
One of the UK’s finest orchestras, the BBC<br />
Symphony Orchestra performs a distinctive<br />
and exciting range of music from works at<br />
the heart of classical music to brand-new<br />
pieces from today’s leading composers.<br />
The orchestra performs extensively as<br />
Associate Orchestra of the <strong>Barbican</strong> and as<br />
the backbone of the BBC Proms. Led by its<br />
conducting team of Sakari Oramo, Semyon<br />
Bychkov, Jirˇ í Be ˇ lohlávek and Sir Andrew<br />
Davis as well as Artist in Association Oliver<br />
Knussen, the orchestra makes numerous<br />
recordings at its home in Maida Vale,<br />
performs throughout the world, and runs an<br />
innovative education programme. All BBC SO<br />
concerts at the <strong>Barbican</strong> are broadcast<br />
on BBC Radio 3 and streamed online.<br />
This <strong>season</strong> the BBC SO welcomes its<br />
new Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.<br />
Acclaimed for his performances of new<br />
and old British music as well as first-rate<br />
interpretations of core repertoire, Oramo<br />
and the BBC SO had an instant connection<br />
on first working together in 2011, and this<br />
promises to be a great musical partnership.
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Academy of<br />
Ancient Music<br />
Associate Ensemble<br />
Recently praised by the Financial Times for<br />
‘transmitting the kick of an energy drink’,<br />
the Academy of Ancient Music has been<br />
giving global performances of Baroque<br />
and classical music for 40 years.<br />
Under Music Director Richard Egarr, the<br />
AAM maintains the pioneering spirit and<br />
artistic excellence that has characterised the<br />
orchestra since its early days. In 2012 alone<br />
it performed at the Thames Diamond Jubilee<br />
Pageant, made a world premiere recording,<br />
had a performance named as one of the<br />
top ten of the year by the Guardian and<br />
became Associate Ensemble at the <strong>Barbican</strong>.<br />
The orchestra was founded in the 1970s<br />
by Christopher Hogwood, and was at<br />
the cutting edge of a musical revolution.<br />
Inspired by performing on period<br />
instruments and rediscovering original<br />
sound worlds, the AAM combines worldclass<br />
artistry with the latest scholarship.<br />
This 2013–14 <strong>season</strong> marks the AAM’s 40th<br />
anniversary, showcasing the full range<br />
of the orchestra’s music making from the<br />
dawn of the Baroque to the Romantic era.<br />
Jacqueline Shave, Britten Sinfonia © Harry Rankin<br />
Britten<br />
Sinfonia<br />
Associate Ensemble<br />
Britten Sinfonia is one of the world’s most<br />
celebrated and pioneering ensembles.<br />
The orchestra is acclaimed for its virtuoso<br />
musicianship, an audacious approach to<br />
concert programming that makes bold,<br />
intelligent connections across 400 years of<br />
repertoire, and a versatility that is second to<br />
none. Britten Sinfonia break the mould by<br />
not having a principal conductor or director,<br />
instead choosing to collaborate with a range<br />
of the finest international guest artists from<br />
across the musical spectrum, resulting in<br />
performances of rare insight and energy.<br />
This <strong>season</strong> Britten Sinfonia perform in<br />
all the main performance spaces across<br />
the <strong>Barbican</strong>, presenting works from<br />
Bach through to the very latest new music.<br />
A stellar line-up of collaborators includes<br />
Ian Bostridge, Imogen Cooper, Iestyn Davies,<br />
Paul Lewis, King’s College Choir, Cambridge<br />
and many more. The orchestra will also play<br />
a major part in the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s Britten and<br />
Birtwistle celebrations.<br />
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Gergiev’s<br />
Berlioz<br />
‘Berlioz can take, and maybe should<br />
take, more sonic substance than<br />
some conductors dare give him. But<br />
this is also ecstatically unpredictable<br />
music that requires both quicksilver<br />
responses and the ability to sustain<br />
the longest of melodic lines. Both<br />
qualities are exactly what makes<br />
Gergiev the theatrical opera<br />
conductor he is’ Los Angeles Times<br />
The LSO’s Principal Conductor, Valery<br />
Gergiev is a long-time Berlioz champion,<br />
conducting his works internationally with<br />
the Vienna Philharmonic and with the<br />
Mariinsky Orchestra. Autumn 2013 will<br />
see him share his interpretations with<br />
London audiences, catching the anarchic<br />
undercurrents of Berlioz’s scores as surely<br />
as their rapturous refinements. Symphonic<br />
dramas form the backbone of this<br />
series, to which Berlioz gives more than<br />
a nod to Beethoven as his inspiration.
Symphonie fantastique, subtitled An<br />
Episode in the Life of An Artist, is arguably<br />
the most famous of all Berlioz‘s works. Its<br />
five movements tell the story of a gifted<br />
artist with a vivid imagination who moves<br />
through the depths of despair and falls<br />
into an opium-fuelled hallucinatory<br />
stupor over unrequited love. In the<br />
words of Leonard Bernstein, ‘Berlioz<br />
tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind<br />
up screaming at your own funeral!’.<br />
Featuring virtuoso solo violist Antoine<br />
Tamestit, Harold in Italy might look like<br />
a concerto from the outset but is actually<br />
a dramatic symphony with viola obligato,<br />
the viola being Harold on his wanderings.<br />
Paganini induced Berlioz to write a work<br />
for solo viola: ‘I have no suitable music.<br />
Would you like to write a solo for viola?<br />
You are the only one I can trust for this<br />
task’, he begged. Berlioz had a desire to<br />
keep orchestra and soloists on equal par,<br />
and on seeing the score, with all its rests<br />
in the soloist part allowing the orchestra<br />
its moment, Paganini refused to play it.<br />
Following that refusal, it might seem<br />
surprising that, on hearing Harold in<br />
Italy, Paganini publicly knelt before<br />
Berlioz and hailed him as Beethoven’s<br />
heir. He gave Berlioz the extremely<br />
generous gift of 20,000 francs, which,<br />
after paying off his many debts, he used<br />
to put his full focus towards a very<br />
important work – Romeo and Juliet.<br />
Berlioz looked towards his predecessor<br />
and is much indebted to Beethoven’s<br />
Symphony No 9. Again, in a surprising<br />
role reversal, the two main characters<br />
are represented by the orchestra, the<br />
rest by the singers and chorus.<br />
Overture, Waverley;<br />
Les Nuits d’été<br />
Symphonie Fantastique<br />
31 Oct & 14 Nov / Page 16<br />
Overture, Benvenuto Cellini;<br />
The Death of Cleopatra;<br />
Harold in Italy<br />
1 & 12 Nov / Page 16<br />
The Damnation<br />
of Faust<br />
3 & 7 Nov / Page 17<br />
Romeo & Juliet<br />
6 & 13 Nov / Page 17<br />
All concerts are in the Hall<br />
unless otherwise stated<br />
September 2013<br />
Sun 15 Sep 7pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Noseda<br />
Verdi Rigoletto<br />
Concert performance<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Gianandrea Noseda conductor<br />
Dimitri Platanias Rigoletto<br />
Desirée Rancatore Gilda<br />
Giuseppe Filianoti Duke of Mantua<br />
Gábor Bretz Sparafucile<br />
Julien Dran Matteo Borsa<br />
Jean-Luc Ballestra Marullo<br />
José Maria Lo Monaco Maddalena<br />
Madeleine Shaw Giovanna<br />
Matthew Hargreaves Count Ceprano/Usher<br />
Valeria Tornatore Countess Ceprano/Page<br />
Arutjun Kotchinian Count Monterone<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Wed 18 Sep 8pm<br />
Kronos Quartet/Kimmo<br />
Pohjonen/Samuli Kosminen<br />
Uniko (UK premiere)<br />
Maverick Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen<br />
and sampling guru Samuli Kosminen join forces<br />
with Kronos Quartet in an adventurous and<br />
emotionally charged piece around the concept<br />
of dreams.<br />
Tickets £20–35<br />
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Thu 19 Sep 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Colin Davis<br />
Mozart Piano Concerto No 17<br />
Dvorˇ ák Symphony No 5<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Colin Davis conductor<br />
Mitsuko Uchida piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sun 22 Sep<br />
Total Immersion:<br />
The Rite of Spring 1913<br />
A day of music and film marking the<br />
100th anniversary of Stravinsky‘s<br />
The Rite of Spring.<br />
10.30am Film, Cinemas<br />
Ballets Russes<br />
USA, 2005 Dir Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine<br />
Tickets £6<br />
2pm Film, Cinemas<br />
Riot at the Rite<br />
UK, 2005 Dir Andy Wilson<br />
Tickets £6<br />
5pm Talk, Frobisher Rooms<br />
An exploration of Stravinsky’s<br />
The Rite of Spring<br />
Admission free<br />
Limited availability, but admission guaranteed<br />
with a day pass<br />
Sir Colin Davis © Matthias Creutziger<br />
Sun 22 Sep 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Vedernikov<br />
Weber orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance<br />
Chopin Andante spianato<br />
Chopin Grande polonaise brillante<br />
Borodin Polovtsian Dances<br />
Chopin arr Stravinsky Grande valse brillante<br />
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Alexander Vedernikov conductor<br />
Alexei Volodin piano<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Day passes available.<br />
See page 51 for details<br />
Wed 25 Sep 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Dausgaard<br />
Strauss Burleske for Piano and Orchestra<br />
Mahler Symphony No 6<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Thomas Dausgaard conductor<br />
Barry Douglas piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 28 Sep 7.30pm<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Monteverdi L’Orfeo<br />
Monteverdi L’Orfeo<br />
Concert hall staging<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Richard Egarr director / harpsichord<br />
John Mark Ainsley Orfeo<br />
Sophie Bevan Euridice<br />
Daniela Lehner La Musica / Speranza<br />
Nathan Berg Caronte<br />
Thomas Hobbs Apollo / Pastore<br />
Choir of the AAM<br />
Orpha Phelan stage director<br />
Tickets £10–35<br />
Part of AAM multibuy
Sun 29 Sep 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Noseda<br />
Britten Four Sea Interludes<br />
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3<br />
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem<br />
Shostakovich Symphony No 6<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Gianandrea Noseda conductor<br />
Nikolai Lugansky piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
10am–5pm<br />
LSO Discovery Day: Shostakovich<br />
Full day tickets £17 (£13.50 concessions)<br />
October 2013<br />
Thu 3 Oct 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Harding<br />
Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain<br />
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto<br />
Stravinsky Firebird Ballet (original version)<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Daniel Harding conductor<br />
Lisa Batiashvili violin<br />
Part of UBS Soundscapes<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Fri 4 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra<br />
Elgar Cockaigne Overture<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 9, Choral<br />
James Gaffigan conductor<br />
Katherine Broderick soprano<br />
Cátia Moreso mezzo-soprano<br />
Timothy Robinson tenor<br />
Derek Welton baritone<br />
Tickets on sale from 2 May<br />
Emanuel Ax © Henry J Fair<br />
Thu 10 Oct 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Haitink<br />
Mozart Piano Concerto No 9<br />
Shostakovich Symphony No 4<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Bernard Haitink conductor<br />
Emanuel Ax piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Fri 11 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Britten Sinfonia/Paul Lewis<br />
Stravinsky Three pieces for string quartet<br />
Anna Clyne Within her Arms<br />
(London premiere)<br />
Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A major<br />
Maw Little Concert<br />
Haydn Symphony No 60, Il distratto<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Paul Lewis piano / director<br />
Jacqueline Shave violin / director<br />
Nicholas Daniel oboe<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of Britten Sinfonia multibuy<br />
Tue 15 Oct 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Haitink<br />
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27<br />
Shostakovich Symphony No 15<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Bernard Haitink conductor<br />
Emanuel Ax piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
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Tue 15 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
BBC Singers<br />
Copland In the Beginning<br />
Eric Whitacre Three Songs of Faith;<br />
Waternight; Sleep<br />
Steve Reich The Desert Music<br />
(chamber version)<br />
BBC Singers<br />
David Hill conductor<br />
Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano<br />
Endymion<br />
Tickets £10–25<br />
Fri 18 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Northern Sinfonia<br />
Mozart Divertimento in D major, Salzburg<br />
Symphony No 1<br />
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major<br />
for violin and viola<br />
Mozart Symphony No 39<br />
Thomas Zehetmair violin / conductor<br />
Ruth Killius viola<br />
Northern Sinfonia<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Tue 22 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Chailly/Brahms Cycle<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Brahms Concerto in A minor for violin,<br />
cello and orchestra<br />
Brahms Symphony No 1<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Riccardo Chailly Gewandhauskapellmeister<br />
Leonidas Kavakos violin<br />
Enrico Dindo cello<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Leonidas Kavakos, Decca © Daniel Regan<br />
Wed 23 Oct 6pm, Milton Court<br />
Gewandhaus Quartet<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Brahms String Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 51<br />
Gewandhaus Quartet<br />
Tickets £3<br />
Wed 23 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Chailly/Brahms Cycle<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major<br />
Brahms Symphony No 2<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Riccardo Chailly Gewandhauskapellmeister<br />
Arcadi Volodos piano<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Thu 24 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Alina Ibragimova<br />
Haydn Violin Concerto No 1<br />
Haydn Symphony No 45, Farewell<br />
Mozart Symphony No 10<br />
Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Turkish<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Alina Ibragimova director / violin<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of AAM multibuy
Sat 26 Oct 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Minkowski<br />
Poulenc Figure humaine<br />
Poulenc Concerto for two pianos<br />
and orchestra in D minor<br />
Roussel Symphony No 3<br />
Ravel Mother Goose – suite<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Marc Minkowski conductor<br />
Guillaume Vincent piano<br />
David Kadouch piano<br />
BBC Singers<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Singers at Six 6pm, St Giles’ Cripplegate<br />
The BBC Singers perform music by Poulenc,<br />
Milhaud, Tailleferre and Auric conducted by<br />
Paul Brough, with pianists Guillaume Vincent<br />
and David Kadouch<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 to ticket holders<br />
for the evening concert)<br />
Sun 27 Oct 2.30pm<br />
LSO Discovery Family Concert<br />
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique<br />
Timothy Redmond conductor<br />
Rachel Leach presenter<br />
Tickets £5 under-16s, £10 adults<br />
Marc Minkowski © Marco Borggreve<br />
Sun 27 Oct 8pm<br />
LSO String Ensemble<br />
Tchaikovsky Serenade for string orchestra<br />
Bartók Divertimento for string orchestra<br />
Dvorˇ ák Serenade for string orchestra<br />
Roman Simovic director<br />
Tickets £10–20<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Tue 29 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Chailly/Brahms Cycle<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Brahms Symphony No 3<br />
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Riccardo Chailly Gewandhauskapellmeister<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Wed 30 Oct 6pm, Milton Court<br />
Gewandhaus Quartet<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 52<br />
Gewandhaus Quartet<br />
Tickets £3<br />
Wed 30 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Chailly/Brahms Cycle<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Brahms Violin Concerto<br />
Brahms Symphony No 4<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
Riccardo Chailly Gewandhauskapellmeister<br />
Leonidas Kavakos violin<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
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15 classical music<br />
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International<br />
Associates<br />
Writer and broadcaster<br />
James Jolly looks forward<br />
to the <strong>season</strong>‘s <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
International Associate<br />
Residencies.<br />
The two European orchestras that have<br />
chosen to make their ‘home from home’ at<br />
the <strong>Barbican</strong> are also two of the world’s<br />
finest – and oldest. The Gewandhaus<br />
Orchestra Leipzig, now headed by the Italian<br />
Riccardo Chailly, can claim to be the world’s<br />
oldest, tracing its roots back to 1743. This<br />
partnership, one of the most exciting currently<br />
around, arrives in London for four concerts<br />
at the end of October. Amsterdam’s Royal<br />
Concertgebouw Orchestra makes a trio of<br />
appearances in London in April 2014 under its<br />
music director Mariss Jansons.<br />
Riccardo Chailly © Gert Mothes<br />
Both ensembles have a remarkable tradition,<br />
but neither Jansons nor Chailly dwell on the<br />
past; they draw on it to energise the future.<br />
These international associate orchestras bring<br />
music that lies at the heart of their tradition.<br />
For Chailly, his four concerts this autumn<br />
feature the four symphonies by Johannes<br />
Brahms paired with the same composer’s four<br />
concertos (two for piano, one for violin and<br />
one for violin and cello). Brahms appeared<br />
in Leipzig on thirteen occasions as conductor<br />
and pianist, entrusting the Gewandhaus<br />
Orchestra with the first performance of four<br />
of his most important works. It’s a fact that<br />
appeals to Chailly, but he’s the first to alight on<br />
Arnold Schoenberg’s famous comment about
Mariss Jansons © Marco Borggreve<br />
‘Brahms the Progressive’. Just as Chailly<br />
and his orchestra gave us, on their last visit,<br />
a Beethoven cycle for a new millennium,<br />
expect a similar revaluation of this similarly<br />
much-loved symphonic oeuvre.<br />
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
Amsterdam‘s residency features the<br />
music of Anton Bruckner, introduced to<br />
the orchestra’s repertoire in the 1950s by<br />
Eduard van Beinum, explored in depth<br />
by Bernard Haitink and Chailly, and now<br />
cherished by Jansons. Together they give us<br />
three of the most popular symphonies, Nos<br />
4, 7 and 9, and pair each with music by the<br />
three giants of the classical period, Haydn,<br />
Mozart and Beethoven. Writing of Jansons’s<br />
recorded Bruckner, Gramophone’s<br />
Richard Osborne said, ‘Listening to these<br />
performances, I was reminded of Karajan’s<br />
remark about the great Czech conductor<br />
Václav Talich: “He had a great genius<br />
for … drawing the orchestra together<br />
and controlling it as a single expressive<br />
instrument.” In these powerfully articulated<br />
accounts of Bruckner’s Third and Fourth<br />
symphonies, Mariss Jansons exhibits that<br />
very quality.’<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
22 & 23 Oct / Page 13<br />
29 & 30 Oct / Page 14<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
Amsterdam<br />
3 – 5 Apr / Pages 37 and 38<br />
Thu 31 Oct & Thu 14 Nov 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gergiev<br />
Berlioz<br />
Overture, Waverley<br />
Les nuits d’été<br />
Symphonie fantastique<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
November 2013<br />
Fri 1 & Tue 12 Nov 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gergiev<br />
Berlioz<br />
Overture, Benvenuto Cellini<br />
The Death of Cleopatra<br />
Harold in Italy *<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano<br />
Antoine Tamestit viola *<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 2 Nov 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Oramo<br />
Tristan Murail New work<br />
(BBC co-commission, world premiere)<br />
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor<br />
Mahler Symphony No 1, Titan<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sakari Oramo conductor<br />
Olli Mustonen piano<br />
Sergei Nakariakov trumpet<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
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Sun 3 & Thu 7 Nov 7pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gergiev<br />
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
Olga Borodina Marguerite<br />
Michael Spyres Faust<br />
Ildar Abdrazakov Mephistopheles<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sun 3 Nov 10am–5pm<br />
LSO Discovery Day: Berlioz<br />
Full day tickets £17 (£13 concessions)<br />
Mon 4 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Mariinsky Stradivarius<br />
Ensemble<br />
Grieg Holberg Suite<br />
Strauss Metamorphosen<br />
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony<br />
Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
UK tour supported by BP<br />
Tickets £15–35<br />
Tue 5 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Thomas Adès and Friends<br />
Britten Suite for violin and piano<br />
Gerald Barry Low<br />
Adès Lieux retrouvés<br />
Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale – Suite<br />
Adès Catch<br />
Adès Court Studies<br />
Thomas Adès piano<br />
Anthony Marwood violin<br />
Louise Hopkins cello<br />
Matthew Hunt clarinet<br />
Alumni of the Guildhall School return to<br />
perform a special recital in the opening <strong>season</strong><br />
of Milton Court, the school’s new building.<br />
Tickets on sale from 2 May<br />
Wed 6, Thu 7, Sat 9 Nov 7.45pm<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Theatre<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten: Phaedra<br />
Richard Alston Dance<br />
Company/Britten Sinfonia<br />
Four dance works to music by Britten<br />
Britten<br />
Lachrymae<br />
Phaedra (<strong>Barbican</strong> co-commission,<br />
world premiere)<br />
Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente (<strong>Barbican</strong> cocommission,<br />
world premiere)<br />
Les Illuminations<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Richard Alston Dance Company<br />
Pekka Kuusisto violin / viola / director<br />
Allison Cook mezzo-soprano<br />
Robin Tritschler tenor<br />
Huw Watkins piano<br />
Tickets £16–35<br />
20% discount on Sat 9 Nov when you book tickets<br />
for Illuminating Britten on 8–10 Nov.<br />
See page 52 for details<br />
Wed 6 & 13 Nov 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gergiev<br />
Berlioz Romeo and Juliet<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
Olga Borodina mezzo-soprano<br />
Ildar Abdrazakov bass<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Olga Borodina
Thu 7 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Graham Johnson and Friends<br />
Graham Johnson, one of the world’s leading<br />
accompanists and Senior Professor at<br />
the Guildhall School of Music & Drama,<br />
joins prestigious alumni who return to<br />
the school for an evening of song.<br />
Tickets on sale from 2 May<br />
Fri 8–Sun 10 Nov,<br />
Milton Court and <strong>Barbican</strong> Centre<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten:<br />
Illuminating Britten<br />
We celebrate Benjamin Britten’s<br />
100th birthday with a three-day<br />
exploration of his life and work.<br />
With generous support<br />
from the Britten-Pears Foundation<br />
Tickets £95 (£50 concessions)<br />
See page 47 for details<br />
Fri 8 Nov 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten: Bostridge/<br />
Our Hunting Fathers<br />
Purcell arr Britten Chacony in G minor<br />
Britten Young Apollo<br />
Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme<br />
of Corelli<br />
Britten Our Hunting Fathers<br />
Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes,<br />
A Time There Was<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Paul Daniel conductor<br />
Ian Bostridge tenor<br />
Lara Melda piano<br />
Tickets £10–35<br />
20% discount when you book tickets for<br />
Illuminating Britten on 8–10 Nov.<br />
See page 52 for details<br />
Sun 10 Nov 7pm, Royal Albert Hall<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Bychkov<br />
Britten War Requiem<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Semyon Bychkov conductor<br />
Marina Poplavskaya soprano<br />
Andrew Kennedy tenor<br />
Roderick Williams baritone<br />
BBC Symphony Chorus<br />
Crouch End Festival Chorus<br />
The Choristers of<br />
Westminster Abbey<br />
Event in association with the<br />
Royal British Legion<br />
Tickets £8–40<br />
Tickets available from the Royal Albert Hall<br />
Box Office on 0845 401 5034 and online at<br />
royalalberthall.com<br />
Ian Bostridge © Ben Ealovega<br />
Thu 14 – Sat 16 Nov 8pm,<br />
St Giles’ Cripplegate<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten:<br />
Curlew River<br />
Multimedia staging by Netia Jones<br />
A parable for church performance<br />
Britten Curlew River<br />
Ian Bostridge Madwoman<br />
Gwynne Howell Abbot<br />
Neal Davies The Traveller<br />
Peter Coleman-Wright The Ferryman<br />
William Lacey music director<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices<br />
Eamonn Dougan director,<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices<br />
Tickets £40<br />
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Benjamin Briten © Roland Haupt<br />
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<strong>Barbican</strong><br />
Britten<br />
Britten expert and<br />
documentary maker<br />
John Bridcut introduces<br />
the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s Britten<br />
Centenary celebrations.<br />
For us today, one of the chief delights of<br />
Britten is that he excels across such a range of<br />
different types of music. He wrote concertos,<br />
orchestral pieces, ballets, song cycles, chamber<br />
music, children’s music, a feast of works for<br />
the cello – and choral music to die for.<br />
He set himself exacting standards, stripping<br />
his music back, thinning the texture to avoid<br />
what he regarded as the ugly wash of overscoring.<br />
He turned from the grand-opera<br />
triumph of Peter Grimes to chamber-sized<br />
operas such as the delightful comedy about<br />
a greengrocer, Albert Herring, in which he<br />
conjures a full orchestral sound from just a<br />
baker’s dozen of musicians, and the tiny but<br />
enchanting sound-world of his ‘church parable’,<br />
Curlew River – an opera in all but name.<br />
When he was ill at school, he wrote the<br />
enchanting miniature for unaccompanied choir<br />
A Hymn to the Virgin, which remains a jewel
in his crown – not bad for a sixteen-yearold.<br />
One of the last pieces he wrote (once<br />
again struggling with illness) was Sacred<br />
and Profane, settings of medieval lyrics<br />
for unaccompanied choir. In between<br />
came the perfect Hymn to St Cecilia (with<br />
words by W H Auden), written on another<br />
bed of pain – this time he was stuck in his<br />
sweaty, airless cabin on a ship crossing the<br />
Atlantic at the height of the U-boat war.<br />
As a pacifist, Britten took no part in the<br />
war, but it coincided with the first flowering<br />
of his mature talent – notably with his<br />
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. It<br />
came seven years after his first major<br />
work for voice and orchestra, Our Hunting<br />
Fathers, of which he was sufficiently proud<br />
to count it as his real ‘opus one’ – meaning<br />
he regarded it as the starting point for<br />
his career as a professional composer.<br />
Between these two vocal works came Les<br />
Illuminations, delicious settings of Rimbaud<br />
for high voice and strings. The music is both<br />
innocent and sensual (like much of Britten’s<br />
work), and coincided with his burgeoning<br />
love affair with the tenor, Peter Pears.<br />
When the Hungarian composer Zoltán<br />
Kodály died a few years before him,<br />
Britten praised his beauty of sound, his<br />
freshness, his ‘multum in parvo’. ‘Less is<br />
more’ is always a good motto, but this<br />
sounds like Britten’s own musical manifesto.<br />
Illuminating Britten is generously supported<br />
by the Britten-Pears Foundation<br />
Phaedra / Richard Alston Dance<br />
Company 6,7 & 9 Nov / Page 17<br />
Illuminating Britten 8–10 Nov / Page 18<br />
Bostridge / Our Hunting<br />
Fathers 8 Nov / Page 18<br />
War Requiem 10 Nov / Page 18<br />
Curlew River 14–16 Nov / Page 18<br />
The Sixteen on Britten’s 100th<br />
Birthday 22 Nov / Page 22<br />
Albert Herring 23 Nov / Page 22<br />
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and<br />
Strings 24 Nov / Page 22<br />
Mon 18 Nov 7.30pm<br />
Artist Spotlight:<br />
Maxim Vengerov/<br />
Polish Chamber Orchestra<br />
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, Strasburg<br />
Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Turkish<br />
Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique<br />
Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu cher<br />
Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo<br />
Maxim Vengerov violin / director<br />
Polish Chamber Orchestra<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Wed 20 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
ECHO Rising Stars:<br />
Pablo Held Trio<br />
Nominated by Kölner Philharmonie<br />
Hailed as one of the ‘most exciting young<br />
groups of German jazz’, the Pablo Held<br />
Trio perform in the intimate surroundings<br />
of Milton Court Concert Hall.<br />
Pablo Held Trio<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)<br />
Wed 20 Nov 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Harding<br />
Schubert Symphony No 5<br />
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Daniel Harding conductor<br />
Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano<br />
Burkhard Fritz tenor<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
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Juliette Bausor<br />
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Young Artists<br />
Ben Eshmade discovers<br />
that young talent is thriving<br />
at the <strong>Barbican</strong>.<br />
‘Well I did see them here first!’ you’ll casually<br />
boast to anybody who will listen. Who are you<br />
talking about? Well, the future classical stars of<br />
tomorrow who will be coming to the <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
over the next year.<br />
Nurturing and showcasing the classical stars of<br />
tomorrow, both those studying at the Guildhall<br />
School of Music & Drama and the best<br />
artists and ensembles from across Europe, is<br />
important to both the <strong>Barbican</strong> and the LSO, its<br />
resident orchestra.<br />
This <strong>season</strong> Milton Court Concert Hall is host<br />
to ECHO Rising Stars, a series of concerts by<br />
young artists handpicked by members of the<br />
European Concert Hall Organisation. Former<br />
artists in this long-established series include<br />
violinist Janine Jansen, cellist Quirine Viersen<br />
and bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu. But it’s<br />
clarinettist Dionysis Grammenos (playing<br />
Chopin, Fauré and Poulenc), the Van Baerle<br />
Trio (Haydn, Jeths and Brahms) or perhaps the<br />
jazz of The Pablo Held Trio who will have the<br />
chance to wow you over the coming year.<br />
At LSO St Luke’s, the beautiful Hawksmoor<br />
church that’s now HQ of the LSO’s music<br />
education programme, LSO Discovery, you<br />
might find a young composer frantically<br />
scribbling down their ideas or Guildhall<br />
students experiencing a snapshot of<br />
professional music life in masterclasses with<br />
LSO players. A flagship project is the Panufnik<br />
Young Composers Scheme which allows six<br />
composers each year a chance to write a<br />
three-minute piece for the LSO. You’ll get a<br />
chance to hear these pieces performed as<br />
part of a public workshop at LSO St Luke’s in<br />
February 2014.<br />
The composers, the conductors and the<br />
virtuosos of tomorrow are available to hear<br />
today. So reserve your seat and get ready to<br />
do a little boasting.<br />
ECHO Rising Stars 20 Nov, 13 Dec, 24 Jan,<br />
28 Feb, 7 Mar, 11 Apr, 16 May<br />
Panufnik Young Composers<br />
Workshop 7 Feb
Thu 21 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Anna Prohaska<br />
Locke Incidental music from The Tempest<br />
Purcell Instrumental and Vocal Suite from<br />
The Fairy Queen<br />
Purcell Solo Songs<br />
Arne Overture in B flat major<br />
Handel ‘Vo far guerra’ from Rinaldo<br />
Handel ‘Ah! Spietato!’ from Amadigi di Gaula<br />
Handel Sinfonia from Saul<br />
Handel ‘Let the bright Seraphim’ from Samson<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Richard Egarr director / harpsichord<br />
Anna Prohaska soprano<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of AAM multibuy<br />
Fri 22 Nov 7.30pm, Union Chapel<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten:<br />
The Sixteen on Britten’s<br />
100th Birthday<br />
Britten<br />
Hymn to the Virgin<br />
Shepherd’s Carol<br />
New Year Carol<br />
Hymn to Saint Cecilia<br />
Five Flower Songs<br />
Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard<br />
Sacred and Profane<br />
The Sixteen<br />
Harry Christophers conductor<br />
Frances Kelly harp<br />
Christopher Glynn piano<br />
Tickets £20<br />
Sat 23 Nov 7pm<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten:<br />
Albert Herring<br />
Britten Albert Herring<br />
Semi-staged performance<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Steuart Bedford conductor<br />
Paul Curran director<br />
Christine Brewer Lady Billows<br />
Gaynor Keeble Florence Pike<br />
Gillian Keith Miss Wordsworth<br />
Roderick Williams Mr Gedge<br />
Adrian Thompson Mr Upfold<br />
Matthew Rose Superintendent Budd<br />
Marcus Farnsworth Sid<br />
Andrew Staples Albert Herring<br />
Kitty Whately Nancy<br />
Catherine Wyn-Rogers Mrs Herring<br />
Tickets £12–40<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Sun 24 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten:<br />
Serenade for Tenor, Horn<br />
and Strings<br />
Nico Muhly Three Songs for tenor and violin<br />
Bartók Fourth movement from Quartet No 4<br />
Britten Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal<br />
Erkki-Sven Tüür Lighthouse<br />
Judith Weir ‘I give you the end of a golden<br />
string’ (London premiere)<br />
Arne Nordheim ‘Individualisierte<br />
Höhemessung der Lagen’ from Partita für Paul<br />
Nico Muhly Material in E flat for violin and<br />
drone from orchestra<br />
Bartók Third movement from Quartet No 4<br />
Berg arr Schnittke Kanon<br />
Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memoriam<br />
Benjamin Britten<br />
George Crumb ‘God Music’ from<br />
Black Angels<br />
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Mark Padmore tenor<br />
Pekka Kuusisto violin / director<br />
Stephen Bell horn<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of Britten Sinfonia multibuy<br />
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Broadcaster Graeme Kay<br />
looks forward to a <strong>season</strong> of<br />
Baroque opera and oratorio.<br />
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Baroque<br />
Synonymous with extravagance and<br />
irregularity when applied to architecture,<br />
in music the Baroque meant a remarkable<br />
flowering of invention, as composers such<br />
as Gabrieli and Monteverdi established<br />
a new principle of contrast in their music,<br />
creating strikingly innovative spatial,<br />
harmonic and textural effects. You can bathe<br />
in the freshness and vitality of the Baroque,<br />
tapping into its new forms of emotional<br />
engagement as we present a <strong>season</strong> of<br />
drama, passion and belief, in the company<br />
of the greatest names of the Baroque – Bach,<br />
Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau and Vivaldi.<br />
The Academy of Ancient Music, this year<br />
celebrating its 40th anniversary, kick off with<br />
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Written in 1607, this<br />
searing retelling of the legend of Orpheus<br />
and Eurydice is the most enduringly popular<br />
music drama in the entire history of music.<br />
The AAM is back with a <strong>season</strong>al<br />
performance of Handel’s great oratorio,<br />
Messiah. Born in controversy due to
librettist Charles Jennens’s skilful but<br />
unprecedented weaving together of the<br />
Christmas and Easter stories, Messiah’s<br />
emotional truth, expressed through<br />
brilliantly evocative music, has become<br />
deeply etched in the public imagination.<br />
Harry Christophers conducts Handel’s<br />
last oratorio Jephtha; often successfully<br />
staged, the oratorio plumbs rarely visited<br />
depths of musical emotion as warrior<br />
Jephtha returns from a triumph in battle,<br />
predicated on sacrificing the first person<br />
he sees. That person turns out to be his<br />
daughter … The Handel cycle concludes<br />
with Theodora (8 Feb 2014), a drama<br />
of self-sacrificing love and martyrdom<br />
in the face of unshakeable beliefs,<br />
containing some of the composer’s<br />
most affecting music.<br />
The French Baroque is represented by<br />
the great opera composer Jean-Philippe<br />
Rameau and Christoph Rousset conducts<br />
Les Talens Lyriques in Les Indes galantes –<br />
a portmanteau opera-ballet consisting of<br />
four love stories set in exotic lands. Here,<br />
bizarre scenarios and daring musical<br />
innovations take full advantage of the new<br />
Baroque spirit. And the opera-oratorio<br />
strand concludes with a Good Friday<br />
performance of Bach’s St John Passion<br />
(18 April 2014). By introducing a narrator<br />
(Evangelist), named characters, and<br />
specific locations, Bach’s Passions break<br />
out of the oratorio convention to build<br />
musical dramas of captivating intensity.<br />
Monteverdi L’Orfeo / AAM<br />
28 Sep / Page 11<br />
Handel Messiah / AAM<br />
7 Dec / Page 26<br />
Handel Jephtha / The Sixteen<br />
14 Jan / Page 28<br />
Handel Theodora /<br />
The English Concert<br />
8 Feb / Page 31<br />
Rameau Les Indes Galantes /<br />
Les Talens Lyriques<br />
6 Mar / Page 35<br />
Bach St John Passion /<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
18 Apr / Page 40<br />
Thu 28 Nov 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Harding<br />
Schubert Symphony No 8, Unfinished<br />
Wagner Act Two from Tristan and Isolde<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Daniel Harding conductor<br />
Katarina Dalayman Isolde<br />
Peter Seiffert Tristan<br />
Christianne Stotjin Brangäne<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Daniel Harding<br />
Fri 29 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra<br />
Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande<br />
Strauss Ein Heldenleben<br />
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra<br />
Takuo Yuasa conductor<br />
Tickets on sale from 2 May<br />
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December 2013<br />
Sun 1 Dec 7.30pm<br />
Patrick Doyle 60th Birthday<br />
Concert / LSO<br />
Featuring Patrick Doyle’s film scores including<br />
Henry V (1989), Hamlet (1996), Much Ado About<br />
Nothing (1993) and As You Like It (2006).<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Frank Strobel conductor<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Wed 4 Dec 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Pons<br />
Schreker Overture, Die Gezeichneten<br />
Busoni Berceuse élégiaque<br />
Ravel Shéhérazade<br />
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte<br />
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Josep Pons conductor<br />
Nora Gubisch soprano<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Thu 5 Dec 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Colin Davis<br />
Beethoven Violin Concerto<br />
Dvorˇ ák Symphony No 7<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Colin Davis conductor<br />
Nikolaj Znaider violin<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Fri 6 Dec 7.30pm<br />
Janine Jansen and Friends/<br />
Bach Violin Concertos<br />
JS Bach<br />
Concerto for violin in E major<br />
Concerto for violin in D minor<br />
Concerto for violin in A minor<br />
Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor<br />
Tickets £15–45
Sat 7 Dec 7.30pm<br />
Choir of King’s College,<br />
Cambridge/<br />
Britten Saint Nicolas<br />
Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memoriam<br />
Benjamin Britten<br />
Britten A Ceremony of Carols<br />
Britten Saint Nicolas<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Stephen Cleobury conductor<br />
James Gilchrist tenor<br />
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge<br />
Tickets £10–35<br />
Wed 11 Dec 7.30pm<br />
Murray Perahia/Academy<br />
of St Martin in the Fields<br />
Stravinsky Concerto in E flat major,<br />
Dumbarton Oaks<br />
Haydn Symphony No 77 in B flat<br />
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, Emperor<br />
Academy of St Martin in the Fields<br />
Murray Perahia piano / director<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Thu 12 Dec 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Tilson Thomas<br />
Liszt Mephisto Waltz<br />
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1<br />
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor<br />
Simon Trpcˇ eski piano<br />
Supported by LSO Friends<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Multibuy discounts will not<br />
be applied to this concert.<br />
Fri 13 Dec 1pm, Milton Court<br />
ECHO Rising Stars:<br />
János Balázs<br />
Nominated by Palace of Arts Budapest<br />
Beethoven Variations on God save the King<br />
Schubert Impromptu in B flat major<br />
Chopin Andante spianato<br />
et grande polonaise brillante<br />
Dubrovay Faust the Damned Paraphrases<br />
Ravel ‘Scarbo’ from Gaspard de la nuit<br />
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1<br />
János Balázs piano<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)<br />
Sun 15 Dec 2pm<br />
Berlioz L’enfance du Christ<br />
Berlioz L’enfance du Christ<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
François-Xavier Roth conductor<br />
Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano<br />
Yann Beuron tenor<br />
Marcus Farnsworth baritone<br />
Christopher Purves bass<br />
BBC Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Tue 17 Dec 7pm<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Messiah<br />
Handel Messiah<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Bernard Labadie conductor<br />
Lydia Teuscher soprano<br />
Iestyn Davies counter-tenor<br />
Jeremy Ovenden tenor<br />
Andrew Foster-Williams bass<br />
Choir of the AAM<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Part of AAM multibuy<br />
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Wed 18 Dec 7.30pm<br />
Simon Keenlyside<br />
Programme to include:<br />
Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake<br />
Strauss Hymnus, Hochzeitslied, Sehnsucht<br />
Schubert Alinde, Herbstlied, Der Wanderer,<br />
Himmelsfunken, Abschied<br />
Simon Keenlyside baritone<br />
Malcolm Martineau piano<br />
Tickets £10–35<br />
Thu 19 Dec 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Tilson Thomas<br />
Rimsky-Korsakov Dubinushka<br />
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1<br />
Prokofiev Symphony No 5<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor<br />
Evgeny Kissin piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Multibuy discounts will not<br />
be applied to this concert.<br />
Fri 20 Dec 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gardner<br />
Wagner Overture, Faust<br />
Wagner Wesendonck-Lieder<br />
Webern Passacaglia<br />
Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Prelude (Act 1)<br />
Berg Seven Early Songs<br />
Strauss Death and Transfiguration<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Edward Gardner conductor<br />
Christine Brewer soprano<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
January 2014<br />
Sun 5 Jan 7pm<br />
National Youth Orchestra/<br />
Daniel<br />
Larry Goves New work for orchestra<br />
and electronics<br />
Mahler Symphony No 5<br />
National Youth Orchestra<br />
of Great Britain<br />
Paul Daniel conductor<br />
Tickets £10–28<br />
Wed 8 Jan 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Oramo<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 3, Eroica<br />
Colin Matthews Traces Remain<br />
(BBC commission, world premiere)<br />
Schumann Konzertstück<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sakari Oramo conductor<br />
Horn players from the BBC SO<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Singers at Six 6pm, St Giles’ Cripplegate<br />
The BBC Singers perform partsongs by Brahms,<br />
Mendelssohn and Robert and Clara Schumann.<br />
Conducted by Paul Brough.<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 to ticket holders<br />
for the evening concert)<br />
Fri 10 Jan 7.30pm<br />
Artist Spotlight:<br />
Vengerov in recital<br />
Programme to include<br />
Elgar Violin Sonata<br />
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 2<br />
and works by Shostakovich, Kreisler and<br />
Brahms<br />
Maxim Vengerov violin<br />
Itamar Golan piano<br />
Tickets £15–65
Sat 11 Jan 7.30pm<br />
Magdalena Kožená/<br />
Les Violons du Roy<br />
Mozart Symphony No 33<br />
Haydn Arianna a Naxos<br />
Mozart ‘Non più di fiori’<br />
from La clemenza di Tito<br />
Haydn Symphony No 85, La Reine<br />
Mozart ‘Parto, parto’ from La clemenza di Tito<br />
Mozart ‘Deh per questo istante solo’ from<br />
La clemenza di Tito<br />
Mozart ‘Mi tradi’ from Don Giovanni<br />
Les Violons du Roy<br />
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano<br />
Bernard Labadie conductor<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Sun 12 Jan 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Colin Davis<br />
Haydn The Creation (sung in German)<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Colin Davis conductor<br />
Marlis Petersen soprano<br />
Jeremy Ovenden tenor<br />
Gerald Finley bass<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 4 Jan 10.30am–4.30pm,<br />
LSO St Luke’s<br />
LSO Discovery Singing Day:<br />
Haydn The Creation<br />
Tickets £17 (includes music hire)<br />
Tue 14 Jan 7pm<br />
Handel Jephtha/The Sixteen<br />
Handel Jephtha<br />
The Sixteen<br />
Harry Christophers conductor<br />
James Gilchrist tenor<br />
Sophie Bevan soprano<br />
Robin Blaze counter-tenor<br />
Matthew Brook bass<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Katia and Marielle Labèque © Umberto Nicoletti<br />
Thu 16 Jan 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Bychkov<br />
Martinu ˚ Concerto for two pianos<br />
Shostakovich Symphony No 7, Leningrad<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Semyon Bychkov conductor<br />
Katia & Marielle Labèque piano<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Fri 17 Jan 7.30pm<br />
Artist Spotlight:<br />
Vengerov and Friends<br />
Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes<br />
Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2<br />
Brahms Clarinet Quintet<br />
Maxim Vengerov violin<br />
Ilya Gringolts violin<br />
Lawrence Power viola<br />
Antonio Meneses cello<br />
Itamar Golan piano<br />
Sharon Kam clarinet<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
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Milton Court<br />
Milton Court Concert Hall –<br />
an exciting new venue for<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> concerts.<br />
From September 2013, the Guildhall School of<br />
Music & Drama reaches across Silk Street as<br />
Milton Court opens its doors on stunning new<br />
performance spaces, rehearsal rooms and<br />
teaching accommodation.<br />
Milton Court’s beautiful, state-of-the-art<br />
600-seat concert hall will be a significant and<br />
welcome addition to the existing venues for<br />
classical music at the <strong>Barbican</strong>. Alongside<br />
the <strong>Barbican</strong> Hall, the church of St Giles’<br />
Cripplegate and LSO St Luke’s it will enable us<br />
to enhance our programme with concerts by<br />
smaller ensembles and young artists.<br />
Our associate ensembles, the Academy of<br />
Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia, each<br />
give several performances in Milton Court<br />
Concert Hall this <strong>season</strong> along with concerts<br />
by musicians from the Mariinsky Theatre,<br />
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the BBC<br />
Singers, among others. Look out for concerts<br />
by the very best international young artists<br />
in the European Concert Halls Organisation<br />
(ECHO) Rising Stars series.<br />
See page 52 for a map of our family<br />
of music venues.
Tue 21 Jan 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir John Eliot Gardiner<br />
Mendelssohn Overture, Hebrides<br />
Schumann Piano Concerto<br />
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, Scottish<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor<br />
Maria João Pires piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Multibuy discounts will not<br />
be applied to this concert.<br />
Wed 22 Jan 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Volkov<br />
Grisey Mégalithes (UK premiere)<br />
Hugues Dufourt Piano Concerto<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
Pierre Boulez Cummings ist der Dichter<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 7<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Ilan Volkov conductor<br />
Nicolas Hodges piano<br />
BBC Singers<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Thu 23 Jan 7.30pm<br />
LSO Brass Ensemble<br />
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor<br />
Scarlatti Sonata for keyboard<br />
Ewald Quintet No 1<br />
Koetsier Kinderzircus Music<br />
Crespo Suite Americas<br />
Brass on Broadway Arr. Dudley Bright<br />
LSO Brass Ensemble<br />
Tickets £10–20<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Thu 23 Jan 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Guildhall Chamber Orchestra<br />
Programme to be announced<br />
Guildhall Chamber Orchestra<br />
Alexander Janiczek conductor / leader<br />
Tickets on sale from 1 November<br />
Fri 24 Jan 1pm, Milton Court<br />
ECHO Rising Stars: Quatuor Voce<br />
Nominated by Cité de la Musique Paris<br />
Adès Arcadiana<br />
Beethoven String Quartet Op 59, No 2<br />
Quatuor Voce<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)<br />
Wed 29 Jan 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Bringuier<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 4<br />
Gérard Pesson Ravel à son âme<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
Marc-André Dalbavie Flute Concerto<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
Ravel Boléro<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Lionel Bringuier conductor<br />
Michael Cox flute<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Thu 30 Jan 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Antonio Pappano<br />
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Fanfare:<br />
Her Majesty’s Welcome<br />
Brahms Violin Concerto<br />
Walton Symphony No 1<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor<br />
Janine Jansen violin<br />
LSO On Track<br />
Part of UBS Soundscapes<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
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Fri 31 Jan 7.30pm<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Andreas Scholl<br />
Vivaldi Stabat Mater<br />
Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 2<br />
Vivaldi Salve Regina<br />
Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 3<br />
Pergolesi Stabat Mater<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Andreas Scholl counter-tenor<br />
Klara Ek soprano<br />
Tickets £15 – 45<br />
Multibuy discounts will not be<br />
applied to this concert.<br />
February 2014<br />
Sun 2 Feb 7.30pm<br />
Artist Spotlight: Vengerov/<br />
LSO/Pappano<br />
Elgar In the South<br />
Britten Violin Concerto<br />
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No 10<br />
(world premiere, LSO commission)<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor<br />
Maxim Vengerov violin<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
10.30am–5.30pm<br />
LSO Discovery Day:<br />
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies<br />
Full day tickets £17 (£13.50 concessions)<br />
Maxim Vengerov © Naim Chidiac<br />
Wed 5 Feb 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Colin Davis<br />
Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra<br />
Dvorˇák Violin Concerto<br />
Panufnik Lullaby<br />
Dvorˇák Symphony No 9, From the New World<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Colin Davis conductor<br />
Anne-Sophie Mutter violin<br />
Part of UBS Soundscapes<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 8 Feb 6.30pm<br />
Handel Theodora/<br />
The English Concert<br />
Handel Theodora<br />
The English Concert<br />
Harry Bicket conductor<br />
Rosemary Joshua soprano<br />
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano<br />
Tim Mead counter-tenor<br />
Andrew Kennedy tenor<br />
Neal Davies bass<br />
Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Sun 9 Feb 7.30pm<br />
UBS Soundscapes:<br />
LSO Artist Portrait – Yuja Wang<br />
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3<br />
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Jaap Van Zweden conductor<br />
Yuja Wang piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy
Yuja Wang<br />
Thu 13 Feb 7.30pm<br />
UBS Soundscapes:<br />
LSO Artist Portrait Yuja Wang<br />
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2<br />
Ravel Daphnis and Chloé<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
James Gaffigan conductor<br />
Yuja Wang piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Fri 14 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Imogen Cooper and<br />
Britten Sinfonia Winds<br />
Mark Simpson New work (London premiere)<br />
Beethoven Quintet in E flat for piano and<br />
winds<br />
Mozart Serenade No 10 for winds in B flat,<br />
Gran Partita<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Imogen Cooper piano<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of Britten Sinfonia multibuy<br />
Sat 15 Feb<br />
Total Immersion:<br />
Thea Musgrave<br />
A day of music, film and discussion<br />
celebrating the music of Thea Musgrave.<br />
11am Talk, Frobisher Rooms<br />
An introduction to the music of Thea Musgrave<br />
Admission free<br />
Limited availabillity, but admission guaranteed with<br />
a day pass<br />
1pm Concert, Hall<br />
Chamber music by Thea Musgrave<br />
Guildhall Ensembles<br />
Tickets £12<br />
3pm Talk, Frobisher Room<br />
An introduction to the music in this<br />
evening’s concerts<br />
Admission free<br />
Limited availability but admission guaranteed with<br />
a day pass<br />
5pm Concert, St Giles’ Cripplegate<br />
Thea Musgrave<br />
Rorate coeli<br />
Ithaca<br />
Momento creatoris<br />
Midnight<br />
On the Underground<br />
BBC Singers<br />
Paul Brough conductor<br />
Tickets £12 (unreserved seating)<br />
Thea Musgrave © Christian Steiner<br />
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7.30pm Concert<br />
Thea Musgrave<br />
The Seasons<br />
Horn Concerto<br />
Songs for a Winter's Evening<br />
Turbulent Landscapes<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Martyn Brabbins conductor<br />
Martin Owen horn<br />
Lisa Milne soprano<br />
Tickets £8–24<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Day passes available.<br />
See page 51 for details<br />
Sun 16 Feb 2.30pm<br />
LSO Discovery Family Concert<br />
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade<br />
Alexandre Bloch conductor<br />
Rachel Leach presenter<br />
Tickets £5 under 16s, £10 adults<br />
Sun 16 Feb 7.30pm<br />
UBS Soundscapes:<br />
LSO Artist Portrait – Yuja Wang<br />
Yuja Wang Piano Recital<br />
Programme to be announced<br />
Yuja Wang piano<br />
Tickets £10–28<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Wed 19 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Mariinsky Brass Ensemble<br />
Programme to include<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 5<br />
(arranged for brass ensemble)<br />
Mariinsky Brass Ensemble<br />
UK tour supported by BP<br />
Tickets £10–25<br />
Thu 20 Feb 7.30pm<br />
UBS Soundscapes:<br />
LSO Artist Portrait – Yuja Wang<br />
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3<br />
Stravinsky Petrushka<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Daniel Harding conductor<br />
Yuja Wang piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 22 Feb 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gabel<br />
Chausson Soir de fête<br />
Bruno Mantovani Concerto for two pianos<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
Debussy Nocturnes<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 8<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Fabien Gabel conductor<br />
François-Frédéric Guy piano<br />
Varduhi Yeritsyan piano<br />
BBC Singers<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Sun 23 Feb 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Harding<br />
Huw Watkins Flute Concerto (world premiere,<br />
LSO commission)<br />
Mahler Symphony No 1, Titan<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Daniel Harding conductor<br />
Adam Walker flute<br />
LSO commission supported by the<br />
Borletti-Buitoni Trust<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy
Wed 26 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe<br />
Guildhall School alumna and renowned<br />
violinist Tasmin Little joins pianist Martin Roscoe,<br />
Professor of Piano at the school, for a special<br />
recital.<br />
Programme to be announced<br />
Tickets on sale from 1 November<br />
Thu 27 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Richard Tognetti<br />
Vivaldi Concerto in D for violin, two oboes and<br />
two horns<br />
Fasch Concerto in D minor for lute<br />
Pisendel Concerto Grosso No 1 in E flat major<br />
Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins<br />
Veracini Ouverture No 5<br />
Bach Concerto in D major for three violins<br />
Vivaldi Concerto in F major for violin,<br />
two oboes, two horns and bassoon<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Richard Tognetti director / violin<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of AAM multibuy<br />
Fri 28 Feb 1pm, Milton Court<br />
ECHO Rising Stars:<br />
Leticia Muñoz Moreno<br />
Nominated by L’Auditori Barcelona and Palau<br />
de la Música Catalana<br />
Granados Sonata for violin and piano<br />
Franck Violin Sonata<br />
Falla Suite Populaire Espagnole<br />
Ravel Tzigane<br />
Leticia Muñoz Moreno violin<br />
Ana-Maria Vera piano<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)<br />
Fri 28 Feb 7.30pm<br />
Artist Spotlight: Vengerov/<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Beethoven Concerto for violin, cello<br />
and piano<br />
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Maxim Vengerov conductor / violin<br />
Antonio Meneses cello<br />
Igor Levit piano<br />
Tickets £10–40<br />
March 2014<br />
Tue 4 Mar 7.30pm<br />
Leif Ove Andsnes/Beethoven<br />
Beethoven<br />
Sonata No 11 in B flat major<br />
Sonata No 28 in A major<br />
Variations in F major<br />
Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata<br />
Leif Ove Andsnes piano<br />
Tickets £15–35<br />
Leif Ove Andsnes © Ozgur Albayraka<br />
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Thu 6 Mar 6.30pm<br />
Rameau Les Indes Galantes/<br />
Les Talens Lyriques<br />
Rameau Les Indes Galantes<br />
Les Talens Lyriques<br />
Christophe Rousset director / harpsichord<br />
Carolyn Sampson Hébé, Phani, Fatime<br />
Benoît Arnould Bellone, Huascar, Alvar<br />
Eugénie Warnier Amour, Roxane, Zima<br />
Judith Van Wanroij Emilie, Atalide<br />
Kenneth Tarver Valère, Tacmas<br />
Anders J. Dahlin Carlos, Damon<br />
Thomas Dolié Osman, Adario<br />
Choeur Sagittarius<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
French artists supported by the Institut français<br />
Thu 6 Mar 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Britten Sinfonia/<br />
Patricia Kopatchinskaja<br />
Brahms arr Paul Angerer Chorale Preludes<br />
Tigran Mansurian Four Serious Songs after<br />
Brahms<br />
Bartók Romanian Dances<br />
Janácˇ ek arr Richard Tognetti String<br />
Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata<br />
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin / director<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of Britten Sinfonia multibuy<br />
Fri 7 Mar 1pm, Milton Court<br />
ECHO Rising Stars:<br />
Van Baerle Trio<br />
Nominated by Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam<br />
and BOZAR Brussels<br />
Haydn Piano Trio in E flat major<br />
Jeths Chiasmos<br />
Brahms Piano Trio No 2 in C major<br />
Van Baerle Trio<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)<br />
Sat 8 Mar<br />
Total Immersion:<br />
Villa-Lobos<br />
A day of music and film celebrating<br />
the work of Villa-Lobos<br />
11am Talk, Frobisher Rooms<br />
An introduction to the music of Villa-Lobos<br />
Admission free<br />
Limited availability but admission guaranteed with<br />
a day pass.<br />
1pm Concert, Milton Court<br />
Chamber and vocal music by Villa-Lobos<br />
Guildhall Ensembles<br />
Tickets £12<br />
3pm Film, Cinemas<br />
Descobrimento do Brazil (Brazil, 1936)<br />
Humberto Mauro‘s 1936 film about the claiming<br />
of Brazil for Portugal in 1500.<br />
Dirs Humberto Mauro and Ano de Lançamento<br />
Shown in Portuguese with an introduction by Simon<br />
Wright<br />
Tickets £6<br />
5pm Concert, Milton Court<br />
Villa-Lobos<br />
Amerindian Legends<br />
Ave Maria<br />
Pater Noster<br />
As costureiras<br />
Bendite Sabecloria<br />
Bachiana Brasileira No 9<br />
BBC Singers<br />
Celso Antunes conductor<br />
Tickets £12<br />
7pm BBC SO Learning Performance,<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Foyer<br />
The culmination of a BBC SO Learning project<br />
Free
7.30pm Concert<br />
Villa-Lobos<br />
Uirapuru<br />
Descobrimento do Brazil – Primeira Missa<br />
no Brazil<br />
Choros No 8 for two pianos and orchestra<br />
Bachianas brasileiras No 5, for soprano and<br />
cello ensemble<br />
Bachianas brasileiras No 4<br />
From Floresta do Amazonas: Canção do<br />
Amor (Love Song) and Melodia Sentimental<br />
(Sentimental Melody)<br />
Chôros No 10 for chorus and orchestra<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sakari Oramo conductor<br />
Anu Komsi soprano<br />
Martin Roscoe piano<br />
Kathyrn Stott piano<br />
BBC Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Day passes available.<br />
See page 51 for details<br />
Mon 10 Mar 7.30pm<br />
Dmitri Hvorostovsky<br />
Programme to include romances by<br />
Rachmaninov and Glière on poems by<br />
Alexander Pushkin and Sviridov’s<br />
St Petersburg: a vocal poem.<br />
Dmitri Hvorostovsky bass<br />
Ivary Ilja piano<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Dmitri Hvorostovsky © Pavel Antonov<br />
Wed 19 Mar 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Cambreling<br />
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante<br />
Messiaen Éclairs sur l’Au-delà …<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sylvain Cambreling conductor<br />
Veronika Eberle violin<br />
Antoine Tamestit viola<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Thu 20 Mar 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Mariinsky Wind Quintet<br />
Taffanel Quintet in G minor<br />
Ligeti Six Bagatelles<br />
Milhaud Suite La chimenée du roi René<br />
Mozart Fantasia in F minor for mechanical<br />
organ (arranged for wind quintet)<br />
Evgeny Petrov New work<br />
Mariinsky Wind Quintet<br />
UK tour supported by BP<br />
Tickets £10–25<br />
Alina Ibragimova © Sussie Ahlburg<br />
Sun 23 Mar 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir John Eliot Gardiner<br />
Mendelssohn Overture, Ruy Blas<br />
Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor<br />
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, Italian<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor<br />
Alina Ibragimova violin<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
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Wed 26 Mar 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Angelika Kirchschlager<br />
JC Bach Grand Overture No 2<br />
Mozart Lieder: Abendempfindung,<br />
Das Veilchen and Als Luise die Briefe<br />
WFE Bach Sinfonia in C major<br />
Haydn Scena di Berenice<br />
JCF Bach Concerto for fortepiano and viola<br />
Mozart Concert arias: Ch’io mi scordi di te,<br />
Alma grande e nobil core and Al desio di chi<br />
t’adora<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Richard Egarr director / fortepiano<br />
Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano<br />
Jane Rogers viola<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of AAM multibuy<br />
Wed 26 Mar 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Oramo<br />
Sibelius Pohjola’s Daughter<br />
Esa-Pekka Salonen Violin Concerto<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sakari Oramo conductor<br />
Leila Josefowicz violin<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Singers at Six 6pm, St Giles’ Cripplegate<br />
The BBC Singers perform choral works from<br />
Soviet Russia conducted by Stephen Cleobury.<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 to ticket holders for the<br />
evening concert)<br />
Leila Josefowicz © Henry J Fair<br />
Thu 27 Mar 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Leila Josefowicz<br />
Schubert Sonata in A, Grand Duo<br />
Xenakis Dikhthas<br />
Stravinsky Duo Concertante<br />
Schubert Rondo in B minor<br />
Leila Josefowicz violin<br />
John Novacek piano<br />
Tickets £15–25<br />
Sun 30 Mar 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gergiev<br />
Scriabin Symphony No 1<br />
Liszt Piano Concerto No 2<br />
Scriabin Symphony No 4, The Poem of Ecstasy<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
Denis Matsuev piano<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
April 2014<br />
Thu 3 Apr 7.30pm<br />
Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra Amsterdam/Jansons<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Mozart Violin Concerto in G major<br />
Bruckner Symphony No 4, Romantic<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
Amsterdam<br />
Mariss Jansons conductor<br />
Frank Peter Zimmermann violin<br />
Tickets £15–65
Fri 4 Apr 7.30pm<br />
Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra Amsterdam/Jansons<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Haydn Cello Concerto in C<br />
Bruckner Symphony No 7<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
Amsterdam<br />
Mariss Jansons conductor<br />
Truls Mørk cello<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Sat 5 Apr 6.30pm<br />
Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra Amsterdam/Jansons<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> international<br />
associate residency<br />
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1<br />
Bruckner Symphony No 9<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
Amsterdam<br />
Mariss Jansons conductor<br />
Lars Vogt piano<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Sun 6 Apr 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Andrew Davis<br />
Elgar The Dream of Gerontius<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Andrew Davis conductor<br />
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano<br />
Stuart Skelton tenor<br />
Brindley Sherratt bass<br />
BBC Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £12–40<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Wed 9 Apr 7.30pm<br />
El na Garancˇ a in recital<br />
Programme to include songs by Schumann<br />
and Strauss<br />
El na Garancˇ a mezzo-soprano<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Elina Garancˇ a © Karina Schwarz<br />
Thu 10 Apr 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gergiev<br />
Messiaen L’ascension<br />
Scriabin Symphony No 5, Prometheus,<br />
Poem of Fire<br />
Scriabin Symphony No 2<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
Denis Matsuev piano<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Supported by LSO Patrons<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Fri 11 Apr 1pm, Milton Court<br />
ECHO Rising Stars:<br />
Juliette Bausor<br />
Nominated by The Sage Gateshead<br />
Dutilleux Sonatine<br />
Poulenc Sonata<br />
Charlie Piper New commission<br />
Messiaen Le Merle Noir<br />
Prokofiev Sonata in D major<br />
Juliette Bausor flute<br />
Alasdair Beatson piano<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)<br />
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39 classical music 2013 – 1 4<br />
Birtwistle<br />
at 80<br />
Guardian music critic<br />
Andrew Clements introduces<br />
Birtwistle at 80.<br />
For Harrison Birtwistle, music and theatre have<br />
always been inextricably linked. One of his earliest<br />
pieces, composed when he was just eleven, was<br />
a work for three mimes and a solo clarinet (his<br />
own instrument), and even in his instrumental and<br />
orchestral works ever since, there has always been<br />
an unrevealed drama shaping the music. Yet when<br />
he was director of music at the National Theatre in<br />
the 1980s, he often found himself recommending<br />
that directors didn’t need music in their productions;<br />
for him, music has always been too precious,<br />
too necessary, to squander for the sake of it.<br />
Appropriately then, the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s celebration of<br />
Birtwistle’s 80th birthday next year is centred upon<br />
performances of two of his major music-theatre<br />
works, both collaborations with major British<br />
poets. The series begins with Martyn Brabbins<br />
conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a<br />
concert staging of Gawain, a tale of derring-do<br />
set in the court of King Arthur, with a libretto by<br />
David Harsent based upon the medieval poem<br />
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. And there’s also<br />
a chance to see again the ‘mechanical pastoral’,<br />
as Birtwistle called it, Yan Tan Tethera, originally<br />
intended for television. With a libretto by Tony<br />
Harrison it’s set in an English pastoral world in<br />
which shepherds count sheep and summon up<br />
magic spells to counter the dark forces of evil.<br />
While Birtwistle has always been adept at<br />
covering his technical tracks as a composer –<br />
he once claimed that the vast musical structure<br />
of Gawain was based on a single chord –<br />
landscapes, whether real or imaginary, ritual or<br />
mundane, have always featured prominently in<br />
his musical world. He is in his way as profoundly<br />
English a composer as any of his predecessors<br />
from the early part of the 20th century, and the<br />
final concert in the <strong>Barbican</strong> tribute places his<br />
works – the haunting beautiful choral piece<br />
Fields of Sorrow and the Dürer-inspired clarinet<br />
concerto Melancolia I – alongside pieces by<br />
Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.<br />
Gawain 16 May / Page 43<br />
Earth Dances 20 May / Page 43<br />
Birtwistle at 80: Study Afternoon<br />
25 May / Page 44<br />
Knussen / BCMG 25 May / Page 44<br />
Yan Tan Tethera 29 May / Page 44<br />
Fields of Sorrow 30 May / Page 44
Sat 12 Apr 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Andrew Davis<br />
Elgar The Apostles<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Andrew Davis conductor<br />
Nicole Cabell Blessed Virgin / Angel Gabriel<br />
Sarah Connolly Mary Magdalene<br />
Paul Groves St John / Narrator<br />
Brindley Sherratt Judas<br />
Gerald Finley St Peter<br />
Jacques Imbrailo Jesus<br />
BBC Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £12–40<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Come and Sing Elgar 2pm,<br />
City of London School for Girls<br />
A workshop singing extracts from Elgar’s<br />
The Dream of Gerontius and The Apostles.<br />
Tickets £5<br />
Sun 13 Apr 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gergiev<br />
Messiaen Les offrandes oubliées<br />
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2<br />
Scriabin Symphony No 3, The Divine Poem<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Valery Gergiev conductor<br />
Daniil Trifonov piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Fri 18 Apr 6pm<br />
Good Friday:<br />
Bach St John Passion<br />
Bach St John Passion<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Jacqueline Shave director / violin<br />
Julia Doyle soprano<br />
Iestyn Davies counter-tenor<br />
Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist<br />
Jeremy Budd tenor<br />
Matthew Brook bass<br />
Eamonn Dougan Pilate / director,<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices<br />
Tickets £10–35<br />
Thu 24 Apr 7.30pm<br />
LSO Eclectica at the <strong>Barbican</strong>:<br />
Mystic and Sufi<br />
Arvo Pärt Fratres<br />
Arvo Pärt Symphony No 3<br />
Arrangements of works by Dhafer Youssef<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Kristjan Järvi conductor<br />
Dhafer Youssef oud / vocals<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 26 Apr, Milton Court<br />
The Arditti Quartet:<br />
40 Years Young<br />
A celebration of the Arditti Quartet and its 40<br />
years of breaking the boundaries of new music.<br />
Compered by Tom Service, the day will include<br />
performances of classic works commissioned<br />
by the ensemble and new works written for the<br />
occasion, intermingled with informal insights<br />
and conversation.<br />
11am Session 1<br />
Jonathan Harvey String Quartet No 1<br />
Brice Pauset New work (world premiere)<br />
Elliott Carter String Quartet No 5<br />
György Kurtág Aus der Ferne III & V<br />
Helmut Lachenmann Grido<br />
Arditti Quartet<br />
Tickets £15<br />
Iestyn Davies<br />
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3pm Session 2<br />
James Clarke New work (world premiere)<br />
Hector Parra Leaves of Reality<br />
Hilda Paredes New work (world premiere)<br />
Georg Friedrich Haas String Quartet No 2<br />
Ligeti String Quartet No 2<br />
Arditti Quartet<br />
Tickets £15<br />
7.30pm Session 3<br />
Wolfgang Rihm Fetzen I & II<br />
Toshio Hosokawa Silent Flowers<br />
Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet No 3<br />
Harrison Birtwistle New work (world<br />
premiere)<br />
Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No 5<br />
Xenakis Tetras<br />
Arditti Quartet<br />
Tickets £15<br />
Book all three Arditti Quartet sessions<br />
in Milton Court Concert Hall on 26 Apr<br />
and receive a 20% discount<br />
Sun 27 Apr 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Gatti<br />
Mahler Symphony No 7<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Daniele Gatti conductor<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
May 2014<br />
Thu 1 May 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Znaider<br />
Strauss Don Juan<br />
Brahms Double Concerto<br />
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Nikolaj Znaider conductor<br />
Roman Simovic violin<br />
Tim Hugh cello<br />
Sponsored by Baker & McKenzie<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 3 May 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Oramo<br />
Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune<br />
Pascal Dusapin Violin Concerto (UK premiere)<br />
Honegger Rugby<br />
Elgar Enigma Variations<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sakari Oramo conductor<br />
Renaud Capuçon violin<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Sun 4 May 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Mark Elder<br />
Strauss Wind Serenade<br />
Mozart Piano Concerto No 22<br />
Strauss Macbeth<br />
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Mark Elder conductor<br />
Imogen Cooper piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
10am–5.30pm<br />
LSO Discovery Day: Richard Strauss<br />
Full day tickets £17 (£13.50 concessions)
Wed 7 May 7.30pm<br />
Julia Lezhneva/<br />
Il Giardino Armonico<br />
The sensational young Russian soprano sings<br />
music from Handel’s Italian journey including:<br />
Handel<br />
Sinfonia from Agrippina<br />
‘Pugneran con noi le stelle’ from Rodrigo<br />
Concerto grosso in G minor Op 6 No 6<br />
Saeviat tellus inter rigores<br />
Concerto grosso in D major Op 6 No 5<br />
‘Pensieri, voi mi tormentate’ from Agrippina<br />
‘Un pensiero nemico di pace’,<br />
‘Lascia la spina’,‘Come nembo che fugge col<br />
vento’ from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno<br />
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor No 6,<br />
La Follia<br />
Il Giardino Armonico<br />
Giovanni Antonini director<br />
Julia Lezhneva soprano<br />
Tickets £15–45<br />
Thu 8 May 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Mark Elder<br />
Mozart Symphony No 38, Prague<br />
Strauss Extracts from Der Rosenkavalier<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Mark Elder conductor<br />
Soloists include<br />
Anne Schwanewilms Marschallin<br />
Sarah Connolly Octavian<br />
Lucy Crowe Sophie<br />
Supported by LSO Premier<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Gil Shaham © Christian Steiner<br />
Fri 9 May 7.30pm<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Oramo<br />
Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice<br />
Bright Sheng Violin Concerto<br />
(BBC commission, UK premiere)<br />
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sakari Oramo conductor<br />
Gil Shaham violin<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy<br />
Singers at Six 6pm, St Giles’ Cripplegate<br />
The BBC Singers perform choral music by Zoltán<br />
Kodály plus works by some of his Hungarian<br />
contemporaries. Conducted by James Morgan.<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 for ticket holders<br />
to the evening concert)<br />
Mon 12 May 7pm<br />
The Gold Medal<br />
The Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize<br />
will this year be awarded to an instrumentalist.<br />
Each finalist will perform a programme of music<br />
to a <strong>Barbican</strong> audience and will be judged by<br />
an esteemed jury panel.<br />
Tickets on sale from 17 February 2014<br />
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Tue 13 May 8pm<br />
Kronos Quartet<br />
Newly commissioned works marking the Kronos<br />
Quartet’s 40th anniversary including:<br />
Bryce Dessner New work (world premiere)<br />
Philip Glass String Quartet No 6 (UK premiere)<br />
Kronos Quartet<br />
Tickets £20–35<br />
Wed 14 May 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Heras-Casado<br />
Ravel Alborada del gracioso<br />
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2<br />
Shostakovich Symphony No 10<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor<br />
Roman Simovic violin<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Fri 16 May 1pm, Milton Court<br />
ECHO Rising Stars:<br />
Dionysis Grammenos<br />
Nominated by Megaron, the Athens<br />
Concert Hall<br />
Bassi Rigoletto Fantasia di Concerto<br />
Rachmaninov Vocalise<br />
Fauré Après un rêve<br />
Giacoma Tosca fantasia<br />
Schumann Three Romanzen<br />
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor<br />
Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano<br />
Sarasate Carmen Fantasy<br />
Dionysis Grammenos clarinet<br />
Karina Sposobina piano<br />
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)<br />
Hélène Guilmette © Julien Faugèrer<br />
Fri 16 May 7pm<br />
Birtwistle at 80: Gawain<br />
Harrison Birtwistle Gawain<br />
Concert hall staging<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Martyn Brabbins conductor<br />
John Lloyd Davies director<br />
Cast to include:<br />
Leigh Melrose Gawain<br />
Sir John Tomlinson Green Knight<br />
Laura Aiken Morgan<br />
Jennifer Johnston Hautdesert<br />
Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts Arthur<br />
William Towers Baldwin<br />
Thomas Walker Ywain<br />
Rachel Nicholls Guinevere<br />
BBC Singers<br />
Tickets £10–25<br />
Tue 20 May 7.30pm<br />
Birtwistle at 80: Earth Dances<br />
Harrison Birtwistle Earth Dances<br />
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Daniel Harding conductor<br />
Paul Lewis piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 24 May 7.30pm<br />
Poulenc/<br />
Les Mamelles de Tirésias<br />
Fauré Requiem<br />
Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tirésias<br />
Concert staging<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Ludovic Morlot conductor<br />
Kenneth Richardson director<br />
Cast to include:<br />
Hélène Guilmette Thérèse<br />
Jean-François Lapointe Husband<br />
Thomas Morris Journalist from Paris<br />
Werner van Mechelen Policeman /<br />
theatre director<br />
BBC Singers<br />
BBC Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–32<br />
Part of BBC SO multibuy
Claire Booth © Sven Arnstein<br />
Sun 25 May 3pm, Frobisher Room 4<br />
Birtwistle at 80:<br />
Study Afternoon<br />
An afternoon exploring the music of<br />
Sir Harrison Birtwistle.<br />
Free to ticket holders of the Birtwistle at 80 events.<br />
Limited capacity, please book early to avoid<br />
disappointment.<br />
<br />
Sun 25 May 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Birtwistle at 80: Knussen/BCMG<br />
Harrison Birtwistle<br />
Cantus Iambeus<br />
Monody for Corpus Christi<br />
Tragoedia<br />
Fantasia on all the Notes<br />
Four Poems by Jaan Kaplinski<br />
Virelai (Sus une fontayne)<br />
Silbury Air<br />
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group<br />
Oliver Knussen conductor<br />
Katrien Baerts soprano<br />
Tickets £10–20<br />
Tue 27 May 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Bach<br />
Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major<br />
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in E major<br />
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A major<br />
Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D major<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Richard Egarr director / harpsichord<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of AAM multibuy<br />
Thu 29 May 7.30pm<br />
Birtwistle at 80: Yan Tan Tethera<br />
Harrison Birtwistle Yan Tan Tethera<br />
Concert hall staging<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Baldur Brönnimann conductor<br />
John Lloyd Davies director<br />
Roderick Williams Alan<br />
Omar Ebrahim Caleb / Raven<br />
Claire Booth Hannah<br />
Daniel Norman Piper / Bad’un<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices<br />
Eamonn Dougan director,<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices<br />
Tickets £10–25<br />
Fri 30 May 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Birtwistle at 80: Fields of<br />
Sorrow/ Britten Sinfonia<br />
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme<br />
of Thomas Tallis<br />
Holst If You Love Songs<br />
Lovely Venus<br />
David’s Lament for Jonathan<br />
The Fields of Sorrow<br />
Harrison Birtwistle The Fields of Sorrow<br />
Harrison Birtwistle Melancolia I<br />
Vaughan Williams Flos Campi<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Baldur Brönnimann conductor<br />
Maxim Rysanov viola<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices<br />
Eamonn Dougan director, Britten Sinfonia<br />
Voices<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Part of Britten Sinfonia multibuy<br />
Pre-concert performance 6pm<br />
Birtwistle’s The Tree of Strings played by the<br />
Arditti Quartet<br />
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Sun 1 Jun 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Simon Rattle<br />
Beethoven Violin Concerto<br />
Henze Being Beauteous<br />
Brahms Symphony No 4<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Simon Rattle conductor<br />
Veronika Eberle violin<br />
Anna Prohaska soprano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Multibuy discounts will not<br />
be applied to this concert.<br />
Thu 5 Jun 7.30pm<br />
Haitink at 85<br />
Schumann Overture, Manfred<br />
Berg Violin Concerto<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 6, Pastoral<br />
Bernard Haitink conductor<br />
Chamber Orchestra of Europe<br />
Isabelle Faust violin<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Fri 6 Jun 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Kavakos<br />
Beethoven Overture, Prometheus<br />
Beethoven Triple Concerto<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 3, Eroica<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Leonidas Kavakos conductor / violin<br />
Tim Hugh cello<br />
Enrico Pace piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 7 Jun 7.30pm<br />
Haitink at 85<br />
Ravel Suite, Le tombeau de Couperin<br />
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major<br />
Mozart Symphony No 40<br />
Chamber Orchestra of Europe<br />
Bernard Haitink conductor<br />
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano<br />
Tickets £15–65<br />
Tue 10 Jun 7.30pm<br />
Evgeny Kissin<br />
Schubert Sonata in D major<br />
Scriabin Sonata No 2 in G sharp minor<br />
Scriabin Selection of Etudes from Op 8<br />
Evgeny Kissin piano<br />
Tickets £25–85<br />
Evgeny Kissin © Felix Broede<br />
Thu 12 Jun 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Sir Colin Davis<br />
Bruch Scottish Fantasy<br />
Dvorˇák Symphony No 8<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Sir Colin Davis conductor<br />
Nicola Benedetti violin<br />
Part of UBS Soundscapes<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy
Fri 13 Jun 7.30pm, Milton Court<br />
Northern Sinfonia<br />
Mozart Overture, Don Giovanni<br />
Bartók Viola Concerto<br />
John Casken That Subtle Knot<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 5<br />
Thomas Zehetmair violin / conductor<br />
Ruth Killius viola<br />
Northern Sinfonia<br />
Tickets £10–30<br />
Sun 15 Jun 2.30pm<br />
LSO Discovery Family Concert<br />
Programme to be announced<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Tickets £5 under-16s, £10 adults<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Thu 19 Jun 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Luisi<br />
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23<br />
Bruckner Symphony No 8<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Fabio Luisi conductor<br />
Lise de la Salle piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
Sat 21 Jun 7pm<br />
Academy of Ancient Music/<br />
Three last symphonies<br />
Mozart Symphony No 41, Jupiter<br />
Haydn Symphony No 104, London<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 9, Choral<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
Richard Egarr conductor<br />
Elizabeth Watts soprano<br />
Daniela Lehner mezzo-soprano<br />
Benjamin Hulett tenor<br />
Andrew Foster-Williams bass<br />
Choir of the AAM<br />
AAMplify new generation choir<br />
Tickets £10–35<br />
Part of AAM multibuy<br />
Elizabeth Watts © Dylan Thomas<br />
Sun 22 Jun 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra/<br />
Luisi<br />
Strauss Ein Heldenleben<br />
Beethoven Mass in C<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Fabio Luisi conductor<br />
Christiane Oelze soprano<br />
Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano<br />
Timothy Oliver tenor<br />
London Symphony Chorus<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
10.30am–5.30pm<br />
LSO Discovery Singing Day:<br />
Beethoven Mass in C<br />
Tickets £17 (includes music hire)<br />
Sun 29 Jun 7.30pm<br />
London Symphony Orchestra /<br />
Nott<br />
Beethoven Symphony No 2<br />
Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
Jonathan Nott conductor<br />
Cynthia Millar ondes Martenot<br />
Steven Osborne piano<br />
Tickets £10–37<br />
Part of LSO multibuy<br />
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Do more<br />
at the <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
Audiences of all ages and levels of<br />
experience can get more involved with<br />
performances at the <strong>Barbican</strong>.<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Guildhall Creative Learning, LSO<br />
Discovery, BBC SO and our other artistic<br />
partners create a huge range of activities that<br />
complement the main concert programme.<br />
Here’s a glimpse of some of the events in the up<br />
coming <strong>season</strong>.<br />
Music in-depth<br />
Fri 8–Sun 10 Nov 2013<br />
Illuminating Britten<br />
A weekend of varied events exploring the life<br />
and music of Benjamin Britten. The <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
and Guildhall School of Music & Drama<br />
join forces to present three days of concerts,<br />
films, mini-recitals and discussions, featuring<br />
musicians who knew Britten personally or who<br />
have a special understanding of his music.<br />
Curated by the film-maker, John Bridcut.<br />
With generous support from<br />
the Britten-Pears Foundation<br />
Tickets £95 (£50 concessions)<br />
29 Sep & 3 Nov 2013<br />
and 2 Feb & 4 May 2014<br />
LSO Discovery Days<br />
Take an in-depth look at some of our featured<br />
composers on an LSO Discovery Day, with<br />
focuses on Shostakovich, Berlioz, Sir Peter<br />
Maxwell Davies and Strauss by the LSO’s<br />
family of artists.<br />
Full day tickets £17 (£13.50 concessions)<br />
Sat 23 Nov 2013 & Sun 6 Apr 2014<br />
2–5pm<br />
BBC SO Study Afternoons<br />
This <strong>season</strong> find out more about Elgar’s<br />
oratorios and Britten’s Albert Herring at the<br />
BBC SO study afternoons.<br />
Free to ticket-holders to the evening BBC SO<br />
concerts on these dates
25 May 2014<br />
Birtwistle at 80:<br />
Study Afternoon<br />
Learn more about Sir Harrison Birtwistle in<br />
a study afternoon dedicated to his music as<br />
part of our series celebrating the composer’s<br />
80th birthday.<br />
Singing<br />
Sat 4 Jan & Sun 22 Jun 2014<br />
LSO Singing Days<br />
Whether you sing in a local choir, or haven’t<br />
sung since school, this is an exciting opportunity<br />
to get to grips with a classic work. Some sightsinging<br />
ability is required.<br />
Sat 12 Apr 2014 2–5pm<br />
BBC SO Come and Sing<br />
Members of the BBC Singers and BBC<br />
Symphony Chorus invite you to an afternoon<br />
workshop singing excerpts from The Dream of<br />
Gerontius and The Apostles. The workshop is<br />
suitable for people who are able to read music<br />
and all voices are welcome.<br />
For families<br />
2 & 3 Nov 2013 and 1 & 2 Mar 2014<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Weekender<br />
Twice a year the <strong>Barbican</strong> and Guildhall<br />
team up and invite the public to take part in a<br />
variety of inspiring, free activities across two<br />
days, incorporating music, dance, film, theatre<br />
and visual art. Past themes have included<br />
Urban Stories, technology, neuro science and<br />
surrealism. We look forward to welcoming you,<br />
your family and friends to the next <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
Weekender.<br />
Sun 27 Oct 2013, Sun 16 Feb<br />
& Sun 15 Jun 2014<br />
LSO Discovery Family<br />
Concerts<br />
Children and their families can experience the<br />
power of an orchestra for the first time and<br />
bring their own instruments to join in during<br />
the concerts. Make a day of it with pre-concert<br />
workshops and foyer activities.<br />
BBC SO Plus Family<br />
A series of family-friendly workshops that<br />
take place before selected BBC Symphony<br />
Orchestra concerts at the <strong>Barbican</strong>, giving<br />
family groups with children aged 8–16 the<br />
chance to experience live classical music.<br />
Dates to be confirmed.<br />
Please check our website for details.<br />
For emerging artists<br />
Wed 8 Oct 2013<br />
LSO/Guildhall Masterclasses<br />
The LINK Alliance masterclass series continues<br />
with Emanuel Ax working with musicians from<br />
the Guildhall School.<br />
23–31 Oct 2013 and 2–5 Apr 2014<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Guildhall<br />
Masterclasses<br />
Watch musicians from our international<br />
associate orchestras Leipzig Gewandhaus<br />
and Royal Concertgebouw passing on their<br />
skill and passion to students from the Guildhall<br />
School in a series of engaging masterclasses<br />
that are free for the public to attend.<br />
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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts 2013/14<br />
MOZART CHAMBER MUSIC<br />
Thu 26 Sep; 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 Oct;<br />
7 & 14 Nov 2013 1pm<br />
Featuring:<br />
Christian Blackshaw piano<br />
London Winds<br />
Aronowitz Ensemble<br />
Chiaroscuro String Quartet<br />
Ebène String Quartet and more …<br />
BARRY DOUGLAS AND FRIENDS<br />
Thu 23 Jan; 6, 13 & 20 Feb 2014 1pm<br />
Pianist Barry Douglas returns to LSO St Luke’s in Spring 2014 performing<br />
alongside musicians he has worked with throughout his career so far.<br />
SCHUBERT CHAMBER MUSIC<br />
Thu 27 Feb; 6, 13 & 20 Mar 2014 1pm<br />
Featuring:<br />
Cédric Tiberghien & Christian Ihle Hadland<br />
playing Schubert piano duets<br />
Nicola Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich & Alexei Grynyuk<br />
playing Schubert trios<br />
Doric String Quartet<br />
playing Schubert’s String Trio & Quartet in G major<br />
Signum String Quartet & cellist Nicolas Altstaedt<br />
playing Schubert’s String Quintet in C major<br />
RUSSIAN ROMANTIC PIANO WORKS<br />
Thu 27 Mar; 3, 10 & 17 Apr 2014 1pm<br />
Featuring pianists:<br />
Nikolai Demidenko<br />
Yevgeny Sudbin<br />
Boris Giltburg<br />
Denis Kozhukin<br />
performing works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and more …<br />
TICKETS £10 (£9 concessions)<br />
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Multibuy discounts can be booked online at<br />
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within each series and not across different series.<br />
For example, if you book two concerts from the<br />
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London Symphony Orchestra series a discount<br />
will not be applied.<br />
Concerts must be booked in one transaction to<br />
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London Symphony Orchestra<br />
The following discounts apply to concerts<br />
marked with the line ‘Part of LSO multibuy’:<br />
Book three or four concerts and save 15%<br />
Book five or more concerts and save 20%<br />
Exclusions: Discounts will not be applied to the<br />
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concerts will still count towards your multibuy<br />
total, eg book three concerts including one of the<br />
above excluded concerts and you will still save<br />
15% on two concerts.<br />
Book eight or more concerts and receive<br />
a 20% discount plus up to two free tickets<br />
for either the LSO String Ensemble on 27 Oct<br />
or LSO Brass Quintet on 23 Jan.<br />
To claim your free tickets email<br />
tickets@lso.co.uk with your booking reference.<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
The following discounts apply to concerts<br />
marked with the line ‘Part of BBC SO multibuy’:<br />
Book three to five BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
concerts and save 15%<br />
Book six or more BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
concerts and save 20%<br />
BBC SO concerts not taking place in the<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Hall are excluded from the multibuy<br />
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Multibuy discounts and day passes cannot be<br />
combined<br />
Total Immersion Day Passes<br />
Day passes are available by telephone or in<br />
person.<br />
There are a range of day pass prices reflecting<br />
the prices for tickets in the <strong>Barbican</strong> Hall.<br />
Total Immersion: The Rite of Spring 1913 £18–35<br />
Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave £26–38<br />
Total Immersion: Villa-Lobos £32–50<br />
Please note that a limited number of day passes<br />
are available.<br />
Academy of Ancient Music<br />
The following discounts apply to concerts<br />
marked with the line ‘Part of AAM multibuy’:<br />
Book five or more Academy of Ancient Music<br />
concerts and save 15%<br />
Exclusions: A discount will not apply to the<br />
concert on 31 Jan. This concert will still count<br />
towards your multi-buy total, eg book five<br />
concerts including 31 Jan and you will still save<br />
15% on four concerts.
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Hall<br />
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St Luke’s<br />
Beech Street Tunnel<br />
St Giles’<br />
Cripplegate<br />
Wood Street<br />
Whitecross Street<br />
Cinemas<br />
2 & 3<br />
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Britten Sinfonia<br />
The following discounts apply to concerts taking<br />
place in Milton Court Concert Hall marked with<br />
the line ‘Part of Britten Sinfonia multibuy’:<br />
Book all five Britten Sinfonia concerts in Milton<br />
Court Concert Hall and save 20%<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Britten: Illuminating Britten<br />
When you book tickets for Illuminating Britten<br />
you can also claim a 20% discount on the<br />
following events:<br />
Fri 8 Nov <strong>Barbican</strong> Britten: Bostridge /<br />
Our Hunting Fathers<br />
Sat 9 Nov <strong>Barbican</strong> Britten: Phaedra /<br />
Richard Alston Dance Company<br />
Tickets for Illuminating Britten Fri 8–Sun 10 Nov<br />
are available by telephone or in person.<br />
Tickets £95 (£50 concessions)<br />
Arditti at 40<br />
Book all three Arditti at 40 concerts in Milton<br />
Court Concert Hall on 26 Apr and receive a 20%<br />
discount.<br />
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Nearest tubes are Moorgate and <strong>Barbican</strong>.<br />
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Performer index<br />
Conductors<br />
Name<br />
Page<br />
Antonini Giovanni 42<br />
Antunes Celso 35<br />
Bedford Steuart 22<br />
Bicket Harry 31<br />
Bloch Alexandre 33<br />
Brabbins Martyn 33, 43<br />
Bringuier Lionel 30<br />
Brönnimann Baldur 44<br />
Brough Paul 32<br />
Bychkov Semyon 18, 28<br />
Cambreling Sylvain 36<br />
Chailly Riccardo 13, 14<br />
Christophers Harry 22, 28<br />
Cleobury Stephen 26<br />
Daniel Paul 18, 27<br />
Dausgaard Thomas 11<br />
Davis Sir Andrew 38, 40<br />
Davis Sir Colin 11, 25, 28, 31, 45<br />
Egarr Richard 11, 22, 37, 44, 46<br />
Elder Sir Mark 41, 42<br />
Gabel Fabien 33<br />
Gaffigan James 12, 32<br />
Gatti Daniele 41<br />
Gergiev Valery 16, 17, 37, 38, 40<br />
Gardiner Sir John Eliot 30, 36<br />
Gardner Edward 27<br />
Haitink Bernard 12, 45<br />
Harding Daniel 12, 20, 24, 33, 43<br />
Heras-Casado Pablo 43<br />
Hill David 13<br />
Janiczek Alexander 30<br />
Jansons Mariss 37, 38<br />
Järvi Kristjan 40<br />
Knussen Oliver 44<br />
Labadie Bernard 26, 28<br />
Luisi Fabio 46<br />
Minkowski Marc 14<br />
Morlot Ludovic 43<br />
Noseda Gianandrea 10, 12<br />
Nott Jonathan 46<br />
Oramo Sakari 16, 27, 36, 37, 41, 42<br />
Pappano Sir Antonio 30, 31<br />
Pons Josep 25<br />
Rattle Sir Simon 45<br />
Redmond Timothy 14<br />
Roth François-Xavier 26<br />
Rousset Christophe 35<br />
Strobel Frank 25<br />
Name<br />
Page<br />
Tilson Thomas Michael 26, 27<br />
Vedernikov Alexander 11<br />
Volkov Ilan 30<br />
Yuasa Takuo 24<br />
Zehetmair Thomas 13, 46<br />
Znaider Nikolaj 41<br />
Zweden Jaap Van 31<br />
Soloists<br />
Abdrazakov Ildar 17<br />
Adès Thomas 17<br />
Aiken Laura 43<br />
Aimard Pierre-Laurent 14<br />
Ainsley John Mark 11<br />
Andsnes Leif Ove 34<br />
Arnauld Benoît 35<br />
Ax Emanuel 12<br />
Baerts Katrien 44<br />
Balázs János 26<br />
Ballestra Jean-Luc 10<br />
Batiashvilli Lisa 12<br />
Bausor Juliette 38<br />
Beatson Alasdair 38<br />
Bell Stephen 22<br />
Benedetti Nicola 45<br />
Berg Nathan 11<br />
Beuron Yann 26<br />
Bevan Sophie 11, 28<br />
Blaze Robin 28<br />
Booth Claire 44<br />
Borodina Olga 17<br />
Bostridge Ian 18<br />
Bretz Gábor 10<br />
Brewer Christine 22, 27<br />
Broderick Katherine 12<br />
Brook Matthew 28, 40<br />
Budd Jeremy 40<br />
Cabell Nicole 40<br />
Capuçon Renaud 41<br />
Cargill Karen 16, 26<br />
Coleman-Wright Peter 18<br />
Connolly Sarah 31, 38, 40, 42<br />
Cook Allison 17<br />
Cooper Imogen 32, 41<br />
Cox Michael 30<br />
Crowe Lucy 42<br />
Dahlin Anders J 35<br />
Dalayman Katarina 24<br />
Daniel Nicholas 12
Name<br />
Page<br />
Davies Iestyn 26, 40<br />
Davies Neal 18, 31<br />
Dindo Enrico 13<br />
Dolié Thomas 35<br />
Dougan Eamonn 40<br />
Douglas Barry 11<br />
Doyle Julia 40<br />
Dran Julien 10<br />
Eberle Veronica 36, 45<br />
Ebrahim Omar 44<br />
Ek Klara 31<br />
Farnsworth Marcus 22, 26<br />
Faust Isabelle 45<br />
Filianoti Giuseppe 10<br />
Finley Gerald 28, 40<br />
Foster-Williams Andrew 46<br />
Fritz Burkhard 20<br />
Garancˇ a El na 38<br />
Gilchrist James 26, 28<br />
Glynn Christopher 22<br />
Golan Itamar 27, 28<br />
Grammenos Dionysis 43<br />
Gringolts Ilya 28<br />
Groves Paul 40<br />
Gubisch Nora 25<br />
Guilmette Helene 43<br />
Guy François-Frédérick 33<br />
Hargreaves Matthew 10<br />
Hobbs Thomas 11<br />
Hodges Nicolas 30<br />
Hopkins Louise 17<br />
Howell Gwynne 18<br />
Hugh Tim 41, 45<br />
Hulett Benjamin 46<br />
Hunt Matthew 17<br />
Hvorostovsky Dmitri 36<br />
Ibragimova Alina 13, 36<br />
Ilya Ivary 36<br />
Imbrailo Jacques 40<br />
Jansen Janine 25, 30<br />
Johnson Graham 18<br />
Johnston Jennifer 13, 43<br />
Josefowicz Leila 37<br />
Joshua Rosemary 31<br />
Kaddouch David 14<br />
Kam Sharon 28<br />
Kasminen Samuli 10<br />
Kavakos Leonidas 13, 14, 45<br />
Keeble Ganor 22<br />
Keenlyside Simon 27<br />
Name<br />
Page<br />
Keith Gillian 22<br />
Kelly Frances 22<br />
Kennedy Andrew 18, 31<br />
Killius Ruth 13, 46<br />
Kirchschlager Angelika 37<br />
Kissin Evgeny 27, 45<br />
Komsi Anu 36<br />
Kopatchinskaja Patricia 35<br />
Kotchinian Arutjun 10<br />
Kožená Magdalena 28<br />
Kuusisto Pekka 17, 22<br />
Labeque Katia 28<br />
Labeque Marielle 28<br />
Lapoint Jean-François 43<br />
Leach Rachel 14, 33<br />
Lehner Daniela 11, 46<br />
Levit Igor 34<br />
Lewis Paul 12, 43<br />
Lezhneva Julia 42<br />
Little Tasmin 34<br />
Lloyd Roberts Jeffrey 43<br />
Lo Monaco José Maria 10<br />
Lugansky Nikolai 12<br />
Martineau Malcolm 27<br />
Marwood Anthony 17<br />
Matsuev Denis 37, 38<br />
Mead Tim 31<br />
Mechelen van Werner 43<br />
Melda Lara 18<br />
Melrose Leigh 43<br />
Meneses Antonio 28, 34<br />
Millar Cynthia 46<br />
Milne Lisa 33<br />
Moreno Leticia Muñoz 34<br />
Moreso Catia 12<br />
Mørk Truls 38<br />
Morris Thomas 43<br />
Mulroy Nicholas 40<br />
Mustonen Olli 16<br />
Mutter Anne-Sophie 31<br />
Nakariakov Sergei 16<br />
Nicholls Rachel 43<br />
Novacek John 37<br />
Oelze Christiane 46<br />
Oliver Timothy 46<br />
Osborne Steven 46<br />
Ovenden Jeremy 28<br />
Owen Martin 33<br />
Pace Enrico 45<br />
Padmore Mark 22<br />
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Name<br />
Page<br />
ˇ<br />
Perahia Murray 26<br />
Petersen Marlis 28<br />
Pires Maria João 30<br />
Platanias Dimitri 10<br />
Pohjonen Kimmo 10<br />
Poplovskaya Marina 18<br />
Power Lawence 28<br />
Prohaska Anna 22, 45<br />
Purves Christopher 26<br />
Rancatore Désiree 10<br />
Robinson Timothy 12<br />
Rogers Jane 37<br />
Roscoe Martin 34, 36<br />
Rose Matthew 22<br />
Rysanov Maxim 44<br />
Salle Lise de la 46<br />
Sampson Carolyn 35<br />
Scholl Andreas 31<br />
Schwanewilms Anne 42<br />
Shaham Gil 42<br />
Shave Jacqueline 12, 40<br />
Shaw Madeleine 10<br />
Sherratt Brindley 38, 40<br />
Simovic Roman 14, 41, 43<br />
Skelton Stuart 38<br />
Sposobina Karina 43<br />
Spyres Michael 17<br />
Staples Andrew 22<br />
Stephany Anna 46<br />
Stotijn Christianne 20<br />
Stott Kathryn 36<br />
Tamestit Antoine 16, 36<br />
Tarver Kenneth 35<br />
Teuscher Lydia 26<br />
Thibaudet Jean-Yves 45<br />
Thompson Adrian 22<br />
Tognetti Richard 34<br />
Tomlinson Sir John 43<br />
Tornatore Valeria 10<br />
Towers William 43<br />
Trifonov Daniil 40<br />
Tritschler Robin 17<br />
Trpc eski Simon 26<br />
Uchida Mitsuko 11<br />
Vengerov Maxim 20, 27, 28, 31, 34<br />
Vera Ana-Maria 34<br />
Vincent Guillaume 14<br />
Vogt Lars 38<br />
Volodin Alexei 11<br />
Volodos Arcadi 13<br />
Name<br />
Page<br />
Walker Adam 33<br />
Walker Thomas 43<br />
Wang Yuja 31, 32, 33<br />
Wanroij Judith Van 35<br />
Warnier Eugénie 35<br />
Watkins Huw 17<br />
Watts Elizabeth 46<br />
Whately Kitty 22<br />
Welton Derek 12<br />
Williams Roderick 18, 22, 44<br />
Wyn-Rogers Catherine 22<br />
Yeritsyan Varduhi 33<br />
Youssef Dhafer 40<br />
Zimmerman Frank Peter 37<br />
Znaider Nikolaj 25<br />
Composer index<br />
Adès Thomas 17, 30<br />
Arne Thomas 22<br />
Bach Johann Christian 37, 40<br />
Bach Johann Christoph Friedrich 37<br />
Bach Johann Sebastian 25, 30, 34, 44<br />
Bach Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst 37<br />
Barry Gerald 17<br />
Bartók Bela 14, 22,35, 42, 46<br />
Bassi Luigi 43<br />
Beethoven Ludwig van 12, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31,<br />
32, 33, 34, 38, 45, 46<br />
Berg Alban 11, 22, 27, 45<br />
Berlioz Hector 14, 16, 17, 26<br />
Birtwistle Harrison 41, 43, 44<br />
Borodin Alexander 11<br />
Boulez Pierre 30<br />
Brahms Johannes 13, 14, 27, 28, 30, 35, 41, 43,<br />
45<br />
Britten Benjamin 12, 17, 18, 22, 26, 27, 31<br />
Bruch Max 45<br />
Bruckner Anton 37, 38, 46<br />
Busoni Ferruccio 25<br />
Casken John 46<br />
Carter Elliot 40<br />
Chausson Ernest 33<br />
Chopin Frédéric 11, 26, 40, 43<br />
Clarke James 41<br />
Clyne Anna 12<br />
Copland Aaron 13<br />
Crespo Enrique 30<br />
Crumb George 22
Name<br />
Page<br />
ˇ<br />
ˇ<br />
˚<br />
Dalbavie Marc-André 30<br />
Debussy Claude 33, 41<br />
Dessner Bryce 43<br />
Doyle Patrick 25<br />
Dubrovay László 26<br />
Dufourt Hugues 30<br />
Dukas Paul 42<br />
Dusapin Pascal 41<br />
Dutilleux Henri 38<br />
Dvor ák Antonin 11, 14, 25, 31, 45<br />
Elgar Edward 12, 27, 31, 38, 40, 41<br />
Ewalde Victor 30<br />
Falla Manuel de 34<br />
Fasch Johann 34<br />
Fauré Gabriel 43<br />
Ferneyhough Brian 41<br />
Franck César 34<br />
Geminiani Francesco 42<br />
Giacoma Carlo Della 43<br />
Glass Philip 43<br />
Glière Reinhold 36<br />
Goves Larry 27<br />
Granados Enriqué 34<br />
Grieg Edvard 17<br />
Grisey Gérard 30<br />
Haas Georg Friedrich 41<br />
Handel George Frideric 22, 26, 28, 31, 42<br />
Harvey Jonathan 40<br />
Haydn Joseph 12, 13, 26, 28, 35, 37, 38, 46<br />
Henze Hans Werner 45<br />
Holst Gustav 44<br />
Honegger Arthur 41<br />
Hosokawa Toshio 41<br />
Janac ék Leos 35<br />
Jeths Willem 35<br />
Koetsier Jan 30<br />
Kreisler Fritz 27<br />
Kurtág György 40<br />
Lachenmann Helmut 40<br />
Ligeti György 36, 41<br />
Liszt Franz 26, 37<br />
Locke Matthew 22<br />
Mahler Gustav 11, 16, 20, 27, 33, 41<br />
Mansurian Tigran 35<br />
Mantovani Bruno 33<br />
Martinu Bohuslav 28<br />
Matthews Colin 27<br />
Maw Nicholas 12<br />
Maxwell Davies Sir Peter 30, 31<br />
Mendelssohn Felix 30, 35, 36<br />
Name<br />
Page<br />
Messiaen Olivier 36, 38, 40, 46<br />
Milhaud Darius 36<br />
Monteverdi Claudio 11<br />
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 11, 12, 13, 20, 28,<br />
32, 36, 37, 41, 42, 45, 46<br />
Muhly Nico 22<br />
Murail Tristan 16<br />
Musgrave Thea 32, 33<br />
Mussorgsky Modest 12<br />
Nordheim Arne 22<br />
Panufnik Andrzej 31<br />
Paredes Hilda 41<br />
Parra Hector 41<br />
Pärt Arvo 22, 26, 40<br />
Pauset Brice 40<br />
Pergolesi Giovanni 31<br />
Pesson Gérard 30<br />
Petrov Evgeny 36<br />
Piper Charlie 38<br />
Pisendel Johann 34<br />
Poulenc Francis 14, 38, 43<br />
Prokofiev Sergei 12, 26, 27, 28, 32, 38, 43<br />
Purcell Henry 18, 22<br />
Rachmaninov Sergei 31, 33, 36, 43<br />
Rameau Jean-Philippe 35<br />
Ravel Maurice 14, 25, 26, 30, 32, 34, 43, 45<br />
Reich Steve 13<br />
Rihm Wolfgang 41<br />
Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolaj 27, 33, 34<br />
Roussell Albert 14<br />
Salonen Esa-Pekka 37<br />
Sarasate Pablo de 43<br />
Scarlatti Domenico 30<br />
Schoenberg Arnold 24, 25<br />
Schreker Franz 25<br />
Schubert Franz 20, 24, 26, 27, 37, 45<br />
Schumann Robert 27, 30, 36, 38, 43, 45<br />
Scriabin Alexander 37, 38, 40, 45<br />
Sheng Bright 42<br />
Shostakovich Dmitri 12, 16, 17, 28, 37, 43<br />
Sibelius Jean 37<br />
Simpson Mark 32<br />
Strauss Richard 11, 17, 24, 27, 38, 41, 42, 46<br />
Stravinsky Igor 11, 12, 17, 26, 33, 37<br />
Sviridov Georgy 36<br />
Taffanel Paul 36<br />
Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich 12, 14, 20, 26, 27<br />
Tippett Michael 18<br />
Tüür Erkki-Sven 22<br />
Vaughan Williams Ralph 44<br />
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Veracini Francesco Maria 34<br />
Verdi Giuseppe 10<br />
Villa-Lobos Heitor 35, 36<br />
Vivaldi Antonio 31, 34<br />
Wagner Richard 24, 27<br />
Walton William 30<br />
Wassenaer Unico Wilhelm van 31<br />
Watkins Huw 33<br />
Weber Carl Maria von 11<br />
Webern Anton 27<br />
Weir Judith 22<br />
Whitacre Eric 13<br />
Youssef Dhafer 40<br />
Xenakis Iannis 37, 41<br />
Orchestra<br />
& Ensemble index<br />
Academy of Ancient Music 11, 13, 22, 26, 31,<br />
34, 37, 44, 46<br />
Academy of St Martin in the Fields 26<br />
AAMplify new generation choir 46<br />
Arditti Quartet 40, 41<br />
BBC Singers 13, 14, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 43<br />
BBC Symphony Chorus 18, 26, 36, 38, 40,<br />
43<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra 11, 14, 16,<br />
18, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40,<br />
41, 42, 43<br />
Birmingham Contemporary<br />
Music Group 44<br />
Britten Sinfonia 12, 17, 18, 22, 26, 32, 35, 40,<br />
44<br />
Britten Sinfonia Voices 18, 40, 44<br />
Chamber Orchestra of Europe 45<br />
Choeur Sagittarius 35<br />
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge 26<br />
Choir of the AAM 11, 26, 46<br />
Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street 31<br />
Crouch End Festival Chorus 18<br />
Endymion 13<br />
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 13, 14<br />
Gewandhaus Quartet 13, 14<br />
Guildhall Chamber Orchestra 30<br />
Guildhall Ensembles 32, 35<br />
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra 12, 24<br />
Il Giardino Armonico 42<br />
Kronos Quartet 10, 43<br />
Les Talens Lyriques 35<br />
Name<br />
Page<br />
Les Violons du Roy 28<br />
London Symphony Chorus 10, 17, 28, 31, 37,<br />
38, 46<br />
London Symphony Orchestra 10,<br />
11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33,<br />
36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46<br />
LSO Brass Ensemble 30<br />
LSO On Track 30<br />
LSO String Ensemble 14<br />
Mariinsky Brass Ensemble 33<br />
Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble 17<br />
Mariinsky Wind Quintet 36<br />
National Youth Orchestra<br />
of Great Britain 27<br />
Northern Sinfonia 13, 46<br />
Pablo Held Trio 20<br />
Polish Chamber Orchestra 20<br />
Quatuor Voce 30<br />
Richard Alston Dance Company 17<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
Amsterdam 37, 38<br />
The Choristers of Westminster Abbey 18<br />
The English Concert 31<br />
The Sixteen 22, 28<br />
Van Baerle Trio 35
Premiere index<br />
2013<br />
Date Piece Page<br />
18 Sep Kimmo Pohjonen 10<br />
Samuli Kosminen<br />
Uniko<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
11 Oct Anna Clyne 12<br />
Within her Arms<br />
(London premiere)<br />
2 Nov Tristan Murail 16<br />
New work<br />
(BBC co-commission, world premiere)<br />
6, 7 & 9 Richard Alston Dance 17<br />
Nov Dance Company<br />
Phaedra<br />
(<strong>Barbican</strong> co-commission, world premiere)<br />
6, 7 & 9 Richard Alston 17<br />
Nov Dance Company<br />
Sechs Holderlin Fragmente<br />
(<strong>Barbican</strong> co-commission, world premiere)<br />
24 Nov Judith Weir 22<br />
I give you the end of a golden string<br />
(London premiere)<br />
2014<br />
5 Jan Larry Goves 27<br />
New Work<br />
(London premiere)<br />
8 Jan Colin Matthews 27<br />
Traces Remain<br />
(BBC commission, world premiere)<br />
22 Jan Gérard Grisey 30<br />
Megalithes<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
22 Jan Hugues Dufourt 30<br />
Piano Concerto<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
29 Jan Gérard Pesson 30<br />
Ravel á son âme<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
29 Jan Marc-André Dalbavie 30<br />
Flute Concerto<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
2 Feb Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 31<br />
Symphony No 10<br />
(LSO commission, world premiere)<br />
14 Feb Mark Simpson 32<br />
New work<br />
(London premiere)<br />
Date Piece Page<br />
22 Feb Bruno Mantovani 33<br />
Concerto for Two Pianos<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
23 Feb Huw Watkins 33<br />
Flute Concerto<br />
(LSO commission, world premiere)<br />
26 Mar Esa-Pekka Salonen 37<br />
Violin Concerto<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
26 Apr Brice Pauset 40<br />
New work<br />
(world premiere)<br />
26 Apr James Clarke 41<br />
New work<br />
(world premiere)<br />
26 Apr Hilda Paredes 41<br />
New work<br />
(world premiere)<br />
26 Apr Harrison Birtwistle 41<br />
New work<br />
(world premiere)<br />
3 May Pascal Dusapin 41<br />
Violin Concerto<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
9 May Bright Sheng 42<br />
Violin Concerto<br />
(BBC commission, UK premiere)<br />
13 May Bryce Dessner 43<br />
New work<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
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