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2024-01-29 15:53:54
SCRUTINY | Esprit Orchestra Concert Features Three Exceptional Works By Women Composers
THREE, the first Esprit concert of 2024, featured works by three women composers — Misato Mochizuki (Japan), Unsuk Chin (Korea), and Rita Ueda (Canada).
2019-12-17 09:04:50
Barbican Presents: Beethoven, Bach, contemporary opera and more
[…] Bach's The Musical Offering, whilst Accademia Bizantina will be performing The Art of Fugue, baritone Benjamin Appl joins the Academy of Ancient Music for Bach cantatas, Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach Collegium Japan in Bach's St John Passion, Jeremy Denk performs Book One of The Well Tempered Clavier and Lang Lang performs the Goldberg Variations. Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras will perform Bach's cello suites alongside contemporary responses by Ivan Fedele, Jonathan Harvey, György Kurtág, Gilbert Amy, Misato Mochizuki and Ichiro Nodaira. David Lang's new opera prisoner of state, a contemporary re-working of the story from Beethoven's Fidelio, will receive its premiere when Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Claron McFadden, Jarrett Ott, Alan Oke and Davone Tines. Max Richter's new piece Voices, co-commissioned by the Barbican, will receive its world premiere by 'an orchestra featuring a radically reimagined instrumentation'. We are intrigued already. The BBC […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-13 19:45:00
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite | Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, & Manfred Overture | Johann Strauss Jr.: Die Fledermaus Overture – Jean-Guihen Queyras, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider – Saturday, December 15, 2018, 08:00 PM EST (GMT-5) – Livestream
[…] Amsterdam. This residency has recently been extended to include the 2012-2013 season. Furthermore, he will be soloist in residence of the Netherlands Philharmonic for the seasons 2011-2012 and 2012-2013.Jean-Guihen's particular focus on repertoire for solo cello, which articulately demonstrates the exceptional narrative and expressive force of the monodic instrument, led him to devise and perform several series of concerts featuring the Suites by J.S Bach alongside contemporary works and he commissioned six composers (Kurtag, Harvey, Mochizuki, Amy, Nodaïra & Fedele) to write an "echo" to each of the six Bach Suites for solo cello, in a project called "Six Suites, Six Echos". He made his BBC Proms debut to unanimous acclaim (Haydn in C) in 2008 and appears regularly at the Aldeburgh Festival. His regular chamber music partners include the pianists Alexander Melnikov and Alexandre Tharaud and the violinist Isabelle Faust. He is a member of the Arcanto Quartet with […]
2018-10-01 03:19:22
Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, 2018
October 1, 2018. CCCC. It’s easy to remember and, if you’re interested in contemporary music, very much worth checking out. CCCC stands for Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. The recently established organization will present its inaugural season starting with a concert on October 13th by Yarn/Wire performing music by the Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki, Enno Poppe, a German composer and conductor, and two young Chicagoans. Like most of the season’s concerts it will take place at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E 60th Street. The UChicago has a long tradition of presenting new music, beginning with the Contemporary Chamber Players under Ralph Shapey in 1964 and continuing as Contempo in 2002 under Shulamit Ran and in 2015 under Marta Ptaszyńska. CCCC is led by one of the most interesting contemporary American composers Augusta Read Thomas (here, for example, is her Angel Musings, performed by the Orion […]
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