Alexander Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto
May 9th 2024 at 19:00 – 21:10
Pounding timpani, inexorably rising violins and musical tension ratcheting up with unyielding momentum: the opening of Brahms’ first symphony must have been quite the shock for the audience attending its 1876 premiere. Drama is everywhere in this powerful piece that provides emotional stress and release right through to the galloping energy of its exhilarating, visionary, conclusion.
Earlier, superstar Saxophonist Jess Gillam solos in Glazunov’s concerto, a piece that’s full of twists and turns and which showcases the gentle and soulful side of the instrument. Elfrida Andrée’s majestic overture starts the concert.
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Alexander Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto
10/05/2024 7:30 pm
Sage One, Sage Gateshead, St Mary's Square, Gateshead, NE8 2JR
Alexander Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto
May 9th 2024 at 19:30 – 21:40
Pounding timpani, inexorably rising violins and musical tension ratcheting up with unyielding momentum: the opening of Brahms’ first symphony must have been quite the shock for the audience attending its 1876 premiere. Drama is everywhere in this powerful piece that provides emotional stress and release right through to the galloping energy of its exhilarating, visionary, conclusion.
Earlier, superstar Saxophonist Jess Gillam solos in Glazunov’s concerto, a piece that’s full of twists and turns and which showcases the gentle and soulful side of the instrument. Elfrida Andrée’s majestic overture starts the concert.
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Brahms | Fogg | Boulanger | Grant Still
11/05/2024 7:15 pm
Methodist Central Hall, Queen Street, Scarborough, YO11 1HQ
BRAHMS | FOGG | BOULANGER | GRANT STILL
May 11th 2024 at 19:15 – 20:45
Conductor Shaun Matthew
Bassoon Linton Stephens
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Fogg – Bassoon Concerto
Boulanger – D’un Soir Triste
Grant Still – Symphony No.4, ‘Autochthonous’ (UK première)
Our concert begins with Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture. Composed in 1880 and dedicated to the University of Breslau, Brahms conjures up less of a sense of the academic student but more of the comradeship in the student world.
We are proud to welcome Linton Stephens to perform the Bassoon Concerto by English composer, Eric Fogg. Written in 1931, it is an exciting, three movement work with the most glorious Chaconne as its 2nd movement. The outer movements display all the fun, cheekiness and virtuosic nature of the bassoon.
We continue with one of Lili Boulanger’s final works, D’un Soir Triste. This short but powerful piece displays the conflict of a terminally ill Lili Boulanger confronting her own mortality.
We close our concert with the UK première of William Grant Still’s Symphony no. 4, ‘Autochthonous’. Still’s original programme note states that the symphony ‘speaks of the fusion of musical cultures in North America.’ Join us for this amazing work, full of melody and the human spirit.
In partnership with Big Ideas By The Sea
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Calefax Reed Quintet – Bach, Dvořák, Debussy, Gershwin
13/05/2024 1:00 pm
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP
Calefax Reed Quintet
Bach, Dvořák, Debussy, Gershwin
May 13th 2023 at 13:00 – 14:00
The Times has described the ensemble as ‘five extremely gifted Dutch gents who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet’. Though new works form part of its repertoire for the unique combination of oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon, here it offers a variety of arrangements.
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Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
23/05/2024 7:30 pm
Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Rd, Middlesbrough, TS1 2QJ
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
May 23rd 2024 at 19:30 – 21:15
Fresh, optimistic and convivial, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is the centrepiece of this concert, which closes with Beethoven’s graceful yet high-voltage Symphony No. 1. Along the way experience the rhythmic energy of Stravinsky’s spiky Danses Concertantes and Fazil Say’s Chamber Symphony, inspired by the music of Turkey.
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Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
24/05/2024 7:30 pm
Sage One, Sage Gateshead, St Mary's Square, Gateshead, NE8 2JR
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
May 24th 2024 at 19:30 – 21:15
Fresh, optimistic and convivial, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is the centrepiece of this concert, which closes with Beethoven’s graceful yet high-voltage Symphony No. 1. Along the way experience the rhythmic energy of Stravinsky’s spiky Danses Concertantes and Fazil Say’s Chamber Symphony, inspired by the music of Turkey.
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Darkness to Light: Manfred & Mahler 5
07/06/2024 8:00 pm
Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, 600 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, United States
Darkness to Light: Manfred & Mahler 5
June 7th 2024 at 20:00 – 22:00
The program begins with the sounds of New York’s “frenetic energy and multicultural aural palette” in Jessie Montgomery’s Coincident Dances. Principal Oboe, Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, and Principal Horn, William Caballero, then join to premiere a double concerto by Michael Daugherty.
The night ends with Mahler’s epic 5th Symphony. Written at the beginning of his relationship with his wife, Alma, this work is seen as a love letter to her, as it begins with a funeral march and culminates in celebration.
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Darkness to Light: Manfred & Mahler 5
08/06/2024 7:30 pm
Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, 600 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, United States
Darkness to Light: Manfred & Mahler 5
June 8th 2024 at 19:30 – 21:30
The program begins with the sounds of New York’s “frenetic energy and multicultural aural palette” in Jessie Montgomery’s Coincident Dances. Principal Oboe, Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, and Principal Horn, William Caballero, then join to premiere a double concerto by Michael Daugherty.
The night ends with Mahler’s epic 5th Symphony. Written at the beginning of his relationship with his wife, Alma, this work is seen as a love letter to her, as it begins with a funeral march and culminates in celebration.
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Darkness to Light: Manfred & Mahler 5
09/06/2024 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, 600 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, United States
Darkness to Light: Manfred & Mahler 5
June 9th 2024 at 14:30 – 16:30
The program begins with the sounds of New York’s “frenetic energy and multicultural aural palette” in Jessie Montgomery’s Coincident Dances. Principal Oboe, Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, and Principal Horn, William Caballero, then join to premiere a double concerto by Michael Daugherty.
The night ends with Mahler’s epic 5th Symphony. Written at the beginning of his relationship with his wife, Alma, this work is seen as a love letter to her, as it begins with a funeral march and culminates in celebration.
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Britten Sinfonia and Pagrav Dance Company with Nicholas Daniel
13/06/2024 7:30 pm
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, IP17 3SP
Close-up: Tutti in threes
16/06/2024 2:15 pm
Recital Hall, Concertgebouwplein 10, 1071 LN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Close-up: Tutti in threes
June 16th 2024 at 14:15 – 16:35
The Close-up series is the best way to experience the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s musicians as individuals! Tonight wind players form the orchestra will come to the foreground, playing music by Beethoven, Reicha, Glinka and Poulenc, with the number 3 as the unifying theme.
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Woodwind Forward!
16/06/2024 2:15 pm
Kleiner Saal, Elbphilharmonie, Platz d. Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Woodwind Forward!
June 16th 2024 at 11:00 – 13:00
Already in the first half of the 20th century, French composers and orchestras used to put the woodwinds in the foreground. It should define their style and the special French sound. Francis Poulenc was one of the most important representatives of this tradition, and his music focuses on multicolor and sensitive poetry.
“”After all the impressionistic mists, will not this simple and clear art [of Poulenc], so reminiscent of Scarlatti and Mozart, be the next phase of our music?”” of wind music prove true in any case. With his few wind works, he set standards that still have an impact today.
Poulenc’s compositional spheres are complemented by the music of Henri Tomasis, Jean Françaix and Charles Koechlin. Behind the seemingly naïve title of Tomasi’s rural concerto »Concert champêtre« lies a knowledgeable allusion to French rococo music mixed with the Corsican flair of Tomasi’s homeland.
Charles Koechlin’s Bassoon Sonata takes us back to the sounds of Impressionism. In the France of his time, Koechlin was considered an outsider and yet created an exceptional work that shows how delicate and at the same time wild and intoxicating the bassoon is. And how many magnificent nuances of sound the instrument, which usually stands in the background, carries within itself.
Jean Françaix’s trio in four movements shows the 82-year-old composer still at the height of his creative power: melodic invention, rhythmic wit, harmonic elasticity and an elegant instrumental writing form a particularly fortunate combination.
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Beethoven, Beamish & Prokofiev
20/06/2024 7:00 pm
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Beethoven, Beamish & Prokofiev
June 20th 2024 at 19:00 – 20:40
Sally Beamish’s concerto begins with two soloists calling to each other across a distance, and explores connection and longing. This delicately nuanced interpretation of the Seventh Symphony forms part of Gianandrea Noseda’s thrilling Prokofiev cycle with the LSO. Distans was written for Janine Jansen and Martin Fröst, designed to make the most of their astonishing abilities.
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African Art Music for Woodwind – Rowland Sutherland
20/07/2024 11:30 am
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP
African Art Music for Woodwind – Rowland Sutherland
July 20th 2024 at 11:30 – 12:30 BST
The programme will feature works for flute by African composers from the West African School of Art Music with flautist Rowland Sutherland who enjoys an international career as a classical and jazz musician; and West African songs for traditional instruments, the Oja flute and percussion, performed by the African Cultural Group.
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