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January Live
Bournemouth Royal Northern Sinfonia BACKSTAGE WITH…
Symphony Orchestra Sage, Gateshead, 10, 17 January
The Lighthouse, Poole, Tel: +44 (0)191 443 4661 Soprano Faye Newton
22 January Web: www.sagegateshead.com
Tel: +44 (0)1202 280000 Two concerts delve into the
Web: www.bsolive.com ‘Roaring Twenties’. Narrated Views of Venice:
Shostakovich’s Symphony by Radio 4 newsreader and ‘It’s exciting to
No. 6 crowns a line-up that also children’s author Zeb Soanes, hear these sounds
places the twists and turns of the first partners Walton’s for the first time’
Elgar’s Violin Concerto alongside Façade with works by Martinu˚,
the ‘Träumerei am Kamin’ Amy Beach and Korngold. The
interlude from Richard Strauss’s second, conducted by Duncan
Intermezzo. Ning Feng is the Ward, makes a beeline for
Elgar soloist; Carlos Miguel Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
Prieto conducts. via works by Copland, Barber
and Milhaud.
EAST
Academy of Ancient Music City of Birmingham
West Road Concert Hall, Symphony Orchestra
Cambridge, 15 January Symphony Hall, Birmingham,
Tel: +44 (0)1223 357851 18, 19 January
Web: www.westroad.org Tel: +44 (0)121 780 3333
Ahead of a repeat performance Web: www.thsh.co.uk
as part of the Barbican’s ‘Bach: Music director Mirga Gra!inyte˙ -
A Beautiful Mind’ weekend, the Tyla launches the CBSO’s
Academy of Ancient Music and centenary year with the You’re performing a selection of works published in Venice in
baritone Benjamin Appl explore most imposing of Mahler’s 1629 with the Gonzaga Band this month. Why did you choose
choice cantata movements and symphonies: No. 8, the to focus on this particular time and place?
excerpts from the St Matthew ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. There were quite a few major works published that year, and
Passion. Cantata 82, Ich habe Five choirs and eight soloists, then in 1630 the plague hit Venice, so nothing really happened
genug is given complete and, by including mezzo-soprano Alice
way of secular sign-off, there’s Coote, make up the considerable for the next decade because of its devastating effects. Schütz
the Air from the Third Orchestral cohort of musicians. was there at the time too, immersing himself the musical style.
Suite (Air on the G String). This concert is a real snapshot of musical life at that time.
Beethoven: The 1808 Concert How was Schütz’s music influenced by his time in Venice?
BBC Symphony Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff, He began writing for smaller forces, but with much more
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 19 January virtuosity and emphasis on the text. There is a lot of word
19 January Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 8444
Tel: +44 (0)845 548 7650 Web: www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk painting in the vocal works of this time. I worked with an Italian
Web: www.saffronhall.com A freezing Theater an der Latin expert for a number of the works in this concert, because
Conductor Joana Carneiro Wien awaited the audience it was important for me to put the text at the forefront and
masterminds a Beethoven for Beethoven’s gargantuan sing in the Ecclesiastical Venetian Latin. It was helpful to know
celebration that packs a playful benefit concert in December which nuances to bring out.
punch. Following the knotty 1808. Hopefully St David’s Hall There are also some relatively unknown pieces in the
truculence of the Grosse Fuge, should be more comfortable as programme, too. How did you come across them?
and before the might of the the BBC National Orchestra of
Eroica Symphony, the Doric Wales and Orchestra of Welsh Almost half the pieces in the programme were newly
Quartet joins the orchestra for National Opera, conductors transcribed for this project. Our director, Jamie Savan, is a
John Adams’s 2012 Absolute Carlo Rizzi and Jaime Martín, and lecturer at Birmingham Conservatoire, and this is very much
Jest, a single-movement soloists including pianist Steven tied up with his research. He found some quite obscure
concerto referencing Beethoven Osborne recreate a marathon manuscripts by composers such as Rè and Tarditi. It’s exciting
at every turn. that included the premieres of to hear these sounds for the first time in so many years.
the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies,
MIDLANDS, the Fourth Piano Concerto and
Choral Fantasia. Don’t forget
NORTH AND WALES your sandwiches.
National Youth Orchestra SCOTLAND & Ulster Orchestra
of Great Britain The Gonzaga Band Ulster Hall, Belfast, 23 January
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, St Mary’s Church, Warwick, NORTHERN IRELAND Tel: +44 (0)28 9033 4455
6 January 28 January Ensemble Stravaganza Web: www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)115 989 5555 Tel: +44 (0)1926 334418 St Andrew’s & St George’s, A lunchtime pairing of two
Web: www.nyo.org.uk Web: www.leamingtonmusic.org Edinburgh, 18 January effervescent orchestral works.
After concerts in Coventry and In the company of soprano Tel: +44 (0)131 668 2019 Begun in France and Switzerland
London, the NYO heads north Faye Newton (see ‘Backstage Web: www.gcs.org.uk and completed in America,
under conductor Jaime Martín. with…’, right) the Gonzaga New Town’s earliest Georgian Stravinsky’s incisive Symphony
The 1920s Berlin of Eisler’s Auf Band takes the musical church welcomes the acclaimed in C is paired with early Haydn
den Strassen zu singen gives temperature of Venice in French period instrument (the G major Symphony No. 27
way to the ’30s pacifism of 1629, when Schütz returned ensemble for ‘Abendmusiken’: from around 1761) in this
Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem from Dresden to soak up the music for two violins and concert conducted by Christian
before Shostakovich’s Symphony latest thoughts of Monteverdi continuo by Bach, Buxtehude, Reif who was, until recently,
No. 11 turns the political clock and other composers such as Reinken and the prolific if little- resident conductor of the San
back to ‘The Year 1905’. Castello, Grandi and Marini. known Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
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