RCM percussionists join up with contemporary music ensemble We Spoke to perform Fritz Hauser's intriguingly titled Second thoughts for three players on one marimba and Gerard Grisey's (1946-1998) masterpiece Le noir de l'étoile for six percussionists (19/9)
Jean-Philippe Calvin’s dynamic Variable Geometry ensemble includes scintillating masterpieces by three of the great European modernists: Pierre Boulez's Dérive, La Fabbrica Illuminata a denunciation of capitalism from Luigi Nono, and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s breakthrough work Kontra-Punkte plus a new work by Yang Liu. (10/10)
On 25 November 2013, RCM Head of Composition William Mival, and composition professor Simon Holt are put in the spotlight with performances of Mival's Lyric Pieces, Holt's Piano trio and movements from Holt's A Book of Colours. (25/11)
Their next operatic offering is a double bill of Ravel's opera, L'enfant et les sortileges and L'heure espagnole (2,4,6,7/12)
The RCM's Quartet in Association, the Sacconi Quartet, performs a programme of Haydn, Verdi and Beethoven. (5/12)
The RCM Museum of Music has a pair of intriguingly title talks: Why do we keep this old stuff? The importance and uses of historical musical instruments (31/10) and For one night only...: The story of the concert programme (14/11)
Further information from the RCM website.
Elsewhere on this blog:
- Win Tickets to Live by the Lake at Kenwood
- Libera nos - cry of the oppressed - CD review
- OHP - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Wigmore Hall - Woodwose
- Strauss - Deutsche Motette - CD review
- OHP - I gioielli della Madonna
- Hitting the high notes
- Dvorak/Schumann piano concertos - CD review
- Glyndebourne - Don Pasquale
- Rachmaninov/Shostakovich sonatas - CD review
- OHP - L'elisir d'amore
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