Interchanging Idioms

BORLETTI - BUITONI TRUST AWARD WINNER JÖRGEN VAN RIJEN PREMIERES NEW TROMBONE CONCERTO BY KALEVI AHO BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov Barbican,London Shostakovich The Bolt– Suite Kalevi Aho Trombone Concerto (UK Premiere) Sibelius Symphony No 1 The commissioning of this new trombone concerto from prolific Finnish composer Kalevi Aho represents the last of van Rijen’s several projects funded by his 2006 BBT award. Having performed the work earlier this year in Holland and Finland, he is now well acquainted with the intricacies of this virtuosic piece with its double-­‐tone playing and complex manoeuvres: “Kalevi has produced a spectacular showcase for the trombone in all its different guises. As well as demonstrating the lyrical and singing capabilities of the instrument in the two slow movements, there is a lot of virtuosic work – such as flutter-­‐tonguing, double and triple tonguing, fast vibrato and glissando – in the fast movements, with the help ...

We wanted to share with you some very interesting news about the discovery of a rare, unpublished piece of music: BBC Radio 3 has uncovered a fragment of new music by Johannes Brahms which is being unveiled in a short film to be broadcast on Saturday 21 January at 12:15 (GMT), with celebrated pianist András Schiff playing the piece and discussing it with music journalist Tom Service. We are hoping you can help spread the word on this exciting news, covering it on your website and posting it to your social media channels. Further details in the press release below. Additionally, embeddable video content will available from Radio 3’s YouTube channel next week.

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS IN SOCIETY 23-25 July 2012 Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK http://www.ArtsinSociety.com/Conference Art and Design Academy announces the Call-for-Papers for the Seventh International Conference on the Arts in Society. The conference and its companion journal provide a scholarly platform for discussions of the arts and art practices, enabling an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities. In addition to an impressive line-up of international plenary speakers, the conference will also include paper presentations, roundtable discussions, workshop and interactive presentations, poster or exhibit sessions, and colloquia submitted by pr...

Bernarda Fink will perform with the Nash Ensemble, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, on Saturday 15 October at the Wigmore Hall. The celebrated Argentinian mezzo-soprano will perform Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in an arrangement for voice and ensemble by Reinbert de Leeuw and the rarely-performed Two Maeterlink Songs from the Op.13 cycle by Zemlinsky, arranged for voice and ensemble by Erwin Stein. Completing the programme, the Nash Ensemble performs Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor K478 and the profound Adagio from Bruckner’s String Quintet in F minor. The Nash Ensemble is Chamber Ensemble in Residence at the Wigmore Hall The concert is part of the Nash Ensemble’s Echoes of Romanticism series at the Wigmore Hall in 2011/12. The Romantic period in German and Austrian music is usually defined as the later nineteenth century. But the formal freedom of Romanticism, its love of nature, its indebtedness to literature, and above all its emphasis on intense self-expression, are prefigured ...

“Pisaroni exudes complete authority and magnetism.” – Houston Chronicle Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, who has proven to be an up-and-coming vocal and dramatic draw on both sides of the Atlantic, looks forward to capping his season with a high-profile European summer schedule. He returns to the U.K.’s Glyndebourne Festival to make his role debut as Argante in Handel’s Rinaldo (July 2 – Aug 22), as well as appearing in the same production at London’s world-famous BBC Proms festival on August 25. As Leporello, Pisaroni appears on a new, star-studded EMI Classics DVD of Don Giovanni , recorded last summer at Glyndebourne; anticipating his Metropolitan Opera role debut as Leporello next season, he also plays the part this summer at Germany’s Baden-Baden Festival under Yannick Nézet-Séguin (July 18-24). Rinaldo was the opera with which Handel made his sensational London debut, as well as being the first Italian opera written specifically for the British stage. Glyndebourne’s ...

Having spent the last five years immersed in Beethoven’s piano music, performing and recording complete surveys of the piano sonatas and the five piano concertos to tremendous critical acclaim, Paul Lewis now turns his attention to another composer who has always remained central to his repertoire, Franz Schubert, in a two-year, eight-programme series. Starting in February 2011, Paul Lewis will perform an international concert series, “Schubert and the Piano: 1822-1828”, consisting of 5 solo piano recital programmes of the composer’s piano masterpieces, from the ground-breaking Wanderer Fantasy onwards, including the sonatas, impromptus, piano pieces and dances composed during the last six years of the composer’s tragically short life, a period of intense and supreme creativity unsurpassed in the history of classical music. The series will be presented by some of the world’s leading venues in London, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Melbourne, Rotterdam, Florence, Bologna, Oxford, Southamp...