New concert announced
The Barbican’s Spring 2012 Contemporary events were announced last week and we’re pleased to say Britten Sinfonia features amongst them. We will be joining the Norwegian 10-piece collective Jaga Jazzist in an exciting concert on 16 June 2012, performing new arrangements for orchestra of Jaga Jazzist’s work.
There will be more details to follow but you can buy tickets now from the Barbican here. On that page you can also watch videos of Jaga Jazzist and one of the bands songwriters, Lars Horntveth’s work.
Kaleidoscopic occupies the ambiguous region between classical and pop/indie—the same one occupied by Horntveth’s stated influences, including Joanna Newsom, Robert Wyatt, Stereolab, and Jean-Claude Vannier. On one hand, it was recorded in a small church in Riga with 41 members of the Latvian National Orchestra (Horntveth himself plays piano, clarinet, and horns) and conducted by Terje Mikkelsen of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Radio Orchestra. On the other, it isn’t grounded in any cultural meta-narrative or musicological doctrine. Instead, it takes up that indie-est of subjects: his emotions. Horntveth has said that Kaleidoscopic sought to document his evolving state of mind, which sounds like a fancy way of saying that he wrote whatever he felt like writing and then knitted it together. In the same year when Arvo Pärt addresses himself to the book of John (on his new release, In Principio), Horntveth takes up the book of Lars. The self is the new culture.
By Brian Howe
Calendar
Next Production
Padmore sings Mahler
Bradford on Avon, Cambridge and London
12 - 17 May 2012
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch 4
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
01 May 2012 1:00pm
Renowned tenor, Mark Padmore joins Britten Sinfonia for the final concert in the 2011-12 At Lunch series. At the centre of this programme is a work by British composer, Jonathan Dove, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign.
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch 4
Wigmore Hall, London
02 May 2012 1:00pm
Renowned tenor, Mark Padmore joins Britten Sinfonia for the final concert in the 2011-12 At Lunch series. At the centre of this programme is a work by British composer, Jonathan Dove, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival - Padmore Sings Mahler
St Andrew's Hall, Norwich
11 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Padmore sings Mahler
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon
12 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Padmore sings Mahler
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
16 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Padmore sings Mahler
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
17 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Brighton Festival - Mahler & Schubert
Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, Brighton
19 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Bury St Edmunds Festival
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
20 May 2012 7:30pm
Britten Sinfonia returns to the festival for in 2012.
Brighton Festival - King Priam
Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, Brighton
27 May 2012 7:00pm
‘I have to sing songs for those who can’t sing for themselves. Those songs come from the torments and horrors that have happened. I can’t lose faith in humanity.’ Sir Michael Tippett
Britten Sinfonia at Museo Reina Sofia
Museo Reina Sofia , Madrid
28 May 2012 7:30pm
Fabián Panisello conducts his song cycle Libro del Frio with soprano Allison Bell and Britten Sinfonia
