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BCMG's 2009/10 season, which is set to be one of the most exciting to date, with 10 world premieres across the season and music from 21 of the world’s finest contemporary classical composers, launches on Friday 16 October 2009 with two very special concerts.
BCMG 2009/10 Season Launch – 2 concerts, 1 evening, 1 ticket.
Includes 4 premieres and 2 Sound Investment commissions
Concert one - 6.30pm - Spotlight on Matthew Sergeant
Conductor Richard Baker / Oboe Melinda Maxwell* / Cello Elaine Ackers**
First, we showcase young composer Matthew Sergeant, with a trio of works produced during his year as Apprentice Composer-in-Residence with BCMG, a project run in partnership with Sound and Music.
Programme
Matthew Sergeant the temples at ogden and provo (Premiere)*
Matthew Sergeant heard weeping under the boughs of Hemlock trees
Matthew Sergeant listening to a still small voice (Premiere)**
Oboist Melinda Maxwell is the still small voice weaving a freely improvised line amongst changing landscapes, and is soloist in the premiere of the temples at ogden and provo, born of Sergeant’s fascination with ritual and the implications of placing similar objects in different contexts. Elaine Ackers plays a solo cello miniature inspired by one of Jose Luis Borges’ sublime Imaginary Beings, The Squonk.
Concert two: Friday 16 October – 7.30pm
Conductor Diego Masson / Oboe Nicholas Daniel*
Programme
Simon Holt Capriccio Spettrale
(revised version: BCMG Sound Investment commission 2009)
Franco Donatoni Cloches
Richard Causton Chamber Symphony
(Premiere – BCMG Sound Investment commission 2009)
Bruno Maderna Oboe Concerto No1*
Vic Hoyland New Work
(Premiere – BCMG Sound Investment commission 2009)
Three new pieces from longstanding friends of BCMG, all with Italian connections, are set off by sparkling inventions by two late-20th-century Italian masters. Bruno Maderna was a generous-spirited ally of his contemporaries Berio, Nono, Boulez and Stockhausen, and a fascinating composer himself. He had a special feeling for the oboe, and Nicholas Daniel is the perfect artist to realize the lyricism and drama he found in the instrument. Franco Donatoni’s music, more crisp and witty, is equally brilliant, and his Cloches is a showstopper. Simon Holt is giving second life to a nightscape after Goya he first composed more than 20 years ago: Capriccio Spettrale. Richard Causton’s new piece is for two pianos and four-piece percussion group. Vic Hoyland, whose music often has Italian sun and architecture in it, wraps the evening up.
There will be a post-concert discussion with Matthew Sergeant, Vic Hoyland and Richard Causton open to all ticket holders, lasting approx 45 minutes.
Tickets are now on sale for this event.
Contact Details
Fri 16th October 2009, 7:30pm
CBSO Centre
Advance: £14 full price / £8 conc / £5 under 16s
Berkley Street, Birmingham
B1 2LF [map link]
Tel : 0121 767 4050
