Turning Points - The Emergence of Minimalism Presented by London Sinfonietta - T960648918From experimental beginnings in the loft spaces and galleries of New York, Minimalism is now a mainstay of contemporary music, its influences spreading far beyond into the worlds of film, dance, and literature. London Sinfonietta's latest Turning Points event is an evening of exploration and features works by two of the genre's greatest exponents; Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Dig beneath the surface and discover more about this enthralling movement in an evening of installations, film and performances. | |
| 13 Oct 19 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L298320969 |
Beacons - T01347359750Be the first to hear new music in an eclectic evening showcasing work from some of today's leading composers. The night features the world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission from Charlotte Bray, following her intimate Sinfonietta Short on the Other Shore. | |
| 16 May 18 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L77572221 |
Philip Venables: The Gender Agenda - T0342278252A concert piece like no other, The Gender Agenda turns Queen Elizabeth Hall into a gameshow and the audience into contestantsCompany London Sinfonietta. Conductor Jessica Cottis. Director Ted Huffman. | |
| 12 Apr 18 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01237707585 |
Turning Points 1960 - T0501181754 | |
| 7 Feb 18 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L469439993 |
Steve Reich Radio Rewrite - world premiere - T01436659250The London Sinfonietta gives the world premiere of Radio Rewrite, a new work from master of minimalism Steve Reich, inspired by the music of Radiohead. Reich also performs Clapping Music.Conductor Brad Lubman. Performer Steve Reich. | |
| 5 Mar 12 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0249496031 |
Pavilions:New Music Show 2 - T1645396340Experience a selection of celebrated up-and-coming composers whose work highlights some of the newest sounds being created today.Conductor Martyn Brabbins. Performer Enno Senft (double bass). Sound Sound Intermedia (sound projection). | |
| 5 Nov 11 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L485599775 |
Exquisite Labyrinth: the music of Pierre Boulez - T213752266As part of Southbank Centre's celebration of Boulez, one of Europe's most radical and pioneering composers, the London Sinfonietta presents a concert of Boulez's music inspired by electronic technologies at the IRCAM centre in Paris.Conductor Peter Eotvos. Performer Michael Cox (flute). Performer Clio Gould (violin). Company Sound Intermedia. Performer Carlo Laurenzi (IRCAM computer production). Performer Jeremie Henrot (IRCAM sound engineer). | |
| 1 Oct 11 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1117323149 |
Birtwistle & Maxwell Davies - T01200535733Southbank Centre’s Meltdown festival 2011, curated by Ray Davies and part of Festival of Britain celebrations with MasterCard, highlights the link between convention-breaking popular music and the iconoclastic side of classical music, as Southbank Centre Resident Orchestra London Sinfonietta performs the works of two of UK’s most innovative composers, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies. Birtwistle and Maxwell-Davies started their careers together as students in Manchester in the mid-1950s. They later teamed-up to form The Pierrot Players (then re-named the Fires of London), writing cutting-edge works for the 1960s. To this phase belongs Maxwell-Davis’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, which was premiered in 1969. The monodrama is based on the disconnected words of King George III, who in the later part of his life suffered from a recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness. The soliloquy, an extremely demanding part spanning five octaves, will be performed by British baritone Leigh Melrose. Birtwistle’s Virelai and Secret Theatre are also featured in the programme. The first work, premiered in 2008, continues the composer’s fascination with ancient music and presents a structure that is inspired by medieval French verse. Conducted by Baldur Brönnimann, Secret Theatre, based on the poem by Robert Graves and premiered in 1984, is a piece written for chamber ensemble and features choreographed movements around the stage for the orchestra. Landmark works from two of the UK's most pioneering living composers are performed by London Sinfonietta as part of Ray Davies' Meltdown. Acknowledged now as musical icons, both Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle met as students in Manchester in the 1950s and went on to shake up the status quo. One of the most notorious musical works of the 1960s, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, is a extraordinary monodrama based on the words of George III, the British king who succumbed to periods of insanity. Scored for baritone, it requires an extreme, daredevil technique covering more than five octaves. This is preceded by Harrison Birtwistle's Secret Theatre (1984), a tour de force for large ensemble, where the musicians move around the stage enacting a mysterious musical ritual. It is preceded by a recent work, Virelai, demonstrating Birtwistle's continuing fascination with medieval music.Conductor Baldur Bronnimann. Performer Leigh Melrose (baritone). | |
| 16 Jun 11 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01288196942 |
T0865851282London Sinfonietta's Pavilions celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain with a programme including new works from major figures of the British music scene including Colin Matthews and Martin Suckling. The event also features installations from the LS Collective. Presented by the London Sinfonietta as part of Southbank Centre's Festival of Britain celebrations. Supported by the London Sinfonietta Commissioning Circle and Vernon and Hazel Ellis.Conductor Nicholas Collon. Performer Leigh Melrose (baritone). | |
| 29 May 11 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L692187969 |
T0329065955A concert showcasing the unique and groundbreaking musical voice of Beat Furrer, Swiss composer and co-founder of one of Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles Klangforum Wien. Xenos, with its focus on transforming the elements of melody, sits alongside one of his most performed works for two pianos and ensemble, Nuun. The programme is complemented by the world premiere of Words, a new work from Blue Touch Paper composer Naomi Pinnock, former student of Harrison Birtwistle and Wolfgang Rihm, who was mentored on the composition of this work by Beat Furrer himself.Conductor Beat Furrer. Performer Rolf Hind (piano). Performer Zubin Kanga (piano). Performer Omar Ebrahim (baritone). Performer Michael Cox (flute). Company Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble. | |
| 18 Jan 11 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01890430964 |
T0589271663Young Japanese, UK-based composer Dai Fujikura's music has a simultaneously visceral and lyrical quality, drawing its inspirations from natural phenomena and films such as The Matrix. His latest London Sinfonietta commission, supported by the ensemble's Commissioning Circle, is a demanding solo work for its extraordinary principal double bass, Enno Senft.Music Dai Fujikura (Double Bass Concerto - world premiere). Conductor Andre de Ridder. Performer Enno Senft (double bass). | |
| 3 Jun 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1604169168 |
T01545765500In this concert, the London Sinfonietta performs music which Varese wrote between 1930 and 1960. Included are some of his most characterful and best known works, from the wailing sirens and pounding industrial soundscapes of Ionisation for 13 percussionists to Density 21.5, in which a solo flute seems to call out to the universe; from the dark and strange evocation of an ancient Mayan prayer in Ecuatorial to the surround-sound electronics of Poeme Electronique. This concert presents Varese as a sonic explorer whose music is uncomprisingly futuristic, while seeming to have existed since the beginning of time.Conductor David Atherton. Performer Gary Hill (video artist). Performer Pierre Audi (staging). Music Edgard Varese. | |
| 16 Apr 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L534671471 |
Castiglioni Revisited - T0301583207Oliver Knussen's concerts with the London Sinfonietta are renowned for their extraordinary music-making, illuminating some of modern and contemporary music's hidden treasures and bringing premieres to life.Conductor Oliver Knussen. | |
| 31 Mar 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0854016520 |
Alpine Adventures - T1216507194Two off-beat love stories from composers who have delighted in subverting musical conventions. Beethoven takes its texts from the great composer's letters to his Immortal Beloved, a last (failed) chance for love that Barry describes as 'dramatic, cinematic, poignant'. In the Alps tells the tale of a young girl, with a beautiful voice and the sole survivor of a plane crash who has grown up in the mountains with goats, and the attempts of the trumpeter from a local band to find her. Quirky, eccentric and unmissable.Performer Barbara Hannigan (soprano). Performer Stephen Richardson (bass). | |
| 17 Mar 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L924268221 |
T01511841504Richard Barrett's new work for the London Sinfonietta is an excavation of musical materials for ensemble and electronics. It is Inspired not only by the layers of artefacts found on sites in ancient civilisations where successive destructions and rebuildings have taken place, but also the evolution of communications from economic records to myths. The event also includes performances by Barrett's own ensemble and electronic improvisation.Company Furt Ensemble. Music Richard Barrett (Mesopotamia - world premiere). | |
| 3 Dec 09 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0433446917 |
T1988895297Conductor Pierre-Andre Valade. | |
| 3 Dec 09 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1002066752 |
T952495173Minimalist icon Steve Reich leads this performance of his own music. Visiting from New York, Bang on a Can perform the first half including the early classic Clapping Music, the lilting layers of Electric Counterpoint and hte brilliant Sextet. The London Sinfonietta take the stage in teh second half with the phenomena that is Music for 18 M with its perfect blend of voices and instruments with pulsing riffs and shimmering harmonies.Group/Band Bang on a Can. Performer Steve Reich. Group/Band Synergy Vocals. | |
| 31 Oct 09 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01808995372 |
T0608612682John Adams is reunited with the London Sinfonietta for the UK premiere of his critically acclaimed 'sequel' to the 1993 Chamber Symphony (memorably recorded by the composer and the ensemble). Son of Chamber Symphony is another work full of typically Adams-esque acrobatics, whimsical melodies and driving rhythms. A tireless advocate for his colleagues, Adams brings with him the music of compatriots from both West and East Coasts; Paul Dresher's music has been described as 'chamber music with a clang', David Lang is refreshingly no-nonsense in a work about what we're all really like. Dance music by John Cage completes the programme.Conductor John Adams. Performer Clio Gould (violin). | |
| 27 Sep 09 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L81962921 |
T1509281148The London Sinfonietta celebrates 40 years at the front line of contemporary music with a concert designed to highlight exciting future directions for its mission.Conductor Baldur Bronnimann. Conductor Diego Masson. Performer Juliet Fraser (soprano). Company Sound Intermedia. | |
| 2 Dec 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L90649415 |
T1625375439Conductor Oliver Knussen. Performer Helena Rasker. | |
| 8 Nov 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L550350022 |
T095083184Conductor Oliver Knussen. | |
| 1 Nov 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01229225237 |
T01660407094Conductor Martyn Brabbin. Performer Matthias Goerne (baritone). Performer Thomas Larcher (piano). Company Sound Intermedia. | |
| 30 Sep 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1574128497 |
T378295989Conductor Oliver Knussen. Performer Sarah Nicolls (piano). | |
| 8 Jun 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0751798780 |
In Seven Days (Piano Concerto with Moving Image) - T516196607Music Thomas Ades. Design Tal Rosner (video). Conductor Thomas Ades. Performer Nicholas Hodges (piano). Company Synergy (vocals). | |
| 28 Apr 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0642362123 |
T1280735324Conductor Pierre-Andre Valade. Performer Enno Senft (double bass). Company Sound Intermedia. Company Synergy Vocals. | |
| 16 Apr 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0748866137 |
T0164587081Conductor Peter Eotvos. | |
| 17 Feb 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0531146674 |
Songs of Wars I Have Seen - T01309626654Company Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. | |
| 12 Jul 07 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01196756987 |
About Water - T01292916801 | |
| 15 Jun 07 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L592194422 |
Ligeti Remembered - T01381452659 | |
| 19 May 07 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0580318660 |
T1032178502Conductor Oliver Knussen. Music Alban Berg. Music Luke Bedford. Music Kenneth Hesketh. | |
| 30 May 06 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L2026205084 |
T0165707686Conductor Pierre-Andre Valade. Music Karlheinz Stockhausen (Mixtur). Company Sound Intermedia. | |
| 24 Apr 06 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1119529565 |
T01369044216Supported by Calouste Gulbenkian. World PremiereMusic Pedro Amaral (Paraphrase). Conductor Peter Eotvos. | |
| 25 Feb 06 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L772573827 |
T01020772770Music Webern (Five Pieces). Music Julian Anderson (Book of Hours). Music Jonathan Cole (Testament). | |
| 5 Dec 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01654356239 |
Writing on Water - T0225977099The London Sinfonietta, iconic filmmaker [Peter Greenaway] and New York minimalist composer [David Lang] come together to create Writing on Water. The piece marks the Nelson bicentenary and interweaves fragments from The Tempest, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick with live calligraphy and visuals. The concert also features two 20th-century classics, Varese's Integrales and [Louis Andriessen]'s influential comment on music and society. | |
| 29 Oct 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1635401028 |
Luigi Nono - T01416609696 | |
| 27 Apr 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1612481595 |
Ether Festival - T1020081508Performer Jonny Greenwood. Performer Thom Yorke. | |
| 27 Mar 05 to 28 Mar 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1770836943 |
Series: Current: New Music - T950572858Music Steve Reich (City Life). Music Mark-Anthony Turnage. Music Michael Gordon. | |
| 11 Mar 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0263567171 |
Series: Inventions 2005: Simon Holt and David Sawer - T657596712Conductor David Porcelijn. Music Meredith. Music Sawer. Music Olsen. Music Holt. | |
| 19 Feb 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L17296675 |
Series: Inventions 2005: Simon Holt and David Sawer - T01388514380Conductor David Porelijn. Music Davies. Music Holt. Music Bellamy. Music Sawer. | |
| 19 Feb 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L907824479 |
T1369644801Conductor Olari Elts. Performer Rune Brattaberg (bass). Music Arvo Part (If Bach had been a beekeeper). Music Gavin Bryars (Arrangements of traditional Faroese music). Music Gavin Bryars (The Sinking of the Titanic). Music Erkki-Sven Tuur (Passion / Illusion). Music Sibelius (Valse Triste). Music Gavin Bryars (In Nomine after Purcell). Music Gavin Bryars (From Egil's Saga). | |
| 11 Nov 04 | Corn Exchange, Cambridge :: V21 listing details L01779827968 |
Theseus Game. Series: Birtwistle Games - T1768670667Greek StoriesMusic Birtwistle. | |
| 6 Nov 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01650084558 |
Silbury Air. Series: Birtwistle Games - T0244807580Music Birtwistle. | |
| 28 Oct 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01417391409 |
T02033794878The London Sinfonietta present a public performance of Harrison Birtwistle's Ritual Fragment especially for Listen Up!, accompanied by an interactive presentation of the London Sinfonietta's birtwistle-online website. | |
| 9 Oct 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L014985883 |
T065641790Music Gorecki (Symphony No 3 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Performer Yvonne Kenny. Music Arvo Part (Tabula Rasa). | |
| 27 Jun 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L113295205 |
T1540302788Performer Clio Gould. Music Ben Foskett (Violin Concerto). Music Magnus Lindbert (Jubilees). | |
| 2 Apr 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01101960273 |
Ferneyhough in Focus - Series: Current: New Music - T1249200357Group/Band Arditti Quartet. Music Brian Ferneyhough. | |
| 14 Feb 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L673660660 |
Ferneyhough in Focus - Series: Current: New Music - T01616779712Free performance by pupils of the Purcell School | |
| 14 Feb 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1449610651 |
Ferneyhough in Focus - Series: Current: New Music - T0499227305Conductor Martyn Brabbins. Music Dai Fujikura. Music Brian Ferneyhough. Music Brian Herrington. | |
| 14 Feb 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01446627730 |
Ferneyhough in Focus - Series: Current: New Music - T0965193517Conductor Martyn Brabbins. Music Ferneyhough. Music Barrett. Music Hayes. | |
| 14 Feb 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01459545766 |
Great Performers 2003/2004 - T1151842311Music Ligeti (Romanian Concerto - UK premiere). Music Ligeti (Piano Concerto). Music Ligeti (Hamburg Concerto). Music Legeti (Violin Concerto). Conductor George Benjamin. Performer Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Performer Michael Thompson (horn). Performer Isabelle Faust (violin). | |
| 18 Oct 03 | Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L01744326178 |
Series: Premieres: New Music on the South Bank - T75257686Conductor Oliver Knussen. | |
| 22 May 03 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0145303863 |
Trumpets! - T980870741Concert showcasing the trumpet including John Wallace in Stuart MacRae's new trumpet concerto, Interact. HK Gruber's Zeitfluren and traditional Uzbek musicians Abbos. | |
| 10 May 03 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0703748060 |
Electronica - T01510536385Conductor Martyn Brabbins. Music Jonathan Harvey (Bird Concerto with Plainsong). Performer Joanna MacGregor (piano). Music Pierre Boulez (Anthemes 2). Performer Clio Gould (violin). Music Matthias Pintscher (Tenebrae). Performer Paul Silverthorne (viola). | |
| 23 Apr 03 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0777597706 |
Series: Premieres: New Music on the South Bank - T1346398753Programme includes works by John Woolrich, Judith Weir etc. | |
| 15 Mar 03 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L2049541792 |
State of the Union - T1079622786Conductor George Benjamin. Music Dusapin. Music Rihm. | |
| 25 Jan 03 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1558009893 |
Series: Passion: The Music of Louis Andriessen. Series: Premieres: New Music on the South Bank - T1994246782Writing to Vermeer, [Andriessen]'s most recent opera. A concert performance accompanied by slides. | |
| 17 Oct 02 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01495337071 |
T0358659194Oliver Knussen continues his association with the work of Louis Andriessen, including the world premiere of La Passione for voice violin and ensemble. | |
| 6 Oct 02 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1382214073 |
T01144263060Conductor Oliver Knussen. Music Stravinsky (Symphonies of Wind Instruments 1920 and 1947). Music Xenakis (Akrata). Music Lindberg (Gran Duo). | |
| 12 Oct 01 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L738057719 |
T01598299932Conductor Oliver Knussen. Performer Anssi Karttunen (cello). Music Rijnvos (Block Beuys - Room 2 - 1st UK perf.). Music Salonin (Mania). Music Wuorinen (Cyclops 2000 - 1st perf.). | |
| 16 May 01 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01258234545 |
Elliott Carter What Next? - T1480878465Conductor Oliver Knussen. Performer Valdine Anderson. Performer Rosemary Hardy. Performer Hilary Summers. | |
| 1 May 01 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L432373632 |
T0109387283Conductor Oliver Knussen. Performer Joanna MacGregor. Music Birtwistle (Tragoedia; Slow Frieze; Silbury Air). Music Hesketh (Torturous Instruments). Music Sawer (Tiroirs). | |
| 14 Oct 00 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L02098812644 |
The Inspirations of John Tavener - T01565009194Conductor David Atherton. Performer Raphael Wallfisch (cello). Performer Martyn Hill (tenor). Performer David Wilson-Johnson (baritone). Music Tavener (Three Holy Sonnets; The Protecting Veil). Music Stravinsky (Canticum sacrum ad honorem Sancti Marci nominis). | |
| 7 Oct 00 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0580249527 |
T01577393363Conductor Oliver Knussen. Performer Lucy Shelton. Music Matthews (Two Tributes). Music Harvey (Death of Light / Light of Death). Music Carter (ASKO Concerto). Music Hesketh (Conopy of Circling Night). | |
| 24 May 00 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L2069280604 |
T01574040049The Composer ConductsConductor Peter Eotvos. Performer Sebastian Bell (flute). Performer Michael Collins (clarinet). Company Sound Intermedia. Music Guo Wenjing (Work to be announced). Music Eotvos (Shadows; Chinese Opera). | |
| 14 May 00 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L863366406 |
T93057608Conductor Oliver Knussen. Music Negard (Prelude to Breaking - Unendicher Empfang). Music Northcott (Concerto for horn and ensemble). | |
| 5 Apr 00 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01738549565 |
T0312233963Conductor H K Gruber (chansonnier). Performer Clio Gould (violin). Music Weill (Programme includes Berlin Lit Up; Concerto for violin and wind instruments; A Little Threepenny Music). | |
| 2 Mar 00 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L02024836892 |
T0260780719Conductor Thomas Ades. Performer A Watts (soloist). Performer Simon Haram (soloist). Music Ades (The Origin of the Harp; Life Story Catch 9). Music Oehring and Schiphorst (Polaroids). Music Kyburz (Cells). | |
| 28 Jan 00 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01661188309 |
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