Aurora Orchestra 2013 Season Brochure

aurora orchestra’s

adventures 2013

sun 20 January, 6.30Pm

Riot in Vienna, 1913ZEITGEISTroyal Festival hall, southbank centreSchoenberg Chamber Symphony No.1, Op. 9

Edmund de Waal Speaker

Fri 28 June, 8Pm

the gift kings PlaceBeethoven SeptetWagner Siegfried Idyll

Henry Goodman Narrator Barry Millington Writer

sat 23 march, 7.30PminsomniaNew Moveslso st luke’s

Britten Nocturne Vivaldi La Notte MacMillan A Deep but Dazzling Darkness

Allan Clayton Tenor Thomas Gould Violin

sat 20 aPril, 7.30Pmechoes of BachBACH UNWRAPPED

kings PlaceBusoni Violin SonataSchnittke Piano QuintetBach arrangements by Mozart, Kodály and Busoni

sat 9 February, 5Pm

Dance of the machines (PaRis, 1926)ZEITGEISTroyal Festival hall, southbank centreAntheil Ballet mécanique

Rex Lawson Pianola

sun 31 march, 7Pm mon 1 aPril, 2.30 & 7Pm

Wallace & gRomit’s musical maRVelshammersmith aPollo

Including music by Mozart, Copland, Stravinsky and Britten

Thomas Gould Violin

sat 16 march, 7.30Pmst John PassionBACH UNWRAPPED

kings PlaceSoloists including:John Mark Ainsley EvangelistRoland WoodChristusChoir of Clare College, Cambridge

sat 20 aPril, 11am & 12.15Pm

stoRytelling With Bach iBACH UNWRAPPED

kings PlaceBach The Well-Tempered Clavier (excerpts)

Jessica Maryon Davies Animateur Kate Wakeling Story-writer

sun 9 June, 5.30Pm

Why? anD foR What? (moscoW, 1946)ZEITGEISTQueen elizabeth hall, southbank centreShostakovich (arr. Barshai) Chamber Symphony in F, Op. 73a

aurora orchestra london calendar 2013

PrinciPal conductor: nicholas collon

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sat 5 october, 7.30Pm

le maRteau sans maitReQueen elizabeth hall, southbank centre Stockhausen KontakteBoulez Le marteau sans maître

Colin Currie Percussion Hilary Summers Contralto

sat 2 november, 7.30Pm

Julian anDeRson focusWigmore hallJulian AndersonWorks including Tiramisu and The Comedy of Change

sun 7 July, 7Pm

mementoNew Moveslso st luke’sBoulez Mémoriale Ives Three Places in New England Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Jon Frank Film-maker

sat 19 october, 11am & 12.15Pm

stoRytelling With Bach iiBACH UNWRAPPED

kings PlaceBach Goldberg Variations (excerpts)

Jessica Maryon Davies Animateur Kate Wakeling Story-writer

Wed 3 July – sat 6 July

BRitten chuRch PaRaBlessouthWark cathedral

James Gilchrist Tenor

Frederic Wake-Walker Director

Roger Vignoles Musical Director

Mahogany Opera

sat 16 november, 7.30Pm eaRth songNew Moveslso st luke’sBritten (arr. Imogen Holst) Rejoice in the Lamb Mahler (arr. Cortese) Das Lied von der Erde

Andrew Staples Tenor / Stage director Mezzo-soprano TBC

sun 29 sePtember, 3Pm

BRitten filmsQueen elizabeth hall, southbank centre

Britten film scores including Night Mail and The Way To The Sea

Samuel West Narrator

sat 19 october, 7.30Pm

songs Without WoRDsBACH UNWRAPPED

kings PlaceBach Oboe Concerto in DAnna Meredith New work

Erik Bosgraaf Recorder

sat 21 december, 7.30PmB-minoR massBACH UNWRAPPED

kings PlaceRosemary Joshua SopranoWilliam Towers Counter-tenorAndrew Staples TenorBenedict Nelson BassChoir of Clare College, Cambridge

Bursting with virtuosity, eclecticism and intrepid collaboration, Aurora’s 2013 season offers a truly exhilarating array of new projects. Under the inspirational artistic direction of Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon, the orchestra presents its busiest and most diverse calendar of events to date, guided as ever by a commitment to thrill new audiences with great music, brilliantly performed.

As Associate Orchestra at LSO St Luke’s, Aurora continues to build on the success of its cross-art form New Moves series, with ground-breaking new collaborations featuring music ranging from Vivaldi to The Beatles via Beethoven, Mahler and Britten. Aurora is also this year formally installed as Resident Orchestra at Kings Place, where it presents several highlights of the venue’s flagship Bach Unwrapped season (including performances of the St John Passion and Mass in B minor alongside the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge). In addition, 2013 sees the launch of the orchestra’s

Welcome to aurora orchestra’s adventures 2013

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Zeitgeist series at the Southbank Centre, offering a uniquely intimate and immersive experience of key twentieth-century masterpieces.

Alongside these year-long series, Aurora also returns to Wigmore Hall for a celebration of the music of Julian Anderson, and makes a debut appearance at the iconic Hammersmith Apollo. In addition to its UK touring schedule, the orchestra is busier than ever on the international stage, with touring appearances including performances at the Shanghai Concert Hall and the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg.

This season is packed with an unprecedented wealth of guest artists of the very highest calibre. In addition to a host of world-class singers – including John Mark Ainsley, Allan Clayton, Iestyn Davies, James Gilchrist, Rosemary Joshua, Andrew Staples and Hilary Summers – we also welcome instrumental soloists including Colin Currie and Erik Bosgraaf, writer Edmund de Waal, actors Samuel West and Henry Goodman, and the incomparably flexible global stars Wallace and Gromit.

We hope you’ll enjoy browsing through this book as much as we’ve relished putting the season together. Do visit auroraorchestra.com for full details of all Aurora projects, including the orchestra’s ambitious programme of learning and participation activity; and to sign up for our regular monthly e-newsletter.

Enjoy the adventure!

John Harte Chief Executive, Aurora Orchestra

“Electric fizz and pungent colours... the almost belligerent brilliance of Aurora Orchestra.” The Times, November 2012

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ZEITGEISTAT SOUTHBANK CENTREAurora’s debut Southbank Centre series comprises four concerts of extraordinary intimacy which transport the audience to key moments in the development of twentieth-century music. Each based around a seminal work for chamber orchestra, and richly illuminated with historical and artistic context, these programmes present revelatory music in electrifying style.

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AURORA ORCHESTRA PRESENTS

ZEITGEIST 1:

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE SUN. 20 JAN. 6.30 PM

RIOT IN VIENNA,

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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

CHAMBER SYMPHONY NO. 1 (OP. 9)

JOHANN STRAUSS (ARR. SCHOENBERG)

EMPEROR WALTZ (EXCERPT)

FRITZ KREISLERMARCHE MINIATURE VIENNOISE

Featuring: EDMUND DE WAAL

(SPEAKER)NICHOLAS COLLON

(CONDUCTOR)

Ceramicist and writer Edmund de Waal (author of The Hare with Amber Eyes) introduces the explosive cultural melting-pot of pre-war Vienna through the prism of his family history, and Aurora transports the audience to the riotous 1913 performance of Schoenberg’s first Chamber Symphony.

“After Schoenberg’s Op. 9, his Kammersymphonie, one could hear the shrill sound of door keys among the violent clapping and in the second gallery the first fight of the evening began... When Schoenberg knocked on the desk in the middle of the song and shouted to the public that anyone disturbing the peace would be removed by the police, insults, fisticuffs and challenges broke out again... It was not an unusual occurrence when one of the public with breathless haste and with ape-like agility climbed over several rows of seats in order to box the object of his anger on the ears...”

Report in Musikblätter des Anbruch on the events of 31 March 1913

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ZEITGEIST 2:

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE SAT. 9 FEB. 5.00 PM

DANCE OF THE MACHINES

(PARIS, 1926)

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GEORGE ANTHEILBALLET MÉCANIQUE

IGOR STRAVINSKY‘DANSE SACRALE’ FROM THE RITE OF SPRING (PIANOLA VERSION)

GEORGE ANTHEILJAZZ SONATA

JOSEPHINE BAKER (ARR. IAIN FARRINGTON)

CABARET SONGS

Featuring: REX LAWSON (PIANOLA)

STANTON MEDIA (FILM-MAKERS)NICHOLAS COLLON (CONDUCTOR)

Adventure into Paris of the 1920s, the crucible for George Antheil’s astonishing Ballet mécanique – a visceral rollercoaster for pianola, pianos and a barrage of percussion including aircraft propellors and electric bells. In addition to this rarely-heard work, the programme also features other contrasting ‘Parisian’ music of the period, including an excerpt from Stravinsky’s pianola arrangement of the Rite of Spring and new arrangements of Josephine Baker’s irresistible cabaret songs. Specially-commissioned film from Stanton Media completes a programme evoking the rich colour and extraordinary juxtapositions of Antheil’s city. (Concert duration: 1 hour.)

“Within a few minutes, the concert became sheer bedlam. Above the mighty noise of the pianos and drums arose cat-calls and booing, shrieking and whistling, shouts of ‘thief’ mixed with ‘bravo’. People began to call each other names and to forget there was any music going on at all... For an instant there was a curious lull in the clamour and Ezra Pound took advantage of it to jump to his feet and yell ‘Vous êtes tous des imbeciles!’ He was shouted down from the gallery, of course, with many vulgar epithets, and the music continued... determinedly.”

Bravig Imbs on the 1926 première of the Ballet mécanique

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ZEITGEIST 3:

QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE SUN. 9 JUN. 5.30 PM

WHY? AND FOR WHAT?

(MOSCOW, 1946)

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Aurora delves into the shattered landscape which played host to the première of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.3 – a heartfelt and intensely personal response to conflict, performed here in Rudolf Barshai’s masterly arrangement for chamber orchestra.(Concert duration: 1 hour.)

“Only once did we see Shostakovich visibly moved by his own music. We were rehearsing his Third Quartet. He’d promised to stop us when he had any remarks to make. Dmitri Dmitriyevich sat in an armchair with the score opened out. But after each movement ended he just waved us on, saying, ‘Keep playing!’ So we performed the whole quartet. When we finished playing he sat quite still in silence like a wounded bird, tears streaming down his face. This was the only time that I saw Shostakovich so open and defenceless.”

Violist Fyodor Druzhinin recalls Shostakovich attending a rehearsal by the Beethoven Quartet

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (ARR. RUDOLF

BARSHAI)STRING QUARTET NO. 3 (CHAMBER SYMPHONY

IN F, OP. 73A)

Featuring: NICHOLAS COLLON

(CONDUCTOR)STANTON MEDIA

(FILM-MAKERS)

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QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE SUN. 29 SEP. 3 PM

BRITTENFILMS

ZEITGEIST 4:


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An Aldeburgh Music production supported by Arts Council England’s 2013 Britten Centenary commissioned grant fund.

BENJAMIN BRITTENNIGHT MAIL

THE WAY TO THE SEAMEN BEHIND THE METERS

THE TOCHERCOAL FACE

THE KING’S STAMP GOD’S CHILLUN

PEACE OF BRITAINSIXPENNY TELEGRAM

Featuring: SAMUEL WEST

(NARRATOR)

Aurora presents a London première of Britten’s complete existing documentary film scores, performed alongside the original films.

With subjects ranging from postage stamps to pacifism, the abolition of the slave trade to the electrification of the London–Portsmouth railway, the films are wonderfully made and fascinating historical documents. Britten’s music brilliantly reflects, amplifies and underpins the screen images with scores of rich variety, invention and no little wit. A celebration of composer’s craft and film-maker’s technique, and a remarkably vivid insight into 1930s Britain.

“The fuss caused by the Censor for not passing [Peace of Britain] is colossal. ½ centre pages of Herald & News Chronicle, & Manchester Guardian – BBC news twice. Never has a film had such good publicity!”

Britten recalls the initial refusal of the official censor to pass the pro-pacifist film Peace of Britain

Touring performance:8 November, Turner Sims Southampton

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AURORA AT KINGS PLACE

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From 2013 Aurora becomes Resident Orchestra of Kings Place. This year’s projects focus principally on the incomparably rich music of J S Bach, encompassing two of the great liturgical masterpieces; chamber arrangements by later composers; a collaboration with recorder player Erik Bosgraaf; and Bach-inspired children’s concerts.

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FEATURING:JOHN MARK AINSLEY EVANGELISTROLAND WOOD CHRISTUSMALIN CHRISTENSSON SOPRANOIESTYN DAVIES COUNTER-TENORANDREW TORTISE TENORDAVID STOUT PILATE/BASSCHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE(DIR: GRAHAM ROSS)NICHOLAS COLLON CONDUCTOR

J S BACHST JOHN PASSION, BWV 245(SUNG IN GERMAN)

BACH UNWRAPPED 1

ST JOHNPASSION

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Evangelist: ‘And then, behold, the veil of the Temple was rent into twain e’en from the top unto the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent; and the graves were opened up; and there arose many bodies of the saints.’

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TICKETS: £9.50 / £29.50 / £39.50 / £49.50 / £59.50 (ONLINE RATES)

SATURDAY

MARCH, 7.30PM

John Mark Ainsley

Malin Christensson

Iestyn Davies

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J S BACH (ARR. W A MOZART)SELECTION OF FUGUES FROM THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BWV 846–893J S BACH (ARR. ZOLTÁN KODÁLY) CHROMATIC FANTASY AND FUGUE IN D MINOR, BWV 903J S BACH (ARR. FERRUCIO BUSONI)CHORALE PRELUDES FOR ORGAN (TRANSCRIBED FOR PIANO)FERRUCCIO BUSONIMOVEMENT IV FROM VIOLIN SONATA NO. 2 IN E MINOR, OP. 36A ALFRED SCHNITTKE PIANO QUINTET

FEATURING:JOHN REID PIANOTHOMAS GOULD VIOLINJAMIE CAMPBELL VIOLINMAX BAILLIE VIOLAOLIVER COATES CELLO

BACH UNWRAPPED 2

ECHOES OF BACH

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No composer has had a more profoundly transformative impact on Europe’s musical landscape than Bach. For this sparkling chamber programme, Aurora principal players pair arrangements of his works by later composers with twentieth-century chamber music inspired by Bach. Highlights include the final movement of Busoni’s second Violin Sonata, based around the chorale Wie bor Wir wohl is mir; Kodaly’s virtuosic arrangement for solo viola of the Chromatic Fantasy; and Alfred Schnittke’s Piano Quintet, a searing masterpiece written in memory of his dead mother, the central waltz of which is constructed around the letters B-A-C-H.

“In his music one ceases to be conscious of the boundary between what is spiritual and what is physical, or, to be more precise, the spiritual is a continuation of the physical, not something quite distinct from it.” Alfred Schnittke on Bach

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APRIL, 7.30PM

HALL ONE,KINGS PLACE


Oliver Coates

Max Baillie

John Reid

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J S BACH OBOE CONCERTO IN D, BWV 1053 (PERFORMED WITH SOLO RECORDER)ERIK BOSGRAAF BACH ARRANGEMENTSANNA MEREDITH NEW WORK FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND SOLO RECORDER

FEATURING: ERIK BOSGRAAF RECORDER PRINCIPAL PLAYERS OF AURORA ORCHESTRA

BACH UNWRAPPED 3

SONGS WITHOUT WORDS

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Established as one of the world’s most gifted recorder players, Erik Bosgraaf ’s richly varied musical background – including a period spent playing in a rock band – underpins a truly omnivorous approach to music-making. This unique Bach Unwrapped programme includes the ravishing concerto BWV 1053 (originally for oboe), new Bach transcriptions created by Bosgraaf for this concert, and the première of a new work for chamber orchestra and recorder by Anna Meredith, one of the UK’s most celebrated young composers.

“A tour de force... greeted with a standing ovation, richly deserved.” The Guardian on Anna Meredith’s 2012 BBC Proms commission HandsFree

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OCTOBER, 7.30PM



Erik Bosgraaf

Anna Meredith

Concert supported by Borletti-Buitoni Trust

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FEATURING:ROSEMARY JOSHUA SOPRANOWILLIAM TOWERS COUNTER-TENORANDREW STAPLES TENORBENEDICT NELSON BASSCHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE(DIR: GRAHAM ROSS)NICHOLAS COLLON CONDUCTOR

BACH UNWRAPPED 4

B-MINOR MASSJ S BACHMASS IN B MINOR, BWV 232

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DECEMBER, 7.30PM

Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements not only of sacred choral music but of European culture, the B-minor Mass is performed at Kings Place for the first time with a world-class team of soloists and one of the UK’s finest mixed-voice chamber choirs.

‘‘The greatest musical work of art of all times and nations.”Hans Georg Nägeli, 1818



Rosemary Joshua

William Towers

Andrew Staples

Benedict Nelson

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STORYTELLING WITH BACH

CHILDRENS’ CONCERTS

STORYTELLING WITH BACH I: WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER20 APRIL, 11AM & 12.15PMJ S BACH (ARR. IAIN FARRINGTON)EXCERPTS FROM THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER

STORYTELLING WITH BACH II: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS19 OCTOBER, 11AM & 12.15PMJ S BACH (ARR. IAIN FARRINGTON)EXCERPTS FROM THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

FEATURING:JESSICA MARYON DAVIES ANIMATEURKATE WAKELING STORY-WRITERPRINCIPAL PLAYERS OF AURORA ORCHESTRA

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19HALL TWO,KINGS PLACE

TICKETS: £4.50 (CHILD) / £6.50 (ADULT). FAMILY DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE. (ONLINE RATES)

SATURDAY

APRIL11AM & 12.15PM

SATURDAY

OCTOBER11AM & 12.15PM

The Count couldn’t sleep.The Count couldn’t sleep.He counted comets.He counted sheep.He counted his fingers.He counted his toes.He counted up (twice) all the hairs in his nose...

Join Jessica Maryon Davies and principal players of Aurora Orchestra as they explore Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations. Two interactive family concerts bring these sparkling masterpieces to life with specially-commissioned stories from writer Kate Wakeling, interwoven with lively musical performances.

Meet a sleepless Count in need of a musical cure, dance with raindrops, hop with tree frogs and help solve the mystery of a lost fugue, last spied roaming the woods in search of a family.*

*Reward of tapping toes, twirling brains and warm ears for his safe return.

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THE GIFTWAGNERSIEGFRIED IDYLLBEETHOVENSEPTET FEATURING:HENRY GOODMAN NARRATORNICHOLAS COLLON CONDUCTOR

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As part of the ‘Wagner 200’ celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth, Aurora presents a narrated re-creation of his Siegfried Idyll, composed as a birthday gift for his wife Cosima. With a new script created especially for this concert by Barry Millington.

“When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew even louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R came in to me with the five children and put into my hands the score of his ‘Symphonic Birthday Greeting’. I was in tears, but so, too, was the whole household; R had set up his orchestra on the stairs and thus consecrated our joyous home for ever!”

From the diary of Cosima Wagner, Christmas Day 1870.

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JUNE, 8PM


TICKETS £9.50 / £14.50 / £17.50 / £21.50 / £26.50 (ONLINE RATES)

Henry Goodman

www.wagner200.co.uk

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New Movesat LSO St Luke’sSince its launch in 2010 the New Moves series has pioneered a radically new kind of orchestral concert, infused with adventurous cross-art collaboration, inventive presentation, and eclectic programming. Come and discover why recent press plaudits have described ‘exquisite perfection’ and ‘an almost belligerent brilliance’.

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Cross-art form commissioning supported by:

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Insomnia

23March, 7.30pmLSO St Luke’s

Tickets: £12 / £18 / £25 / £30

Saturday

New Moves 1

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Insomnia

Ivor Gurney (arr. Iain Farrington) Sleep

Antonio Vivaldi La Notte (‘The Night’)

James MacMillan A Deep but Dazzling Darkness

György Ligeti Poème Symphonique

John Lennon / Paul McCartney (arr. Iain Farrington) Blackbird

Benjamin Britten Nocturne

Featuring: Allan Clayton Tenor

Thomas Gould Violin

William Reynolds Designer

Nicholas Collon Conductor

Aurora Barbiturate (100mg)

Uses:– Haunting musical experience for application

during the darkness of a troubled night.– Particularly effective when taken in a venue

marking its 10th anniversary.

Active ingredients:– 1 award-winning tenor, Allan Clayton– 22 minutes of James MacMillan’s A Deep

but Dazzling Darkness (formula first discovered at LSO St Luke’s in 2003)

– 7 instrumental soloists in Britten’s Nocturne– 100 metronomes (Ligeti’s Poème

Symphonique)– 1 new Beatles arrangement.

When using this product:– Excitability may occur– Swelling of euphoria possible– Operating machinery inside concert

hall not advised.

Directions:– 1 performance (recommended dose)

before sleep.

Warning: – May not induce drowsiness– Keep in the reach of children.

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Memento

7July, 7pmLSO St Luke’s

Tickets: £12 / £18 / £25 / £30

Touring performance:30 June, Deal Festival

Sunday

New Moves 2

Charles Ives’ mysterious, beautiful Three Places in New England evokes the sound and soul of three landscapes from the composer’s homeland, here performed alongside a new film from award-winning Australian photographer and film-maker Jon Frank. Memento pairs Ives’ masterpiece with Beethoven’s seventh symphony – premièred in 1813 at a charity concert in aid of wounded soldiers returning from the Battle of Hanau – and Pierre Boulez’s haunting Mémoriale for flute and eight instruments.

Claude Debussy Syrinx

Pierre Boulez Mémoriale

Charles Ives Three Places in New England (with new film by Jon Frank)

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Featuring: Jane Mitchell Flute

Jon Frank Film-maker


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Memento 33

‘We walked in the meadows along the river,

and heard the distant

singing from the church across the river. The mist had not entirely left the river bed,

and the colours, the running water, the banks and elm trees

were something that one would always remember.’

Charles Ives

Earth Song

Benjamin Britten (arr. Imogen Holst) Rejoice in the Lamb

Gustav Mahler (arr. Glen Cortese) Das Lied von der Erde

Featuring: Mezzo-soprano TBC

Andrew Staples Tenor

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

(Dir: Graham Ross)


16November, 7.30pmLSO St Luke’s

Tickets: £12 / £18 / £25 / £30

Touring performance:15 November, Apex, Bury St Edmunds

Saturday

New Moves 3

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Earth Song

For I will consider Aurora Orchestra’s ‘Earth Song’.For it pertains to the manifold colours of life.For it wreathes with elegant quickness among dreams, fears, beauty and darkness. For it features the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and singer/director Andrew Staples.For together they will semi-stage Britten’s jubilant Rejoice in the Lamb.For it sings praise for all living things, from the mouse to the lion to the flowers to the cat Jeoffry.For its poetry was written by Christopher Smart in 1759 while confined to an asylum.

For there too will be heard Das Lied von der Erde.For Mahler’s great work is a hymn to earth, wine, spring, the leaves and mortality.For its poetry is drawn from the Tang Dynasty of the eighth century.For 浩歌待明月 (For ‘wildly singing I waited for the moon to rise’.)

For by listening to all these I have found out electricity.For Aurora can tread to all the measures upon the musick.For it can play for its life.For it can sing.

After Christopher Smart

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Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common ManBenjamin Britten ‘Storm’ from Four Sea Interludes

Camille Saint-Saëns Danse macabreVittorio Monti Csárdás

Igor Stravinsky ‘The Infernal Dance of King Katschei’

from The FirebirdClaude Debussy (arr. André Caplet) Clair de lune

W A Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute Wallace My Concerto in Ee, Lad

Julian Nott A Matter of Loaf and Death

Featuring Thomas Gould Violin

Nicholas Collon Conductor/Presenter

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Hammersmith Apollo

Tickets: £10–40

Sunday

March7pm

Monday

April2.30 & 7pm

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31Wallace talks to to The Telegraph’s Ivan Hewett about his recent commission ‘My Concerto in Ee, Lad’, as premièred at the 2012 BBC Proms.

I imagine it’s hard work putting all those notes on paper. How do you keep your strength up?

Aha! Well, that’s where being an inventor comes in handy. I simply use my Semi-Quaver Time-Saver, and that puts the notes on the page while I put my feet up with a nice cup of tea. Though I must admit, it does tend to make a few blots on the manuscript paper, which is a little confusing for the conductor.

When you have an idea do you try it out on Gromit first?

I did used to hum some of my major themes to him at first, but you have to be careful about industrial espionage, you know. Between you and me, I suspect Gromit has a hankering to become a composer himself, and I don’t want him stealing all my best tunes.

What’s the biggest problem with writing a piece of music?

For me, the composition process is fraught with challenges – Writer’s Cramp, Tennis Elbow, Lumbago. And that’s before I even sit down to start composing.

Have you enjoyed writing the piece? Would you like to write another one?

Just try and stop me! But I don’t think the Concerto is a big enough platform for my musical genius. I’m currently working on my first opera, you know, with a starring role for Gromit – Il Pugliacci is the working title. Or maybe Dog Giovanni. Or the Barker of Seville…

© Ivan Hewett / Telegraph Media Group Limited 2012. Used with permission.

Following a sell-out hit at the 2012 BBC Proms, Aurora again teams up with Wallace and Gromit to reprise Musical Marvels: a show for all the family combining dazzling orchestral highlights with specially-filmed new Wallace and Gromit animations. Audiences will experience the dynamic duo’s backstage exploits as they prepare for the first performance of Wallace’s brand new work, My Concerto in Ee, Lad. The BAFTA Award-winning film A Matter of Loaf and Death is also screened with live orchestral accompaniment.

Touring performances:30 March, Brighton Dome

Thomas Gould

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Benjamin BrittenCurlew River

The Prodigal SonThe Burning Fiery Furnace

Featuring:

James Gilchrist TenorRodney Earl Clarke Bass

Samuel Evans BassLukas Jakobski BassJohn McMunn Tenor

Frederic Wake-Walker DirectorRoger Vignoles Musical Director

Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra

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2013 marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, and the composer’s music features prominently in Aurora’s programming this year, with performances of the Noctune, Rejoice in the Lamb and the film scores elsewhere in the season. In June and July, Aurora principal players join forces with Mahogany Opera for one of the highlights of the Britten 100 celebrations. Mahogany’s new production of the complete cycle of his ‘Church Parables’ – Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son – tours not only to venues in England but also to St Petersburg for the first-ever performances of the work in Russia.

Based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa, Britten’s Curlew River reimagines the haunting story of a mother’s search for her lost son as an English medieval mystery play. Frederic Wake-Walker’s production takes this principal – merging East with West – as the starting point for his staging of all three parables. For Curlew River, Japanese Noh is mixed with Medieval Western iconography; The Burning Fiery Furnace brings together Balinese dance drama with stained glass; whilst for The Prodigal Son Middle Eastern Sufism is juxtaposed with the work of Rembrandt and Bosch. An outstanding cast including James Gilchrist is directed from the keyboard by Roger Vignoles.

Touring performances: 4–8 June: St Petersburg (Hermitage Theatre and Church of St Catherine) 16–19 June: Aldeburgh Festival (Orford Church) 14–15 July: Buxton Festival (St John the Baptist Church)

3–6July

Southwark Cathedral

For timings and ticket details please see www.colf.org

James Gilchrist

Roger Vignoles

MAHOGANY OPERA

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Karlheinz StockhausenKontakteGesang der Jünglinge

Pierre BoulezLe marteau sans maître

Hilary Summers Contralto Colin Currie PercussionPrincipal Players of Aurora Orchestra

Saturday

5October7.30pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

Ticket details to be announced

Part of International Chamber Music Season 2013/14 at Southbank Centre

LE MARTEAU SANS

MAITRE

Modern Chamber Classics / 1

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Hans AbrahamsenWalden

Salvatore SciarrinoDa un Divertimento

Julian AndersonWorks including:TiramisuThe Comedy of Change

Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra

Saturday

2November7.30pm

Wigmore Hall

Ticket details to be announced

Promoted by Wigmore Hall

Modern Chamber Classics / 2

JULIAN

ANDERSON TIRAMISU AND OTHER WORKS

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1. southBank centRe www.southbankcentre.co.uk0844 875 0073Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

2. kings Place www.kingsplace.co.uk020 7520 149090 York Way, London N1 9AG

3. lso st luke’swww.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes020 7638 8891161 Old Street, London EC1V 9NG

4. hammeRsmith aPollowww.hammersmithapollo.com0844 249 100045 Queen Caroline StreetLondon W6 9QH

5. southWaRk catheDRal (city of lonDon festiVal)www.colf.org020 7583 3585London Bridge, London SE1 9DA

6. WigmoRe hall www.wigmore-hall.org.uk020 7935 214136 Wigmore Street

venues and booking inFormation

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adventures beyond london

6–9 March Glyndebourne oRlanDo gough, imagoglyndebourne.com

30 MarchBrighton DomeWallace anD gRomit’s musical maRVelsbrightondome.org

3–5 MayShanghai Tour Shanghai Concert Hallshanghaiconcerthall.orgWith Rory Macdonald (conductor)

16 MayApex Bury St Edmunds‘Battle’ touRtheapex.co.ukWith Rory Macdonald (conductor)

17 MaySt Mary’s Ashford‘Battle’ touR revelationstmarys.co.ukWith Rory Macdonald (conductor)

18 MayNorfolk and Norwich Festival (St Andrew’s Hall)‘Battle’ touRnnfestival.org.ukWith Rory Macdonald (conductor)

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4–8 JuneSt Petersburg (Hermitage Theatre and Church of St Catherine)BRitten chuRch PaRaBlesmahoganyopera.org.uk

16–19 JuneAldeburgh FestivalBRitten chuRch PaRaBlesaldeburgh.co.uk

30 JuneDeal Festivalmementodealfestival.co.uk

14–15 JulyBuxton FestivalBRitten chuRch PaRaBlesbuxtonfestival.co.uk

8 NovemberTurner Sims SouthamptonBRitten filmsturnersims.co.uk

15 NovemberApex Bury St EdmundseaRth songtheapex.co.uk

Further international tours to be announced – see auroraorchestra.com for latest information.

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UK touring activity supported by:

Matthew Gee

John Reid

Jamie Campbell

Oliver Coates

Simon Cox

Alexandra Wood

Timothy Orpen

Nicolas Fleury

PrinciPal Players

Principal First Violin & Leader Thomas Gould

Co-principal First Violin Alexandra Wood

Second Violin Jamie Campbell

Viola Max Baillie

Cello Oliver Coates

Double Bass Ben Griffiths

Flute Jane Mitchell

Oboe Thomas Barber

Clarinet Timothy Orpen

Bassoon Chris Cooper

Horn Nicolas Fleury

Trumpet Simon Cox

Trombone Matthew Gee

Piano John Reid

Percussion Henry Baldwin

aurora PeoPle

Principal Conductor & Artistic Director Nicholas Collon

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administration

Chief Executive John Harte

Projects Manager Kate Green

Orchestra Manager Sarah Roseblade

Creative Planning Associate Jane Mitchell

Concerts Administrator Jack Lowe

Finance Manager Craig Macartney

Media Relations Claire Willis, ElevenTenths PR

Arranger-in-Residence Iain Farrington

Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling

Designer-in-Residence Nick Eagleton

trustees

Jonathan Deakin Emily Ingram Sanjivan Kohli Thomas Ponsonby Julia Thaxton Louis Watt

Honorary Patron Sir Colin Davis

Honorary Advisory Patron Dr Jill White

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Henry Baldwin

Nicholas Collon

Thomas Gould

Thomas Barber

Jane Mitchell

Chris Cooper

Max Baillie

Ben Griffiths

PatronsMonica BertoniEduardo TamrazAn Anoymous FoundationAn Anonymous DonorGraham and Jackie BrownThomas PonsonbyThe Paul Morgan FoundationHelen and Richard Sheldon

chair sPonsors Helen and Richard Sheldon Principal Conductor Paul Barber Principal OboeDominique Collon Principal First ViolinGill and Andy Cooper Principal BassoonAlastair and Elisabeth Colquhoun Principal Flute Toni Griffiths and Peter Scott Principal Clarinet Eleanor and David Harte Principal Cello Valli and Gregorio Kohon Principal Percussion Anne Lee Principal Horn Richard Lee Principal Second Violin Irene Mackay Principal TrumpetRoger Mears and Joanie Speers Principal TromboneJohn Rhodes Co-Principal First Violin Clive Tulloch Principal ViolaLouis WattPrincipal Double Bass

media and digital PartnersClassical Recording CompanyElevenTenths PRFUSE Ltd Stanton MediaVideojuicer

With sPecial thanks toAldeburgh MusicCity of London FestivalChoir of Clare College, CambridgeNick EagletonInternational Classical ArtistsJim Jefferies-HinsonJerwood SpaceKings Place Music FoundationLondon Symphony OrchestraOrchestras LiveRayne FoundationSimon Weir Southbank CentreSt Paul’s SchoolKate Wakeling

book creditsDesign Nick EagletonIllustration Rob Ball (robertmball.com) & Nick EagletonText Kate Wakeling & John HartePrint Cantate

aurora orchestra The Music Base Kings Place , 90 York Way London N1 9AG +44 (0)20 7014 2806 [email protected] www.twitter.com/auroraorchestra www.facebook.com/auroraorchestra www.auroraorchestra.comAurora is a UK registered charity, no. 1116352.

All listings correct as of January 2013. Aurora reserves the right to make changes to published artists and programme details where necessary.

acknoWledgments

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PrinciPal series sPonsors

cross-art Form commissions suPPorted by the JerWood charitable Foundation gml ltd.

digital people

Nicholas Collon Principal Conductor & Artistic DirectorPhoto: Simon Weir

“There seems to be no end to what this young ensemble is willing, hungry and able to do.” The Times

“Playing beautiful enough to make you weep.”Gramophone

“Aurora has taken music by the neck and shaken it – and many perceptions will have been changed forever.” The Times

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aurora orchestra’s adventures 2013

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Documents

Aurora Orchestra 2013 Season Brochure