Before 9pm, Music, Contemporary

Alexandre Tansman: Stèle in memoriam Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Interval Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.4 (World premiere) In 1940s Hollywood, the Polish composer Alexandre Tansman met and befriended Igor Stravinsky. It was a close, respectful relationship that Tansman captured in his…

John Adams: El Niño (Nativity Oratorio) John Adams' joyful Nativity Oratorio is performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra commissioned John Adams to write a work for chorus and orchestra in the late 1990s, at about the same time as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris asked for…

James MacMillan: Viola Concerto (World premiere) Interval Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.6 After the first performance of his Sixth Symphony in 1906, Gustav Mahler could be found sobbing, wringing his hands and pacing frantically in his dressing room. He had realised that what he had written offered no escape.

György Ligeti: Lontano Witold Lutosławski: Cello Concerto Interval Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No.1 For Alfred Schnittke, ‘incidental’ and ‘serious’ music were one and the same. When the composer began work on his First Symphony in 1969, he was also scoring the documentary film ‘The World Today’. As music…

Kryzsztof Penderecki: Violin Concerto No.1 Interval Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), Op.36 In the mid-1970s the composer Henryk Górecki asked a specialist in Polish folk music if he had discovered any interesting old melodies. The folklorist responded with a simple Silesian song in…

Programme includes: Georg Friedrich Haas: in vain for 24 instruments (London premiere) Haas' in vain, written in 2000, is an exploration of a musical sound outside the standard tonal system of composition, and an adventure for the listener. As well as the microtonal harmonic sound-world that pervades the work…

Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass Rose Mauricio Kagel was an Argentinian who relocated to Europe, and The Pieces of the Compass Rose are his musical travelogue taking you from the north east of Brazil to the Gulf of Finland and the South American Andes, portrayed through a small salon orchestra and diverse set…

The New Music Show is London Sinfonietta's festival-in-a-day, with new music performances, film, talks and opportunities to participate, featuring a host of world, UK and London premieres from emerging and established composers. The day also features the return of Hidden - a series of intimate solo performances of…

Oliver Knussen: Music for a puppet court - puzzle pieces for 2 chamber orchestras Gérard Grisey: Modulations .: and world premieres by members of the Leverhulme Young Composes Programme - Hannah Kendall, Daniel Kidane, Peter Yarde Martin & Stephen Willey A concert of new music and premieres, including works by…

The group performs musical settings of poetry including works by Shakespeare, Blake, Browning, and Michael Garrick. The band features Tony Woods on saxophone, Nikki Iles on piano, with Matt Ridley on bass, Chris Nicholls on drums and vocals from Nette Robinson.

Contemporary jazz by the reedsman and his accompanying musicians.

Contemporary jazz from the saxophonist and his accompanying musicians.

Contemporary jazz by the quartet comprising guitarist Jim Mullen, Dario Deidda on bass, Julian Mazzariello on piano and Enzo Zirilli on drums.

Cello star Matthew Barley presents a characteristically immersive musical experience: Benjamin Britten's Third Cello Suite and solo cello works by Tavener, Dai Fujikura, James MacMillan and Jan Bang, with specially commissioned animated visuals from Yeast Culture.

The duo plays contemporary classical music.

Contemporary jazz by the pianist-composer and horn player two-piece.

Contemporary jazz from the saxophonist and his accompanying musicians.

Paul Silverthorne (Principal Viola, London Symphony Orchestra) & pianist Aglaia Tarantino perform Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, followed by a tribute in memoriam to Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze and Richard Rodney Bennett with imaginative works by each composer, ending with Paul's own transcription of Stravinsky's…

Elizabeth Burley and Philip Moore (pianos) and Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell (percussion) play the third book of George Crumb's remarkable Makrokosmos, subtitled Music for a Summer Evening.

Improvised and contemporary jazz by the Australian trio of Chris Abrahams, piano, Tony Buck, drums and Lloyd Swanton, bass.

SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER Weekend events from 10am 'We live in a time not of mainstreams but of many streams', said composer John Cage. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, old certainties were cast aside and globalisation made a truly worldwide musical scene. During this December weekend we ask: what next? View the full…

SATURDAY 7 - SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER Weekend events from 10am 'We live in a time not of mainstreams but of many streams', said composer John Cage. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, old certainties were cast aside and globalisation made a truly worldwide musical scene. During this December weekend we ask: what next?

The guitarist plays contemporary jazz.

Contemporary jazz by the Lisbon-based guitarist.