{"id":19858,"date":"2022-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=19858"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:47:33","slug":"live-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/2022\/10\/04\/live-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Live choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Live choice<\/h2>\n\n

Paul Riley <\/strong><\/em>picks the month\u2019s best concert and opera highlights in the UK <\/p>\n\n

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Over from Amsterdam:<\/strong> the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays two concerts at the Barbican <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Music at Tresanton <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Methodist Chapel, St Mawes, 4-6 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: musicattresanton.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Beethoven spearheads this year\u2019s festival in the handsomely refurbished chapel. Pianist and artistic director Noam Greenberg anchors four concerts and four cellists in a survey of the complete cello sonatas \u2013 Adrian Brendel wraps the series up with Op. 102, set alongside music by Ad\u00e8s, Liszt and Frescobaldi. <\/p>\n\n

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Barbican, London, 4, 5 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: barbican.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

After a six-year gap, the Amsterdam ensemble returns for a residency under conductor Daniel Harding. The first concert pairs Brahms\u2019s Violin Concerto \u2013 with Leonidas Kavakos as soloist \u2013 with Beethoven\u2019s \u2018Pastoral\u2019 Symphony. The following night, Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 9 takes centre stage. <\/p>\n\n

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Orchestra of Welsh National Opera <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

St David\u2019s Hall, Cardiff, 4 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

With Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s The Excursions of Mr Brou\u010dek <\/em>headlining the WNO season, his fanfare-rich Sinfonietta ends the orchestra\u2019s own \u2018excursion\u2019 to St David\u2019s Hall. Mezzo Jana Kurucov\u00e1 sings Dvor\u00e1k and Wagner and conductor Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hanus opens with Britten\u2019s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Steven Osborne <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Concert Hall, Perth, 6 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: horsecross.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Late Schubert (the A major Sonata D959) and early Rachmaninov \u2013 the turbulent Piano Sonata No. 1 \u2013 bookend an improvisation by Osborne on a theme by jazz great Keith Jarrett. The A major Bagatelle from Beethoven\u2019s Op. 33 set provides an inspired prelude to Schubert\u2019s \u2018heavenly lengths\u2019. <\/p>\n\n

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Cinquecento <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Wigmore Hall, London, 7 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: wigmore-hall.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

The Vienna-based vocal ensemble usually champions 16th-century music written for the Hapsburgs. The English Reformation, however, steers a Cinquecento programme that weaves works by Tallis, Byrd and Sheppard around three movements from Tye\u2019s The Mean Mass. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Royal Opera House <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Covent Garden, London, 8-26 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: roh.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Glyndebourne\u2019s summer dalliance with Alcina <\/em>might be over, but there\u2019s no keeping Handel\u2019s eponymous sorceress down as she casts an irresistible spell over Richard Jones\u2019s new production for the Royal Opera House. It\u2019s conducted by Handel specialist Christian Curnyn, and features Lisette Oropesa in the title role with Emily D\u2019Angelo as Ruggiero. <\/p>\n\n

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Academy of Ancient Music<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 9 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: aam.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

What with Handel\u2019s \u2018Cuckoo and the Nightingale\u2019 organ concerto, Telemann\u2019s violin concerto \u2018The Toad\u2019, and Vivaldi\u2019s \u2018Goldfinch\u2019 concerto for flute, the theme of the Academy\u2019s new season is being taken to heart. Directed by Laurence Cummings, \u2019Tis Nature\u2019s Voice opens with Rebel\u2019s anarchic Les \u00e9l\u00e9mens, <\/em>closes with Telemann\u2019s Hamburger Ebb und Fluth <\/em>and survives a Vivaldian storm. <\/p>\n\n

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Tak\u00e1cs Quartet<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, 10 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: turnersims.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

The Tak\u00e1cs Quartet comes to the UK for concerts in Bath, London and Southampton. Britten\u2019s first acknowledged string quartet, a product of his wartime sojourn in the US, is framed by the fifth of Beethoven\u2019s debut Op. 18 set and Dvor\u00e1k\u2019s Op. 106, written on his return from the US. <\/p>\n\n

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 11 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: rsno.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Marrying texts from the Mass for the Dead and the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Britten\u2019s War Requiem <\/em>was premiered 60 years ago. Remembering the anniversary, Thomas S\u00f8nderg\u00e5rd conducts a performance (repeated in Glasgow) featuring soloists soprano Susanne Bernhard, tenor Stuart Jackson and baritone Benjamin Appl. <\/p>\n\n

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Ulster Orchestra <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Ulster Hall, Belfast, 11 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: ulsterorchestra.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Later in the month, the orchestra champions Louise Farrenc\u2019s Third Symphony. First, though, another woman composer is featured, as Grazyna Bacewicz\u2019s rumbustious Overture for Orchestra precedes Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Concerto for Orchestra. Dvor\u00e1k\u2019s \u2018New World\u2019 Symphony, completes a programme that is conducted by Daniele Rustioni. <\/p>\n\n

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Sinfonia Cymru<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Riverfront, Newport, 17 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: sinfonia.cymru<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Jazz meets classical when trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary joins the Sinfonia for a four-concert tour that ranges from Wagner to Sidney Bechet. Wrapped around Hummel\u2019s Trumpet Concerto are works by Ravel, Milhaud and Weill. <\/p>\n\n

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El Gran Teatro del Mundo <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

St George\u2019s Bristol, 18 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: stgeorgesbristol.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Named after the play by Calder\u00f3n and specialising in the early and high Baroque, the ensemble takes an invigorating plunge into the world of the concerto da camera as adopted by Vivaldi, Telemann and Fasch. There\u2019s a trio sonata, too, by the 18th-century Catalan composer Josep Pla. <\/p>\n\n

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Arvo P\u00e4rt Festival <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Oxford, 18-26 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: musicatoxford.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Across a nine-day festival encompassing film, lectures and concerts, the music of Arvo P\u00e4rt is drawn into focus and placed within a wider Estonian context. Among others appearing are the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, O\/Modernt, the Rasch\u00e8r Saxophone Quartet and, saluting the 60th birthday of Galina Grigorjeva, The Carice Singers. <\/p>\n\n

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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Royal Birmingham Conservatory, 20 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: bcmg.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

BCMG is living the 21st-century American Dream. Alongside the UK premiere of George Lewis\u2019s Breaking <\/em>\u2013 inspired by the photography of Stan Douglas \u2013 Elliott Carter\u2019s American Sublime <\/em>partners a work by Katherine Balch. Stephan Meier conducts. <\/p>\n\n

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Katherine Broderick & Kathryn Stott<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, 22 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: operanorth.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Small Journeys, <\/em>a new work by Cheryl Frances-Hoad is at the heart of a song recital that remembers Vaughan Williams\u2019s 150th anniversary with the Robert Louis Stevenson-setting Songs of Travel. <\/em>Percy Grainger and Henri Duparc also have wanderlust in mind, while James MacMillan is thinking of home. (See \u2018Backstage with\u2026\u2019, below). <\/p>\n\n

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 23 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: cbso.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Pekka Kuusisto conducts a concert whose avian theme stretches from Andrea Tarrodi\u2019s Birds of Paradise <\/em>to Rautavaara\u2019s concerto for birds and orchestra: Cantus Arcticus. <\/em>Sibelius\u2019s swan and VW\u2019s lark are on topic, and Kuusisto also revisits Isobel Waller-Bridge\u2019s Temperatures. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Belle \u00c9poque Festival <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

St John\u2019s Smith Square, London, 24-27 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: sjss.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Reynaldo Hahn is ubiquitous in a festival that takes the temperature of late-19th-century France. Soprano V\u00e9ronique Gens devotes an evening exclusively to his songs, William Howard joins Quatuor Mona for chamber music including Hahn and Faur\u00e9, and Southbank Sinfonia shoulders two of Hahn\u2019s orchestral works. <\/p>\n\n

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London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Royal Festival Hall, London, 26 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: southbankcentre.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s sobering to think that only one year separates Vaughan Williams\u2019s balmy Shakespeare-setting Serenade to Music <\/em>and Tippett\u2019s grittily prophetic A Child of Our Time, <\/em>juxtaposed here. Conductor Edward Gardner is joined by soloists including mezzo Sarah Connolly. <\/p>\n\n

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Armonico <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

St Peter\u2019s Church, Wootton Wawen, 26 November<\/strong><\/strong>
Web: armonico.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Armonico\u2019s 20th-anniversary celebrations turn sombre as Christopher Monks directs a performance of Victoria\u2019s six-part Requiem, composed for the obsequies of the Empress Maria of Spain in 1603. <\/p>\n\n

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London Sinfonietta <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Kings Place, London, 27 November <\/strong><\/strong>
Web: londonsinfonietta.org.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n

The Sinfonietta\u2019s Turning Points series alights on Takemitsu, who enjoyed a special relationship with the ensemble. The natural world provides the backdrop for a clutch of works including Rain Tree Sketch II, <\/em>a piece written in memory of Messiaen, who is represented alongside works by Debussy and Webern. <\/p>\n\n

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BACKSTAGE WITH\u2026 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Soprano Katherine Broderick<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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On a journey:<\/strong> Katherine Broderick sings Songs of Travel in Leeds <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Your recital in Leeds on 22 November ranges from Vaughan Williams to the present day. How did you put it together?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is based around Robert Louis Stevenson and his travels. He was a Scot, and James MacMillan\u2019s Three <\/em>Scottish <\/em>Songs <\/em>are very much part of the folk song repertoire. There are also three folk songs by Grainger \u2013 he was from Australia, which was one of the places that Stevenson travelled to in and around the South Pacific. He also spent a lot of time in France, hence the inclusion of three Duparc songs. And Vaughan Williams\u2019s Songs <\/em>of <\/em>Travel <\/em>sets Stevenson\u2019s own words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, there\u2019s a new work by Cheryl Frances-Hoad? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheryl\u2019s Small <\/em>Journeys <\/em>sets words by Adam Strickson, who has written about walks around his home town of Slaithwaite in West Yorkshire, and how he uses those walks to think about the human experience. His poetry is disarmingly honest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And his involvement brings a local angle to it, of course\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, and the concert will also involve a community project. Last year, when Kathy [Stott] and I performed Schubert\u2019s Winterreise <\/em>here, we invited community ensembles to listen to it as a traditional recital, then go away to workshop the songs by themselves and come up with something that could be performed alongside them in a later concert. We will be doing the same with Songs <\/em>of <\/em>Travel <\/em>this year. Students from Leeds Arts University, meanwhile, will be providing illustrations to go with some of the songs we perform, and we will also be going on the walks that Adam did to come up with his poems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you a keen walker yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am! My whole family has just had a big walking holiday in Cornwall, along the coastal paths. I\u2019m from Saddleworth and lived there until around 18 months ago, and we used to enjoy going out walking on the Moors most weekends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long have you and pianist Kathryn Stott been performing together in recital? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We met around 15 years ago, when I filled in at last minute for a recital at Salts Mill. Until very recently, she had rarely done any song recitals and felt she was missing out on lieder and so on. And so, just before Covid she got in touch with me and asked if we could go through some Schubert, Schumann and others together. We did that during lockdown, and then last year decided to go all out by performing Winterreise! <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n

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