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HOW PURE THE SKY
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Far, far away...
WELCOME A kaleidoscope of great music, inspiring collaborations and richly eclectic programming, Aurora’s 2014 calendar is a concert season like no other. Under the compelling artistic direction of Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon, Aurora’s uniquely versatile and dynamic team of players continue to expand the horizons of orchestral performance. Based at LSO St Luke’s, our trailblazing New Moves series has pioneered a new kind of ‘Orchestral Theatre’, in which orchestral repertoire inspires and shapes collaborations across art forms and musical genres. This season’s projects include our own take on a Prohibition-era speakeasy, featuring special guests Swing Patrol and Man Overboard, as well as the world première of a new chamber orchestra arrangement of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Percussionist Manu Delago joins us on our comfiest sofa for a concert exploring a day in a house, illuminated by visuals from Stanton Media; and we welcome world-leading countertenor Iestyn Davies to help us navigate celestial heights through music by Bach, Gluck and Schubert. At our Kings Place home, meanwhile, Aurora’s performances offer thrillingly intimate music-making in one of the UK’s finest concert halls, roaming from Mozart and Ravel to Adams and Adès, via Mahler, Fauré, Copland, and Berg. Along the way we welcome Anthony Marwood (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Ronan Collett (baritone), and the irresistible American folk singer Dawn Landes. Other highlights this season include an appearance alongside Alice Coote at Wigmore Hall, the launch of a new family concert series at Kings Place, and a host of touring engagements – from new residencies at St George’s Bristol and The Apex Bury St Edmunds to a first visit to Australia. Putting together a new season is always a thrill – we hope you’ll enjoy looking through the brochure as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it for you. If you’d like to stay up to date with news of Aurora projects, do sign up for our monthly e-newsletter at www.auroraorchestra.com. John Harte Chief Executive
Road Trip _________ 4/1/14, Kings Place Featuring: Dawn Landes Adams, Ives, Copland, Muhly
Photo: Max Baillie (Principal Viola) and Ben Griffiths (Principal Double Bass)
Road Trip __ We drove straight as an arrow that night. A crate of whiskey in the back, a clean moon overhead. The radio was on, playing some kind of wild-eyed cartoon music. A real roadrunner. So Nick pushed down on the gas and we raced the damn thing south. When the light came up we were still in New England, driving along the banks of the Housatonic as the mist lifted. Then came sweet old Pennsylvania, where we passed by a wedding party with a pretty young bride all in white and the neighbours singing some Shaker hymn. As the sun dropped we picked up a hitchhiker standing out on the dark road. His name was Nico and music ran round him like his bones were piano keys. He knew the songs from the old country and he taught us them till we couldn’t stop, and the rest of the night was just the road and the wheel and us singing and playing, rolling our way west.
Saturday 4 January 7.30PM Hall One, Kings Place __ John Adams Chamber Symphony Charles Ives ‘The Housatonic at Stockbridge’ from Three Places in New England Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring Nico Muhly Folk song arrangements __ Dawn Landes Singer Nicholas Collon Conductor
2014 opens with a journey across America in the sublime company of Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, and John Adams. Kentucky-born singer-songwriter Dawn Landes joins us as special guest, performing newlycommissioned folk song arrangements by Nico Muhly, ‘one of the hottest composers on the planet’ (The Telegraph). Tickets: £9.50/£12.50/£15.50/ £19.50/£24.50 (online rates) www.kingsplace.co.uk/ aurora Box office: 020 7520 1490
MOZART BRITTEN MAHLER SHOSTAKOVICH
SERENADE COOTE MURRAY FLEURY GOURLAY
9.2.14 WIGMORE HALL
Photo: Nicolas Fleury (Principal Horn)
SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY 7.30PM WIGMORE HALL
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART SERENADE NO. 13 IN G (‘EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK’) BENJAMIN BRITTEN SERENADE FOR TENOR, HORN AND STRINGS GUSTAV MAHLER (ARR. IAIN FARRINGTON) LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN GESELLEN DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (ARR. RUDOLF BARSHAI) CHAMBER SYMPHONY IN C MINOR FEATURING: ALICE COOTE MEZZO-SOPRANO ROBERT MURRAY TENOR NICOLAS FLEURY HORN ANDREW GOURLAY CONDUCTOR
Darkness falls on Wigmore Hall as we pair Britten’s crepuscular Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with one of Shostakovich’s greatest masterpieces – his String Quartet No. 8, heard in this programme in Rudolf Barshai’s ‘Chamber Symphony’ version for string orchestra. By turns melancholic, savage, and soaringly beautiful, Shostakovich’s music here stands alongside Mozart’s shimmering A Little Night-Music – an altogether lighter perspective on the shadows – and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, presented in a newly-commissioned arrangement by Iain Farrington and sung by one of the outstanding artists of our age, Alice Coote. O fair musicians of the still midnight, Playing, with careful fingers and benign, To song-pleas’d hearts; to rare dreams giving flight When such sweet harmonies doth here align: Soothest Music! If it please thee, open, In midst of this thine hymn my willing ears, And sound th’applause ere the end is spoken Upon your stage of lulling melodies. For bountiful is Aurora’s bright shine, My fancy by its true beams awoken. Grant me curious conscience for sounds newborn Betwixt such songs as from dark histories stole; Turn through keys deftly in the strings and horn, And sing the hushèd descant of my Soul. After John Keats
TICKETS:
£15 / £25 / £35 / £40 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box office: 020 7935 2141 This concert is supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust
HOW PURE THE SKY
Photo: Iestyn Davies (Countertenor)
1 MAY 2014 LSO ST LUKE’S
MUHLY HOWELLS GLUCK ADÈS BACH SCHUBERT
IESTYN DAVIES
HOW PURE THE SKY THURSDAY 1 MAY, 7.30PM
HERBERT HOWELLS (ARR. MUHLY) KING DAVID NICO MUHLY DRONES ON ‘O LORD, WHOSE MERCIES NUMBERLESS’ CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK ‘CHE PURO CIEL’ FROM ORFEO ED EURIDICE
THOMAS ADÈS THREE STUDIES FROM COUPERIN
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH CANTATA BWV 54, ‘WIDERSTEHE DOCH DER SÜNDE’
FRANZ SCHUBERT SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN B FLAT
LSO ST LUKE’S
NICHOLAS COLLON CONDUCTOR IESTYN DAVIES COUNTERTENOR
INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED COUNTERTENOR IESTYN DAVIES JOINS US AS WE LOOK HEAVENWARDS FOR A PROGRAMME WHICH CONTEMPLATES VIRTUE, PEACE, AND CELESTIAL HEIGHTS
TICKETS: £12 / £18 / £25 / £30 WWW.LSO.CO.UK/LSOSTLUKES BOX OFFICE: 020 7638 8891
13 JUNE 2014, KINGS PLACE RAVEL / ADÈS / MOZART
F O U R Q U Photo: Alexandra Wood (Co-Principal First Violin)
A R T E R S
THOMAS ADÈS’ BOLD AND MYSTERIOUS ‘FOUR QUARTERS’ FOR STRING QUARTET CHARTS THE DART AND FLOW OF TIME ACROSS ITS FOUR MOVEMENTS:
FROM THE CHATTERING DUSK OF ‘NIGHTFALL’ TO THE TICK-TOCK DROPLETS OF ‘MORNING DEW’, THE STEADY PULSE OF ‘DAYS’, AND ‘THE TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR’
F O U R Q U
FRIDAY 13 JUNE, 7.30PM HALL ONE, KINGS PLACE
WHERE TIME AT LAST SEEPS BEYOND THE MEASURE OF THE CLOCK FACE. A CONCERT OF DEPTH AND SPARKLE, THE PROGRAMME ALSO INCLUDES RAVEL’S GLITTERING
MINIATURE CONCERTO FOR HARP AND THE SUMPTUOUS ‘GRAN PARTITA’ IN B-FLAT, MOZART’S SERENADE NO. 10 FOR 13 WIND INSTRUMENTS.
A R T E R S MAURICE RAVEL INTRODUCTION AND ALLEGRO THOMAS ADÈS FOUR QUARTERS WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART SERENADE NO. 10 IN B-FLAT FOR WINDS (‘GRAN PARTITA’)
TICKETS: £9.50 / £16.50 / £21.50 / £27.50 / £34.50 (ONLINE RATES) WWW.KINGSPLACE.CO.UK/AURORA BOX OFFICE: 020 7520 1490 Part of CHAMBER CLASSICS UNWRAPPED TO P 5 0 C H A M B E R WO R KS AS VOT E D BY YO U
20 JULY 2014, LSO ST LUKE’S PAGANINI • RAMEAU • STRAVINSKY • GERSHWIN FEATURING: SWING PATROL • MAN OVERBOARD • THOMAS GOULD
Photo: Thomas Gould (Principal First Violin and Leader) and dancers from Swing Patrol
HUSH HUSH FOLKS!
IT’S TIME TO GIVE PROHIBITION A SHAKE-DOWN:
THE AURORA
IS COMING TO TOWN LIQUOR-UP THOSE EARS FOR A DIZZYING NEW ARRANGEMENT OF
‘PORGY AND BESS’ A DEEP-FIZZ PUNCHBOWL OF
, PAGANINI STRAVINSKY AND (JUST THE TONIC) MAN OVERBOARD PLUS SOME HIGH-FALUTIN’, SPIRIT-LIFTIN’ RAMEAU
TO SET THE FEET A-TAPPING.
PAGANINI CAPRICE NO. 24 IN A MINOR RAMEAU LES INDES GALANTES
STRAVINSKY
CONCERTO IN E-FLAT (‘DUMBARTON OAKS’)
GERSHWIN
(ARR. IAIN FARRINGTON) PORGY AND BESS FANTASY PLUS SWING ARRANGEMENTS BY MAN OVERBOARD WITH AURORA AND LIVE DANCE FROM SWING PATROL TRY YOUR HAND (AND FEET) AT SWING DANCING WITH A PRE-CONCERT DANCE LESSON FROM 3PM — 4.30PM FOR JUST £5.
SUNDAY
20 JULY,K6E’S
PM
LSO ST LU
FEATURING:
MAN OVERBOARD SWING PATROL THOMAS GOULD VIOLIN NICHOLAS COLLON CONDUCTOR TICKETS: £12 / £18 / £25 / £30 WWW.LSO.CO.UK/LSOSTLUKES BOX OFFICE: 020 7638 8891
DING? N A T S STILL STICK AROUND FOR A DRINK OR TWO AND A DANCE AT THE AURORA POST-CONCERT SPEAKEASY FROM 8.45PM, WITH MORE LIVE MUSIC FROM MAN OVERBOARD. TICKETS £10. (JUST DON’T TELL THE FEDS.)
LITTLE
GIANTS
20 SEPTEMBER 2014 KINGS PLACE WEBERN, BERG, MAHLER FEATURING: MARWOOD, MELNIKOV
Photo: Nicholas Collon (Principal Conductor)
LITTLE
GIAN
TICKETS: £9.50 / £14.50 / £19.50 / £24.50 / £29.50 (ONLINE RATES) WWW. KINGSPLACE.CO.UK/ AURORA BOX OFFICE: 020 7520 1490
Part of ‘Vienna Revisited’ at
SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM HALL ONE, KINGS PLACE
ANTON WEBERN SIX PIECES FOR LARGE ORCHESTRA (CHAMBER VERSION) ALBAN BERG CHAMBER CONCERTO GUSTAV MAHLER (ARR. ERWIN STEIN) SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN G ANTHONY MARWOOD VIOLIN ALEXANDER MELNIKOV PIANO NICHOLAS COLLON CONDUCTOR
NTS AURORA SIZES UP THREE VIENNESE MASTERPIECES, EACH PERFORMED IN DAZZLING MINIATURE. WEBERN’S FIERCELY EXPRESSIVE SIX PIECES FOR LARGE ORCHESTRA, HERE HEARD IN ITS CHAMBER ARRANGEMENT, IS TEAMED WITH BERG’S CHAMBER CONCERTO, A TIGHTLY-CONSTRUCTED HOMAGE TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG FOR PIANO AND VIOLIN WITH 13 WIND INSTRUMENTS. MAHLER’S MOST DELICATE AND RADIANT SYMPHONY, WITH ITS CELEBRATED DEPICTION OF A CHILD’S VIEW OF HEAVEN, COMPLETES THIS RAVISHING PROGRAMME.
**house** sat 15 november 2014
lso st luke’s
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Featuring: Manu Delago ****************
Photo: Manu Delago (Hang & Percussion)
*****house***** 1 x VIRTUOSO HANG PLAYER 2 x TOOTHBRUSH (ACOUSTIC) 1 x MULTIPACK GERMAN ROMANTIC SPARKLE INC. 8 PLAYERS @ 100% 1 x JAPANESE WATER GARDEN 6 x SHAKESPEAREAN MINIATURES 1 x KITCHEN-BASED CHAMBER BALLET (FAMILY SIZE) ***MULTISAVER*** FREE JAZZ INFUSION, LOOSE LEAF 1 x SLICED BREAD (BEST THING SINCE)
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Saturday 15 November, 7.30PM LSO St Luke’s
An extraordinarily versatile performer and composer whose regular collaborators include Icelandic superstar Björk, Manu Delago has pioneered the mesmerising sound of the hang – an instrument that looks like an upturned wok and produces a resonance somewhere between a harp and a tabla. For the last in our 2014 New Moves series, he joins us as we roam about the rooms of a house, with music including a jazz-infused ‘kitchen ballet’ by Martinů, a major new commission from Delago himself, and Mendelssohn’s Octet, one of the greatest living-room sized works ever penned. We might even settle in for some afternoon TV on the sofa…
Toru Takemitsu Rocking Mirror Daybreak *********************** Manu Delago Music for Two Acoustic Toothbrushes *********************** Bohuslav Martinů La revue de cuisine *********************** Manu Delago New work for hang, electronics and string quartet *********************** Thomas Adès Court Studies *********************** Felix Mendelssohn Octet in E flat Manu Delago Hang & Percussion *********************** Stanton Media Visuals
*********************** Tickets: £12/£18/£25/£30 www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes 020 7638 8891 ***********************
JOURNEY’S END S ATUR DAY 2 0 DEC EM B ER 2 0 1 4 • K IN GS P L AC E
FA U R É R E Q U I E M L UC Y C R OWE • RON AN COLLETT A UR O R A VO IC ES • NIC H O L A S C O LLO N
Photo: Jane Mitchell (Principal Flute)
J OU R N E S ATURDAY 2 0 D E CE MB E R , 7PM & 9PM HAL L O N E , KI NG S PL ACE C O N C E RT DUR AT I O N: A PPR O X . 1 H O U R WO R K S I N C L U D I N G : FA U R É R E Q U I E M L UC Y CR OW E • SO PR A N O RO N AN C O L L E T T • BA R I TO N E A U R O R A VO I C E S N IC HO L AS C O L LO N • CO ND U CTO R 2PM – 5 .15 P M : ‘Come and Sing’ Day with John Rutter The UK’s best-loved choral composer hosts one of his ever-popular singing days in the glorious surroundings of Hall One at Kings Place. Singers of all ages and abilities are warmly welcome as John conducts a selection of his own music and other seasonal favourites.
6 P M–6.45PM: Pre-concert talk with John Rutter John Rutter discusses his discovery of the original version of Fauré’s Requiem in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris after a century of neglect, and the preparation of what has become the definitive edition of the work.
Tickets: £9.50 / £14.50 / £19.50 / £24.50 / £29.50 (online rates) ‘Come and Sing’ Day: £15 (£10 non-singing attendees) Pre-concert talk: Free entry (book in advance from the Kings Place box office) www.kingsplace.co.uk/ aurora Box office: 020 7520 1490
Y’S END REQUIEM AETERN AM DON A EIS DOMINE ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EIS. GRANT THEM ETERN AL REST, O LORD, AND MAY PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.
Composed in 1888, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous Requiem is a celebration of light and life. Blending the sparse cool of Gregorian chant with the composer’s characteristic glitter and warmth, Fauré’s score brought a new compassion to the Mass for the Dead in omitting the turbulent texts of the ‘Dies Irae’ and ‘Tuba Mirum’ and adding tender settings of the ‘Pie Jesu’ and ‘In Paradisum’. Performed with Aurora Voices in Fauré’s original scoring for choir and chamber orchestra, this much-loved work promises an evening of transfiguration and release.
Far, far away...
Family concerts at Kings Place
Sat 15 February Sat 5 April Sat 31 May Sat 13 September 30-minute immersive performances in the round for children ages 0–5. 45-minute family concerts for children 6+. For performance details and times, visit www.kingsplace.co.uk/ aurora. Tickets from £4.50 (online rates)
Gallop or cartwheel or amble or trot, steal teaspoons to get here, cast spells, hatch a plot, for magical, fizz-wheeling stories await of earwigs and igloos, of King Pepper’s fate. Dance with flutes, sing with lutes, make a guinea-pig sneeze, munch a slice of the moon, chase a crocodile’s fleas. Wear boots or bare feet or red wellies or clogs, bring daydreams or fireworks or buckets of frogs, only uncurl your ears, loose those toes for a day and Aurora will carry you far, far away...
Photo: John Reid (Principal Piano)
TOURING & RECORDING TEXT: TBC Logos: Warner Classics; Bury St Edmunds; St George’s Bristol
AURORA ORCHESTRA: GOING THE EXTRA MILE 2014 TOURING
For full details of all Aurora performances in the UK and internationally, including our ongoing residencies at The Apex Bury St Edmunds and St George’s Bristol, and a first appearance in Australia, visit www.auroraorchestra.com.
AURORA P R I N C I PA L S
Top shelf, left to right: Principal Conductor & Artistic Director: Nicholas Collon Principal First Violin & Leader: Thomas Gould
TOURING & RECORDING TEXT: TBC Logos: Warner Classics; Bury St Edmunds; St George’s Bristol
Co-Principal First Violin: Alexandra Wood Second Violin: Jamie Campbell Viola: Max Baillie Cello: Oliver Coates
Double Bass: Ben Griffiths Bottom shelf, left to right: Piano: John Reid Percussion: Henry Baldwin Flute: Jane Mitchell Oboe: Thomas Barber
Clarinet: Timothy Orpen Horn: Nicolas Fleury Trumpet: Simon Cox Trombone: Matthew Gee
S U P P O RT I N G AURORA O RCH ESTRA
It is no exaggeration to say that Aurora’s success has been founded on the generosity of its supporters. Philanthropic gifts are the lifeblood of Aurora’s activity, enabling us to continue to deliver
TOURING & RECORDING TEXT: TBC Logos: Warner Classics; Bury St Edmunds; St George’s Bristol
world-class programmes which innovate and take artistic risks, and to extend their impact through a wide range of linked audience development and schools work.
If you would like to find out more about how you can support Aurora’s work, please visit www.auroraorchestra.com/support, email support@auroraorchestra.com or call +44 (0)20 7014 2805.
ACKN OWLED G EM ENTS PRINCIPAL SERIES SPONSORS
Cross-art form commissions supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation
AURORA PATRONS & FRIENDS Conductor’s Circle Monica Bertoni Ian Ingram
Player Sponsors Richard & Helen Sheldon (Principal Conductor)
Trailblazer Patrons Spencer & Lucy De Grey Richard & Helen Sheldon
Valli & Gregorio Kohon (Principal Percussion)
Adventurer Patrons Thomas Ponsonby Eduardo Tamraz Sparkler Patrons Nigel & Angela Bamping Graham & Jackie Brown David & Eleanor Harte Roger Mears & Joanie Speers Christoph & Marion Trestler Anonymous x3
Gill & Andy Cooper (Principal Bassoon)
Anne Lee (Principal Horn) Richard Lee (Principal Second Violin) Robert & Alison Linton (Principal Piano) Irene Mackay (Principal Trumpet) Roger Mears & Joanie Speers (Principal Cello) Clive Tulloch (Principal Viola) Louis Watt (Principal Double Bass)
GML Ltd.
Friends Paul & Wendy Barber Richard & Vicky Bell Michael & Susie Carpenter Dominique Collon Alastair & Elisabeth Colquhoun Elizabeth Gordon Toni Griffiths Sanjivan Kohli David & Melita Massa Lady Prosser Keith & Jan Wilson Media and Digital Partners Architect ElevenTenths PR Stanton Media Videojuicer Warner Classics
With special thanks to John Barber Boston Consulting Group Cadventure Daniel Donovan Classics Nick Eagleton Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Paul Goodwin Cathy Graham Green & Fortune Nick Harwood International Classical Artists Jim Hinson Jerwood Space Kings Place Music Foundation Levavo London Symphony Orchestra Jessie Maryon Davies Gillian Moore Orchestras Live Rayne Foundation Richard & Helen Sheldon Michael Stevens
St Paul’s School Tri-borough Music Hub Kate Wakeling Wigmore Hall The Cadillac de Ville Convertible series 62 which appears in the ‘Road Trip’ image was used by kind permission of Daniel Donovan Classics, Kew. www.ddclassics.com The 3D models of Aurora Principals were produced by Levavo in partnership with Cadventure. www.levavo.com View-Master brand used by kind permission of Mattel UK.
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www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk
www.theapex.co.uk Aurora is a UK registered charity, no. 1116352. All listings correct as of November 2013. Aurora reserves the right to make changes to published artists and programme details where necessary.
STRATEGIC PARTNER:
AURORA PEOPLE Principal Conductor & Artistic Director Nicholas Collon 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 ADMINISTRATION Chief Executive John Harte Projects Manager Kate Green Director of Engagement Mark Bamping
www.auroraorchestra.com
Director of Learning & Participation Julia Roderick Creative Planning Associate Jane Mitchell Orchestra Manager Sarah Roseblade Projects Assistant Emmi Tingey Finance Manager Craig Macartney Media Relations Claire Willis (ElevenTenths PR) IN-RESIDENCE Arranger Iain Farrington Designer Nick Eagleton Digital Stanton Media Lighting Designer William Reynolds Writer Kate Wakeling TRUSTEES Jonathan Deakin Emily Ingram Sanjivan Kohli Thomas Ponsonby Julia Thaxton Louis Watt HONORARY ADVISORY PATRON Dr Jill White
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