dir. Shawn Levy
Marvel Studios
Release date: 24th July 2024
Credit: conductor / lead orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra: Galaxymphony
Musikkens Hus, Aalborg
Music from Blade Runner, Avatar, Interstellar and Star Wars.
Cassandra Lemoine (soprano)
Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano)
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra
Hugh Brunt (conductor)
BBC Proms: BBC Young Composer
Albert Hall, Nottingham
Be first to hear pieces composed by the most recent winners of the BBC Young Composer competition, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Mentored by composers Gavin Higgins and Helen Grime, tonight’s composers have been inspired by Luke Jerram’s artwork Gaia, an eight-metre-tall replica of the Earth and by soundscapes inspired by the work of academics at UCL East’s People and Nature Lab, and the Biome Health Project.
Jess Gillam (presenter)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Hugh Brunt (conductor)
Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Confidenza
dir. Daniele Luchetti
Indiana Production
Release date: 26th April 2024
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
The Smile & LCO
BBC 6 MUSIC FESTIVAL
O2 VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER
BBC 6 Music Festival presents The Smile in a world exclusive performance with the LCO, with support from Jordan Rakei and an opening set from Mary Anne Hobbs and Anna Phoebe.
The Smile (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner)
London Contemporary Orchestra
Hugh Brunt (conductor)
Wall Of Eyes
XL Recordings
Release date: 26th January 2024
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
Producer: Sam Petts-Davies
Saltburn
dir. Emerald Fennell
Amazon MGM Studios
Release date: 17th November 2023
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Matthew Herbert x LCO: The Horse
BARICAN CENTRE, LONDON
Electronic musician and producer Matthew Herbert performs a unique live show alongside the LCO, journeying into the origins of music, from its very beginnings to modern day electronics and sampling.
Laufey & LA Phil
The Ford, Los Angeles
Maan & Metropole Orkest
Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Together with Maan, Metropole Orkest will open this year’s edition of the VriendenLoterij ZomerConcerten in Het Concertgebouw. She has already shared the stage with the Metropole Orkest and this evening the special collaboration will continue: conducted by Hugh Brunt, well-known hits and songs from Maan’s latest album Leven will be played in a spectacular orchestral version..
The Horse
Modern Recordings
Release date: 26th May 2023
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Producer: Matthew Herbert
San Francisco Symphony: Nicholas Britell and Barry Jenkins
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
A special SoundBox show curated by Academy Award-nominated composer/pianist and SF Symphony Collaborative Partner Nicholas Britell and his frequent creative partner, Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins, the acclaimed director of the award-winning films If Beale Street Could Talk and Moonlight.
San Francisco Symphony: Nicholas Britell and Barry Jenkins
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
A special SoundBox show curated by Academy Award-nominated composer/pianist and SF Symphony Collaborative Partner Nicholas Britell and his frequent creative partner, Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins, the acclaimed director of the award-winning films If Beale Street Could Talk and Moonlight.
A Night At The Symphony
AWAL
Release date: 02nd March 2023
Credit: conductor
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
The Whale
dir. Darren Aronofsky
A24
Release date: 09th December 2022
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Julia Holter & Chorus of Opera North: The Passion of Joan of Arc
BARICAN CENTRE, LONDON
Joined by her band and the 36-strong Chorus of Opera North, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and composer Julia Holter ventures into astonishing and beautiful new territory with her live soundtrack for The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Julia Holter & Chorus of Opera North: The Passion of Joan of Arc
★★★★★ “The mercurial composer’s brilliant score perfectly captures the raging agony and beatific ecstasy of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent movie masterpiece…” The Guardian
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★★★★★ “…a musical triumph to accompany a cinematic masterpiece…” The Times
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Julia Holter & Chorus of Opera North: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Joined by her band and the 36-strong Chorus of Opera North, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and composer Julia Holter ventures into astonishing and beautiful new territory with her live soundtrack for The Passion of Joan of Arc.
The Wonder
dir. Sebastián Lelio
Netflix
Release date: 16th November 2022
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Laufey & Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Harpa, Reykjavík
Laufey & Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Harpa, Reykjavík
Stranger Things
dir. The Duffer Brothers
Netflix
Release date: 27th May 2022
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
A Light for Attracting Attention
XL Recordings
Release date: 13th May 2022
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
Producer: Nigel Godrich
Peaky Blinders (Season 6)
dir. Anthony Byrne
BBC
Release date: 03rd April 2022
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Ness by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood
Audiobook of the week: Actor Stephen Dillane narrates the rhythmic prose poem, inspired by a Suffolk nature reserve and cold war military base
“…a gently sinister score courtesy of composer Hugh Brunt, recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios.” The Guardian
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The Matrix Resurrections
dir. Lana Wachowski
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 17th December 2021
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
Licorice Pizza
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date: 26th November 2021
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Composer Nicholas Britell is a two-time Academy Award nominee and an Emmy winner who has been lauded for his collaborations with Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Underground Railroad) and Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, Succession). Britell curates an evening showcasing some of today’s most innovative composers and scores. Featuring works by Mica Levi, Terence Blanchard, Jonny Greenwood, Kathryn Bostic, and Britell himself, this evening will be a unique celebration of their works in live performance. A special bonus will be the first live performance of selections from Britell’s new score to Adam McKay’s upcoming Netflix comedy Don’t Look Up.
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Hildur Guðnadóttir won an Emmy and Grammy in 2019 for her score to Chernobyl and followed it up in 2020 with an Oscar win for Joker and this year a highly celebrated soundtrack for the video game Battlefield 2042. The Icelandic composer and cellist curates an evening featuring music by the groundbreaking and adventurous composers who have deeply influenced today’s film music landscape.
Ness
Score by Hugh Brunt
Penguin
Release date: 04th November 2021
Co-produced by Hugh Brunt and Jake Miller
Recorded and mastered at Abbey Road Studios
Spencer
dir. Pablo Larraín
Shoebox Films
Release date: 15th October 2021
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra
Royal FESTIVAL Hall, London
Saxophonist and presenter Jess Gillam celebrates her ARIA-winning weekly BBC Radio 3 show and podcast, ‘This Classical Life’ with the BBC Concert Orchestra and special guests, live from the Royal Festival Hall.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 14 July
Cruella
dir. Craig Gillespie
Disney
Release date: 21st May 2021
Credit: conductor
Orchestral contractor: Isobel Griffiths
The Two Popes
dir. Fernando Meirelles
Netflix
Release date: 20th December 2019
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
BBC Proms: Jonny Greenwood
★★★★ “On Tuesday night, we were offered his [Jonny Greenwood’s] latest piece, in a cleverly conceived and superbly executed Prom from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble, under the incisive and perfectly precise baton of Hugh Brunt.” The Telegraph
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BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Royal Albert Hall, London
World premiere of Jonny Greenwood‘s Horror vacui for solo violin and 68 strings, alongside works by Krzysztof Penderecki and Steve Reich
Broadcast on BBC Four on Friday 13 September
Anima
XL Recordings
Release date: 27th June 2019
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra & Choir
Producer: Nigel Godrich
Saint Etienne: Tiger Bay
Barbican Centre, London
25 years since its release, pioneering trio Saint Etienne perform their critically rated album in its entirety, joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra
Philip Glass: The Bowie Symphonies
★★★★ “Hugh Brunt led impeccably prepared performances of Glass’s Bowie Symphonies: No 1 (Low) and No 4 (Heroes).” The Times
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Philip Glass: The Bowie Symphonies
Royal Festival Hall, London
London Contemporary Orchestra perform Philip Glass‘ Symphony No.1 (Low), Symphony No.4 (Heroes) and the European premiere of Symphony No.12 (Lodger) – from the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno
Suspiria
dir. Luca Guadagnino
Amazon Studios
Release date: 26th October 2018
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra & Choir
There Will Be Blood: Live – New York
“Under the excellent 32-year-old conductor Hugh Brunt, in his Philharmonic debut, Jonny Greenwood’s hauntingly strange and inventive score for ‘There Will Be Blood’ made the movie seem both stunningly new and an instant classic.” The New York Times
“On the podium, conductor Hugh Brunt is polished, poised, and precise, neither intruding upon the movie, nor hiding away the labors required to produce music this complex.” ZEALnyc
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the New York Philharmonic
American Animals
dir. Bart Layton
Film4 Productions
Release date: 07th September 2018
Credit: orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
LAGEOS
Ninja Tune
Release date: 25th May 2018
Credit: co-writer & arranger
London Contemporary Orchestra
Disobedience
dir. Sebastián Lelio
Element Pictures
Release date: 27th April 2018
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
Orchestral contractor: Isobel Griffiths
John Cale & London Contemporary Orchestra
BARBICAN CENTRE, LONDON
John Cale & London Contemporary Orchestra
BARBICAN CENTRE, LONDON
You Were Never Really Here
dir. Lynne Ramsay
Amazon Studios
Release date: 09th March 2018
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION – COMPETITION
Little White Lies
Catching up with the London Contemporary Orchestra ahead of ‘Phantom Thread’ live. Conductors and longtime friends Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames reveal how they helped bring Jonny Greenwood’s mesmerising score to life.
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Royal Northern Sinfonia
Phantom Thread
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Annapurna Pictures
Release date: 12th January 2018
Credit: additional arranger
London Contemporary Orchestra
ACADEMY AWARD, BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED – Best Original Score
A Fantastic Woman
dir. Sebastián Lelio
Fabula
Release date: 05th January 2018
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
Orchestral contractor: Isobel Griffiths
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER – Best Foreign Language Film
Royal Northern Sinfonia
SAGE GATESHEAD (NORTHERN ROCK FOUNDATION HALL)
Young Composers’ Competition workshop
Closed session
Organ Reframed: London Contemporary Orchestra
UNION CHAPEL, London
The opening night of Organ Reframed features six world premieres from Mira Calix, Emily Hall, Tim Hecker, Gordon Monahan, Phill Niblock and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, performed by James McVinnie, LCO and special guest Gordon Monahan.
BBC Proms: London Contemporary Orchestra
The Tanks, Tate Modern, London
Works by Actress, Catherine Lamb and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Audio Track 5 – EP
Ninja Tune
Release date: 01st September 2017
Credit: co-writer & arranger
London Contemporary Orchestra
London Contemporary Orchestra: GABA-analogue
There Will Be Blood: Live – Melbourne
★★★★ “MSO brings hard-edged grace to Greenwood score… the true triumph was in the softer arrangements. ‘Eat Him by His Own Light’, ‘Oil’ and ‘Prospectors Arrive’ were all magnified by Brunt’s restraint.” The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
HAMER HALL, MELBOURNE
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Part of the Melbourne International Film Festival
Mercury Rev & Royal Northern Sinfonia
BARBICAN CENTRE, LONDON
Mercury Rev & Royal Northern Sinfonia
COLSTON HALL, BRISTOL
Mercury Rev & Royal Northern Sinfonia
SAGE GATESHEAD
Gramophone
co-Artistic Directors of the LCO Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames talk about how the orchestra’s new sample library, LCO Strings, is giving composers new worlds of sound to explore
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Royal Northern Sinfonia
SAGE GATESHEAD (SAGE TWO)
Agustín Fernández Notes from Underground
Peter Wiegold Les Roses
Orchestra of Opera North
HOWARD ASSEMBLY ROOM, LEEDS
Fritz Lang / Gottfried Huppertz Metropolis (2010 restored version with live score)
Alien: Covenant
dir. Ridley Scott
20th Century Fox
Release date: 05th May 2017
Credit: orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Headliner
Hugh Brunt is co-founder of the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO), arguably the most unique group of musicians in the city. Unlike a conventional orchestra, the LCO fuses dynamic performance with smart, quirky locations, where overtones and frequencies can be as important as the scores themselves. Headliner is suitably impressed…
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There Will Be Blood: Live
COLSTON HALL, BRISTOL
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
There Will Be Blood: Live
BRIGHTON DOME
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
There Will Be Blood: Live
SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
There Will Be Blood: Live
Royal Festival Hall, London
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
Jonny Greenwood (ondes Martenot)
Royal Northern Sinfonia
SAGE GATESHEAD (NORTHERN ROCK FOUNDATION HALL)
Composers’ workshop
Closed session
Sam Lee & City of London Sinfonia
St John at Hackney Church, LONDON
Sam Lee (arr. Farrington) Songs from The Fade in Time and Ground of Its Own
Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes “A Time There Was
…”
Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow
Delius (arr. Farrington) Brigg Fair
London Contemporary Orchestra & Choir
Roundhouse, London
John Tavener Svyati
CHAINES (aka Caroline Haines) DOWN (world premiere – LCO commission)
Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel
Mica Levi You belong to me (world premiere – LCO commission)
Yoko Ono Sky Piece to Jesus Christ
Part of Ron Arad’s Curtain Call
Actress & LCO
STRELKA INSTITUTE, MOSCOW
A unique collaboration commissioned and curated by Boiler Room and the London Contemporary Orchestra pairing producer Darren Cunningham, aka Actress, with the LCO.
City of London Sinfonia
UK Centre for Carnival Arts, Luton
Orchestras Live concerts
Woman
Ed Banger Records
Release date: 18th November 2016
Credit: orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
Producer: Justice
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Sunderland Empire
Asunder – a live film and music collaboration between filmmaker Esther Johnson, Field Music, Warm Digits and Royal Northern Sinfonia, with creative director Bob Stanley
City of London Sinfonia
King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
Orchestras Live concerts
London Contemporary Orchestra
Portsmouth Cathedral
Portsmouth Festivities: opening concert
Jonny Greenwood Detuned Orchestra (‘There Will Be Blood’)
Edmund Finnis Across White Air
Pauline Oliveros Rock Piece
Catherine Lamb Tone/Noise
Jonathan Harvey Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Mica Levi SAW
Claude Vivier Zipangu
Keeping the Peace
Universal GmbH
Release date: 27th May 2016
Credit: string arranger / conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
Producer: Arthur Beatrice / Matt Wiggins
A Moon Shaped Pool
XL Recordings
Release date: 08th May 2016
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra & Choir
Producer: Nigel Godrich
UK OFFICIAL ALBUMS CHART – No. 1
GRAMMY NOMINATED – Best Alternative Music Album
Pitchfork
Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool: The 5 Most Important Things To Know
Jeremy D. Larson
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Emilíana Torrini & Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Harpa, Reykjavík
Emilíana Torrini & Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Harpa, Reykjavík
Oxford University Orchestra
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Debussy Images No. 3: Rondes de Printemps
Tchaikovsky The Tempest
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Actress & LCO
★★★★ “…flipped the relation between electronic musician and orchestra on its head: it was like a jolt of electricity.” Financial Times
“Brought into the broad chasm of the Barbican Hall, [Actress’] dense arrangements feel pried open; elements that were once laminated together are peeled apart, and oxygen rushes into the gaps as if an airlock has been broken.” The Wire
★★★★ “The triumph lay in the deconstruction and re-contextualisation of electronic sounds within a world-renowned concert space.” Resident Advisor
Actress & LCO
Barbican Centre, London
A unique collaboration commissioned and curated by Boiler Room and the London Contemporary Orchestra pairing producer Darren Cunningham, aka Actress, with the LCO.
Dazed
Using Blu-Tack, milk frothers and architectural blueprints of the Barbican as tools, techno figurehead Actress discusses embracing the avant-garde with the London Contemporary Orchestra
Tim Noakes
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London Contemporary Orchestra: BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert
St John at Hackney Church, London
CHAINES I Found This
Catherine Lamb Tone/Noise
Laurence Crane Holt Quartet
Jonny Greenwood Detuned Orchestra (‘There Will Be Blood’)
Edmund Finnis Shades Lengthen
The Times
Shades Lengthen
★★★★ “[‘Shades Lengthen’] was the centrepiece of a superb London Contemporary Orchestra concert in the incense-drenched cavern of St John-at-Hackney… Around it Hugh Brunt, the LCO’s conductor, constructed a gorgeous symmetry of music… All beautifully lit and staged for a big, enthusiastic audience.” (Richard Morrison)
London Contemporary Orchestra
St John at Hackney Church, London
Trad. Tonus Peregrinus chant
Kaija Saariaho Sept Papillons
Magister Grimace (ed. Hugh Brunt) Se Zephirus / Se Jupiter: I
(Codex Chantilly – MS fol. 19: Ballade)
Edmund Finnis Shades Lengthen (world premiere)
Arvo Pärt Annum per annum
Magister Grimace Se Zephirus / Se Jupiter: II
John Cage In a Landscape
Trad. Tonus Peregrinus chant
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Sage Gateshead (Northern Rock Foundation Hall)
Composers’ workshop
Closed session
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
YOTASPACE, Moscow
h.Club 100 Awards
Hugh and LCO’s co-Artistic Director Robert Ames have won a place on The Hospital Club’s 100 list, “celebrating the 100 most influential and innovative people working across Britain’s creative industries”. The awards comprise 10 categories with 10 winners in each, with Hugh and Robert being selected in the Music category. This year’s winners include Alex Poots, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hardy, Cornelia Parker, Kate Tempest, Idris Elba and Lauren Laverne.
Macbeth
dir. Justin Kurzel
See-Saw Films
Release date: 01st October 2015
Credit: conductor / orchestrator
London Contemporary Orchestra
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION – Competition
There Will Be Blood: Live – Royal Festival Hall
★★★★ “Witnessing the orchestrations come to life, conducted by Hugh Brunt, illuminated the vital importance of music to ‘There Will Be Blood’… It brought home the contrasting subtlety of Greenwood’s music, and the restrained power with which the London Contemporary Orchestra played… a pitch-perfect accompaniment for the onscreen action.” Financial Times
★★★★ “…the effect was superb… a singular audio-visual journey into a heart of darkness.” The Times
There Will Be Blood: Live
Royal Festival Hall, London
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
Part of David Byrne’s Meltdown
Theeb
dir. Naji Abu Nowar
Noor Pictures
Release date: 07th August 2015
Credit: orchestrator / music producer
London Contemporary Orchestra
BAFTA WINNER – Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED – Best Foreign Language Film
City of London Sinfonia
UK Centre for Carnival Arts, Luton
Orchestras Live concerts
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
Beck & London Contemporary Orchestra
Barbican Centre, London
Part of Doug Aitken’s Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
Beck with special guests Jonny Greenwood and LCO Soloists
Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards
LCO was last night announced as winner of the Ensemble category at the annual Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. Presented in association with BBC Radio 3, the RPS Music Awards are the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK. The award was presented to co-Artistic Directors Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames, and accepted on behalf of the LCO’s players.
Orchestra of Opera North
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Fritz Lang / Gottfried Huppertz Metropolis (2010 restored version with live score)
Esquire
The Business – Six stylish Londoners show off a half-dozen timeless classics
Britten Sinfonia
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
St John the Evangelist, Oxford
Oxford University Orchestra
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
R. Strauss Don Juan
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
The Albert Hall, Manchester
London Contemporary Orchestra
Roundhouse, London
Howard Skempton Lento
Delia Derbyshire The Delian Mode
Nick Ryan Synaes (world premiere, Roundhouse commission)
Edmund Finnis Between Rain (world premiere, LCO commission)
Kaija Saariaho Verblendungen
Part of Imogen Heap’s Reverb
There Will Be Blood: Live
Roundhouse, London
World premiere screenings of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
Part of the Roundhouse Summer Sessions
The Independent
There Will Be Blood: Live – Roundhouse
★★★★★ “Sparse and at times just plain peculiar but always brilliantly original… It’s magnificent.” (Rob Hastings)
There Will Be Blood: Live
Roundhouse, London
World premiere screenings of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
Part of the Roundhouse Summer Sessions
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
LCO Soloists: Across White Air
InTRANSIT Festival
Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London
Byrd (arr. Hugh Brunt) Mass for Four Voices: Kyrie
Jonathan Harvey Ricercare una Melodia* (UK premiere)
Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Gloria
Edmund Finnis Relative Colour (UK professional premiere)
Jonathan Harvey Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Sanctus & Benedictus
Edmund Finnis Across White Air^ (world premiere, LCO commission)
Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Agnus Dei
City of London Sinfonia
Spitalfields Music Summer Festival
Village Underground, London
Dowland Flow My Tears
Valgeir Sigurðsson The Crumbling
Dowland In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Purcell arr. Britten Chacony in G minor
Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible
Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Valgeir Sigurðsson No Nights Dark Enough (world premiere)
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
The Wind Tunnel Project, Farnborough
Brummell
Carving a niche – Here, we profile some movers and shakers who are seizing the Zeitgeist
rarescale
Tuesday 27 May 2014
The Forge, London
Tristan Murail Paludes (UK premiere)
Michael Oliva Dungeness
Channel 4 News
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists – Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
“Greenwood’s work is harmonic, sumptuous, and emotionally deeply moving. It demands extraordinary talent and skill from the London Contemporary Orchestra under its 27-year-old conductor, Hugh Brunt. Like the other players, he was informally dressed, in a blue cable stitch sweater. His conducting is graceful, and maintains an extraordinary discipline in the players.” (Jon Snow – Snowblog)
Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London
London Contemporary Orchestra
Silent Shakespeare
Sunday 1 December 2013
St James Theatre, London
City of London Sinfonia
CLoSer
Wednesday 23 October 2013
Village Underground, London
Shostakovich The New Babylon
rarescale
10th Anniversary Concerto Gala
Saturday 5 October 2013
Shoreditch Church, London
Michael Oliva new work
Carla Rees (alto flute)
The Benedetti Sessions
Saturday 21 September 2013
Royal Albert Hall, London
Bartók Divertimento
String players from the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, led by Nicola Benedetti
London Contemporary Orchestra
LCO’s Imagined Occasions Series
Thursday 22 August 2013
Primrose Hill / Roundhouse, London
Primrose Hill:
Vivier Zipangu
Edmund Finnis new work (world premiere, LCO commission)
Roundhouse:
Stockhausen KLANG – Die 24 Stunden des Tages
21st Hour: Paradies (‘Paradise’) world premiere, 8-track version
9th Hour: Hoffnung (‘Hope’) London premiere
7th Hour: Balance UK premiere
13th Hour: Cosmic Pulses
Kathinka Pasveer (sound projection)
The Arts Desk
Imagined Occasions – Aldwych Underground
★★★★ “Immersive music-making goes underground and comes of age with this cleverly programmed evening of new music” (Igor Toronyi-Lalic)
London Contemporary Orchestra
LCO’s Imagined Occasions Series
Friday 24 May 2013
Aldwych Underground, London
Cage Excerpts – 7pm to 8pm
Philippe Manoury Dickinson Studies
Feldman The Viola In My Life 3
Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible
Gregor Riddell Det Usynlige (world premiere, LCO commission)
Cage Imaginary Landscape No. 1
Øyvind Torvund Neon Forest Space (UK premiere)
Jonathan Harvey The Angels
Vivier Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele (London premiere)
Brothers Quay/Stockhausen In Absentia
New Statesman
London Contemporary Orchestra’s ‘Imagined Occasions’: Not as scary as you might think
Alexandra Coghlan
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Time Out
Composer Claude Vivier divined his own death on the Paris Metro. Now, aided by two of the Secret Cinema team, his prophetic last work will play down the tube. Jonathan Lennie jumps the barriers
City of London Sinfonia
City of London Festival Lunchtime Concert
Wednesday 27 March 2013
St Andrew Holborn, London
Finzi Prelude
Holst St Paul’s Suite
Elgar Elegy
Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Ronan Busfield (tenor)
Stephen Stirling (horn)
Holy Fire
Warner Music UK Limited
Release date: 11th February 2013
Credit: string arranger / conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
Producer: Flood and Moulder
iTUNES ALBUMS CHART – No. 1
The Master
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Annapurna Pictures
Release date: 10th September 2012
Credit: conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
BBC Music Magazine
Reverb 2012
“Gifted young LCO conductor Hugh Brunt directed a vivid performance of Metastasis, Xenakis’s ground-breaking early work, and you could almost see the intense, seething masses of texture towering up out of the orchestra.” (Helen Wallace)
The Sunday Times
Reverb 2012
“As soon as the performance started, a sort of reverent rapture seemed to descend on the 1,000-odd souls… I felt that music had gained a new excitement out of the blue.” (Paul Driver)
The Arts Desk
Reverb 2012
“Brunt delivered a punchy rendition of Xenakis’s Metastasis – a model of Modernist clarity, economy and directness – and a Ravelian account of Vivier’s Orion that was nothing short of ravishing.” (Igor Toronyi-Lalic)
The Independent
Reverb Festival and the quiet evolution of live classical music
Tim Woodall
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The Times
Spitalfields Music Winter Festival
★★★★ “Some people can’t see a mountain without wanting to climb it. The players of Hugh Brunt’s terrific London Contemporary Orchestra give me a similar impression: that they are game for any avant-garde musical challenge, the tougher and craggier the better… under Brunt’s immaculate direction the entire ensemble was heroic.” (Richard Morrison)
The Guardian
Maddy Costa talks to the composers and musicians taking a genre-bending approach to pop-classical fusions
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Spanish Sahara
Warner Music UK Limited
Release date: 12th September 2010
Credit: string arranger / conductor
London Contemporary Orchestra
Producer: Luke Smith
NME AWARDS 2011 – Best Track
The Times
Spitalfields Music Summer Festival
★★★★ “The furious panache of the LCO’s performance, expertly channelled by the conductor Hugh Brunt, was overwhelming… Frenzied patches suggested improvisation. But no: Brunt’s conducting of every bar, from the opening buzzing bass line to the sudden consonant end assertive, was graceful, just like the music. Wonderful.” (Geoff Brown)
The Telegraph
Aldeburgh Festival
★★★★ “The concert from the young players of the Britten-Pears Orchestra conducted by Hugh Brunt…contained one perfect, crystalline masterpiece, Webern’s Concerto for Nine Instruments. How difficult and crabbed this piece used to sound, and easy and graceful it seemed here.” (Ivan Hewett)
MUSO Magazine
London Contemporary Orchestra is determined to bring new music to the forefront of the Capital’s cultural scene as Claire Jackson discovers
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