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
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
25 years since its release, pioneering trio Saint Etienne perform their critically rated album in its entirety, joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra
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
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the New York Philharmonic
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the New York Philharmonic
Young Composers’ Competition workshop
Closed session
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.
Works by Actress, Catherine Lamb and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
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
Agustín Fernández Notes from Underground
Peter Wiegold Les Roses
Fritz Lang / Gottfried Huppertz Metropolis (2010 restored version with live score)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed live by the London Contemporary Orchestra
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)
Composers’ workshop
Closed session
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
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
A unique collaboration commissioned and curated by Boiler Room and the London Contemporary Orchestra pairing producer Darren Cunningham, aka Actress, with the LCO.
Orchestras Live concerts
Asunder – a live film and music collaboration between filmmaker Esther Johnson, Field Music, Warm Digits and Royal Northern Sinfonia, with creative director Bob Stanley
Orchestras Live concerts
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
Debussy Images No. 3: Rondes de Printemps
Tchaikovsky The Tempest
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
A unique collaboration commissioned and curated by Boiler Room and the London Contemporary Orchestra pairing producer Darren Cunningham, aka Actress, with the LCO.
CHAINES I Found This
Catherine Lamb Tone/Noise
Laurence Crane Holt Quartet
Jonny Greenwood Detuned Orchestra (‘There Will Be Blood’)
Edmund Finnis Shades Lengthen
Family concert
Family concert
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
Composers’ workshop
Closed session
Family concerts
Family concerts
Family concert
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
Orchestras Live concerts
Part of Doug Aitken’s Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening
Beck with special guests Jonny Greenwood and LCO Soloists
Fritz Lang / Gottfried Huppertz Metropolis (2010 restored version with live score)
Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop
R. Strauss Don Juan
Brahms Symphony No. 4
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
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
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
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
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)