Violin superstar Joshua Bell performs Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, a rediscovered gem full of drama, technical virtuosity, and beautiful motifs. Grace-Evangeline Mason’s The Imagined Forest takes the audience on a journey through the fantasy, folklore, and danger of the woodlands. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with its distinct storytelling, hilarious characters, and epic finale, unfolds like a vivid musical gallery, each movement painting a scene.

Violin superstar Joshua Bell performs Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, a rediscovered gem full of drama, technical virtuosity, and beautiful motifs. Grace-Evangeline Mason’s The Imagined Forest takes the audience on a journey through the fantasy, folklore, and danger of the woodlands. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with its distinct storytelling, hilarious characters, and epic finale, unfolds like a vivid musical gallery, each movement painting a scene.

Violin superstar Joshua Bell performs Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, a rediscovered gem full of drama, technical virtuosity, and beautiful motifs. Grace-Evangeline Mason’s The Imagined Forest takes the audience on a journey through the fantasy, folklore, and danger of the woodlands. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with its distinct storytelling, hilarious characters, and epic finale, unfolds like a vivid musical gallery, each movement painting a scene.

Anonymous – Kaval Sviri
Claire Cope – Trapped
Eddie Parker – Cartoons
Grace-Evangeline Mason – In the Fragrant Air
Django Bates – Travel Cartoons for the Blind
~ Interval ~
Paul J Smith – Fox hunt (arr. Rob Buckland)
Frank Marsales – Lady, play your mandolin (arr Carl Raven)
Carl W Stalling – Haunted Mouse (arr. Jim Fieldhouse)
Carl W Stalling – Impatient Patient (arr. Carl Raven)
Adam Caird – Move with the Times

LCO Artistic Director John Storgårds has assembled a programme full of romance and new music with composers Elgar, Berio, Matthews, Mason Panufnik and Savolainen. LCO solo cello Lauri Angervo interprets the romantic lines of Elgar's cello concerto and ensembles vary from small to bigger.

Chamber Symphony Concert II: Aching beauty

John Storgårds, conductor
Lauri Angervo, cello

Progarmme:
Luciano Berio: Ricorrenze    
Panu Savolainen: Woodpecker                             
Colin Matthews: Fuga   
Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Beauty of Decay, Finnish premiere 
Roxanna & Andrzej Panufnik: Modlitwa ("Prayer"), Finnish premiere 
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor op. 85, arr. for chamber orchestra Mordechai Rechtman, Finnish premiere 

LCO Artistic Director John Storgårds has assembled a programme full of romance and new music with composers Elgar, Berio, Matthews, Mason Panufnik and Savolainen. LCO solo cello Lauri Angervo interprets the romantic lines of Elgar's cello concerto and ensembles vary from small to bigger.

Chamber Symphony Concert II: Aching beauty

John Storgårds, conductor
Lauri Angervo, cello

Progarmme:
Luciano Berio: Ricorrenze    
Panu Savolainen: Woodpecker                             
Colin Matthews: Fuga   
Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Beauty of Decay, Finnish premiere 
Roxanna & Andrzej Panufnik: Modlitwa ("Prayer"), Finnish premiere 
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor op. 85, arr. for chamber orchestra Mordechai Rechtman, Finnish premiere 

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DNSO)

Dirigent Jonathon Heyward inviterer til en musikalsk hyldest til Rom – ’den evige stad’! Respighis skildringer af Roms storslåede fontæner og karakteristiske pinjetræer flyder over af orkesterfarver og musikalsk energi. Der venter også dramatik i Mozarts stormfulde Klaverkoncert nr. 20 med solisten Yeol Eum Son.

Grace-Evangeline Mason The Imagined Forest

Mozart Klaverkoncert Nr. 20

Respighi Roms Fontæner

Respighi Roms Pinjer

With works inspired by nature and art, this program inspires the heart, ear and mind. Join us in the historic Forum at Town Hall Seattle for an incredible afternoon of great music. We will feature a world premier by Sarah Bassingthwaighte and regional premieres by Hilary Purrington, Yiwen SHEN and Grace-Evangeline Mason.

Program

A Wisdom Seldom Seen (6’) Sarah Bassingthwaighte World Premiere

…and Fate turns on the Light (12’) Hillary Purrington

Night in the Watchtower (13’) Yiwen SHEN

Intermission

Upon Weightless Wings (12’) Grace-Evangeline Mason

My Thoughts Fly In At Your Window (10’) Grace-Evangeline Mason US Premiere

Apollo saxophone quartet

Rob Buckland, Carl Raven, Andy Scott, Jim Fieldhouse, saxophones

 Claire Cope - Trapped
Jenni Watson - Radius I & II
Dani Howard - Neverland 
Grace-Evangeline Mason - In the Fragrant Air

Vintage Cartoons 
Paul J Smith, arr Rob Buckland - The Fox Hunt (1931)
Frank Marsales, arr Carl Raven - Lady, Play Your Mandolin (1931)
Carl W Stalling, arr Jim Fieldhouse - The Haunted Mouse (1941)
Carl W Stalling, arr Carl Raven - The Impatient Patient (1942)

Jim Fieldhouse - Harbour Light
Adam Caird - Move with the Times

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, the Apollo Saxophone Quartet presents a programme of new commissions.

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, the Apollo Saxophone Quartet presents a programme of new commissions.

The opening lunchtime recital of our Autumn Series will be given by Nicholas Freestone (Assistant Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral) at 12.15pm on Thursday 18 September.

Prelude and Fugue in B minor (BWV 544) - J. S. Bach
Andante with Variations in D major - Felix Mendelssohn
Deuxième Fantasie (JA 117) - Jehan Alain
Romance from Symphony no. 4 (op. 32) - Louis Vierne
Where the Birds Sing - Grace-Evangeline Mason
Creation Dance - Neil Cox

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C BWV 564

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) Deuxième Fantaisie

Grace-Evangeline Mason (b.1994) Where the Birds Sing

César Franck (1822-1890) Pièce Héroïque

Andrew Forbes - Organ

Praeludium in G, BWV 568 attrib. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Voluntary on the 100th Psalm, Z.721 Henry Purcell (1659–1695)

Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, Op. 93 Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)

Trivium Arvo Pärt (b.1935)

Where the Birds Sing Grace-Evangeline Mason (b.1994)

Aria (Symphony No. 1, Op. 36) Rachel Laurin (1961–2023)

From Flights of Fancy: Ballet for Organ - Ragtime Lullaby - Shimmy - Hymn William Albright (1944–1998)

From L’Ascension - Prière du Christ montant vers son Père - Transports de Joie Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)

Join Yorkshire-based organist, conductor, and composer Anthony Gray for an evening of music that spans the cosmic and the contemplative. Currently Director of Music at St Wilfrid’s, Harrogate, and Artistic Director of the Halifax Choral Society, Gray brings his rich musical background from Cambridge, Leeds Cathedral, and Bradford Cathedral to this unique performance.

Bob Chilcott Sun Dance
Kerensa Briggs Light in Darkness
Grace-Evangeline Mason Light, Revealing
Arvo Pärt Pari Intervallo
Price Retrospection (Elf on a Moonbeam)
Kristina Arakelyan Star Fantasy
Messiaen Le Banquet Celeste
Hans Zimmer (Arr. Richard McVeigh) Interstellar Suite
van Oortmerssen Nun Ruhen alle Walder

Praeludium in G, BWV 568 attrib. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Voluntary on the 100th Psalm, Z.721 Henry Purcell (1659–1695)

Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, Op. 93 Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)

from A Quaker Reader
- “…No darkness at all…”
- “Bewitching attire of the most charming simplicity…”
Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

Where the Birds Sing Grace-Evangeline Mason (b.1994)

Aria (Symphony No. 1, Op. 36) Rachel Laurin (1961–2023)

from Flights of Fancy: Ballet for Organ
- Ragtime Lullaby
- Shimmy
- Hymn
William Albright (1944–1998)

Transports de Joie (L’Ascension) Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)

Mit dem Projekt 2025 feiert das Jugendensemble für Neue Musik Bayern, JU[MB]LE, sein 10-jähriges Bestehen.

Die Programmplanung folgt dabei der Maxime, ein möglichst breit gefächertes Repertoire zu präsentieren. Dazu gehören Werke des Kanons der Neuen Musik genauso wie eigens für JU[MB]LE komponierte Werke.
Mit dem Kammermusikwerk Dérive I von Pierre Boulez, dessen 100. Geburtstag im Jahr 2025 gefeiert wird, steht ein Werk eines Säulenheiligen der Avantgarde auf dem Programm. Des Weiteren widmet sich das Ensemble mit dem Ensemblewerk Blick auf Kolchis erstmals einem des jüngst verstorbenen Wolfgang Rihm.

Neben diesem Blick zurück in die jüngere Musikgeschichte, wird das Ensemblewerk The Beaty of Decay der jungen britischen Komponistin Grace-Evangeline Mason zu hören sein und das Abendlied von Ulrich Kreppein, das eine spannende ästhetische Gegenposition dazu einnimmt.
Besonders gespannt sein darf man auf den Miniatur-Zyklus The Celestial Order of Chinese Animals des in München gebürtigen Komponisten Markus Schmitt, der eigens für das Jubiläumsprogrammentsteht.

Komponist:innen
Pierre Boulez, Ulrich Kreppein, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Wolfgang Rihm und Markus Schmitt

Mitwirkende
Johannes X. Schachtner (Musikalische Leitung)
JU[MB]LE Landesjugendensemble für Neue Musik Bayern

Strauss Don Juan
Grace-Evangeline Mason THE HART (world premiere)
Mahler Symphony No.4

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Sophie Bevan MBE soprano

There’s nothing the human voice can’t do. In Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, it paints a picture of heaven at the end of a journey through blue skies, summer storms and shining mountain peaks. Meanwhile, Grace-Evangeline Mason’s exciting new piece has been created especially for our soloist Sophie Bevan, a soprano with a voice of pure gold. Strauss’ Don Juan kicks things off in truly swashbuckling style.

A kaleidoscopic string trio that “fully inhabits the spirit of the works they are playing in the moment, with as ardent a flame as if they had written it themselves” (Fanfare), Black Oak Ensemble returns to Ravinia with the grand reveal of their latest laser-fine focus. “Dance of the Night Sky”—also due to be released as their latest Cedille album—highlights works by living women composers in the United Kingdom.

Featuring Marc-André Hamelin, piano
George Jackson, conductor
WT Composition Premiere
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4
Grace-Evangeline Mason – The Imagined Forest
Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite

Hear the pianist the NY Times calls “A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess,” paired with an enchanting orchestral tone poem by young British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason and Stravinsky’s thrilling ballet.

Featuring Marc-André Hamelin, piano
George Jackson, conductor
WT Composition Premiere
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4
Grace-Evangeline Mason – The Imagined Forest
Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite

Hear the pianist the NY Times calls “A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess,” paired with an enchanting orchestral tone poem by young British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason and Stravinsky’s thrilling ballet.

Flautist Meera Maharaj and pianist Dominic Degavino have enjoyed much success as a duo, since forming in 2017. They share a love of jazz, as well as contemporary classical music and endeavour to incorporate these interests into their recitals, promising a passionate finale to the 66th Concert Series.

Programme to Include;
Johann Nepomuk
Hummel: Sonata in D Major, Op. 50
Gabriel Fauré: Sonata No.1 in A Major
Blaž Pucihar: Sonatina for flute and piano
Grace-Evangaline Mason: The Butterfly and the Stone
Chick Corea: Free Fall
Geoff Eales: Remembrance
Geoff Eales: In the Pocket

Programm - Voll Blumen

Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen - Flowerfall. A flourishing Fantasy

Liza Lim - Garden of Earthly Desire

– Pause –

Grace-Evangeline Mason - The Beauty of Decay (Österreichische Erstaufführung)

Enno Poppe - Blumen (Österreichische Erstaufführung)

Join us at City Church for the public performance of a concert that we will have performed throughout area prisons and homeless shelters. This concert will celebrate the changing of seasons and the hope of new life after death - as seen in nature and in our own lives. The music on this program will feature music old and new, from Haiti, China, Argentina and more.

Six new commissions: Claire Cope, Trapped; Jenni Watson, Radius; Dani Howard, Neverland; Grace-Evangeline Mason, In the Fragrant Air; Adam Caird, Saxophonic Movements; Apollo Saxophone Quartet, Journey Across the Impossible (silent film project).