OPERA Second Movement at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival
Scenes from The Three Wishes, or The Inconstancy of Life by Bohuslav Martinů with libretto by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
As a prelude and preview to their next planned major production, the UK premiere of Bohuslav Martinů’s The ThreeWishes, or the Inconstancy of Life, acclaimed young opera company Second Movement is delighted to present scenes from this unseen work at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, August 2010. The piece, composed in 1929 in Paris in collaboration with leading surrealist, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, is a genre-bending experimental work which fuses live opera and film, jazz and modernism, fantasy and social satire.
Director: Oliver Mears Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers 14th August 2010 6.30pm 15th August 2010 4pm Studio 2, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL Tickets £6 / £4 conc www.riversidestudios.co.uk 020 8237 1111
MUSIC BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall 29th August 2010 Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Available on demand for 7 days.
Famed over decades, the Czech Philharmonic returns to the Proms with a three-part celebration of music closely associated with it, including Dvořák's radiant Eighth Symphony, Martinů's equally colourful and spontaneous final symphony and a luminous musical legend by Janáček. Joining Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who makes the third of his four Proms appearances, Lars Vogt offers a contrasting impression of musical nationalism in Grieg's intensely Norwegian and ever-fresh piano concerto.
Dvořák Overture 'Carnival' Martinů Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No. 6) Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor Janáček The Ballad of Blaník Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G major
Lars Vogtpiano Czech Philhamonic Orchestra Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
CHAMBER MUSIC The Wihan Quartet on Tour Since winning the London International String Quartet Competition in 1991, the Wihan Quartet has developed an impressive international career and is ‘Visiting Quartet in Residence’ at Trinity College of Music, London.
Saturday 2 October 2010, 19.30 Wihan Quartet with James Boyd (viola) Ship Theatre, Walthamstow Hall School, Sevenoaks, TN13 3UL
