The Silesian String Quartet play Grażyna Bacewicz's Piano Quintet No 1 with Wojciech Świtała at the piano, along with Mieczysław Weinberg's String Quartet No 7.
Cadogan Hall Monday 2 September 1 pm
Linda Catlin Smith's BBC Commission Nuages is premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
BBC Proms 1 September 7.30pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezj6gw
Illuminate Women's Music promotes music written by emerging women composers and performed by emerging women performers.
The new autumn season begins at the Second International Conference on Women’s Work in Music at Bangor University on Thursday 5th September at 7.30 pm with a pre concert talk by Dr Angela Elizabeth Slater at 6.45 pm, at Neuadd Powis Hall, Bangor, Gwynedd.
New works are included by Joanna Ward, Sarah Westwood, Yfat Soul Zisso, Blair Boyd, Caroline Bordignon and Angela Elizabeth Slater, featured alongside historical works by Barbara Strozzi, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Vivian Fine and many more!
More details of this and the entire autumn schedule are here
https://www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/2019-season-ii-whats-on.html
And watch this space for more posts about this excellent project.
As part of the Henry Wood tribute concert tonight at the BBC Proms you can hear the premiere of Dobrinka Tabakova's BBC Commission Timber & Steel.
Tabakova's music is well-known for its depth and vibrancy.
BBC Proms 31 August 7.30 pm - BBC Concert Orchestra
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/en3v9r
The Amatis Trio play chamber music by Clara Schumann and her husband Robert.
Cadogan Hall - Monday 26 August 1 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/evz3v2
The Lost Words - a concert inspired by the book by Robert Macfarlane - nature inspired music including new commissions from Jocelyn Pook and Alissa Firsova. The Southbank Sinfonia and National Youth Choir of Great Britain conducted by Jessica Cottis.
BBC Proms Sunday 25 August 5.30 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezgfbp
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla play Howell's brilliant symphonic poem Lamia, along with Elgar, Knussen and Weinberg.
BBC Proms - Thursday 22 August - 7.30 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ew3v9r
Jules Buckley directs the Metropole Orkest, with singers Ledisi and Lisa Fischer, in this homage to Nina Simone, one of the great women of jazz, a brilliant songwriter, singer, arranger, and Civil Rights activist.
BBC Proms - Wednesday 21 August 7.30 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9cd2m
Doctoral researcher Leonard Sanderman from York University has contacted us to spread the news of his recently completed
project to make the Complete Sacred Choral Music of Alice Mary Smith freely
available in a set of scholarly editions and in a recording by the Eoferwic
Consort. This is a wonderful new resource for choirs.
These scores and recordings are
published as part of the project "The Complete Sacred Music of Alice Mary
Smith" at the University of York which is funded by a Knowledge
Exchange Project Award form the AHRC through the White Rose College of the Arts
& Humanities. The original manuscripts are held at the Royal Academy of
Music.' (Leonard Sanderson)
You will find links to the open access scores and recordings here
https://www.leonardsanderman.com/alicemarysmith
Brilliant article about brilliant composer (and WiM member) Errollyn Wallen in the context of her Prom Concert in the RAH last week ... so rare that a contemporary women composer gets that space - so many congratulations. Even more notable as Wallen's world premiere piece was alongside Elgar, Mendelssohn and Mussorgsky. Look out for news of more of Errollyn Wallen's music
