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 Saturday 6 March 7.30pm
PERGOLESI Stabat mater
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella
Marc Minkowski conductor
Marita Solberg soprano
Natalie Stutzmann mezzo-soprano
Yann Beuron tenor
Matthew Rose bass
The impresario Serge Diaghilev suggested to Stravinsky, in exile in Switzerland during the period of the Russian Civil War, that he should arrange a group of 18 ‘Pergolesi’ pieces retrieved from the Conservatory library in Naples. Over half of the works turned out to be by other composers. Whatever the identity of the original authors, Stravinsky warmed to his task and produced a scintillating ballet score. The real Pergolesi, like Stravinsky, enjoyed international fame during his lifetime, not least thanks to the impassioned music of his Stabat mater.
Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Fountain Room
An introduction to tonight’s concert.
Free to ticket-holders for the evening concert. Limited capacity – please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
£24 £20 £16 £12 £8
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 Friday 12 - Saturday 13 March
TOTAL IMMERSION: WOLFGANG RIHM
A roster of outstanding artists, Steven Isserlis and the Arditti Quartet among them, are on hand to celebrate Wolfgang Rihm’s 58th birthday with an unmissable Total Immersion weekend. The German composer, born in Karlsruhe on 13 March 1952, cut his creative teeth studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen before striking out in the 1970s as a powerfully independent, astonishingly inventive artist. “Dear Wolfgang Rihm,” Stockhausen once wrote to his pupil: “Please only heed your inner voice.” It was advice soundly taken and heeded ever since.
Friday 12 March
7.30pm Concert, LSO St Luke’s
WOLFGANG RIHM
String Quartet No. 5
Fetzen cycle
Plus new works by young composers
Arditti Quartet
Teodoro Anzellotti accordion
Wolfgang Rihm’s prolific output includes a dozen string quartets. The single-movement Fifth Quartet, written in the early 1980s, dates from a time when Rihm was closely associated with the New Simplicity, a movement in German arts directed towards emotional expression, sensuality and subjectivity. Teodoro Anzelloti joins the Arditti Quartet for Rihm's Fetzen Cycle, eight pieces for accordion and string quartet and the concert closes with a selection of short new pieces for string quartet, the result of an international call for works by Kingston University.
£12 (unreserved seating)
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Click here for details of the associated composition workshops with the Arditti Quartet and Wolfgang Rihm and the research symposium on the music of Wolfgang Rihm.
Saturday 13 March
11.00am Talk, Mozart Room
The music of Wolfgang Rihm in the context of music in Germany today.
Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
1.00pm Concert, Barbican Hall
Wolfgang Rihm
Concerto Séraphin
London Sinfonietta
“More and more I am aware of one trait I have: my subjectivity.” Rihm’s self-analysis shines out in the works included in this lunchtime concert. His strong subjective impulse courses through Concerto Séraphin, an 55-minute expressive maelstrom for 16 players first heard in Berlin in September 2008. The London Sinfonietta’s long association with the composer’s music has delivered sensational Rihm performances, critically acclaimed and etched in audience memories. Their relationship is set to grow thanks to the emotional force and scope of Concerto Séraphin.
£12
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4.00pm Film, Cinema 2
In The Moment: A Portrait of Wolfgang Rihm
A film portrait of Wolfgang Rihm including conversations with the composer, excerpts from rehearsals and performances.
In German with English subtitles
Germany, 2005, 60mins
£6
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6.00pm Talk, Mozart Room
Wolfgan Rihm in conversation
Wolfgang Rihm discusses the music in tonight’s concert.
Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
7.30pm Free Event
Barbican Freestage
The culmination of a BBC SO Learning project inspired by the music of Wolfgang Rihm.
8.00pm Concert, Barbican Hall
WOLFGANG RIHM
Schwarzer und roter Tanz
Konzert in einem Satz (UK premiere)
Das Gehege (UK premiere)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
André de Ridder conductor
Gabriele Schnaut soprano
Steven Isserlis cello
In 1992 Wolfgang Rihm saw Schlusschor by Botho Strauß, a symbolic drama based on the Berlin Wall’s fall. The composer intuitively imagined the play’s final scene as a monodrama for soprano and orchestra. His piece took shape as Das Gehege (‘The Enclosure’), staged for the first time in Munich in 2007 by French Connection and Exorcist director William Friedkin. This powerful and extroadinary work is presented tonight in a concert staging with Gabriele Schnaut recreating her original role as The Woman. Steven Isserlis, meanwhile, holds the solo spotlight in the UK premiere of Konzert in einem Satz (2005-7).
£24 £20 £16 £12 £8
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Save money and guarantee entry to all events, including the concert on Friday 12 March, with a Total Immersion: Wolfgang Rihm Day Pass. There is a choice of pass, reflecting the range of ticket prices for concerts in the Barbican Hall. Available by telephone, on 020 7638 8891, or in person only.
Day Passes £43 £40 £37 £34 £30
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 Friday 19 March 7.00pm
MARTINU Symphony No. 5
BRAHMS A German Requiem
Jiří Bĕlohlávek conductor
Ana Maria Martinez soprano
Markus Eiche baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
“The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth,” wrote Martinů. His Fifth Symphony, written for the Czech Philharmonic and premiered by the orchestra at the Prague Spring Festival in 1947, sets out the composer’s vision of truth in music of tender lyricism, rhythmic animation and crystalline structural clarity. Brahms, like Martinů, is central to Jiří Bĕlohlávek’s repertoire. The conductor turns here to the German Requiem and its uplifting message of comfort to those who mourn.
Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Barbican Hall
An introduction to tonight’s concert
£24 £20 £16 £12 £8
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 Friday 26 March 7.30pm
PETER EOTVOS Angels in America
(UK premiere)
David Robertson conductor
Mari Mezei libretto
Scott Scully Louis Ironson
Omar Ebrahim Joseph Pitt
Julia Migenes Harper Pitt
Kelly Anderson Ray Cohn
Roberta Alexander Hannah
Brian Asawa Mr Lies
Caught between reality and a distorted world of dreams and hallucinations, the lives of two troubled couples – Louis Ironson and his lover Prior Walter, and Mormon lawyer Joseph Pitt and his wife Harper – become intertwined. Nearing the end of his battle with AIDS, Prior is visited by an angel who delivers a prophecy. Will he accept it or will he choose to defend the human desire for change and progress? In his adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Eötvös has created a vibrant, urban sound-world of breathtaking instrumental and electronic effects and powerful vocal lines.
Concert-staging.
£35 £28 £22.50 £17 £13 £9
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Please note that the prices listed in the BBC Symphony Orchestra 2009/10 Season Brochure are incorrect for this concert
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