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    Live choice

    Apr 14, 2022 4 minutes

    Royal Northern Sinfonia

    Newcastle, 2 May

    Web: sagegateshead.com

    Pianist Alasdair Beatson teams up with members of the orchestra for a Viennese chamber music trail taking in three city churches and ten works. Architecture from medieval to newly restored Georgian resounds to an eclectic selection ranging from early Haydn to Schoenberg’s arrangement of Strauss’s Emperor Waltz. Works, too, by Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Johanna Doderer.

    Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

    Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 4 May

    Web: bcmg.org.uk

    At the end of May, a daylong Xenakis 100th-birthday celebration beckons. Kicking off the month, however, composers closely identified with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group are fêted: Knussen, Carter and Harrison Birtwistle. Also included and Birtwistle’s arrangements of Machaut.

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