Zustände
Framed by Schumann’s Piano Quartet and Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet, Charlotte Bray’s new work is the centrepiece of the Schubert Ensemble’s programme. Each of the three movements of Zustände is inspired by a different form of ice, all photographed by Bray on a recent trip to Greenland.
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon, 18 March
Faramondo
Handel’s 1738 opera gets a rare modern staging as part of the London Handel festival. Laurence Cummings conducts the London Handel Orchestra and singers from the Royal College of Music’s International Opera School in William Relton’s production.
Royal College of Music: Britten Theatre, SW7, 20 to 25 March
Rued Langgaard
Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC SSO explore the strange musical world of Danish composer Rued Langgaard. They perform Langgaard’s fourth symphony, Leaf-fall, on Sunday, and premiere his sixth, The Heaven-Rending on Thursday.
City Halls, Glasgow, 19 & 23 March
Nash Inventions
Martyn Brabbins conducts the latest of the Nash Ensemble’s showcases of new British music. There are world premieres from Colin Matthews and Simon Holt and the London premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies’s last setting of poetry by George Mackay Brown.
Magnus Lindberg
Composer Lindberg and cellist Anssi Karttunen go back a long way. Lindberg wrote his first cello concerto for him in 1999, and Karttunen gave the world premiere of the second in 2013. Now that later work arrives in London for the first time.
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