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ICOF: Week 1-4 schedule

Last update: January 9, 2009 - 1:06 PM

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL

(For venue addresses and complete details, go to thespco.org.)

WEEK 1

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE (COE)

10:30 a.m. today, Ordway Center

Steven Copes, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano; SPCO; Douglas Boyd, conductor

Berg: Chamber Concerto

Mozart: Serenade for 13 Winds, K.361

8 p.m. today and Saturday, Ordway Center

COE, SPCO; Douglas Boyd, conductor

Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

2 p.m. Sunday, Benson Great Hall

COE; Douglas Boyd, conductor

Shostakovich: Prelude and Scherzo for Strings

Shostakovich-Barshai: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence

WEEK 2

LONDON SINFONIETTA

8 p.m. Thursday, SPCO Center

Claire Booth, soprano; London Sinfonietta; Diego Masson, conductor

Birtwistle: Cortège

Bedford: Or voit tout en aventure

Boulez: Dérive 1

Benjamin: Three Inventions

Knussen: Two Organa

10:30 a.m. Jan. 16, Ordway Center

SPCO; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano and director

Stockhausen: Kontra-Punkte

Haydn: Symphony No. 45, "Farewell"

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"

8 p.m. Jan. 16, Ordway Center

8 p.m. Jan. 17, Ted Mann Concert Hall

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano and director; London Sinfonietta, SPCO and members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Anu Tali, conductor

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"

Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen (U.S. premiere)

2 p.m. Jan. 18, Ted Mann Concert Hall

London Sinfonietta; Diego Masson, conductor

Boulez: Dérive 1

Benjamin: Three Inventions

Knussen: Two Organa

Birtwistle: Cortège

Stravinsky: Suite from The Soldier's Tale

WEEK 3

ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (OAE)

8 p.m. Jan. 22, Temple Israel

10:30 a.m. Jan. 23, Wooddale Church

8 p.m. Jan. 24, St. Paul's UCC

OAE, SPCO; Rachel Podger, violin and director; Ruggero Allifranchini, violin and director

Mozart: Divertimento, K.136

C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonia in B minor (Wq. 182, No. 5)

Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1

Shostakovich-Barshai: Symphony for Winds and Strings, Op. 73a

8 p.m. Jan. 23, Trinity Lutheran Church

2 p.m. Jan. 25, Ted Mann Concert Hall

Rachel Nicholls, soprano; OAE; Rachel Podger, violin and director

Telemann: Overture in E minor

Vivaldi-Pisendel: Violin Concerto in D

Bach: Cantata No. 51, "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"

Zelenka: Hipocondrie à 7

Telemann: Cantata, "Ertrage nur das Joch der Mängel"

Bach-Podger: Concerto for Three Violins

WEEK 4

PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

8 p.m. Jan. 29, Trinity Lutheran Church

Thomas Cooley, tenor; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, SPCO; Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Rameau: Suite from Les Paladins; prison scene from Dardanus

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