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Oct
8
2015
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Check out Jonathan Harvey's innovative and pioneering 'Toccata' for organ and tape in this video. Performed here by Rupert Gough in the Chapel of Royal Holloway College back in June 2014, the piece demonstrates Harvey's ability to construct interesting sound-worlds, exploring contrasting timbres and wide-ranging...
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Sep
27
2015
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Harvey's pioneering and exciting music will again be at the centre stage of the Festival Musica 2015. Pre-echo for Jean-Guihen is the opener in Jean Guihen Queyras's recital this morning at the Salle de la Bourse, Strasbourg.
The pioneering and adventurous work for solo cello will take to the stage at 11am.
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Sep
24
2015
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This evening Strasbourg played host to Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen, as Wilhem Latchoumia excited audiences with a performance of the composer's iconic and pioneering work for solo piano and electronics. Harvey's homage to the French composer has been described as "remarkable" developing on "Messiaen's...
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Sep
21
2015
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As the Festival Musica 2015 gets underway, audiences eagerly await performances of Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen and Pre-echo for Jean-Guihen.
On the 24th September, Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen will take to the stage in an evening performance by Wilhem Lacthoumia. The concert, which will feature works...
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Sep
1
2015
0Jonathan Harvey’s “remarkable” ‘Tombeau de Messiaen’ will be performed by Wilhem Latchoumia, as part of the Festival Musica in Strasbourg on the 24th September. Audiences at this year’s festival will also be eager to hear Harvey’s work for solo cello, ‘Pre-echo for Jean-Guihen’, which is to performed by Jean-Guihen...
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May
7
2014
0This Saturday, 10th May 2014, Jonathan’s ‘Calling Across Time’ will be performed in Witten, Germany at a concert of the same name. The WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne, conducted by Peter Rundel, will play three pieces in the afternoon performance.
The concert is part of a festival of music taking place over three...
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Mar
14
2014
0On Monday 17th March, the Arditti String Quartet will perform Jonathan’s 'String Quartet No 2’ as part of a celebration of the group’s 40th anniversary. The pieces they are performing are noted as being “close to the group’s heart”.
The concert is part of a series of Monday Evening Concerts taking place in the Zipper...
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Jul
22
2013
0There will be a memorial service held on the 19th of October in memory of Jonathan Harvey in the Chapel at St. John’s College Cambridge at 12 noon. Harvey was a music scholar and later an Honorary Fellow of the college and maintained a close relationship with it throughout his life. One of the last pieces he wrote,...
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Jul
21
2013
0Jonathan's Mortuos Plango will be performed on Thursday the 8th August as part of the "Dirty Electronics" course at the Dartington International Summer School.
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Jun
11
2013
0Last Thursday was the UK premier of the full stage version of Wagner Dream, put on by the Welsh National Opera. It was a stunning production and provoked some wonderful reviews, which are summed up on Faber's website HERE . If you haven't seen it, you can still catch the final performance in Birmingham tomorrow.
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