Performances of Andersen-Liederkreis

Finnissy portrait

Transit

17:30, Sunday 30 October 2016
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

Soprano Juliet Fraser and pianist Mark Knoop will perform the second of our two concerts devoted to Michael Finnissy. The central piece will be the premiere of his Andersen Liederkreis. With references to the Danish author Hans-Christian Andersen and to Robert Schumann’s two volumes entitled Liederkreis, this concert promises to be a typical ‘Finnissy trip’ filled with musical and cultural references.

Michael Finnissy	Song 1	19695
Michael Finnissy	Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill)	201233
Michael Finnissy	Andersen-Liederkreis	2016*45

Palimpsests

hcmf//

13:00, Sunday 27 November 2016
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Palimpsests is a new programme for voice and piano that re-imagines the song cycle: Bernhard Lang (external link) and Michael Finnissy (external link) explore concepts of collage and remembrance in new works written for Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop.

Michael Finnissy	Andersen-Liederkreis	2016¶45
Bernhard Lang	Monadologie XXXII The Cold Trip part 2	2014/15¶30

We’ll meet again

City University

19:00, Tuesday 11 April 2017
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop give the London premiere of Michael Finnissy (external link)’s Andersen-Liederkreis (2016), which engages with the weighty tradition of the song cycle. Hans Christian Andersen is universally famous for his fairy stories, but this cycle also sets his lyric poetry and ‘papiers collés’, revealing further the fantastical, droll and profound world of his imagination. The programme opens with the world premiere of we’ll meet again, a piano solo by composer Tim Parkinson, whose extraordinary opera, Time With People, was previously staged at City in 2015.

Tim Parkinson	we’ll meet again	2015*14
Michael Finnissy	Andersen-Liederkreis	201645

Statements, Voices & Loops

Musiikin Aika - Time of Music

21:00, Wednesday 5 July 2017
Viitasaari Church
Kirkkotie 9
44500 Viitasaari
Finland

Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop perform at the Time of Music Festival, Finland.

Michael Finnissy	Andersen-Liederkreis	201645
Peter Ablinger	Voices and Piano (selection)	1998-
Bernhard Lang	Monadologie XXXII The Cold Trip part 2	2014/1530

*: first performance
¶: first performance in The United Kingdom