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Tanglewood Music Festival Features Vijay Iyer, Julian Anderson, Lei Liang, Thomas Adès, and more

Jul. 01, 2017

Tanglewood Music Festival Features Vijay Iyer, Julian Anderson, Lei Liang, Thomas Adès, and more

The Tanglewood Music Festival returns to the bucolic Berkshires of western Massachusetts with a wealth of music both new and familiar. From August 10 through 14, cellist Kathryn Bates, pianist Jacob Greenberg and violist Nadia Sirota join as guest curators for the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, including works by Julian Anderson, Lei Liang, and Thomas Adès, among many others.

Featured works throughout the Festival of Contemporary Music include a new piece for voice and piano by Anthony Cheung (August 10), Lei Liang’s Gobi Canticle for violin and cello (August 11), Julian Anderson’s Van Gogh Blue (August 12), and Thomas Adès’s Court Studies from The Tempest (August 13). György Ligeti’s astounding work for female chorus and orchestra, Clocks and Clouds, closes out the festival on August 14 with Stefan Asbury leading the Lorelei Ensemble and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, alongside a performance of Henri Dutilleux’s The Shadows of Time.

Also at Tanglewood this summer, violinist Jennifer Koh joins The Knights for a performance of Vijay Iyer’s new violin concerto Trouble, which premiered at the Ojai Music Festival earlier this summer. Eric Jacobsen leads the performance at Seiji Ozawa Hall on July 13 (and you can watch the Ojai premiere online here).

Additional performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Players include Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Dispelling the Fears for two trumpets and orchestra (July 10), Olli Mustonen’s Nonetto II (July 16), Fred Lerdahl’s Waltzes (July 23), Thomas Adès’s Polaris (July 24), Julian Anderson’s Incantesimi (August 12) and a concert performance of Wagner’s Das Rheingold (July 15) led by Andris Nelsons and based on the Richard Wagner Complete Edition by Egon Voss. 

Click below for more information on the composers:

Thomas Adès| Julian Anderson | Anthony Cheung
Henri Dutilleux | Vijay Iyer | Fred Lerdahl
Olli Mustonen | Lei Liang | Mark-Anthony Turnage 

Lei Liang
Gobi Canticle (2005)
for violin and cello
11’

Julian Anderson
Van Gogh Blue (2015)
for ensemble
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15’ 

Incantesimi (2016) 
for orchestra
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ca. 10’

Thomas Adès
Court Studies from The Tempest (2005)
for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
8’

Polaris (201)
for orchestra
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14’

György Ligeti
Clocks and Clouds (1972-1973)
for 12-part female choir and orchestra
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13’

Henri Dutilleux
The Shadows of Time (1997)
Five episodes for orchestra (with three children’s voices)
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22’

Vijay Iyer
Trouble (2017)
for violin and chamber orchestra
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25’

Mark-Anthony Turnage
Dispelling the Fears (1994-1995)
after a painting by Heather Betts
for two trumpets and orchestra
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20’

Olli Mustonen
Nonetto II (2000)
for nine solo strings or string orchestra
15’

Fred Lerdahl
Waltzes (1981)
for violin, viola, cello and double bass
21’

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