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17/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rcBSpQ_FfM
.. a small contribution to BBC Radio 3's honouring one of the most influential conductors of our time, Sir Charles Mackerras, born on this day in 1925 ...
.. here is a fascinating documentary made for the 1967 premiere of Alexander Goehr's opera Arden Must Die / Arden Muss Sterben conducted by Mackerras.

This short film is packed full of insightful comments from Sandy, Erich Fried (librettist), Rolf Lieberman (Hamburg State Opera), ... and from c.10:00 fascinating comments from Mackerras on the technical challenges and rewards of tackling Goehr's score.

The whole film well worth a watch ... and especially for today in celebrating the richness of the musicianship of Sir Charles Mackerras.

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Staatsoper Hamburg

07/11/2025

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BBC Sounds BBC Radio 3 Amatis Trio Norwich Chamber Music

05/11/2025

https://www.cmp.cam.ac.uk/events/event/item/celebrating-alexander-goehr-in-cambridge/

November 7, 2025 7:30 pm | West Road Concert Hall

Organised by Cambridge University’s Faculty of Music and Centre for Music Performance, this concert celebrates the life and work of distinguished composer and former Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge Alexander Goehr (1932-2024).

Musicians from the University will join players from Britten Sinfonia under the direction and leadership of composer and conductor and long friend of Sandy’s, Sir George Benjamin.

Sandy left us with an unique catalogue of beautifully crafted and deeply wrought works that will stand the test of time … each work thought-provoking to the end, continually searching for an authentic musical expression.

The evening’s programme draws from some of his earliest works from the 60s with his Piano Trio Op.20 to Seven Laments, one of his very last works.

This promises to be a unique celebration of one of the most distinctive, distinguished, unique and endlessly evolving and rewarding voices of the past 70 years.

Tickets for the evening concert: available here :

https://www.cmp.cam.ac.uk/events/event/item/celebrating-alexander-goehr-in-cambridge/
Supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

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04/11/2025

We're tickled pink that our choral scholars have two special evening performances this week as the St Catharine's College Consort:
💗 They will be performing a work by the distinguished composer Alexander Goehr (1932–2024) at a special Compline at 9.30pm on Thursday 6 November in our Chapel (no tickets needed).
💗 They are also honoured to have been invited to sing as part of 'Alexander Goehr in Cambridge' at the West Road Concert Hall at 7.30pm on Friday 7 November. Further details and tickets are available from https://www.cmp.cam.ac.uk/events/event/item/celebrating-alexander-goehr-in-cambridge/

16/10/2024

This is just brilliant!

Catch more Schoenberg at the Southbank Centre with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Jonathan Berman

🎟️Tickets selling fast
SCHOENBERG: RESHAPING TRADITION
📅 20 October
⏰6.15pm-7pm pre-concert discussion
⏰7.30pm concert begins
📍Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/schoenberg-reshaping-traditions/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YjgFe-7IIQ&t=2s

Read the accompanying Mixed Meters blog post at http://mixedmeters.com/2015/03/ice-cream-trucks-play-schoenberg-at-usc.html They called it "The Schoenberg S...

16/10/2024

Alexander Goehr im Gespräch

Deutschlandradio Kultur

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/programm

Begegnungen mit musikalischen Zeitzeugen
Der Komponist Alexander Goehr im Gespräch mit Werner Grünzweig und Christine Anderson
Wiederholung der sechsteiligen Sendereihe vom Januar und Februar 2011

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Folge 1:
Von Berlin nach London, von Manchester nach Paris: Kindheitseindrücke und Studienzeit
Mittwoch, 02.10.2024
20.03-21.30 Uhr
Link : https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/begegnungen-mit-dem-komponisten-alexander-goehr-folge-1-dlf-kultur-5dcb752d-100.html

Folge 2:
Nach Paris und Darmstadt – und zurück
Mittwoch, 09.10.2024
20.03-21.30 Uhr
Link : https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/begegnungen-mit-dem-komponisten-alexander-goehr-folge-2-dlf-kultur-04ccb90d-100.html

Folge 3:
Zwischen absoluter Musik und Oper
Mittwoch, 16.10.2024
20.03-21.30 Uhr
Link : https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/begegnungen-mit-dem-komponisten-alexander-goehr-folge-3-dlf-kultur-9108b7bb-100.html

Folge 4:
Schüler und Lehrer
Mittwoch, 23.10.2024
20.03-21.30 Uhr
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/programm?drsearch:date=2024-10-23

Folge 5:
Nach der Reihe: Ein kompositorischer Wendepunkt und weitere Opern
Mittwoch, 30.10.2024
20.03-21.30 Uhr
Link : https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/programm?drsearch:date=2024-10-30

Folge 6: Man kehrt immer (nie) zurück:
Fortschritt einst und jetzt
Mittwoch, 06.11.2024
20.03-21.30 Uhr
Link : To Follow

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16/10/2024

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THIS WAS A FESTIVAL TO REMEMBER!

How far have we come in our appreciation of the genius that is Arnold Schoenberg ?

Let's See ....

ARNIE IS BACK, and still re-shaping traditions as we know them ... or thought we did.

THIS WEEKEND !

SCHOENBERG

RESHAPING TRADITION

Sun 20 Oct 2024
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

JONATHAN BERMAN directs London Sinfonietta's tribute to Arnold Schoenberg at the Southbank Centre to mark the composer's 150th anniversary.

This is a spectacular concert to mark the composer's 150th anniversary. ... one for all Schoenberg fans - and an excellent way to introduce new listeners to the continuing genius of this music.

Berman is our perfect guide ... steeped in early 20th C Viennese music (see his 'Universally Acclaimed' Schmidt recordings for Accentus)

Arnold Schoenberg Serenade Op. 24
Anton Webern Symphony Op. 21
Arnold Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Op. 41
Arnold Schoenberg Piano Pieces Op.19 (ANDREW ZOLINSKY, pno)
Elisabeth Lutyens Six Tempi for 10 Instruments
Arnold Schoenberg Chamber Symphony Op. 9

Jonathan Berman conductor
Andrew Zolinsky piano
Richard Burkhard baritone, speaker
London Sinfonietta

Stage Presentation by Daisy Evans, Stevie Higgins and Jake Wiltshire.

7.30 start, with pre-concert from 6.15pm - 7pm with Conductor Jonathan Berman, Musicologist Jonathan Cross and Royal Holloway Professor of Music Julie Brown.

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https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/schoenberg-reshaping-traditions/
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11/09/2024

"So much to explore"

ALEXANDER GOEHR

Vision of the Soldier Er (String Quartet No 5)

Here are a few words from Tom Service on BBC Radio 3's New Music Show introducing Sandy Goehr's 5th String Quartet in a performance by the Villiers Quartet at the Royal Northern College of Music at 'Composing a Life' in 2023.

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"So many of Alexander Goehr’s pieces are dialogues with historical models or ideas but they're even more important dialogues with us his listeners ...
.. in this piece you know that sense of seeing the totality of the history of a life and its aftermath from so many directions that what you feel is happening all at the same time.
.. This music is something that only Alexander Goehr could achieve and achieve with the subversive dazzle ...
.. So much to explore in the legacy not only of chamber music but of operas, orchestral music in the whole catalogue."

Tom Service, BBC Radio 3

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The 5th quartet (of 6 spanning 70 years), was commissioned by the Swaledale Festival for the Villiers Quartet.

Composing a Life ;
Alexander Goehr, Composing a Life: Teachers, Mentors & Models
by Jack Van Zandt
published by Carcanet Press



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Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

02/09/2024

Alexander Goehr
1932-2024

The Master Said
for speaker and chamber orchestra, op. 99 (2016)
Texts from the Confucian Analects

The last large scale orchestral work from Alexander Goehr, appropriately titled "The Master Said".

Around a sequence of sayings from the Confucian Analects is composed a set of elaborations on different aspects of an idea. The inspiration is partly Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, similarly seven adagios for chamber orchestra, followed by a brief allegro.

Film from the World Premiere in Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff with :

Catherine Larsen-Maguire, conductor
Mark Lewis Jones, narrator
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Catherine Larsen-Maguire - Conductor
Mark Lewis Jones
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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BBC NOW & Mark Lewis Jones perform the world premiere of Alexander Goehr The Master Said