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Endymion performing Fratres by Arvo Pärt at the Southbank Centre

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Phil| Leave a comment

Here’s another video of us performing at the Southbank Centre in September.  As part of our celebration of Arvo Pärt, we performed several well-known chamber works by the 76-year-old composer, including Summa for string quartet and Fratres, on this video, in the version for string quartet.  We also teamed up with EXAUDI to perform his wonderfully contemplative Stabat Mater – a video of that is coming soon!

You can see us perform all three of these wonderful pieces again on Saturday night at the Sound Festival, Scotland, alongside three great new commissions by Philip Venables (Endymion’s Artistic Director), James Weeks (EXAUDI’s Artistic Director) and Andrew Hamilton.  Tickets are available here!

 

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Arvo Pärt – Summa

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Phil| Leave a comment

Here’s a wonderful video of our performance a few weeks ago at the Southbank Centre of Arvo Pärt’s ‘Summa’ for string quartet.

We’re playing this beautiful piece again on 4th November at Opera North, 12th November at Sound Festival in Scotland and on 6th March 2012 at City Music Society at the Bishopsgate Institute.  Do come and join us to hear it again!

 

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Guardian review of Music for People 1 at Southbank

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Phil| Leave a comment

Our first instalment of Music for People went off wonderfully last night at the Southbank Centre.   From the serene opening of Fratres to the atmospheric premiere of Joanna Bailie’s new piece to the quirky, joyous commission by Philip Venables and Pärt’s masterpiece Stabat Mater, all went tremendously well and we were delighted to share the stage with the incredible EXAUDI singers.

The Guardian reviewed the concert here.  What a ringing endorsement for our project!  We’re delighted.  And we do hope that you all come back tomorrow night for the premiere of our commissions of James Weeks and Andrew Hamilton (both sounding great in rehearsal) and Morton Feldman’s stunning Clarinet Quintet.

Book here: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/classical/tickets/endymion-exaudis-music-for-people-ii-57194

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/20/endymion-exaudi-review

Joanna Bailie’s commission was generously supported by the PRS for Music Foundation

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Endymion and EXAUDI at Wigmore Hall

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Phil| Leave a comment

We were delighted with our late-night performance of Arvo Pärt a few weeks ago at Wigmore Hall with the wonderful EXAUDI.  We performed in Wigmore Hall’s new late-night series, at 10pm on Friday 8th July.  The hall was really full (busier than for the 7pm concert that night!) and the atmosphere was really serene and concentrated, for four contrasting pieces of Pärt:  Fratres, Summa, Pilgrim’s Song and the Stabat Mater.

Geoff Brown reviewed for The Times:

“One Arvo Pärt work followed another, from the chord sequences of Fratres to the measured sorrows of his Stabat Mater setting: music of rapturous, daring simplicity, vigorously etched by a string quartet drawn from Endymion and three of Exaudi’s fearless voices.”

This was the first performance in a line of Arvo Pärt performances, not least our large Music for People project at Southbank Centre on 19th and 21st September, when we’ll be joining up with EXAUDI again to perform more Pärt, plus some Morton Feldman and four new commissions from James Weeks, Joanna Bailie, Andrew Hamilton and Philip Venables.  More to follow on here soon, but book your tickets now

Monday 19th September: Pärt, Venables, Bailie.

Wednesday 21st September: Feldman, Hamilton, Weeks.

The photo here is us rehearsing the Stabat Mater in Wigmore Hall on the morning of the concert.

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Wigmore Hall concert with EXAUDI: Arvo Pärt

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Phil| Leave a comment

We’re really excited to be featuring in Wigmore Hall‘s new late-night series next Friday evening at 10pm.  For this special concert, we’ve teamed up with EXAUDI (“the extraordinary ensemble of vocal virtuosi” – Sunday Times) to present a retrospective of music by Arvo Pärt, for strings and voices.

The concert includes Fratres and Summa, two of his most famous works known to many from films and television, and the Stabat Mater, one of the first major sacred works in his “holy minimalism” style.

This performance is in advance of our Music for People project at Southbank Centre on 19th and 21st September 2011, when we will premiere four exciting new commissions from Andrew Hamilton, Joanna Bailie, James Weeks and Philip Venables written for Endymion and EXAUDI, to be performed alongside the music of Arvo Pärt and Morton Feldman.

Tickets for Wigmore are available here – they’re selling quickly, so book now.  It would be great to see you there. Tickets are only £12!

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