Events for 24. March 2023 - 10. March 2023

Returning after two online incarnations, the festival pushes boundaries and blurs musical genres as international and local artists gather in Glasgow to explore what music can be. It is staged annually by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, is co-curated by its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell (Counterflows) with highlights broadcast on BBC Radio 3. A ground-breaking and somewhat overlooked figure in electronic and experimental music, Janet Beat only released her first commercial album ‘Pioneering Knob Twiddler’ last year. This year’s focus will celebrate her career, including a number of works for solo performer and electronics performed by BBC SSO Principals and soprano Juliet Fraser, as well as sets from Andie Brown, Sharon Gal and Ailie Ormston that echo Beat’s ever-questioning spirit.

From the organiser's website:   Ladies' Night - "The Freedom of Women..." "The fact that one's miserable feminine nature is advanced every day, at every step of one's life, by the masters of creation, is a point that could drive one into a rage and thus deprive one of femininity, if it were not for the fact that this would make the evil worse" wrote Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn in a letter on 22 March 1829. One could almost think that Fanny Hensel was commenting on the concert practice of today's great stages. How many orchestral concert evenings in large houses, how many classical music programmes do we experience and have we experienced, whose programmes were and are as a matter of course shaped exclusively by a sequence of works by male composers. In return, we would like to create a concert evening with orchestral music by women only. We would like to make audible to our audience the wonderful works created by women composers in the 19th century, hidden behind Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Wagner, Berlioz etc.. Created against all odds by fathers, husbands, teachers, institutions and competitors. We would like to draw attention to the women composers who made interesting contributions ...

Conductor: Joseph Giunta

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Conductor: Pascale Van Os Time to be announced

A slide lecture with classical music to travel along with provides insights into the biography of the composer Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn (1805-1847), who created a huge œuvre in her short life that has only been and is being rediscovered in our time. In her lecture, musicologist Susanne Wosnitzka (Archiv Frau und Musik) will focus on Fanny Hensel’s trip to Italy in 1839/40, which gave enormous impetus to her creativity and gave her personal freedom for the first time. Stops on her journey included Munich and Hohenschwangau Castle. Its fantastic location probably inspired her to write her Swan Song. It was in Italy that Fanny Hensel was first described as a “true composer” – by none other than the composer Charles Gounod, who admired her talent and who stayed at the Villa Medici as a scholarship holder during this period. Further information on the website We are very much looking forward to it and cordially invite you to participate!

Orchestra: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie Time and place to be announced!

Orchestra: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie From the organiser's website: A brother and sister and literature Jérémie Rhorer and his original sound orchestra Le Cercle de l'Harmonie combine four works by siblings Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy based on poems by Franz Grillparzer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and William Shakespeare. Acting star Wolfram Koch not only participates in the performance of the popular drama music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, but transforms the entire concert into a dialogue between text and music.

School concert with free admission The time has not yet been announced, please visit the website of the Goethe-Gymnasium Ludwigsburg for more information