Previous Concert Programmes

Programme

1. Claude Debussy
   Prélude à L’après midi d’un faune arr. Benno Sachs
2. Gustav Mahler
   Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, arranged for soprano and chamber ensemble
3. Gustav Mahler
   Symphony no. 4 in G major arranged for soprano and chamber ensemble

Auricle's critically acclaimed Mini-Mahler project returns - a chance to hear Mahler's Fourth Symphony accompanied by Debussy's tranquil masterpiece 'Prélude à L'après midi d'un faune' (our small way of marking 150 years since Debussy's birth on August 22nd).

Featuring Auricle's featured artist's Alexa Mason & Una McMahon

Previous performances

Edinburgh Festival, Oran Mor at Glasgow West End Festival, St. Bride's at 7, Tolbooth Stirling.

Programme

First Half: Europe

1. Benjamin Britten
   The Spider and the Fly
2. Arnold Schoenberg
   Nachtwandler (Brettl Lieder)
3. Kurt Weill
   Nanna's Lied
4. Benjamin Britten
   Cabaret Songs
5. Steve Forman
   Two Cabaret Songs, after Liz Lochhead (New commission, world premiere)
6. Erik Satie
   Je te veux
7. Georges van Parys
   Complainte de la butte (Moulin Rouge)
8. Charles Dumont
   Les flons-flons du bal (Edith Piaf)
9. Friederick Hollander
   Ich bin von Kopf...(Marlene Dietrich, Falling in love again...)
10. Kurt Weill
    Threepenny Opera: Mack the Knife - Pirate Jenny - Jealousy Duet



Second Half: The Americas

11. Carlos Surinach
    Hollywood Carnival
12. Astor Piazzolla
    Primavera portena
13. Astor Piazzolla
    La Primera Palabra
14. Cole Porter
    My Heart Belongs to Daddy
15. Jerome Kern
    The Last Time I Saw Paris
16. George Gershwin
    The Man I Love
17. William Bolcom
    Song of Black Max
18. Cole Porter
    I Get A Kick Out of You
19. John Kander
    Cabaret: Don't Tell Mama - Mein Herr
20. Finale: John Kander
    All that Jazz (Chicago) - Auf Wiedersehen (Cabaret)
21. Encore: Charles Dumont
    Je ne regrette rien (Edith Piaf)

This one-night-only concert is jam packed with iconic Cabaret songs and pieces - you’ll be in the company of Auricle and special guests with songs from Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Britten, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, music from the hit shows Chicago and Cabaret, and the fiery Latin music of Piazzolla. Our composer-in-residence Steve Forman has also specially composed two songs after the poetry of Motherwell born poet, Liz Lochhead.

Let our professional cast take you on a journey from dingy 1900’s Berlin Cabaret to glitzy Broadway via Paris, London and Buenos Aires: this is cabaret like you’ve never heard it before and is a must see!

“a diverse but inspirational programme from an incredibly versatile ensemble”
(3weeks.com, Sep 2008)

Guest Artistes

Featuring Caley Cheney, Evan Grosshans, Alexa Mason, Una McMahon and Simone Sahyouni

Previous performances

Music in Lanark World Heritage Village, Oran Mor at Glasgow West End Festival

Programme

1. Sir William Walton
   Façade (Complete)

Walton's witty and sparkling Façade comes to life with Radio 4 regulars Joanna Tope and Crawford Logan negotiating the complete extant numbers – including movements that have never been publicly performed before.
"Mr Walton's music is as original and witty as Miss Sitwell's poetry" Daily Mail, June 1923

Previous Performances

Gatehouse Music Society, Fringe by the Sea at North Berwick, Wigtown Book Festival, St Bride's at 7, Sound Chamber, Edinburgh Festival, Glasgow Botanic Gardens at West End Festival, Byre Theatre

Programme

1. Wynton Marsalis
   A Fiddler's Tale (Complete with narration, or suite alone)

Auricle presents a tuneful, funky, melodious and toe-tapping update of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale. Be there for the European première of the suite from Grammy award winning composer and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis's A Fiddler's Tale

Special guest appearances by actor Rodd Christensen.

Previous performances

Cottier Theatre at the Glasgow West End Festival

Programme

1. Thomas Wilson
   Incidental Music arr. K Letham
   I. A Scot's Quair (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite)
   II. Glencoe (with the poem by Douglas Stewart)
   

UK première of a new suite of previously unpublished incidental pieces by West End of Glasgow composer Thomas Wilson. His music for the BBC Radio broadcast Glencoe is also reconstructed for the first time

Special guest appearances by actor Crawford Logan.

Previous performances

Cottier Theatre at the Glasgow West End Festival

Programme

1. Gustav Mahler
   Piano Quartet
2. Gustav Mahler
   Kindertotenlieder, Arr. Rainer Riehn
3. Benjamin Britten
   Sinfonietta

Rainer Riehn's initmate reduction of the Kindertotenlider gives a new perspective to Mahler's work, with Britten's youthful Sinfonietta and Mahler's early work for Piano Quartet completing the concert.

To download Auricle's Mini-Mahler Series brochure, click here

Previous Performances

St. Bride's at 7

Programme

1. Robin Holloway
   Five Haydn Miniatures
2. Peter Maxwell Davies
   Fantasia upon one note, after Purcell
3. Peter Maxwell Davies
   Miss Donnithorne's Maggot

An unmissable concert featuring one of Max's Music Theatre Pieces from the seventies. Following much critical acclaim from her performances of Pierrot Lunaire last year, Alexa Mason returns to take the title role of Miss Donnithorne. The concert plays out as a wedding ceremony complete with dead flowers, spider webs and dusty morning suits. Robin Holloway's arrangements of Haydn's mechanical clock pieces gone very wrong is followed by Miss Donnithorne processing down the aisle to the Fantasia upon one note (complete with banjos, cello-playing pianists and harpsichord-playing violinists). There follows PMD's fantastic, amusingly disturbed and thoroughly deranged theatre piece about Miss Donnithorne, the supposed true inspiration for Dickens' Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. Cake will be served after the ceremony.

Previous Performances

St Bride's at 7, Edinburgh University Concert Series at the Reid Hall

Programme

1. Kurt Weill
   The Threepenny Opera

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's original dark and gritty vision comes to life in Jeremy Sams razor sharp modern translation - with a professional lineup of singers and narrator,the Auricle Ensemble perform Kurt Weill's original score.

Parental advisory - some explicit lyrics.

Guest Artistes Feature:

Caley Cheney, Paul Featherstone, Alexa Mason, Una McMahon

Previous Performances

The Venue - downstairs nightclub at Oran Mor, Glasgow West End Festival

Programme

1. Claude Debussy
   Prélude à L’après midi d’un faune arr. Benno Sachs
2. Peter Maxwell Davies
   Runes from a Holy Island
3. Gustav Mahler
   Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, arr. Arnold Schoenberg

Songs of Mahler's wandering wayfarer feature alongside Maxwell Davies beautiful and introspective trip around the island of Hoy.

To download Auricle's Mini-Mahler Series brochure, click here

Previous Performances

St Bride's at 7

Programme

1. W.A. Mozart
   Requiem, K.626, completed by Franz Sussmayr, revised by Duncan Druce

In a special concert celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Bothwell Philharmonic Choir, Auricle and conductor Chris Swaffer bring their reduced orchestration talents in accompaniment to their performance of Mozart's Requiem. Other reduced performances available include a special arrangement of Brahms Requiem

Programme

1. Auricle Ensemble
   Discovering Pierrot
2. Arnold Schoenberg
   Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21

Soprano Alexa Mason performs Schoenberg’s seminal work, Pierrot Lunaire in a special concert complete with atmospheric lighting and surtitles - introduced and explained by the musicians.

Previous Performances

St. Bride's at 7, Wigtown Book Festival, Edinburgh University concert series at the Reid Hall.

Programme

1. Serge Prokofiev
   Peter and The Wolf
2. Paul Dukas
   The Sorcerer's Apprentice
3. George Gershwin
   An American In Paris
4. Georges Bizet
   Carmen

As part of their 'Reduced Classics' concerts, the Auricle Ensemble perform a wide range of works the whole family can enjoy. Balamory favourite Juliet Cadzow tells the story of Peter and the Wolf, and An American In Paris accompanied by the virtuoso playing of the Auricle Ensemble.

Have-A-Go Stand provided by the Wind Section

Before and after the concert, the players will be on hand with a barrage of instruments for any budding musician, young or old, to have a go!

Guest artistes

Narrator - Juliet Cadzow (Balamory's Edie Mcredie)

Previous Performances

Byre Theatre, Wigtown Book Festival, Oran Mor at Glasgow West End Festival, Classic Music Live at Falkirk Town Hall, Bute Arts Society

Programme

1. Aaron Copland
   Music for the Theatre
2. Charles Ives
   The Unanswered Question
3. Aaron Copland
   Appalachian Spring, Suite for 13 instrumentalists
4. Aaron Copland
   Clarinet Concerto

Previous Performances

Balerno Music Festival

Programme

1. Aaron Copland
   Appalachian Spring, Suite for 13 instrumentalists
2. Charles Ives
   The Unanswered Question
3. Leonard Bernstein
   West Side Story, Concert Suite
4. Michael Daugherty
   What's That Spell? (B-A-R-B-I-E)
5. George Gershwin
   Rhapsody In Blue - Original Jazz Band Version, 1924

Featured Artistes

Auricle featured singers, Alexa Mason and Una McMahon, Paul Featherstone and Laura Baxter on piano

Previous performances

Edinburgh Festival

Programme

1. Richard Wagner
   Siegfried-Idyll
2. Arnold Schoenberg
   Chamber Symphony no.1 in E major, Op. 9
3. Charles Ives
   The Unanswered Question
4. Aaron Copland
   Appalachian Spring, Suite for 13 instrumentalists

Programme

1. Dmitri Shostakovich
   Jazz Suite No. 1
2. Igor Stravinsky
   Ebony Concerto
3. Darius Milhaud
   La Création du monde
4. Leonard Bernstein
   Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
5. Miles Davis
   Birth of the Cool
6. George Gershwin
   Rhapsody in Blue, Original Jazz Band Version

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