On 24 October Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Stefan Asbury join the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks for the world premiere of Responses: Sweet disorder and the carefully careless by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, in the Herkulessaal, Munich. The concert will be recorded for broadcast on BR Klassik on 4 November.
The concerto, which was written for Aimard, has further performances with the co-commissioners of the piece: Casa da Música in Porto on 1 November (conducted by Péter Eötvös), London Philharmonic Orchestra on 6 December and Boston Symphony Orchestra on 12, 13 and 14 February 2015.
The performance in London which, like the Boston performances, is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, forms part of In Broken Images, Southbank Centre’s celebration of the British composer’s music in his 80th birthday year. The project also features Tamara Stefanovich, Colin Currie and London Sinfonietta.
