November 14, 2011, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Terra Nova | Vita Nuova
Conductor: Paul Jackson

Julio d'Escriván - Terra Nova, concerto for videogame player and electroacoustic ensemble (world première)
Luciano Berio - Laborintus 2

Julio d'Escriván's Terra Nova was written especially for Anglia Sinfonia and the Mechanical and Electroacoustic Music Ensemble (MEME) in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The audiovisual materials for this piece are drawn from original archival material held in the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Terra Nova uses the medium of the video game, projected on to a large screen, to commemorate Scott's tragic expedition through the use of three-dimensional recreations of the Antarctic landscape. Anglia Sinfonia and MEME provide the additional live orchestral material in emulation of the early cinematic practice of playing live music to film.

The concept of 'New Lands' finds further resonance in Luciano Berio's 1965 masterpiece for singers, actors and orchestra, Laborintus 2. Written to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the birth of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, Laborintus 2 presents a kaleidoscopic amalgamation of poetry, vocalisation, music and electronic sounds, drawing on themes from Dante's La Vita Nuova (The New Life) and The Inferno.

November 22, 2009, West Road Concert Hall, West Road, Cambridge

Music hard and beautiful as a diamond....
Conductor: Paul Jackson; Pianola: Rex Lawson; Sound manipulator and iPhone: Julio d'Escriván

John Adams: Grand Pianola Music
Julio d'Escriván: Ayayay! Concerto for iPhone, pianola and orchestra
George Antheil: Ballet mécanique

Celebrating mechanisms of the old and technologies of the new, the concert includes John Adams' sparkling Grand Pianola Music for two pianos, chamber orchestra and voices, and Julio d'Escriván's newly-composed Ayayay! Concerto for iPhone, pianola and orchestra, in which the composer will act as soloist.

As 'hard and beautiful as a diamond', George Antheil's Ballet mécanique brings together the forces of a pianola, two pianos, multiple percussion, electric bells, sirens and airplane propellers. Performed in the original version with the world-renowned pianola virtuoso, Rex Lawson, this infamous piece provides a dynamic finale to the concert.

May 20, 2009 at the Arts Picturehouse, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge.

Forgotten Music from The GPO
Conductor: Miguel Mera

Benjamin Britten - The King's Stamp, Coal Face, Night Mail

Indulge your nostalgia with a night of live music and film! This is a rare opportunity to see screenings of 1930s documentaries from the General Post Office Film Unit with live musical scores. The concert features a complete showing of the Film Unit's most celebrated work: the classic Benjamin Britten/WH Auden collaboration, Night Mail (1936), alongside other, less-seen treasures...

Coal Face: Powerful images of mining combine with Britten's startling score (1935, complete film); The King's Stamp: Britten's music adds colour to a light-hearted history of stamps from the Penny Black to George V's jubilee (1935, excerpts).

November 16, 2007, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Conductor: Paul Jackson; Piano solo: Philip Mead

Kevin Flanagan - The Ten Thousand Things
David Crilly - Eversion
Rob Godman - Duel

Anglia Sinfonia is joined by the internationally-acclaimed contemporary music pianist, Philip Mead, in a presentation of three world premières including Kevin Flanagan's oratorio The Ten Thousand Things (to a text by Malcolm Guite), David Crilly's Eversion, for chamber orchestra and sound projection, and Rob Godman's Duel, for piano solo and electronics.

March 29, 2007, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Infernal Cabaret
Conductor: Paul Jackson
Saxophone solo: Kevin Flanagan

Luciano Berio - Laborintus II
plus Jazz music featuring the Kevin Flanagan Trio

November 19, 2006, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Space Calculated in Seconds - The music of Edgard Varèse and beyond
Paul Jackson: conductor; Daniella Ganeva: marimba

Varèse - Hyperprism; Déserts; Poème électronique

plus new works for percussion and live sound and image manipulation

Julio d'Escriván - La Revolcón; Canción Americana, Juguete y Sueño con Ranitas
Orestis Karamanlis - Ataxia

World-renowned marimba player, Daniella Ganeva, joins Anglia Sinfonia for the visionary music of Varèse. Arguably the world's first multi-media piece, Poème électronique was written for World Expo in 1958, and here, artists from Anglia Ruskin make a new realisation of the images to go with this classic work.

This concert is presented as part of the Cambridge Music Festival.