Total Immersion: Brian Ferneyhough Booking: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=10817 11:00: Brian Ferneyhough: Time & Motion Study II (film) Mozart Room, Level 4 Tickets: Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass subject to availability Tom Service introduces the music of Brian Ferneyhough, followed by a filmed performance of Ferneyhough’s piece for cello, Time and Motion Study II. UK , 2007, Dir. Colin Still, 47mins 13:00: Quatuor Diotima Barbican Hall Tickets: £12 Brian Ferneyhough Second String Quartet Brian Ferneyhough Sonatas for String Quartet Quatuor Diotima “I find beautiful whatever stimulates, brings forth positive inner turmoil, makes me feel momentarily more intelligent, spiritual, etc., than I otherwise am,” Ferneyhough observes. His desire to step from the everyday into an extraordinary world of multifaceted thought is powerfully etched into the fabric of the works in this programme. Sonatas for String Quartet (1967) marked the ambitious departure point for Ferneyhough’s journey on the mind, its 20 movements rich in textural contrasts and expressive silences. The Second String Quartet (1980) magnifies the intensity of the composer’s thought and density of ideas in a score of beguiling complexity. 15:30: Talk Mozart Room, Level 4 Tickets: Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass. Meet the Composer Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Tom Service about his life and music. 19:00: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Brabbins Barbican Hall Tickets: £8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 Brian Ferneyhough La Terre est un homme Brian Ferneyhough Carceri d’invenzione III Brian Ferneyhough Missa Brevis Brain Ferneyhough Plötzlichkeit (UK premiere) BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins conductor James Morgan conductor BBC Singers All pieces to be introduced by Julian Anderson and Brian Ferneyhough Tonight’s Total Immersion concert spans the broad gamut of Ferneyhough’s invention, from the Missa brevis for 12 solo singers of 1969 to the UK premiere of Plötzlichkeit , a 20-minute masterpiece for large orchestra. The programme also includes a rare chance to hear the third part of his Carceri d’Invenzione cycle, a seminal work of the 1980s inspired by Piranesi’s etchings of imagined dungeons and infernal places of imprisonment. Discover the multiform artistic influences and ideas behind the work of a composer who represents the antithesis of the predictable, the enemy of the routine.