Above: The Telegraph - 'Lost' Beethoven work brought back to life A Beethoven masterpiece that was thought to have been lost in its full, original form is to be played for the first time in over 200 years after it was reconstructed from the composer's original sketches.
Above: UK Professor Barry Cooper 'Reconstructs' Lost Beethoven Piece At The University Of Manchester
Manchester University Symphony Orchestra’s summer tour was a stunning success. You can hear extracts from their performance of Mahler’s fifth symphony in Heidelberg, Germany by visiting the MUMS website
NOVARS VIDEO CHANNEL (matinees and MANTIS FEstival)
Matinees are listening sessions of existing repertoire of music and audiovisual works, including recent works created by the invitees at the NOVARS Research Centre, Manchester, UK. Presentations frequently lead to an informal discussion and feedback in areas of contextualisation of these works.
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES + VAGANZA
Vaganza celebrates distinguished composer Peter Maxwell Davies’s agreeing to become Patron of the Manchester University Music Society by giving a special concert of student compositions in his presence at 3pm on Thursday 26 November in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, followed at 4.15pm in the John Casken Theatre with an opportunity to hear Peter Maxwell Davies in conversation.
MUSIC (PROMOTION VIDEO)
Music at Manchester plays a vital role in the cultural life of the city, and has been taught and studied at The University of Manchester for over a hundred years. Both the 1996 and the 2001 Research Assessments gave Music at Manchester the very highest rating, giving us the longest standing 6* status, shared with only two other music departments in Great Britain, and the current RAE 2008 result is even better!
