Posted on May 20, 2009 by Southbank Centre staff
If you’ve not heard about the OAE’s Night Shift, watch this video with backstage interviews from the April event.
And then come along tonight – there’s live music beforehand and DJ Luscombe (Flomotion) on until midnight in The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall. The performance starts at 10pm.
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Posted on May 20, 2009 by Southbank Centre staff
The Philharmonia Orchestra’s City of Dreams series continues with their concert on 28 May at Royal Festival Hall. Esa-Pekka Salonen’s first major festival with the Orchestra, they’re exploring the music and art of Vienna from 1900-935. Suitably, violinist Christian Tetzlaff performs Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto with those deceptively simple opening notes [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2009 by Southbank Centre staff
The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs Torsten Rasch’s new work My Heart is on Fire on 31 May. This new song cycle goes deep into the language of love – from 19th-century poetry to the lyrics of industrial metal band Rammstein. Listen to sound clips of the work. Vladimir Jurowksi conducts this performance, and you can [...]
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