Thursday evening the Philharmonia Orchestra, Resident at Southbank Centre, will be presenting one of Bartók’s best-known works, Concerto for Orchestra with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Watch Philharmonia’s video where animateur Paul Rissmann guides you through the work. Plus after the concert, hear a free performance in The Clore Ballroom by Hungarian folk group Muzsikás. Muzsikás fuse [...]
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Sir Simon Rattle has been associated with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment almost since the foundation of the Orchestra, with his first appearance being in 1987, a year after the OAE’s first concert. Today he is one of the OAE’s three Principal Artists and in this video OAE players talk about what makes [...]
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Yesterday Southbank Centre’s Shell Classic International 2010/11 season drew to a close with a star-studded performance from Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez and Staatskapelle Berlin. ‘Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim unite with poise and purpose’ (Evening Standard) ‘Liszt and Wagner, Boulez and Barenboim – iconic names, analogous kinships.’ (The Independent) Read the Evening Standard’s five star [...]
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‘The best way to improve an orchestra? Get rid of the bloke with the baton… I have seen the future of orchestral music. And boy, is it good. Spira Mirabilis are an un-conducted ensemble drawn from some of Europe’s best young orchestral players, most of them under 30.’ Read more of this Guardian article from [...]
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Hear some interviews with the composers featuring in Debut Sounds on 8 June including Erick Flores, Mihyun Woo, Blai Soler and Emily Wright.
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Hear OAE leader Alison Bury talk about Handel, take a trip to Glyndebourne to talk to Principal Oboe Anthony Robson about his top CD picks, find out about what a Chief Executive of an Orchestra actually does and lastly look back on the OAE’s history with Helen Wallace. OAE May Podcast
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