Come down to Southbank Centre this weekend and try some Boulez

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Liz White

This weekend we celebrate the music of Pierre Boulez. Boulez’s music fuses scientific precision with gorgeous, fluid sound. Boulez himself comments that ‘creation must express a certain transcendence’. He explains that ‘For me a musical idea is like a seed which you plant in compost, and suddenly it begins to proliferate like a weed.’   [...]

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Check out our online classical music guide

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Liz White

Welcome to Southbank Centre’s 2011/12 classical music season packed with musical greats, firsts and concerts from our four world-class Resident Orchestras. Visit our online guide to take you through our packed programme! We kicked off the season in full swing with a sold out performance from Apartment House of John Cage Night as part of [...]

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Speed interview with Charles Hazlewood- here tonight

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Liz White

What/when was your big breakthrough? Winning the European Broadcasting Union Conducting Competition in 1995   What do you fear the most? Losing my children What – or where – is perfection? At the end of the rainbow I guess, or in Mozart’s Magic Flute Who is your favourite hero from fiction (book/comic/film/opera) – and why? [...]

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Listen to our podcast on Pierre Boulez

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Liz White

This weekend we celebrate the music of Pierre Boulez featruing performances from London Sinfonietta, The Royal Academy of Music, Pierre-Laurent Aimard in our festival Exquisite Labyrinth. The weekend culimates in a performance from Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez with his masterpiece Pli selon pli featuring Barbara Hannigan. Our podcast features Southbank Centre’s Head of Contemporary [...]

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Introducing The Works

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Liz White

William Norris from our Resident Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, introduces their new concert series, The Works Many of you will know of, or will have been to, one of our Night Shift events. We introduced these late-night concerts about 5 years ago, for a number of reasons – the prime one [...]

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Watch Philharmonia Orchestra’s video: behind the scenes with Salonen

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Alison Fraser

Watch Philharmonia’s behind-the-scenes film as Esa-Pekka Salonen prepares for a performance of Sibelius’s ‘choral’ symphony, Kullervo, based on a dark tale from the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. Salonen travelled to Uppsala, Sweden to rehearse with the male choir, Orphei Drängar, who feature prominently in the piece.     This concert opens the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2011/12 [...]

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Listen to the LPO’s latest podcast: Scriabin’s Prometheus, Poem of Fire

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Alison Fraser

The Greek myth of Prometheus has attracted composers over the centuries, including Beethoven, Liszt, Nono and Scriabin. The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski explores the myth, and in particular the visionary work created by Scriabin – Prometheus, Poem of Fire, which has claim to be the first true ‘multi-media’ work for orchestra and [...]

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London Concert Choir return to Southbank Centre

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Alison Fraser

Following their outstanding performance of Verdi’s Requiem in March this year, the London Concert Choir return to Southbank Centre with Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. Both works were composed in the shadow of approaching war. Mass in Time of War (Haydn’s own title) was written in 1796 as Napoleon was advancing [...]

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Meet Violinist Henning Kraggerud

Posted on September 13, 2011 by katievickers

Violinist Henning Kraggerud joins Britten Sinfonia as both director and soloist in the opening concert of their 2011/12 season at Southbank Centre on Friday 7 October. Berio’s Duos for 2 violins and the London premiere of Piers Tattersall’s Kreisler l’entre deux guerres rub shoulders with Mozart’s Violin Concerto K.218 and Mahler’s stunning arrangement of Schubert’s [...]

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From Russia With Love – Spotify Playlist

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Alison Fraser

Pianist Joanna MacGregor, cellist Richard Harwood and violinist Charlie Siem join Toby Purser conducting the Orion Symphony Orchestra for a night celebrating some of the best Russian composers of the Romantic era, plus some 20th-century favourites.   Have a listen to the Spotify Playlist we’ve created for A Night Under the Stars: From Russia With Love including some of [...]

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