We caught up with Marcelo Bratke to find out more about the man who is ‘happy to either play Bach or to plunge into popular music’. You began learning the piano when you were sixteen. What got you started? My parents had just divorced and, visiting my father one weekend, I heard him playing Chopin. [...]
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After performing at renowned international venues and leading exciting collaborations with jazz musicians, film makers and Brazilian popstars, Marcelo Bratke returns to Southbank Centre for his upcoming concert From Rio to New York, which explores musical parallels between the two cities. Here he talks about the concert and how it was influenced by his work in prisons [...]
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OAE players talk about Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, which they perform with conductor Gianandrea Noseda and the Philharmonia Chorus on 4 November at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. The concert is given in memory of Sir Charles Mackerras.
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Liszt, Bartok, Berg et al – The Liszt Project Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Deutsche Grammophon 4779439 There’s intelligent method in this two-disc mega-recital. On the first disc, three of Liszt’s late experimental works each precede a single-movement sonata — by Wagner, Berg and Scriabin — before Aimard plays Liszt’s own single-movement B minor sonata. Disc two [...]
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Philharmonia Orchestra are drawing their year-long festival with Esa-Pekka Salonen Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Bela Bartok, to a close soon. Check out their dedicated Bartok blog packed with films, a gallery, articles and behind the scenes info. View it all here. See the final events of Infernal Dance at Southbank Centre
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On Saturday 5 November London Sinfonietta are presenting a feast of new music in Pavilions: New Music Show 2. We caught up with Charlie Piper to hear more about his new work Insomniac, which you can hear at the event. Your work Insomniac portrays several different forms of insomnia. Can you tell us a little [...]
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra launch their Russian Masterpieces programme with a concert at Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 23 October. The performance will feature some of the most well known pieces by early 20th Century Russian composers including Dmitry Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, Sergey Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 and Sergey Prokofiev’s Symphony No.5 in B flat. [...]
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‘He is the most influential composer of the second half of the 20th Century and at 86 Pierre Boulez is still writing new works.’ Last weekend we celebrated the miraculous beauty of Pierre Boulez’s music with Resident Orchestra London Sinfonietta, Artistic Advisor pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Royal Academy of Music and the man himself with his Ensemble [...]
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