On Sunday 31 January 2010 the Emerson String Quartet’s Deutche Grammophon recording, Intimate Letters, was awarded a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance.
On 2 – 5 March, the Emerson String Quartet brings these award-winning programmes to the Queen Elizabeth Hall for a three-day mini residency as part of Southbank Centre’s International Chamber Music Season.
On Tuesday [...]
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The London Concerts 2011
The Barbican Centre and Southbank Centre bring Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker to London for a series of concerts in February 2011.
Special offer
Book for all 4 concerts to receive an invitation to an exclusive post-concert drinks reception. Tickets to the reception are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, [...]
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In an unprecedented partnership, the Barbican Centre and Southbank Centre bring Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker to London for a series of concerts in 2011.
Priority booking for Barbican and Southbank Centre members from 10am on Thursday 10 December
On sale to all from 10am on Monday 14 December
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Since the weekend Pictures Reframed has been performed in Stockholm, Hamburg and Munich and is coming to London at Queen Elizabeth Hall for a double-bill this Friday.
Reviews from Stockholm:
‘In Pictures at an exhibition, Andsnes moves smoothly between the explosive and the meditative, the energetic and the melancholic.’ (The Svenska Dagbladet)
‘In such a presentation there [...]
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Hear the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Podcast on their ground-breaking late-night concert series The Night Shift. The podcast includes reviews of October’s Night Shift featuring Yannick Nezet-Seguin himself, and looks forward to the next Night Shift, here at Southbank Centre this Saturday.
The Night Shift
Saturday 5 December
As part of Southbank Centre’s The Bernstein Project, [...]
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The weekend of 5-6 December presents a great opportunity for anyone who wants to delve deeper into the meaning of music, guided by one of the medium’s great communicators and geniuses, Leonard Bernstein. In two days of events at Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Bernstein Project Artistic Director Marin Alsop, film curator Humphrey Burton, Southbank Centre [...]
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Friday 4 December, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Live Music and video art
A special evening of music and video centred around Mussorgsky’s epic piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition.
The concert hall is transformed into an exhibition space by vibrant artist Robin Rhode with Pictures Reframed, connecting the world of classical music with that of [...]
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Anna Meridith (who you might have seen this year working with Goldie on the BBC’s Maestro) and our inimitable artist in residence Shlomo have been commissioned by Southbank Centre to write a new classical work entitled ‘Concerto for Beatbox and Orchestra’.
I’ll let them explain the project for themselves:
The new piece will be performed [...]
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The Emerson String Quartet perform three concerts next week – two Queen Elizabeth Hall events on Tuesday 3 and Thursday 5 March, and a special late-night one in The Front Room on Tuesday 3 March at 10pm where they’ll answer your burning questions about chamber music.
Talking to us in an interview for the programme, violinist [...]
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Watch the film shown at tonight’s Queen Elizabeth Hall concert celebrating composer Elliott Carter’s 100th birthday. Marshall Marcus, Head of Music at Southbank Centre, travelled to New York earlier this year to interview the composer.
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