Alisa Weilerstein performs Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra alongside a programme of Mozart and Tchaikovsky at Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 19 May, 7.30pm.
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Last week, the London Sinfonietta hosted their very first live Facebook Chat with conductor Nicholas Collon, who answered a range of questions on George Benjamin, conducting, and audiences. Nicholas Collon joins the ensemble on Saturday 12 May, 7.30pm at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, for a programme of George Benjamin and Ligeti, as part of Jubilation: [...]
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In this month’s podcast members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment discuss working with Sir Simon Rattle, and Vladimir Ashkenazy gives his personal perspective on Shostakovich’s Babi Yar Symphony. Plus a member of Spira mirabilis talks about the ensemble’s unique approach to Beethoven’s music.
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Celebrate the pioneering music of George Benjamin, one of the greatest British composers of the 20th century, during a weekend festival exploring his remarkable career on 12 & 13 May. Described as one of “the most formidable composers of his generation” (New York Times), George Benjamin is renowned for his diverse repertoire of music rooted [...]
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Colin Currie premieres a powerful and imaginative new Percussion Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a performance Gilbert & Sulivan’s finest operetta The Yeomen of the Guard, and meet a player-piano who is the star of this year’s Nancarrow festival.
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Conductor Thomas Blunt is one of the current participants in the International Conductors’ Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation, which culminates in a concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall on 13 April 2012. Alongside the other two young conductors, Domingo Hindoyan and Ward Stare, Thomas will conduct the Orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 [...]
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Conductor Domingo Hindoyan is one of the current participants in the International Conductors’ Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation, which culminates in a concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on 13 April 2012 at Royal Festival Hall. Alongside the other two young conductors, Thomas Blunt and Ward Stare, Domingo will conduct the Orchestra in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with soloist John [...]
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Julian Anderson is the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Composer in Residence, and his new, three movement orchestral work ‘The Discovery of Heaven‘ is premiered on 24 March 2012. Learn more about the work in the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s March podcast. You can hear the London Philharmonic Orchestra premiere Julian Anderson’s The Discovery of Heaven alongside Delius’s Sea [...]
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Esa-Pekka Salonen on the delights of performing Beethoven with the Philharmonia Orchestra, new music from composer Julian Anderson, commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Laurence Cummings talks about Bach, as uncovered in a series of concerts by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. The Philharmonia Orchestra perform Beethoven’s First and Third Symphonies under [...]
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