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Watch the OAE’s teaser film on the photoshoot for their 2012/13 brochure
Posted on May 11, 2012 by elsieburke
Listen to our Classical music blog for May Highlights
Posted on May 2, 2012 by elsieburke
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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JUBILATION: THE MUSIC OF GEORGE BENJAMIN
Posted on April 27, 2012 by katepennington
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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Listen to our classical music podcast for April highlights
Posted on April 4, 2012 by elsieburke
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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Hector & Harriet: love, tragedy and the Bard
Posted on February 15, 2012 by elsieburke
Read about Berlioz’s own romantic inspiration behind his hommage to Shakespeare - ’Romeo et Juliette’. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Valentine’s Day blog post tells Berlio’z own love story, ahead of their performance of his mammoth work at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on Saturday 18 Feb. For more info or to buy tickets, click here
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OAE’s Night Shift here next week- watch a trailer
Posted on January 10, 2011 by Liz White
The Night Shift returns next wednesday with conductor Vladimir Jurowski and a programme of Mahler and Liszt. Buy tickets / More info
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OAE’s staff comments on Cherubini’s Overture Medée
Posted on November 3, 2010 by Liz White
We played Cherubini’s Overture Medée to selected victims in the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment office and recorded their reactions. The piece will be featured in the French Connections program on 9th November 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Watch the video of Overture Medée by Cherubini here: Buy tickets / More info
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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Night Shift: Podcast
Posted on October 13, 2010 by Liz White
Ahead of the OAE’s Night Shift event on 20 October at the Queen Elizabeth Hall listen to the podcast featuring Orchestra leader Kati Debretzeni who disccuses the music featured. Plus – your views on the last event back in August, an interview with Kenelm Robert from Southbank Centre looking back at the history of the [...]
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The Night Shift Podcast
Posted on December 1, 2009 by Liz White
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 [...]
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Leonard Bernstein: A journey into music in a way that many think has never been bettered
Posted on November 26, 2009 by Southbank Centre
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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