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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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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Read an interview with Colin Currie (CC) and Kalevi Aho (KA) about the new percussion concerto written for him by Aho in what is one of the most eagerly-anticipated premieres of the season . CC Kalevi Aho – your new “Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra”, entitled “Sieidi”, represents a colossal milestone within the Solo Percussion with [...]
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First read-through of Kodály’s Háry János suite by National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conducted in this rehearsal by Matthew Coorey. The talented young musicians of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain will perform Kodály’s Háry János suite alongside other folk-inspired orchestral music on Saturday 14 April at Royal Festival Hall. More info [...]
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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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Students at the Purcell School for Young Musicians performed works by Brahms, Prokofiev and Francaix live in the studio on BBC Radio 3′s In Tune yesterday. Listen again via the BBC iPlayer The Purcell School Symphony Orchestra are joined by a line-up of famous alumni including Jack Liebeck, Robert Cohen and Catrin Finch for a concert to [...]
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Commissioned to mark the 20th anniversary of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt, ‘Surrogate Cities’ is one of Heiner Goebbels’ most far-reaching projects. The work is an examination of the concrete jungle in all its complexity, its positive and negative ramifications, its past and present. It is about the [...]
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