ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra Calendar
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Tue 5 Sep 2017
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
American pianist Jeremy Denk joins Karina Canellakis and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO for Bartók’s ferociously brilliant Second Piano Concerto – a contrast to the pastoral beauty of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. The concert opens with Missy Mazzoli’s mesmeric Sinfonia.
American pianist Jeremy Denk joins Karina Canellakis and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO for Bartók’s ferociously brilliant Second Piano Concerto – a contrast to the pastoral beauty of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. The concert opens with Missy Mazzoli’s mesmeric Sinfonia.
Programme
- Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)(12 mins)European premiere of orchestral version
- Piano Concerto No 2(30 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 8 in G major(36 mins)
Performers
- Jeremy Denkpiano
- Karina Canellakisconductor
Sat 9 Sep 2017
- 19:15Royal Albert Hall
Sakari Oramo and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s strands with music by John Adams, Sibelius and Malcolm Sargent. Nina Stemme leads the end-of-season festivities, joined by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus.
Sakari Oramo and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s strands with music by John Adams, Sibelius and Malcolm Sargent. Nina Stemme leads the end-of-season festivities, joined by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus.
Programme
- Flounce(5 mins)ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission: world premiere
- Budavári Te Deum(21 mins)
- An Impression on a Windy Day(7 mins)
- Finlandia(8 mins)(choral version)
- Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod(17 mins)
- interval
- Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance(5 mins)London premiere
- Happy End(5 mins)'Surabaya Johnny'
- Lady in the Dark(5 mins)arr. Olov Helge - 'The Saga of Jenny'
- Pardon My English(3 mins)orch. Paul Bateman, arr. James Holmes
- Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(18 mins)(arr. Wood)
- Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(5 mins)
- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
- Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(3 mins)
- The National Anthem (arr. Bliss)(3 mins)
- Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)arr C.T. Davie
Performers
- Nina Stemmesoprano
- Lucy Crowesoprano
- Christine Ricemezzo-soprano
- Ben Johnsontenor
- John Relyeabass
- Sakari Oramoconductor
Wed 27 Sep 2017
- 19:30Barbican, London
Richard Strauss imagining a man’s dying moments, Alban Berg lamenting a teenage girl and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony spreading its giant wings.
Richard Strauss imagining a man’s dying moments, Alban Berg lamenting a teenage girl and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony spreading its giant wings.
Programme
- Death and Transfiguration
- Violin Concerto
- Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
Performers
- Alina Pogostkinaviolin
- Sakari Oramoconductor
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