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Frank Zappa wove psychedelic new sounds from the underbelly of 1960s pop culture – aiming straight for the sonic G-spot. Bohuslav Martinů – a Czech in exile – looked homeward, and crafted a lush, fantastic dream of a symphony as he travelled from New York to the boulevards of Paris. And the Sri Lankan-born Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne tells his own intensely personal tale of displacement and hope, as Kevin John Edusei conducts his new Clarinet Concerto with the artist for whom it was created – the phenomenal Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh.
For sheer sonic splendour, it’s hard to top Janáček’s Sinfonietta – but when Dalia Stasevska and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet perform Bartók and Ravel with the BBC SO, they’ll give it their best shot.
Albert Roussel and Maurice Ravel paint vivid portraits of the animal kingdom, Benjamin Britten conjures up a savage parade, and Joseph Haydn takes a trip to London for his final symphony.
The Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, under its principal conductor Yutaka Sado, scales two peaks of the symphonic tradition: Sibelius’ elemental Seventh Symphony, and Brahms’ heaven-storming First Symphony – the piece they called ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’. Korean piano superstar (and Tchaikovsky International Competition medallist) Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart’s best-loved piano concerto, No. 21 in C major.
Back by popular demand, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra returns for another Film Music Gala at the Royal Albert Hall. Join the Orchestra on the red carpet alongside conductor Stephen Bell and special guest vocalist Louise Dearman for a night to remember, filled with music from your favourite Hollywood blockbusters.
Featuring songs from much-loved movies and musicals, including La La Land, The Sound of Music, Schindler’s List, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Lord of the Rings, E.T., The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Jaws, Out of Africa, Titanic, Chariots of Fire, Aladdin, West Side Story, The Lion King… to name but a few.
Back by popular demand, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra returns for another Film Music Gala at the Royal Albert Hall. Join the Orchestra on the red carpet alongside conductor Stephen Bell and special guest vocalist Louise Dearman for a night to remember, filled with music from your favourite Hollywood blockbusters.
Featuring songs from much-loved movies and musicals, including La La Land, The Sound of Music, Schindler’s List, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Lord of the Rings, E.T., The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Jaws, Out of Africa, Titanic, Chariots of Fire, Aladdin, West Side Story, The Lion King… to name but a few.
A trumpet sounds a fanfare, the orchestra cries out, and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony judders into life. But a symphony, said Mahler, must be like the world; and 70 minutes later the whole orchestra is storming the heavens in triumph. It’s a blockbuster journey from darkness to light, told in funeral marches, Viennese waltzes and of course, music’s sweetest love-letter – the rapturous Adagietto. But Robert Schumann knew a thing or two about love, too, and Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati is joined by pianist Francesco Piemontesi in Schumann’s heartfelt Piano Concerto – music in which these two artists share a very special rapport.
Enjoy one of Beethoven’s most popular works in this free early evening concert.
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Miracles and myths abound, from Béla Bartók’s surreal ballet to Jean Sibelius’ Finnish landscape – plus, a captivating new piece by Golfam Khayam.
In the second of a pair of concerts with the Philharmonia, Mao Fujita plays one of Mozart’s greatest concertos.
