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| Wednesday 22-May-13 02:15pm |
 Birmingham Symphony HallTrifonov plays Tchaikovsky |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Wednesday 22-May-13 02:15pm Trifonov plays Tchaikovsky The Orchestra throws down the challenge; the piano strides forward; and on a great wave of melody, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto surges into life. The greatest of all Romantic piano concertos? One thing’s for sure: Tchaikovsky Competition winner Daniil Trifonov plays it like no-one on earth. The CBSO are thrilled to welcome him to Birmingham, as the star of a concert that begins with Mozart’s ever-astonishing final symphony and ends with Schumann at his headlong, heartfelt best. Sheer emotion. (£10-£39.50) | ||
| Thursday 23-May-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Trifonov plays Tchaikovsky |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Thursday 23-May-13 07:30pm Trifonov plays Tchaikovsky The Orchestra throws down the challenge; the piano strides forward; and on a great wave of melody, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto surges into life. The greatest of all Romantic piano concertos? One thing’s for sure: Tchaikovsky Competition winner Daniil Trifonov plays it like no-one on earth. The CBSO are thrilled to welcome him to Birmingham, as the star of a concert that begins with Mozart’s ever-astonishing final symphony and ends with Schumann at his headlong, heartfelt best. Sheer emotion. (£10-£42) | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall A Boy Was Born: Nelsons conducts Britten's War Requiem |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Tuesday 28-May-13 07:30pm A Boy Was Born: Nelsons conducts Britten's War Requiem “My subject is War, and the pity of War.” Benjamin Britten composed his War Requiem for the new Coventry Cathedral, but it’s become one of the defining achievements of modern music, a timeless and profoundly moving exploration of man’s inhumanity to man. The CBSO gave its world premiere: this music is in their blood, and every performance is special to them. Be there as Andris Nelsons and an international team of soloists bring this deeply personal masterpiece to Symphony Hall before taking the work on tour. (£10-£55) | ||
| Friday 7-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR): Henri le Boeuf Concert Hall, Brussels City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
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| Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR): Henri le Boeuf Concert Hall, Brussels, Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, B1000 Brussels, Belgium Friday 7-Jun-13 08:00pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Image credit: Andris Nelsons © Marco Borggreve | ||
| Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Snape Maltings Concert Hall Poem of Ecstasy Aldeburgh Festival |
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| Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape IP17 1SP, United Kingdom Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm Poem of Ecstasy Debussy orch. Hans Abrahamsen Children’s Corner (UK premiere)
Colin Matthews Horn Concerto
Jonathan Harvey 80 Breaths from Tokyo (UK premiere)
Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy The power and subtlety of a massive symphony orchestra and its seemingly infinite rainbow of colours are celebrated in a concert that concludes with Scriabin’s poem – a gargantuan journey from earthbound cares to spiritual release compressed into a little over twenty minutes. Colin Matthews’ beguiling work pits soloist against orchestra in a theatrical display, with the soloist moving round the auditorium and his orchestral horns hunting- and haunting – him from offstage. Abrahmsen’s arrangements take Debussy’s delightful piano originals and refashion them into something new. And at its centre, a major new piece from featured composer Jonathan Harvey, a twenty-first century tone poem that is a refined, gently mesmeric ritual.. ‘Breathing’ explains Harvey ‘is behind all music… 80 Breaths for Tokyo is partly the result of the practice of Zen breathing, and partly the result of listening to slow music and enjoying its power over the mind and body’ | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Flowers and Fables |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm Flowers and Fables Sibelius took the classical symphony and charged it with the freshness and energy of nature itself. Lutoslawski, meanwhile, launched brilliant musical fireworks into the grey skies of postwar Poland. Edward Gardner loves them both, and he begins and ends this concert with two of the twentieth century’s most original – and inspiring – symphonies. In between, something magical happens, as soprano Lucy Crowe re-tells Sibelius’s primal northern myth - and proves that Lutoslawski’s enchanted nursery rhymes aren’t just for children. (£10-£42) | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Friday Night Classics: Ol' Blue Eyes |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm Friday Night Classics: Ol' Blue Eyes Including: Let’s Face the Music and Dance • New York, New York • Old Man River • You Make Me Feel So Young • Come Fly With Me • Luck Be A Lady • My Kind Of Town • I Get A Kick Out Of You • I’ve Got You Under My Skin • Nice ‘n’ Easy • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Well ring-a-ding-ding - Ol’ Blue Eyes is back! Vocalist Gary Williams has been hailed as the closest thing today to hearing Sinatra himself - and in this spectacular tribute using Sinatra’s original, unmistakable orchestral arrangements, he’ll sound like a million bucks. You Make Me Feel So Young, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, New York, New York, Luck Be A Lady, My Kind Of Town, Nice ‘n’ Easy…it’s just classic after swinging classic. Come fly with the CBSO! (£12.50-£40) | ||
| Tuesday 25-Jun-13 08:00pm |
St Paul's Cathedral, London CBSO: Britten's War Requiem City of London Festival |
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| St Paul's Cathedral, London, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom Tuesday 25-Jun-13 08:00pm CBSO: Britten's War Requiem Tickets £5, £10, £15, £25, £32, £42, £48, Event sponsored by BNY Mellon. | ||
| Thursday 27-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Thursday 27-Jun-13 07:30pm The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 It’s been an incredible journey, and on this night Andris Nelsons, the CBSO and our world-class Chorus arrive at Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: the summit of any Beethoven cycle - and some say, the whole of classical music. But there’s a world of experience to live through before the CBSO get to that final, transcendent Ode To Joy, and Beethoven’s explosive little Eighth Symphony launches a concert that’s sure to be one of the most talked-about events in Birmingham this year. (£10-£55) | ||
| Friday 28-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
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| Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, Nottingham NG1 5ND, United Kingdom Friday 28-Jun-13 07:30pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The matchless combination of Andris Nelsons and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra provides all the elements for an astounding concert. And as it takes place at the end of June it’s appropriate to begin with Mendelssohn’s sun-drenched ‘Italian’ Symphony. A ten month tour of Italy in 1830 left him with an overwhelming impression of the ‘land of nature, delighting every heart,’ and inspired him to write his most effervescent symphony three years later.
One of the most moving stories of Beethoven is that one of the soloists at the premiere of his 9th Symphony in 1824 had to turn the deaf composer around so that he could witness the tumultuous applause. Few there could have doubted its seismic status. Visionary in scope, extreme in its gestures and technically daunting (horn players still have cold sweats about one notorious solo), it’s a piece which tears at the boundaries of the classical symphony, nowhere more so than in the choral finale that proclaims the words of Schiller’s Ode to Joy.Image credit: Andris Nelsons with the CBSO © Neil Pugh | ||
| Saturday 29-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Saturday 29-Jun-13 07:00pm The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 It’s been an incredible journey, and on this night Andris Nelsons, the CBSO and our world-class Chorus arrive at Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: the summit of any Beethoven cycle - and some say, the whole of classical music. But there’s a world of experience to live through before the CBSO get to that final, transcendent Ode To Joy, and Beethoven’s explosive little Eighth Symphony launches a concert that’s sure to be one of the most talked-about events in Birmingham this year. (£10-£55) | ||
| Wednesday 3-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall Mark Kermode: Film Music Live with the CBSO Cheltenham Music Festival |
Oldfield, Film music from The Exorcist: Theme (arr. Ziegler) |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Wednesday 3-Jul-13 07:30pm Mark Kermode: Film Music Live with the CBSO Put one of world’s great orchestras on stage alongside the UK’s most authoritative and compelling film critic, and a hugely entertaining Festival opening night beckons . In the first performance of a specially-curated national tour, Mark Kermode joins the CBSO to talk about his favourite films and his favourite film scores. Oldfield, Mike (b. 1953), Film music from The Exorcist: Theme (arr. Ziegler) | ||
| Saturday 17-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 46 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Saturday 17-Aug-13 03:00pm Prom 46 Andris Nelsons conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and soprano Kristïne Opolais in Desdemona’s poignant Willow Song and Ave Maria from Act 3 of Verdi’s 1887 opera Otello and Tatyana’s touching Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s 1879 opera Eugene Onegin. Shot through with birdsong and Bohemian dance rhythms, Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony was the last to be completed in the Old World before he left for New York in 1892. A pair of popular Johann Strauss favourites concludes this matinee Prom with Viennese sparkle.Tickets £7.50 - £36. | ||
| Wednesday 28-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Kurhaus Wiesbaden: Friedrich-von-Thiersch Hall Sol Gabetta - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Rheingau Music Festival |
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| Kurhaus Wiesbaden: Friedrich-von-Thiersch Hall, Kurhausplatz 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany Wednesday 28-Aug-13 08:00pm Sol Gabetta - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | ||
| Friday 17-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 17-Jan-14 07:30pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons and the CBSO come to Sage Gateshead for music of beauty both sumptuous and raw. Richard Strauss’s late songs shot through with tearful resignation, a resigned goodbye to the world, are heard after his rollicking rollercoaster ride ‘Don Juan’ from 60 years earlier. They finish with Stravinsky’s ‘Petrushka’ – a playful yet disturbing score in which the composer returned to his roots, depicting Russia with, in his own words, “quick tempos, major keys, smells of Russian food, sweat and glistening leather boots.” With a pre-concert talk. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £13-£36 | ||
