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| Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:30pm |
 Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterSibelius Symphony Cycle: Symphonies 1 & 5 |
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| Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Manchester M2 3WS, United Kingdom Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:30pm Sibelius Symphony Cycle: Symphonies 1 & 5 Preview 6.30pmStorgårds discusses the upcoming Sibelius cycle. We begin where Sibelius did, with the romantic First Symphony: big tunes, big feelings and sweeping drama, set amidst the twilight colours of Finnish legend. Fifteen years later, and the skies have cleared. Sibelius' magnificent Fifth Symphony opens with a glowing sunrise and ends with a vision inspired by a flight of swans and one of the simplest and greatest melodies ever written. Once heard, never forgotten. The symphonies of Jean Sibelius are landmarks of 20th Century music. Rooted in the pride, nature and folklore of his native Finland, Sibelius wrestled personal demons and the turmoil of the twentieth century to forge seven masterpieces that redefined the symphony. With their soaring melodies, passionate emotions and majestic scale, they are as fresh, as powerful and as stirring as the Northern landscape itself. Nearly one hundred years later, they continue to inspire. Join the BBC Philharmonic as our Finnish Principal Guest Conductor John Storgårds takes us on his nation's greatest musical journey. This symphony cycle will also be recorded for Chandos Records. Tickets: £34, £27, £23, £19, £14, £10 | ||
| Saturday 8-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Sibelius Symphony Cycle: Symphonies 4 & 2 |
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| Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Manchester M2 3WS, United Kingdom Saturday 8-Jun-13 07:30pm Sibelius Symphony Cycle: Symphonies 4 & 2 Jean Sibelius was a man of extremes, in fact some would say that his darkest symphony is also his greatest. The Fourth Symphony stares into the bleakest corners of the human soul and finds a surprising strength. The Second could hardly be more different. From playful beginning to triumphant finish, there's never been a more inspiring musical portrait of a nation awakening to freedom than Sibelius' most popular symphony.The symphonies of Jean Sibelius are landmarks of 20th Century music. Rooted in the pride, nature and folklore of his native Finland, Sibelius wrestled personal demons and the turmoil of the twentieth century to forge seven masterpieces that redefined the symphony. With their soaring melodies, passionate emotions and majestic scale, they are as fresh, as powerful and as stirring as the Northern landscape itself. Nearly one hundred years later, they continue to inspire. Join the BBC Philharmonic as our Finnish Principal Guest Conductor John Storgårds takes us on his nation's greatest musical journey. This symphony cycle will also be recorded for Chandos Records. Tickets: £34, £27, £23, £19, £14, £10 | ||
| Thursday 13-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Sibelius Symphony Cycle: Symphonies 3, 6 & 7 |
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| Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Manchester M2 3WS, United Kingdom Thursday 13-Jun-13 07:30pm Sibelius Symphony Cycle: Symphonies 3, 6 & 7 Swirling mists, sunlit forests, and snow-capped summits; with Sibelius, you're never far from nature. Sibelius' Third Symphony sketches a sea-journey with bracing freshness, while his Sixth evokes the Finnish landscape in some of the most serenely beautiful music he ever wrote. And John Storgårds reaches journey's end with the monumental Seventh Symphony; a life's work brought to completion in a single mighty gesture. The symphonies of Jean Sibelius are landmarks of 20th Century music. Rooted in the pride, nature and folklore of his native Finland, Sibelius wrestled personal demons and the turmoil of the twentieth century to forge seven masterpieces that redefined the symphony. With their soaring melodies, passionate emotions and majestic scale, they are as fresh, as powerful and as stirring as the Northern landscape itself. Nearly one hundred years later, they continue to inspire. Join the BBC Philharmonic as our Finnish Principal Guest Conductor John Storgårds takes us on his nation's greatest musical journey. This symphony cycle will also be recorded for Chandos Records. Tickets: £34, £27, £23, £19, £14, £10 | ||
| Wednesday 26-Jun-13 07:30pm |
BBC Philharmonic Studio, Manchester Ludwig Van: 21st Century Beethoven |
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| BBC Philharmonic Studio, Manchester, MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester M50 2HQ, United Kingdom Wednesday 26-Jun-13 07:30pm Ludwig Van: 21st Century Beethoven Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 7-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester John Tavener Manchester International Festival |
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| Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Manchester M2 3WS, United Kingdom Sunday 7-Jul-13 07:30pm John Tavener Manchester International Festival returns this July and we are delighted once again to be collaborating with the BBC Philharmonic orchestra for a very special evening of music at The Bridgewater Hall.Sir John Tavener, the much-loved English composer who’s Song for Athene was performed at the end of Princess Diana’s funeral, presents an evening of new and rarely performed work with the BBC Philharmonic. The evening will include three world premières, and joining the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Tecwyn Evans is tenor John Mark Ainsley; bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu; soprano Elin Manahan Thomas; and cellist Steven Isserlis. Tavener’s music is celebrated for its enduring beauty and deeply spiritual outlook and for this special evening he will be working directly with the faiths that have influenced him. If Ye Love Me is a new piece written especially for the MIF Sacred Sounds Women’s Choir, formed from faith communities across Greater Manchester. The evening includes Tavener’s Mahamatar, set to Werner Herzog’s film Pilgrimage, alongside special guest star, Abida Parveen, one of the world’s greatest Sufi singers and completing the evening is a rare performance of In Alium, Tavener’s radical Proms commission from 1968. | ||
| Tuesday 16-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 6 BBC Proms |
Matthews D., A Vision of the Sea (BBC commission, world première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Tuesday 16-Jul-13 07:00pm Prom 6 Herring gulls loop and wheel overhead as Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in the world premiere of David Matthews’s A Vision of the Sea, inspired by Shelley’s poetry, the pull of the tide on the Kent coast and an evocation of the sound of sunrise as recorded by scientists from Sheffield University. Nobuyuki Tsujii – a regular collaborator with the orchestra and a winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition – makes his Proms debut in Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto before Mena and his players tackle Nielsen’s irrepressible ‘Inextinguishable’ Fourth Symphony.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Matthews, David (b. 1943), A Vision of the Sea (BBC commission, world première) | ||
| Thursday 25-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 17 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Thursday 25-Jul-13 07:30pm Prom 17 The world premiere of John McCabe’s BBC commission Joybox opens a concert of music inspired by or written for dance, from the Bohemian stamp and whirl of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony to the slow-burning ostinato of Ravel’s Boléro. Mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz joins conductor Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic in Falla’s colourful Ballets Russes commission The Three-Cornered Hat, a tale of intrigue and jealousy shot through with the spirit of Spanish folk dances.Tickets £7.50 - £36. McCabe, John (b. 1939), Joybox (BBC commission, world première) | ||
| Monday 5-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 30 BBC Proms |
Cowie, Earth Music I - The Great Barrier Reef (BBC commission, world première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Monday 5-Aug-13 07:30pm Prom 30 Borodin’s overture to Prince Igor opens a programme celebrating the 70th birthday of composer Edward Cowie and the close musical relationship between the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Bavouzet plays Prokofiev’s brilliant Second Piano Concerto, its orchestral score destroyed in the Russian Revolution and revised by the composer in Paris in 1923. The fragile beauty of the Great Barrier Reef is the subject of Cowie’s Earth Music I, while the ‘Little Russian’ continues the season’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Cowie, Edward (b. 1943), Earth Music I - The Great Barrier Reef (BBC commission, world première) | ||
| Tuesday 6-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 31 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Tuesday 6-Aug-13 07:30pm Prom 31 The BBC Philharmonic and its Principal Guest Conductor return to the Royal Albert Hall for the first Proms performance of Erich Korngold’s Symphony. Dedicated to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the symphony refers back to Korngold’s score for the 1939 Errol Flynn and Bette Davis romance The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Rubbra’s Ode to the Queen and Walton’s Orb and Sceptre celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation, while Vilde Frang joins Storgårds and the orchestra for Bruch’s ever-popular Violin Concerto.Tickets £7.50 - £36. | ||
