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| Saturday 29-Jun-13 04:30pm |
 Sage: Hall One, GatesheadSiegfried |
Opera North Annalena Persson, Soprano: Brünnhilde Mati Turi, Tenor: Siegfried Richard Roberts, Tenor: Mime Michael Druiett, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Jo Polheim, Baritone: Alberich Mats Almgren, Bass-baritone: Fafner Fflur Wyn, Soprano: Waldvogel (the woodbird) Andrea Baker, Contralto: Erda Richard Farnes, Conductor |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Saturday 29-Jun-13 04:30pm Annalena Persson, Soprano: Brünnhilde Mati Turi, Tenor: Siegfried Richard Roberts, Tenor: Mime Michael Druiett, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Jo Polheim, Baritone: Alberich Mats Almgren, Bass-baritone: Fafner Fflur Wyn, Soprano: Waldvogel (the woodbird) Andrea Baker, Contralto: Erda Richard Farnes, Conductor | ||
| Saturday 29-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Ring Cycle |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Saturday 29-Jun-13 07:30pm The Ring Cycle The third part of Wagner’s epic ‘Ring Cycle’, being performed over four years by Opera North. In the penultimate part of this great tragedy of love and power, the hero, Siegfried, awakens the warrior maiden Brünnhilde, lying in a deep sleep surrounded by magic fire, and makes her his wife. | ||
| Sunday 7-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Carmina Burana |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Sunday 7-Jul-13 07:30pm Carmina Burana | ||
| Sunday 14-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Hallé |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Sunday 14-Jul-13 07:30pm The Hallé The Hallé return with conductor Stephen Bell for a spectacular night packed full of classics. From the serenity of Saint-Saën’s ‘The Swan’ and the stately pomp of Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ to the rip roaring excitement of Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812 Overture’ - there’s something for everyone from one of Britain’s most respected orchestras. Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Sunday 29-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead A German Requiem |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Sunday 29-Sep-13 07:30pm A German Requiem In 1857, encouraged by his mentor Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms began work on his choral masterpiece ‘A German Requiem’. Schumann hoped Brahms would deliver “wonderful glimpses of the spirit world”, and he wasn’t disappointed. What Brahms created was a Requiem unlike any other: a piece that carried the gift of spiritual comfort rather than the threat of impending judgment, conveying the weight of Germany’s cultural tradition in the process – a poignant opening to Thomas Zehetmair’s final season as Music Director. With a pre-concert talk and postconcert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’ Buses from Alnwick, Hexham and Carlisle. Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Thursday 3-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead From Player to Podium: Julian Rachlin |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Thursday 3-Oct-13 07:30pm From Player to Podium: Julian Rachlin Two of Mendelssohn’s most carefree and radiant works meet in this concert featuring the remarkable violinist Julian Rachlin as both soloist and conductor. After the serenity of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto – a gift to one of his closest friends and collaborators – comes the thrusting brilliance of his Italian Symphony, the composer’s fascinating take on symphonic theory tinged with poetry and romance. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Presents...’ Buses from Alnwick, Hexham and Carlisle. Tickets: £10-£29 | ||
| Sunday 13-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Hallé |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Sunday 13-Oct-13 07:30pm The Hallé When the 19-year old student Dmitri Shostakovich handed in the score for his first symphony in 1925, his tutors were stunned. Shostakovich’s dramatic, impulsive and strident work seemed to combine Tchaikovsky’s emotional fervour, Prokofiev’s playful joie de vivre and Scriabin’s intense heat. Rory Macdonald and the Hallé perform Shostakovich’s eye-widening first symphony alongside Rachmaninov’s devious dance after Paganini and Britten’s monumental celebration of the orchestra. With a pre-concert talk. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £13-£36 | ||
| Thursday 17-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Illuminations |
Britten, Les Illuminations, for soprano or tenor and strings, Op.18 (with three additional movements orchestrated by Colin Matthews) |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Thursday 17-Oct-13 07:30pm Illuminations Mysterious, urgent, complex and unprecedented, Mozart’s last three symphonies seemed to appear from nowhere but at the same time carried a underlying power and passion that no generation has been able to ignore. Thomas Zehetmair conducts all three with the enchanting Salzburg Divertimenti, beginning here with the joyous explosion that is the Symphony No.39 and luminous songs by Benjamin Britten from the ice-pure voice of Julie Fuchs. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£33. Dedicated to the memory of Jan Dyer. Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), Les Illuminations, for soprano or tenor and strings, Op.18 (with three additional movements orchestrated by Colin Matthews) | ||
| Friday 25-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Serenade |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 25-Oct-13 07:30pm Serenade One century ago, a musician was born who did more to encapsulate the geographical and linguistic qualities of England than any other composer had managed before or has since. In his haunting Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Benjamin Britten set poetry by Blake, Tennyson and Cotton with a intensity, penetration and unity of atmosphere that hadn’t been heard before. We hear the Serenade here alongside the second of Mozart’s carefree ‘Salzburg’ Divertimenti and his frantic, eerie but compelling Symphony No.40. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£33. | ||
| Friday 8-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Legends: Dvořák and Tchaikovsky |
Dvořák, Legends, Op.59 (Nos. 1, 9 and 2) Dvořák, Legends, Op.59 (Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 3) |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 8-Nov-13 07:30pm Legends: Dvořák and Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky’s heart-on-sleeve showpiece, his unforgettable Violin Concerto is played by the unforgettable Veronika Eberle. You may never have heard them before, but prepare to be enchanted by Antonín Dvořák’s ‘Legends’ – ten charming orchestral pictures exploring elements of human character with all the beguiling imagination and heartfelt rapture that demonstrates the best from this composer, not least the exquisite second of his ‘Slavonic Dances.’ With a pre-concert talk. Tickets: £10-£33 Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904), Legends, Op.59 (Nos. 1, 9 and 2) Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904), Legends, Op.59 (Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 3) | ||
| Sunday 1-Dec-13 07:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Messiah |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Sunday 1-Dec-13 07:00pm Messiah Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Friday 6-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Beethoven Emperor |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 6-Dec-13 07:30pm Beethoven Emperor One composer’s first great symphony meets another’s last great piano concerto. Mozart discovered his trademark symphonic brilliance and tunefulness for the first time in the 35th Symphony, a piece whose joyous finale with its rushing scales and lunging changes in texture and volume are heard here after a truly landmark work – Beethoven’s mammoth ‘Emperor’ concerto, as heroic and virtuosic as it is touching and profound. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£29 | ||
| Saturday 14-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Rejoice! With Northern Sinfonia |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Saturday 14-Dec-13 07:30pm Rejoice! With Northern Sinfonia Tickets: £10-£33 Supported by The Vardy Foundation | ||
| Sunday 15-Dec-13 03:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Rejoice! With Northern Sinfonia |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Sunday 15-Dec-13 03:00pm Rejoice! With Northern Sinfonia Tickets: £10-£33 Supported by The Vardy Foundation | ||
| Monday 23-Dec-13 02:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Snowman |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Monday 23-Dec-13 02:00pm The Snowman Bring all the family along to our annual screening of the classic animated film of Raymond Briggs’s ‘The Snowman’. The film is accompanied by Northern Sinfonia performing Howard Blake’s score live and a chorister to sing ‘Walking in the Air’. A Christmas tradition at Sage Gateshead and a magical experience for all. Tickets: £15-£17, Family ticket: £50 (four people, must include at least one child) | ||
| Monday 23-Dec-13 05:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Snowman |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Monday 23-Dec-13 05:00pm The Snowman Bring all the family along to our annual screening of the classic animated film of Raymond Briggs’s ‘The Snowman’. The film is accompanied by Northern Sinfonia performing Howard Blake’s score live and a chorister to sing ‘Walking in the Air’. A Christmas tradition at Sage Gateshead and a magical experience for all. Tickets: £15-£17, Family ticket: £50 (four people, must include at least one child) | ||
| Tuesday 24-Dec-13 11:00am |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Snowman |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Tuesday 24-Dec-13 11:00am The Snowman Bring all the family along to our annual screening of the classic animated film of Raymond Briggs’s ‘The Snowman’. The film is accompanied by Northern Sinfonia performing Howard Blake’s score live and a chorister to sing ‘Walking in the Air’. A Christmas tradition at Sage Gateshead and a magical experience for all. Tickets: £15-£17, Family ticket: £50 (four people, must include at least one child) | ||
| Tuesday 24-Dec-13 02:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Snowman |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Tuesday 24-Dec-13 02:00pm The Snowman Bring all the family along to our annual screening of the classic animated film of Raymond Briggs’s ‘The Snowman’. The film is accompanied by Northern Sinfonia performing Howard Blake’s score live and a chorister to sing ‘Walking in the Air’. A Christmas tradition at Sage Gateshead and a magical experience for all. Tickets: £15-£17, Family ticket: £50 (four people, must include at least one child) | ||
| Friday 27-Dec-13 11:00am |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead The Snowman |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 27-Dec-13 11:00am The Snowman Bring all the family along to our annual screening of the classic animated film of Raymond Briggs’s ‘The Snowman’. The film is accompanied by Northern Sinfonia performing Howard Blake’s score live and a chorister to sing ‘Walking in the Air’. A Christmas tradition at Sage Gateshead and a magical experience for all. Tickets: £15-£17, Family ticket: £50 (four people, must include at least one child) | ||
| Friday 27-Dec-13 02:00pm |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 27-Dec-13 02:00pm The Snowman Bring all the family along to our annual screening of the classic animated film of Raymond Briggs’s ‘The Snowman’. The film is accompanied by Northern Sinfonia performing Howard Blake’s score live and a chorister to sing ‘Walking in the Air’. A Christmas tradition at Sage Gateshead and a magical experience for all. Tickets: £15-£17, Family ticket: £50 (four people, must include at least one child) | ||
| Wednesday 1-Jan-14 03:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead New Year Viennese |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Wednesday 1-Jan-14 03:00pm New Year Viennese Another wonderful seasonal highlight at Sage Gateshead as Northern Sinfonia sees in the New Year in traditional Viennese style. There’ll be a stunning array of waltzes, polkas and marches from the wonderful Johann Strauss. Tickets: £10-£33 Programme to include: | ||
| Wednesday 1-Jan-14 07:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead New Year Viennese |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Wednesday 1-Jan-14 07:00pm New Year Viennese Another wonderful seasonal highlight at Sage Gateshead as Northern Sinfonia sees in the New Year in traditional Viennese style. There’ll be a stunning array of waltzes, polkas and marches from the wonderful Johann Strauss. Tickets: £10-£33 Programme to include: | ||
| 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 | ||
| Saturday 25-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead From Player to Podium: Lars Vogt |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Saturday 25-Jan-14 07:30pm From Player to Podium: Lars Vogt We shall never be able to do anything like that’ proclaimed a near-overwhelmed Ludwig van Beethoven when he heard Mozart’s dramatic, minor-key Piano Concerto No.24. Beethoven, of course, went on to produce a lot like it in the same C minor key and of similar dramatic fortitude and emotional strength. His Fourth Symphony is neither tragic nor heroic, but an exercise in energy, life and joy – uncannily carefree and wholly uplifting. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’. Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Friday 31-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Bruch Violin Concerto |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 31-Jan-14 07:30pm Bruch Violin Concerto On 22nd July 1919 an audience sat quietly in front of Pablo Picasso’s drop-curtain at London’s Alhambra theatre, waiting for the first sounds of Manuel de Falla’s new ballet the ‘Three Cornered Hat’. Picasso’s colourful images got them in the mood for the sensuous sounds of Falla’s music – its intoxicating rhythms, bold colours and vivid descriptions of Iberian life. Also performed here is Falla’s darker, more intimate and supernatural score ‘El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician)’, the perfect foil to Bruch’s beauteous and gregarious Violin Concerto. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£29 | ||
| Thursday 6-Feb-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Nuits d'Eté |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Thursday 6-Feb-14 07:30pm Nuits d'Eté When Berlioz encountered a set of poems by his friend Théophile Gautier which told of love passionate, unrequited and lost, his reaction was typically intense. Berlioz immediately set the songs to music – first for soprano with piano, then with orchestra. In the colour, sensuousness and grace of ‘Nuits d’été’, Berlioz “sowed the seeds for the entire musical lyricism of the nineteenth century in the French language”, according to one musicologist. Ryan Wigglesworth also includes Mozart’s most miraculous piano concerto, Ravel’s plangent memorial to lost friends and his own ‘Inventions’. With a pre-concert talk. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Friday 21-Feb-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Mozart Piano Concerto |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 21-Feb-14 07:30pm Mozart Piano Concerto After its melancholic predecessor, Mozart’s twenty-first piano concerto must have seemed like a sudden step into daylight. With longer themes, more musical conversation, a bigger orchestra and a freer way with harmony, this most majestic piece reduced its first audience to tears. For all the radiance therein, and in the flight of Vaughan Williams’s ‘Lark’, there’s more emotional struggle in Beethoven’s insistent symphony, one of the composer’s first musical protests against his encroaching deafness. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Presents...’. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£29 | ||
| Thursday 6-Mar-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Schubert's Great |
Purcell, Chacony in G minor, Z807 (tr. Britten) |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Thursday 6-Mar-14 07:30pm Schubert's Great From its monolithic opening theme kick-starting a cycle of inexorable momentum like a giant pendulum, to the breathless dash of its finale, Schubert’s Ninth offers one of the most riveting journeys of any symphonic work. No wonder it attracted the title ‘Great’. “Write for the cello everything that your heart tells you” said the great soloist Mstislav Rostropovich when asking Britten for a new work. Britten responded with his remarkable ‘Symphony’ for cello and orchestra, an inspiring musical journey from darkness to light. With a pre-concert talk. Buses from Alnwick, Hexham and Carlisle. Tickets: £10-£33 Purcell, Henry (1659-1695), Chacony in G minor, Z807 (tr. Britten) | ||
| Thursday 20-Mar-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Scottish Symphony |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Mar-14 07:30pm Scottish Symphony It was Schumann’s unflinching love for his pianist wife Clara that spawned the Piano Concerto – a love letter in music that offers a touching insight into one of the most famously passionate romances of the nineteenth century. Joshua Weilerstein also conducts Ligeti’s flavoursome ‘Concert Romanesc’ and Mendelssohn’s most inspired symphony – the free-flowing, rugged forty minutes of musical brilliance that is his ‘Scottish’. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’ Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£33 Supported by the Vardy Foundation | ||
| Friday 11-Apr-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Shostakovich Piano Concerto |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 11-Apr-14 07:30pm Shostakovich Piano Concerto A conductor of total charisma and commitment makes his debut at Sage Gateshead in this concert. Andrew Gourlay includes Shostakovich’s touchingly simple and disarmingly witty Piano Concerto under the fingers of Alexandra Dariescu, and finishes with Beethoven’s most impulsive symphony – a journey through steady, poignant contemplation to one of the most momentum-filled musical fireballs ever written. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Presents...’ Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£29 Dedicated to the memory of Stuart Ayre | ||
| Tuesday 15-Apr-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Stabat Mater |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Tuesday 15-Apr-14 07:30pm Stabat Mater Bernard Labadie and The English Concert come to Sage Gateshead for an exploration of one of the most moving and iconic sacred texts ever written. ‘The Stabat Mater’, attributed to Jacapone da Toni, portrays the mother of Christ as she stands at the foot of the cross which bears her crucified son. Vivaldi responded to the often unbearably moving words with sombre brilliance, and Pergolesi with music of acute intimacy and emotional directness which never fails to move. With a pre-concert talk Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Saturday 19-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead St Matthew Passion |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Saturday 19-Apr-14 07:00pm St Matthew Passion 11th April 1727 might not have seemed a particularly unusual day for the workaholic choirmaster Johann Sebastian Bach, but even he realised soon afterwards that the music he unveiled that day – the ‘St Matthew Passion’ – achieved something unprecedented and profound that was destined to outlive its creator. This most communicative of Bach’s works tells the Passion story through music so affecting and inspiring that it appears to transcend its religious context. Thomas Zehetmair marks Easter Saturday 2014 with Bach’s monumental masterpiece. Buses from Alnwick, Hexham and Carlisle. Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Friday 25-Apr-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Poetic Chopin |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 25-Apr-14 07:30pm Poetic Chopin As Sibelius’s symphonic journey drew to a close, it grew ever more remarkable. His final symphony was something completely different: a single-movement epic of just twenty minutes, a work whose compactness seemed to encapsulate everything the composer had achieved to date. Sibelius might not have known it, but his Seventh’s big tune – now on a soaring trombone – was his farewell to the symphony. Preceding that, Chopin’s sparkling second piano concerto, Weber’s sharpshooting overture and a short piece from John Casken. With a pre-concert talk Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Saturday 3-May-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Mozart Clarinet Concerto |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Saturday 3-May-14 07:30pm Mozart Clarinet Concerto In his last symphony, inspired by the city of London, Haydn went allout. He created the grandest, most captivating and most confident symphonic work of his career, affectionately capturing the spirit of the town that had done so much to welcome him. Mozart’s last concerto is wholly different: its autumnal golden browns speak of resignation rather than celebration, a piece which feels like a goodbye even in its most carefree moments. Buses from Alnwick, Hexham and Carlisle. Tickets: £10-£29 | ||
| Thursday 15-May-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead From Player to Podium: Hakan Hardenberger |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Thursday 15-May-14 07:30pm From Player to Podium: Hakan Hardenberger A visit to Sage Gateshead from Håkan Hardenberger, arguably the world’s finest trumpeter, who brings with him music infused with the spirit of the Baroque. Stravinsky’s re-working of music by the Italian Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is a bustling bag of Baroque tricks injected with Stravinsky’s own brand of 20th century irreverence and harmonic spice. Håkan picks up his trumpet for Haydn’s spectacular concerto along with an exquisite piece of Bach, ending with more Haydn: his penultimate symphony, the ‘Drumroll’. With a post-concert ‘Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’ Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Friday 6-Jun-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Missa Solemnis |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Friday 6-Jun-14 07:30pm Missa Solemnis From 1819 to 1823, Beethoven was stirred by a new creative energy. Sketched over this fouryear period, on specially enlarged manuscript sheets, was the work Beethoven himself came to admire above all others: the Missa Solemnis. Using every means of musical imagery available, Beethoven set about demonstrating his supreme mastery of the orchestralchoral model in a musical glimpse of the heavenly. The results get their first performance by Northern Sinfonia Chorus in this not to be missed performance; their last ever under Thomas Zehetmair as Music Director. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£33 | ||
| Wednesday 11-Jun-14 07:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Finale |
Casken, That Subtle Knot (World premiere) |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Wednesday 11-Jun-14 07:30pm Finale Thomas Zehetmair’s last evening as Music Director of Northern Sinfonia arrives with a concert of big gestures: Mozart’s imposing overture, Bartók’s insistent Viola Concerto, and John Casken’s inspiring picture of human love and togetherness, commissioned for Thomas and his partner Ruth. But gestures don’t come much bigger than Beethoven’s Fifth – an infamous musical tussle with fate whose compelling narrative and unfailing beauty changed the way music was conceived, in the head and on the stage. A fitting conclusion to a remarkable tenure. With a pre-concert talk Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £10-£33 Casken, John (b. 1949), That Subtle Knot (World premiere) | ||
| Saturday 28-Jun-14 03:30pm |
Sage: Hall One, Gateshead Götterdämmerung |
Opera North Richard Farnes, Conductor Orchestra of Opera North Chorus of Opera North Huddersfield Choral Society Alwyn Mellor, Soprano: Brünhilde Daniel Brenna, Tenor: Siegfried Mats Almgren, Bass: Hagen Olga Boylan, Soprano: Gutrune Eric Greene, Baritone: Gunther Jo Pohlheim, Baritone: Alberich Susan Bickley, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Katherine Broderick, Soprano: Woglinde Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: Wellgunde Sarah Castle, Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde |
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| Sage: Hall One, Gateshead, Gateshead, United Kingdom Saturday 28-Jun-14 03:30pm The season ends with the ultimate musical conclusion – the last chapter in Wagner’s epic ‘Ring Cycle,’ performed by Opera North under music director Richard Farnes. With ‘Götterdämmerung’, the Ring reaches new levels of intimacy and spectacle. On top of Wagner’s surging orchestral ocean, the stolen ring is fought over with even greater guile and fiercer anger, testing the hero Siegfried’s qualities of love and valour. In the end, the world will change – against the backdrop of the most overwhelming operatic music ever written. With a pre-concert talk Tickets: £18-£47 Richard Farnes, Conductor Orchestra of Opera North Chorus of Opera North Huddersfield Choral Society Alwyn Mellor, Soprano: Brünhilde Daniel Brenna, Tenor: Siegfried Mats Almgren, Bass: Hagen Olga Boylan, Soprano: Gutrune Eric Greene, Baritone: Gunther Jo Pohlheim, Baritone: Alberich Susan Bickley, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Katherine Broderick, Soprano: Woglinde Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: Wellgunde Sarah Castle, Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde | ||
