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Robert Levin in Residence: Mozart Requiem
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
Hear the transcendent Mozart Requiem, completed by Robert Levin and featuring four outstanding Guildhall singers as soloists.
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Hear the transcendent Mozart Requiem, completed by Robert Levin and featuring four outstanding Guildhall singers as soloists.
Our Artist in Residence Seong-Jin Cho made his name by winning the legendary Chopin Competition; since then, Chopin’s music has been particularly close to his heart. In this concert with the Karajan Academy, the pianist is the soloist for a chamber music version of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1: a work in which gives Seong-Jin Cho scope for both technical brilliance and poetic creativity. Beethoven's cheerful wind quintet and the mysterious piece My Shadow by Korean composer Donghoon Shin will complete the programme.
Experience highlights from the hit BBC series on the big screen with live orchestral music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted and presented by the series’ composer George Fenton.
A special highlight of the 2024/25 anniversary season to mark the 50th anniversary of the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra is the »ASJ meets girls’ choir« concert. The Hamburg Girls’ Choir, one of Germany’s leading youth choirs, will be a guest at the Elbphilharmonie with the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra. In addition to an a cappella part of the choir, in which choral music from various centuries and genres will be performed, the »Trois Nocturnes« by Claude Debussy for female choir and orchestra will take centre stage. Debussy wrote a letter to the famous violinist Eugène Ysaÿe in September 1894. In it, he mentioned the planned composition of three Nocturnes for violin and orchestra. Debussy announced different orchestration for the individual movements and wanted to achieve variations in tone colour in this way, similar to the way a painter creates a »study in grey«, for example. After he once again hinted in a letter in 1894 that the pieces were finished and that Ysaÿe could perform them, this was not to be the case. The final version, which was completed in 1899, did not include a solo violin at all. The Nocturnes were premièred in Paris in 1900. However, only the first two movements were performed due to the lack of a female choir, which only sings in the third nocturne. This unusual instrumentation alone meant that the »Trois Nocturnes« were often performed incompletely or not at all. On the occasion of the anniversary of the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra, the work »Elegie an die Zeit« for women’s choir and orchestra was composed in autumn 2024 by Ettore Prandi, born in Milan and based in Hamburg. It is an exploration of time, a parameter that is so fundamental to all existence. In this way, an arc is created, from the transience of time in »Der Rosenkavalier« to Gerd Heinze’s poem »Wieviel Uhr«, on which »Elegie an die Zeit« is based. The work is to be understood as a short journey through elegiac, mournful and hopeful thoughts about the passing of time and will be performed for the first time at this concert. In the hit lists of classical music, »The Vltava« by Smetana always occupies one of the top places. Geographically speaking, the sources of the Vltava and Hamburg are connected by this river, which flows into the Elbe between Prague and Dresden. In the programme of the second part of the concert, this route leads from the »Vltava« via a stopover to Dresden. Richard Strauss’ opera »Der Rosenkavalier« was performed there for the very first time in 1911. The two works logically meet at their destination, the Elbphilharmonie. A geographical relationship that leads to a musical unity.
For the 2nd concert of their Barbican stopover, Gustavo Dudamel and his orchestra are remembering home as the vibrant Latino vibes of Riccardo Lorenz and Gonzalo Grau encounter fate-full Tchaikovsky.
Gustavo Dudamel returns to the hall at the head of his ‘other’ orchestra: the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. There’s just one work, but Mahler’s mighty Symphony No 3 is a stand-alone masterpiece.
The London Schools Symphony Orchestra takes you on an epic tour of the orchestra before reaching for the stars with Holst's cosmic masterpiece.
An all-British programme of Tippett, Turnage and Vaughan Williams inspired by opera and jazz – including an unmissable world premiere, to celebrate Sir Simon Rattle’s 70th birthday.
The performance explores the concept of time and its varying pace. Four musicians and a dancer create a 45-minute experience of life's moments. They invite the audience to reflect on their own life's rhythm through music, song, and dance.
The performance explores the concept of time and its varying pace. Four musicians and a dancer create a 45-minute experience of life's moments. They invite the audience to reflect on their own life's rhythm through music, song, and dance.
The performance explores the concept of time and its varying pace. Four musicians and a dancer create a 45-minute experience of life's moments. They invite the audience to reflect on their own life's rhythm through music, song, and dance.
The performance explores the concept of time and its varying pace. Four musicians and a dancer create a 45-minute experience of life's moments. They invite the audience to reflect on their own life's rhythm through music, song, and dance.
A bewitching programme of contrasts: Pierre Boulez’s glittering sound world, late Johannes Brahms, and a lyrical world premiere from George Benjamin – to celebrate Sir Simon Rattle’s 70th birthday.
In the Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker, outstanding young musicians are prepared for artistic work in a world-class orchestra. The concert series Carte blanche – Berlin, hör mal! particularly highlights the Academy’s educational mission. Here, the young musicians step out of the orchestra to perform as soloists or in ensembles. They select the repertoire and design the programmes themselves – a true Carte blanche in every sense of the term.How to find us, address and more
Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.
Join us as The National Youth Orchestra shines a light on the brilliance, passion and musical potential of a new generation.
This family concert celebrates the joys of the Christmas season with music by Shostakovich, Barber, Vaughan Williams, and others. It evokes the atmosphere of Christmas markets, gingerbread, roasted almonds, singing, bells, and snowy landscapes.
This family concert celebrates the joys of the Christmas season with music by Shostakovich, Barber, Vaughan Williams, and others. It evokes the atmosphere of Christmas markets, gingerbread, roasted almonds, singing, bells, and snowy landscapes.
Lorenz Karls, 2nd Prize winner at the 6th Karol Lipiński International Violin Competition in Toruń, will perform at NOSPR!The opening piece of his recital, the Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, belongs to Op. 30, representing a transitional period in Ludwig van Beethoven’s work. This is where the classical calm meets the romantic emotionality. It is also where the changeability of moods, so characteristic for the Viennese classic, appears, already revealing elements of a new musical language.The middle part of the evening will be filled with violin and piano miniatures, which are going to present various faces of Romanticism. The lyrical tone will be provided by the subtle and poetical 1907 Aubade by Rued Langgaard. A slightly different mood will be introduced by Jean Sibelius’ miniatures: the bouncy and jocular Humoresque with its folk elements and the Novelette, full of fervent expression.The concert will be crowned with two virtuosic compositions inspired by folk music. First, we are going to hear the 1928 Rhapsody No. 1 for violin and piano by Béla Bartók. Both in its character and structure, i.e. two movements: a slow one (Lassú) and a fast one (Friss), the piece draws inspiration from the verbunkos – a Hungarian national dance. In the finale of the evening, the violinist will perform a virtuosic solo piece based on a popular Irish folk song. It will appear in the form of variations on The Last Rose of Summer byHeinrich Wilhelm Ernst, created in 1864 as the last one in a cycle of six polyphonic etudes.The repertoire will, indubitably, enable the young Swedish violinist Lorenz Karls to present his exceptional talent in its entirety. The laureate will be accompanied by the excellent pianist Michał Francuz, who has been partnering violinists for years and has earned wide recognition, also with young competition participants.Julia BroniowskaConcert duration: approximately 80 minutes
Laurence Cummings and AAM join a truly world-class team of soloists for a seasonal performance of Handel’s Messiah.
Two reflective works from Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar, plus Arnold Bax’s evocative portrait of the Cornish countryside.
The squeaking rolling pin, the rhythmic cookie cutter, and the pounding dough enthusiastically accompany the cello's singing melody. But when it gets too much for the cello, pizzicato notes sharply restore calm, so you can all enjoy winter stories.
SANSARA and United Strings of Europe join forces to explore the themes of sanctuary and solidarity in a programme built around Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands.
The squeaking rolling pin, the rhythmic cookie cutter, and the pounding dough enthusiastically accompany the cello's singing melody. But when it gets too much for the cello, pizzicato notes sharply restore calm, so you can all enjoy winter stories.
The squeaking rolling pin, the rhythmic cookie cutter, and the pounding dough enthusiastically accompany the cello's singing melody. But when it gets too much for the cello, pizzicato notes sharply restore calm, so you can all enjoy winter stories.
A tribute to Sir Andrew Davis: Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius.