'Divine Moments'. Classical music concert featuring works by Dvorak, Sibelius in Exeter's Great Hall. With the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and soloists.
Programme:
Dvorak - Violin Concerto Sibelius - Symphony No 5 Dvorak - Symphonic Variations Sibelius - Scene with Cranes
Both Sibelius’ symphony and Dvořák’s concerto were troublesome to write, and both works saw a number of revisions. Sibelius was going through a difficult time in his life, despite his success and popularity, when he wrote the Fifth...
The revised Fourth Symphony is half again as long as the original work, written 17 years earlier, turning a modest symphony into a large and imposing score that matched the scale of Prokofiev’s two newly composed symphonies of the mid-1940s. Drawing upon themes and material from his ballet The Prodigal Son, it features...
Kirill Karabits - CONDUCTOR Andreas Ottensamer - Clarinet
Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony occupies a singularly important place in the composer’s output. It was with this piece that Bruckner finally achieved widespread recognition, and it has remained the most popular of his nine symphonies. The opening melody apparently came to him in a dream: a friend from Bruckner's younger days played the theme on a viola, with the words “This will bring you success...
Kirill Karabits conductor Andreas Ottensamer clarinet
The BSO opens its 2014/15 concert season with Principal Conductor Kirill Karabits leading the Orchestra in Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, which occupies a singularly important place in the composer's output. It was with this piece that Bruckner finally achieved widespread recognition, and it has remained the most popular of his nine symphonies. The opening melody apparently came to him in a dream: a friend from Bruckner...
The South West’s leading arts charity and Classic FM’s chosen orchestra of the South launched their 60th Anniversary community celebrations on Thursday 13 March at Exeter’s acclaimed Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and the University of Exeter to a rapturous reception. The events were held in partnership with Exeter Chamber of Commerce & Industry and One Voice Media & PR and sponsored by Event Exeter.
The first of the exclusive events was held at the RAMM and was attended by a host of leading businesses from Exeter and across the South West. Derek Phillips, Vice...
Untypical of the usual grandiose scoring of Wagner, the Siegfried Idyll is an intimate work, written as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima. Themes take on a more general character as expressions of victorious love and affection, with an almost meditative and lullaby-like tone and quality.
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto speaks to us from the heart...
Korngold: Robin Hood Horner: Apollo 13 Kamen: X-Men Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven Williams: Saving Private Ryan Elfman: Batman Giacchino: The Incredibles Menken: Hercules
Elfman: Spiderman Williams: Superman Barry: James Bond Williams: Harry Potter
Performers: Conductor: Pete Harrison
Heroes both historical and fictitious as well as the superheroes of the Marvel and DC comics are a fertile mine of inspiration for Hollywood and provide some of the best...
J Strauss II : Waldmeister (Overture) J Strauss II : Tik-Tak Polka J Strauss II : Pleasure Train Polka J Strauss II : At the Hunt Polka J Strauss II : Emperor Waltz J Strauss II : Treasure Waltz J Strauss II : The Blue Danube
Johann Strauss II is the king of the waltz and New Year's Day has become synonymous with the elegance of Viennese style and grandeur. Join the BSO and Günther Bauer-Schenk and escape...
The much loved English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer.
Performers :
Conductor : Christian Curnyn Soloist: Rebecca Bottone Soloist: Williams Towers Soloist: Samuel Boden, Christopher Purves Soloist: Exeter Festival Chorus
Tickets: Available by phone or in person only from the Exeter Phoenix 01392 667080
With its dense chromaticism, intricate counterpoint, and Wagnerian drive sweeping toward a great climax, Metamorphosen is a memorial to a type of music that had been abandoned long before 1945. It succeeds so brilliantly because Strauss at last found a way to address the present with the voice of the past.
