Aleksandar Marković - CONDUCTOR Nikita Boriso-Glebsky - Violin
Khachaturian was a composer with an incredible gift for melody, and the Violin Concerto is a fun and playful example of this. Its lush, oriental-sounding tunes, high-flying virtuosity and yearning melodic intensity soon appealed to worldwide audiences...
KHACHATURIAN Adagio from Spartacus KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No.7 Aleksandar Marković conductor Nikita Boriso-Glebsky violin
Khachaturian was a composer with an incredible gift for melody, and the Violin Concerto is a fun and playful example of this. Its lush, oriental-sounding tunes, high-flying virtuosity and yearning melodic intensity soon appealed to worldwide audiences. Musical elements drawn from the folk songs and dances of Khachaturian's native Armenia add to the festive intoxication, which are also present in the lusciously evocative Adagio from his...
Back by popular demand, Pete Harrison and the BSO present another evening of some of the best film scores from the movies. Blockbuster soundtracks include those written by Maurice Jarre, Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith and, of course, the master of the film-score, John Williams. Films represented include Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, Schindler's List, The Last Samurai, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and a reprise of the best superhero of them all – Superman. As well as heroes, this year there may also be a few villains lurking about too!...
ELGAR Cockaigne Overture RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.1 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.2 "London" Andrew Litton conductor Alexei Volodin piano
Vaughan Williams' Second Symphony has been described as the musical equivalent of Monet’s paintings of the sun rising over a foggy Thames. Actual London sounds fleetingly emerge from an exquisitely woven musical tapestry - the chimes of Big Ben, the cry of a lavender-seller. Central to the symphony’s success is the wonderful limpid scoring, which Vaughan Williams felt in later life that he had never bettered.
Bring in the New Year with style with the BSO's annual celebration of all things Viennese. The glories of the Vienna dance-halls are brought to life in a bubbling selection of waltzes, gallops, polkas and marches by Johann Strauss and his contemporaries.
The full glory of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra playing Strauss as it should be played is always a highlight of the year, and this January the Orchestra is joined by young Viennese maestro Thomas Rösner who has been enjoying great success across the opera houses of Europe and the US.
BRITTEN Frank Bridge Variations MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No.1 MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides DEBUSSY La Mer Kees Bakels conductor Ronald Brautigam piano
Mendelssohn's musical postcard of a Hebridean visit conjures up a whole seascape including the grandeur of Fingal's Cave, the swelling of the sea, the light on the water and the fury of the waves breaking on the cliffs. Like the sea itself, the surface of La Mer hints at the brooding mystery of its depths - a vibrating, oscillating, glimmering palette of sound which caresses the senses allowing the orchestra to shimmer in a thousand...
'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...
