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Philharmonia Orchestra 65th Birthday Gala Concert
Tuesday 30 March 2010
This special event, conducted by the legendary Maestro Muti, features two of Beethoven's finest works.
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Saturday 10 April 2010
A performance including Beethoven's mighty Symphony No. 7.
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Sunday 11 April 2010
Dvorak composed his Eighth Symphony in a simple rustic retreat in his beloved Bohemian countryside.
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Saturday 8 May 2010
Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto was coolly received at its premiere, perhaps due in part to its understated virtuosity rather than the dazzling showmanship so often heard in works for piano and orchestra.
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Wednesday 12 May 2010
The intimacy of the four instruments in dialogue proved popular with patrons and audiences alike, and provided wonderful opportunities for wit, drama and structural sophistication - qualities which the Takacs Quartet brings to the fore in its scintillating performances of this repertoire
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Thursday 13 May 2010
Beethoven's famous deafness did little to impair his musical mastery
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Sunday 23 May 2010
Both Dvorak and Sibelius are seen as 'nationalist' composers, whose music strongly evokes their respective homelands of the Czech Republic and Finland.
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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Tuesday 25 May 2010
The OAE’s Beethoven Symphony Series comes to a close with the genial Pastoral Symphony.
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Tuesday 8 June 2010
British pianist Paul Lewis is hugely celebrated for his considered and profound interpretations of the Viennese classics.
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Wednesday 8 September 2010
When Gustavo Dudamel's Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela visited Southbank Centre for a week-long residency in 2009, they set the place alight with their 'infectious joy... and unbridled enthusiasm for making music' (Telegraph).
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Tuesday 5 October 2010
One of today's most distinguished artists, Mitsuko Uchida presents a programme from the very heart of the piano repertoire.
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Tuesday 19 October 2010
Pierre-Laurent Aimard is one of the most respected and versatile artists on the international concert platform.
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Saturday 30 October 2010
A concert of heroic orchestral works, pairing Braham's Second Piano Concerto with a rarely heard re-orchestration of Beethoven's Symphony No
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Friday 5 November 2010
Spira Mirabilis is an extraordinary new project drawing together some of Europe's finest young players
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Sunday 5 December 2010
This evening's concert is framed by two symphonies, written within 15 years of each other and both pioneering in their testing of the Classical symphony structure.
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Tuesday 7 December 2010
The 35 year old Richard Strauss caused a sensation with his tone poem 'A Hero's Tale' when it was premiered in 1898, shocking musicians and critics with what was assumed to be an egotistical display of musical autobiography.
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Tuesday 7 December 2010
Making his International Piano Series debut, the young Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz won the gold medal in the 2005 Chopin Competition in Warsaw - the most significant in a roster of awards that have acknowledged this rising star's achievements.
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Wednesday 15 December 2010
This is the first chance this season to hear a work by the London Philharmonic Orchestra's new Composer in Residence Julian Anderson
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Sunday 16 January 2011
Known for their direct, spontaneous way of playing, the Budapest Festival Orchestra performs a colourful programme of symphonic classics by Haydn, Liszt and Beethoven under the baton of co-founder, Iván Fischer, celebrated for his originality and sense of 'event'.
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Wednesday 19 January 2011
As part of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's year-long survey of Gustav Mahler's music, tonight's performance features a performance of his Fifth Symphony.