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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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Thursday 8 April 2010
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade is one of his most popular works.
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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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Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Monday 12 April 2010
A recital by pianist Alexander Karpeyev, an award-winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
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Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 15 April 2010
Richard Baker’s music is by turns attractive, witty and frightening.
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Thursday 15 April 2010
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was premiered in Paris on 29 May 1913, a date made famous by one of the most notorious riots in musical history.
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Thursday 22 April 2010
In this very special event, the Philharmonia Orchestra presents a live screening of Waterloo, Karl Grune's 1928 epic film, featuring the UK premiere of Carl Davis' specially composed soundtrack.
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Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Tuesday 4 May 2010
A recital by violinist Mathieu van Bellen, an award-winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
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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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Thursday 13 May 2010
Music by two of England's most influential composers of the 20th century makes up this programme.
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Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Saturday 15 May 2010
A recital by pianist Richard Uttley, an award-winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
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Saturday 15 May 2010
Concluding the Philharmonia's Rachmaninov Cycle, Nikolai Lugansky brings his virtuosity and impeccable musicianship to bear on Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 20 May 2010
Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas has a passion for sound itself: his music rejoices in the euphonious proportions of the harmonic series, or the equal harmoniousness of Renaissance polyphony.
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Thursday 20 May 2010
Prokofiev's score for his ballet of Romeo and Juliet was originally deemed undanceable by the authority of the Bolshoi Theatre, who commissioned the ballet.
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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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Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Tuesday 1 June 2010
A recital by the Wu String Quartet, an award-winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
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Thursday 10 June 2010
Berlioz composed his Symphonie fantastique in the early 19th century, just three years after the death of Beethoven, yet it inhabits a musical world of pure Romanticism.
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Thursday 24 June 2010
The Philharmonia's Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky series begins with Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, which took the composer some years to complete.
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Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Sunday 27 June 2010
A recital by bassoonist Lawrence O'Donnell, an award-winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
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Sunday 27 June 2010
Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto is very different from the glittering, virtuosic First Concerto, with music in the first movement closely resembling his love theme from Romeo and Juliet, and the melody of the second movement singing out plaintively on the solo violin.