Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: Curtain raisers and high drama

Information for Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: Curtain raisers and high drama at Southbank Centre, West End (Concert). The OAE is much more than one of the world's pre-eminent period instrument ensembles. It works regularly with conductors who specialise in both early music and the modern repertoire, and has explored the work of composers from Bach to Mahler, Handel to Borodin. Marin Alsop conducts a dramatic evening of Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann. Concerts don't get much more dramatic than this. The evening begins with Mozart's Idomeneo, which builds from a brooding start to a heady climax before subsiding to where it began. It's the perfect curtain-raiser for a series of dramatic arias written for the female voice. Schumann's Second Symphony is perhaps his least-known, but it has been hailed as the composers most complete vision for the orchestra and contains some hugely powerful music - not least in the blazing final movement. Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Listing: L01210399498
Production: T0840326337
Event: S02104688001
Venue: V423
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