T02087406492After their hugely-popular spring concert, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra return to Hall for Cornwall, this time with virtuoso violinist Tobias Feldman. If you haven't yet experienced a full orchestra in the new Cornwall Playhouse, this is a concert not to be missed. Tchaikovsky's concise mini symphony balances the hatred between the Montagues and Capulets, and the passion of the young Romeo and Juliet in a work of heartbreaking beauty. His first major work, Bruch's concerto is one of his best – a wonderfully lyrical expanse of music offering melodies tailor-made for the violin and explosive technical fireworks. Dvorák's Seventh Symphony marked an important milestone in his creative life. Its dramatic flow from one movement to the next, each filled with a pent-up sense of inner tragedy and strength, is remarkable.Performer Tobias Feldman (violin). | |
| 4 Nov 22 | Hall for Cornwall, Truro :: V1183 listing details L0448221489 |
T0559684154This stirring concert will feature Beethoven's overture written to celebrate the opening of a Vienna theatre exactly 200 years ago, Bax's evocation of the wild Cornish coast, a brand new piece by a young Bournemouth composer and Sibelius' gloriously passionate Second Symphony.Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 18 Mar 22 | Hall for Cornwall, Truro :: V1183 listing details L1585091833 |
Glorious Mozart - T224831092 | |
| 24 Mar 17 | Theatre Royal Plymouth, Plymouth :: V895 listing details L1788953375 |
Heroes & Legends - T0532805939Experience the thrill of a live symphony orchestra performing some of the most memorable film and television themes ever written. A gargantuan feast of Hollywood glitz and glamour features music old and new written by multi-award winning composers from the golden age of cinema to the present: Elmer Bernstein, Hans Zimmer, Maurice Jarre, Miklos Rozsa, James Horner, Erich Korngold, Alexandre Desplat, Tan Dun and, of course, the godfather of the film score, John Williams.Conductor Pete Harrison. | |
| 11 Mar 17 | Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910 listing details L482299260 |
T0254751567The concert opens with Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, a 20th-century view on the French Baroque tradition. The piece was originally composed for solo piano and then beautifully orchestrated, showing the different colours of the Orchestra in a way only Ravel could. In the second half of the concert, conductor Frank Zielhorst leads the BSO through Beethoven's Second Symphony, a life-affirming, joyful work despite the composer's turmoil and struggle with the onset of deafness during the time of composition.Performer Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello). Conductor Frank Zielhorst. | |
| 21 Jan 16 | Theatre Royal Plymouth, Plymouth :: V895 listing details L01134748304 |
with Michael Petrov - T01663019985One of the UK's leading and most dynamic orchestras opens our International Concert Series with a programme including Weber, Dvorak and Brahms. | |
| 17 Sep 15 | Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple :: V883 listing details L1719549862 |
BSO Classical Extravaganza - T292183609Back by popular demand, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra once again brings the best of classical music with spectacular lasers and indoor fireworks to the Colston Hall this July. Whether you like Johann Strauss' and Tchaikovsky's sweeping waltzes and polkas, Bernstein's and Gershwin's masterpieces with a jazzy twist, or the beautiful melodic lines of Greensleeves and the splendour of Pomp & Circumstances - there is something in it for everyone!Conductor Maxine Tortelier. Performer Jamie Crick. | |
| 26 Jul 14 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L01948241384 |
T904573003Bartok's late piano concerto is the most lyrical of his three, with a hymn-like slow movement interrupted by the sounds of the countryside at night, and a vigorous, Hungarian-flavoured finale. Mahler's fifth symphony is one of the composer's most perfectly balanced compositions, opening with a grave march, followed by a stormy movement with constantly fluctuating moods. An energetic scherzo marks a turning point, and after the famous Adagietto, the symphony ends with a joyful burst of counterpoint and a final triumphant chorale.Performer Radu Lupu (piano). Conductor Thomas Dausgaard. | |
| 7 Nov 13 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L1979275698 |
T169793689Music Prokofiev (Sinfonia Concertante). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 10). Performer Alisa Weilerstein (cello). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 3 Oct 13 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L838758904 |
Bridge/Saint-Saens/Elgar - T0862326232Bridge's masterly tone poem contrasts colourful mercurial music with a hypnotically beautiful pastoral episode to great effect. Saint-Saens' concerto begins and ends with stormy and turbulent music, but these passages frame a central minuet of delicate beauty and charm. In his first symphony, Elgar followed the great tradition of symphonic writing while managing to add something entirely personal.The result was an immediate success, and it has remained one of his most performed works.Performer Jesper Svedberg (cello). Conductor David Hill. | |
| 7 Mar 13 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01835359709 |
T359956035May Night, based on a story by Gogol, was the piece which sparked Rimsky-Korsakov's interest in the riches of Russian folk music and tales which lasted for the rest of his life. The attractive overture evokes the magical atmosphere of the story's setting. One of Saint-Sa?ns' best and most characteristic pieces, the Third Violin Concerto's dramatic first movement is followed by a song-like slow movement and nimble finale. The five movements of Berlioz' stunning Symphonie fantastique embody the visions of a lovesick musician in the grip of an overdose of opium. The idea of his beloved returns in various guises through the work, ending in a nightmarish witches' sabbath. A profoundly imaginative score, it made the composer's reputation all over Europe.Performer Alina Ibragimova (violin). Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier. | |
| 3 May 12 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01971957110 |
BSO 50th Anniversary Benevolent Fund Concert - T0264216006Led by Ukranian conductor Kirill Karabits, the exceptional Hough will perform Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1, Rachmaninov's first ever work which is rarely performed live.Conductor Kirill Karabits. Performer Stephen Hough. | |
| 1 Mar 12 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L1743649080 |
| 25 May 08 | Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910 listing details L0189587523 |
T7766607Performer Simone Lamsma (violin). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 19 Jan 12 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01609360826 |
T267143654Performer Julian Rachlin (violin). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 12 Nov 11 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01263387239 |
T01381143213Performer Renaud Capucon (violin). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 7 Oct 11 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01406863398 |
T01438338032Two pieces of orchestral storytelling make up this concert, conducted by the brilliant Ukrainian conductor, Kirill Karabits. In Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote, Cervantes’ deluded hero - played by solo cello - inspires a set of ‘Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character.’ As the Don stumbles through his misadventures Strauss delights in wonderful special effects, including baa-ing sheep and a wind machine, and offers an ironic commentary from the long-suffering Sancho Panza, played by solo viola. In Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade the heroine stays alive by keeping her vengeful husband, the Sultan, interested in suspenseful tales. Here the solo violin becomes the seductive spinner of yarns about the great sea adventurer, Sinbad, with the stories’ exotic locations coloured by the composer’s most gorgeous melodies and dramatic orchestration. This concert also features an exciting finale... but you’ll have to wait until the concert to discover what it is. Scheherazade would certainly have approved!Conductor Kiril Karabits. | |
| 31 Mar 11 | Theatre Royal, Nottingham :: V462 listing details L1732461739 |
Shimmering Szymanowski - T191440392Webern's realization is a tribute from one great music contrapuntalist to the inspiration and skill of his predecessor. He liked to call this orchestration ?his? Bach fugue, inferring that he had created something quite different from the original. Containing music of considerable originality and beauty, rich in glowing sound textures and displaying Szymanowski's penchant for sensuous, rhapsodic meditation, the likely inspiration for his Violin Concert No.1 was Noc Majowa, a poem by the Polish poet Tadeusz Micinski. Besides the famous story of his rededication, the Eroica is important because it was Beethoven's first truly Romantic composition. It opens with two staggering chords that announce to the world the arrival of a new talent, a forceful personality, a man never to be forgotten.Conductor Kirill Karabits. Performer Nicola Benedetti. | |
| 19 Mar 11 | Brighton Dome, Brighton :: V655 listing details L2138042755 |
Welcome to Spring - T121384722Welcome to a country idyll! You know that spring is here when you start hearing the cuckoo and the mountain snows begin to melt to feed the streams and rivers that pass by villages and towns. As the sun brings warmth it is not long before the skylarks are calling to one another on warm thermals, but summer heat has its dangers, thunderstorms can catch you unawares and delay the harvest, and watch out for those pesky wasps! All this and more is conjured up here.Conductor Shuntaro Sato. Performer Petroc Trelawny. | |
| 12 Mar 11 | Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth :: V906 listing details L01182449931 |
Arabian Nights - T507116092Strauss' Don Quixote is the most elaborate and richly detailed attempt to musically portray the adventures of Cervantes' romantically deranged hero. Three themes depicting Don Quixote, his love, Dulcinea, and Sancho Panza, are ingeniously transformed and combined as a succession of musical tableaux. Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade follows the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba, which have long since passed into folk legend in the West. The music overflows with four movements of invention, masterful orchestration, colour, beauty and excitement.Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 19 Feb 11 | Brighton Dome, Brighton :: V655 listing details L010040569 |
Great Russian Tales - T1693374767Welcome to the Exotic East! Russian music is perhaps the best of all for telling stories, especially in the hands of Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and latterly by Khachaturian. You will be transported to the expansive plains of the Russian steppes, experience the royal court of warlord Prince Igor, feel the passion and heartbreak of love and romance from ancient Rome and rural Armenia and finally take to the waves with Sinbad and a voyage of adventure.Conductor Kirill Karabits. Performer Petroc Trelawny. | |
| 12 Feb 11 | Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth :: V906 listing details L0636028762 |
Hall of Fame - T01668985928Welcome to four of the best! Masterpieces all and each a worthy claimant for the makes way for Bruch’s lyrical and ebullient concerto whilst Schubert’s beautiful yet unfinished symphony fades away before Tchaikovsky marches in with his explosive overture.Conductor BSO Young Conductor in Association. Performer Alexandra Soumm (violin). Performer Petroc Trelawny. | |
| 29 Jan 11 | Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth :: V906 listing details L01941017613 |
New Year's Eve Viennese Gala - T1448571395 | |
| 31 Dec 10 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L067424950 |
Northern Festival - T395523453Welcome to the land of the Vikings! All the pieces are inspired by the landscapes, history and folktales from Scotland and Scandinavia. Witness the majesty of Fingal’s Cave, join in the drink-fuelled revelries of an Orkney wedding and escape to the remote Northern regions of Finland and Norway.Conductor BSO Young Conductor in Association. Performer Petrock Trelawny (soloist). | |
| 20 Nov 10 | Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth :: V906 listing details L01904110356 |
Invitation to the Dance - T1450145806Conductor Danail Rachev. Performer Shai Wosner (piano). Performer Petrock Trelawny (presenter). | |
| 30 Oct 10 | Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth :: V906 listing details L0503650975 |
Indoor Outdoor Festival - T1110471290Three special concerts giving the atmosphere of an outdoor classical spectacular without the worry of the weather! See the Lighthouse Concert Hall as never before with the entire floor laid out with a synthetic grass lawn, plus special lighting and effects. | |
| 25 Jun 10 to 26 Jun 10 | Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910 listing details L2039732477 |
Alsop on Bernstein and Mahler - T897316736Marin Alsop conducts Gustav Mahler's great Resurrection Symphony in homage to Mahler's profound influence on Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein conducted the first complete cycle of Mahler's symphonies starting in 1960 and was an acknowledged devotee and expert of all his works. This performance brings together a large force of choirs for this celebratory event.Company Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Company Southbank Sinfonia. Company SBC Voicelab. Conductor Marin Alsop. Performer Katherine Broderick (soprano). Performer Karen Cargill (mezzo0soprano). | |
| 9 May 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L2037623771 |
T359788628Chopin's first concerto - like Beethoven, actually the second that he wrote - has outer movements designed to show off the young composer's sparkling pianism framing a beautiful slow movement which he described as ‘a reverie in fine spring weather, but lit by the moon'. Cesar Franck's symphony achieves great unity as the themes outlined in its imposing introduction reappear in the three movements, transformed and developed in all sorts of inventive ways, leading to a triumphant conclusion.Performer Louis Lortie (piano). Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier. | |
| 25 Feb 10 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01026113409 |
T023311831Sibelius' last symphony absorbs the traditional four movements into a single, fascinating arch of music. Each section grows out of the previous one, referring to and developing its material to make a truly organic whole. The drama of the Elgar concerto's opening movement is followed by a perpetuum mobile scherzo, and a slow movement of elegiac beauty. The powerful finale is memorably interrupted by a haunting reminiscence of the slow movement before rushing to a close. Nielsen wrote that his forth and finest symphony is a depiction of "the force of life which cannot be suppressed." Written during the First World War, it pulsates with musical power in the outer movements, including an electrifying tympani ‘duel' in the finale.Performer Jian Wang (cello). Conductor Thomas Dausgaard. | |
| 12 Feb 10 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L1479783368 |
New Year Viennese Gala - T1301701277 | |
| 6 Jan 10 | O2 Guildhall Southampton, Southampton :: V777 listing details L1488313875 |
| 22 Dec 09 | O2 Guildhall Southampton, Southampton :: V777 listing details L0822228340 |
New Year's Eve Viennese Concert - T1717185666 | |
| 31 Dec 09 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L571836453 |
T010268489Conductor James Gaffigan. Performer John Lill (piano). Music Mozart (Idomeneo Ballet Music). Music Beethoven (Piano Concerto No 2). Music Dvorak (Symphony No 7). | |
| 3 Dec 09 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L02119808178 |
T1941006235Performer Nikolai Lugansky (piano). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 26 Nov 09 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L1713918018 |
T1101657925Conductor Kirill Karabits. Performer Renaud Capucon (violin). Performer Martinu Frescos of Piero della Francesca. Music Bruch (Violin Concerto). Music Sibelius (Symphony No 2). | |
| 29 Oct 09 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L16450260 |
T646460495The new Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (pictured) opens the season with Debussy's delicate and subtle translation into sound of a lazy summer afternoon. Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was a breakthrough piece after years of creative block. Its intensely passionate character has made it a favourite among all his works. Stravinsky's ballet score remains one of the most extraordinary works in music, even after almost a hundred years. Its picture of the elemental arrival of spring after the harsh Russian winter went further than anyone before in capturing the force of nature in sound.Performer Vadim Rudenko (piano). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 8 Oct 09 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L0329460666 |
T636500649Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 4 Dec 08 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L01091946936 |
T168642640Conductor Marin Alsop. Performer Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano). | |
| 14 Nov 08 | Anvil Arts, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L378868203 |
T0238334123Conductor Cristian Mandeal. | |
| 9 Oct 08 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L100029732 |
A Weekend of Russian Music - T1010156901Performer Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano). Performer Charlotte Riedijk (Sun - soprao). Performer Liza Ferschtman (Sun - violin). Performer Maria Milstein (Sun - violin). Performer Benjamin Marquise-Gilmour (Sun - viola). Performer Dmitri Ferschtman (Sun - cello). | |
| 13 Sep 08 to 14 Sep 08 | Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L01417675404 |
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| 22 Mar 24 | Hall for Cornwall, Truro :: V1183 listing details L01920473642 |
| 9 Sep 23 | Hall for Cornwall, Truro :: V1183 listing details L1017917950 |
| 23 Sep 22 | Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford upon Avon :: V02107919142 listing details L647618745 |
| 20 Dec 15 | O2 Guildhall Southampton, Southampton :: V777 listing details L01761368830 |
| 26 Nov 15 | The Great Hall, Exeter :: V0399253055 listing details L1109098967 |
| 7 Oct 10 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L0390609794 |
| 22 Apr 10 | Bristol Beacon, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L097424638 |
| 22 Jan 09 | Corn Exchange, Cambridge :: V21 listing details L235773529 |
| 14 Jan 09 to 6 May 09 | Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910 listing details L1695347172 |
| 9 Apr 08 to 9 Aug 08 | Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910 listing details L01091740750 |
