Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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T359956035 (ANVIL12)May 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 | The Anvil, 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 | Colston Hall, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L1743649080 |
| 25 May 08 | Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910 listing details L0189587523 |
T7766607 (19JAN12)Performer Simone Lamsma (violin). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 19 Jan 12 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01609360826 |
T267143654 (12NOV11)Performer Julian Rachlin (violin). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 12 Nov 11 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01263387239 |
T01381143213 (07OCT11)Performer Renaud Capucon (violin). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 7 Oct 11 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01406863398 |
T01438338032 (31MAR11)Two 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 | Royal Concert Hall, 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 | Colston Hall, 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 |
T359788628 (25FEB10)Chopin'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 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L01026113409 |
T023311831 (ANVIL10)Sibelius' 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 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L1479783368 |
New Year Viennese Gala - T1301701277 | |
| 6 Jan 10 | Southampton Guildhall, Southampton :: V777 listing details L1488313875 |
| 22 Dec 09 | Southampton Guildhall, Southampton :: V777 listing details L0822228340 |
New Year's Eve Viennese Concert - T1717185666 | |
| 31 Dec 09 | Colston Hall, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L571836453 |
T010268489 (03DEC09)Conductor 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 | Colston Hall, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L02119808178 |
T1941006235 (ANVIL09)Performer Nikolai Lugansky (piano). Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 26 Nov 09 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L1713918018 |
T1101657925 (29OCT09)Conductor 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 | Colston Hall, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L16450260 |
T646460495 (ANVIL09)The 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 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L0329460666 |
T636500649 (04DEC08)Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 4 Dec 08 | Colston Hall, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L01091946936 |
T168642640 (ANVIL08)Conductor Marin Alsop. Performer Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano). | |
| 14 Nov 08 | The Anvil, Basingstoke :: V765 listing details L378868203 |
T0238334123 (COLSTON08)Conductor Cristian Mandeal. | |
| 9 Oct 08 | Colston Hall, 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). Book by njamin Marquise-Gilmour (Sun - viola). Performer Dmitri Ferschtman (Sun - cello). | |
| 13 Sep 08 to 14 Sep 08 | Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L01417675404 |
Other listings | |
| 7 Oct 10 | Colston Hall, Bristol :: V1410 listing details L0390609794 |
| 22 Apr 10 | Colston Hall, 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 |
