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Published: 13 May 2013
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande will tour the UK in May with artistic and musical director Neeme Järvi.
In its first British performances under Järvi, the orchestra will be joined by pianist Boris Berezovsky for concerts in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
The tour culminates at the Royal Festival Hall on 24 May, where the orchestra and Järvi perform Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 'Pathétique', Grieg Piano Concerto and Silhouette (Hommage à...
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Published: 05 May 2013
Intermusica is delighted to be touring the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra to the UK for two performances in London and Birmingham.This year, the ensemble closes the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music at St John Smiths Square on the 18 May with Anne Katharina Schreiber directing from the violin. Celebrating Baroque music and the ocean, the orchestra is joined by British soprano Carolyn Sampson who performs operatic arias by Handel and Vivaldi....
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Published: 01 May 2013
In close collaboration with the Salle Pleyel and Intermusica, Valery Gergiev has once again conceived another momentous project which will see the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre present a complete cycle of Shostakovich symphonies across eight concerts and the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons.Also in this milestone project, six of the concerts feature a performance of the composer's six concerti for either violin, piano or cello. Soloists invited...
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Published: 01 May 2013
Academy of Ancient Music, June 2013
Intermusica is pleased to announce that the Academy of Ancient Music will be touring to Asia in June 2013 and will visit five cities including Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing & Tianjin for six performances.
Korean Soprano Sunhae Im is the soloist in the first concert of the tour, on 18 June at Seoul Arts Center. Led from the violin by Pavlo Beznosiuk the orchestra will perform a Four Seasons...
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Published: 01 May 2013
We are delighted to be bringing two world-renowned orchestras to the BBC Proms this summer, with two concerts for both ensembles.
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Music Director, Sir Antonio Pappano perform a symphony programme on 19 July, for which they are joined by pianist Jan Lisiecki, who makes his Proms debut performing Schumann Piano Concerto. The orchestra and Pappano will also perform Mozart Symphony No.35 'Haffner' and...
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Published: 09 April 2013
The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, performs a Stravinsky programme at Salle Pleyel in Paris on 23 April. This concert is the orchestra’s last appearance in the 2012/13 residency at Salle Pleyel. Sir John Eliot Gardiner will first conduct the orchestra in a performance of Stravinsky’s 1947 revision of his ballet score for string orchestra, Apollon musagète. In the second half of the concert, they are joined by...
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Published: 08 April 2013
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge today releases the second album on its recently-launched record label – Mozart Requiem: Realisations. In this two-disc recording, the choir and Director of Music Stephen Cleobury are joined by the Academy of Ancient Music. The soloists are Elin Manahan Thomas, Christine Rice, and ex-King’s choral scholars James Gilchrist and Christopher Purves.The album includes a recording of the well-known Süssmayr...
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Published: 08 April 2013
Michel van der Aa’s new 3D film-opera Sunken Garden receives its world premiere on Friday 12 April at London’s Barbican Centre, presented by English National Opera. This unique occult-mystery, with libretto written by celebrated novelist David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), is a co-production between English National Opera, Toronto Luminato Festival, Opéra de Lyon, Holland Festival and the Barbican Centre. As in van der Aa’s previous theatre works...
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Published: 02 April 2013
Intermusica is delighted to be touring Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra to the UK for four concerts this April. The tour begins at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 22 April where the orchestra perform Dohnányi Symphonic Minutes and Bartók Concerto for Orchestra. This concert, which is part of the Southbank Centre’s Shell Classic International series, also features pianist Imogen Cooper who performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1....
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Published: 28 March 2013
Following its hugely successful Shostakovich cycle in Paris in January, Intermusica is pleased to be touring the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre to the south of France and Monaco in early April. The orchestra will perform two concerts, in Monte Carlo and Aix-en-Provence, with Valery Gergiev conducting different programmes. On 5 April the orchestra will perform a Stravinsky programme in Monte Carlo’s Auditorium Rainer. Part of the Printemps...
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