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2019-12-06 13:09:00
Robert Schumann: Symphony No.1 in B flat major "Spring" | Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique – Wiener Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons (HD 1080p)
Mariss Jansons conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in Robert Schumann's Symphony No.1 in B flat major "Spring", Op.38, and Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste, H.48 / Op.14. The concert was recorded live at Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany, on June 5, 2019.✻Schumann's First Symphony came with astonishing speed. He noted "beginning of a symphony in C minor" on 21 January 1841, but the work was abandoned. Two days later, however, inspired by a poem by Adolf Böttger, he wrote "Spring Symphony started". On 24 January, the first movement of the new work was sketched and the "adagio and scherzo made ready"; on 25 January "Symphony fire – sleepless nights – on the last movement" and on the fourth and final day, "Hurrah! Symphony finished!". Orchestration would occupy him till 20 February, but in four days and nights – "it mostly seems to have been written at night" […]
2019-10-18 13:41:25
Celebrating 100 years: the Oslo Philharmonic's centenary tour concludes at the Barbican
The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra performing in Oslo University's Aula in the 1950s The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra is 70 this year, and the orchestra's concert at the Barbican on Tuesday 22 October 2019 with its chief conductor Vasily Petrenko is the final one of a celebratory eight-concert six-country European tour. The programme celebrates with one of the most famous of all Norwegian classical works, Grieg's Piano Concerto in which they are joined by Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. The orchestra also looks back to its first subscription concert in 1919 with Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan, and completes the programme with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.In fact, the orchestras roots go all the way back to 1879 when composers Edvard Grieg and Johan Svendsen founded the Christiania Musikerforening (Christiania Musical Association) - Oslo was then known as Christiania and the country was ruled by the Kings of Sweden. When the National Theatre […]
2018-12-13 07:42:49
Celebrating their centenary - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Oslo Concert Hall, home to the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra is 100 in 2019, and the orchestra and its chief conductor Vasily Petrenko are spreading the celebrations with tours to Spain and the UK. The orchestra's programme for the UK tour in March 2019 includes Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 and Symphony No.1, Delius’s On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s Symphony No.5, with Nikolai Lugansky as the soloist in the two concertos. The tour takes in St David's Hall, Cardiff (6/3/2019), Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham (7/3/2019), Symphony Hall, Birmingham (8/3/2019), Leeds Town Hall (9/3/2019) and Sage Gateshead (10/3/2019).From 29 January to 1 February the orchestra will be in Spain visiting the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and the Auditorio de Zaragoza in Zaragoza. Pianist Simon Trpčeski will join the […]
2015-11-19 21:30:07
Oslo PO/Petrenko LAWOVasily Petrenko’s versions of Scriabin’s Third and Fourth Symphonies, the Divine Poem and the Poem of Ecstasy, appear at the same time as Valery Gergiev’s recordings of the same two works for LSO Live. Where Gergiev’s performances are taken from the cycle of the symphonies he conducted in the Barbican in spring 2014, Petrenko’s appear to have been made under studio conditions in the Oslo Concert Hall. Perhaps that partly accounts for the difference between them. There is little to choose in quality between the two orchestras – on these discs, the sound of the Oslo Philharmonic is a bit more fulsome and rounded than the brasher style of the London Symphony. There is a sense of something generalised about Gergiev’s performances, however, which contrasts with the alertness and close attention to detail that’s evident in every bar of Petrenko’s. The LSO Poem of Ecstasy is particularly disappointing, […]
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