Events
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16.
March 2024.
Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Main hall
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SATURDAY AT LISINSKI
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30.00 € 226.04 kn
35.00 € 263.71 kn
40.00 € 301.38 kn
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Tickets |
30.00 € 226.04 kn
35.00 € 263.71 kn
40.00 € 301.38 kn
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Kazuki Yamada, Conductor
Alice Sara Ott, Piano
Programme:
William Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C minor, Op. 73
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36
A unique and unusual musical experience of world-class orchestral music-making!
One of the sensations of this season's Saturday at Lisinski concert series is undeniably the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, one of the world's top ten orchestras! It is enough to highlight just one detail in the Orchestra’s incredible, century-long history: from 1980 to 1998, the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor was Sir Simon Rattle, one of the greatest conductors of today, who 'polished' the music-making of "a hundred marvellous musicians" to the brilliance of a 24-carat brilliant! After Rattle, two more 'titans' of today's conducting Olympus were the Orchestra's Principal Conductors from 1998 to 2015 - Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons! Today's Principal Conductor, Japanese musician Kazuki Yamada, the most prominent student of the legendary Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, can already be included among the most influential young musicians on the planet today! The degree of coordination among the Orchestra’s musicians, the enthusiasm and commitment with which they play, the brilliance and splendour of its brass section and the intonation purity of the strings almost touch the upper limit of what is attainable! The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – let's be honest – is also one of the most expensive orchestras in the world, the Rolls-Royce of the global music scene, a stunning 'music machine', whose live performances we have the opportunity to enjoy only once in many years! The excellent German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott started playing the piano at the age of four: her talent and absolutely incredible progress and development as a pianist are truly surprising, so the professional public jestingly named her Alice from Wonderland. The young pianist collaborates with the world's largest orchestras and conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Paavo Järvi, Sakari Oramo, Osmo Vänskä or Myung-Whun Chung and is known as one of the world's most competent interpreters of Ludwig van Beethoven’s music, whose Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor she will also play in the Zagreb concert! The program will also include gems of English music of the 19th and 20th centuries. William Walton's attractive and ravishing music Prelude and Fugue in C minor achieved world fame under the title The Spitfire, as the piece was originally part of the film score about R. J. Mitchell, the inventor of that famous British Royal Air Force (RAF) plane. The chef d'oeuvre of the evening will be perhaps the most famous piece by an English composer – the famous Enigma Variations on an Original Theme by Edward Elgar. This monumental piece, extremely rich in musical substance and wonderful atmospheres, is a great opportunity for one of the world's best orchestras to showcase all the magic of its musicians’ marvellous skills!
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