Sun 16 Dec 2018
Kings Place Hall One
Bach, the Universe & Everything
J.S. Bach Sehet, welch eine Liebe - ‘Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us’ BWV64
Rowan Pierce soprano
Helen Charlston alto
Dingle Yandell bass
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Maggie Aderin-Pocock speaker
Engineering for Space
Marvel at our extraordinary universe and the music of Bach with our Sunday morning series for inquiring and curious minds, with divine music, lively conversation and stimulating science.
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
OAE TOTS – A World Around Us
Mon 4 Feb 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
Love and Duty, with Magdalena Kožená
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Gluck O del mio dolce ardor from Paride ed Elena
Gluck Dance of the Furies from Orphée et Eurydice
Mozart Giunse alfin il momento - Al desio di chi t'adora from The Marriage of Figaro
Haydn Scena di Berenice
Gluck Di questa cetra from Il Parnaso confuso
Mozart Deh per questo istante from La clemenza di Tito
Mozart Parto, Parto from La clemenza di Tito
Mozart Giunse il momento al fine...Non tardar amato bene from The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
Giovanni Antonini conductor
Songs from the heart with international opera star Magdalena Kožená.
Magdalena Kožená is one of the world’s biggest opera stars. In this rare solo UK appearance, hear her sing some of the music she’s become famous for – sublime opera arias by Mozart and Gluck.
Tue 18 Dec 2018
St George's, Bristol
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts 1,2,3 & 6
Anna Dennis soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Gwilym Bowen tenor
Laurence Williams bass
Steven Devine director/keyboard
From the unbounded joy of the opening chorus, Jauchzet, Frohlocket (Celebrate, Rejoice) to the concluding movements marking the adoration of the Magi, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is a festive treat.
Sat 15 Dec 2018
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon
Handel’s Messiah
Bach, the Universe and Everything podcast
Fri 7 Dec 2018
Lots of you have been asking for a listen again option for our Bach, the Universe and Everything series at Kings Place, so here it is!
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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Handel’s Messiah
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Handel’s Messiah is probably the most performed choral work in history, and despite being about the whole of Jesus’ life it is now mainly performed at Christmas.
Read MoreTelemann – In Numbers
Sat 1 Dec 2018
We’re playing music by Telemann in our Pipedreams concert on Monday 3 December at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. Here is his life broken down into manageable, number-related facts.
Read MoreIntroducing Handel’s Organ
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Our Principal Artist John Butt introduces a spectacular bespoke chamber organ, built to recreate the sounds of Handel’s era.
Read MorePipedreams Programme
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Here’s the programme for our Pipedreams concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre on 3 December 2018. Pick up a free hard copy on the night!
Read MoreJohn Butt on Telemann
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Our Principal Artist John Butt directs Pipedreams, a concert of music by great friends Handel and Telemann in Glasgow and London.
He explains why Telemann’s music is just as wonderful as that by Handel.
Read MoreFurther listening: Simone Jandl
Mon 12 Nov 2018
So you’ve heard our Brahms: A German Requiem concert and you’re hungry for more Brahms. Our co-principal viola Simone Jandl recommends four unique pieces Brahms wrote after a eureka moment later in his life.
Read MoreRehearsing Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | Vaughan Williams
Fri 9 Nov 2018
“It’s been really inspirational for the start of this project.”
Leader Margaret Faultless gets her hands on the original concert programme for the premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis at Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910.
Hear us play it before Brahms’ Requiem with Marin Alsop:
Saturday 10 November, 2018, The Anvil, Basingstoke
Sunday 11 November, 2018, Southbank Centre, London
Read MoreBrahms: A German Requiem Programme
Wed 7 Nov 2018
Here’s the programme for our Brahms: A German Requiem concert at Royal Festival Hall on 11 November 2018. Pick up a free hard copy on the night!
Read MoreIndividual or society? Heart or heart? Conform or rebel?
Mon 5 Nov 2018
Individual or Society?
Head or Heart?
Conform or Rebel?
Laws or Freedoms?
Secular or Sacred?
These questions about how to live a good life challenged composers such as Bach, Brahms and Mozart as much as they challenge us now.
Our 2018-19 season of concerts at Southbank Centre features the music these composers wrote in response to these questions, sometimes overtly and sometimes indirectly.
Read MoreBrahms’ humanist Requiem
Tue 30 Oct 2018
“Brahms’ Requiem is essentially humanist, less a prayer for the dead than a personal meditation for the consolation of the living.”
Ahead of our performances with Marin Alsop, we explore how Brahms’ German Requiem broke the mould.
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Composers and space
Thu 18 Oct 2018
“For the same reason we are bound to believe that, as neither the beautiful neither the ugly is universal,” claimed the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1844. “Certain operas, which are every day represented and applauded (on Earth), will be hissed off the stage on Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Venus.”
Read MoreWe’re off to Asia
Wed 17 Oct 2018
Today members of the Orchestra are flying out to Singapore for a seven date tour of South East Asia, including our first ever concerts in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand and Brunei. We’ll also be returning to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where we played with Iván Fischer and Steven Isserlis in 2006.
It’s all part of Toyota Classics, an annual classical music tour Toyota has promoted since 1990 to support charities across Asia.
Read MoreOAE’s Golden Record
Mon 1 Oct 2018
Somewhere beyond Neptune, travelling into interstellar space at more than 38,000mph, is humankind’s most distant object, Voyager 1.
Launched in 1977, the spacecraft gave us extraordinary images of Jupiter and Saturn, and still sends messages home. The most famous is the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photograph, taken from the edge of the solar system and depicting Earth from 3.7 billion miles away.
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