Flutes: Conical vs Cylindrical
In our latest video ahead of our concerts of Mahler, Wagner and Liszt this week we speak to our Principal Flute, Lis Beznosiuk. She talks about which flutes she is using for the concert, a task made...
View ArticleVladimir Jurowski: Speed Interview
Vladimir Jurowski, one of our three Principal Artists, conducts three concerts with us this week, two in London and one in Paris. Ahead of these we caught up with him for one of our Speed Interviews:...
View ArticleSarah Connolly on Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer /Journeyman/ Traveller
Tonight we play our Symphonic Enlightenment programme at the Royal Festival Hall - a late romantic programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt with 90 players on stage. For us, a huge undertaking. Parts of...
View ArticleSymphonic Enlightenment: First reviews
We’re back from Paris and a second performance of our Symphonic Enlightenment programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt. First reviews from Friday’s performance are now in too – mainly from bloggers and...
View ArticleSymphonic Enlightenment: More reviews
More reviews from Friday’s concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Plus you can listen to the concert online for a further 6 days. Guardian Financial Times The post Symphonic Enlightenment: More reviews...
View ArticleVladimir Jurowski on Mahler, Liszt, the OAE and disappearing batons
Regular readers of this blog or our Facebook Page will know we were due to interview Vladimir Jurowski back in December. Well, that didn’t happen as he wasn’t too well, and about to embark on a big...
View ArticleParisien Pictures
Projects Manager Megan Russell got snapping when we were in Paris with Vladimir Jurowski and our Symphonic Enlightenment programme a couple of weeks ago: The post Parisien Pictures appeared first on...
View Article2nd installment in our pre-concert talk series
Back in January before our Mahler/Wagner/Liszt Symphonic Enlightenment concert at the RFH, Robert Philip gave a pre-concert talk discussing what impact the onset of the ‘recording era’ in the early...
View ArticleSymphonic Enlightenment – Vox Pops
We’ve had a bit of a backlog of videos here, so these audience vox pops have been somewhat delayed. But they’re here now. After our Symphonic Enlightenment programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt at the...
View ArticleTo Paris with the OAE: a video diary
Here’s a little video diary from our trip to Paris back in January, when we took a supersized OAE there for a concert of Wagner, Liszt and Mahler with conductor Vladimir Jurowski and mezzo soprano...
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