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BSO: Hadelich Plays Tchaikovsky

Event Date: 
18/02/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Great Hall, Exeter University

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Kirill Karabits, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin

The BSO’s Artist in Residence, extraordinary violinist Augustin Hadelich joins the Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Concerto, a perennial favourite of soloists and audiences. Vibrant and confident, ironically, it dates from a crisis-laden two years in his life after the breakdown of his disastrous marriage. Folk music and French chanson merge with dazzling fireworks in this marvellous showpiece.

When the Spring Symphony burst forth in a torrent of confidence and creativity in those famous...

Heroes & Aliens – Epic Galactic Soundtracks!

Event Date: 
04/02/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Great Hall, Exeter University

Bournemouth Syphony Orchestra

Pete Harrison, conductor

Back by popular demand, the BSO brings another night of the best film music, this year based around a space theme. We’re boldly going where no Orchestra has gone before…!

Pieces include Star Wars, Star Trek, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, War of the Worlds, Avatar, Apollo 13 and more.

Full details to be announced!

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - New Year Johann Strauss Gala

Event Date: 
02/01/2016 - 3:00pm
Venue: 
Great Hall, Exeter University

See in the New Year in style with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s traditional celebration of Johann Strauss, the King of Waltz. Don’t miss your chance to hear his waltzes, marches and polkas as they should be heard – played by a full symphony orchestra! Following on from his hugely successful debut at the BSO with the New Year Gala in 2013, the Orchestra is delighted to welcome back charming Viennese conductor Aleksandar Marković for what is sure to be a festive afternoon looking towards the excitement of the New Year. He will be joined by stunning soprano Rebecca Bottone.

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BSO: Classical Extravaganza

Event Date: 
01/08/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter University

Frank Zielhorst, conductor

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra brings the best of classical music with spectacular lasers and indoor fireworks to Exeter Great Hall this August.

Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Overture Shostakovich Waltz II from Jazz Suite No.2 Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess Ravel Bolero Handel Largo from Xerxes Stravinsky The Firebird: Infernal Dance and Finale Wagner Tannhäuser Overture John Williams Memoirs of a Geisha Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances AUDIENCE CHOICE – see below! Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture

AUDIENCE CHOICE – the most popular...

Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra - Country Folksongs

Event Date: 
16/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in a classical concert at Exeter's Great Hall. 'Country Folksongs' will include works by Khachaturian and Dvořák

Programme:

Khachaturian - Adagio from Spartacus Khachaturian - Violin Concerto Dvořák - Symphony No.7

Aleksandar Marković - CONDUCTOR Nikita Boriso-Glebsky - Violin

Khachaturian was a composer with an incredible gift for melody, and the Violin Concerto is a fun and playful example of this. Its lush, oriental-sounding tunes, high-flying virtuosity and yearning melodic intensity soon appealed to worldwide audiences...

BSO: Country Folksongs

Event Date: 
16/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

KHACHATURIAN Adagio from Spartacus KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No.7 Aleksandar Marković conductor Nikita Boriso-Glebsky violin

Khachaturian was a composer with an incredible gift for melody, and the Violin Concerto is a fun and playful example of this. Its lush, oriental-sounding tunes, high-flying virtuosity and yearning melodic intensity soon appealed to worldwide audiences. Musical elements drawn from the folk songs and dances of Khachaturian's native Armenia add to the festive intoxication, which are also present in the lusciously evocative Adagio from his...

Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra - Heroes & Superheroes II

Event Date: 
19/02/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

Pete Harrison conductor

Back by popular demand, Pete Harrison and the BSO present another evening of some of the best film scores from the movies. Blockbuster soundtracks include those written by Maurice Jarre, Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith and, of course, the master of the film-score, John Williams. Films represented include Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, Schindler's List, The Last Samurai, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and a reprise of the best superhero of them all – Superman. As well as heroes, this year there may also be a few villains lurking about too!...

Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra - Fantastic Dance

Event Date: 
06/02/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

SIBELIUS Spring Song GRIEG Piano Concerto RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances Joshua Weilerstein conductor Alessandro Taverna piano

Rachmaninov composed the Symphonic Dances shortly after fleeing war-torn Europe for the United States. The work is rhythmically animated and truly symphonic in style, proportions, and sonority, with melodies that could only be his. At once nostalgic and sarcastic, sensual and sinister with touches of the grotesque, strange harmonies create an atmosphere of unease and anxiety before reaching a final demonic "dance of death".

From its explosive,...

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: London Town

Event Date: 
22/01/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

ELGAR Cockaigne Overture RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.1 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.2 "London" Andrew Litton conductor Alexei Volodin piano

Vaughan Williams' Second Symphony has been described as the musical equivalent of Monet’s paintings of the sun rising over a foggy Thames. Actual London sounds fleetingly emerge from an exquisitely woven musical tapestry - the chimes of Big Ben, the cry of a lavender-seller. Central to the symphony’s success is the wonderful limpid scoring, which Vaughan Williams felt in later life that he had never bettered.

The Cockaigne Overture, a...

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: Sea Pictures

Event Date: 
04/12/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Great Hall, Exeter

BRITTEN Frank Bridge Variations MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No.1 MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides DEBUSSY La Mer Kees Bakels conductor Ronald Brautigam piano

Mendelssohn's musical postcard of a Hebridean visit conjures up a whole seascape including the grandeur of Fingal's Cave, the swelling of the sea, the light on the water and the fury of the waves breaking on the cliffs. Like the sea itself, the surface of La Mer hints at the brooding mystery of its depths - a vibrating, oscillating, glimmering palette of sound which caresses the senses allowing the orchestra to shimmer in a thousand...

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