Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
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Wednesday 21 November 2.30pm Town Hall
See page 28 for details
Orchestra of The Swan David Curtis conductor David Le Page violin Respighi Ancients Airs and Dances Suite No 3 Warlock Capriol Suite Vivaldi The Four Seasons
What the World Needs Now... The Music of Burt Bacharach Friday Night Classics Friday 23 November, 7.30pm Symphony Hall
Orchestra of The Swan is a Town Hall Associate Artist.
Beethoven Mass in C
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3 Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Part of the Birmingham International Concert Season
Tuesday 20 November 8pm Symphony Hall Mahler Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director Beethoven Stravinsky Beethoven
Overture, Coriolan Piano Concerto No 1 Octet Piano Concerto No 3
9’ 37’ 14’ 37’
Beethoven’s First and Third Piano Concertos contain all the fire and fantasy of the young virtuoso. From the keyboard Leif Ove Andsnes directs an orchestra hailed as the best in the world by Le Monde. £9.50 – £40 Part of the Birmingham Beethoven Cycle.
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Wednesday 28 November 7.30pm Symphony Hall Kazushi Ono conductor Nicola Benedetti violin
Richard Balcombe conductor Graham Bickley, Sarah Lark, Alison Jiear vocalists
£6.50 – £21.50
Benedetti plays Szymanowski
The CBSO and an all-star cast give the deluxe treatment to Bacharach classics including Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, What The World Needs Now, Do You Know The Way to San José?, Walk On By and many more.
Dvorák The Wood Dove Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 1 Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
One of Britain’s best-loved violinists, Nicola Benedetti joins the CBSO to perform Szymanowski’s glittering Concerto, the piece with which she won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2004. Then the CBSO takes the spotlight in Bartók’s life-affirming and dazzling Concerto for Orchestra. £10 – £42
£12.50 – £40
Thursday 22 November 7.30pm Symphony Hall
Brodsky Quartet: Wheel of 4Tunes
Nelsons conducts Bruckner’s Eighth
Olari Elts conductor Anna Leese soprano Kai Rüütel mezzo Ben Johnson tenor Stephen Loges bass CBSO Chorus
Monday 26 November 7.30pm Town Hall
Thursday 6 December 7.30pm Symphony Hall
The Brodsky Quartet are 40 years old this year and are out to have some fun! Come along and join in with their Wheel of 4Tunes concert: the programme is picked by audience members spinning a wheel, with 40 of the quartet’s favourite works on offer.
Andris Nelsons conductor Claire Booth soprano
Haydn Te Deum 12’ Symphony No 104 (London) 29’ Beethoven Mass in C 45’ Olari Elts conducts the CBSO’s world-famous Chorus in Beethoven’s noble, heartfelt Mass in C – but not before a ringing shout of joy from the happiest religious composer of all time, Beethoven’s teacher Joseph “Papa” Haydn. £10 – £42 Part of the Birmingham Beethoven Cycle.
20’ 23’ 38’
£9.50 – £30
Bruckner Symphony No 8 Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
83’ 38’
Andris Nelsons conducts one of the grandest and greatest symphonies in all music; Bruckner’s Eighth; a mighty vision of the eternal, composed for an enormous orchestra. Be sure to hear it – and stay on to hear BCMG perform Schoenberg’s masterpiece. 6.15pm Pre-concert performance, see website for details. PLUS – a late-night performance Birmingham Contemporary Music Group £10 – £42
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