May - November 2014 What's On Guide

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Featuring Echo & The Bunnymen Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté The Irish Sea Sessions 2014 John Grant Bellowhead Paco Peña Summer at St George’s Hall Concert Room

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Contents Welcome Page 2 – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall transformed / Liverpool International Music Festival Page 3 – Contemporary Music Pages 4-6 – Classical Music Page 7 – Summer at St George’s Hall Concert Room Pages 8-9 – Coming Soon Page 9 – Seating Plans & Venue Information Pages 10-11

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On 23 May, the world-premiere of a new work for percussion by Stuart Copeland, of the band The Police, performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko in the concert Bringing Down the House! will be the final performance at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall before we begin a major refurbishment to the venue. We are closing for the first phase of a redevelopment that will see the upgrading of the Hall and the beginning of the building of new world class facilities for our audiences and the many international artists with whom we collaborate and welcome to Liverpool.

As you take a look through this this May to November What’s On Guide, you’ll see that although the Hall is temporarily out of action, we are continuing to bring you, and Liverpool, fantastic live music events this summer at venues right across the city. The Irish Sea Sessions 2014 are at The Dome in Grand Central Hall – the very venue in which Liverpool Philharmonic took up residence when the original Liverpool Philharmonic Hall was dramatically destroyed by fire in 1933 until the current Hall was officially

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opened in 1939. Liverpool’s two cathedrals are the book-ends of Hope Street, and the Orchestra, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir perform at Liverpool Cathedral, while flamenco guitarist Paco Peña and his troupe are at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

There’s excellent African roots music from Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté and Welsh harpist Catrin Finch with kora player Seckou Keita to enjoy at St George’s Hall Concert Room, as well as Liverpool Philharmonic’s regular chamber music series in the same beautiful city venue.

Thank you as always for your continuing support. The numbers of audience members we have welcomed through our doors and your generous response to the Love Music campaign, supporting the refurbishment of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, have been overwhelming in the past few months.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you back to our home on Hope Street later this year.

Simon Glinn Executive Director, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and Events

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Liverpool Philharmonic Hall transformed The refurbishment of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is now underway... ... after a successful fundraising campaign, with significant support from Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Wolfson Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Foyle Foundation, the Kenneth Stern Trust and The Granada Foundation, in addition to the overwhelming generosity of hundreds of individual donors and other Trusts and Foundations.

The careful refurbishment of our much loved home will transform your visit to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. We have based much of our work around what you have told us about your experiences of visiting the building. As well as improvements across all of the public areas, we are investing in the facilities for our musicians and artists to so that they can bring their very best performance to our stage and to ensure your enjoyment of music in this unique venue.

We will also create a new intimate second space that will extend the range of music, talent and audience experience that we can host at Liverpool Philharmonic.

We are working hard to minimise any impact on your visit to the Hall throughout this period. From time to time there may be some change to how you use the facilities at the Hall but no overall reduction in the quality of your visit.

More information about our plans can be found at www.liverpoolphil.com.

– Please note that from 24 May – 10 November, the box office will take telephone and online bookings only, and will be unable to accommodate in-person booking due to construction works.

These important changes will take place across 2014 and the spring of 2015.

When we welcome you back to the Hall for the start of our new season in the autumn of 2014, you will experience the revitalised foyers including a new box office and Grand Foyer Bar as well as significant improvements in comfort levels and access to the auditorium, new and refurbished toilets and other facilities and a new lift linking the major spaces in the building for the first time. We look forward to the completion of the whole project and the opening of a new second space in 2015.

This project would simply not have been possible without you!

Liverpool International Music Festival 15-30 August

Liverpool International Music Festival is one of the largest music festivals in the UK!

This summer, join the team at Sefton Park for the second year of the city’s largest music festival – complete with 4 free outdoor concerts. Not to mention a number of special ticketed evening events at some of the City’s most interesting venues, including a series of commissioned performances under the theme of World Firsts by Collaboration.

This year’s festival will see some of the biggest names in music past, present and future, so save the dates, 15- 30 August (additional dates may be announced) to find out why music is at the heart of Liverpool’s reputation!

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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

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Echo & The Bunnymen

Don Williams

Monday 12 May 7.30pm £35, £40, £46 – American country singersongwriter and 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame Don Williams is the very embodiment of Americana music. With his hits Good Ole Boys Like Me, I Believe In You, Love Is On A Roll, Amanda and Tulsa Time, he has always had a knack for finding songs that touch people’s hearts. Enlisting the help of his accomplished road band, he creates the kind of music that speaks to everyone.

With his accomplished road band. There’s a broken-in familiarity among the musicians that can’t be recreated by others - and those lived-in grooves fit Williams like his trademark Stetson hat. He released his latest album Reflections in March this year to much acclaim.

‘Reflections showcases a classic vocalist in top form.

Peak moments soar and soothe with trademark effortlessness.’

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Tuesday 20 May 7.30pm £26.50, £32.50, £39.50 – Returning with Meteorites, their first studio album in over four years, Echo & The Bunnymen close their UK tour at Liverpool Philharmonic.

Famed for hit singles The Cutter and The Killing Moon, along with three Gold certified albums, Echo & The Bunnymen are one of the most seminal British rock acts in modern history. They emerged from the Liverpool scene of the early 80s and twelve studio albums later this concert sees them performing the new material live for the first time, along with a fine selection of their classic tracks.

‘At long last we’ve made the worthy successor to Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here, Porcupine and Ocean Rain.

Meteorites is what Echo and the Bunnymen mean and are meant to be.’

Ian McCulloch

Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté

Tuesday 27 May 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £20 – Award-winning kora player Toumani Diabaté returns to Liverpool with material from his new album, Toumani & Sidiki.

The album is a dazzling dialogue – between father and son; past and future; power and restraint – conducted through the kora, the 21-string West African harp which the Diabaté dynasty has transformed into the most iconic of African instruments. The ties binding Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté are particularly profound and evocative.

Descended from a long line of griots – custodians of the ancient oral traditions of West Africa’s Mandé people – they are two generations of kora players in a family lineage which stretches back hundreds of

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years. Toumani’s father, Sidiki senior, recorded the first ever kora album, Mali: Ancient Strings, in 1970, unwrapping its potential as a virtuosistic lead instrument. His son Toumani has taken it further, weaving together bass lines, ancient melodies and astonishing improvisations to create a kaleidoscope of musical colours.

He is as comfortable playing All Tomorrow’s Parties as he is playing WOMAD or with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Toumani won the Grammy for Best Traditional World Music Album for In The Heart Of The Moon, his collaboration with legendary Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré.

Now, in Sidiki, a new generation is emerging.

‘The finest Toumani collaboration I have heard since his classic work with Ali Farka Touré.’

(5 stars) The Guardian

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Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

Wednesday 8 October 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £16 – The previous 12 months have been an amazing year for welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita. Winners of the prestigious fRoots Album Of The Year for their debut album Clychau Dibon, nominated for two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Duo and Best Traditional Track, and featured in Songlines Magazine top ten albums of 2013, the sky is indeed the limit for this fearless pair of virtuoso musicians whose ‘heavenly music… intricately realised’ (Songlines Magazine) and infectious onstage

chemistry defies categorisation and continues to merge the boundaries between the genres of classical, folk roots and traditional music. The harp occupies a vital place in the incredibly rich cultures of both West Africa and Wales and both nations share a centuries-old bardic tradition of intricate oral history, expressed through music, song and verse.

Together, Finch and Keita have risen to the tough challenge of blending two completely different musical cultures and creating something coherent, relevant and entirely new.

‘Something quite different, a really intriguing collaboration... it works so beautifully together – a beautiful album.’

Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

Liverpool Irish Festival 23 October – 2 November Liverpool Irish Festival

The Irish Sea Sessions

Friday 31 October 8pm The Dome, Grand Central Hall £20 – 2014 will see the fifth incarnation of the annual session. Once again some of the finest traditional musicians and singers from Liverpool, Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Irish diaspora, gather together to explore and celebrate tunes, and both traditional and contemporary songs, inspired

by Liverpool, Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Irish Sea. In the spirit of a pub session, and on the grand scale of a concert hall, the artists will join together with the audience to share the heritage and connections between them all.

Songlines Magazine recently

described the show as ‘a younger, slightly stroppier cousin to Celtic Connections’ Transatlantic Sessions’ adding ‘a pervading generosity of spirit and utter lack grandstanding remains key to the success of The Irish Sea Sessions.’ Expect a fresh new experience with Dave Munnelly as the new Music Director for this year and a line which boasts Gino Lupari Sean Regan, Terry ClarkeCoyne, Dave Munnelly (Music Director), Neil Campbell Emily Portman, Alan Burke Emma Sweeney and Pauline Scanlon.

‘One of the highlights of the Liverpool musical year, a gettogether that surpassed all expectation.’

Liverpool Echo ‘Electrifying live.’

Songlines Magazine

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The Gloaming

Sunday 2 November 7.30pm £25 – The Gloaming connect the rich Irish folk tradition and New York’s contemporary music scene.

From haunting sean-nós (a style of unaccompanied traditional Irish) songs to rousing instrumental medleys, they make music that is both ancient and utterly new. This group of extraordinary virtuoso musicians each have their own highly successful individual careers, but came together with a shared musical aesthetic to form a band with a sound all of its own. The five players met to explore new music at Grouse Lodge Studios in West Meath,

Ireland, in early 2011. At once they made music that is sparse and beautiful, authentic and tune-filled. Featuring New York pianist Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill, fiddle master Martin Hayes, hardanger innovator Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh and Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionaird - well known for his contribution to the legendary Afro Celt Sound System this band create a new epic yet familiar sound.

– ‘Moves the music of Ireland in captivating new directions’.

The New Yorker ‘Their live performances so far have been revelatory... Future dates are likely to cement them as one of the great forces in Irish music.’

The Irish Times

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Paco Peña Requiem for the Earth Thursday 9 October 7.30pm £28.50 The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King – Peña is one of the leading champions of the Flamenco tradition and his shows always combine brilliantly music, drama and dance to push at the boundaries of this ancient musical form. The New York Times wrote ‘Peña is a virtuoso,

capable of dazzling an audience beyond the frets of mortal man.

He combines rapid-fire flourishes with a colourist's sense of shading; this listener cannot recall hearing any guitarist with a more assured mastery of his instrument.’

This Requiem featuring guitarists, percussionists, a flamenco dancer and choir is an epic lament for our planet which fuses the heat and fire of flamenco with the passionate incantations of a Southern

Spanish requiem mass. Requiem for the Earth is a powerful reminder that our existence on earth is transitory. This performance, with its driving flamenco rhythms, dark harmonies and soulful vocals combining beautifully with the expressive choral music, in the sanctity of The Metropolitan Cathedral will be a thrilling, moving and perhaps spiritual experience.

Bellowhead

Monday 10 November 7.30pm £22.50, £24.50, £30.50 – Since their formation ten years ago Bellowhead have occupied a unique place in Britain’s musical landscape: a blistering 11-piece band fusing folk, funk, rock, world, jazz, music hall and classical music, they have placed themselves at the cutting edge of the contemporary music scene

John Grant with the Royal Northern Sinfonia Saturday 22 November 7.30pm £21, £24, £30 – Just over a year since the release of his critically-lauded second album Pale Green Ghosts, and with numerous ‘Best Album of 2013’ accolades to his name, John Grant’s first ever 7 date tour with an orchestra launches here at Liverpool Philharmonic.

In 2013 he was nominated for Best Solo Artist in the Q Awards - alongside David Bowie, Laura Marling, Ellie Goulding and Jake Bugg - success continued this year when he was nominated for the International Male Solo Artist Brit Award shortlisted with Bruno Mars, Drake, Eminem and Justin Timberlake. It’s been an extraordinary journey, from a point where he thought he would never make music again or escape a life of substance abuse to winning awards and accolades, collaborating with Midlake, Sinead O’Connor, Ásgeir, Rumer and Hercules & Love Affair and having his music

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while harnessing all the power and mystery of English and European musical traditions.

Their most recent album, 2012’s Broadside, spawned three playlisted singles on BBC Radio 2 and was voted Best Album at the station’s 2013 Folk Awards having previously picked up the Best Live Band Award.

‘Dazzling reinvention of tradition.’

The Guardian

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It’s a journey that’s taken him from his birthplace in Michigan to be raised in Colorado, studying languages in Germany and, after his band The Czars split up, basing himself in New York, London, Berlin and, most recently, Iceland. It’s also been a journey from The Czars’ folk/country noir to the lush alchemy of his debut album Queen Of Denmark, through the astonishing fusion of sounds that lifts Pale Green Ghosts to even giddier heights, to this live show performing with the UK’s only full-time chamber orchestra reworking his celebrated catalogue in a sumptuous orchestral setting, alongside the world premiere of new especially written songs.

Grant’s creativity, unique songwriting and wonderful vocals combined with 34 musicians and music orchestrated by Fiona Brice who has provided arrangements for the likes of Roy Harper, Anna Calvi, Midlake, Placebo, as well as John Grant himself promises an unparalleled musical experience.

‘It’s hard to imagine a more enjoyable and rewarding hour of music being released this year than Pale Green Ghosts: self-obsessed but completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful.’

The Guardian ‘Grant’s rich voice dovetails beautifully with the silvery synths.’ NME

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‘Erudite, bittersweet and catchy.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Lush vintage balladry and stark electro… Artistic courage... A masterpiece.’

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Vasily Petrenko, Chief Conductor Roscoe Lecture

Wednesday 14 May 6pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

talk about those who’ve influenced him, why he decided to come to Liverpool; the essence of his dynamic and award-winning partnership with with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and why he believes in the ‘power of music.’

Tickets for this event are free, but can be booked in advance – Liverpool John Moores University’s free public Roscoe lectures use humour, cutting edge research and political insight to explore what it means to be a good citizen in today’s society. Vasily Petrenko, Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Honorary Fellow of LJMU in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Liverpool and the arts, will be in conversation with Darren Henley, Managing Director of Classic FM. Hear what set Petrenko on the road to a career in classical music, from a ‘hothoused’ music education in Russia to where his career has brought him today. He will

Summer Is Icumen In A Midsummer Celebration

Saturday 21 June 7.30pm Liverpool Cathedral £15 – Programme includes: Medieval arr Tracey Summer Is Icumen In Delius To be sung of a Summer Night on the River Elgar As Torrents in Summer Elgar Two songs from Bavarian Highlands Op.27 Stanford The Bluebird Tracey Sure on this Shining Night Rodgers & Hammerstein June is Bustin’ Out All Over

Tuesday 17 June 7.30pm Liverpool Cathedral £21, £18 – Wagner Tannhäuser Overture Mozart Ave Verum Corpus John Tavener Song for Athene Poulenc Organ Concerto Walton Crown Imperial Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Richard Strauss Festliches Präludium – Vasily Petrenko conductor Ian Tracey organ Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Vasily Petrenko leads the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in the magnificent setting of Liverpool Cathedral.

Mozart’s soaring Ave Verum Corpus features, and Ian Tracey will dazzle in Poulenc’s Organ Concerto. Also included will be Tallis’ haunting theme reworked in Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia and Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser – hear this sacred music played in the setting for which it was intended. Following the one-hour performance, you are invited to join Vasily Petrenko and musicians from the Orchestra in the Well of the Cathedral where complimentary Pimms and soft drinks will be served.

Ian Tracey conductor Stephen Hargreaves organ/piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir – Summer is definitely coming and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir will sing in the season with their Midsummer Celebration in the fabulous setting of Liverpool Cathedral. Led by Chorus Master Ian Tracey and featuring evocative music based around the theme of the summer through the ages. From Morley’s “April is in my Mistress Face” to Rodgers and Hammerstein, join them as June busts out all over!

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SUMMER AT ST GEORGE’S HALL CONCERT ROOM

Image: St George’s Hall Concert Room Vasily Petrenko conductor Jonathan Small oboe Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Join us for an early summer’s evening concert featuring the Orchestra’s own Principal Oboe, Jonathan Small in one of Richard Strauss’ last works, inspired by a visit from an American GI and oboist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, stationed in Bavaria after World War Two. This is paired with excerpts from the composer’s ravishing Ariadne auf Naxos.

Summertime Strauss Tuesday 3 June 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

Mozart Symphony No.34 Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos; The Opera - Overture and Dance Scene Mozart Symphony No.40 –

Chamber Music

Simon Trpc˘eski, piano James Clark, violin Jonathan Aasgaard, cello Tuesday 10 June 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

All Brahms Programme Cello Sonata No.2, Op.99 Violin Sonata No.2, Op.100 Piano Trio No.3, Op.101 – Chamber music has been called ‘the music of friends’ – and Simon Trpčeski has struck up a real musical friendship with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. In this performance he teams up with two of the orchestra’s leading string players for a celebration of that relationship. They play two of Brahms’s richest and most songful sonatas, one each for cello and violin – before joining forces in the magnificent and impassioned Third Piano Trio. This is great music, played by artists who love it, in the exquisite surroundings of St George’s Hall.

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The programme also includes Mozart’s Symphonies No.34 and No.40, arguably the most popular of all of Mozart’s forty-one symphonies, having one of the catchiest opening movements of any symphony.

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Saturday 7 June 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales Poulenc Morceaux Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op.24 Brahms Intermezzi, Op.117 – There isn’t a pianist today quite like Simon Trpčeski. Combining a blinding technique with a deep sense of inner poetry, Trpčeski’s irrepressible musical personality shines through in everything he plays. His concerto partnership with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has won global acclaim, but this concert is a rare opportunity to hear him playing solo in Liverpool, with a programme that revels in the playfulness and sensuality of Poulenc and Ravel, before exploring some of the profoundest pages in all Romantic music: Brahms’ sublime Intermezzi.

This concert is being recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

‘Electrifying virtuosity, but no whiff of show-off. The most delicate feelings, yet nothing precious or lacy. Head plus heart, lots of heart.’

The Times Liverpool Philharmonic

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Trpc˘eski plays Shostakovich

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Sunday 15 June 2.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

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Chamber Music

Brahms String Quintet in G, Op.111 Elgar Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20 Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 – Simon Trpc˘eski piano/director James Clark leader Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Good things come in small packages. We can’t squeeze the whole Orchestra into the beautiful Concert Room at St George’s Hall, but with Shostakovich’s brilliant First Piano Concerto we don’t need to! Brisk, irreverent and positively crackling with wit, this is Shostakovich at his irreverent best, played by a small team of Orchestra players under the direction of soloist Simon Trpčeski; a pianist who makes everything he plays spring to sparkling life.

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Midweek Mozart

Wednesday 25 June 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

Sunday Serenade

Sunday 22 June 2.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

Stravinsky Concerto in D for string orchestra Richard Strauss Metamorphosen Grieg Holberg Suite Dvor˘ák Serenade for Strings – James Clark violin/director String players of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Music for strings like you’ve never heard it before, with the extraordinary string players of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. We start with the neoclassical melodies of Stravinsky’s Concerto in D, completed in Hollywood in 1946, then experience the dense chromaticism and intricate counterpoint of Strauss’ Metamorphosen. The joie de vivre of Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings and Grieg’s Holberg Suite – a perennial favourite awash with charming melodies, complete this perfect Sunday afternoon programme.

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Gounod Petite Symphonie in B flat for Wind Instruments Richard Strauss Sonatina No.1 in F Mozart Serenade No.10 in B flat major for Winds, ‘Gran Partita’, K361 (K370a) – Jonathan Small director Wind players of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Mozart’s Così fan tutte Co-production with the European Opera Centre Wednesday 9 & Friday 11 July 7pm Sunday 13 July 2.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25 – Mozart’s masterpiece about love, loyalty and the battle of the sexes.

Strauss began and ended his career with wind music, and his Sonatina was one of his final works, inspired by the music of Mozart whose ‘Gran Partita’, features in this programme. Also included is another work highly influenced by Mozart, Gounod’s superbly melodic Petite Symphonie, a symphonietta that is a tribute to the French wind instrument tradition.

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Laurent Pillot conductor Bernard Rozet director Singers from the European Opera Centre Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Two young soldiers disguise their identities to test their lovers’ faithfulness in this work, a sublime and sometimes startling mix of hilarious farce and poignant drama. The opera features music of stunning beauty, from the calm before the storm of Soave sia il vento, the enchanting aria Un’aura amorosa to the heartbreaking Per pietà.

The cast has been chosen by the European Opera Centre from some 500 singers who have auditioned across Europe for this production. Bernard Rozet, the French actor/director, presents his fourth production with this team in Liverpool.

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to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Dave Gorman Gets straight to the Point* (*the Powerpoint) Tuesday 11 November

Charlie Landsborough Friday 21 November

The Stylistics

Lee Mack

Monday 17 November

Hit the Road Mack

John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra

The Human League

Cole Porter in Hollywood

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