Wed 16 May 2012
Musikverein, Vienna
Bostridge sings Bach
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G
Bach Ich habe genug
Bach Sinfonia from Cantata No.169
Bach Mein Verlangen from Cantata No.161
Bach Der Ewigkeit saphirnes Haus from Trauer-Ode
Bach Sinfonia from Cantata No.35
Bach Sanfte soll mein Todeskummer from Easter Oratorio
Bach Zerschmettert mich, ihr Felsen und ihr Hügel from St John Passion
Steven Devine director
Ian Bostridge tenor
Star tenor Ian Bostridge sings Bach.
A big thumbs down to noise abatement!
Wed 16 May 2012
You may have read about our adventures back in March where we took a 20-piece OAE orchestra around the country to deliver workshops and concerts under the banner Anthem for a Child. (If not, you are missing out: read about the cake, tandems, 5000 children, concerts and kettle bells here). The pinnacle of each concert…
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Composer
His times: Debussy’s career straddled one of the most fascinating periods in music history: the dusk of Romanticism and the emergence of Modernism. Music was becoming less a harmonious, evolving journey of mutual learning and agreement and more an outright battle between opposing ideologies. German dominance, particularly from Wagner’s angst-ridden music dramas, became the reactive…
Read MoreBostridge sings Bach: Audience Reaction
Mon 14 May 2012
Here’s what the audience thought of our all-Bach concert with Ian Bostridge, a few weeks ago at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. We’re about to go off on tour with Ian with the same programme, so if you live in Vienna, Dresden, Prague, Warsaw or Innsbruck you still have a chance to catch this concert. Details…
Read MoreTime to find out – are all audiences the same? New brochure now online…
Fri 11 May 2012
And here it is at last, our full brochure for the 2012-2013 concert season at Southbank Centre.
Read More2012-2013 concerts brochure cover revealed…
Thu 10 May 2012
We’re very excited to be able to now reveal to you the cover of our new 2012-2013 Southbank Centre concerts brochure. It features several of the audience members who star in the campaign, and you’ll notice we’ve turned our strapline around, so it now reads ‘Not all audiences are the same.’
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same… 2012-2013 brochure trailer
Wed 9 May 2012
Earlier this year we put a call-out to members of the OAE audience, looking for volunteers with a ‘strong look’ to star in our marketing campaign for the 2012-2013 season of concerts.
Read More2012-2013 pictures. Teaser No.13
Wed 9 May 2012
The very last teaser of pictures from our new brochure. Later today we’ll be posting a behind-the-scenes video trailer for the brochure, with the digital brochure going live this Friday…
Read MoreLook! No Conductor! Reviews
Tue 8 May 2012
Here are a couple of reviews from our Look! No Conductor! concerts in London and Bristol last week, with soloists Steven Isserlis, Isabelle Faust and Robert Levin.
Read MoreLook! No Conductor!: Listen again
Fri 4 May 2012
Our conductor-less performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last night was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and is now available to listen to on BBC iPlayer until next Thursday 10 May. Enjoy!
Read MoreAdd some glamour to your life with the OAE Green Travel Mug
Fri 4 May 2012
The girls of the OAE office lead a fabulous life. It’s full of glitz, glamour, shopping and gossip. And the occasional technical schedule, fundraising event or marketing campaign. In recent weeks though, the glamour factor has been somewhat upped by the girls getting hold of the ultimate lifestyle accessory, the OAE goes green mug. It’s…
Read MoreSpinal Chords now available to download
Wed 2 May 2012
Our performance of Sally Beamish’s Spinal Chords, commissioned by the OAE for the New Music 20×12 initiative, has now been released on the NMC label and is available to download. Recorded at its world premiere at Southampton’s Turner Sims concert hall, the performance features Juliet Stevenson narrating the text by writer Melanie Reid. You can…
Read More2012-2013 pictures. Teaser No.12
Wed 2 May 2012
Lots of legs in the latest teaser… New brochure, with full versions of these pictures and starring members of our audience will be revealed next week.
Read MorePreviewing the Oguike Four Seasons
Mon 30 Apr 2012
One of my personal highlights of the forthcoming 2012-2013 season of concerts is our collaboration with choreographer Henri Oguike. He’ll be working with OAE leader (and soloist for this concert) Kati Debretzeni, on a very special presentation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in which we’ll be adding new, contemporary choreography to Vivaldi’s masterpiece. The idea was…
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2012-2013 pictures. Teaser No.11
Fri 27 Apr 2012
The last of this week’s teaser pictures is rather athletic… Just a few of these left now. Next week we’ll be releasing a little video about the new pictures and how we got on finding audience members with a ‘strong look’.
Read MoreBach: the missing soloists
Fri 27 Apr 2012
This Wednesday, 25 April, saw us at the Queen Elizabeth Hall performing an all-Bach concert, with soloist Ian Bostridge and director Steven Devine. What anyone who was at the concert will have realised though was that Ian was not the only soloist, with the Brandenburg Concerto No.4 and also the Cantata Ich habe genug also…
Read MoreSally Beamish in conversation with Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Thu 26 Apr 2012
Here’s the latest of our pre-concert events to go online, from back in February this year. In it, our Principal Double Bass Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to composer Sally Beamish (pictured) about her new commission for the OAE, Spinal Chords, set to text by Melanie Reid, which was performed that evening. Don’t forget that you can…
Read More2012-2013 pictures. Teaser No.10
Thu 26 Apr 2012
Entering the final stages both of our teaser pictures and of our brochure production, with last changes being sent off to the designers today or tomorrow. So here’s today’s teaser. After we posted it on Facebook we realised that maybe it wasn’t the best crop of the larger picture, but anyway…
Read MoreAward-winning (and green) brownies…
Wed 25 Apr 2012
You may remember that in March, the OAE Green Team got a bit excited with the concept of a green month, which naturally meant there was an excuse to make cake (we find any excuse to make cake at the OAE). We therefore decided to have a low-carbon bake sale which would fund the planting…
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