Mildly Rude?
Wed 1 May 2013
We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve added a concert entitled Mildly Rude? to our 2013/2014 Southbank Centre season. Rounding off our Gamechangers series, it’s a opportunity to hear music from one of Britain’s unsung classical heroes, William Boyce.
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Chi-chi Nwanoku’s Russian Video Tour Diary
Fri 11 Jan 2013
Our Principal Double Bassist, Chi-Chi Nwanoku MBE, took some footage when our Messiah Tour took us all the way to Moscow, Russia, for our first ever performance there.
Read MoreMessiah on tour
Tue 18 Dec 2012
The Orchestra are currently on a festive tour- taking Handel’s Messiah to Las Palmas, Alicante and Moscow with director and OAE Principal Keyboard player, Robert Howarth.
Read MoreMessiah: audience reaction
Mon 17 Dec 2012
We finished our last concert of 2012 with a suitably festive performance of Messiah at the Royal Festival Hall on 11 December. Afterwards, we chatted to some of the audience to find out what they thought of the concert. Here’s what they had to say- including rocking basses, lifts and a bit of good old-fashioned…
Read MoreMessiah: The best bits
Mon 10 Dec 2012
Music critic Andrew Mellor popped into the office last week and told us about his favourite moments in Messiah and why it’ll ‘grab you by the scruff of the neck’, before our performance of Handel’s festive oratorio tomorrow at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. Here’s what he had to say…
Read MoreSpeed Interview: Matthew Brook
Sun 9 Dec 2012
With Messiah about to return to the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday, we pulled Bass-Baritone Matthew Brook out of rehearsals long enough for some short and sharp questions.
Read MoreRobert Howarth On Messiah
Fri 7 Dec 2012
As we return to Royal Festival Hall for Messiah on Tuesday 11 December, director Robert Howarth talks about what the OAE will bring to Handel’s epic masterpiece.
Read MoreA Massive Messiah?
Wed 5 Dec 2012
Messiah has long fascinated those musicians who peer into musical history, largely because it healthily challenges most of our preconceived notions of ‘faithfulness to the score’ and ‘authenticity’. What, for example, is the right way to perform an ‘authentic’ Messiah? The way Handel performed it in Dublin or London? After all, there must have been…
Read MoreSpeed Interview: Robert Howarth
Fri 30 Nov 2012
In the lead up to Messiah on 11 December, we fired some quick questions at director Robert Howarth.
Read MoreSpeed Interview: Julia Doyle
Fri 23 Nov 2012
As acclaimed soprano Julia Doyle prepares for her performance in Handel’s celebrated Messiah on 11 December, she took some time out to tell us a bit about her pre-concert superstitions and some of her musical heroes.
Read MoreMessiah in rehearsal
Tue 20 Dec 2011
Here’s a clip we posted online on Facebook a little while back but it’s only just made it onto our website, we’ve had such a backlog of things to blog about! Anyway, it’s some rather rough and ready footage from the rehearsal of Handel’s Messiah, which we performed at the Royal Festival Hall a few…
Read MoreRecent reviews: 1700s London & Messiah
Wed 14 Dec 2011
Here’s a brief round-up of reviews. First up, two from our concert of Abel, Arne, J C bach and Haydn, with violinist Rachel Podger, 1700s London and the Fab Four. Edward Seckerson Blog Bach Track And here’s some from our Messiah directed by Laurence Cummings, including a less than complimentary one in the Financial Times. …
Read MoreLaurence Cummings on Handel’s Messiah
Mon 21 Nov 2011
In our latest video we talk to director Laurence Cummings about Handel’s Messiah which we perform in London on 6 December and also on tour. Laurence tells us why it’s such a special piece and what this performance will bring to it, and we also have a lot of fun taking the balloon concept of…
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