2012: Our top moments
Fri 21 Dec 2012
Well, what a year it’s been…what with the small matter of the Olympics, the Diamond Jubilee, the notorious IKEA monkey in a coat, and of course, some fab concerts with the OAE. So we thought we’d put together our top office highlights from 2012…enjoy!
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The evolution of the violin bow
Thu 8 Nov 2012
OAE violinist, Henrietta Wayne, gives us an insight into the history of the violin bow, from the 1500s to today. Watch the video to find out about what a violin frog is and how you can make your own bow with a twig and string!
Read MoreGlyndebourne: on demand
Mon 6 Aug 2012
We’re very pleased to be able to offer you the chance to watch the 2009 Glyndebourne production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, featuring the OAE, online.
Read MoreFrench Impressionists with Sir Simon Rattle: Audience Reaction
Tue 12 Jun 2012
We caught up with audience members after Sunday’s concert with Sir Simon Rattle and Pierre-Laurent Aimard to ask them what they thought - here’s what they said. More photos and video from the Rattle tour coming soon.
Read MorePierre-Laurent Aimard on Ravel’s piano concerto for the left hand
Sun 10 Jun 2012
Ahead of tonight’s concert at the Royal Festival Hall here’s a video we filmed during rehearsal last weekend, in which Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks about Ravel’s dark and war-tinged Piano Concerto for the left hand.
Read MoreOn the road with the OAE, Sir Simon Rattle and the Labèque Sisters
Thu 31 May 2012
As we’re about to hit the road with Sir Simon again we thought it was a good time to post this video from last year’s tour with him, when we visited Luxembourg, Paris, Dublin and of course, London.
Read MoreVideo Profile: Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Fri 13 Apr 2012
In the first of a series of in-depth video profiles of key OAE players, Jon Jacob talks to Principal Double Bass Chi-chi Nwanoku MBE. In it she talks about how she made the transition from piano to double bass, (via athletics!), fast twitch muscles, how life in the self-governing OAE works and how the high…
Read MoreBerlioz’s Romeo & Juliet: audience reaction
Thu 29 Mar 2012
Last month saw one of the most ambitious projects in the OAE’s history come onto the Royal Festival Hall Stage: Berlioz’s Romeo & Juliet, conducted by Sir Mark Elder and with over 200 performers, Orchestra, soloists and choirs. We caught up with the audience after the London performance to find out what people thought of…
Read MoreThe Works returns: trailer
Mon 5 Mar 2012
We’re excited that our new concert series, The Works, returns for a second outing tomorrow night at Southbank Centre. The idea behind The Works is to give you the classical music equivalent of a gallery’s audio guide – a guided tour of selected classical masterpieces. At tomorrow’s event we’re featuring Bach’s Suite No.3 and Brandenburg…
Read MoreA musical stalker…
Thu 23 Feb 2012
Tomorrow night our late-night series The Night Shift comes to the legendary Roundhouse in Camden for one of our biggest Night Shift events yet, with over 80 musicians on stage to play Orchestral highlights from Berlioz’s Romeo & Juliet. The tag-line for the series is ‘Classical Music: Minus the Rules‘ and we bore that in…
Read MoreMissa Solemnis audience reaction
Tue 20 Dec 2011
Back at the start of November we performed Beethoven’s epic Missa Solemnis, together with conductor Gianandrea Noseda and the Philharmonia Chorus. In this video we catch up with audience members after the concert to ask what they made of it – and there’s also some short extracts from the performance too.
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 MoreIntense. Extraordinary. Massive. But boring?! Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
Tue 25 Oct 2011
On 4 November we’re collaborating with the Philharmonia Chorus to perform Beethoven’s epic Missa Solemnis in a concert which is given in memory of Sir Charles Mackerras, who was both President of the Philharmonia Chorus and an Emeritus Conductor of the OAE. The other week we caught up with players from the Orchestra to…
Read MoreOAE at the Edinburgh International Festival
Fri 26 Aug 2011
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We’re really excited to be part of the Edinburgh International Festival and are taking our tour with the brilliant Vladimir Jurowski to the Usher Hall tonight where he’ll be conducting a programme of Weber, Liszt’s dramatic Faust Symphony and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E with Alina Ibragimova. Here’s a taster of what’s to come tonight,…
Read MoreMegan’s Alphabet Challenge (AKA the A-Z of touring)
Thu 18 Aug 2011
While on tour in Holland earlier this year we set OAE Projects Manager Megan Russell a challenge. She’d taken our little camera with her to take footage – but could she somehow find a complete A-Z of things in the tour? Here’s the result, and we have to admit that its one of our favourite…
Read MoreAudience reaction: Sir Simon Rattle and the Labèque Sisters
Mon 1 Aug 2011
As you may just have noticed from this blog, one of the highlights of our year so far has been our tour with Sir Simon Rattle and Katia and Marielle Labèque. After concerts in Luxembourg, Paris and Dublin, the tour culminated in a sold-out show at the Royal Festival Hall. Our intrepid camera-man Zen caught…
Read MoreJurowski on Don Giovanni
Mon 6 Jun 2011
The OAE is currently in the middle of a run of Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne, the first of two operas we are performing there this season (the other being Rinaldo). The production of Don Giovanni premiered last summer when it was conducted by our Principal Artist and Glyndebourne Music Director Vladimir Jurowski. This season Robin…
Read MoreHandel: What’s the appeal?
Fri 3 Jun 2011
In this latest video OAE violinist and musicologist Roy Mowatt explores what gives Handel’s music its mass, immediate appeal: Join us tomorrow for A celebration of Handel, live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Read MoreThe Night Shift: Roy Goodman on Schubert
Thu 28 Apr 2011
Next week we have the latest in our series of late-night Night Shift events. We caught up with conductor Roy Goodman after yesterday’s rehearsal to ask him about the symphony featured in the concert, Schubert’s Symphony No.4, Tragic. Find out more about the event here.
Read MoreBaroque. Contrasted: Vox Pops
Mon 18 Apr 2011
Well I think we’re just about recovered from our Baroque. Contrasted. festival which we held at Kings Place the other week. It was certainly a pretty intense week, particularly for those who were here every day and night for five days! We had some great concerts, workshops and events, and trying to force myself to…
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