THURSDAY 16
SEPTEMBER AT 7.30PM
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
New
World Symphony
Suk
Scherzo Fantastique
Korngold
Violin Concerto
Dvorak
Symphony No.9 ‘From the New World’
Libor Pešek KBE conductor
Pavel Šporcl violin
Everyone loves Dvořák’s ‘New World’ symphony. With its epic drama, aching nostalgia and
unforgettable tunes (just don’t mention the Hovis advert), it’s been a hit
everywhere it’s been played for over a century. And nowhere more so than in
Liverpool, where the RLPO’s much-loved Conductor Laureate Libor Pešek brings a
uniquely personal Czech flair to this greatest of Czech symphonies. Typically,
Libor’s bringing a surprise gift from Prague: a delicious miniature by Dvořák’s son-in-law Josef
Suk. And he’s joined by violinist Pavel Šporcl (who wowed Phil audiences during
his last visit) for the irresistibly glamorous Violin Concerto by Viennese
prodigy-turned-Hollywood legend Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Another treat from the
New
World – and every bit as
tuneful!
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WEDNESDAY 3
NOVEMBER AT 7.30PM
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Heaven Sent
Mozart Overture: Il Seraglio (the Abduction from the Seraglio)
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Mahler Symphony No.4
Vasily Petrenko conductor
James Ehnes violin
Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano
Mahler doesn’t have to mean massive – and he never
wrote anything more charming, or more tuneful, than his Fourth Symphony.
Melodies straight out of Mozart, jangling sleigh bells, and a rapturous finale
in which a child imagines a banquet in heaven (sung tonight by the award-winning
young soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon) - it almost sounds too charming.
But this is still Mahler, after all, and there’s a pitch black sense of humour
lurking behind all that tenderness and joy. Expect some grown-up surprises as
Vasily Petrenko reaches the latest instalment in the RLPO’s Mahler
Edition, and expect pure, glorious song from the superb Canadian violinist
James Ehnes (a real Phil favourite in recent seasons) in Mendelssohn’s
wonderfully lyrical Violin Concerto.
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TUESDAY 7
DECEMBER AT 7.30PM
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Fairy Tales
Ravel Mother Goose Suite
Prokofiev Cinderella Suite
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker: Act II
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Once upon a time…Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev and
Pyotr Tchaikovsky each set out to tell a story. The result was pure magic. As
Christmas draws closer, get into the spirit of the season with these three
beloved musical fairytales. Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose and
Prokofiev’s tongue-in-cheek take on the story of Cinderella are just the
upbeat to a generous festive helping of Tchaikovsky – everyone’s favourite bit
of The Nutcracker! The Waltz of the Flowers, the Dance of the Mirlitons,
and of course the Sugar Plum Fairy… you’ll meet them all, as Vasily Petrenko and
the RLPO whirl you on a very special pre-Christmas sleigh-ride through the
Kingdom of Sweets. Think of it as a musical Selection Box – and go on, spoil
yourself!
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FRIDAY 31
DECEMBER AT 9.45PM
Raymond
Gubbay presents
NEW YEAR'S EVE
PROM
PRESTON’S OWN TRADITIONAL
NEW YEAR’S EVE SELL-OUT
See in the hour of
midnight with a magnificent
programme of
CLASSIC. . . AFTER
CLASSIC . . . AFTER CLASSIC
to celebrate 2011 in
style with a FANTASTIC INDOOR
FIREWORK FINALE
SUPPE
Light Cavalry Overture
FUCIK Entrance of the
Gladiator
ELGAR
Nimrod
STRAUSS
Blue Danube
Waltz
VERDI Questa o quella from
Rigoletto
PUCCINI
O mio babbino caro
VERDI
Brindisi from La
Traviata
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio
Espagnole
DELIBES
Prelude and Mazurka from Coppelia
VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS Fantasia on
Greensleeves
GOODWIN Those Magnificent Men
in their Flying Machines
AND NEW YEAR’S
EVE FAVOURITES
JERUSALEM 633 SQUADRON RULE,
BRITANNIA!
NESSUN
DORMA LAND OF HOPE AND
GLORY
THERE’ll ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND AULD LANG SYNE
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 OVERTURE
complete with audience
participation!
Sarah
Redgwick soprano
Jonathan Stoughton
tenor
John Rigby conductor
Manchester Concert
Orchestra
Guild Hall
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TUESDAY 11
JANUARY AT 7.30PM
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Surprise
Symphony
Mozart
Symphony No.38 ‘Prague’
Mozart
Exsultate Jubilate
Rossini
Overture, La Gazza Ladra
Rossini
Folleville's aria from Il
Viaggio a Reims
Haydn
Symphony No.94 in G major ‘Surprise’
Ottavio
Dantone conductor
Désirée
Rancatore soprano
Mozart, Haydn and Rossini weren’t writing for critics
– they wanted their music to drive audiences wild with enthusiasm. The people of
Prague danced all night to Mozart’s melodies, so he wrote
them a symphony that bursts with energy. Rossini hired the best singers in the
business – and made them perform jaw-dropping vocal acrobatics. And Haydn stuck
a huge practical joke in the slow movement of his 94th symphony,
“just to make the ladies jump”. Don’t say you weren’t warned! A seriously fun
concert, and 18th-century music expert Ottavio Dantone is just the
maestro to make it fizz. Even Rossini, meanwhile, would have raised his hat to
the flamboyant young Italian soprano Désirée Rancatore.
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TUESDAY 1
FEBRUARY AT 7.30PM
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Memorable
Melodies
Stravinsky
Circus Polka
Finzi
Eclogue for piano and strings
Shostakovich Piano Concerto
No.2
Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Stravinsky
Firebird Suite (1945)
Andrew
Litton conductor/ piano
When a piece makes it into the Classic FM Hall of
Fame, you can be sure of one thing – it’s got a good tune. And in this concert,
under the entertaining American conductor-pianist Andrew Litton, the tunes just
keep coming! There’s English music at its most gentle from Finzi and Delius, and
Russian music at its most playful in Shostakovich’s big-hearted Second Piano
Concerto (to say nothing of the Polka that Stravinsky wrote for a troupe of
dancing elephants!). And then, as a grand finale, there’s Stravinsky’s gorgeous
fairy-tale ballet suite. Hear it as one of the great orchestral showpieces of
the 20th century, or hear it as the love scene from Shirley
Valentine.
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SATURDAY 12
FEBRUARY AT 7.30PM
Raymond Gubbay
presents
JOHANN STRAUSS
GALA
Waltzing into the romantic elegance
of 19th Century
Vienna.
Waltz back in time to the glittering ballrooms of 19th
Century
Vienna with an enchanting mix of music, song and dance
from the Strauss
Family and Friends.
Tritsch
Tratsch Polka
The
Blue Danube Waltz
Emperor
Waltz
Auf der
Jagd
Pizzicato
Polka
Radetzky
March
Cuckoo
Polka
Thunder and Lightning
Polka
The Laughing Song
from Die Fledermaus
Tales
from the Vienna Woods
JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA
Directed from the violin in the traditional Viennese manner
by
DAVID JURITZ
With sparkling soprano AMY
FRESTON
JOHANN STRAUSS DANCERS in glorious costumes of the
period.
Choreography & Staging by Christopher
Hampson
“Guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a spring in your
step”
“Musical escapism of the highest order”
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WEDNESDAY 9
MARCH AT 7.30PM
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
A
German Requiem
Songs by Brahms and
Strauss
(Inger Dam-Jensen, soprano, with
piano)
Brahms
A German Requiem
Claus Peter
Flor conductor
Inger
Dam-Jensen soprano
Gerd
Grochowski baritone
Preston
Cecilian Choral Society
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be
comforted.
They that sow in tears
shall reap in joy.
Brahms didn’t believe in God, but he did believe in
human love, and as he struggled to come to terms with the death of his mother he
conceived a different kind of Requiem – music meant to comfort those left
behind. Drawing on biblical texts, the tradition of Bach, and Brahms’ own deeply
romantic spirit, the German Requiem is surely the warmest and most
tender of all great choral works. The respected German conductor Claus Peter
Flor has devoted his life to the German romantic tradition; along with two
world-class soloists and the Preston Cecilian Choral Society, there’s no better
guide to this radiant and profoundly moving masterpiece.
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WEDNESDAY 11
MAY AT 7.30PM
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
South
American Dream
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasiliensis No
9
Piazzolla
Bandoneón Concerto “Aconcagua”
Villa
Lobos Bachianas Brasiliensis No.8
Ginastera
Suite from Estancia
Roberto
Minczuk conductor
Per Arne
Glorvigen bandoneón
They say it takes two to tango, but the great
Argentinean king of nuevo tango, Astor Piazzolla, could flood a whole
orchestra with its dark, sophisticated and powerfully sensuous rhythms. His
haunting concerto for bandoneón – the supersize concertina heard in the dance
halls of Buenos Aires – is at the passionate heart of this extraordinary
concert; a musical tour through South America in the hands of the dynamic
Brazilian maestro Roberto Minczuk. Villa-Lobos’s sumptuous Bachianas
Brasiliensis give a flamboyant Latin swing to the spirit of JS Bach; while
Ginastera’s earthy ballet suite celebrates the vast beauty and rough-cut spirit
of the Argentinean grasslands. Music from a new world, bursting with colour and
pulsing with emotion – in other words, a concert like nothing else this season.
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