The BBC Philharmonic is celebrating its centenary year with a concert showcasing what it does best: sharing music with the masses by continuing to laud Beethoven’s enduring popularity and championing rarely performed and newly written music.
Conductor Eva Ollikainen and soprano Héloïse Werner will present the world premiere of a new work by Erland Cooper in tribute to Peter Maxwell Davies’s long and close association with the orchestra, in a concert including Gipps’s Overture ‘Chanticleer’ and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with soprano Tuuli Takala, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, tenor Steve Davislim, and bass-baritone Simon Shibambu and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
In 2005, the much-loved orchestra broke ground and released its recordings of Beethoven’s nine symphonies as free downloads and, through effectively breaking the internet(!), within a week, Beethoven became the most downloaded artist in the UK.
Ahead of the show there will be music from Tommy Hill on the oboe and Philip Leslie on the piano in the foyer bar.
Here’s to the next 100 years!
BBC Philharmonic
Sat 15th Oct, 2022
19:30
The Bridgewater Hall
Manchester
Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 inc. booking fee
As part of the RNCM’s Future Music Festival, the BBC Philharmonic will be exploring the boundaries and intersections between science and art. Composers Robert Laidlow and Emily Howard join the orchestra with a pair of world premieres that delve into the wonderful outcomes of mixing music, maths, artificial intelligence (AI), and spirituality.
Laidlow’s Silicon investigates the synergies between music and AI, examining its ability to answer and develop music. Meanwhile, Howard ponders maths, love and death in the intimate Elliptics with words by Michael Symmons Roberts. Conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni, soprano Claire Booth, and countertenor Hugh Cutting will be bringing the music to life.
BBC Philharmonic
Sat 29th Oct, 2022
19:30
The Bridgewater Hall
Manchester
Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 inc. booking fee
