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Renée Fleming, Desdemona; Johan Botha, Otello; MET Opera Company
1.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Verdi:
Otello, opera in 4 acts
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Performances: 11.2.08, 15.2.08, 18.2.08, 22.2.08, 26.2.08, 1.3.08, 4.3.08, 8.3.08
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Christopher Hogwood, conductor; Ensemble ACJW
7.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Haydn:
Symphony No. 22 in E flat major (The Philosopher), Hob 1/22
Martinu:
La Revue de cuisine (Kitchen Revue), jazz suite and ballet for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, cello and piano, H 161
Haydn:
Divertimento
Stravinsky:
Pulcinella (suite)
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Steuart Pincombe, cello
8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Bach Cello Suites Nos. 1 - 3, BWV 1007 - 1009
Performances: 1.3.08, 2.3.08
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Valery Gergiev, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Debussy:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), for orchestra, L 86
Prokofiev:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathétique), op. 74
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Olga Borodina, Carmen; Marcelo Álvarez, Don José; MET Opera Company
8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Bizet:
Carmen, opera in 4 acts
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Performances: 4.2.08, 8.2.08, 13.2.08, 16.2.08, 19.2.08, 23.2.08, 27.2.08, 1.3.08
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George Steel, conductor; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Scott Dispensa, baritone; Gotham City Orchestra
8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Bach: Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio
Vivaldi: Concerto “La Pastorella”
Vivaldi/Chedeville: “Printemps” from Les saisons Amusantes
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A 75th Birthday Tribute to Julian Bream
8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Works by Praetorius, Susato, Lawes, Britten, de Falla, Roussel, Takemitsu, Villa-Lobos
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The Rest Is Silence: Peace Concert; Ensemble Pi
8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2008
Frederic Rzewski: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (based on an Irish song which became popular during the American revolutionary war and whose structure Rzewski uses to express his thoughts on the current war)(world première)
John Harbison: Abu Ghraib (based on Iraqi songs the composer was asked to transcribe for the 1962 anthology, Lullabies of the World)
Kristin Norderval: Far from Home (two voices and live processing, 2007)(composed for the Iraqi actress Namaa Alward and combining fragments of Iraqi folksongs with spoken work and electronic processing to mourn the loss of home that war creates)
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
Programme also includes 2 short animated films from William Kentridge’s critically acclaimed 9 Drawings for Projection (2005) accompanied by a live performance of Philip Miller’s original score. Orchestrated for string quartet, “Stereoscope” and “Monument” powerfully examine the fraught legacy of apartheid and colonialism through an innovative use of animated charcoal drawings with touches of pastel color. Tickets can be purchased on the day of the performance.
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