Published on Aug 26, 2014

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Monday, October 6, 2014

Venue: Concert Hall of NCPA

Prices: 180, 280, 400, 520, 600, 680, 880

Features: On October 6th, the UK’s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and chief conductor Vasily Petrenko will be performed at concert hall of NCPA in Beijing.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Vasily Petrenko
Vasily Petrenko was appointed Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2006; in September 2009 he became Chief Conductor. He is Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Principal Guest Conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg in Russia, Petrenko’s native city and where his professional career began in the mid-1990s.

He has toured with the European Union Youth Orchestra and enjoys relationships with many of the world's leading orchestras throughout Europe, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He made his BBC Proms debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, returning in 2010 and 2012. Future engagements include tours in Europe and the USA with the Russian National Orchestra, and his debut performances with the Chicago Symphony and National Symphony Washington.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The award-winning Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is the UK’s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra, its origins dating from 1840. During the last six years, it has built a global reputation for excellence under the leadership of Vasily Petrenko, who took up the baton as Principal Conductor in September 2006; in September 2009 he became Chief Conductor.

The Orchestra gives over sixty concerts each season in its home, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and in recent seasons world premiere performances have included major works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir John Tavener, Karl Jenkins, Michael Nyman and Jennifer Higdon, alongside works by Liverpool-born composers including John McCabe, Kenneth Hesketh, Emily Howard, Stephen Pratt and Mark Simpson. Collaborations with international artists from rock, pop and roots music include Sir Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Liverpool bands Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Ian Broudie and the Lightning Seeds and West African kora player, Toumani Diabaté.

PROGRAMME

Festive Overture, Op. 96 Shostakovich
Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra Debussy
Suite from The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky
Una Furtiva Lagrima from L'Elisir D'Amore Donizetti
Povero Ernesto from Don Pasquale Donizetti

——Intermission——

Finlandia, Op. 26, No. 7 Sibelius
Pavane, Op. 50 Faure
Ella mi fu rapita!... Parmi veder le lagrime from Rigoletto Verdi
La Donna è Mobile from Rigoletto Verdi
Polovtzian Dances from Prince Igor

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