Vladimir Ashkenazy and Philharmonia Orchestra Concert

Published on May 8, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: June 20-21, 2015

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Features: One of the world's great orchestras - UK's Philharmonia Orchestra will bring two night concerts with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and pianist Alice Sara Ott at Concert Hall of NCPA from June 20th-21st, 2015.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the world's great orchestras. Acknowledged as the UK's foremost musical pioneer, with an extraordinary recording legacy, the Philharmonia leads the field for its quality of playing, and for its innovative approach to audience development, residencies, music education and the use of new technologies in reaching a global audience. Together with its relationships with the world’s most sought-after artists, most importantly its Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra is at the heart of British musical life.

Today, the Philharmonia has the greatest claim of any orchestra to be the UK's National Orchestra. It is committed to presenting the same quality, live music-making in venues throughout the country as it brings to London and the great concert halls of the world. In 2011/12 the Orchestra is performing more than 160 concerts, as well as presenting chamber performances by the Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and recording scores for films, CDs and computer games. Under Esa-Pekka Salonen a series of flagship, visionary projects – City of Dreams: Vienna 1900 -1935 (2009) and Bill Viola's Tristan und Isolde (2010) - have been critically acclaimed and during 2011 Salonen presents Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók, a pan-European exploration of the life, influences and music of the composer. For16 years now the Orchestra's work has been underpinned by its much admired UK and International Residency Programme, which began in 1995 with the launch of its residencies at the Bedford Corn Exchange and London's Southbank Centre. During 2011/12 the Orchestra not only performs more than 35 concerts at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, but also celebrates its 15th year as Resident Orchestra of De Montfort Hall in Leicester and its 11th year as Orchestra in Partnership at The Anvil in Basingstoke; and launches a new residency at the new Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. The Orchestra's extensive touring schedule this season also includes performances in more than 30 of the finest international concert halls in Europe, China and the United Arab Emirates, with conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lorin Maazel and Kurt Masur.

Vladimir Ashkenazy
In the years since Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world.

Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past 20 years. He took up the new position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in January 2009 and collaborates with them on a number of exciting projects including composer festivals, major recording projects and international touring activities. He has previously held posts as Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic and Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

PROGRAMME

JUNE 20 (Saturday)
Festive Overture, Op. 96 -- Shostakovich
Romeo and Juliet Overture -- Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op. 78, 'Organ' -- Saint-Saens

JUNE 21 (Sunday)
'Prometheus' Overture, Op. 43 -- Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 -- Beethoven
Piano: Alice Sara Ott
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 -- Sibelius