London Mozart Players launches autumn season ‘Classical Club’ in partnership with Scala Radio.
Eight classical concerts for live audiences and streamed online.
Season Previews
Season Previews from around the world
The Czech Philharmonic will welcome capacity audiences for their forthcoming 125th season
CZECH PHILHARMONIC – 125th SEASON LAUNCH – 23 & 24 SEPTEMBER 2020
The Czech Philharmonic’s 125th season launches to capacity audiences on 23 September 2020. Conducted by Semyon Bychkov at the start of his third year as the Orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Music Director, the concert will open with Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with pianist Daniil Trifonov and trumpeter Selina Ott, and close with Mahler’s Symphony No.5. Earlier in the month on 4 and 5 September, Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic will open the 2020 Dvořák Prague International Music Festival with an all Dvořák programme featuring the Cello Concerto performed by the Czech Philharmonic’s Cello Principal Václav Petr and the New World Symphony.
London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Autumn season will have 13 filmed concerts from an empty Royal Festival Hall
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RETURNS TO ROYAL FESTIVAL HALLTO GIVE 13 CONCERTS FOR ITS AUTUMN 2020 SEASON
ALL CONCERTS WILL BE FILMED BY SILENT STUDIOS AND STREAMED BY MARQUEE TV TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE
VLADIMIR JUROWSKI, KARINA CANELLAKIS AND EDWARD GARDNER ALL JOIN THE ORCHESTRA DURING THE AUTUMN SEASON
30 SEPTEMBER – 30 DECEMBER
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North Shore Chamber Music Festival – onstage/offstage in-person and livestream concerts
Live concerts with live audiences (as well as with worldwide streaming) return to Chicago with an unusual series of chamber music at the North Shore Chamber Music Festival North Shore Chamber Music Festival would have celebrated its 10th anniversary season in June but, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the celebrations had to be cancelled. This … Read more
The London Symphony Orchestra will return to live work in late August 2020
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RETURNS TO WORK
- Sir Simon Rattle conducts LSO at BBC Proms Sunday 30 August
- Three orchestral concerts at LSO St Luke’s conducted by Sir Simon Rattle including Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle
- A full programme of live and recorded concerts broadcast with a range of international media partners
- Lunchtime and drivetime concerts open to the public
- LSO St Luke’s to become orchestra’s temporary performance base
The London Symphony Orchestra will return to live work in late August 2020, moving to LSO St Luke’s, newly equipped with state of the art facilities for live and recorded concerts until the reopening of the Barbican Hall.
BBC Proms turns 125 years old – live programme from 28 August to 12 September 2020
From Bernstein to Benedetti, Haitink to Hvorostovsky, Mackerras to Kanneh-Masons
Musical greats, from the past and the present, brought together in one extraordinary Proms season
17 July – 12 September 2020
Update 2 September – The pandemic means a different Proms this year and one of the consequences, under COVID-19 restrictions, is we are not able to bring together massed voices. For that reason we took the artistic decision not to sing ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ in the Hall.
We have been looking hard at what else might be possible and we have a solution. Both pieces will now include a select group of BBC Singers. This means the words will be sung in the Hall, and as we have always made clear, audiences will be free to sing along at home. While it can’t be a full choir, and we are unable to have audiences in the Hall, we are doing everything possible to make it special and want a Last Night truly to remember.
We hope everyone will welcome this solution. We think the night itself will be a very special moment for the country – and one that is much needed after a difficult period for everyone. It will not be a usual Last Night, but it will be a night not just to look forward to, but to remember.
Live indoor performances with audience at Cadogan Hall from 30 September
Cadogan Hall resumes indoor live performances with audience
Cadogan Hall is resuming live indoor performances with socially distanced audiences from Wednesday 30 September. Throughout the rest of the year, the Hall will host a series of concerts and events with its usual range of genres and offer for everyone, including three performances from players from resident ensemble the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the EFG London Jazz Festival.
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ROMA ÆTERNA: Salzburg’s Whitsun Festival from 21 to 24 May 2021
ROMA ÆTERNA
In 2021 Cecilia Bartoli and the Salzburg Whitsun Festival (21 – 24 May 2021) pay homage to Rome, the eternal city and her hometown. Rome has long inspired poets, composers, film-makers and painters as a metropolis of many faces: for 150 years Rome has been the capital of modern Italy and has retained its contradictory identities, of proud splendour on the one hand and decadence and decay on the other.
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