Cambridge Classical Concert Series October 2013 – May 2014
Bringing world-class orchestral music to Cambridge
We have been thrilled to see more students, young people and family groups enjoying the concerts, alongside the loyal concert goers we’ve come to know over the years. A large part of the success of the series is down to you, our audiences, for coming out to experience the thrill of live, world-class orchestral performances at the Corn Exchange. We passionately believe that classical music is for everyone, so if you know someone you think might enjoy the experience, please persuade them to come along and try it out for themselves this season. Steve Bagnall – Cambridge Corn Exchange “The 2013/14 season will be the last one under the benevolent gaze of our current Artist in Residence Julian Lloyd Webber. We will be making an exciting announcement about Julian’s successor later in the year. People who must by now be persuaded that they can trust us with the programming will be reassured by the high quality of conductors, soloists and orchestras with the RPO playing 50 per cent of the concerts. We hope you will also be more than pleased with the choice of music which skilfully juxtaposes Beethoven, Dvořák, Bruch et al with Americana – Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein – before venturing, more daringly, into Pärt, Glass and Adams, offering what one might call “a squeeze of aural lemon juice.” The final concert gives Julian the opportunity to give an outstanding swan song performance by playing Elgar’s timeless and haunting Cello Concerto.”
Thursday 17 Oct 2013 | 7.30pm Conductor Piano
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Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme Noriko Ogawa of Paganini credit: Satoru Mitsuta Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
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This season it is with immense pride that we are able to announce that the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has accepted our invitation to become the Corn Exchange’s first Orchestra in Residence. The RPO has been playing at the venue for 25 years and is regarded as one of the UK’s most prestigious orchestras. We will be working closely with the RPO to bring a wide range of exciting education projects to Cambridge and throughout the county, centred on the experience of performing to live audiences within the Corn Exchange’s unique acoustic.
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
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Beethoven’s uplifting Symphony No. 4 is suffused with an infectious, high spirited playfulness. Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 for solo violin has inspired countless composers but it is Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini which stands head and shoulders above the rest. Piano soloist Noriko Ogawa (“ravishingly poetic playing” – Telegraph) brings the piece’s sprightly melodies dazzlingly to life. Stirring and passionate, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 is one of the most frequently performed symphonies of the late nineteenth century.
Dr Nigel Brown O.B.E. – Orchestral Series Patron
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Did you know?
Pre-concert talk
Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. Maybe there’s hope for us all yet!
Free to ticket holders, at 6pm at Cambridge University Press Bookshop on the corner of Trinity Street and St Mary’s Street.
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Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Tuesday 26 Nov 2013 | 7.30pm Thursday 30 Jan 2014 | 7.30pm
Conductor Petr Altrichter Violin Chloë Hanslip
Utterly captivating, Strauss’s Tales from the Vienna Woods beautifully reworks peasant dances the composer knew and loved so well. Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 is amongst his most celebrated works, at once brooding and magnificent.
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Girl Crazy Overture I Got Rhythm Variations Rhapsody in Blue Rodeo: excerpts On the Town: Four Dance Episodes An American in Paris
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Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 is sweetly melodic and utterly enchanting. Rich, lyrical and expressive, Bruch’s Violin Concerto, played this evening by award winning soloist Chloë Hanslip (“Playing like this should secure Chloë Hanslip’s reputation for life” – Gramophone) ranks as one of the most popular violin concertos of all time.
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Conductor David Charles Abell Piano Freddy Kempf
Symphony No. 8 (‘Unfinished’) Violin Concerto No. 1 Tales from the Vienna Woods Symphony No. 7
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra presents an evening of American classics conducted by rising star David Charles Abell. Soloist Freddy Kempf (“He has the fearless exuberance of youth”– Daily Telegraph) is the one of the most sought after pianists in the world. The infectious rhythms of 1920s America are brought vividly to life with Gershwin’s Girl Crazy Overture, I Got Rhythm Variations and the jazz-inspired Rhapsody in Blue, with its famous opening of rising clarinet notes. Copland’s Rodeo excerpts display all the exuberance of a Broadway musical while Bernstein’s On The Town Four Dance Episodes are a refreshing blend of jazz, pop and symphonic music. The concert concludes with Gershwin’s whimsical An American in Paris, made famous by MGM’s Oscar winning 1951 film starring Gene Kelly.
Did you know?
Pre-concert talk
Did you know?
Pre-concert talk
No one knows exactly why Schubert famously failed to finish the symphony, though debates among musicologists still rage.
Free to ticket holders, at 6pm at Cambridge City Hotel in nearby Downing Street.
George Gershwin dropped out of school aged just 15 to begin playing piano professionally in New York nightclubs.
Free to ticket holders, at 6pm at Cambridge City Hotel in nearby Downing Street.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Basel Symphony Orchestra Sunday 27 Apr 2014 | 7.30pm
Thursday 13 Mar 2014 | 7.30pm
Conductor Dennis Russell Davies Cello Matt Haimowitz
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Sit back and enjoy three major works by the greatest composer the world has ever known, under the assured conductorship of Paul Daniel. This evening’s concert starts with a special performance by young musicians from Cambridgeshire Music alongside members of the RPO. Members of the the group have composed a ground-breaking new piece drawing inspiration from the works of Beethoven and fusing this with their own styles. A compact musical gem, the Fidelio Overture encapsulates all the drama, hope and joy of the opera itself. The beautiful melodies, varied textures and sheer flamboyance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (currently ranked fourth in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame) are brought vividly to life by acclaimed soloist John Lill who this year celebrates his 70th birthday. The concert ends with a spellbinding performance of Beethoven’s remarkable Symphony No. 7, ranging from moments of rustic tenderness to a frenzied finale and permeated throughout with a joyous energy.
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Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and John Adams are three of the twentieth century’s most influential composers. Their music is more richly textured, harmonic and accessible than their usual ‘Minimalist’ label implies. These Words is as haunting and ethereal as the timeless Gregorian chants that have inspired much of Pärt’s work. Resonant and meditative, Glass’s recently premiered Cello Concerto 2 is a condensation of his score for Godfrey Reggio’s critically acclaimed 2002 film Naqoyqatsi. Requiring colossal orchestral resources, Adams’ Harmonielehre is a unique, mesmerising, three-movement work that marries the developmental techniques of Minimalism with the harmonic and expressive world of fin de siècle late Romanticism, to breathtaking effect. Their work is brought to life with consummate skill and passion by one of Europe’s leading symphony orchestras, brilliantly conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, an acknowledged champion of modern classical music.
Did you know?
Pre-concert talk
Did you know?
Pre-concert talk
Beethoven composed his Piano Concerto No.5 in Vienna while the city was suffering heavy artillery bombardment from Napoleon’s troops. Beethoven temporarily took refuge in a cellar in his brother’s house where he shut out the noise of the cannon by putting a pillow over his head.
Free to ticket holders, at 6pm at Cambridge City Hotel in nearby Downing Street.
John Adams was inspired to write Harmonielehre by a dream in which he was driving across the San Francisco to Oakland Bay Bridge and saw an oil tanker on the surface of the water abruptly turn upright and take off like a Saturn V rocket.
Free to ticket holders, at 6pm at Cambridge City Hotel in nearby Downing Street.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Other classical concerts at the Corn Exchange
MILOŠ
Thursday 22 May 2014 | 7.30pm
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The 2013/14 Cambridge Classical Concert Series concludes with a quintessentially English concert. Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes is regarded by many as the greatest English opera ever written. Its Four Sea Interludes, originally written as scene change music, have now become arguably even more popular than the opera itself, perfectly mirroring the characters’ shifting emotional tides. Cambridge Corn Exchange’s Artist in Residence Julian Lloyd Webber brings Elgar’s sublime Cello Concerto vividly and passionately to life. The evening ends with Vaughan Williams’ elegiac Symphony No. 3, with celebrated soprano Lucy Hall ending the series on a beautiful, ethereal note.
Did you know?
Pre-concert Event
Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 3 as a reaction to his experiences in the First World War.
See www.cornex.co.uk for details.
Guitar superstar Miloš Karadaglic comes to Cambridge for the first time, playing amongst others Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto, the most popular guitar concerto of all time. One of the hottest properties in classical music, his two albums have topped classical charts around the world.
MILOŠ and the English Chamber Orchestra
An evening with
Julian Lloyd Webber and Friends Wed 30 Oct 2013 | 7.30pm Join Cambridge Corn Exchange’s Artist in Residence for a very special concert in the company of friends and fellow musicians John Lill and Emma Johnson.
Music has the power to transform lives. During the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s three-year residency, RPO resound will be doing just that by involving families, communities and young people in a wide range of interactive music projects.
If you are a music student, teacher or comunity group leader and would like to find out more about this exciting initiative, please email cornex.participation@cambridge.gov.uk
‘. . . a hypnotic and quite extraordinary evening.’ The Guardian. Sat 15 June 2013 | 7.30pm
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Cambridge Classical Concert Series October 2013 – May 2014
Bringing world-class orchestral music to Cambridge