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Introducing Breaking Bach

Thursday 13 March 2025

We're breaking the code of the dance rhythms in Bach's music.
Headshot portraits of Roxanna Panufnik, Olga Pashchenko, Electra Perivolaris, Freya Waley-Cohen, Errollyn Wallen and Fanny Mendelssohn
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  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

Das Jahr Playlist

Friday 21 February 2025

Discover the music of the incredibly talented Fanny Mendelssohn and the four composers who have written pieces inspired…
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  • History and Theory of Music
  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

5 Things to Know About Bach and The Brandenburg Concertos

Friday 1 November 2024

Are the Brandenburg Concertos peak Bach?
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Sarah Connolly on Mahler's 'Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen'

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly talks about Mahler and his Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), which she performed with us in 2011.
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Phil Dale on the Trombone in Bruckner

Monday 18 April 2016

Trombone Philip Dale talks about the trombone used in Bruckner and explores the types of instrument that were used before then.
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From Deep Within the Archive: Bach's Double Violin Concerto

Friday 13 November 2015

From deep in the archive we have unearthed an old VHS recording of us performing on BBC Scotland in 1990, playing the 1st movement of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins.
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Hen Party: Haydn's 'Fowl' Symphony

Wednesday 3 February 2016

We went to Kent to explore Haydn's clucking brilliant 'Fowl' symphony, with one of the world's leading experts in chicken music.
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Vladimir Jurowski on Mahler

Saturday 19 March 2016

Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski discusses our performance of Mahler's Symphony No.2.
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  • OAE Musicians

Roger Montgomery discusses Mozart's Horn Concerto No.4 on the Natural Horn

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Principal Horn Roger Montgomery chats about his natural horn and about Mozart's 'hunting-style' in his Horn Concerto No.4.
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Vladimir Jurowski on Tchaikovsky

Monday 12 January 2015

Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski, speaks about performing Tchaikovsky on period instruments and the 'striking presence of a young genius' that can be heard in his first symphony.

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