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  • Composers

Beginnings and endings.

Tuesday 25 April 2023

How we chose the music for our 2023/24 season. More importantly, how do we decide what order to put it in?
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  • Composers

THE LIGHT OF SPAIN

Thursday 5 October 2023

Find out more about Cristobal de Morales, whose motets we will be exploring in our 2023/24 season of Bach, the Universe and Everything.
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  • Composers
  • History and Theory of Music

The Grit That Makes the Pearl

Friday 26 May 2023

We look through the history of the opera that critics called "the best in every way" of Gilbert & Sullivan.
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  • Composers
  • History and Theory of Music

Brothers on Different Paths

Monday 15 May 2023

Nicholas Kenyon compares the musical journeys of Carl Philip Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach.
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  • Composers
  • History and Theory of Music

Christmas time, cantatas and wine.

Monday 6 November 2023

Christmas wasn't all stollen and Glühwein for an 18th Century town music director. We investigates the tensions smouldering below the surface in Bach's Leipzig.
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  • Composers
  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Tuesday 5 November 2024

We explore the mysteries surrounding Bach's Brandenburg Concertos including its uncertain origin and unusual instrumentation showcasing Bach's compositional ingenuity, with each concerto offering unique and unprecedented musical challenges.
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  • Composers
  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

Heroes and Rebels

Monday 24 February 2025

Laura Tunbridge, Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and author of Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces (Viking, 2020), explores Beethoven's Eroica symphony and Violin Concerto.
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  • Composers
  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

The trouble with Fanny

Friday 14 March 2025

Jessica Duchen sat down with Fanny Mendelssohn's three-times-great-granddaughter, the filmmaker Sheila Hayman to talk about history's neglected female composers.
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  • Composers
  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

Everything You Need to Know Before Going to a Concert

Tuesday 7 January 2025

Stand-up comedian, writer, actor and director, Chris Addison tells us exactly what we need to know before coming to classical concert.. and it might not be at all what you'd expect!
Photo of Anton Bruckner
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  • Composers
  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

Interpreting Bruckner's Fifth Symphony

Thursday 10 October 2024

We explore Anton Bruckner's enigmatic persona and his music's associations with religious, metaphysical, and mystical experiences.

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