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New Night Shift podcast
Our next Night Shift event is next Wednesday at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, when we’ll be joined by Night Shift regular, conductor Vladimir Jurowski, for a concert of Mahler and Liszt. Support comes from...
View ArticleFlutes: Conical vs Cylindrical
In our latest video ahead of our concerts of Mahler, Wagner and Liszt this week we speak to our Principal Flute, Lis Beznosiuk. She talks about which flutes she is using for the concert, a task made...
View ArticleSarah Connolly on Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer /Journeyman/ Traveller
Tonight we play our Symphonic Enlightenment programme at the Royal Festival Hall - a late romantic programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt with 90 players on stage. For us, a huge undertaking. Parts of...
View ArticleSymphonic Enlightenment: First reviews
We’re back from Paris and a second performance of our Symphonic Enlightenment programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt. First reviews from Friday’s performance are now in too – mainly from bloggers and...
View ArticleVladimir Jurowski on Mahler, Liszt, the OAE and disappearing batons
Regular readers of this blog or our Facebook Page will know we were due to interview Vladimir Jurowski back in December. Well, that didn’t happen as he wasn’t too well, and about to embark on a big...
View Article2nd installment in our pre-concert talk series
Back in January before our Mahler/Wagner/Liszt Symphonic Enlightenment concert at the RFH, Robert Philip gave a pre-concert talk discussing what impact the onset of the ‘recording era’ in the early...
View ArticleSymphonic Enlightenment – Vox Pops
We’ve had a bit of a backlog of videos here, so these audience vox pops have been somewhat delayed. But they’re here now. After our Symphonic Enlightenment programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt at the...
View ArticleTo Paris with the OAE: a video diary
Here’s a little video diary from our trip to Paris back in January, when we took a supersized OAE there for a concert of Wagner, Liszt and Mahler with conductor Vladimir Jurowski and mezzo soprano...
View ArticleNight Shift vox pops
After the last Night Shift back in January, where Vladimir Jurowski conducted us in music by Mahler and Liszt, our brave man-with-a-cam, Zen, asked the audience: ‘How was it for you?’ Here’s what...
View ArticleMahler Totenfeier CD
In this live recording from the Royal Festival Hall, we shine our musical torch into the realms of some later repertoire, shedding new light on the music of Mahler. Conducted by Principal Artist...
View ArticleNew events now on sale
We’ve just announced some new events as part of our 2015-2016 Birthday Season, details below, plus details of a new Night Shift event and other recently-announced concerts outside of our main season:...
View ArticleGustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
His Times: Mahler said, ‘I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way,’ a quote that aptly captures the musical world that Mahler and his contemporaries were creating in 19th...
View ArticleVladimir Jurowski on Mahler
OAE Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski discusses the Orchestra’s upcoming performance of Mahler’s Resurrection on period instruments. Royal Festival Hall Tuesday 12 April, 7pm Find out more The post...
View ArticleWhy I love Mahler’s Second Symphony
“Mahler wears his heart on his sleeve and certainly intends to let the world know it”. OAE’s guest Mahler lover, Genevieve Arkle, reveals how she fell for his Second Symphony ahead of our performance...
View ArticleThe horns in Mahler’s Second Symphony
“It’s easy to think Mahler 2 is all about horns. Which it is really.” Our Principal Horn, Roger Montgomery, demonstrates two different types of horns musicians played during the late 19th century when...
View ArticleDaniel Bates on the oboe in Mahler 2
‘It takes the musicians and the audience on this epic journey.’ Co-Principal Oboe Daniel Bates talks about being 14, being pregnant, playing the oboe and Mahler’s second symphony. Mahler’s Resurrection...
View ArticleIn depth: Sarah Connolly on Mahler
“Life changing. Depth and colours and beauty and horror.” Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly sang in Mahler’s Resurrection with us this week. Here she chats with Genevieve Arkle – who sang in the chorus of a...
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