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CBSO Podcast|Podcast February 2008 Episode
This Month
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky is a popular and familiar figure on the Symphony Hall podium. This month he conducts no less than 6 concerts in 8 days with the CBSO, with music by Elgar, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Rachmaninov amongst others. Sinaisky talks to Tommy Pearson about his early days studying in Russia, assisting the great Kiril Kondrashin at the Moscow Philharmonic, his love of English music and performing with the CBSO.
Stephen Johnson looks ahead to a CBSO concert on the 21st February and profiles the music in the programme : the tone poems Til Eulenspiegel and Don Quixote by Richard Strauss and Prokofiev?s 3rd Symphony.
And in a slightly different PodGuide to the Orchestra, CBSO leader Laurence Jackson reveals the secrets of being a leader: why do they come onto the stage after everyone else? What is their relationship with the conductors? And what is the political role of a leader in an orchestra?
Competition
In our first podcast competition of 2008, we have a pair of tickets for a CBSO concert conducted by Music Director Sakari Oramo; a performance of Brahms?s A German Requiem. It?s being played twice, on the 19th and 20th of March, paired with Bach?s Cantata No.21, and the CBSO is joined by the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and soloists Anu Komsi and baritone James Rutherford. If you want to be there, with free tickets in your hand, then just answer this question :
Why does soprano Anu Komsi?s appearance with the CBSO and Sakari Oramo make it a family affair?
Answers to the usual address please ? podcast@cbso.co.uk.
Good luck!
[ Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:02:34 +0000 ]
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