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The White Hat Guide to the Top 100 SymphoniesHere is our incomplete list (in no particular order as yet)Elgar Symphony No.1 in A flat major op.55 Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92 Beethoven Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125, Choral Beethoven Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68, Pastoral Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E - The core of this gigantic symphony is the first movement, but the single cymbal stroke in the second movement (if you are listening to the version that contains it) always makes the hair on the back of our neck stand up. Haydn Symphony No 31 "Horn Signal" Bloch Israel Symphony Sibelius Symphony No 7 in C, Op 105 Martinů Symphony No 4 - possibly the most joyous of Martinů's symphonies. The slow movement is one of White Hat's favourites.
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Melbourne Town Hall Proms - Beethoven and Dvorák
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Grams (conductor) and Andreas
Haefliger (piano).
The inspiration of the folk music and culture of his native Bohemia invests
Dvorák’s music with enormous energy and spirit, and his Seventh Symphony
explodes with all the passion and vigour of this inspiration. Paired with works
by two German masters who inspired him, this concert of great classics is pure
delight.
Dvorák took the Germane tradition of music developed by Beethoven and Brahms
and combined it with inspiration drawn from the folk music and culture of his
native Bohemia to create the wonderful Symphony No.7. It is both tuneful and
exuberant and well suited to a prom concert.
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Melbourne Town Hall
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7.30pm, Friday 18th May 2012 |
Bookings through Ticketmaster: 1300 72 30 38 |
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Beethoven 9 - Ode to Joy
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director
and Lead Violin), Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (Graham Ross
Director), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Fiona Campbell (mezzo soprano),
Allan Clayton (tenor) Matthew Brook (bass)
White Hat has long believed that many modern performance of Beethoven
symphonies by large symphony orchestras lack the vitality and drive of a
performance by a first rate chamber orchestra - supplemented where necessary -
of the proportions that Beethoven was writing for For those who share this view
we suggest you look no further. Critics called the ACO's recent Beethoven
concert in London “the finest concert of the summer” and spoke of
“thrilling playing”, “vibrant drive” and “total involvement”,
concluding, “this compact chamber orchestra matches anything Europe can offer
in energy, precision and interpretative rigour.”
Joined by one of the finest British choirs this concert promises to be
something special where every note Beethoven wrote can be heard rather than lost
in a sea of overblown orchestral 'atmosphere'.
8pm, Saturday 4th August 2012,
Llewellyn Hall, ANU, Canberra
2pm, 5th Aug; 8pm, 9th Aug 2012, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
8pm, Monday 6th August 2012, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane
8pm, 7 Aug; 7pm, 8 Aug; 7pm 11 Aug 2012,
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
2.30pm 12 Aug; 8pm, 13 Aug 2012,
The Arts Centre,
Hamer Hall, Melbourne
8pm, Tuesday 14th August 2012,
Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
7.30pm, Wednesday 15th August 2012,
Perth Concert Hall, Perth
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