Name: Sounds for the end of a century
Start: 2023-01-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Cellist

Steven Isserlis

Cello

Conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev

Organist

James McVinnie

Organ

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Southbank Centre

Sounds for the end of a century

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Public

Cello Concerto No. 1, op. 33

Danse Macabre, op. 40

Phaéton Op.39

Symphony No.3 in C minor Op.78

Approved

South Bank Centre

Sounds for the end of a century: Cello Concerto No.1, Op.33 (+3 More)

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921) stood at a crossroads at the end of the 19th century, as French music forged its own path; he reached back into its past, drawing on medieval art and the forms of Rameau (1683 – 1764), while pointing forward to Ravel, who was 40 years his junior.

At this event we hear those influences in the jangling skeleton bones of the ever-popular Danse macabre, the swelling plainchant-infused melodies of the Organ Symphony, the molten solo part in the Cello Concerto, and the deft orchestral colours of the symphonic poem Phaéton.

Join the OAE and guests for this celebration of one of Paris’ finest musical citizens – also the first stop on the Orchestra’s ambitious 2023 ‘grand tour’ from London to Mongolia.

English

Sounds for the end of a century by Saint-Saëns, From (2023/2023), Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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