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Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra 2012
2012-04-27 14:32
What:
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Where:
Grimaldi Forum, Auditorium Rainier III, Théâtre des Variétés
When: from 1 May 2012 to August 2012
Web:
http://www.opmc.mc
This summer, the
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra returns with a fabulous programme including works by Brahms, Beethoven and Bernstein. As well as the ever popular
Music for Young Listeners on 9 May, there will be two more 'cine concerts' featuring the orchestra's interpretation of the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's classic satire Modern Times.
In July and August, the scene shifts from the orchestra's home turf of the Auditorium Rainier III to the courtyard of the
Prince's Palace for a suite of summer concerts performed and conducted by some of the world's greatest musicians, including Pinchas Zukerman, Gautier Capuçon, Ute Lemper and Lawrence Foster. The full programme of events is listed below.
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Releases on the OPMC Classics label
Under its late and much-missed conductor Yakov Kreizberg, the orchestra produced the
first in a series of 'OPMC Classics', recordings which have already met
with extremely favourable reviews.
Available are a boxed set of
Stravinsky (including the Firebird and the Rite of Spring), Ravel's
Daphnis et Chloe with Debussy's L'apres-midi d'un Faune' and a selection
of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky. Now they are joined by a
limited edition vinyl release of extracts from Rimsky-Korsakov's
Sheherezade, Mussorgksy's Night on a Bare Mountain, and Rachmaninov's
second Symphony. More information is available on the orchestra's
official website - just follow the link at the top of this page.
Programme
Sunday 6 May at 11am and 5pm
Auditorium Rainier III
Ibert: Flute concerto
Tchaïkovsky: Eugene Onegin, Lenski's Aria
Beethoven: Symphony no 2
Emmanuel Pahud, flute; conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk
Wednesday 9 May at 4pm
Auditorium Rainier III
For Young Listeners: An ornithologist's guide to music
Conducted by Patrick Baton
Saturday 9 June at 8.30pm
Salle Garnier
Cine-concert: Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
conducted by Frank Strobel
Sunday 10 June at 6pm
Salle Garnier
Cine-concert: Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
conducted by Frank Strobel
Thursday 12 July at 9.30pm
Prince's Palace
Bernstein: Candide, overture
Gershwin: Piano concerto in in F
Antonín Dvořák: Symphonie no 7 in d minor, op. 70
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; conducted by Krzysztof Urbanski
Sunday 15 July at 9.30pm
Prince's Palace
Mozart: Violin Concerto no 3 in G, K 216 (Strasbourg)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 in e minor, op. 64
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Wednesday 18 July at 9.30pm
Brahms: Akademische Festouvertüre, op. 80
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a rococo theme for cello and orchestra, op. 33
Brahms: String quartet in g minor, op. 25
Gautier Capuçon, cello; conducted by Kristjan Järvi
Sunday 29 July at 9.30pm
Prince's Palace
Massenet: Le Cid, extracts
Rodrigo: Aranjuez harp concerto
Franck: Symphony in d minor
Xavier de Maistre, harp; conducted by Jésus López-Cobos
Thursday 2 August at 9.30pm
Prince's Palace
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 1 in C, op.15
Beethoven: Symphony no 6 in F, op. 68 'Pastoral'
Conducted from the piano by Christian Zacharias
Sunday 5 August at 9.30pm
Prince's Palace
Cabaret of European song: Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel
Ute Lemper, contralto; conducted by Lawrence Foster