2019-05-14 19:30 2019-05-14 21:30 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Canada’s NAC Orchestra at Cadogan Hall

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Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra kicks off its 50th Anniversary European Tour in the United Kingdom led by renowned British Music Director Alexander Shelley.  London audiences will recognize Alexander Shelley as the Principal Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  Since becoming Music Director of the NAC Orchestra, Maclean‘s has credited Shelley for turning the orchestra “almost overnight… into one of the more audacious orchestras in...

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Cadogan Hall,London,United Kingdom
Tue, May 14, 2019
7:30 PM EDT
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Music Classical music Vocal Piano
  • Ana Sokolović Golden slumbers kiss your eyes…
  • Maurice RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major
  • JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra kicks off its 50th Anniversary European Tour in the United Kingdom led by renowned British Music Director Alexander Shelley.  London audiences will recognize Alexander Shelley as the Principal Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  Since becoming Music Director of the NAC Orchestra, Maclean‘s has credited Shelley for turning the orchestra “almost overnight… into one of the more audacious orchestras in North America.”

The NAC Orchestra offers a dazzling program at London’s famous Cadogan Hall: Serbian-Canadian Ana Sokolović’s 2015 composition was inspired by dreams and the collective, universal experience of childhood.  Commissioned by the NAC, Golden slumbers kiss your eyes… sets folks songs and lullabies in seven languages, all brought vividly to life by Korean-Canadian countertenor David DQ Lee and London Voices.  Next, brilliant young Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki will take the stage to perform Ravel’s dazzling, jazz-influenced Concerto in G - deftly navigating its textures and harmonies with his virtuosic technique. Audiences will quickly hear why BBC magazine calls this Deutsche Grammophon recording artist "perhaps the most 'complete' pianist of his age”.  The evening ends on a bucolic note with Brahms’ optimistic and forthright second symphony, once described as “all rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine, and cool green shadows.”

Artists

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    Conductor Alexander Shelley
  • jan-lisiecki-cr-christoph-koystlin
    Piano Jan Lisiecki
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    Countertenor David DQ Lee
  • choir London Voices