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Royal Ballet’s Director Kevin O'Hare gives the inside track on a national dance scene with a plethora of young talent.

For decades, Britain has undoubtedly been one of the most exciting places to be a dancer and a choreographer. The British style is world-renowned, built on the rich heritage of Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan as well as iconic ballerinas like Margot Fonteyn and Darcey Bussell. But ballet training in Britain today looks forwards as well as backwards. For The Royal Ballet’s Director Kevin O’Hare, ‘British dance is having a renaissance.’

Kevin O'Hare on the UK ballet scene

In his Tchaikovsky symphonic series, Riccardo Muti reaches perhaps the most lively: Symphony No. 2, with its light-hearted opening, swaggering second movement processional and joyous finale. Beethoven's noble Triple Concerto artfully showcases the lyrical expressiveness of the violin and cello, beautifully played here by CSO members Stephanie Jeong and Kenneth Olsen and pianist Jonathan Biss.

CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Beethoven

Charles Dutoit leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program brimming with Gallic charm, color and variety. Canadian pianist Louis Lortie is the soloist in Franck's beguiling Symphonic Variations and D'Indy's delightful Symphony on a French Mountain Air. Bookending these works are two of Ravel's most ravishing scores: the sensuous Rapsodie espagnole and the Second Suite from his ballet, Daphnis et Chloe, with its glorious opening dawn music.

CSO Program Notes: Dutoit Conducts Ravel

Revered cellist and CSO Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma joins Concertmaster Robert Chen for a touching and tender duet in Saint-Saens' La muse et le poete, then returns as soloist in Lalo's noble and lyrical Cello Concerto. In the first half of this program, Charles Dutoit conducts Debussy's otherworldly The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and Ravel's poignant Valses nobles et sentimentales.

CSO Program Notes: Charles Dutoit and Yo-Yo Ma

"Mitsuko Uchida's annual visit to Orchestra Hall rank among the most life-affirming experiences granted to local concertgoers" (Chicago Tribune). The Japanese pianist, renowned for her Mozart interpretations, returns to play and conduct two of Mozart's most beautiful and uplifting concertos. Uchida also accompanies soprano Dorothea Röschmann in a Schumann song cycle, which movingly traces the intimate thoughts of a woman about her beloved.

CSO Program Notes: Uchida Plays Mozart

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Largo Al Factotum (Figaro) from the Opera 'The Barber Of Seville' composed by Gioachino Rossini with Middle Eastern orchestration and arrangement.

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Largo Al Factotum (The Middle Eastern Ensemble Cover) - Hani Al-Dahshan

“Uchida’s remarkable approach to the piano is a given. But the way in which Muti and the Orchestra seemed to be breathing as one with her every second of the way had an astonishing effect, and made the audience fully complicit in the magic” (Chicago Sun-Times). Muti, Uchida and the CSO reunite for Mozart’s dark and urgent Piano Concerto No. 20, followed by a divertimento and suites from two of Stravinsky’s brilliant ballet scores, The Fairy's Kiss and The Firebird. Tickets and more info: https://cso.org/ticketsandevents/production-details-2018-19/chicago-symphony-orchestra/muti-uchida-mozart/

CSO Program Notes: Muti, Uchida & Mozart

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chrysalis (demo)

Composed by: Khaled Al Kammar for Qabeel, airing on MBC starting the 4th of May 2019. 
موسيقى: خالد الكمار
Performed by: The English Chamber Orchestra


Violins

Ofer Falk
John Mills
Richard Milone
Lucy Jeal
Marcus Barcham-Stevens
Matthew Elston
Ruth Funnell


Violas

Jonathan Barritt
Lydia Lowndes-Northcott
Cara Coetzee


Cellos

Caroline Dale
Bozidar Vukotic
Reinoud Ford
Eve Heyde

Trumpet
محمد سواح

Oud
هشام عصام

Guitars
Ryan Haberfield 

Recording Engineer
Jeremy Murphy

Orchestration
Khaled Al Kammar


Orchestra Managers

Lydia Brookes
Jill Groom

Qabeel OST - موسيقى مسلسل قابيل

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Composed by: Khaled Al Kammar for Qabeel

Performed by: The English Chamber Orchestra

Violins

Ofer Falk
John Mills
Richard Milone
Lucy Jeal
Marcus Barcham-Stevens
Matthew Elston
Ruth Funnell

Violas

Jonathan Barritt
Lydia Lowndes-Northcott
Cara Coetzee

Cellos

Caroline Dale
Bozidar Vukotic
Reinoud Ford
Eve Heyde

Trumpet
محمد سواح

Oud
هشام عصام

Guitars
Ryan Haberfield

Recording Engineer
Jeremy Murphy

Orchestration
Khaled Al Kammar

Orchestra Managers

Lydia Brookes
Jill Groom

موسيقي مسلسل قابيل - Qabeel Music

Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center, and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore, where it is in residency each summer. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-selling recordings and frequent sold-out tour performances in the United States and around the globe.

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CSO Program Notes: Muti, Uchida & Mozart

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