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I'd like to go to a Symphony. How?

  • 28-05-2012 11:25pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭


    I am a beginner classical music enthusiast who would like to hear a symphony.

    I watched parts of Beethoven's 9th Symphony tonight and was blown away.

    What event should I go to this summer in order to hear something like this live?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    well you can watch one here... haunting, but some tune it would be to be able to master.... someone here will be able to give you a destination for one i'm sure.





  • Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Clinker


    This concert doesn't include a symphony, but it does include Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade which should blow you away in a different way! It's one of a series at the NCH in Dublin on Friday nights through the summer: check the calendar on the page I've linked to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Dirigent


    Clinker wrote: »
    This concert doesn't include a symphony, but it does include Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade which should blow you away in a different way! It's one of a series at the NCH in Dublin on Friday nights through the summer: check the calendar on the page I've linked to.

    I'd second that, and recommend as well the programme for the NCH on 13th July: Gershwin's wonderful "Rhapsody in Blue", a blend of classical and jazz music and after the interval Holst's "The Planets", nearly an hour of one of the great showpieces for large orchestra.

    See https://www.nch.ie/online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=3F1A7B05-553E-483A-BA55-A11EE6BD83A8


  • Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    Note, most symphonies do NOT have a chorus singing.


    But if you can wait until Nov 19th...


    Sean Clancy: Toile Brûlée (premiere, UCDSO commission)
    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

    UCD Symphony Orchestra
    UCD Choral Scholars
    UCD Philharmonic Choir
    Catherine Redding (soprano)
    Victoria Massey (alto)
    Eamonn Mulhall (tenor)
    Jeffrey Ledwidge (bass)
    Conductor: Ciarán Crilly

    https://www.nch.ie/online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=5F99A8CC-937E-4392-BCA8-3C9BDE4A27A9


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    That'd be well worth seeing. Beethoven's 9th is a completely different animal live.

    OP, just look at Friday evenings in the concert hall:

    www.nch.ie

    The National Symphony Orchestra plays nearly every Friday, and more than often has a Symphony in the programme. Once you're hooked you'll never look Bach!





















    ............sorry...... :0


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,948 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    If you can get to London this summer, Daniel Barenboim is conducting a full Beethoven Symphony cycle at the Proms. I'm going to see if I can get there for 1 & 2, and queue for a £5 ticket.

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