Stephen Bryant

BBC交響楽団の極東ツアー2010年5月

From the 10th to 27th May the BBCSO embarks upon it’s Far East Tour of 2010 with our principal conductor Jiri Belohlavek. We visit Tokyo (11th - 13th May), Seoul (13th - 17th May), Shanghai (17th - 20th May), Beijing (20th - 21st May), Taipei (21st - 22nd May), Kaohsiung (22nd - 23rd May), Taipei  (23rd - 24th May), Guangzhon (24th - 26th May) and then back home and a familiar bed! Programmes include Dvorak 9, Elgar ‘In the South’, Prokofiev 5, Brahms 4 and Tippett’s ‘Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli’ - the Tippett is a great piece scored for 1st and 2nd solo violin and solo ‘cello (myself, Amyn Merchant and Graham Bradshaw) and String Orchestra. I’m really looking forward to playing that. Incidentally, we will also play the Tippett on the 8th May (7.30pm) at the Barbican - this concert also includes Martinu’s 6th Symphony and the Schumann Piano Concerto. The other programme I’m particularly looking forward to is a chamber music concert in Seoul at the Hoam Art Hall on the 14th of May. It is the same group of BBCSO players that gave the concert for OCD Action in 2009 (reported elsewhere in the blog). We will be playing Webern Rondo for String Quartet, Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor and Schumann Piano Quintet. This concert will be broadcast on Radio 3 so if you can’t make it out to Seoul (!) I hope you catch it on the radio (broadcast times to follow on this site).