The Works

Robert Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Marin Alsop conductor, presenter

The Works is the OAE's unique series that gives audiences a guided tour of selected classical masterpieces.

This time the series turns its attention to a perhaps slightly neglected symphony, Schumann's hugely powerful Symphony No.2.

Let conductor Marin Alsop and our presenter guide you through the music movement by movement, with a complete performance following a Q&A with the artists.

There's music in the bar before the concert together with a chance to meet musicians afterwards.

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  Royal Festival Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Sunday 30 September 2012

  The OAE's Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers series opens with Sir Roger Norrington and top soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci.

  Event tags:
  Berlioz, Hector | Bizet, Georges | Cherubini, Luigi | Choral | Haydn, Joseph | Music | Orchestral

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Thursday 25 October 2012

  An all-Mozart programme, centred around the composer's richly melodic Fourth Horn Concerto.

  Event tags:
  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Music | Orchestral

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  Purcell Room

  OAE Tots

  Sunday 4 November 2012 - Sunday 4 November 2012

  The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's popular series of events for the very youngest music-lovers returns to Southbank Centre.

  Event tags:
  Learning & Participation | Music | Orchestral

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  The Works

  Tuesday 6 November 2012

  The Works is the OAE's unique concert series giving you a guided tour of selected classical masterpieces.

  Event tags:
  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Music | Orchestral

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Thursday 8 November 2012

  The Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers series continues with a programme that features the best of English and French Baroque and which demonstrates how French musical styles became fashionable in En

  Event tags:
  Choral | Music | Orchestral

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Thursday 22 November 2012

  This joyous, celebratory concert contains some of the best-loved Baroque choral music in the repertoire.

  Event tags:
  Choral | Handel, George Frideric | Music | Orchestral

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  Purcell Room

  Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers

  Sunday 2 December 2012 - Sunday 2 December 2012

  The OAE's Annual Study this year springboards from our series Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers - taking an in-depth look at women's roles in music over the last 400 years.

  Event tags:
  Music | Orchestral

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  Royal Festival Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Tuesday 11 December 2012

  In 1784 Handel's visionary, ecstatic Messiah was revived in a huge performance at Westminster Abbey, an event that ensured its still iconic status.

  Event tags:
  Choral | Handel, George Frideric | Music | Orchestral

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  Royal Festival Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Wednesday 9 January 2013

  Haydn's vibrant oratorio The Creation, with Adam Fischer and an all-star cast of soloists.

  Event tags:
  Choral | Haydn, Joseph | Music | Orchestral

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  Royal Festival Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Tuesday 29 January 2013

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Principal Artist Sir Simon Rattle joins the Orchestra to conduct Mozart's last three symphonies.

  Event tags:
  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Music | Orchestral

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Friday 8 February 2013 - Friday 8 February 2013

  Vivaldi's legendary Four Seasons are given a fresh twist in this major new collaboration between the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and renowned choreographer Henri Oguike, fusing period per

  Event tags:
  Vivaldi, Antonio

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Monday 25 February 2013

  Tonight's concert sees a pair of Mozart's greatest piano concertos being performed by one of the world's greatest pianists, András Schiff.

  Event tags:
  Haydn, Joseph | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Music | Orchestral

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Friday 8 March 2013

  Marin Alsop conducts a dramatic evening of Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann.

  Event tags:
  Beethoven, Ludwig van | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Music | Orchestral | Schumann, Robert | Weber, Carl Maria von

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  Purcell Room

  OAE Tots

  Sunday 17 March 2013 - Sunday 17 March 2013

  The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's popular series of events for the very youngest music-lovers returns to Southbank Centre.

  Event tags:
  Learning & Participation | Music | Orchestral

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall

  The Works

  Tuesday 26 March 2013

  The Works is the OAE's unique series that gives audiences a guided tour of selected classical masterpieces.

  Event tags:
  Music | Orchestral | Schumann, Robert

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  Purcell Room

  OAE Tots

  Saturday 13 April 2013 - Saturday 13 April 2013

  The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's popular series of events for the very youngest music-lovers returns to Southbank Centre.

  Event tags:
  Learning & Participation | Music | Music | Orchestral

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  Royal Festival Hall

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  Monday 3 June 2013

  Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was one of the foremost sopranos of our time, and an artist the OAE worked with regularly, most notably at Glyndebourne and on CD.

  Event tags:
  Choral | Handel, George Frideric | Music | Orchestral

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