Virtual Circle is an online streaming platform where you can watch concerts, album launches, workshops and lots of other exciting content from the music and arts world.
Virtual Circle is inspired by the concert hall and aims to recreate this digitally with specially curated content and multiple audience interactive features to ensure you feel connected to the performance.
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Launch Concert: Klaus Mäkelä and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sibelius Symphony No.1
Conductor Klaus Mäkelä specially introduces and conducts this dance inspired online concert celebrating Sibelius’ 155 anniversary.
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Zoltán Kodály (1882 – 1967) was a pioneer in his work with Hungarian folk music. In the Dances of Galánta, the composer merged vast knowledge with childhood memories of the music of his hometown of Galánta.
Jean Sibelius’ (1865−1957) Symphony No.1 was the composer’s international breakthrough, but also the one most strongly influenced by Finnish folk music.
Rolf Gupta’s (born 1967) Epilogue is taken from Earth’s Song, a full-night work about Creation, inspired by 3000-year-old Indian texts. The work was written for the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra Centennial in 2019.
Oslo Philharmonic’s own principal harpist Birgitte Volan Håvik plays the solo in Claude Debussy’s (1862 – 1918) elegant Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and orchestra.
This concert was pre-recorded in October 2020 at Oslo Philharmonic concert hall.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Beethoven and the avant-garde
Celebrating Beethoven’s 250 anniversary on the day of Beethoven’s baptism and recorded for The Gilmore at the Teldex Studio in Berlin, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs a fascinating programme of works by Beethoven, Messiaen, and Stockhausen in this online concert. Aimard will also perform the world premiere of a piece by György Kurtág, which the composer gave to him in their most recent meeting.
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The repertoire spans centuries to deftly connect four brilliant composers who pushed the limits of sound, composition, and the piano itself to challenge the musical conventions of their time.
After the concert Pierre-Laurent provides a personal insight into his relationship with composer Messiaen and the Catalogue d’oiseaux. (approx. 10 minutes).
Full programme:
Messiaen: L’alouette lulu (“The Woodlark”) from Catalogue d’oiseaux, No.6
Beethoven: Sonata in C‑sharp Minor, Sonata quasi una Fantasia, Op. 27, No.2 (“Moonlight”)
Messiaen: La chouette hulotte (“The Tawny Owl”) from Catalogue d’oiseaux, No.5
Beethoven: Sonata in F minor, Op.57 (“Appassionata”)
Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX
György Kurtág: New work Le Chien (world premiere)
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Echo Collective: new album launch concert
Echo Collective launch their new album ‘The See Within’ with a special digital concert on Virtual Circle.
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“…this masterclass in composition, expression and technique bridges intimacy and grandeur in line with the most rewarding of post-classical works”- Pianist Magazine
Echo Collective is a creative and diverse community of classically trained musicians and instrumentalists, based in Brussels.
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