Commenting on the return of the Philharmonia to live music-making, Alexander Van Ingen, Chief Executive of the Philharmonia Orchestra, said: ‘We are hugely excited to return to our home at the Southbank Centre for these two concerts for a real, live audience. It is bittersweet that after 13 glorious years, Esa-Pekka will be finishing his tenure as Principal Conductor at the end of a Season that wasn’t as we originally planned it. And yet, two wonderful programmes with Yefim Bronfman and Mitsuko Uchida are a superb way of marking the occasion with as many people as are allowed in the Royal Festival Hall, and before Esa-Pekka takes up his new role as the Philharmonia’s Conductor Emeritus.’
MSO stirs the soul with fiery return to live concerts in the Bowl
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By Tony Way
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, January 29
Starved of the vital interaction between orchestra and live audience, 3000 enthusiastic music lovers were not going to be deterred by the threat of torrential rain.
The threat of rain did not deter Melburnians lucky enough to be in the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
Credit:MSO
The first of 2021′s Sidney Myer Concerts by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra took place in a reconfigured Bowl in response to the pandemic, providing patrons with allocated tiered seating. This made it all the better to see and hear the orchestra as it returned to physical concert presentation for the first time in nearly a year.