The Arts Council of Wales has long held an aspiration to create a national chamber orchestra.
Founded in 2006, the chamber orchestra does not have a set-in-stone season or a salaried company roster.
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Here's his famous G minor Symphony, No. 40, played in Kiel, Germany, by the Polish Chamber Orchestra.
At Walt Disney Concert Hall, one of the pieces he chose was Gnarly Buttons, for clarinet and chamber orchestra.
Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has recently composed for and performed with both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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Scott Faulkner, of the Reno Chamber Orchestra, says that his group kept the composer busy, and not just at rehearsal.
The five companies are the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Opera.
"The New Brandenburgs, " is a four-year project, launched by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which will spawn six new pieces of music.
As were, arguably, the heavily decorated codpieces in Gotham Chamber Orchestra's production of "Eliogabalo, " a Baroque opera about a hedonistic Roman ruler.
Mr. Spears, a young, New York-based postminimalist composer, matches the spareness of Ms. Moshiri's text with luminous, pointillistic writing for his five-piece chamber orchestra.
Wadada Leo Smith's "Ten Freedom Summers, " which paired the trumpeter's jazz quartet with a chamber orchestra, was a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for music.
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Joshua Koestenbaum, associate principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Sergiu Luca, an acclaimed early-music specialist, were invited to show them off.
Scottish conductor Douglas Boyd chose Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ for one of his last three concerts as artistic partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Currently, he's in the midst of a 3-year appointment as Artistic Partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and he's the Pianist-in-Residence at the Berlin Philharmonic.
The flying scenes are big and bombastic, and the sound quality makes you feel as though a small chamber orchestra were sitting on top of your head.
He founded the Basle Chamber Orchestra in 1926, when he was a penurious 20-year-old, and with the aid of donations from friends almost immediately started commissioning pieces.
The new building will also house Glasgow City Council's music education service and will be used by music organisations such as Celtic Connections and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Vivaldi intended the solo violinist to improvise so for a kick check out the jazz-influenced version with clarinetist, Eddie Daniels, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Bernard Rubenstein.
This Carnegie Hall concert, by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, features two orchestral pieces by Schumann that have been remodeled, so to speak one by the composer himself, and another by Paul Chihara.
The project concluded with Wan using the Virtual Music Instrument, guided by movements of his head, to play Pachelbel's "Canon in D" during a 2011 concert with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra.
The next evening these eight, together with the gifted double-bassist Joseph Conyers (a Savannah native now with the Philadelphia Orchestra), formed an ideal chamber orchestra for Mr. Knauer's delectable "Bach Meets Mozart" program.
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For the "War Requiem, " Britten assembled a large orchestra, a smaller chamber orchestra, two organs, three vocal soloists, a chorus and a boys' choir (positioned at a distance, with a portable organ or harmonium).
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Harding, who has been principal guest conductor with the LSO since 2006, will also conduct a Prom with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on 30 July, where he holds the lifetime post of Conductor Laureate.
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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra then takes over on Sunday night for one of the biggest live concerts in the world, as many tens of thousands of people watch its fireworks concert at Edinburgh Castle.
Hollywood composer John Williams will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award, while The London Chamber Orchestra will perform a montage of his film scores including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Superman and ET.
But Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Teldec release of the Op. 46 and Op. 72 sets, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, makes a case for them not just as important parts of Dvorak's output, but also as integrated cycles of pieces.
The sheer power of these accumulated forces can shake a listener to the core. (Two conductors are needed for the premiere, Meredith Davies conducted the main orchestra and choir, while Britten conducted the chamber orchestra and the tenor and baritone soloists.) Britten selected for his text nine poems by Lt.
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Erickson also used the digits of pi (as well as the constant e) as the basis for the melody of his Pi Symphony, which was performed by the Omaha Symphony Orchestra Chamber group and by Ruse Philharmonic of Bulgaria last year.
Then we hear excerpts from his Serenata "Ascanio in Alba, " written for the Duke of Milan, and recorded by the Mozarteum Orchestra and Salzburg Chamber Choir.
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