全城矚目的太古「港樂．星夜．交響曲」載譽重臨中環海濱！香港管弦樂團聯同指揮吳懷世和大會主持Harry 哥哥，在星空下為廣大市民表演。音樂會將以舞曲為主題，港樂樂師凌顯祐以及莫思卓、華達德和施樂百更會擔任獨奏家，分別為您送上皮亞佐拉《大探戈》和安德森《號手的假期》。

Harry哥哥更在布拉姆斯《第五匈牙利舞曲》大顯身手，以鼻笛協助演出樂曲的主旋律。

音樂會在影片的26:12開始。

The annual extravaganza, Swire Symphony Under The Stars, returns to the Central Harbourfront! The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, joined by conductor Wilson Ng and our favourite host Harry Gor Gor, presents an exuberant programme of dazzling dance music. Four HK Phil musicians will perform as soloists – Andrew Ling (Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango), and Christopher Moyse, Douglas Waterston and Robert Smith (Anderson’s Bugler’s Holiday).

"Brother Harry" plays the melody of J. Strauss II "Blue Danube Waltz" with a special musical instrument: Nose Flute.

The Concert begins at 26:12 in the YouTube Video.

Vladimir Horowitz is a famous Russian pianist. The distinctive and beautiful tone colour played by his simplest technique of piano playing, is his trademark. Listening to his music, you must be more sensitive to distinguish the layers he expresses in the music.

The Castalian Quartet joins Stephen Hough in his Brahms Series.

Johannes Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

Interval: Natasha Loges discusses tonight's programme with the Castalian Quartet

Carl Frühling, Piano Quintet in F sharp minor Op. 30

Following its successful Wigmore debut in 2017, the Castalian String Quartet went on to receive the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and the Merito String Quartet Award/Valentin Erben Prize; tonight’s collaboration includes a recently rediscovered work.

This event was live streamed on Tuesday 7 January 2020 7:30PM

HAUSER performing his favorite classical music pieces with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra at his classical solo concert at the Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, October 2017.

Elisabeth Fuchs, conductor

Special guests:
Choir Zvjezdice
Lana Trotovsek, violin
Petrit Çeku, guitar

Violinist Alena Baeve and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker Orchestra conducted by Alexandre Bloch perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto op.35 and the Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet (37:15) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Musicians:
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Alexandre Bloch [conductor]
Alena Baeva [violin]

Musical programme:
1. P.I. Tsjaikovsky - Violin Concerto, Op. 35 (from start)
2. P.I. Tsjaikovsky - Fantasie-overture Romeo and Juliet (37:15)

Ana Vidović
Guitar by Jim Redgate
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PROGRAM:

Flute Partita in A minor, BWV 1013
by Johann Sebastian Bach
(Transcribed by Valter Despalj)
-Allemande (3:06​)
-Corrente (8:40​)

Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
by Johann Sebastian Bach
(arr. by Manuel Barrueco)
-Adagio (12:44​)
-Fuga (16:38​)
-Siciliana (21:19​)
-Presto (24:25​)

Un Dia de Noviembre (27:36​)
by Leo Brouwer

Gran Sonata Eroica, Op. 150 (32:17​)
by Mauro Giuliani

Sonata in E major, K. 380, L. 23 (41:39​)

Sonata in D minor K.1, L. 366 (46:28​)
by Domenico Scarlatti

Nocturno (48:55​)
by Slavko Fumic

Encore -
Asturias (53:49​)
by Isaac Albeniz

International lute sensation Thomas Dunford joins the Academy of Ancient Music to direct and perform a programme of Vivaldi, Bach and Buxtehude, recorded LIVE from London's Milton Court Concert Hall.

Download the concert programme here: https://issuu.com/academy-of-ancient-...

PROGRAMME:

J.S. BACH
Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV1067 (1738-39)

JIRÁNEK
Flute Concerto in G, II. Adagio ('Mystery Music')

VIVALDI
Concerto from Trio Sonata in C major, RV82 (c.1730-31)

J.S. BACH
Suite in G minor, BWV995 (c.1727–31)

BUXTEHUDE
Trio Sonata for violin, viola da gamba and continuo in B flat major, Op.1 No.4, BuxWV255 (1694 )
with Bojan Čičić, violin
Imogen Seth-Smith, viola da gamba
Stephen Farr, continuo

VIVALDI
Concerto for Lute in D major, RV93 (c.1730-31)
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Academy of Ancient Music
Director & lute: Thomas Dunford
Leader: Bojan Cicic

Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc (法國聖馬可兒童合唱團) is a children's choir, founded in September 1986 by Nicolas Porte. It is a mixed unit composed of seventy-five to eighty school-aged children from ten to fifteen years old. All are provided education from the Saint-Marc college in Lyon. The choir became famous after they performs in the 2004 movie Les Choristes. You may find the pure voice sung by the children what surprises the world!

Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live concert performed by three greatest jazz guitarists in the world, Al Di Meola (UK), John McLaughlin (USA) and Paco de Lucía (Spain). This is the most classic jazz guitar concert showing professional guitar playing and improvisational techniques. The concert recording became a famous jazz album later.

Highlight Performance:
Mediterranean Sundance

Gary Burton and Chick Corea are my jazz idols. With innovative voicing and creative musical ideas, Chick Corea always inspires the world to create modern music in a pioneer way. Gary Burton is a famous percussion musician and he develops a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach causes him to be heralded as an innovator, and his sound and technique are widely imitated.

Highlight Performance:
Eleanor Rigby (You may compare this performance with The Beatles' original performance.)

Uehara Hiromi is the greatest jazz pianist in Japan. Listening to her energetic music, you may feel her passion to music deeply. You must not miss the performance of the classical famous piece, the Pathetique composed by Beethoven. You may learn something on how she convert a piece of classical music into jazz version. Besides, George Gershwin's "I've Got Rhythm" is another classical jazz masterpiece you must listen to.

Highlight Performance:
Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 8, Pathetique, I've Got Rhythm

夫妻爵士組合Tuck & Patti，原本接受古典音樂訓練的。之後兩人將古典音樂細緻的演奏/唱技巧，融入爵士樂的表演之中。

Casiopea and the Square are the most famous Japanese Jazz Fusion Band in the World. The king of the drum set, Akira Jimbo (神保彰) came from Casiopea may surprise you by his amazing drumming techniques. In this concert, you may watch a lot of awesome improvisational performances by them. Don't miss the battle between two bands and you may find many inspiring musical ideas in their performance. Enjoy!

A famous musical written by Claude-Michel Schönberg performed by The King's Academy.

Performed by The Palatka High School Musical Theatre Department. Ronald Dahl's Matilda The Musical. Based on the book by Dennis Kelly, Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin. Orchestrations and Additional Music Chris Nightingale.

Lea Salonga is a famous Filipino Broadway musical singer and actress. She began her musical career in the performance of Miss Saigon. After the worldwide success, she takes up many important casting in circle of Broadway musicals, such as Les Misérable, the Cinderella...

John Williams is the master of movie music. Most of the influential movie music is composed by him, such as the Jaws, Superman, Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc... In this concert, through the editing of different shots, you may understand more on the interaction between the conductor and the musicians in the performance.

The violin expert, Roby Lakatos combines jazz, classical and Gypsy music to give you an awesome music experience. In this concert, you may see a traditional Hungarian musical instrument, Cimbalom, the original version of Chinese yangqin (中國揚琴). I hope you enjoy this exciting concert and love explore more in the world music aspect!

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Blind Boys of Alabama is the world-wide famous gospel band. Since all the members are blind, they name the band as Blind Boys of Alabama.
The melody of Amazing Grace of their version is totally different from the traditional hymn - Amazing Grace, though the lyrics are the same in both version. You may experience the call and response features of gospel music in this concert.

Highlight Performance:
Amazing Grace (43:23-52:00)

Astor Piazzola is the famous icon of Argentina tango music. His well-known composition, Libertango, is the most frequent performance pieces all over the world. Adiós Nonino is the music you should pay attention as this composition is dedicated to Piazzolla's grandfather, who gave Piazzolla the greatest inspiration in his life.

Highlight Performance:
Adiós Nonino