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Vanessa-Mae’s Classical Top Ten
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The votes are in for your top ten classical peformances..
Vanessa-Mae will be adding yet another string to her bow this Autumn by presenting the UK’s first ever top 10 classical music concerts on Sky Arts 2.
Passionate about Prokofiev? Delighted by Debussy? Or simply bowled over by Beethoven? Our viewers opinions are important to us, hence the reason we let you vote for what classical programmes you want to see on your telly.
The votes are in; they’ve been counted and verified. Now all you have to do is sit back and enjoy as the young, beautiful and incredibly talented Vanessa-Mae gives her own introduction for each classical choice.
And the winners are…
10: Tuesday 21 October, Mozart Celebration from Berlin 2006, Mozart
9: Tuesday 28 October, The Creation, Haydn
8: Tuesday 4 November, Homage to Ravel: Bernstein, Ravel
7: Tuesday 11 November, The Planets, Holst
6: Tuesday 18 November, Sir George Solti conducts… Berlioz, excerpts from ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Prokofiev
5: Tuesday 25 November, New World Symphony, Europa Koncert 2002, Dvorak
4: Tuesday 2 December, Rhapsody in Blue, Waldbuhne ’95 – American Night, Gershwin
3: Tuesday 9 December, The Four Seasons, Vivaldi
2: Tuesday 16 December, La Mer, Daniel Barenboim & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Debussy
1: Tuesday 23 December, Rite of Spring, Europa Zonzert from the Albert Hall, Stravinsky
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Linda West
Fri 31 October 2008, 23:42
I can’t find any information on your site about the choir and musicians and soloists in to-nights’ (31st oct )magnificent Haydn’s Creation. Please helpme find it!
It really was a wonderful and inspiring production Thank you for showing it.
Linda West
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Ted
Wed 5 November 2008, 17:15
A little worried about another series introduced by Celebratry Musician but this weeks Ravel programme turned out of be the famous Lenny Bernstein Paris concert of Ravel recorded in the Theatre Des Cahmps Elysee in 1975. Why no detailed information about this broadcast. For those that missed it, shame, here is the programme: All Ravel concert with Leonard Berstein and the National Orchestra of France. Alborada Del Gracioso - Scherazade (Marilyn Harn) Tzigane (Boris Belkin) Piano Concerto in G Major (Lenny Bernstein himself) La Valse and the encore Bolero. Will now have to set the Sky+ just in case another gem is broadcast.
Do you have the rights to other older UNITEL programmes, perhaps the companian to the above “Bernstein in Paris - Berlioz Requiem”
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David Silcock
Tue 25 November 2008, 20:29
Like Linda I too was greatly impressed by this superb concert. I have searched the internet in vane to see if there was any way I could purchase a copy of the performance. I know that the suprano Natalie Dessay has had medical problems but is now singing again. I hope that this concert is available somewhere accessable. Can anyone help?
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Terry Davies
Tue 25 November 2008, 23:02
I enjoyed Dvorak’s New World performance tonight but there were no credits of any kind at the end or any details about the encore. This is surely a basic requirement and is disrespectful to both audience and performers. I don’t think Ms. Mae would appreciate being ignored in this way.
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Phiul Davidson
Tue 25 November 2008, 23:38
i have just finished the most enjoyable evening watching the \New World symphony evening , Could someone please give the name of the encore.
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Ian Woodward
Wed 26 November 2008, 10:47
This potentiaslly first-rate series is marrred by two major calamities. 1. Vanessa-Mae speaks so fast in her introductions that it is impossible to take-in most of what she is saying. 2. The concerts are unique in my TV experience is adopting the bizarre (and rather arrogant) stance of not giving, via sub-titles, the names of the works (and composers) as each new piece begins. Very bad, very irritating, and ultimately very cavalier and downright amateurish on the part of Sky Arts.
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Laura Mann
Fri 28 November 2008, 23:59
Just finished watching the breathtaking Eurokonzert conducted by Claudio Abbado, only to be hit with a punch back to (vulgar) earth by an advert for Suggs’ Italian Job. It started the second the image of the splendid Teatro Massimo and the applauses faded...no credits, no respite - just straight to “Don’t watch that, watch this!” of the advert. How insensitive and disappointing on the part of Sky Arts 2…
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