Night Shift video
Here’s a new video from the last Night Shift on 23 April, featuring conductor Edward Gardner and giving you a glimpse backstage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The next Night Shift is on 20 May – details...
View ArticleGaffer tape pics – No.8
Today we have Lisa Beznosiuk, flute The post Gaffer tape pics – No.8 appeared first on Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
View ArticleFlutes: Conical vs Cylindrical
In our latest video ahead of our concerts of Mahler, Wagner and Liszt this week we speak to our Principal Flute, Lis Beznosiuk. She talks about which flutes she is using for the concert, a task made...
View ArticleNetty's tour diary. Part 2 (singing-bowls, lost keys and officious ladies)
Viola player Annette Isserliss concludes her US tour diary: Thurs 17th Awoke wondering how on earth the OAE homeward travellers (the players who weren’t staying on for the Heiner Goebbel’s concert) had...
View ArticleAn impromptu violin lesson in Modena
Members of the Orchestra are currently in Modena, Italy – we’re there with the London Sinfonnietta, giving a performance of Heiner Goebbels’ Songs of Wars I have Seen. Principal Flute Lisa Beznosiuk...
View ArticleLisa Beznosiuk: Speed Interview
We chatted to OAE Principal flautist Lisa Beznosiuk to ask her a few questions, ahead of her Night Shift performance tonight. What/when was your big breakthrough? I had two lucky breaks at roughly the...
View ArticleLisa Beznosiuk: Speed Interview
We chatted to OAE Principal flautist Lisa Beznosiuk to ask her a few questions, amidst her solo performances with us this week on our Baroque Giants: Bach tour in London, Birmingham and...
View ArticleBach: the missing soloists
This Wednesday, 25 April, saw us at the Queen Elizabeth Hall performing an all-Bach concert, with soloist Ian Bostridge and director Steven Devine. What anyone who was at the concert will have realised...
View ArticleAnd now for something completely different…
It’s that time of year again, when we reveal our ‘look’ for the new season. You might have seen a few things that hinted at our forthcoming brochure, most notably our recent video showing it on the...
View ArticleRemembering Frans Brüggen (1934-2014)
All of us at the OAE were very sad to hear the news of Emeritus Conductor Franz Brüggen, who passed away at the age of 79 earlier this week – a conductor who has had an association with the OAE almost...
View ArticleNew season: Lisa Beznosiuk’s highlights
Our Principal Flute, Lisa Beznosiuk, tell us what she’s most looking forward to in our new season of concerts, which starts on 9 October at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. 9 October: Rameau’s operas,...
View ArticleIrish flutes in Bruckner?
Lisa Beznosiuk shows us the flute she is playing in Bruckner’s 6th Symphony. Hear it this Friday at the Royal Festival Hall, London: Sir Simon Rattle conducts Bruckner The post Irish flutes in...
View ArticleIntroducing the Baroque Flute
“The wood makes the sound gentler and more… woody” Meet the flute that our principal Lisa Beznosiuk uses for playing Bach, Handel, Rameau and people like that. The post Introducing the Baroque Flute...
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