Past Projects
Our 2023 Season
Odyssey Festival Orchestra
Inspiring young people on their musical journey
Astonish Me!
20th September 2023, 7.30pm
Cadogan Hall, London, SW1X 9DQ
An exploration of repertoire inspired by two dancers, Vaslav Nijinsky and Leonid Massine, and commissioned by the great impresario Diaghilev and his Ballet Russes.
Weber (orch Berlioz 1841) (1911) Invitation to the Dance
Stravinsky Suite from Petrushka (1911)
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No 2 (1909)
Respighi Suite from La Boutique Fantasque
Stravinsky Pulcinella (excerpts) (1920)
De Falla Three Cornered Hat, Suite No 2 (1919)
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The Joker
10th May 2023, 19:30
Cadogan Hall, London, SW1X 9DQ
Shostakovich:
Overture: The Nose Op. 15 (1928)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor Op. 35 (1933)
Orchestral Fragments from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Op. 29 (1934)
Suite from The Clear Stream Op. 39a (1935)
Symphony No. 5 Op. 47 (1937)
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The Last Waltz
13 January 2023, 19:30
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX
Sir David Suchet Narrator
Sebastian-Benedict Flore Piano
Odyssey Festival Orchestra
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales and La Valse
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris
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Legendary actor Sir David Suchet joins Odyssey Festival Orchestra to explore the clash of high art music and jazz in the 1920s, featuring four works by Ravel and Gershwin. The four orchestral works by Maurice Ravel and George Gershwin are framed by a narrative drawn from the writings of the two composers.
Widely regarded as one of England's finest stage, screen and TV actors, David Suchet's international reputation has only grown over the years, greatly enhanced by his definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's suave Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, a character he played for nearly 25 years in 70 TV episodes (1988-2013).
Sebastian-Benedict Flore was born in Rome and began playing the piano aged five. He studied for five years at the Centre for Young Musicians under Francis Reneau and is currently in his second year of study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Katya Apekisheva as his teacher. He has won prizes in various competitions, including the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe's Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition in 2019. He went on to play for their concert series of 35 sonatas celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 2020.
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Prometheus - Romantic Superhero
15 September 2022, 19:30
Cadogan Hall, London, SW1X 9DQ
Dame Janet Suzman and Luke Wilson, narrator
Beethoven: Excepts from Prometheus and Symphony no. 3, 'Eroica'
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