Thomas Kemp will conduct a programme of words and music narrated by legendary actor, Charles Dance to commemorate the Armistice. The programme includes British string music from the Great War and poetry and diary extracts by Siegfried Sassoon which will be recorded in 2019 and has been featured on ITV News in a special interview from...
Excellent review in The Gramophone: "something distinctive to say." Read...
Thomas Kemp conducts the OAE in concerts for Orchestras Live in Hereford, Bristol and...
Fascinating preview of Der Rosenkavalier in Opera Today: “Never was such an advertisement for a film.”
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October 2017Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier was premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 26th January 1911. Almost fifteen years to the day, on 10th January 1926, the theatre hosted another Rosenkavalier ‘premiere’, with the screening of a silent film version of the opera, directed by Robert Wiene - best known for his expressionistic masterpiece The Cabinet of...
The Spectator reviews Thomas Kemp and The OAE at The Oxford Lieder Festival: “The OAE and conductor Thomas Kemp, gave their all…”
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October 2017At the brilliantly programmed Oxford Lieder Festival, a silent film version of Rosenkavalier made you wonder what might have been Read full article...
Excellent review in Seen and Heard for Oxford Lieder Festival “…marvellous sweep in their performance…”
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Thomas will be conducting the OAE at the Vienna Konserthaus in May 2018 in a performance of Der Rosenkavalier. Filmed in the Schoenbrunn Palace in 1925 - this will be taking the film back to where it was conceived and where Strauss and Hugo von Hoffmanstahl collaborated on the movie with film director Robert Weine...
Thomas will be conducting Strauss in Shanghai this December with the...
Thomas will be conducting performances as part of the Music@Malling Festival. He will be giving four performances of Paul Patterson - Little Red Riding Hood and conducting a concert of British classics including the Elgar Cello Concerto with soloist Richard Harwood, Alexander Goehr - Broken Lute and Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending and Thomas...
Thomas will conduct two concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment this October as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival. The opening concert of the Festival will be in the iconic Sheldonian Theatre conducting salon arrangements of Mahler - Das Lied von Der Erde, Mahler - Lieder lines Fahrenden Gesellen and the premiere...