We'll hear a fine performance from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, led by Matthias Bamert (mah-TEE-ahs BAM-ert). It's the Symphony in C, by the 17-year-old Georges Bizet (zhorzh bee-ZAY). It's ...

The conductor Ernest Ansermet held a grudge against atonal music, saying it went against the "true path" of tonality. In this performance, the Suisse Romande Orchestra plays a tune catchy enough to ...

REVIEW BY Richard Amey. ‘Romantic Awakenings’. Concert by Worthing Symphony Orchestra at The Assembly Hall, Sunday 17 May ...

New York City Ballet Symphony in C is part two of a two-part special featuring four ballets by NYCB co-founder George Balanchine set to the music of French composers. Symphony in C opens with Ravel's ...

Written when the composer was just 17, the Symphony in C was regarded so dismissively by Bizet himself as a juvenile trifle that he neither published it nor had it played during his lifetime. Only ...

Bizet’s only symphony was composed in 1855 as a school exercise. The 17-year-old composer promptly forgot about the piece, and the manuscript was spotted in the archives of the Paris Consevatoire some ...

Carmen Suite No 1 Scottish Chamber Orchestra François Leleux, Conductor Petite symphonie Scottish Chamber Orchestra François Leleux, Conductor Symphony Scottish Chamber Orchestra François Leleux, ...

Marche funèbre RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor Georges Bizet, Composer Overture Georges Bizet, Composer RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor Patrie ...

Two of Bizet’s most popular orchestral works are given sunny performances by the Orchestre de Paris, bringing both charm and freshness to the Symphony in C and the five pieces of Jeux d’enfants. If ...

Bizet's "Symphony in C" has a fascinating history. Written when Bizet was studying at the Paris Conservatoire, probably as a student assignment, it seems he made no effort to have the work published ...

Stephen Johnson explores the colourful world of Bizet's Symphony in C, a work the composer wrote while he was still a student at the Paris Conservatoire. Show more Bizet's "Symphony in C" has a ...