Carmina Burana, Carl Orff's most famous work, celebrates life, love, dancing, drinking and hedonism - but always with an eye on the designs of fate. Based on 24 mediaeval Latin poems whose carefree spirit contrasts vividly with the traditional concepts of life and death in the Middle Ages, this sweeping and powerful cantata for large-scale chorus, orchestra and soloists was a huge success at its premiere in 1937. Its worldwide popularity since then has made it a firm favourite with among singers and audiences alike.

It will be accompanied by the 9th Symphony by Beethoven with his immortal Ode to Joy.

Music from some of Hollywood’s greatest films storms off the silver screen and on to the concert stage, in a program that will thrill not just moviegoers but anyone who loves music. 

This concert by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra showcases film music with a life of its own, inspired by the creative imaginations that made some of the highest-grossing and greatest award-winning movies ever. So sit back and enjoy these immortal soundtracks with a universal appeal – music to excite and transport you, taking you to places, countries, or even unknown galaxies, far, far away.

The fact that he is the only mass of the deceased in his extensive catalog, of being his last opus, unfinished (because of his death) and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his commission and composition, have built the legend and fascination that the Requiem of Mozart continues to exercise in our days.

The mystery surrounds the penultimate one of Mozart's symphonies, the Symphony No. 40; It is unknown in what circumstance, for what reason or for what character was written, and it is unknown if Mozart came to listen in life.