London Philharmonic Orchestra 2008/09
Season highlights for the London Philharmonic Orchestra include Revealing Tchaikovsky, in collaboration with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which offers the chance to hear operatic, chamber and orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, alongside the music of his contemporaries and successors. The Orchestra also celebrates the appointment of Yannick Nezet-Seguin as Principal Guest Conductor, who conducts four concerts throughout the season.
Other highlights include orchestral and choral music by Dvorak, a season-long celebration of Mendelssohn’s 200th anniversary which includes a performance of a reconstruction of what would have been his third Piano Concerto, and the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Violin Concerto Mambo, Blues and Tarantella.
The Orchestra welcomes return visits by conductors including Neeme Järvi, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and Yuri Temirkanov, and looks forward to some great performances by soloists including violinist Christian Tetzlaff, baritone Matthias Goerner and pianists Viktoria Postnikova and Martin Helmchen.
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events in this series
Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 24 September 2008
A performance including Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring: a fiery depiction of ritual sacrifice dominated by intense rhythms.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 27 September 2008
Written during the closing months of World War Two, Strauss' Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings, was written as a statement of mourning for Germany's destruction during the war. It features in a programme with works by Hartmann and Brahms.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 8 October 2008
At the time of writing his Ninth Symphony, Dvorák was living in America, and it's often said he wrote the work out of homesickness. However, the piece contains folk themes and old spirituals taken from the New World, in homage to his new home.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 10 October 2008
'Clouds whirl about... as they gradually lift, one can discern a gigantic hall, filled by a crowd of dancers... the glow of the chandeliers breaks out fortissimo', is how Ravel described his work La valse, which opens the concert in this programme
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Gazing from the window of his beloved home in the Finnish countryside, Jean Sibelius glimpsed a group of swans taking flight, which he depicted musically in the last movement of his Fifth Symphony, heard in this programme with music by Rachmaninov.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 18 October 2008
Sketched over a four-year period Beethoven wrote his Missa Solemnis, a work he came to admire above all others. It is performed with soloists including the baritone Robert Holl.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Vladimir Jurowski leads the Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's First Symphony. Sixty years later, Igor Stravinsky used the same muscial themes in his ballet score The Fairy's Kiss. The Orchestra perform both works in this concert.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 25 October 2008
A concert performance of Tchaikovsky's romantic opera Iolanta.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 29 October 2008
A performance including Taneyev's Fourth Symphony, where the charm of Tchaikovsky meets the rigour of Brahms, and which ends with a gleaming brass-drenched finale.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 1 November 2008
In 1893 Tchaikovsky died, and fellow Russian composer Taneyev forged a creative memorial - completing Tchaikovsky's unfinished Third Piano Concerto, performed in this concert by Alexander Markovich.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 5 November 2008
The mysterious Manfred haunts the canons of literature and music. The embodiment of Romanticism, his tortured spirit and idealism inspired both Schumann and Tchaikovsky, who expressed Manfred's yearning and questioning in their dazzling, striking scores heard in this concert.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 7 November 2008
Soon after Tchaikovsky began work on his Second Piano Concerto he wrote to his sister 'Today I began to create something, and boredom vanished as if by magic'. The work is performed in this concert by Viktoria Postnikova.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 12 November 2008
Violinist Kolja Blacher joins the Orchestra to play Stravinsky's lively Violin Concerto, full of big gestures, dynamic exchanges, pulsating metres and capricious irregular rhythms.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 26 November 2008
Tchaikovsky's last symphony had its first performance only nine days before he died, and it's said Tchaikovsky had in effect written his own funeral music as an orthodox funeral chant haunts the first movement.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra (Funharmonics)
Saturday 29 November 2008
A special family-orientated concert. Prepare to be whisked from your Royal Festival Hall seat and taken on a magical journey, courtesy of a sleigh, a steam-train, nine flying horses and fifty elephants!
Adults £14 £12 £10 £9 £8. Children £7 £6 £5 £4.50 £4
Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 5 December 2008
Pianist Jean Louis Steuerman performs Schumann's Piano Concerto, written for his wife Clara, who also gave the work's first performance.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 6 December 2008
A concert performance of Donizetti's opera Parisina, which displays 'a dramatic energy unequalled by anything he composed up to this time', according to his biographer William Ashbrook.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 13 December 2008
'Since I have never enjoyed in life the real happiness of love, I will erect this most beautiful of all dreams in which this love shall drink its fill', so wrote Wagner when conceiving his opera Tristan und Isolde. The Orchestra perform Act Two in this programme.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 16 January 2009
Two off-beat scores from his 30s see Richard Strauss turning not to the grand concepts of human heroism and spiritual rebirth, but instead painting more immediate and local musical pictures, with Till Eulenspiegel performed in this programme.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 21 January 2009
A performance of Sibelius' haunting, languorous Violin Concerto, which combines the purity of a snow-driven Nordic panorama with a sense of frailty and hope.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 24 January 2009
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins the Orchestra to peform Mendelssohn's well-loved Violin Concerto.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Beethoven lifted his symphonic catalogue onto a new plane of expression by including, in his Ninth Symphony, vocal soloists and a chorus. Almost 100 years later, Mahler re-orchestrated the work, and the Orchestra perform his version in this programme.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 7 February 2009
The London Philharmonic Orchestra perform Dvorak's Requiem, scored for four soloists, chorus and orchestra, for the first time in the Orchestra's history.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Cellist Truls Mork joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin for a performance of Haydn's Cello Concerto in C and Bruckner's Symphony No.7.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 18 February 2009
The world premiere of a new work by Martynov, visual artist, musician and philosopher and one of Russia's most distinguished cultural figures.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 20 February 2009
A performance of Richard Strauss' extravagant, Nietzsche-inspired tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, which displays the composer's truly extraordinary musical writing, later used by Stanley Kubrick in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 6 March 2009
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier and pianist Simon Trpceski present a programme of Messiaen, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra (Funharmonics)
Sunday 8 March 2009
A special family-orientated concert featuring a musical menagerie of animals big, small, cute, and ferocious!
Adults £14 £12 £10 £9 £8. Children £7 £6 £5 £4.50 £4
Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 11 March 2009
'Why on earth didn't I know that one could write a cello concerto like this? If I had only known, I would have written one long ago' - so wrote Brahms of his colleague Dvorak's Cello Concerto, performed in this concert by young cellist Daniel Mueller-Schott.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 14 March 2009
A programme including Schubert's Ninth Symphony, described by Mendelssohn as 'bright, fascinating and original', featuring an exuberant and tirelessly energetic final movement.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 28 March 2009
An evening devoted to Rossini's opera Ermione.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 1 April 2009
A programme featuring Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Brahms' Second Piano Concerto performed by Nicholas Angelich.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 4 April 2009
Brahms' German Requiem, written shortly after his mother died, contains some of his most profoundly moving music, performed in this concert with soprano Barbara Bonney and baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 22 April 2009
A concert featuring the work of three composers born into the Soviet regime in the mid 20th-century: Giya Kancheli, Benjamin Yusopov and Valentin Silvestrov - musicians known for innovative, moving and atmospheric music.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 25 April 2009
Vladimir Jurowski conducts his first Mahler symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Purcell Room
London Philharmonic Orchestra: Foyle Future Firsts
Wednesday 29 April 2009
This evening the Foyle Future Firsts, the Orchestra's outstanding young apprentice musicians, come together to play music by three masters of the 20th century.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 1 May 2009
Rachmaninov wrote his Third Symphony whilst living in America, and the Russian folk themes that pervade the work show a tangible senseof his sadness in the face of exile.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra (Funharmonics)
Saturday 16 May 2009
A family-orientated concert with a boisterous concert featuring battles, weddings, jovial japes and dazzling dances aplenty.
Adults £14 £12 £10 £9 £8. Children £7 £6 £5 £4.50 £4
Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 22 May 2009
A musically evocative concert featuring Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending and Holst's The Planets.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 27 May 2009
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Orchestra in a programme featuring music by Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov and Dvorak.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 31 May 2009
The UK premiere of My Heart is on Fire, by Torsten Rasch. Conceived as a classical song cycle, Torsten Rasch's songs - spoken, sung, whispered and shouted - are unspeakably powerful and as gripping as the Romanticism of Beethoven and Mahler, but with a contemporary edge.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 5 June 2009
Debussy's La mer and Elgar's Cello Concerto both feature in this concert, under the direction of conductor Mario Venzago.
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