Orchestral
What's on this month
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Royal Festival Hall
A Listener's Guide to Prometeo
Friday 9 May 2008
Marshall Marcus, Head of Music at Southbank Centre, describes the key elements of Nono's Prometeo for the audience, and introduces the unqiue features of the work, with some of the musicians involved in its performance.
Admission free
Royal Festival Hall
Nono: Prometeo
Friday 9 May 2008 - Saturday 10 May 2008
As a fitting climax to the Luigi Nono: Fragments of Venice festival, Southbank Centre presents the UK premiere of Luigi Nono's final masterpiece, Prometeo.
£25 (unreserved) £9 (unreserved)
The Clore Ballroom
Prometeo Salon
Friday 9 May 2008 - Saturday 10 May 2008
Post-concert events after the performance of Luigi Nono's Prometeo, with insights from performers and a chance to discusse your experience of Prometeo.
Admission free
Royal Festival Hall
Surrounded by Sound
Saturday 10 May 2008
Luigi Nono's tantalising, inventive work Prometeo challenges traditional ways of presenting and hearing music. Professor Christopher Fox of Brunel University leads a discussion on listening to the composer's final masterpiece.
Admission free
Royal Festival Hall
English Philharmonia and Chorus: Tsunami
Monday 12 May 2008
This concert presents the world premiere of 'Songs of the Coromandel Coast', a highly original and accessible choral work by India-based composer Chris Williams, featuring tenor James Gilchrist.
£32 £28 £22 £16 £12 £9
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Wednesday 14 May 2008
The Orchestra perform works by Rameau, Mozart and Haydn with violinist Rachel Podger and violist Pavlo Beznosiuk.
£35 £26 £19 £12 £6
Purcell Room
Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Thursday 15 May 2008
A recital by pianist Sibila Konstantinova, award-winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
Admission free
Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 16 May 2008
A programme including Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2, and Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful Sheherazade.
£38 £32 £27 £21 £16 £12 £9
Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Saturday 17 May 2008
A portrait of Philippe Leroux conducted by Baldur Bronnimann and presented by Julian Anderson in conversation with the composer.
Admission Free
Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra
Saturday 17 May 2008
Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony was conceived by the composer as 'a symphony of the greatness of the human spirit, a song of praise of free and happy mankind'.
Tickets: £38 £29 £23 £18 £14 £11 £8 Premium seats £45
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