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View CalendarWed 25 Sep 2024, 7.30pm
Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Barber Medea’s Dance of Vengeance (23’)
- Berlioz The Death of Cleopatra (21’)
- Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) (47’)
- Edward Gardner conductor
- Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Fri 4 Oct 2024, 7.30pm
Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Shostakovich
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Britten Sinfonia da Requiem (21’)
- Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 (36’)
- Sibelius Symphony No. 5 (31’)
- Edward Gardner conductor
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Sat 2 Nov 2024, 7.30pm
Tchaikovsky’s Sixth
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Saariaho Lumière et Pesanteur (6’)
- Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 (34’)
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) (45’)
- Karina Canellakis conductor
- Vadym Kholodenko piano
Wed 6 Nov 2024, 7.30pm
Víkingur Ólafsson plays Brahms
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (46’)
- Freya Waley-Cohen Mother Tongue (world premiere)* (25’)
- Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (21’)
- Edward Gardner conductor
- Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Fri 29 Nov 2024, 7.30pm
Swan Lake
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Weber Overture, Oberon (10’)
- Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme (18’)
- Tchaikovsky Selections from Swan Lake (40’)
- TBC conductor*
- Zlatomir Fung cello
Wed 22 Jan 2025, 7.30pm
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
London, Queen Elizabeth Hall
- Perry Requiem for Orchestra (7’)
- Evan Williams Dead White Man Music (Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble) (31’)
- Vivaldi The Four Seasons (45’)
- Richard Egarr conductor/harpsichord
- Alice Ivy-Pemberton violin
Sat 25 Jan 2025, 7.30pm
An evening with Amjad Ali Khan
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Reena Esmail RE|Member (7’)
- Amjad Ali Khan Samaagam (Concerto for Sarod) (70’)
- AR Rahman Selections from film soundtracks including Slumdog Millionaire, Bombay and others
- Lidiya Yankovskaya conductor
- Amjad Ali Khan sarod virtuoso
- Amaan Ali Bangash sarod
- Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod
Fri 21 Feb 2025, 7.30pm
An Alpine Symphony
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Tania León New work (UK premiere)* (15’)
- Grieg Piano Concerto (30’)
- R Strauss An Alpine Symphony (51’)
- Edward Gardner conductor
- Alexandra Dovgan piano
Wed 5 Mar 2025, 7.30pm
An Evening with Renée Fleming
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (17’)
- R Strauss Four Last Songs (25’)
- Wagner Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser (24’)
- Wagner Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (7’)
- Wagner Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (10’)
- Thomas Guggeis conductor
- Renée Fleming soprano
Wed 19 Mar 2025, 7.30pm
Mahler’s Fifth
London, Royal Festival Hall
- R Schumann Piano Concerto (31’)
- Mahler Symphony No. 5 (72’)
- Robin Ticciati conductor
- Francesco Piemontesi piano
Sat 26 Apr 2025, 7.30pm
Mahler’s Eighth
London, Royal Festival Hall
- Mahler Symphony No. 8 (semi-staged) (80’)
- Edward Gardner conductor
- Sarah Wegener soprano
- Emma Bell soprano
- Jennifer France soprano
- Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
- Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano
- Andreas Schager tenor
- Tomasz Konieczny bass-baritone
- Derek Welton bass-baritone
- London Philharmonic Choir
- London Symphony Chorus
- Tiffin Boys' Choir
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