Welcome to the London Philharmonic Orchestra's 2011/12 concert season at home at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall

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Season overview

Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski’s concerts have become a magnet for those wishing to experience the greatest sense of occasion. Every performance is an event and demonstrates a logical musical progression. The Prokofiev Festival (Man of the People?) in January is the successor to previous explorations of Tchaikovsky and Schnittke. Jurowski’s Bruckner cycle begins with Symphony No. 1.
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Vladimir Jurowski introduces his season highlights in this short video.

Principal Guest Conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin appears with us five times. His rapport with the audience is exceptional, and his concerts are full of energy and spirit, achieving an almost magical quality.
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Listen to Nézet-Séguin introduce his concerts:

Our regular partners include Sir Mark Elder, Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach and Osmo Vänskä, and we introduce James Gaffigan, Markus Stenz and Eduardo Portal. Renée Fleming sings Strauss’s Four Last Songs, Stephen Hough plays Liszt, Joshua Bell plays Brahms and legendary pianists Maria João Pires, Leon Fleisher and Aldo Ciccolini return.
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Works by Julian Anderson, our Composer in Residence, feature in three concerts including a world première, and there are further premières from Raskatov, Pintscher and Aho.
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Vladimir Jurowksi – Principal Conductor
Mussorgsky, Raskatov, Zimmermann (21 September 2011)
Inspired by Prometheus (24 September 2011)
Pintscher, Beethoven and Bruckner Symphony 1 (30 November 2011)
Anderson, Mozart and Tchaikovsky (3 December 2011)
Prokofiev Festival (18 January 2012)
Prokofiev Festival (25 January 2012)
Prokofiev Festival (28 January 2012)
Mozart, Brahms and Szymanowski (22 February 2012)
Janácek, Dvorák and Suk (2 May 2012)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Principal Guest Conductor
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Weber, Mozart and Schubert Symphony 9 (12 October 2011)
Beethoven Symphony 2 / Rossini Stabat Mater (15 October 2011)
Prokofiev Festival (1 February 2012)
Bruckner (4 February 2012)
Mozart and Mahler Symphony 9 (28 March 2012)

Be the first to hear:
Kalevi Aho: Percussion Concerto (world première) – Colin Currie (18 April 2012)
Julian Anderson: The Discovery of Heaven (world première) (24 March 2012)
Matthias Pintscher:  Mar’eh for Violin and Orchestra (UK premiere)-  Julia Fischer (24 September 2011)
Alexander Raskatov: A White Night’s Dream (world premiere) (21 September 2011)

Plus more music by the LPO Composer in Residence:
Anderson Fantasias (3 December 2011)
Anderson Past Hymns (13 April 2012)

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