Philharmonia Orchestra: Sokhiev conducts in London

Concert Search

Use the form below to search for your ideal concert.

Each field in the form is related to each other, so once you have selected your chosen composer you will only be able see other options that are avaliable with that particular composer.

You can use the below fields to search for a concert between two dates. Alternatively, you can use our advanced search form.

You can use the list below to narrow down your search to a particular venue/city. Alternatively, you can use our advanced search form.

If you are interested in hearing a certain composer you can use the list below to find when and where we will be performing their music. Alternatively, you can use our advanced search form.

Sokhiev conducts in London

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 11 Oct 2012 7:30pm

Tugan Sokhiev

conductor

Yefim Bronfman

piano

Mendelssohn

Overture, The Hebrides

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor

Elgar

Enigma Variations

Musical inspiration comes in all forms. Mendelssohn’s elemental ‘Hebridean’ overture sprang from a stormy encounter with the rugged seascape of the Western Highlands. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 flowered from a similarly barren bedrock – the 1809 French occupation of Vienna (‘nothing but drums, cannon, men, misery of all sorts’). Yet it remains one of the most original and virtuosic achievements of the concerto canon. The catalyst for Elgar’s perennially popular Enigma Variations was altogether more domestic. A light-hearted piano-side reverie caught his wife’s attention. Elgar then extemporised on its theme around various friends and acquaintances. The rest, as they say, is history…