Salonen conducts in London
26 January 2012
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Dallapiccola's operatic masterpiece, Il prigioniero.
"Il prigioniero is an extremely powerful reflection on hope, faith... and the fundamental existential freedom of the soul."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Dohnányi conducts in London
16 February 2012
Christoph von Dohnányi conducts Brahms's great German Requiem.
"One of the great works of the nineteenth century, which accompanies us through life."
Christoph von Dohnányi
Maazel conducts in London
25 March 2012
Lorin Maazel conducts Britten's War Requiem
"A damning document that places the responsibility for history's endless and pointless conflicts squarely on the shoulders of the perpetrators: the human race."
Lorin Maazel
Ashkenazy conducts in London
24 May 2012
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Shostakovich's Babi Yar Symphony
"For me, Shostakovich's Babi Yar Symphony is a work which strongly reflected a freer Soviet Union and a gathering momentum towards change."
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Salonen conducts in London
28 June 2012
Salonen conducts Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.
"The funeral rites of the first movement metamorphose gradually into perhaps the most ecstatic vision of eternal life in all of the symphonic repertoire."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Christoph von Dohnányi
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Lorin Maazel
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Find out more about Vladimir Ashkenazy and his work as Conductor Laureate of the Philharmonia
