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RINGSIDE SEATS
Put yourself at the heart of the action for just £10.
Sit ringside at Royal Festival Hall for just a tenner, and experience the thrill of a live symphony orchestra – the Philharmonia – in full flow.
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And for fun we’ll keep your exact seats a secret until the day: you could be in the front row, in the choir stalls right behind the trumpets – or even in a box.
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This one opens with a bang, with Strauss’s vivid portrayal of serial seducer Don Juan. A Mozart Piano Concerto brings us back into more refined company. Then it’s time to sit back and enjoy Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, full of dancing melodies.
Thursday 16 Jan 2020, 7.30pmRoyal Festival Hall, London
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Richard Watkins horn
Allan Clayton tenor
Weber Overture, Der Freischütz
Turnage Towards Alba for horn and orchestra
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
The Philharmonia turns 75 this year, and we’re celebrating with a concert showing off our horn players past and present. Britten’s eerily beautiful Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings sets poems evoking evening, and Mark-Anthony Turnage has written us a horn concerto inspired by poems about dawn.
Sunday 19 Jan 2020, 7.30pmRoyal Festival Hall, London
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Tom Blomfield oboe
Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6
Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
75 years ago the Philharmonia Orchestra was born – and so were the three pieces in tonight’s programme, responses to the violence of war by Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky and Strauss. Our fantastic Principal Oboe Tom Blomfield, just 24 years old, is the soloist in Strauss’s nostalgic Oboe Concerto.
Ready for an emotional roller-coaster ride? Take Rachmaninov’s heart-wrenching Piano Concerto No. 2, probably the most popular piano concerto in history, pair it with Prokofiev’s Fifth symphony, a powerful hymn to freedom composed during the Second World War, and fasten your seatbelt.
Thursday 13 Feb 2020, 7.30pmRoyal Festival Hall, London
Lahav Shani conductor
Kirill Gerstein piano
Prokofiev Overture, War and Peace
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Which bit of this concert will you be humming on the way home? The gorgeous melody of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (the really lush part is Variation 18, if you want to add it to your playlist right now)? Or the threatening march of the Montagues and the Capulets from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet?
Sunday 23 Feb 2020, 7.30pmRoyal Festival Hall, London
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Sibelius’s violin concerto is a pinnacle in the repertoire of any violinist. Hauntingly beautiful melodies – check. Devilishly difficult passages – check. Ethereal high notes – check. Come and hear it in the hands of exceptional young violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. Then let yourself be swept up in the emotion and grandeur of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony.
Thursday 27 Feb 2020, 7.30pmRoyal Festival Hall, London
John Wilson conductor
Leonidas Kavakos violin
Barber First Essay
Korngold Violin Concerto
Elgar Symphony No. 3
Edward Elgar, quintessential English composer, rubs shoulders with two American greats: Samuel Barber (ever wondered what else he wrote apart from the Adagio for Strings?) and Erich Korngold. An Oscar-winning film composer in the 1930s and 40s, Korngold worked his favourite melodies from his films into a ravishing Violin Concerto.
Thursday 5 Mar 2020, 7.30pmRoyal Festival Hall, London
Sir George Benjamin conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
James Hall countertenor
Philharmonia Voices (Ladies) choir
Oliver Knussen Choral
Messiaen Le merle bleu from Catalogue d'oiseaux for solo piano
Benjamin Duet for piano and orchestra
Benjamin Dream of the Song
Janáček Sinfonietta
25 brass players raise the roof in Janáček’s thrilling Sinfonietta. But first it’s time for something much more recent. George Benjamin conducts his own Dream of the Song, vivid settings of Andalusian poetry, alongside music by his teacher Olivier Messiaen and his friend Oliver Knussen.
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