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Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Sir Andrew Davis conducts a concert commemorating the exact 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth with music from Die Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walk™re.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Luke Bedford is fast becoming the brightest composing talent of his generation and the London Sinfonietta perform the world-premiere of his major new work.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 23 May 2013
Messiaen's great symphonic work, first presented after the Second World War, shocked audiences with its ecstatic music and opulent orchestrations
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 23 May 2013
The acclaimed Polish-Hungarian pianist, noted for his exceptional musical intensity and originality, plays Bach, Janacek and Schumann.
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Royal Festival Hall
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Friday 24 May 2013
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande makes a rare London appearance under the baton of its new music director, renowned conductor Neeme Järvi, with virtuoso Boris Berezovsky at the piano.
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Royal Festival Hall
Pinchas Zukerman directs the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Elegant and emotive music from two of Vienna's finest composers, Mozart and Mahler.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday 29 May 2013
An opportunity to hear Steven Osborne's critically acclaimed performance of Messiaen's passionately spiritual meditations Vingt Regards sur L'enfant Jesus.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 30 May 2013
Salonen marls the centenary of one of the most famous premieres in musical history - Stravinsky's primitivist ballet The Rite of Spring.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 1 June 2013
Mauricio Kagel was an Argentinian who relocated to Europe, and The Pieces of the Compass Rose are his musical travelogue taking you from the north east of Brazil to the Gulf of Finland and the South American Andes, portrayed through a small salon orchestra and diverse set of percussion instruments - including a wood-block and axe.
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Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 1 June 2013
Please note this concert performance of Oscar-winning film scores replaces the previously advertised screening of <i>Thief of Baghdad</i>
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 2 June 2013
A concert performance in two acts of Verdi's rarely heard eighth opera, Alzira.
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Royal Festival Hall
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Monday 3 June 2013
Tonight's tribute to former OAE soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sees three great sopranos take to the Royal Festival Hall stage to sing some of Handel's most dramatic, emotionally intense arias.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday 5 June 2013
The Moscow-trained pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Ravel, Debussy, Enescu and Brahms.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 6 June 2013
Recital by an award-winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 6 June 2013
Dohnanyi conducts Beethoven's fiery and innovative Eroica Symphony, and is joined by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard for Brahms' Piano Concerto No 1.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 7 June 2013
The BBC Concert Orchestra plays Music from the Home Front of World War Two, including film scores, rousing marches and the songs of Forces sweetheart Vera Lynn.
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Purcell Room
Sunday 9 June 2013
Karim Said plays Webern and Schoenberg, plus short works by five composers who each took Schoenberg's radical influence on board in a different way.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 9 June 2013
Hear Strauss' <i>Metamorphosen</i> explored by Spira mirabilis, the revolutionary and fiercely non-hierarchical orchestra made up of Europe's finest young musicians who perform without a conductor and pursue their novel approach to performing only one work in a programme
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 9 June 2013
Aurora delves into the shattered landscape that played host to the premiere of Shostakovich's String Quartet No.
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Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 9 June 2013
Dohnanyi conducts Mozart's Symphony No 35 (Haffner) and Dvorak's Symphony No.9 (From the New World), plus Mozart's Concerto No.23.
