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Extra Features
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 16 February 2012
Brahms's German Requiem is achingly beautiful, dwelling on the hope of the resurrection as well as consoling those who remain on earth.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 1 March 2012
An evening of high drama, with Schoenberg's Piano Concerto performed by Mitsuko Uchida and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Beethoven's revolutionary Eroica Symphony.
Purcell Room
Monday 5 March 2012
Two leading talents from the emerging generation of period performers present an exciting and dramatic programme of late classical music for natural horn and fortepiano.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 15 March 2012
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in Beethoven's sparkling Symphony No.
Royal Festival Hall
50th Anniversary Celebration Concert
Monday 19 March 2012
A concert to mark the 50th anniversary of The Purcell School, featuring its Symphony Orchestra and famous alumni.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 20 March 2012
A chance to enjoy the varied glories of Beethoven's piano sonatas played by one of the composer's most respected interpreters.
Royal Festival Hall
Friday 30 March 2012
It is hard to believe that Beethoven's brilliant Violin Concerto was not a great success during the composer's lifetime.
Royal Festival Hall
Friday 13 April 2012
The brightest young conducting talent takes to the rostrum in this showcase of stars of the future.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin
Friday 27 April 2012
After cycles of the complete Beethoven symphonies, piano concertos, string quartets and piano sonatas in recent years, Southbank Centre continues its Beethoven journey presenting the complete cello sonatas in two concerts performed by internationally renowned artists Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin.
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 28 April 2012
Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the London Philharmonic in a programme of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin
Sunday 29 April 2012
Beethoven was the first great composer of sonatas for cello and piano.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 3 May 2012
Brahms took 21 years to complete his First Symphony.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Thursday 3 May 2012
Celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis, pianist Robert Levin and violinist Isabelle Faust perform and lead the OAE at this concert looking at what happens when the conductor disappears.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Borletti-Buitoni Trust Concert
Friday 4 May 2012
Four of the best artists of the new generation already enjoying major international careers are brought together by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust for a richly varied and virtuosic chamber programme.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 25 May 2012
Spira Mirabilis, the extraordinary new orchestra drawing together Europe's finest individual young players, returns to Southbank Centre following their spectacular London debut last season - where Beethoven's Eroica symphony 'coursed through the orchestra like an electric current' (The Times).
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 26 May 2012
Spira Mirabilis, the extraordinary new orchestra drawing together Europe's finest individual young players, returns to Southbank Centre following their spectacular London debut last season - where Beethoven's Eroica symphony 'coursed through the orchestra like an electric current' (The Times).
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 31 May 2012
Janácek's Sinfonietta, scored for an extraordinary 14 trumpets, expresses his patriotic motivation, as does Dvorák's Symphony No.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 7 June 2012
The Philharmonia's Honorary Conductor for Life conducts Brahms's Second Symphony.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 27 September 2012
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Beethoven's Choral Symphony with an all-star cast, alongside Beethoven's First Piano Concerto played by Leif Ove Andsnes and Kurtág's Beethoven-inspired Quasi una Fantasia.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 11 October 2012
Tugan Sokhiev conducts an inspired programme from Mendelssohn's turbulent Hebrides Overture and Elgar's rich Enigma Variations to Bronfman's masterful version of the Emperor Piano Concerto.