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Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem

Brahms's German Requiem is achingly beautiful, dwelling on the hope of the resurrection as well as consoling those who remain on earth.

Brahms first considered writing a Requiem Mass after the death of his close friend Robert Schumann, but was only catapulted into its composition a decade later after the death of his mother caused him inconsolable grief. He completed his tribute to her four years later with a mass unlike any conventional Requiem.

Ein deutsches Requiem sets sections of Luther's translation of the Bible, dwelling far more on the hope of the resurrection than on the fear of Judgement Day. The first movement, 'Blessed are they that mourn', consoles those that remain on Earth with achingly beautiful suspensions from the chorus. The work moves through divinely beautiful music to the dramatic highlight of Brahms's tone-painting of the resurrection of the dead. Yet the work ends back on an earthly level, a reminder that we cannot know what awaits us.

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Start Date:

Thursday 16 February 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 16 February 2012

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Performer(s):

Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor
Susan Gritton soprano
Thomas Hampson baritone
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Chorus

Repertoire:

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No.4
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

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Royal Festival Hall

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Michael Tilson Thomas & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Explore the relationship between Schoenberg - one of the 20th century's greatest artistic radicals - and Brahms, the arch German Romantic, in a programme performed by one of the world's finest orchestras.

Famed for their refined sound, the Vienna Philharmonic perform under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas.

Despite their apparently different sound worlds, Schoenberg was steeped in the Austro-German musical tradition of Brahms and his predecessors. In this concert hear Brahms' glorious Piano Concerto No.2 (1881), symphonic in scale and ambition, alongside his early Piano Quartet No.1 in an orchestral arrangement by Schoenberg which reveals the work's symphonic grandeur.

Opening the concert is Schoenberg's own Theme and variations for orchestra in which the septuagenarian composer returned to a more conventional idiom referencing his debt to the 19th century compositional style.

Start Date:

Tuesday 9 April 2013 - 19:30

End Date:

Tuesday 9 April 2013

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Performer(s):

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Yefim Bronfman piano

Repertoire:

Arnold Schoenberg: Theme and variations arr. for orchestra, Op.43b
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 orch. Schoenberg

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Royal Festival Hall

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Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra

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The Budapest Festival Orchestra, celebrated for its spontaneity and fiery intensity, returns with a colourful programme catered to the prowess of this extraordinarily individual orchestra.

Conducted by Iván Fischer, renowned for his originality and galvanising effect on stage, the programme opens with Brahms' vigorous and sombre Tragic Overture.

Lalo's playful and virtuosic Symphonie Espagnol for orchestra and solo violin is played by Renaud Capuçon, praised by The Guardian for his masterful combination of 'brilliant' bravura playing and 'unerring lyricism'.

Rimsky-Korsakov's much loved Sheherazade closes the concert. Inspired by the fairytales that make up The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights), it is a work of dazzling, colourful melodies and orchestration infused with a mystical sense of the exotic.

'Iván Fischer's Budapest Festival Orchestra... on top form, no outfit in the world can beat them for their subtlety and multiplicity of colour, spring sparkle and rhythmic snap.' (The Times)

Level 5 Function Room at 6.15pm - Does less well known mean less good? Edward Seckerson, chief music critic of The Independent, takes a look at Lalo and Rimsky-Korsakov as two of the less well known composers in the Shell Classic International Season 2011/12. Admission free (subject to availability).

Start Date:

Sunday 4 March 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Sunday 4 March 2012

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Performer(s):

Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer conductor
Renaud Capuçon violin

Repertoire:

Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture
Edouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Interval
Nicolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade

Facility Description:

Royal Festival Hall

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Jurowski conducts Wagner and Tchaikovsky

Jurowski conducts Wagner's romantic songs and an early Bruckner symphony.

The influence of 'the master', Richard Wagner, was already making itself felt in Bruckner's First Symphony. In 1863 Bruckner heard Wagner's opera Tannhauser in Linz, capturing its desolate yearning in his first movement's third theme. Two years later Bruckner met Wagner for the first time at a performance of Tristan und Isolde in Munich. The opera's Romantic soul seeped into Bruckner's Adagio, as disarming a vision of love as Wagner's own Wesendonck Lieder. As he slipped into hopeless adoration for the German poet Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner wrote her these songs, moments of heartfelt stillness in a whirlwind musical career.

Start Date:

Friday 14 December 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Friday 14 December 2012

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Performer(s):

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Anna Larsson alto

Repertoire:

Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture
Richard Wagner: Wesendonk-Lieder arr. Henze
Interval
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.1 in C minor (Linz version)

Facility Description:

Royal Festival Hall

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Philharmonia Orchestra

Arabella Steinbacher performs Beethoven

This Philharmonia debut for conductor David Afkham includes Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher alongside Brahms' Symphony No.3.

'The reputation the famous F major has acquired makes me want to cancel all my engagements!' So successful was Brahms' Third Symphony that the composer feared the weight of expectation in its wake.

The shortest of Brahms' four symphonies, it is reflective and yearning in tone, in contrast to the relative sobriety of the First and pastoral charm of the Second.

Here it is preceded by Beethoven's concise yet suitably statuesque 'tone poem' Coriolan and followed by the groundbreaking Violin Concerto.

This concert marks the Philharmonia debut of charismatic young German conductor David Afkham.

Start Date:

Thursday 6 December 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 6 December 2012

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Performer(s):

Philharmonia Orchestra
David Afkham conductor
Arabella Steinbacher violin

Repertoire:

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Overture, Coriolan
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.3
Interval
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Violin Concerto

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Royal Festival Hall

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Philharmonia Orchestra

Jordan and Khachatryan

Philippe Jordan conducts Neilsen's Helios Overture and Brahm's Symphony No.2 and is joined by phenomenal soloist Sergey Khachatryan in Sibelius' emotive Violin Concerto.

The evolution of Brahms' Second Symphony could not have been in greater contrast to that of its predecessor. Whereas Brahms had laboured some 20 years over his epic First, the Second sprang forth in a relative rush of creative exuberance. Not that Brahms was letting on. As the Symphony neared completion, the composer kept friends, publisher and critics second-guessing, maintaining that it would be so elegiac and melancholy in character 'that you will not be able to bear it'. Proof was, however, in the pudding: a joyous and sonorous work of pastoral lyricism that delighted its rapt debut Viennese audience.

Start Date:

Thursday 25 October 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 25 October 2012

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Performer(s):

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philippe Jordan conductor
Sergey Khachatryan violin

Repertoire:

Carl Nielsen: Overture, Helios
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Interval
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.2

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Royal Festival Hall

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

Choral Contrasts with Jurowski

An evening of choral contrasts as Zimmermann's oratorio, a hard-hitting prophecy of loss and emptiness, stands in total contrast to the hopeful humanity of Brahms' German Requiem.

Five days after completing his 'ecclesiastical action' And Turning Then, I Saw There Great Injustice That is Done Under the Heavens, Bernd Alois Zimmermann took his own life. His oratorio on passages from Ecclesiastes and Dostoevsky is a stark piece of performance art inextricably connected to the Fluxus school of late 1960s Germany.

It stands in utter contrast to the hopeful humanity of Brahms' German Requiem, and Brahms' glowing messages of brotherhood and consolation will feel renewed by Zimmermann's urgent challenge.

Free post-concert event on The Clore Ballroom Floor at Royal Festival Hall
Artists involved in the performance will discuss the evening's programme.

Start Date:

Saturday 1 December 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Saturday 1 December 2012

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Performer(s):

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Miah Persson soprano
Dietrich Henschel baritone
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Annabel Arden director
London Philharmonic Choir

Repertoire:

Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrecht das geschah unter der Sonne (Ecclesastical Action) - oratorio for 2 narrators, bass & orchestra
(semi-staged)
Interval
Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

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Royal Festival Hall

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

Brahms and Shostakovich

When his guiding light Robert Schumann attempted suicide and was admitted to an asylum in 1853, Brahms finally decided to act on his senior's advice and attempt a multi-movement orchestral work. Partly a commemoration of Schumann's demise, partly a wild fight against it, Brahms' First Piano Concerto is frank, tender and impulsive.

Shostakovich, too, felt the pressure of handling a large orchestra when he wrote his First Symphony as a St Petersburg student. But he created a piece of brilliant tragicomedy, so clearly suggestive of things to come, including the darkness that would infest his life just as it did for Brahms'.

Start Date:

Friday 26 October 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Friday 26 October 2012

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Performer(s):

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conductor
Garrick Ohlsson piano

Repertoire:

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
Interval
Anton Bruckner: Adagio from String Quintet in F orch. Skrowaczewski
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.1 in F minor

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Royal Festival Hall

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Joshua Bell plays Brahms

Violinist Joshua Bell and tenor Jeremy Ovenden perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Wracked by personal crises, Alexander Zemlinsky made a heartfelt cry to God in his setting of the 23rd Psalm. The music moves from trepidation to despair to ecstasy, at once sensitive and majestic.

In its glistening bid for the heavenly, it makes a perfect companion to Szymanowski's Third Symphony, The Song of the Night (a setting of Jalaluddin Rumi's Sufi poetry). From a vast nocturnal landscape, a human spirit ascends to join with the divine, soaring into the ether. Languorous sensuality radiates through this all-encompassing score, the final statement in a concert that follows two acknowledged masterworks by Mozart and Brahms with two exquisite 20th-century rarities.

Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm - Dr Stephen Downes, Reader in Musicology at the University of Surrey discusses the music of Szymanowski and Zemlinsky. Admission free

Start Date:

Wednesday 22 February 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Wednesday 22 February 2012

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Performer(s):

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Joshua Bell violin
Jeremy Ovenden tenor
London Philharmonic Choir

Repertoire:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.32
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D
Interval
Alexander Von Zemlinsky: Psalm 23, Op.14
Karol Szymanowski: Symphony No.3 (The Song of the Night) for high voice, chorus & orchestra

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Royal Festival Hall

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Yuja Wang

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In her early 20s, Yuja Wang is internationally admired for 'a practically superhuman keyboard technique with an artistic eloquence that is second to none' (San Francisco Chronicle) and 'playing that possesses urgency, personality, imagination and colour' (International Piano).

The young Chinese musician gained international recognition while still in her teens, with a debut concert in Canada conducted by Pinchas Zukerman in 2005. Named 2009's Young Artist of the Year at the Classic FM Gramophone Awards, she has signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon and her second CD, entitled Transformation, was Gramophone's Record of the Month on its release in 2010.

'Simply the most important pianist to appear in recent years, period' (The Detroit News).

Start Date:

Tuesday 1 May 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Tuesday 1 May 2012

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Performer(s):

Yuja Wang piano

Repertoire:

Sergey Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in A minor, Op.39 No.6
Sergey Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in B minor, Op.39 No.4
Sergey Rachmaninov: Elégie in E flat minor, Op.3 No.1
Sergey Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in E flat minor, Op.39 No.5
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E flat, Op.27 No.1 (Quasi una fantasia)
Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No.5, Op.53
Interval
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.6 in A, Op.82

Facility Description:

Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Philharmonia Orchestra

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Salonen and Uchida

An evening of high drama, with Schoenberg's Piano Concerto performed by Mitsuko Uchida and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Beethoven's sparkling Symphony No.7.

When Schoenberg was composing his Piano Concerto, his markings at the beginning of each movement suggested an autobiographical connection - 'Life was so easy', 'Suddenly hatred broke out', 'A grave situation was created' and 'But life goes on'. Although these markings were removed in the final published version, the underlying dramatic structure still affects the listener intensely.

Beethoven's Symphony No.7, with its driving rhythms and sparkling joie de vivre, is full of bright orchestral colours. The slow introduction to the first movement lays out the skeleton of the entire work, which is coloured in over the course of the work. The finale is based on a stamping peasant dance with 'whooping horns' providing a joyous climax.

Start Date:

Thursday 1 March 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 1 March 2012

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Performer(s):

Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano

Repertoire:

Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn (St. Anthony)
Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
Interval
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No.7

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Royal Festival Hall

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Philharmonia Orchestra

Dohnányi conducts Brahms

The Philharmonia's Honorary Conductor for Life conducts Brahms's Second Symphony.

Brahms certainly had a sense of humour. He wrote to his publisher that his Second Symphony was melancholy in tone and that the score must sound like mourning. In fact his Symphony No.2 is cheerful, lighthearted and picturesquely pastoral in style, with one of Brahms's friends commenting 'Why, it is all blue sky, babbling streams, sunshine, and cool green shade!'.

Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto is similarly sparkling and lively in its outer movements, though its sombre and etiolated slow movement - widely associated with the image of Orpheus taming the Furies - provides a moment of contrast.

Start Date:

Thursday 7 June 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 7 June 2012

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Performer(s):

Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor
Andreas Haefliger piano

Repertoire:

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4
Interval
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.2

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Royal Festival Hall

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Philharmonia Orchestra

Volodos plays Brahms

The Philharmonia performs the central work in the trilogy of Shostakovich's 'War Symphonies', conducted by exciting young conductor Tugan Sokhiev.

The central work in the trilogy of Shostakovich's so-called 'War Symphonies', the Eighth Symphony is an incredibly powerful work and one that emanates a profound feeling of tragedy. Composed during the German Siege of Leningrad in 1941, the work was perceived by some as a symbol of anti-Nazi resistance, and met with strong disapproval from the Soviet government.

The great arch of the first movement leads into two movements reminiscent of the mechanistic industry of war, and the finale tries to sound light and pastoral but is slowly beaten into an exhausted peace.

Start Date:

Thursday 9 February 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 9 February 2012

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Performer(s):

Philharmonia Orchestra
Tugan Sokhiev conductor
Arcadi Volodos piano

Repertoire:

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2
Interval
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 in C minor

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Royal Festival Hall

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Philharmonia Orchestra

Beethoven, Liszt & Brahms

Brahms took 21 years to complete his First Symphony. In the event it was a monumental success, paired in this evening's concert with Liszt's Second Piano Concerto, composed during the composer's Virtuoso Period.

Overwhelmed by the spectre of his hero Beethoven's symphonic achievements, Brahms took 21 years to complete his first symphony. In the event it was a huge critical success, celebrated around Europe as 'Beethoven's 10th' and full of conscious homage in its idiom and musical language.

It is paired in this evening's concert with music by Beethoven himself, one of his workings of the Leonore material from his opera Fidelio, and by his close contemporary Franz Liszt. Liszt's Second Piano Concerto is less frequently performed than his First, but is widely regarded as the more original and interesting of the two works, composed during Liszt's Virtuoso Period and one of the first concertos to represent a true dialogue between soloist and orchestra.

Start Date:

Thursday 3 May 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 3 May 2012

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Performer(s):

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philippe Jordan conductor
Simon Trpceski piano

Repertoire:

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Overture, Leonore No.3
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A
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Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.1

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Royal Festival Hall

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

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World Premiere with Colin Currie

Colin Currie premieres the new Percussion Concerto composed for him by Kalevi Aho.

Radiant joy and intense poetry characterise recent works from the pen of Finnish composer Kalevi Aho. His style might continue to adapt and evolve, but he never ceases to arouse listeners and make them aware of the world in alluring and enlightening ways. Here percussionist Colin Currie unveils the new concerto written for him by Aho in what is one of the most eagerly-anticipated premieres of the season.

It is followed by the symphony Brahms thought he could never write - his post-Beethoven First. Its opening passages famously launching like an arrow shot in slow-motion, steamrolling towards an angelic Andante and a cheering, striding finale.

Kalevi Aho's Percussion Concerto is commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Luosto Classic Festival.

Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm - Colin Currie explores Kalevi Aho's Percussion Concerto. Admission free

Start Date:

Wednesday 18 April 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Wednesday 18 April 2012

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Performer(s):

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
Colin Currie percussion

Repertoire:

Robert Schumann: Genoveva - Overture
Kalevi Aho: Percussion Concerto (World premiere)
Interval
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.1

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Royal Festival Hall

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Lars Vogt

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The German pianist Lars Vogt has been described by Sir Simon Rattle as 'one of the most extraordinary musicians of any age group that I have had the fortune to be associated with'.

Tonight he opens his recital with a deliciously witty sonata by Haydn, whose music he has frequently championed, and continues with a short entertaining work by the acclaimed Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, himself an award-winning pianist.
After the pianistic fireworks of Brahms's Variations on a Theme of Paganini, the second half is devoted to Chopin - the immensely beautiful Barcarolle and the powerful Sonata in B flat minor, famed for its central Funeral March.

Start Date:

Tuesday 15 May 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Tuesday 15 May 2012

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Performer(s):

Lars Vogt piano

Repertoire:

Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in C, Hob.XVI/50
Thomas Larcher: Poems for piano
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op.35, Book I (Nos.1-14)
Interval
Fryderyk Chopin: Berceuse in D flat, Op.57
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.35 (Marche funèbre)

Facility Description:

Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The title of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture has a rather studious ring to it, but in fact is one of his liveliest works, based on a series of student drinking songs and written to balance the more sombre style of his Tragic Overture.

Brahms' Violin Concerto, performed by Nigel Kennedy, moves from a noble opening movement to the gorgeous Adagio, followed by an energetic finale.

Sandwiched between these works is one of Elgar's best-loved creations, his glorious 'Enigma' Variations, with their mysterious 'hidden theme'. The variations sparkle with Elgar's finest melodic invention and orchestral flair, reaching great emotional depth in the profound nobility of Nimrod.

Start Date:

Tuesday 12 June 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Tuesday 12 June 2012

Ticket Prices:

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Performer(s):

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton conductor
Nigel Kennedy violin

Repertoire:

Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
Interval
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D

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Royal Festival Hall

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Borletti-Buitoni Trust Concert

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Pianist Mitsuko Uchida, a trustee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, speaks about the Trust's work to develop the careers of outstanding young musicians. She then introduces four of the finest artists of the new generation, all Borletti-Buitoni Trust award-winners and all already enjoying major international success.

Beethoven's popular second string trio precedes Chopin's romantic Ballade No.4 and Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor, Op.39, played by Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. The four artists then join forces to perform Brahms's first piano quartet, famous for its folk-flavoured Gypsy Rondo finale.

The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall at 9.45pm - Young international chamber group the Aronowitz Ensemble perform a post-concert set. Admission free.

Start Date:

Friday 4 May 2012 - 19:00

End Date:

Friday 4 May 2012

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Performer(s):

Viviane Hagner violin
Lawrence Power viola
Christian Poltera cello
Khatia Buniatishvili piano

Repertoire:

Concert introduced by Mitsuko Uchida
Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Trio in G, Op.9 No.1
Fryderyk Chopin: Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52
Fryderyk Chopin: Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor, Op.39
Interval
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25

Facility Description:

Queen Elizabeth Hall

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West-Eastern Divan Soloists

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The West-Eastern Divan was set up by the revered pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim in 1999 to bring together musicians from Israel and Palestine, and has since received worldwide attention for both its unifying spirit and brilliant music making.

This concert features great players drawn from the West-Eastern Divan in a fascinating mixed programme that culminates with Messiaen's composition Quartet for the End of Time, which was first performed in a German prisoner of war camp in 1941. Of that extraordinary performance, the composer said, 'Never before have I been listened to with such attention and understanding'.

'The performance was radiant, teeming and magnificent.' (The New York Times)

Start Date:

Thursday 8 March 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Thursday 8 March 2012

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Performer(s):

Soloists of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Guy Braunstein violin
Gili Schwarzman flute
Kinan Azmeh clarinet
Tunca Dogu horn
Zvi Plesser cello
Bishara Harouni piano

Repertoire:

Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta arr. Ohad Ben-Ari for ensemble
Camille Saint-Saëns: Tarantella, Op.6 arr. for flute, clarinet & piano
Johannes Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat, Op.40
Interval
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Peter Donohoe

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The ever popular British pianist Peter Donohoe first shot to fame in 1982 when he was a prizewinner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and is noted for his performances of Liszt.

His programme centres on the composer's entrancing evocations of Swiss landscape and legends from the Années de Pèlerinage. This is complemented by a set of late pieces by Brahms, plus two powerfully influential composers, Bartók and Debussy, both of whom Liszt's music anticipates.

'Donohoe's performance again revealed his affinity for Liszt's music. He brought these tone poems for piano vividly to life. From the opening sombre reminiscence of the hero William Tell to the quietly tolling bells of Geneva's churches, the listener became a fellow traveller on Liszt's journey' (Birmingham Post).

Start Date:

Tuesday 28 February 2012 - 19:30

End Date:

Tuesday 28 February 2012

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Performer(s):

Peter Donohoe piano

Repertoire:

Claude Debussy: Estampes
Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage (1st year - Switzerland), S.160
Interval
Johannes Brahms: 6 Pieces for piano, Op.118
Béla Bartók: Piano Sonata

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

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