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Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 26 February 2012
Vasily Petrenko conducts a programme of orchestral showpieces, ending with Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, the movements of which seem to summarise Rachmaninov's compositional life.
Purcell Room
Gerry Diver - The Speech Project
Friday 2 March 2012
Born in Manchester to Irish parents, Gerry Diver feel in love with Irish traditional music at an early age.
Royal Festival Hall
Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra
Sunday 4 March 2012
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.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sunday 4 March 2012
Hear some of Bach's most famous works at this Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performance.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 15 March 2012
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in Beethoven's sparkling Symphony No.
Purcell Room
Bach Weekend 2012: The English Suites
Saturday 24 March 2012
The English Suites are perhaps the most accessible of Bach's keyboard works and are considerably more technically demanding than anything written previously in Germany for harpsichord.
Purcell Room
Bach Weekend 2012: Virtuoso Violin
Sunday 25 March 2012
Bach's works for solo violin are considered the ultimate test, not only of a player's technique but also of their emotional maturity.
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.
Central Bar Foyer
The Royal College of Music Presents...
Friday 30 March 2012
Some of the College's finest young musicians perform a contrasting programme of Viennese and Russian string music.
Purcell Room
Tuesday 3 April 2012
This concert explores some of the most important works written for the violin at the beginning of the 20th century.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Dr. L. Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamoorthy & Ambi Subramaniam
Thursday 12 April 2012
This is a rare opportunity to see a family of acclaimed Indian musicians, including an award-winning singer and a renowned composer, perform together.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 19 April 2012
Sergey Khachatryan performs Tchaikovsky's beautiful Violin Concerto, before Juraj Valcuha conducts the Philharmonia in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 21 April 2012
The London Sinfonietta celebrates the works of 20th-century musical maverick Conlon Nancarrow.
Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 29 April 2012
Andris Nelsons conducts Dvorák's tuneful Sixth Symphony, the first work that drew international attention to the composer and established him as the voice of 'nationalistic' Czech music.
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.
Purcell Room
Musicians of the Royal Academy of Music
Saturday 12 May 2012
Musical fireworks, brilliant instrumental effects and a haunting purity - an opportunity to hear dazzling chamber works by celebrated British composer George Benjamin
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 23 May 2012
A programme of fascinating contrasts, juxtaposing the sunny temperament of Mozart with Shostakovich's haunting Symphony No.
Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 3 June 2012
An afternoon of great English music in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, opening with Walton's Crown Imperial March, performed at the coronations of King George VII and HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 12 June 2012
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.
Royal Festival Hall
Nigel Kennedy Presents: Bach Meets Fats Waller
Saturday 15 September 2012
Leap through time with violinist virtuoso Nigel Kennedy in a concert that takes on baroque and jazz, back to back.
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