London Philharmonic Orchestra 2023/24 season brochure - Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall

2023/24 concert season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

OCTOBER

Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis conducts two concerts including works by Richard Strauss, Shostakovich and Composer-in-Residence Tania León.

SEPTEMBER

Principal Conductor Edward Gardner opens the season with Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony, featuring Sally Matthews and Beth Taylor.

NOVEMBER

Jazz pianist Julian Joseph and organist Anna Lapwood join the Orchestra for a concert including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Saint-Saëns’s majestic ‘Organ’ Symphony.

DECEMBER

Renowned soprano Renée Fleming joins us for a festive gala concert featuring a selection of seasonal songs and arias alongside Tchaikovsky’s ‘Winter Daydreams’ Symphony.

FEBRUARY

Conductor Oksana Lyniv makes her eagerly awaited debut with the Orchestra, conducting the UK premiere of Victoria Vita Polevá’s Cello Concerto and Dvořák’s sunny Symphony No. 8.

MARCH

The LPO celebrates the creativity in everyone during its two-week festival The Music in You, combining a range of events spotlighting elements of dance, music theatre and audience participation.

JANUARY

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter celebrates the music of famed film composer John Williams, including the UK premiere of his Violin Concerto No. 2 as well as a selection of music from his popular film scores.

APRIL Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski completes his acclaimed Wagner Ring Cycle with a performance of Götterdämmerung featuring an all-star cast including Burkhard Fritz, Svetlana Sozdateleva and Kai Rüütel.

MAY

The final FUNharmonics Family Concert of the season presents music from America – Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. An event for all the family to enjoy.

A selection of this season’s concerts will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and available for 30 days after broadcast on BBC Sounds.

A selection of this season’s concerts will be filmed and streamed (delayed broadcast) on Marquee TV.

A warm welcome to our 2023/24 season

It’s wonderful to share with you our 2023/24 season of concerts.

This season’s opener promises to be unmissable as Edward Gardner tackles Mahler’s monumental ‘Resurrection’ Symphony. Later in the season he returns with more highlights including Holst’s The Planets and Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Meanwhile, Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis invites us on more breathtaking musical journeys including Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4.

We believe that creativity lives in everyone, and the centrepiece of the new season is our spring festival The Music in You Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – dance, music theatre, audience participation. Throughout the season we’ll be taking our music out of the Royal Festival Hall and into a range of other settings, from the inspiring surroundings of St John’s Church in Waterloo to the intimacy of the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Battersea Arts Centre. We’ll also collaborate with artists from across the creative spectrum, including jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph, and choreographer Wayne McGregor in a boundary-defying ballet project.

Leading the way in our quest for creativity this season is new Composer-in-Residence Tania León. With a unique voice that brings

together modernist sonorities with the rhythms and colours of her native Havana, Tania will present a brand-new work in March as part of The Music in You, and we’re thrilled that she’ll also be inspiring the next generation of creators as mentor to our LPO Young Composers. Other premieres this season include exciting new works by Daniel Kidane, Victoria Vita Polevá, Luís Tinoco and John Williams.

Artists making their debuts with the Orchestra include conductors Tianyi Lu, Oksana Lyniv, Jonathon Heyward and Natalia Ponomarchuk, accordionist João Barradas and organist Anna Lapwood. We also welcome back some of the biggest classical names including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, Robin Ticciati, Paavo Järvi, Christian Tetzlaff and Danielle de Niese.

The season will end with the long-awaited conclusion of Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski’s Wagner Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung The cycle has been consistently hailed as exceptional by audiences and press alike, and now in the role of Conductor Emeritus, Vladimir is sure to bring a new depth of understanding and storytelling to Wagner’s final Ring opera.

With music for everyone, everywhere and for every taste this season, we hope you find something to inspire the music in you!

David & Elena

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director

David Burke Chief Executive

Developing the next generation of music creators

The LPO welcomes Cuban-American composer Tania León, recent recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor and a Pulitzer Prize, to the position of Composer-in-Residence for two seasons, beginning in September 2023. We will perform two of Tania’s works this season and she will support the development of the next generation of music creators by mentoring the LPO Young Composers.

Tania has been an unstoppable force in expanding the horizons of classical music –through the performances she has participated in as a pianist and conductor, as a music educator and advocate, and in her own compositions. Her music merges entrancing modernist sonorities with the rhythms and colours of her native Havana.

Tania León arrived in the US from Cuba in 1967, speaking barely any English, as an accomplished pianist who had won competitions and earned degrees in piano and theory in her native

country. Her big break came a year later when she agreed to fill in for an indisposed pianist at a ballet class in Harlem. There she impressed ballet dancer and choreographer Arthur Mitchell – the first soloist of colour with the New York City Ballet – and soon became resident composer and music director of Mitchell’s newly formed Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Among the positions she has since held in the course of her distinguished career to date are the post of New Music Advisor to the New York Philharmonic (1993–97) and Latin-American Music Advisor for the American Composers Orchestra (1994–2001). In 2010 she became the founder and artistic director of Composers Now, an organisation with the mission of empowering living composers and celebrating their diverse voices.

We welcome Tania to the LPO and look forward to sharing her music with our audiences this and next season.

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Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)

Edward Gardner conductor*

Sally Matthews soprano

Beth Taylor mezzo-soprano

London Philharmonic Choir

Edward Gardner launches the LPO’s new season with a journey to the end of the world. Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony starts with a funeral march, and finishes in a world reborn: a voyage from darkest grief to a breathtaking musical panorama of the Day of Judgment itself. If you only know it from recordings, you haven’t really experienced it fully – so join us, as soloists Sally Matthews and Beth Taylor plus the full London Philharmonic Choir commit, heart and soul, to some of the most overwhelming music that even Mahler ever composed. ‘The evening ultimately belonged to Gardner, his orchestra, and those superb choirs’, said The Guardian describing Gardner’s recent performance of Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust with the LPO. Expect more of the same!

* Edward Gardner’s position in the LPO in the 2023/24 season is generously supported by Aud Jebsen. Please note start time.

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Sally Matthews

Edward Gardner

Johan Dalene plays Sibelius

Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

Sibelius Violin Concerto

Brahms Symphony No. 1

Edward Gardner conductor

Johan Dalene violin

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth

Beethoven Overture, Egmont

Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Edward Gardner conductor

Christian Tetzlaff violin

Johannes Brahms spent the best years of his youth writing his First Symphony: an epic emotional autobiography that begins with the pounding of a heart in torment and ends with a hymn of triumph – and a tune you’ll never forget. But then, tonight’s concert is all about the Romantic imagination, whether the stormtossed melodies of Mendelssohn’s Scottish seascape, or the icy vistas and fiery heart of Sibelius’s only violin concerto. Edward Gardner brings all his sense of drama, and violinist Johan Dalene – well, critics have said that he ‘makes his Stradivarius sing’, and you’re about to hear why.

Hear the ringing fanfares that open Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony? For him, they symbolised Fate, and the whole Symphony is a no-holdsbarred struggle between a composer who lived by his feelings and a universe that he was convinced was out to destroy him. This is music that pulses with melody and emotion; it’s perfect for a conductor with Edward Gardner’s theatrical flair. Beethoven’s Egmont Overture tells a tale of oppression and liberation, and in the hands of the superb Christian Tetzlaff, Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto will positively blaze with colour. A concert to set the ears tingling.

Christian Tetzlaff

Johan Dalene

Death and Transfiguration

R Strauss Don Juan

Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Tania León Horizons (UK premiere)

R Strauss Death and Transfiguration

Karina Canellakis conductor

Cédric Tiberghien piano

‘Truly magnificent’: critics have been grasping for words to describe the chemistry between the LPO and our Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis, and from the breathless opening flourish of Strauss’s Don Juan to the majestic climax of Death and Transfiguration you can be certain that she won’t hold back tonight. At the heart of the concert is the artistry of Cédric Tiberghien, playing Ravel’s extraordinary concerto written for a pianist who’d lost an arm in the First World War. Plus a modern classic by the LPO’s new Composer-in-Residence Tania León – a composer who ‘changed the sound of being American’.

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Karina Canellakis

Canellakis conducts Shostakovich

Beethoven Overture, The Creatures of Prometheus

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2

Shostakovich Symphony No. 8

Karina Canellakis conductor

Jonathan Biss piano

As his nation faced a brutal military invasion, Shostakovich poured his feelings into a symphony on a monumental scale. His Eighth Symphony is music wrought from blood, fire and steel – massive, uncompromising and so honest that after the war, the Soviet authorities banned it. Under the LPO’s inspirational Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis, it has the potential to shake you to the core: a shattering contrast to the sunlit optimism and irrepressible wit of Beethoven at his youthful best, with a soloist – Jonathan Biss – who has described Beethoven’s music as ‘the greatest joy of my life’.

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Hélène Grimaud plays Ravel

Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 revised version)

Edward Gardner conductor

Hélène Grimaud piano

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At a Shrovetide fair in old Russia, crowds bustle and laugh as they watch the puppets dance, love, fight and die. None of it really matters; they’re just toys – aren’t they? Stravinsky’s Petrushka astonished audiences in 1911, and 112 years on its colours are as bright (and its emotions as strong) as ever. Edward Gardner pairs it with another Technicolor tale of magic with a mind of its own (think Disney’s Fantasia) and welcomes back a long-standing and celebrated friend of the LPO, Hélène Grimaud, in Ravel’s swinging, scintillating Piano Concerto in G.

Hélène Grimaud

Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

Julian Joseph Spiritual Fiction or Fact (No. 5 of Symphonic Stories: The Great Exception)

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 (Organ)

Jader Bignamini conductor

Julian Joseph piano

Anna Lapwood organ

There’s no mistaking how Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony got its nickname – and that roofraising blast of sound is something that you simply have to hear live! Now add the playing of organist Anna Lapwood, the unbounded creativity of Julian Joseph (described by The Stage as ‘the most significant jazz musician this country has produced’) and Joseph’s own improvisatory version of Rhapsody in Blue (played the way Gershwin himself would have played it). Under the charismatic direction of Jader Bignamini, making his LPO debut, the result is a concert that makes favourite classics sound new all over again.

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Julian Joseph

Anna Lapwood

Ticciati conducts Mahler

Mahler Symphony No. 3

Robin Ticciati conductor

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano

London Philharmonic Choir

Trinity Boys Choir

Beethoven’s Fifth

Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3

Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 2*

Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Kristiina Poska conductor

Pieter Schoeman violin**

‘The symphony must be like the world’: Gustav Mahler always thought big, but even by his standards, his Third Symphony is remarkable. One of the largest symphonies ever written, it’s a concert in its own right, teeming with distant trumpets, children’s songs, glittering marches and awe-struck mountaintop meditations. Mahler throws them all into the mix before ending with a ravishing hymn to love itself. It’s less a symphony, more an emotional odyssey – and with Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati, the power of two choirs and the radiant mezzo-soprano voice of Alice Coote, it should be little short of sublime.

Some composers make their own rules, and with just four notes, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony reset the agenda for Western music. It’s a timeless tale – defiant, impetuous, and as gripping now as it was in the age of revolution: worthy musical company, in other words, for two women who defied impossible odds. Leonore, the courageous heroine of Beethoven’s only opera, is a fictional character. But the pioneering African American composer Florence Price was absolutely real, and LPO Leader Pieter Schoeman steps into the spotlight to bring her neglected Second Violin Concerto to vibrant, songful life tonight.

* A grant from the ABO Trust’s Sirens programme (supporting the promotion of music by historical women composers) has made this performance possible.

** Chair supported by Neil Westreich.

CAMILLE BLAKE

JIYANG CHE

Kristiina Poska

Robin Ticciati

Pieter Schoeman

Alice Coote

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VENUE: ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

Renée Fleming Festive Gala

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 (Winter Daydreams)

Seasonal songs and arias

Gergely Madaras conductor

Renée Fleming soprano

She’s been called ‘America’s reigning diva’: the soprano who conquered the Superbowl, and the most stylish Merry Widow ever to command the stage of the New York Met. She’s an artist of limitless presence and dramatic power, with a sound that seems to glow from within; unquestionably one of the greatest sopranos of our, or any, time. She’s Renée Fleming, and as Christmas approaches, she sings songs to celebrate the season, each lovingly chosen to showcase a voice that has to be heard to be believed. Tchaikovsky’s snowy first symphony sets the festive mood: go on, treat yourself!

Renée Fleming

Scheherazade

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Tianyi Lu conductor

Tom Borrow piano

Music is all about stories. Ludwig van Beethoven plays a majestic piano chord, and a voice in the audience cries out ‘It’s the Emperor!’. RimskyKorsakov leafs through the pages of the Arabian Nights to find tales of robbers, genies, fabulous beasts and courageous women. It’s all there in the sounds and sensations of this gloriously tuneful LPO debut for Tianyi Lu, winner of the 2020 Sir Georg Solti Conductors’ Competition –whether the gorgeous melodies of Scheherazade, or the grandeur and glory of Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto, with Tom Borrow (‘A marvel!’: The Herald) as soloist.

Pre-concert events: LPO Showcase There will be events throughout the day as part of OrchLab Festival Day. See page 40 for details.

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Tianyi Lu

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Tom Borrow

Mutter plays John Williams

John Williams Suite, Superman

John Williams Violin Concerto No. 2 (UK premiere)

John Williams The Duel from The Adventures of Tintin

John Williams Nice to Be Around from Cinderella Liberty

John Williams Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter Bernstein Suite, On the Waterfront

Jonathon Heyward conductor

Anne-Sophie Mutter violin

The music of John Williams: the Academy Award-winning composer of film scores ranging from Superman to Harry Potter. The artistry of Anne-Sophie Mutter: undisputed queen of violin virtuosos, an artist with fingers of steel and a tone of pure gold. Tonight they come together, as Mutter gives the UK premiere of Williams’s Violin Concerto No. 2. ‘I took my inspiration and energy directly from this great artist’, says Williams, and along with classic scores by Leonard Bernstein and Williams himself, it’s the centrepiece of a concert that no lover of movie music will want to miss.

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

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Jonathon Heyward

Family Ties – The Schumanns and The Mendelssohns

Fanny Mendelssohn Overture in C major

Clara Schumann Piano Concerto

Robert Schumann Introduction and Concert Allegro

Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

Sister and brother, husband and wife: for the Mendelssohns and the Schumanns, musical genius was a family affair, and when you hear their music played together it evokes a whole, wonderfully vivid world of love, friendship and imagination without limits. The distinguished Ukrainian conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk follows Felix and Fanny from their childhood home in Berlin to the moors and mists of 19th-century Scotland, while pianist Alexander Melnikov explores the relationship between Clara and Robert Schumann – a husband and wife united in their devotion to the piano, to art and to each other.

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Natalia Ponomarchuk conductor Alexander Melnikov piano

Natalia Ponomarchuk

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

Ryan Bancroft conductor

Inon Barnatan piano

A composer’s mind is an exotic place at the best of times. Still, nothing in music quite matches the fabulous, opium-fuelled phantasmagoria that is Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Born of unrequited love, and sweeping from pastoral love-scenes to the foot of the guillotine itself, it never fails to startle and amaze. Guest conductor Ryan Bancroft brings all his verve, and teams up with one of the piano’s great poets – Inon Barnatan – to find new depths in Tchaikovsky’s grandest and best-loved piano concerto. You’ve heard it before, but not like this.

Beethoven’s Seventh

Wagner Overture, The Flying Dutchman

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20, K466

Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Anja Bihlmaier conductor

Martin James Bartlett piano

Richard Wagner bowed to no artist but Ludwig van Beethoven – in fact, friends once witnessed him dancing along to Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Beethoven, meanwhile, listened to a Mozart piano concerto and remarked that ‘we shall never be able to do anything like that’. Today, three geniuses are linked by passion, imagination and by sheer, elemental creative power, as Anja Bihlmaier conducts and Martin James Bartlett – renowned for his astonishing technique and maturity beyond his years –takes the soloist’s spotlight in Wagner’s stormiest overture, Mozart’s darkest piano concerto and Beethoven’s most explosive, exuberant and utterly uninhibited symphony. Genius in the raw.

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Anja Bihlmaier

Ryan Bancroft

Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Elgar

Elgar Violin Concerto

Schumann Symphony No. 2

Edward Elgar left more than one enigma and even today, no-one really knows the identity of the ‘soul’ whom the composer claimed to have portrayed in the music of his Violin Concerto. What we do know is that this is music of incomparable beauty and passion; British music at its most unashamedly poetic. It’s perfect, in other words, for the glorious sound and questing spirit of our soloist tonight, the extraordinary Frank Peter Zimmermann. Edward Gardner will be with him every step of the way, and follows up with Schumann’s noble, deeply romantic Second Symphony. Nourishment for heart and spirit.

Pre-concert event: LPO Showcase Foyle Future Firsts and Royal Academy of Music – 6.00pm. See page 40 for details.

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Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

Janáček Suite, The Cunning Little Vixen

Victoria Vita Polevá Cello Concerto (UK premiere)*

Dvořák Symphony No. 8

Oksana Lyniv conductor

Inbal Segev cello

‘Writing music was what I knew as life’ says the Ukrainian composer Victoria Vita Polevá, describing her childhood, and few living composers write with more beauty, more power or more unsparing emotional honesty. A Polevá premiere is a major event, and tonight we’re proud to join cellist Inbal Segev for the first UK performance of her Cello Concerto. Polevá’s compatriot Oksana Lyniv conducts, and she’s paired it with Janáček’s irrepressible fox-tale, and Dvořák’s happiest symphony. Expect sunshine, dance rhythms and birdsong: music, in other words, that makes you feel glad to be alive.

* Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Oksana Lyniv

Edward Gardner conductor

Frank Peter Zimmermann violin

IRÈNE-ZANDEL HÄNSSLER

Frank Peter Zimmermann

Colour and Fantasy

Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique

Francisco Coll Ciudad sin Sueño (Fantasia for piano and orchestra) (world premiere)* de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919 version)

Gustavo Gimeno conductor

Javier Perianes piano

A flash of light, a cascade of sparks: when Stravinsky’s The Firebird bursts into dazzling, glittering life, it’s the portal to a new sonic universe of fantasy and colour. Guest conductor Gustavo Gimeno guides us through that world tonight, from the simmering energy of Stravinsky’s youthful Scherzo fantastique to the perfumed harmonies and moonlit rapture of de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain Expect pure ravishment from pianist Javier Perianes, and some wonderful surprises too, as Perianes premieres a brand new concerto from one of Spain’s most imaginative young composers.

WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2024 | 7.30PM

Canellakis conducts Brahms

Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich)

Dawn on the Moscow River

(Prelude to Khovanshchina)

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1

Brahms Symphony No. 4

Karina Canellakis conductor

Pablo Ferrández cello

Do not go gentle into that good night: Brahms’s last symphony begins softly, but as he approaches the end of a lifetime’s struggle, he strides fearlessly into the raging storm. Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, meanwhile, is a questioning voice from an age of tyranny: tense, urgent and utterly uncompromising, it’s one of 20th-century music’s ultimate thrillers. With a soloist as committed as Pablo Ferrández, this is edge-of-the-seat stuff: just as you’d expect when LPO Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis tackles music that asks big questions, and offers honest answers.

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Karina Canellakis

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* Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.

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Gustavo Gimeno

Ignite your inner creative

Genius. Creator. Mastermind. When an artist makes something incredible, it’s tempting to describe them with words like these – as though creativity is some sort of superpower, and famous artists are somehow more than human. But everyone can be creative, and we all have the potential to demonstrate and develop our creativity. Music comes from gifted composers and talented performers, but it’s nothing without receptive listeners –responding to its power in their own uniquely imaginative and individual way.

‘If you think about it, each of us is a creative personality’, says LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets. ‘Every human being has the need to express themselves creatively, and everyone has a gift and the power to do so. It's just that we sometimes apply our creativity differently.’ So this season, the LPO aims to liberate and celebrate the music in you. The goal is to demonstrate that each one of us – a professional composer, an orchestral musician, an audience member – can have a chance to express ourselves through music.

So at the Royal Festival Hall we’ll be taking the lead, performing music from across four centuries and many different countries that demonstrates, in its own way, the infinite possibilities of creativity unchained. Haydn’s oratorio The Creation seems like an obvious choice, but in fact this gloriously optimistic work was composed to cross linguistic and cultural barriers, conveying a message that even the humblest living creature shares in a universal creative spirit. Mozart’s C minor Mass – composed by one of music’s most

famous former child prodigies – reminds us that creativity knows no boundaries of age, or social convention.

Naturally, there’ll be premieres – newly created music by Composer-in-Residence Tania León and Daniel Kidane – while music by Kurt Weill and the UK premiere of Luís Tinoco’s new accordion concerto demonstrate that artistry is no respecter of rigid musical genres. And we’ll throw ourselves open to other artforms, in a daring multimedia collaboration with the choreographer Wayne McGregor that utilises cutting-edge image-making technology and the human figure to reimagine and transform Szymanowski’s ballet Harnasie into an experience that can only exist when every artistic medium – every participant – is operating at the outer limits of their creative imagination.

But The Music in You doesn’t stop there; look out for a FUNharmonics family concert, in which young concertgoers will become performers and co-creators in Clarice Assad’s É Gol! There’ll be concerts with audience participation, pre-concert talks and demonstrations, performances by members of the LPO’s Rising Talent programmes, and appearances in unexpected venues such as St John’s, Waterloo and Battersea Arts Centre. Anything, as Elena puts it, that helps us ‘unlock the unrealised potential of the human spirit’. ‘We must inspire, challenge, provoke and transform by celebrating communal creativity and removing barriers to participation’, she says. ‘That's why we are talking about music in us, in all of us’. Listen to that inner music this season –you might be excited at what you hear.

Haydn’s Creation

Haydn The Creation

Edward Gardner conductor

Louise Alder soprano

Allan Clayton tenor

Michael Mofidian bass-baritone

London Philharmonic Choir

The music in the universe meets the music in you. When Joseph Haydn wrote The Creation, he imagined an entire cosmos inspired and animated by creativity; a universe in which earthworms and angels all spring from the same irrepressible creative urge. With its roof-raising choruses, bubbling melodies and sparkling colours, The Creation is the perfect starting point for The Music in You, our celebration of creativity without barriers. Edward Gardner brings all his energy and verve to this happiest of choral masterpieces: add an all-star team of soloists, and this should be an evening to inspire.

Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE. Sung in English.

Louise Alder

Edward Gardner

Dance Re-imagined

Tania León New work (world premiere)*

Ravel La valse

Szymanowski Harnasie**

Edward Gardner conductor

Robert Murray tenor

Creativity inspires creativity: a sound, a melody, or a whole composition can spark endless different imaginative responses. Tania León opens the concert with her first new commission as the LPO’s Composer-in-Residence. Ravel waltzes on the edge. And then Edward Gardner joins forces with multi-award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor in a dazzling, cross-artform reinvention of Szymanowski’s ballet Harnasie. The music is sensuous and explosive; McGregor responds using digitally enhanced choreographic storytelling and a spectacular mobile sculpture to open a portal to new expressive worlds. The music is in you – where will it take you?

Free pre-concert event

6.15pm–6.45pm at the Royal Festival Hall. LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets discusses this evening’s programme with Tania León.

* Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Concertgebouw Brugge.

**Harnasie is an original co-production of NOSPR

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (initiator), London Philharmonic Orchestra (with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute), conceived and produced by Studio Wayne McGregor. Project partner: Concertgebouw Brugge.

Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE.

An Imagination Shared

Alex Ho Breathe and Draw (for sinfonietta, two conductors and audience participation) Ryan Carter Concerto Molto Grosso (for audience and orchestra) (UK premiere)

Ligeti Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes

Charlotte Politi conductor* Luis Castillo-Briceño conductor*

Everyone is a musician, and there’s music in the sound of every breath. In St John’s Church Waterloo there’s an orchestra and an audience –but who’s to say which is which? Today The Music in You breaks out of the concert hall and surges thrillingly across the traditional boundaries of creativity. Alex Ho invites you to breathe and draw; then witness your imagination shaping wholly new sounds. And American composer Ryan Carter creates a concerto in which the audience becomes the soloist. Prepare to get creative – mobile phones should very definitely be left on!

* Inaugural participants in the LPO Conducting Fellowship programme.

The LPO Conducting Fellowship programme is generously supported by Patricia Haitink with additional support from Gini and Richard Gabbertas.

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Charlotte Politi Luis Castillo-Briceño

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Seven Deadly Sins

Luís Tinoco Accordion Concerto (UK premiere)

Weill The Seven Deadly Sins

Edward Gardner conductor

João Barradas accordion

Danielle de Niese Anna

Ross Ramgobin Brother

Callum Thorpe Mother

Zwakele Tshabalala Father

Amar Muchhala Brother

Pride is for the wealthy, and in an economic crunch there’s only one way for a girl to get ahead. Bertolt Brecht knew that back in 1933, and Kurt Weill set it to music that stings even while it slips tune after fabulously sleazy tune into your unresisting ears. Social comment has never been so shameless. Soprano extraordinaire Danielle de Niese stars in The Seven Deadly Sins, and accordion sensation João Barradas shows that no instrument is so humble that it can’t burn the house down, as Edward Gardner and the LPO head to Battersea Arts Centre to liberate The Music in You

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Danielle de Niese

The Gift of Youth

Mozart Overture, The Magic Flute

Daniel Kidane Violin Concerto (world premiere)*

Mozart Mass in C minor

Edward Gardner conductor

Julia Fischer violin

Hera Hyesang Park soprano

Elizabeth Watts soprano

Pavel Kolgatin tenor

Ashley Riches bass-baritone

London Philharmonic Choir

There are no limits on creativity – Mozart gave his first performance at the age of six, composed masterpieces in his teens, and wrote The Magic Flute for a family audience in a humble local theatre. He never even completed his mighty Mass in C minor, but it’s still capable of shaking you to the soul –and after all, the music is in you. Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Choir make it speak again tonight, and our good friend, violinist Julia Fischer gives life to a brand new concerto written specially for her by the young British composer Daniel Kidane.

* Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Concert generously supported by Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet.

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JUNSEOB YOON PHOTOGRAPHY

EMILE HOLBA

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Elizabeth Watts

Hera Hyesang Park

Daniel Kidane

Julia Fischer

La Mer

Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 (Classical)

R Strauss Burleske

Sibelius The Oceanides

Debussy La mer

Dima Slobodeniouk conductor

Martin Helmchen piano

High spirits and the high seas: Debussy dreamed of being a sailor, and when he composed La mer he worried that he hadn’t done justice to the beauty of the sea. Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk disagrees, and Debussy’s symphonic seascape is a gorgeous complement to Sibelius’s musical vision of a sunlit Mediterranean. First, though, things get frisky with two young composers in a hurry: Prokofiev’s delightfully irreverent ‘Classical’ Symphony and Richard Strauss’s uproarious Burleske. Soloist Martin Helmchen is a pianist who’s not afraid to take risks, and this is definitely music to make you sit up.

Dima Slobodeniouk

Romeo and Juliet

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture)

Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Gemma New conductor

Randall Goosby violin

‘How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!’ Shakespeare’s star-cross’d lovers have inspired composers for centuries, but nothing quite matches Prokofiev’s great Soviet ballet: Romeo and Juliet retold in music as sharp as a rapier and as tender as a kiss. The love theme from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture, meanwhile, is still the ultimate musical shorthand for passion. It’s hot stuff, but conductor Gemma New and soloist Randall Goosby cool things down in the most elegant (and enjoyable) way imaginable – with a delicious concerto by the teenage Mozart.

Pre-concert event: LPO Showcase Crisis Creates – 6.00pm. See page 41 for details.

Randall Goosby © KAUPO KIKKAS © ROY COX

Gemma New

Järvi conducts Bruckner

Stravinsky Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No. 7

Paavo Järvi conductor

Leila Josefowicz violin

Genius enjoys a challenge. Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto begins with a chord that was supposed to be impossible, though with a violinist as great as Leila Josefowicz (‘Wonderful virtuosity’: The Daily Telegraph) there’s no such thing as unplayable music. Anton Bruckner, meanwhile, was aiming for heaven itself, and the opening melody of his Seventh Symphony came to him in a dream. That was what he said, anyway, but in the hands of guest conductor Paavo Järvi, Bruckner’s mighty climaxes, rapturous visions and soaring Alpine vistas become the deeply moving drama of a human soul in pursuit of a vision beyond words.

WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL 2024 | 7.30PM

Seong-Jin Cho plays Beethoven

Wagner Prelude from Parsifal Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

Tippett Symphony No. 2

Edward Gardner conductor Seong-Jin Cho piano

Seong-Jin Cho

You can’t keep inspiration down. Michael Tippett heard the chugging of a steamboat on a Swiss lake, and his Second Symphony burst into vibrant, bustling life. Richard Wagner wrestled with faith and philosophy, and created music that seems to hover, glowing, in mid-air. And Ludwig van Beethoven sat down at the piano and drew music out of silence: a piano concerto more poetic, and more personal, than he’d ever created before. And with Seong-Jin Cho –a pianist making waves globally since winning the Chopin Competition – joining forces with Edward Gardner, they are sure to strike sparks off each other.

Free pre-concert event

6.15pm–6.45pm at the Royal Festival Hall. LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets discusses this evening’s programme with Edward Gardner.

VENUE: ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

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Leila Josefowicz

The Planets

Dvořák Cello Concerto Holst The Planets

Edward Gardner conductor

Nicolas Altstaedt cello

London Youth Choir

Everyone has their favourite moment of Holst’s The Planets, whether it’s the warlike rhythms of ‘Mars’, the radiant calm of ‘Venus’, or the melody and majesty of ‘Jupiter’. But Holst’s masterpiece is a lot more than just magical colours and unforgettable tunes – just as Dvořák’s Cello Concerto is more than merely a magnificent showcase for one of the world’s greatest cellists. Today, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt sings songs of longing and loss, and Edward Gardner takes the LPO on a voyage beyond time and space to the outer limits of the human spirit. Familiar masterpieces made startlingly new and fresh.

Pre-concert event: LPO Showcase Junior Artists – 6.00pm. See page 41 for details.

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Nicolas Altstaedt

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Götterdämmerung

Wagner Götterdämmerung

Vladimir Jurowski conductor

Burkhard Fritz Siegfried

Svetlana Sozdateleva Brünnhilde

Brindley Sherratt Hagen

Günter Papendell Gunther

Sinéad Campbell-Wallace Gutrune

Robert Hayward Alberich

Kai Rüütel Waltraute

Claudia Huckle First Norn

Claire Barnett-Jones Second Norn

Evelina Dobračeva Third Norn

London Philharmonic Choir

London Voices

Tickets £95–£35 Premium seats £125

Series discounts not available for this performance

The world’s bravest hero and the world’s wisest woman have fallen in love. They don’t realise that the thread of Fate has already snapped –and when sinister forces ensnare the lovers, even the gods of Valhalla can only watch in horror as events accelerate towards a truly apocalyptic conclusion. As Vladimir Jurowski brings his critically acclaimed LPO Ring Cycle to its conclusion, Svetlana Sozdateleva (‘compelling’: Bachtrack) heads an outstanding international cast in a drama of star-crossed passion and ultimate evil; of treachery, courage and a love more powerful than the end of the world.

Please note this performance lasts approximately 6 hours 15 minutes including one 75-minute interval and one 20-minute interval.

Sung in German with English surtitles.

Please note start time.

Concert generously supported by members of the Orchestra’s Ring Cycle Syndicate.

Vladimir Jurowski

ROMAN GONTCHAROV

EMIL MATVEEV

Svetlana Sozdateleva

VENUE: ST JOHN’S CHURCH, WATERLOO

Evening chamber concerts

In partnership with St John’s Church, Waterloo

Following our hugely successful sold-out performances of Gavin Bryars’s Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet earlier in 2023, we are delighted to announce the continuation of our exciting partnership with St John’s Church, Waterloo – offering the perfect space for intimate and adventurous musical explorations.

In 2023/24, St John’s Waterloo will play host to a series of varied evening concerts, featuring musicians from the Orchestra and guest artists from our main season.

In addition to our advertised performance on 12 March 2024 (see page 27), which offers the chance for audiences to participate in creating the music, we will explore other themes through these events including a focus on wellbeing. Our partnership also includes joint Education and Community projects, including accessible, participatory musical experiences with the local communities we both serve.

Full details will be announced in due course.

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Education and Community events

Sharing the wonder of classical music is at the heart of everything we do at the LPO.

Each year we engage with and are inspired by thousands of people from all walks of life through our Education and Community programme. Whether that’s a Year 1 class attending their first concert, a group of disabled adults using accessible music technology, or a talented teenage clarinettist looking to make their way into the music profession, we are committed to offering high quality music opportunities for all, across London and the South East of England. We invite you to experience some of this work through a series of concerts, free performances and events this season.

Our FUNharmonics Family concerts are the perfect way to introduce the vivid sounds of the orchestra to the youngest music-lovers in your life. These hour-long performances are specially designed for children, with a presenter weaving in audience interaction throughout, and images projected on the big screen to create a multi-sensory experience for all to enjoy. FUNharmonics concerts include free activities in the foyer spaces before the performance so the whole family can make a day of your visit to the Royal Festival Hall.

You can catch an insight into our wider programme through our LPO Showcase series, bringing talented project participants centre-stage in an array of free performances and events. Members of our Rising Talent programmes (including Foyle Future Firsts and LPO Junior Artists) give spirited performances alongside LPO players who have mentored them, and participants of two of our community projects (Crisis Creates and OrchLab) share their creativity in events that inspire, connect and empower.

Overall, our Education and Community programme reaches around 18,000 people each year. Our popular BrightSparks concerts for schools offer children and young people the opportunity to hear the Orchestra up close –and our work extends far beyond the concert hall. We support a love of music through work in schools, Overture orchestral days with young musicians, our Open Sound Ensemble with young people with special educational needs and disabilities, and through our community partnerships in London, Essex and on the south coast. Find out more by exploring the LPO website.

The LPO is grateful to all those who generously support our Education and Community programme.

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FUNharmonics Family Concerts

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FUNharmonics Family Concerts

SUNDAY 29 OCTOBER 2023 | 12.00PM – 1.00PM

Prince Ivan tiptoes through evil King Kastchei’s dark and gloomy garden of stone figures. A flash of fiery gold glimmers in the corner of his eye – could it be the magical Firebird? Soon, the Prince faces the most terrifying villain in all of classical music – King Kastchei himself! Can the Firebird save the day? Featuring some of the most breathtaking orchestral music ever written, the LPO, under the baton of Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, performs extracts from Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece, while presenter Rachel Leach weaves a tale of good versus evil that will captivate audiences and provide an unforgettable first concert experience for all the family.

HALL SUNDAY

VENUE: ROYAL FESTIVAL

Goal! Appalachian Spring

Join the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the European premiere of É Gol! by BrazilianAmerican composer Clarice Assad, imagining a day in the life of legendary Brazilian footballer Marta Vieira da Silva as she gets ready for the big game. Created for orchestra and audience, this piece offers the whole family a chance to perform with the LPO throughout, using your voices, breath and body percussion. So grab your favourite football shirt and join us for this fun, participatory concert, culminating in a football match soundtrack finale!

Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring tells the story of a bride and a groom anticipating their future in America over 100 years ago. First composed for ballet, the luminous music makes you want to dance and sing, and includes the famous ‘Simple Gifts’ folk melody, as well as a very loud musical alarm clock! Bring the whole family and join the London Philharmonic Orchestra for a lively concert of celebration, optimism and fabulous American music.

Series discounts Page 47

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The Firebird

LPO Showcase – Free performances and events

Our LPO Showcase series shines a spotlight on the extraordinary range of musical talent and creativity supported by our Education and Community programme, through a series of free performances and events.

WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER 2023 |

OrchLab Festival Day

OrchLab Festival Day is the culmination of this year’s OrchLab programme, delivered in collaboration with Drake Music – leaders in music, technology and disability. A celebration of accessible music-making with disabled adults, this event throws open the doors of our Royal Festival Hall home to our OrchLab community, for a fun day of live music, accessible instrument demonstrations, interactive workshops and showcasing the creativity of OrchLab participants. For more information visit orchlab.org/open-events

This free but ticketed event is open to disabled adults, their families and those who support them (over 18s only).

3 FEBRUARY 2024 | 6.00PM

Foyle Future Firsts and the Royal Academy of Music

The LPO’s Foyle Future Firsts Development Programme bridges the transition between education and the professional platform for 16 early-career orchestral musicians each year. Our current cohort of Future Firsts join forces with students from the Royal Academy of Music and members of the LPO for a vibrant performance conducted by our Principal Conductor, Edward Gardner. The programme features music inspired by trees, including Ácana by our Composer-in-Residence, Tania León. The piece is named after the ácana tree, which grows prolifically in León’s native Cuba, and is prized for its beauty and durability as a building material. Mabel Daniels’s Deep Forest (1931) was inspired by the New Hampshire woods, where American composer Daniels

spent several summers. The programme also includes works highlighting the talents of different sections of the ensemble, including Stravinsky’s dazzling Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Tippett’s Little Music for String Orchestra.

VENUE: ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

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Crisis Creates

Members of Crisis – all adults who have experienced homelessness – perform original music they have devised with LPO musicians and a workshop leader during a week-long creative project. Crisis Creates offers a channel for participants to express themselves and to combat the isolation that comes hand-in-hand with precarious living situations. Using the music of the Orchestra as their starting point, the group creates new and powerful work which they bring to the Royal Festival Hall stage.

LPO Junior Artists

The LPO Junior Artists Programme supports exceptionally talented teenage musicians from backgrounds currently under-represented in professional UK orchestras. Junior Artists spend a season with us and become fully immersed in the workings of the LPO. They are each mentored by a member of the Orchestra,

and take part in a variety of behind-the-scenes and skills-building activities, as well as events to inspire future generations of orchestral players. In this free performance, the Junior Artists perform alongside LPO musicians, Foyle Future Firsts and Junior Artist alumni in a celebration of vibrant young talent.

VENUE: ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

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LPO Plus

Earn points as you spend! LPO Plus is the online reward scheme from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a member of LPO Plus, you’ll be rewarded with points every time you book tickets online at lpo.org.uk*. These points will be worth at least 10% of the order you’re making.

LPO Plus points can then be redeemed on future orders*, saving you money every time you redeem them with us.

For more details and to join LPO Plus go to: lpo.org.uk/lpoplus

*Certain exclusions apply. Our multi-buy series discount is not eligible for the LPO Plus points reward. See our website for full terms and conditions of the scheme.

LPO concerts on Marquee TV

Special offer for London Philharmonic Orchestra audiences

The London Philharmonic Orchestra collection includes a varied selection of the Orchestra’s live concerts over the last two years, filmed for Marquee TV subscribers. We have teamed up with Marquee to offer you 50% off a year’s subscription. Head to welcome.marquee.tv/ lpo-2023 and use the code LPO2023 to get 50% off. Art lovers can stream the LPO collection alongside the world’s best dance, opera, theatre, and music on demand on Marquee TV.

Watch anytime, anywhere

With Marquee TV, there are many ways to watch and enjoy our online concerts. You can watch on your tablet, phone or on the big screen via the Marquee app.

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Register or sign in using your Facebook, Google, or Apple account to start streaming! There’s no need to start a free trial or enter your credit card details. Contact Marquee.tv or visit their FAQ page for further support.

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Share in the joy of music. Be a part of the LPO.

We are delighted to present such an exciting season on and off the concert platform.  We can only do so because of your support. Find your place within the Orchestra’s incredible community of supporters and help ensure that we can continue to provide inspirational musical experiences for everybody. From making a checkout donation when you buy your tickets, to supporting a chair in the Orchestra, donations of all sizes make a difference.

Memberships and donations

We invite you to play a role in the Orchestra. Our members and donors are a vital and valued part of the LPO community. Join our family of supporters who share our love and passion for orchestral music.

Friends

Join and enjoy a range of benefits designed to enhance your experience of our concerts and develop your relationship with the Orchestra.

Friends get priority booking for Southbank Centre concerts, and opportunities to attend final rehearsals and meet LPO musicians.

Support us as a Friend and help us to share the wonder of orchestral music with a wide and diverse audience.

From £6 per month when paying by Direct Debit

Benefactors

Become part of a dedicated circle of supporters and enjoy access to a private bar on concert nights, a programme of special events throughout the year and opportunities to enjoy the LPO at Glyndebourne Festival.

From £60 per month when paying by Direct Debit

Thomas Beecham Group

Give a major supporting gift and build significant relationships within the Orchestra. Donors can choose to have their gift associated with a player’s chair.

From £5,000

Gifts in wills

Help others to experience the wonder of music by remembering the Orchestra in your will.

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Corporate partnerships

The London Philharmonic Orchestra works with businesses to deliver the extraordinary. Both onstage and outside the concert hall, we can meet your strategic goals with bespoke partnerships that deliver results.

Working with us can achieve success across multiple business areas through brand visibility, client entertaining, employee engagement and community investment.

We know that every business is unique. We look forward to working with you on partnerships tailored to meet your company’s objectives.

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Booking information

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Please note that series discounts across the entire 2023/24 season are only available through the London Philharmonic Orchestra ticket office and website.

Ticket Office 020 7840 4242

Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm (£4.00 transaction fee) lpo.org.uk (£3.50 transaction fee)

Book more, pay less: series discounts

– Book 3-4 concerts and receive a 10% discount

– Book 5-7 concerts and receive a 15% discount

– Book 8-10 concerts and receive a 20% discount

– Book 11-14 concerts and receive a 25% discount

– Book 15+ concerts and receive a 30% discount

All discounts are subject to availability and cannot be combined.

Group bookings

With savings of up to 20% on ticket prices, and many other group benefits, everything has been done to help your group have an enjoyable evening with one of the world’s finest orchestras.

Benefits include:

– 20% discount for groups of ten or more on selected concerts

– A pair of complimentary tickets for the group organiser for groups of 20+

– Exclusive ticket offers and special promotions on selected concerts

– Flexible reservations until one month before the concert

– No booking fee

School parties: receive a 50% discount on ticket prices plus one in ten tickets free. Bookings cannot be made online.

Book now 020 7840 4205 or groups@lpo.org.uk (Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm).

Southbank Centre

Our 2023/24 season concerts in the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall are part of the Southbank Centre’s classical music multi-buy offer. Book multiple concerts from the same season (Autumn/Winter or Spring/ Summer) in one transaction to receive a discount. For full details and to find out which events are included, visit southbankcentre.co.uk/ classicalmusic

Ticket Office 020 3879 9555

Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm Weekends 12.00pm – 5.00pm southbankcentre.co.uk

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Booking fees apply online (£3.50) and over the phone (£4.00). There are no booking fees for in-person bookings, Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles.

Please note there is a £3.00 exchange fee per ticket for bookings made directly through the Southbank Centre.

Ticket prices vary: see the individual concert pages for ticket price information. We reserve the right to adjust ticket prices and allocations according to demand.

Premium seats: we have selected the very best seats in the front stalls to be sold at premium price to ensure you the finest acoustic and view.

Age guidance: Concerts are suitable for children aged seven and over unless otherwise stated.

Please note: we will be filming a selection of our 2023/24 season concerts at the Royal Festival Hall for future streaming on Marquee TV, during which certain sections of the audience may be captured in the background (we will not be shooting close ups of any audience members). By purchasing a ticket to any of these concerts you give the Orchestra permission to be captured on film for this purpose. Should you have any concerns, please contact admin@lpo.org.uk

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General information

Can I exchange my tickets?

You may exchange them for another concert in the Orchestra’s Royal Festival Hall season or for a credit voucher (valid for one year only). You must contact us at least two working days before the concert if you wish to exchange your tickets. We do not offer refunds unless a concert is cancelled. The right is reserved to substitute artists and vary programmes if necessary.

Limited concessions

50% off all ticket prices for full-time students, benefit recipients (Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, Universal or Pension Credit) and under-18s (maximum four per transaction. Not applicable to Family Concerts). Limited availability; appropriate ID will be checked on admission. The Southbank Centre has a limited allocation of concession tickets with a 25% discount for recipients of Universal or Pension Credit, full-time students and under-16s.

Access

Visitors with a disability can join the Southbank Centre’s free Access Scheme. You may be eligible for tickets at concessionary prices and to bring a companion who can assist you during your visit; and to receive information in alternative formats. For information, please email accesslist@southbankcentre.co.uk or visit southbankcentre.co.uk/access

Sound enhancement systems are available (subject to availability) at all of the Southbank Centre’s venues. Please ask for a Visitor Assistant at the venue if you require one.

The Royal Festival Hall has level access via internal lifts and ramps, and accessible toilets. For further details, please visit southbankcentre.co.uk/access

The Royal Festival Hall has wheelchair spaces in the side and rear stalls, and space for wheelchairs under 65cm wide in its boxes.

Assistance dogs are welcome on site.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Resident at the Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne Festival Opera

89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP

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Chief Executive

Elena Dubinets

Artistic Director

HRH The Duke of Kent KG Patron

Edward Gardner Principal Conductor*

Karina Canellakis

Principal Guest Conductor

Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Emeritus

Pieter Schoeman Leader**

Tania León Composer-in-Residence

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General enquiries 020 7840 4200 lpo.org.uk

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**Supported by Neil Westreich

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Getting to the Southbank Centre

The Southbank Centre is situated on the Thames riverside between the Golden Jubilee Bridges and Waterloo Bridge.

By underground to Waterloo, Embankment and Charing Cross.

By rail to Waterloo, Waterloo East or Charing Cross.

By bus to Waterloo. For detailed bus information call 0343 222 1234 or visit tfl.gov.uk/buses

Find us

There are four Blue Badge parking spaces available for visitors located on the Queen Elizabeth Hall slip road off Belvedere Road (between the Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery). Spaces are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, and use of them is free. You are required to display your Blue Badge as you enter the site and vehicles that do not display a Blue Badge are refused entry. Free parking in the National Theatre car park and APCOA Cornwall Road Car Park is available to Blue Badge holders visiting the Southbank Centre. Please note: when the National Theatre building is closed there is no step-free access from the car park.

For the latest parking updates you can also visit: southbankcentre.co.uk/ visit/getting-here

Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room Golden Jubilee Bridges

Charing Cross Station

OFF STAGE

Delve into the world of classical music with our podcast, LPO Offstage

MOBO Award-winning saxophonist and presenter YolanDa Brown sits down with LPO players, world-leading artists and special guests to talk all things classical music. Hear fascinating stories, take a peek behind-the-scenes, deep dive into iconic music and get to know the wonderful people behind the instruments.

If you love classical music or want to learn more about it, you’re in the right place. Find us on your favourite podcast app.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra Label

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the world’s most recorded orchestras. In 2005, we established our own record label. Since then, we’ve been sharing live recordings of orchestral and choral masterpieces, new and old, capturing the excitement of live concerts for you to enjoy over and over again.

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Visit lpo.org.uk/recordings to explore our full catalogue of over 100 releases.

The 2023/24 season

All concerts are at the Royal Festival Hall and start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.

September

Saturday 23 September 7.00pm

Mahler

Edward Gardner

Sally Matthews

Beth Taylor

London Philharmonic Choir

Wednesday 27 September

Mendelssohn

Sibelius

Brahms

Edward Gardner

Johan Dalene

Saturday 30 September

Beethoven

Bartók

Tchaikovsky

Edward Gardner

Christian Tetzlaff

October

Wednesday 25 October

R Strauss

Ravel

November

Friday 3 November

Dukas

Ravel

Stravinsky

Edward Gardner

Hélène Grimaud

Wednesday 22 November

Julian Joseph

Gershwin

Saint-Saëns

Jader Bignamini

Julian Joseph

Anna Lapwood

Saturday 25 November

Mahler

Robin Ticciati

Alice Coote

London Philharmonic Choir

Trinity Boys Choir

Wednesday 29 November

Beethoven

Florence Price

Kristiina Poska

Pieter Schoeman

The London Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council England and the Southbank Centre.

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Tania León

Karina Canellakis

Cédric Tiberghien

Saturday 28 October

Beethoven

Shostakovich

Karina Canellakis

Jonathan Biss

Sunday 29 October 12 noon – 1.00pm

FUNharmonics

Family Concert

The Firebird

December

Saturday 2 December

Tchaikovsky

Seasonal songs and arias

Gergely Madaras

Renée Fleming

Wednesday 6 December

Beethoven

Rimsky-Korsakov

Tianyi Lu

Tom Borrow

LPO Showcase

OrchLab Festival Day 11.00am–3.00pm

Concert texts Richard Bratby

Illustration Selman Hoşgör Design JMG Studio

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January

Saturday 13 January

John Williams

Bernstein

Jonathon Heyward

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Friday 19 January

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Fanny Mendelssohn

Clara Schumann

Robert Schumann

Felix Mendelssohn

Natalia Ponomarchuk

Alexander Melnikov

Wednesday 24 January

Tchaikovsky

Berlioz

Ryan Bancroft

Inon Barnatan

Saturday 27 January

Wagner

Mozart

Beethoven

Anja Bihlmaier

Martin James Bartlett

February

Saturday 3 February

Elgar

Schumann

Edward Gardner

Frank Peter Zimmermann

Pre-concert event:

LPO Showcase

Foyle Future Firsts and Royal Academy of Music

6.00pm

Friday 9 February

Janáček

Victoria Vita Polevá

Dvořák

Oksana Lyniv

Inbal Segev

Friday 16 February

Stravinsky

Francisco Coll de Falla

Gustavo Gimeno

Javier Perianes

Wednesday 21 February

Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich)

Shostakovich

Brahms

Karina Canellakis

Pablo Ferrández

March

Saturday 2 March

The Music in You

Haydn

Edward Gardner

Louise Alder

Allan Clayton

Michael Mofidian

London Philharmonic Choir

Sunday 3 March

12 noon – 1.00pm

The Music in You FUNharmonics

Family Concert Goal!

Wednesday 6 March

The Music in You

Tania León

Ravel

Szymanowski

Edward Gardner

Robert Murray

Tuesday 12 March

St John’s Waterloo

6.30pm

The Music in You

Alex Ho

Ryan Carter

Ligeti

Charlotte Politi Luis Castillo-Briceño

Wednesday 13 March

Battersea Arts Centre

6.30pm and 8.15pm

The Music in You

Luís Tinoco

Weill

Edward Gardner

João Barradas

Danielle de Niese

Ross Ramgobin

Callum Thorpe

Zwakele Tshabalala

Amar Muchhala

Saturday 16 March

The Music in You

Mozart

Daniel Kidane

Edward Gardner

Julia Fischer

Hera Hyesang Park

Elizabeth Watts

Pavel Kolgatin

Ashley Riches

London Philharmonic Choir

Wednesday 20 March

Prokofiev

R Strauss

Sibelius

Debussy

Dima Slobodeniouk

Martin Helmchen

Friday 22 March

Tchaikovsky

Mozart

Prokofiev

Gemma New

Randall Goosby

Pre-concert event:

LPO Showcase

Crisis Creates

6.00pm

April

Saturday 6 April

Stravinsky

Bruckner

Paavo Järvi

Leila Josefowicz

Wednesday 10 April

Wagner

Beethoven

Tippett

Edward Gardner

Seong-Jin Cho

Friday 12 April

Dvořák

Holst

Edward Gardner

Nicolas Altstaedt

London Youth Choir

Pre-concert event:

LPO Showcase

LPO Junior Artists 6.00pm

Saturday 27 April 3.00pm

Wagner

Vladimir Jurowski

Burkhard Fritz

Svetlana Sozdateleva

Brindley Sherratt

Günter Papendell

Sinéad Campbell-Wallace

Robert Hayward

Kai Rüütel

Claudia Huckle

Claire Barnett-Jones

Evelina Dobračeva

London Philharmonic Choir

London Voices

May

Sunday 5 May

12 noon – 1.00pm

FUNharmonics

Family Concert

Appalachian Spring