2013 /14 Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Concerts September 2013 - June 2014 Royal Festival Hall
Colour? All you could want, in paint-pot splashes or filigree twirls. Imagination? Soaring sky-high The Times, March 2013
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AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER 2013 Thu 26 / 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / Paul Groves/ Christianne Stotijn/Gerald Finley/ Philharmonia Chorus BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet M Sun 29 / 3.00pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / Piotr Anderszewski BEETHOVEN Overture, Namensfeier / SCHUMANN Piano Concerto/ BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
OCTOBER 2013
M Sun 20 / 3.00pm Vladimir Ashkenazy/ Alice Sara Ott/Ladies of the Philharmonia Chorus DELIUS The walk to the Paradise Garden / GRIEG Piano Concerto / HOLST The Planets
Thu 24 / 7.30pm Juraj Valcuha / Sunwook Kim CHERUBINI Overture, Medea / BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4; Symphony No. 7 Thu 31 / 7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov / Vilde Frang PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical; Violin Concerto No. 2 / RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
B Thu 10 / 7.30pm Andris Nelsons / Hélène Grimaud BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1; Symphony No. 1
NOVEMBER 2013
B Sun 13 / 7.30pm Andris Nelsons / Christian Tetzlaff / Tanja Tetzlaff BRAHMS St Anthony Variations; Double Concerto in A minor; Symphony No. 3
P Sat 30 / 1.30pm Carl Davis NAPOLÉON (live with film)
Thu 17 / 7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy / Patricia Kopatchinskaja STRAVINSKY Four Norwegian Moods / STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto / TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony
Thu 14 / 7.30pm Gustavo Dudamel MAHLER Symphony No. 7
DECEMBER 2013 Thu 12 / 7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev / Viktoria Mullova / Anastasia Kalagina MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto / MAHLER Symphony No. 4
JANUARY 2014 B Thu 23 / 7.30pm Andris Nelsons / Hélène Grimaud BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 4 S Thu 30 / 7.30pm Philippe Jordan / Angela Denoke WAGNER Overture, Tannhäuser / STRAUSS Selection of songs; Don Juan; ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ and ‘Closing Scene’, Salome
FEBRUARY 2014 Thu 6 / 7.30pm Nicholas Collon / Pekka Kuusisto BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes, Peter Grimes / ADÈS Violin Concerto / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 6 B Thu 20 / 7.30pm Andris Nelsons / Christian Tetzlaff BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture; Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 2 B Sun 23 / 7.30pm Andris Nelsons / Christian Tetzlaff/Hanna Weinmeister/ Tanja Tetzlaff/Martin Helmchen/Annette Dasch / James Rutherford / Philharmonia Chorus BRAHMS Piano Quartet No.3, Werther; Ein deutsches Requiem
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Premium priced concert Sunday Matinee Series concert Andris Nelsons: Brahms Series
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Strauss 150th Anniversary 2014 Bohemian Legends Series concert
S Thu 27 / 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi / Martin Helmchen BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 / STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
BL Thu 10 / 7.30pm Jakub Hrůša / Arabella Steinbacher JANÁCEK Overture, Jealousy / DVORÁK Violin Concerto in A minor / SUK Praga / JANÁCEK Sinfonietta
MARCH 2014
BL Sun 13 / 7.30pm Jakub Hrůša / Lukás Vondrácek et al SUK Scherzo Fantastique / DVORÁK Piano Concerto / JANÁCEK Glagolitic Mass
Sun 9 / 3.00pm Pablo Heras-Casado / Nikolai Lugansky BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont; Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor / MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish M
M P Sun 27 / 3.00pm John Wilson/ Cast to be announced STRAUSS Die Fledermaus
Thu 20 / 7.30pm Lorin Maazel STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra / Ein Alpensinfonie
MAY 2014
M S Sun 23 / 3.00pm Lorin Maazel / Esther Yoo STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel / MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3, K216 / MUSSORGSKY (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition
Thu 1 / 7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy et al PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite / PROKOFIEV Ivan the Terrible (Concert Oratorio with live film extracts)
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APRIL 2014 Thu 3 / 7.30pm Edward Gardner / Ruxandra Donose WAGNER Overture, Rienzi / BERLIOZ La mort de Cléopâtre / ELGAR Symphony No. 1
Thu 8 / 7.30pm David Afkham / Sergey Khachatryan LINDBERG Chorale / BERG Violin Concerto / SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, The Great BL Thu 15 / 7.30pm Jakub Hrůša / Truls Mørk DVORÁK Cello Concerto SUK Asrael Symphony
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Thu 22 / 7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev / Nicholas Angelich FAURÉ Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande Op. 80 / RAVEL Piano Concerto in G / DEBUSSY La mer / STRAVINSKY Suite, The Firebird (1919) Sat 31 / 7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov / Denis Kozhukhin TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 / DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World
JUNE 2014 S Thu 5 / 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi / Eva-Maria Westbroek BEETHOVEN Overture, Leonore No.1 STRAUSS Four Last Songs / BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9
Thu 12 / 7.30pm Paavo Järvi / Kirill Gerstein GLINKA Overture, Ruslan and Ludmilla / RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 / SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Thu 26 / 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / Lisa Batiashvili/Olivier Latry SAARIAHO Maan varjot (Earth’s Shadows) (UK première) SIBELIUS; Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 2 P Sun 29 / 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen et al MAHLER Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand
SALONEN CONDUCTS BERLIOZ’ ROMEO AND JULIET Thursday 26 September 2013 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Paul Groves tenor Gerald Finley baritone Philharmonia Chorus BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet Esa-Pekka Salonen opens the new season with a first-rate cast performing Berlioz’s captivating choral symphony, Romeo and Juliet. Widely considered to be his most original and dramatic programmatic work, it is a tour de force for orchestra, chorus and soloists. A
personal homage to his own heroes, Shakespeare and Beethoven, it has been described by the musicologist Donald Tovey as “one of the most gigantic and convincing masterpieces of music-drama” ever written. Sung in French with English surtitles This concert is supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman
6pm, Pre-concert talk, Royal Festival Hall. Dr Sarah Hibberd introduces this evening’s programme. FREE admission
SALONEN 30TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT M Sunday 29 September 2013 3.00pm (Please note start time)
SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Piotr Anderszewski piano BEETHOVEN Overture, Namensfeier SCHUMANN Piano Concerto BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique Cast in five trailblazing movements, the Symphonie fantastique celebrates Berlioz’s delirious infatuation with the 2
Irish actress, Harriet Smithson, who crops up throughout by means of her own musical signature, or idée fixe. After taking a draft of opium, Berlioz’s wild ravings climax in a ‘Witches’ Sabbath’ finale, which sees Harriet consorting with all manner of ghouls and fiends. This concert is supported by The Meyer Foundation This afternoon’s concert marks the exact date of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s début appearance with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1983 Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717
ANDRIS NELSONS: BRAHMS CYCLE The Andris Nelsons Brahms Cycle is supported by The Meyer Foundation B
Sunday 13 October 2013 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin Tanja Tetzlaff cello
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BRAHMS St Anthony Variations (Variations on a Theme by Haydn) BRAHMS Double Concerto in A minor BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
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Thursday 10 October 2013 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor Hélène Grimaud piano
Although a traditionalist at heart, Brahms is always full of surprises. A stand-alone set of variations for orchestra seems a perfectly innocent idea, yet it had hardly ever been done before. Likewise a symphony of swirling emotions in which every movement ends quietly (audiences at the time were taken completely unawares), and a Romantic concerto in which the two soloists have to share the limelight.
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 The opening concert in Andris Nelsons’s Brahms series features two masterworks of blazing intensity. Brahms’s First Piano Concerto is an astonishing achievement for a 25-year-old, yet he felt so intimidated by Schumann’s prediction that he was the man destined to ‘take over the mantle of Beethoven’ that he was 43 before going public with his all-encompassing First Symphony.
6pm, Pre-concert talk, Royal Festival Hall. FREE admission
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VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
Thursday 17 October 2013 7.30pm
M Sunday 20 October 2013 3.00pm (Please note start time)
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES
STRAVINSKY Four Norwegian Moods STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Alice Sara Ott piano Ladies of the Philharmonia Chorus
Rarely heard in concert, Tchaikovsky’s gripping Manfred Symphony was inspired by Lord Byron’s poem about a guiltridden mountain dweller who summons seven spirits in the vain hope they might help him forget the past. The music’s lurching from uncontainable elation to inconsolable despair is the perfect foil for the rhythmically cool, neoclassical soundscapes of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and the simply styled folk melodies of the Four Norwegian Moods.
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden GRIEG Piano Concerto HOLST The Planets
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Composed in 1868 while he was holidaying with his wife and young child in Denmark, Grieg’s Piano Concerto embodies the spirit of one of the happiest times in the composer’s life. But it was more than two years later, after he showed it to the great Franz Liszt, before it achieved the public popularity that it has enjoyed ever since. By comparison, Holst’s planetary masterwork hit the British music scene like a thunderbolt. Almost overnight, he found himself elevated from the position of a virtual unknown into a national celebrity. Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717
JURAJ VALCUHA Thursday 24 October 2013 7.30pm Juraj Valcuha conductor Sunwook Kim piano CHERUBINI Overture, Medea BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 Wagner referred to Beethoven’s Seventh as the ‘apotheosis of the dance’, noting that rhythm is the music’s prime motivating force. Time and time again throughout the symphony, Beethoven takes a small rhythmic idea and runs with it over and over as if mesmerised by the intoxicating power of its repetition, climaxing in a final coda of overwhelming joy and excitement. In this concert, music by Beethoven is paired with an operatic overture by the contemporary composer that he most admired, Luigi Cherubini.
TEMIRKANOV 75TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Thursday 31 October 2013 7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov conductor Vilde Frang violin PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 Prokofiev and Rachmaninov were like chalk and cheese. Both were brilliant composer-pianists, but whereas Prokofiev was an iconoclast who delighted in railing at tradition, Rachmaninov inherited Tchaikovsky’s mantle without demur. They shared a genius for indelible melody, however, Prokofiev’s being typically cool and sleek while Rachmaninov preferred super-heated luxuriance.
Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A portrait of Christophe Bertrand, conducted by Alejo Pérez with Elizabeth Calleo (soprano). FREE admission
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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
NAPOLÉON P Saturday 30 November 2013 1.30pm (Please note start and running times)
Thursday 14 November 2013 7.30pm CARL DAVIS conductor/composer Gustavo Dudamel conductor Napoléon (silent film with live music) MAHLER Symphony No. 7 The Seventh is one of Mahler’s most bewitching musical creations. At its heart are two movements entitled Nachtmusik (‘Night Music’) and a central scherzo whose haunting atmosphere and ghostly meanderings appear to inhabit another world. Add to that a pair of outer movements of deeply unsettling changeability and Dudamel’s conducting alchemy, and you are guaranteed a night out to remember. This concert is supported by Joscelyn Fox and the Edwin Fox Foundation
Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A portrait of Benedict Mason, conducted by Johannes Debus with Valentina Coladonato (soprano). FREE admission
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Carl Davis’s epic score for the 1927 silent film of Napoléon (directed by Abel Gance) is not only the longest ever composed, but is also widely celebrated as one of the finest. In this performance of the elaborately tinted and toned restoration by Photoplay Productions and BFI – complete with its dazzling triptych finale – music and film lovers are given a rare opportunity to experience one of the greatest achievements in cinema history, a seamless blend of epic film and Davis’s own unique creative genius. Please note: there will be two intervals plus a 100-minute interval at c. 5.00pm. End time c. 9.30pm. P Premium prices apply, see page 23 for details. Presented by special arrangement with Photoplay Productions and the BFI National Archive
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TUGAN SOKHIEV Tugan Sokhiev’s appearance is supported by The Meyer Foundation
ANDRIS NELSONS: BRAHMS CYCLE
Thursday 12 December 2013 7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev conductor Viktoria Mullova violin Anastasia Kalagina soprano
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Thursday 23 January 2014 7.30pm
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto MAHLER Symphony No. 4
Andris Nelsons conductor Hélène Grimaud piano
Two of the most enchanting pieces of the Romantic era, Mendelssohn’s life-enhancing concerto creates the impression of having been conceived in one miraculous sweep (in fact it took him six years, on and off), while Mahler’s Fourth possesses a magical, Mendelssohnian innocence, culminating in one of the most angelically beautiful song-settings ever composed.
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
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Andris Nelsons’s Brahms series continues with the epic Second Piano Concerto, a symphonic powerhouse of scorching virtuosity that the composer mischievously described as ‘a set of little piano pieces’. The majestic Fourth Symphony was the last of his works he saw performed. Applause broke out at the end of every movement leaving the great man with tears streaming down his face.
Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A portrait of Jonathan Harvey, conducted by Antony Hermus with Hae-Sun Kang (violin). FREE admission
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STRAUSS 150TH ANNIVERSARY 2014 S
Thursday 30 January 2014 7.30pm
Philippe Jordan conductor Angela Denoke soprano WAGNER Overture, Tannhäuser STRAUSS Songs with orchestral accompaniment STRAUSS Don Juan STRAUSS ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ and ‘Closing Scene’, Salome There could be no better way to begin our celebration of the 150th anniversary of Strauss’ birth than with this captivating programme, announced by the composer who was his most potent influence: Richard
NICHOLAS COLLON Nicholas Collon’s appearance is supported by The Meyer Foundation Thursday 6 February 2014 7.30pm
Wagner. In his orchestral swashbuckler Don Juan, Strauss takes the listener on an exhilarating helter-skelter ride of orchestral machismo, surfing the unquenchable tide of the Don’s libidinous exploits. The programme concludes with music from the climax to his sumptuous and shocking one-act opera Salome, including the famous ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’. Vocal works sung in German with English surtitles 6pm, Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by Ziyu Shen, winner of the 2013 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.
This classic, all-British programme features two established masterpieces from the period immediately following the Second World War, and a modern gem from Thomas Adès. Subtitled ‘Concentric Paths’, it consists of three spellbinding movements – ‘Rings’, ‘Paths’ and ‘Rounds’ – that constantly grab the attention with their audacious creative surge and sense of spiralling towards the unknown.
Nicholas Collon conductor Pekka Kuusisto violin BRITTEN ‘Four Sea Interludes’, Peter Grimes ADÈS Violin Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 6
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6pm, Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by oboist Oliver Phillips, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717
ANDRIS NELSONS: BRAHMS CYCLE The Andris Nelsons Brahms Cycle is supported by The Meyer Foundation B
Thursday 20 February 2014 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 Tonight’s programme finds Brahms at his most radiantly inspired and upbeat. The ebullient Academic Festival Overture raises the curtain on one of the great violin concertos, which soars aloft with ecstatic brilliance. When working on his sublime Second Symphony, Brahms wrote contentedly to a friend: ‘The melodies flow so freely that one must be careful not to tread on them.’
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Sunday 23 February 2014 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin Hanna Weinmeister viola Tanja Tetzlaff cello Martin Helmchen piano Annette Dasch soprano James Rutherford baritone Philharmonia Chorus BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op.60, Werther BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem Andris Nelsons’s Brahms series climaxes in Ein deutsches Requiem, composed in memory of the composer’s mother and his most famous champion, Robert Schumann. In this epic masterwork he poured out his heart as never before, a profound emotional release from a young composer who had emerged from impoverished beginnings and now stood on the verge of international acclaim. A masterwork on a different scale opens the concert. The turbulent, forceful impulse that drives the Third Piano Quartet was revealed to be inspired by the desperation in Goethe’s Werther, hence its nickname.
6pm, Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by pianist Yoshio Hamano, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission Read, watch films, buy CDs and listen at www.philharmonia.co.uk
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STRAUSS 150TH ANNIVERSARY 2014 S
Thursday 27 February 2014 7.30pm
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Martin Helmchen piano
then opinion has been divided – might it be an ironic statement of musical bombast? – but few disagree that it is an extraordinary achievement, rich with flamboyance, colour and pictorial drama.
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben The 35 year old Richard Strauss caused a sensation with his tone poem ‘A Hero’s Life’ when it was premièred in 1898, shocking musicians and critics with what was assumed to be an egotistical display of musical autobiography. Since
Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A portrait of Karin Rehnqvist, conducted by Peter Tilling with Marie Axelsson and Johanna Bölja Hertzberg (voice). FREE admission
PABLO HERAS-CASADO M Sunday 9 March 2014 3.00pm (Please note start time)
SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES Pablo Heras-Casado conductor Nikolai Lugansky piano BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish
This afternoon’s concert offers a stunning reminder as to how quickly the musical world changed between Beethoven’s galvanising psychological dramas (as encapsulated in his Egmont Overture and Emperor Piano Concerto) and Mendelssohn’s fleetfooted Romanticism, which looks simultaneously back to Mozart and forward to Wagner, subtly shaded by the rhythms of Scottish folk music. This concert is supported by the Principal Friends of the Philharmonia Orchestra
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Thursday 20 March 2014 7.30pm
M S Sunday 23 March 2014 3.00pm (Please note start time)
Lorin Maazel conductor SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra STRAUSS Ein Alpensinfonie Our Strauss celebrations continue with two of his most celebrated orchestral blockbusters. Also sprach Zarathustra, Strauss’s ‘homage to Nietzsche’s genius’, became a runaway hit after film director Stanley Kubrick used it to open 2001: A Space Odyssey, while the Alpine Symphony recounts a mountaineering adventure in graphic detail for an orchestra of over 150 players. Part of the Southbank Centre’s Pull Out All The Stops Organ Series
6pm, Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by cellist Yuki Ito, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission
Lorin Maazel conductor Esther Yoo violin STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3, K216 MUSSORGSKY (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition This afternoon’s concert opens with one of Strauss’s most sparkling miniatures. Till Eulenspiegel depicts the ‘merry pranks’ of its eponymous hero, a German peasant who flirts, teases, pokes fun at the clergy and rides his horse through a marketplace. It is paired with Ravel’s equally pictorial orchestration of Mussorgsky’s musical walk through an art gallery, Pictures at an Exhibition. This concert is sponsored by BB Energy Trading Ltd
STRAUSS 150TH ANNIVERSARY 2014 A series of special concerts marking the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss led by conductors with a personal affinity for his music. The Philharmonia Orchestra has a particularly close historic relationship with the music of Strauss (who conducted the Orchestra in 1947); it performed the world première of the Four Last Songs in 1950 after the composer’s death.
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EDWARD GARDNER
Thursday 3 April 2014 7.30pm Edward Gardner conductor Ruxandra Donose mezzo-soprano WAGNER Overture, Rienzi BERLIOZ La mort de Cléopâtre ELGAR Symphony No. 1 A glorious programme charting the three main stages of Romanticism, from Berlioz through Wagner to the sunset glow of Elgar’s majestic First Symphony, a work so overwhelming that the première audience began applauding
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at the end of the slow movement, forcing Elgar to come on stage and take a bow before continuing. Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre will be sung in French with English surtitles
6pm, Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by pianist Dinara Klinton, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission
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BOHEMIAN LEGENDS A series of three concerts celebrating the musical legacy of Antonín Dvorák through his own music and the voices of the compatriot composers he particularly influenced, his son-in-law Josef Suk and Leoš Janácek. Jakub Hrůša is one of the most exciting and authentic interpreters of this colourful, vibrant and unique musical language.
The Bohemian Legends series is supported by The Meyer Foundation BL
Thursday 10 April 2014 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša conductor Arabella Steinbacher violin JANÁCEK Overture, Jealousy DVORÁK Violin Concerto in A minor SUK Praga JANÁCEK Sinfonietta The first concert in Jakub Hrůša’s Czech series opens with two rarely-performed works: Janácek’s breathtaking overture Jealousy, and Josef Suk’s symphonic poem Praga. Dvorák’s enchanting Violin Concerto is followed by Janácek’s best known work, the Sinfonietta, a dazzlingly inventive score dedicated to ‘the free Czech men and women of today’. 6pm, Pre-concert performance, Royal Festival Hall. Royal College of Music students perform Janácek’s Capriccio, introduced by Jakub Hrůša. FREE admission.
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Sunday 13 April 2014 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša conductor Lukáš Vondrácek piano Gun-Brit Barkmin soprano Monica Groop mezzo-soprano Peter Berger tenor Mischa Schelomianski bass Thomas Trotter organ Bristol Choral Society SUK Scherzo Fantastique DVORÁK Piano Concerto JANÁCEK Glagolitic Mass Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass is an exultant affirmation of the power of love and friendship. ‘In the tenor solo I hear a high priest,’ Janácek explained, ‘in the soprano solo a girlish angel and in the chorus our people.’ Each of the five main choral sections is preceded by a thrilling instrumental fanfare, culminating in a lustrous solo organ fantasia before the work’s uplifting final section Part of the Southbank Centre’s Pull Out All The Stops Organ Series
6pm, Pre-concert talk, Royal Festival Hall. Jakub Hrůša in conversation with Nigel Simeone. FREE admission Read, watch films, buy CDs and listen at www.philharmonia.co.uk
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DIE FLEDERMAUS
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SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES John Wilson conductor Simon Butteriss director and Dr Blind Toby Spence Gabriel von Eisenstein Rosalinde to be announced Alan Opie Frank Pamela Helen Stephen Prince Orlofsky Rebecca Bottone Adele Philharmonia Voices STRAUSS Die Fledermaus
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A very special afternoon of sparkling Viennese wit and music-making. Mistaken identity, infidelity and excessive champagne consumption abound in this brilliantly clever commentary on the glittering hedonism of late 19th century Vienna. John Wilson brings his trademark verve and panache to what is widely regarded as Johann Strauss’s finest score. Semi-staged performance in English translation with surtitles P Premium prices apply, see page 23 for details
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VLADIMIR DAVID ASHKENAZY AFKHAM Thursday 1 May 2014 7.30pm
Thursday 8 May 2014 7.30pm
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Lilli Paasikivi mezzo-soprano Nathan Berg bass-baritone Narrator to be announced Philharmonia Voices
David Afkham conductor Sergey Khachatryan violin LINDBERG Chorale BERG Violin Concerto SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, The Great
PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite PROKOFIEV Ivan the Terrible (Concert Oratorio with live film extracts) The collaborations between filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and composer Sergei Prokofiev are some of the most successful in film history. The director saw Prokofiev as a ‘man of the screen’ and applauded the composer’s ‘magnificence of lyricism’. In Ivan the Terrible, the tumultuous backdrop of the Tsar’s 40-year reign allows for a varied and colourful score, complete with marches, dances and lullabies, which is presented here alongside selected excerpts from the film. Sung in Russian with English surtitles
A fascinating programme featuring three highly distinctive works bound together by a common musical theme. In the case of Berg’s Violin Concerto and Lindberg’s Chorale it is a chorale melody employed by Bach, the first three notes of which also act as a musical motto for Schubert’s Great Symphony, whose ‘heavenly length’ (Schumann) grows entirely out of its distinctive rising shape.
Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A portrait Of Chris Paul Harman, conducted by Celso Antunes. FREE admission
The big laurel wreaths go to the fearless orchestra, sharp as a knife. The Times, May 2013
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BOHEMIAN LEGENDS The Bohemian Legends series is supported by The Meyer Foundation BL
Thursday 15 May 2014 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša conductor Truls Mørk cello DVORÁK Cello Concerto SUK Asrael Symphony The final Czech concert conducted by Jakub Hrůša pairs Dvorák’s eloquent Cello Concerto with his son-in-law Josef Suk’s heartfelt Asrael Symphony.
This is a rare opportunity to hear one of the large-scale masterpieces of the symphonic repertoire. This personal, eternal work was composed on learning of the loss of the two most important people in Suk’s life: his wife, Otilka, and his mentor, Dvorák. ‘Music saved me’, Suk said. 6pm, Pre-concert performance, Royal Festival Hall. Royal College of Music students perform Janácek’s Diary of One Who Disappeared, introduced by Jakub Hrůša. FREE admission.
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Tugan Sokhiev’s appearance is supported by The Meyer Foundation
Saturday 31 May 2014 7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov conductor Denis Kozhukhin piano
Thursday 22 May 2014 7.30pm TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World
Tugan Sokhiev conductor Nicholas Angelich piano FAURÉ Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande RAVEL Piano Concerto in G DEBUSSY La mer STRAVINSKY Suite, The Firebird (1919) Debussy’s principal aim in La mer was ‘to create a mysterious harmony between nature and the imagination’, to translate the play of light on the water and the sea’s place in the natural world into musical sound. Both Fauré and his pupil Ravel tended more towards meticulously fashioned soundscapes, while in The Firebird Stravinsky took the Russian Nationalist tradition to new levels of sensuality.
Written in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America, From the New World explodes with American folk-inspired rhythms and melodies. However, Dvorák does not completely shun the infectious folk music of his native Bohemia, the influence of which can be heard throughout the symphony.
Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall Composers Academy culmination concert featuring works by Samantha Fernando, Michael Cutting, and Matthew Kaner. Clark Rundell conducts. FREE admission
It was an heroic achievement, which at the end left us all speechless. The Daily Telegraph, May 2013
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STRAUSS 150TH ANNIVERSARY 2014 S
Thursday 5 June 2014 7.30pm
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Eva-Maria Westbroek soprano STRAUSS Four Last Songs BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9 We end our Strauss series fittingly with the composer’s last completed work – a work that was premièred in 1950 by the newly formed Philharmonia Orchestra in London. Few compositions come close to its autumnal peace, best shown in its final movement, ‘Im Abendrot’, which portrays an ageing couple
watching the setting sun, closing their eyes. Bruckner’s monumental Ninth Symphony stands alongside the other epoch-defining Ninth symphonies of Beethoven and Mahler. In the hands of perhaps the greatest interpreter of Bruckner’s music alive, this is an unmissable concert.
6pm, Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by saxophonist Amy Green, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission
PAAVO JÄRVI Thursday 12 June 2014 7.30pm Paavo Järvi conductor Kirill Gerstein piano GLINKA Overture, Ruslan and Ludmilla RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Paavo Järvi conducts an all-Russian programme including Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. It seems there was no escaping the censorious spotlight of Stalin’s cultural watchdog: Shostakovich had effectively been backed into a
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corner when he produced his allconquering Fifth Symphony as an ‘artist’s response to just criticism’. Even Rachmaninov, then living in America, wasn’t spared when in the 1930s he was declared ‘an enemy of Russia’ and his music outlawed.
6pm, Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by harpist Rosanna Rolston, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission
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ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Thursday 26 June 2014 7.30pm
Sunday 29 June 2014 7.30pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Olivier Latry organ Lisa Batiashvili violin
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Elisabeth Meister soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn soprano Lucy Crowe soprano Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Justina Gringyte mezzo-soprano Tenor to be announced Roland Wood baritone Peter Rose bass Chorus to be announced Tiffin Boys’ Choir
SAARIAHO Maan varjot (Earth’s Shadows) (UK première) SIBELIUS Violin Concerto SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the music of his homeland in this all-Finnish programme. Sibelius was initially obsessed with the idea of becoming a world-class violinist and even got as far as an audition with the Vienna Philharmonic. Had he succeeded, some of the greatest orchestral music of the 20th century may never have been written. The most immediate outcome was the glorious Violin Concerto, composed for the virtuoso which Sibelius never became. Opening the concert, the UK première of a work written for the Philharmonia and the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall organ by leading Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho. Part of the Southbank Centre’s Pull Out All The Stops Organ Series
MAHLER Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Mahler’s mighty Symphony of a Thousand to close the season. A hedonistic amalgam of the medieval Latin hymn Veni, creator spiritus (‘Come Thou, infinite Creator’) and the closing scene of Goethe’s Faust, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is scored for epic forces including eight vocal soloists, two choirs and a massive orchestra embracing six clarinets (2 in E flat), four trombones, offstage brass, two harps, mandolin and a vast array of percussion instruments. P Premium prices apply, see page 23 for details
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HOW TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS All of our concerts are eligible for substantial discounts if you book for more than 3 concerts in one transaction. Concerts that are premium priced but eligible for subscription discounts are marked on the booking form with the P symbol.
Royal Festival Hall Pricing Codes
The table below will help you to calculate the cost of your tickets by showing you the price per ticket in each seating area at each discount code. If you would like us to calculate the total cost, please leave payment totals blank and we will advise you
Signature seats
9-11 concerts 20% 12-14 concerts 25% 15+ concerts 30%
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
Standard Premium
£48 £60
£40.00 £45.00
£31.00 £36.00
£25.00 £29.00
£20.00 £24.00
£15.00 £18.00
£12.00 £15.00
£9.00 £11.00
Standard Premium
£48 £60
£36.00 £40.50
£27.90 £32.40
£22.50 £26.10
£18.00 £21.60
£13.50 £16.20
£10.80 £13.50
£8.10 £9.90
Standard Premium
£48 £60
£34.00 £38.25
£26.35 £30.60
£21.25 £24.65
£17.00 £20.40
£12.75 £15.30
£10.20 £12.75
£7.65 £9.35
Standard Premium
£48 £60
£32.00 £36.00
£24.80 £28.80
£20.00 £23.20
£16.00 £19.20
£12.00 £14.40
£9.60 £12.00
£7.20 £8.80
Standard Premium
£48 £60
£30.00 £33.75
£23.25 £27.00
£18.75 £21.75
£15.00 £18.00
£11.25 £13.50
£9.00 £11.25
£6.75 £8.25
Standard Premium
£48 £60
£28.00 £31.50
£21.70 £25.20
£17.50 £20.30
£14.00 £16.80
£10.50 £12.60
£8.40 £10.50
£6.30 £7.70
PHONE: Call the FREEPHONE Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office on 0800 652 6717 to book your tickets (Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm call back answerphone service out of hours). POST: Fill in the booking form and post to Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office, FREEPOST RRGTAHSU-GXRE, London, SE1 7NX ONLINE: www.philharmonia.co.uk (NB this facility is not available for group bookings) E-MAIL: boxoffice@philharmonia.co.uk FAX: Complete the booking form and fax it to 020 7921 3950 Tickets may also be purchased from Southbank Centre PHONE: 0844 847 9921 (9am-8pm daily) * ONLINE: www.southbankcentre.co.uk * FAX: 0871 663 2594 * IN PERSON: Ticket Office, Royal Festival Hall 10am–8pm daily * Transaction fees apply. No fee for Southbank Centre Members
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Transaction fees apply, phone and post £2.75, online £1.75 on all bookings through the Philharmonia box office
Price per ticket
No. of Concerts Full price (1-2 concerts) 3-5 concerts 10% 6-8 concerts 15%
P1
when we send your tickets. Subscription ticket prices (for seating plan see page 23)
GROUP BOOKINGS Book 10 or more tickets for any concert and qualify for the Philharmonia Orchestra Group rate: 25% discount. Other benefits include 1 free ticket for every 20 purchased, flexible reservations and exclusive ticket offers. School parties: 50% discount and 1 free teacher’s ticket for every 10 purchased. FAMILY TICKETS – SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR CHILDREN Each adult attending a concert can purchase up to 2 tickets for under-16s at half-price. Philharmonia Orchestra concerts are usually suitable for children aged 7 upwards. Children under 6 may not be admitted at the discretion of the orchestra and hall management. Please contact us to discuss your requirements if you need additional guidance. CONCESSIONS A limited allocation of half-price tickets is available for recipients of Jobseekers Allowance, Income Support, Pension Credit, Under-16s and full-time students. Appropriate cards to be shown. Please note that discounts / concessions cannot be combined.
PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES Southbank Centre is accessible to people with disabilities. Visitors with a disability should join Southbank Centre’s free Access List. You may be eligible for tickets at concessionary prices; a free ticket for a companion who can assist you during your visit; and receive information in alternative formats. To join please call 0844 847 9910, email accesslist@ southbankcentre.co.uk or visit www. southbankcentre.co.uk / access The auditorium is fitted with Sennheiser infra-red systems. Receivers can be collected from cloakroom in Royal Festival Hall. LEVEL ACCESS There is level access throughout Royal Festival Hall from the internal lifts (some of the lifts have a limited weight capacity; please call 0844 847 9910 to confirm), and there are wheelchair spaces in the boxes, choir seats, side and rear stalls of the auditorium. Tickets for wheelchair spaces can be booked online or by phone on 0800 652 6717 or 0844 847 9910. This brochure is available in alternative formats Call 0800 652 6717
Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717
BOOKING FORM Cut out and post this booking form to: Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office, FREEPOST RRGT-AHSU-GXRE, London, SE1 7NX Or scan and email to: boxoffice@philharmonia.co.uk Or fax to: 020 7921 3950 P
=Premium prices apply
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1. Select the concerts you wish to attend 2. Select where you would like to sit in the concert hall from the plan overleaf (NB you do not have to sit in the same area for all of your concerts – please indicate your requirements on the booking form) Please note that choir seats are not available for the concerts marked ‘Choir n /a’ 3. If you require additional tickets for Preferred Pricing & Area Code 1st choice FS / P1
2nd choice RS / P1
any concerts please indicate the number you require in the ‘additional tickets’ box If you would like help completing your booking form, please call us on FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717. If you would prefer us to calculate the total costs of your tickets, please feel free to leave the payment totals blank: we will advise you of the costs when we send your tickets. No of subscription tickets
No of additional tickets (charged at full price)
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26 Sep 2013 Salonen et al (Choir n/a) 29 Sep 2013 Salonen / Anderszewski 10 Oct 2013 Nelsons / Grimaud 13 Oct 2013 Nelsons / Tetzlaff 17 Oct 2013 Ashkenazy / Kopatchinskaja 20 Oct 2013 Ashkenazy / Ott 24 Oct 2013 Valcuha / Kim 31 Oct 2013 Temirkanov / Frang 14 Nov 2013 Dudamel 30 Nov 2013 Davis/Napoléon (Choir n/a) P 12 Dec 2013 Sokhiev / Mullova / Kalagina 23 Jan 2014 Nelsons / Grimaud 30 Jan 2014 Jordan / Denoke 6 Feb 2014 Collon / Kuusisto 20 Feb 2014 Nelsons / Tetzlaff 23 Feb 2014 Nelsons et al (Choir n/a) 27 Feb 2014 Dohnányi / Helmchen 9 Mar 2014 Heras-Casado / Lugansky 20 Mar 2014 Maazel 23 Mar 2014 Maazel / Yoo 3 Apr 2014 Gardner / Donose 10 Apr 2014 Hrůša / Steinbacher 13 Apr 2014 Hrůša et al (Choir n/a) 27 Apr 2014 Wilson (Choir n/a) P 1 May 2014 Ashkenazy et al (Choir n/a) 8 May 2014 Afkham / Khachatryan 15 May 2014 Hrůša / Mørk 22 May 2014 Sokhiev / Angelich 31 May 2014 Temirkanov / Kozhukhin 5 Jun 2014 Dohnányi / Westbroek 12 Jun 2014 Järvi / Gerstein 26 Jun 2014 Salonen / Batiashvili / Latry 29 Jun 2014 Salonen et al (Choir n/a) P Sub-total: cost of subscription tickets Add together the discounted prices of your tickets – see p.16 for details Sub-total: cost of additional tickets Add a £2.75 fee per transaction Total
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BOOKING INFORMATION / TICKET PRICES ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
Balcony
P7 P6 P5 P4 P2
Rear Stalls P7 P6 P4 P3 P2
P7 P6 P5 P4 P3 P2 P1
P2 Side Stalls
Side Stalls
Front Stalls P6
P5
P1 P2 P3
P2 Boxes P7
P2
P4
P4
Boxes
P6
Performance Area P2
P1
P1 Choir P7
P2
SINGLE TICKET PRICES Transaction fees apply, phone and post £2.75, online £1.75 on all bookings through the Philharmonia box office Prices codes
Signature seats *
P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
Standard priced concert
£48
£40
£31
£25
£20
£15
£12
£9
P Premium priced concert
£60
£45
£36
£29
£24
£18
£15
£11
Front Stalls (FS) Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Boxes (BX) Side Stalls (SS)
Front Stalls (FS) Rear Stalls (RS)
Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Side Stalls (SS) Wheelchair (WH)
Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Wheelchair (WH)
Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Side Stalls (SS) Wheelchair (WH)
Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Side Stalls (SS) Choir (CH) Wheelchair (WH)
Location (Royal Selected Front Stalls (FS) Festival Hall) Front Rear Stalls Stalls (RS) Boxes (BX)
PREMIUM CONCERTS P All of our concerts are eligible for substantial discounts if you book for more than 3 concerts in one transaction. Concerts that are premium priced but eligible for subscription discounts are marked on the booking form with the P symbol. * SIGNATURE SEATS We have selected the front stalls seats in the auditorium with the best acoustic and view (concerts with a piano soloist will have keyboard side premium seats) and will sell these on a first come first served basis at £48 each and £60 for concerts where premium pricing applies. Subscription discounts do not apply although these events can be included in the total number of concerts when applying the subscription discount. Please call FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717 for more information.
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE: Great discounts if you book for 3 or more concerts! Book for 3 or more concerts and receive the following discounts on your tickets: 3-5 concerts 10% discount 6-8 concerts 15% discount 9-11 concerts 20% discount 12-14 concerts 25% discount 15 + concerts 30% discount For discounted ticket prices see page 16 Philharmonia Orchestra subscribers also receive other special benefits, including: - Free ticket exchange scheme (up to 2 working days before concert) - Flexible payment: spread the costs of your tickets over 3 months
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SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS The Philharmonia Orchestra is grateful to its sponsors and supporters who make possible the quality and diversity of its work. The Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2013 / 14 Royal Festival Hall season would not be possible without the particular support of Mr Vincent Meyer and The Meyer Foundation. The Philharmonia Orchestra would also like to thank the following major donors and Trusts and Foundations: ÝDjÛ9Y`YÛYf\ÛDjkÛ>YZja]ddYÛ9YkkYlf] ÝDjkÛAgk[]dqfÛ=gp ÝD]j[]\]kÛYf\ÛDa[`Y]dÛ?g^^eYf ÝJajÛJq\f]qÛ¬ÛCY\qÛCahogjl` ÝK`]ÛQnaÛ¬ÛF^jYÛD]alYjÛ=YeadqÛ=mf\ ÝDjÛ¬ÛDjkÛ>ÛDg\aYfg Ý;jÛ;Yna\ÛGgll]jÛ:9< ÝDjÛ>]g^^ÛIa[`Yj\k ÝK`]Û<\al`ÛDmjh`qÛ=gmf\YlagfÛ Ý;mfYj\Û=mf\ Ý<jYf\YÛ=gmf\Ylagf Ý<ke#]Û=YajZYajfÛ=gmf\Ylagf ÝK`]Û<eZYkkqÛg^Û=afdYf\ ÝK`]Û8eYjqddakÛ=d]eaf_Û=gmf\Ylagf ÝIgZ]jlÛ=d]eaf_Û?YffYqÛ Memorial Charity
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SUPPORT US The income that the Philharmonia Orchestra receives through our public funding and sales at the Box Office covers only 60% of our annual expenditure. This means that, even with consistently soldout concert halls, our artistic ambitions can only be realised with contributions from generous individuals, corporate support and Trusts and Foundations. There are many different ways you can support the Philharmonia. You may wish to make a personal contribution to support our work by becoming a Friend or a member of our Conductors’ Circle, entitling you to a number of benefits that grant you exclusive access to the Orchestra and its players. Your company may also benefit from a relationship with the Orchestra as part of our Members’ Club or as a Corporate Partner, taking advantage of a range of bespoke corporate entertaining and marketing opportunities that we can offer. For more information on how you can support the Philharmonia: Tel 020 7921 3903 Email development@philharmonia.co.uk Web philharmonia.co.uk/support
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WELCOME TO SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Southbank Centre is located on the Thames riverside between Golden Jubilee and Waterloo Bridges. Getting to Southbank Centre Southbank Centre. Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX By underground: To Waterloo or cross the river from Temple, Embankment or Charing Cross By rail: To Waterloo or Waterloo East or cross the river from Charing Cross By bus: To Waterloo: 1, RV1, 4, 26, 59, 68, X68, 76, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 521 stop on Waterloo Bridge; 77, 211, 381, 507 stop in York Rd and Stamford St. 24-hour bus information 020 7222 1234 Southbank Centre has 2 car parks, both open 24 hours: Southbank Centre Car Park – Hayward Gallery Southbank Centre Car Park – Hungerford Bridge Evening discounted rates apply after 5pm. southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info/parking Access Southbank Centre is accessible to people with disabilities. Access line 0844 847 9910 www.southbankcentre.co.uk / access
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Never has the Royal Festival Hall sounded so radiant, so theatrical The Guardian, February 2012
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