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Thursday 25 October 2018, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
BRIAN TYLER RETURNS: LIVE IN CONCERT Brian Tyler conductor/composer
Music from The Mummy, Power Rangers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Dark World, The Fast and the Furious and many more Hollywood film conductor / composer Brian Tyler returns to Royal Festival Hall for an exhilarating evening of his dramatic scores to some of the biggest blockbuster movies of the last decade.
Thursday 13 December 2018, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
CHRISTMAS WITH KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR
Stephen Cleobury conductor Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Enjoy an evening of festive classics performed by the famous voices of the chapel choristers, as well as carols for all.
Thursday 14 February 2019, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
VALENTINE’S DAY GALA Christian Schumann conductor Anna Fedorova piano
VERDI La traviata, Prelude to Act I RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Fantasy Overture, Romeo and Juliet DEBUSSY Clair de lune BIZET Carmen, Suite (excerpts) MASCAGNI ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria rusticana Enjoy an evening of romance with some of the most ardent, passionate music ever written.
Sunday 16 December 2018, 3pm Royal Festival Hall
CHRISTMAS AT THE MOVIES Pete Harrison conductor Music from Home Alone, The Polar Express, Love Actually, Harry Potter, It’s a Wonderful Life, Elf, White Christmas, The Snowman and more. Join us for a magical afternoon of Christmas treats at this concert of great music from your favourite festive films. Christmas concerts presented in partnership with Raymond Gubbay Ltd.
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HANS ZENDER Cabaret Voltaire (UK premiere) PHILIPPE MANOURY Blackout (UK premiere)
Thursday 7 February 2019, 9.30pm The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall
SONIC ART WITH DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY
Following the UK premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Multiversum in Royal Festival Hall, experience a sonic installation inspired by Eötvös’s composition and the Clore Ballroom space. (FREE, no ticket required)
Hear two contemporary works for vocalist and ensemble with connections to Schoenberg’s masterpiece, Erwartung (performed at 7.30pm). (FREE, ticket required)
Friday 5 April 2019, 6pm Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 15 November 2018, 6pm Purcell Room
Jonathan Stockhammer conductor Wu Wei sheng
Tonino Battista conductor Amy Dickson saxophone
JUKKA TIENSUU Hehkuu (UK premiere) GUOPING JIA The Wind Sounds in the Sky ONDŘEJ ADÁMEK New work for sheng and ensemble (UK premiere)
FRANCO DONATONI COMPOSER PORTRAIT
FRANCO DONATONI Refrain; Refrain II (UK premiere); Hot, for saxophone and ensemble Discover a contemporary of Italian modernist Luciano Berio, who built on the innovations of John Cage in the 70s and 80s. (FREE, ticket required) Sunday 20 January 2019, 6pm Purcell Room
THE NEXT GENERATION
WU WEI ARTIST PORTRAIT
An ancient Chinese musical instrument is put in new musical contexts in this fascinating programme. £14, £8 Sunday 2 June 2019, 6pm Royal Festival Hall
COMPOSERS’ ACADEMY
Dalia Stasevska conductor Claire Chase flute
Hear world premieres by three emerging composers in the culminating concert of our year-long Composers’ Academy. (FREE, no ticket required)
DAI FUJIKURA Flute Concerto (UK premiere) ANDREW NORMAN Try
Thursday 13 June 2019, 6pm Royal Festival Hall
Gripping music by two composers who are fast becoming the leading lights of their generation. (FREE, ticket required)
Titus Engel conductor
NEW MUSIC FOR OLD MOVIES
Watch two silent-era films, Ghosts Before Breakfast and Entr’acte, accompanied by scores from Czech composer Martin Smolka. (FREE, no ticket required)
WELCOME ...to the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2018/19 London Season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, led by our Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Bringing together brilliant artists with some of the greatest music ever written, there is something for everyone to be thrilled, inspired or challenged by in over 40 concerts, free performances and talks. Come and see us live in the heart of London.
DECEMBER 2018 Thursday 6 December, 7.30pm
SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI CONDUCTS STRAUSS Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor Sophie Bevan soprano
SUBSCRIPTION SEASON The best way to sample our season is to subscribe and save, with up to 30% off ticket prices when you book more than two concerts. Get your tickets quickly and easily at philharmonia.co.uk, or see overleaf for full booking details and prices.
MENDELSSOHN Overture, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 ELGAR Enigma Variations
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 R STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
Vladimir Ashkenazy returns, conducting Elgar’s witty and passionate Enigma Variations alongside Mendelssohn and Mozart.
Meet the composer-as-hero Richard Strauss, paired here with Brahms’s majestic First Piano Concerto.
JANUARY 2019
WEBER Overture, Oberon BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
SEPTEMBER 2018
Experience two undisputed masterpieces conducted by Lahav Shani, one of today’s most exciting young artists.
Thursday 27 September, 7.30pm
ENGLISH FANTASIA
Martyn Brabbins conductor Laurent Ben Slimane bass clarinet ELGAR Introduction and Allegro GEOFFREY GORDON Prometheus, Concerto for Bass Clarinet & Orchestra (London premiere) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis BRITTEN The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Thursday 15 November, 7.30pm
JOHN WILSON: GERSHWIN & WALTON
6pm, Purcell Room Music of Today (see overleaf for details)
WAGNER ‘Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March’ from Götterdämmerung SCHOENBERG Erwartung BRUCKNER Symphony No. 6
John Wilson conductor Louis Schwizgebel piano
Thursday 24 January, 7.30pm
Glorious melodies and vivid orchestral colours emerge from dark timpani strokes to open our season.
John Wilson conducts the Philharmonia in a jazz-infused transatlantic journey.
6pm, Purcell Room Music of Today (see overleaf for details)
6pm, Purcell Room Music of Today (see overleaf for details) Thursday 22 November, 7.30pm
Sunday 30 September, 7.30pm
JAKUB HRU �ŠA: DVO�R ÁK & SHOSTAKOVICH
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN: BRUCKNER, WAGNER & SCHOENBERG PART II
Jakub Hrůša conductor Simon Trpčeski piano
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor WAGNER ‘Prelude and Liebestod’ from Tristan and Isolde SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7
KABELÁČ The Mystery of Time SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 2 DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
In the second of the Philharmonia’s season-opening concerts, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Wagner, Schoenberg and Bruckner at their most heartfelt. 6pm, Royal Festival Hall Insights Talk (FREE, no ticket required)
Principal Guest Conductor Jakub Hr�uša conducts music by two of his countrymen, alongside Shostakovich’s youthful, popular Second Piano Concerto. 6pm, Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia MMSF Young Artist Showcase (FREE, no ticket required)
OCTOBER 2018 Sunday 28 October, 3pm
Thursday 29 November, 7.30pm
RAFAEL PAYARE: SIBELIUS & TCHAIKOVSKY
LONG YU CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY Long Yu conductor Jian Wang cello
Rafael Payare conductor Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
GLAZUNOV ‘Autumn’ from The Seasons TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme; Symphony No. 5
BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 Romantic classics conducted by the charismatic Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare.
Tchaikovsky’s grandest symphony closes an evening of Romantic Russian works with conductor Long Yu.
NEW MUSIC, NEW IDEAS
HERREWEGHE CONDUCTS MOZART & BACH
Thursday 4 April, 7.30pm
SHOSTAKOVICH: LENINGRAD SYMPHONY
Philippe Herreweghe conductor Bertrand Chamayou piano
Yuri Temirkanov conductor Denis Matsuev piano
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488; Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7, Leningrad
Hear the sound of a 21st-century orchestra transformed by conductor Philippe Herreweghe, a leading light in the authentic interpretation of Baroque and Classical music.
Yuri Temirkanov brings a personal connection to the Leningrad Symphony, dedicated to the city whose orchestra he has led for over 30 years. Friday 5 April, 6pm Queen Elizabeth Hall
MUSIC OF TODAY: WU WEI ARTIST PORTRAIT
ARTISTS TO WATCH
Jonathan Stockhammer conductor Wu Wei sheng
Led by the Philharmonia’s two electrifying Principal Guest Conductors, Jakub Hrůša and Santtu-Matias Rouvali, this season we present artists – such as violinists Pekka Kuusisto (30 May) and Nicola Benedetti (2 Jun), and pianist Alice Sara Ott (24 Jan) – who are shaping the future of classical music with their distinctive musicianship, fresh ideas and boundary-pushing collaborations.
SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI: SIBELIUS & RAVEL
Sunday 3 February, 7.30pm
RADU LUPU PERFORMS BEETHOVEN Paavo Järvi conductor Radu Lupu piano BEETHOVEN Overture, Coriolan; Piano Concerto No. 4 RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 Radu Lupu makes a rare London appearance in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, before Rachmaninov’s ever-popular Symphony No. 2. Thursday 7 February, 7.30pm
BARTÓK, STRAVINSKY & EÖTVÖS Peter Eötvös conductor Iveta Apkalna organ Lászlό Fassang Hammond organ SCHOENBERG Accompaniment to a Film Scene BARTÓK Dance Suite STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements ¨ OS ¨ Multiversum (UK premiere) PETER EOTV Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös conducts the UK premiere of his spectacular new work Multiversum, alongside rhythmically charged music by three giants of the 20th century. PLEASE NOTE: this concert has a separate pricing structure. See overleaf for details. 6pm, Royal Festival Hall Insights Talk (FREE, no ticket required) 9.30pm, The Clore Ballroom Music of Today (see overleaf for details)
SIBELIUS The Oceanides ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Cello Concerto BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his own Cello Concerto alongside Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, rich in influences from Bach fugues to Hungarian folk dances. 6pm, The Clore Ballroom Insights Talk (FREE, no ticket required) Thursday 28 February, 7.30pm
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN: FRENCH & ITALIAN MASTERPIECES Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Marianne Crebassa soprano DEBUSSY Ibéria from Images BERIO Folk Songs DONATONI Esa (In cauda V) RAVEL Shéhérazade RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome
Finnish artists Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Pekka Kuusisto bring their energy and invention to a programme infused with rhythmic vigour. 9.45pm, The Clore Ballroom Insights Talk (FREE, no ticket required)
JUNE 2019 Sunday 2 June, 7.30pm
TCHAIKOVSKY & BRUCH
An opportunity to hear Nicola Benedetti’s interpretation of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, and Tchaikovsky’s favourite symphony.
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique Herbert Blomstedt brings his irrepressible enthusiasm, undimmed by over 60 years on the podium, to two vividly-painted masterworks. 6pm, Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia MMSF Young Artist Showcase (FREE, no ticket required) Sunday 14 April, 7.30pm
In Herbert Blomstedt's second concert, hear his take on two definitive symphonies.
FEBRUARY 2019
JOHN ADAMS The Chairman Dances STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 version)
Herbert Blomstedt conductor
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT: BERLIOZ & BEETHOVEN
Ravel’s jazz-inspired piano concerto is framed by two waltzes with dark undercurrents, ahead of Sibelius’s First Symphony.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Truls Mørk cello
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor Pekka Kuusisto violin
MENDELSSOHN Overture, The Hebrides BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
MOZART Symphony No. 40 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica
SALONEN & BARTÓK CONCERTOS
SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI CONDUCTS STRAVINSKY
Thursday 11 April, 7.30pm
Herbert Blomstedt conductor
Sunday 24 February, 7.30pm
Thursday 30 May, 7.30pm
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor Nicola Benedetti violin
RAVEL La valse; Piano Concerto in G SIBELIUS Valse triste; Symphony No. 1
6pm, The Clore Ballroom Insights Talk (FREE, no ticket required)
Immerse yourself in a programme of three great works of German Romanticism, conducted by Jakub Hr�uša.
See overleaf for details.
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT: BEETHOVEN & MOZART
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor Alice Sara Ott piano
JAKUB HRU �ŠA: SCHUBERT & BRAHMS
6pm, Royal Festival Hall Music of Today, Composers’ Academy (see overleaf for details)
Sunday 9 June, 7.30pm
WEIMAR BERLIN: CABARET Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Audra McDonald soprano Repertoire to include songs by Kurt Weill, Hans Eisler and Ernst Krenek, and Hindemith's Hin und zurück In its satire, kitsch, sensuality, eroticism, freedom and excess, Berlin’s underground cabaret scene was the embodiment of Weimar culture. 6pm, Royal Festival Hall Insights Talk (FREE, no ticket required)
Sunday 28 April, 7.30pm
ASHKENAZY: SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO. 10 Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Esther Yoo violin GLINKA Overture, Ruslan and Ludmila GLAZUNOV Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts an all-Russian programme culminating in Shostakovich’s deeply personal Tenth Symphony.
MAY 2019
Thursday 13 June, 7.30pm
WEIMAR BERLIN: METROPOLIS LIVE SCREENING Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor HUPPERTZ arr. STROBEL Metropolis Composer Gottfried Huppertz and film director Fritz Lang were frequent partners in German cinema of the Weimar period. Their most famous collaboration was on Metropolis (1927), Lang’s epic masterpiece of expressionist science-fiction storytelling.
PAAVO JÄRVI & VIKTORIA MULLOVA
FILMPHILHARMONIC EDITION, Film by courtesy of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Music by courtesy of EUROPEAN FILMPHILHARMONIC INSTITUTE, Produced by ZDF/ARTE
Paavo Järvi conductor Viktoria Mullova violin
6pm, Royal Festival Hall Music of Today (see overleaf for details)
Saturday 11 May, 7.30pm
BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont SIBELIUS Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique A live performance of Tchaikovsky’s final symphony is among the richest emotional experiences in classical music.
Personal connections and striking musical paintings mark an evocative programme conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
MARCH 2019 Sunday 24 March, 3pm
WEIMAR BERLIN: BITTERSWEET METROPOLIS
SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 9 Douglas Boyd conductor Jonathan Biss piano MOZART Overture, The Marriage of Figaro; Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453 SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, Great Enjoy an afternoon of Viennese genius: Schubert’s mighty Ninth Symphony alongside two sparkling works by Mozart.
For a fleeting moment, during the Weimar Republic (1919-33), the arts and sciences in Germany erupted in a feverish explosion of invention and creativity. In this colourful series (opening 9 Jun), Esa-Pekka Salonen celebrates a place and a time when the human imagination flourished in impossible ways that still delight, fascinate and influence us today.
Image © Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
Esa-Pekka Salonen © Benjamin Suomela
Several major premieres (on the Royal Festival Hall stage and as part of Music of Today, see overleaf) and a performance of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto (24 Feb) shine a light on the inventive, engaging music being composed for orchestra in the 21st century. Peter Eötvös’s Multiversum (7 Feb) explores the nature of the universe and Geoffrey Gordon’s new concerto (20 Jan) showcases the Philharmonia’s Principal Bass Clarinet, Laurent Ben Slimane.
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, Unfinished MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
Three classic English works frame a new concerto for bass clarinet inspired by Greek legend.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Camilla Nylund soprano
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT Celebration GERSHWIN Piano Concerto WALTON Symphony No. 1
BRAHMS Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Alice Sara Ott © Jonas Becker
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN: BRUCKNER, WAGNER & SCHOENBERG PART I
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta GRIEG Piano Concerto DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances, Op. 72
APRIL 2019
Thursday 1 November, 7.30pm
Lahav Shani conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano
Jakub Hrůša conductor Karen Gomyo violin
Thursday 21 February, 7.30pm
Sunday 20 January, 3pm
All concerts are in Royal Festival Hall, unless otherwise stated.
Xian Zhang conductor Alina Pogostkina violin
Principal Guest Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali brings his “imaginative, often spectacular musicality” (Los Angeles Times) to three Richard Strauss masterpieces.
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Piotr Anderszewski piano
LAHAV SHANI: BRAHMS & BEETHOVEN
Jakub Hrůša conductor Denis Kozhukhin piano
R STRAUSS Suite, Der Rosenkavalier; Four Last Songs; An Alpine Symphony
NOVEMBER 2018
Sunday 4 November, 3pm
Thursday 16 May, 7.30pm
SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 5
Rising-star conductor Xian Zhang leads a performance of Shostakovich’s towering Fifth Symphony, alongside Brahms’s radiant Violin Concerto.
ASHKENAZY: ELGAR’S ENIGMA VARIATIONS
Edward Gardner conductor Leif Ove Andsnes piano
Sunday 31 March, 7.30pm
JAKUB HRU �ŠA: DVO�R ÁK & GRIEG
Jakub Hr�uša conducts the second set of Dvoˇràk’s Slavonic Dances in a programme centred on music of rhythm and dance from Central Europe.
Sunday 9 December, 3pm
EDWARD GARDNER: BRAHMS & STRAUSS
Sunday 17 February, 7.30pm