Conductor Michael Sanderling has headed Dresden’s venerable 145 year old Philharmonic since 2011 and has a unique rapport with the orchestra. They return to Cadogan Hall to perform Beethoven’s first and last completed symphonies.
It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realised that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven’s First Symphony came at age 29. It appeared late in what scholars define as the first period of Beethoven’s career, just a year or two before the crisis brought about by his gradual loss of hearing.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was completed in 1824, when he was almost completely deaf and it is almost universally considered one of Beethoven’s greatest works, and many consider it one of the greatest compositions in the western musical canon.
The first of three concerts of the complete Prokofiev symphonies, alongside the Violin Concertos, with soloist Kristóf Baráti, and Sinfonia Concertante, with cellist Alexander Ramm. This concert...
Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra continue their complete cycle of Prokofiev symphonies with the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, as well as Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Kristóf Baráti.
Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra end their complete cycle of Prokofiev symphonies with the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, and the Sinfonia Concertante, with cellist Alexander Ramm making his...
Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Pastoral, and Respighi's dazzling display of orchestral colour, the Pines of Rome, frame two works by the gifted young French composer Guillaume Connesson, including...
The brilliant guitarist Craig Ogden joins the orchestra for Rodrigo's beautiful Concierto de Aranjuez, framed by works by Giménez and Falla. Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony completes the programme...
A programme of Russian masterpieces including Tchaikovsky's romantic Piano Concerto No. 1 and passionate Symphony No. 6, the 'Pathétique'. Borodin's thrilling Polovtsian Dances open the programme...
Libor Pešek conducts two of Dvořák's best-loved works - the Cello Concerto performed by Natalie Clein, and the sunny Eighth Symphony - preceded by one of Smetana's evocative symphonic poems from...
Two hugely talented soloists - trumpeter Alison Balsom and pianist Gabriela Montero - join this superb ensemble to perform concertos by Hummel, Mozart and Shostakovich. Mozart's Symphony No. 33 kicks...
Edward Gardner conducts a compelling programme of Elgar’s deeply-felt Cello Concerto and Bartók's virtuosic showpiece, Concerto for Orchestra. The concert opens with music by Grieg.
Yutaka Sado conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the acclaimed pianist Angela Hewitt, and Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, From the New World. Mozart's high-spirited Overture to The Marriage of...
Chief Conductor Yutaka Sado conducts Mendelssohn's much-loved Violin Concerto and one of Sibelius' most popular symphonies, the Second, with its heroic outer movements. Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
Schubert's unfinished masterpiece, Symphony No. 8, and Brahms' Symphony No. 1 with its heroic finale, frame Mozart's beautiful Clarinet Concerto, one of the last works he composed.
Leif Ove Andsnes, acclaimed worldwide for his performances, plays/directs two Mozart piano concertos. Orchestral works by Prokofiev and Grieg open and close the programme.
Yuri Simonov conducts an all-Russian programme: excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Rachmaninov's much-loved Piano Concerto No. 2, with soloist Freddy Kempf, and Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony in...
