The City of London Choir and the RPO return to the stage in the second of a series of concerts featuring two of the great composers, Mozart and Haydn.
The ever-adored and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 21, performed by the exceptional Leon McCawley, opens the evening with a journey from liveliness to suffering, eventually ending in release. This sublime, muted work is strongly associated with the 1967 film Elvira Madigan.
In Haydn’s well-known Paukenmesse, or Mass in Time of War, the insistent and foreboding timpani reflect the troubled time of war in Austria, and underscore an otherwise spirited and sacred choral score.
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Guest trumpet superstar Allen Vizzutti joins the RPO’s exceptional brass and percussion sections for a dazzling programme featuring a variety of works.
One of the most popular works ever written, Grieg's Piano Concerto, performed by the exhilarating pianist Alessandro Taverna, and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony, preceded by Weber's Oberon Overture.
The City of London Choir joins the RPO in a concert celebrating the geniuses of Haydn and Mozart, including Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Mozart's Regina coeli and Piano Concerto No. 23.
Inspired by the cities of Paris and New York, masterpieces by Gershwin, Bernstein, Stravinsky and Prokofiev (his fiendishly difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Boris Giltburg).
Schubert's 'Unfinished' and Dvořák's impassioned Seventh symphonies frame Tchaikovsky's Mozart-influenced Variations on a Rococo Theme, with cello soloist Laura van der Heijden.
Start the festivities with The Magic of Christmas concert. Conducted by Debbie Wiseman, one of the UK’s finest female musical ambassadors, this concert features traditional Christmas numbers,...
Back by popular demand and featuring two brand new vocalists – it’s the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Christmas Cracker show! The Orchestra is delighted to be joined by West End and television...
A fantastic Valentine’s Day concert celebrating the music of Oscar-winning popular composer and performer Burt Bacharach: a towering figure in songwriting whose career is a roll call of the...
This wonderful work is dark, melancholic and brimming with drama.
RPO Preludes, new to the RPO's season, is a series of chamber concerts, curated and performed by leading musicians from the Royal...
Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with soloist Natasha Paremski, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, conducted by Alan Buribayev. Wagner's Overture to The Flying Dutchman opens the concert.
With an impressive violin cadenza in the final movement, this magnificent work epitomises the 18th-century Classical serenade and divertimento tradition.
RPO Preludes, new to the RPO's season, is...
Eduardo Portal conducts a programme including Sibelius' Violin Concerto, performed by Matthew Trusler, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Barber's Adagio for Strings and Glinka's lively Overture to...
The beautiful combination of flute and harp in a variety of works from the early 20th century.
RPO Preludes, new to the RPO’s season, is a series of chamber concerts, curated and performed by...
Brimming with humour and wit, this concert brings together pieces such as Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges Suite and First Violin Concerto (with soloist Alexandra Soumm), Bernstein’s...
To celebrate 70 years of music-making, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is holding an exhibition exploring different aspects of the Orchestra’s history. This will also offer the opportunity to meet...
An exciting spring concert featuring the jazz-infused Suite from Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Ravel's Piano Concerto and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with soloist Peter Jablonski, plus works by...
One of Tchaikovsky’s most well-known chamber works, this string sextet was given its title as Tchaikovsky sketched the work’s main theme whilst visiting Florence in Italy.
RPO Preludes, new to...
A symphonic tribute to Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews and Doris Day with special guest vocalist Louise Dearman. Featuring songs and orchestral numbers such as Don't Rain...
Groundbreaking percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a programme of works by Fauré, Michael Daugherty and Sibelius.
Vaughan Williams’ lush, expansive Tallis Fantasia and lyrical melodies of Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto are followed by Beethoven's grand and majestic Eroica Symphony.
Three works by Tchaikovsky portraying different elements of his style are framed by Elgar's charming Serenade for Strings and Dvořák's cheerful Eighth Symphony.
A programme of chamber works by Ravel, Dvořák, Mendelssohn and Malcolm Forsyth with Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth and principal players from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
