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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 9 February 2012
The Philharmonia performs the central work in the trilogy of Shostakovich's 'War Symphonies', conducted by exciting young conductor Tugan Sokhiev.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 16 February 2012
Brahms's German Requiem is achingly beautiful, dwelling on the hope of the resurrection as well as consoling those who remain on earth.
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Violinist Joshua Bell and tenor Jeremy Ovenden perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 28 February 2012
The ever popular British pianist Peter Donohoe first shot to fame in 1982 when he was a prizewinner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and is noted for his performances of Liszt.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 1 March 2012
An evening of high drama, with Schoenberg's Piano Concerto performed by Mitsuko Uchida and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Beethoven's revolutionary Eroica Symphony.
Royal Festival Hall
Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra
Sunday 4 March 2012
The Budapest Festival Orchestra, celebrated for its spontaneity and fiery intensity, returns with a colourful programme catered to the prowess of this extraordinarily individual orchestra.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 8 March 2012
The West-Eastern Divan was set up by the revered pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim in 1999 to bring together musicians from Israel and Palestine, and has since received worldwide attention for both its unifying spirit and brilliant music making.
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Colin Currie premieres the new Percussion Concerto composed for him by Kalevi Aho.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 1 May 2012
In her early 20s, Yuja Wang is internationally admired for 'a practically superhuman keyboard technique with an artistic eloquence that is second to none' (San Francisco Chronicle) and 'playing that possesses urgency, personality, imagination and colour' (International Piano).
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 3 May 2012
Brahms took 21 years to complete his First Symphony.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Borletti-Buitoni Trust Concert
Friday 4 May 2012
Four of the best artists of the new generation already enjoying major international careers are brought together by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust for a richly varied and virtuosic chamber programme.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 15 May 2012
The German pianist Lars Vogt has been described by Sir Simon Rattle as 'one of the most extraordinary musicians of any age group that I have had the fortune to be associated with'.
Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 22 May 2012
This legendary Russian virtuoso makes a rare London appearance performing three essential masterpieces of the piano repertoire - Schubert's terse and powerful A minor Sonata D784, a set of Brahms's exquisitely reflective late piano intermezzi and Liszt's monumental Sonata in B minor.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 7 June 2012
The Philharmonia's Honorary Conductor for Life conducts Brahms's Second Symphony.
Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 12 June 2012
The title of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture has a rather studious ring to it, but in fact is one of his liveliest works, based on a series of student drinking songs and written to balance the more sombre style of his Tragic Overture.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 25 October 2012
Philippe Jordan conducts Neilsen's Helios Overture and Brahm's Symphony No.
Royal Festival Hall
Friday 26 October 2012
When his guiding light Robert Schumann attempted suicide and was admitted to an asylum in 1853, Brahms finally decided to act on his senior's advice and attempt a multi-movement orchestral work.
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 1 December 2012
An evening of choral contrasts as Zimmermann's oratorio, a hard-hitting prophecy of loss and emptiness, stands in total contrast to the hopeful humanity of Brahms' German Requiem.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 6 December 2012
This Philharmonia debut for conductor David Afkham includes Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher alongside Brahms' Symphony No.
Royal Festival Hall
Friday 14 December 2012
Jurowski conducts Wagner's romantic songs and Tchaikovsky's uplifting Fifth Symphony.