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Playing with Fire: Yuja Wang
Julia Wolfe's Fire in My Mouth with Marin Alsop
Performers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
to be announced chorus, youth choir
Repertoire
Julia Wolfe: Fire in my Mouth (London premiere)
Steve Reich at 90: Triple Quartet + After Dark
Performers
Carducci Quartet
Ligeti Quartet
Solem Quartet
Repertoire
Steve Reich: Different trains arr. for string orchestra (UK premiere); WTC 9/11 for string quartet & pre-recorded tape; Triple Quartet vers. for 3 string quartets live
Steve Reich at 90: London Sinfonietta & Jonny Greenwood
Performers
London Sinfonietta
Chloe Rooke conductor
Jonny Greenwood bass guitar, *, electric guitar, **
Students from the Royal Academy of Music
Repertoire
Steve Reich: Clapping Music; Pulse *; Radio Rewrite
Interval
Steve Reich: Electric counterpoint **; City Life
Kian Soltani Plays Dvořák
Performers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Marie Jacquot conductor
Kian Soltani cello
Repertoire
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Interval
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Oracle with the BBC Concert Orchestra
Performers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jérôme Kuhn conductor
Repertoire
Programme includes: -
Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite
David Buckley: Oracle - chamber opera in 1 act
Manchester Collective & Sidiki Dembélé
Performers
Manchester Collective
Sidiki Dembélé Ensemble
Repertoire
Programme includes: -
Sidiki Dembélé: Teriya
Nwando Ebizie: New work (London premiere)
Rakhi Singh: Arrangements of and selections from John Playford, Henry Purcell, Hans Abrahamsen, Kevin Volans, Emily Hall and Edmund Finnis
The Girl from Arles
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sir Mark Elder conductor
cast to be announced
Repertoire
Bizet: L'Arlésienne - melodrama (original version) (Staged production, performed in English)
Jean Rondeau, Nicholas Alstaedt & Thomas Dunford
Performers
Thomas Dunford lute
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
Jean Rondeau harpsichord
Repertoire
Programme includes: Works by Marais, Forqueray & Couperin
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Benedetti
Performers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Repertoire
Smetana: Overture, The Two Widows
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Interval
Schumann: Symphony No.3 in E flat (Rhenish), Op.97
Karina Canellakis Conducts Beethoven
Performers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Karina Canellakis conductor
Christian Tetzlaff violin
Repertoire
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Interval
Dai Fujikura: Radiance (UK premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No.5
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2 with Nobuyuki Tsujii
Performers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Xian Zhang conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii piano
Repertoire
Nokuthula Ngwenyama: Primal Message
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.2
Interval
Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Tine Thing Helseth & Friends: The Boulangerie
Performers
Hyeyoon Park violin
Andreas Brantelid cello
Julian Bliss clarinet
Tine Thing Helseth trumpet
Julien Quentin piano
Repertoire
N Boulanger: Soleils couchants
Stravinsky: Hommage à Nadia Boulanger; Suite from L'histoire du Soldat (A Soldier's Tale) arr. for violin, clarinet & piano
Fauré: Movement TBC from Requiem arr. Emile Naoumoff for piano
L Boulanger: 2 Morceaux (Nocturne & Cortège)
Copland: Quiet City
Interval
Tveitt: Velkomne med æra from 100 Folk Tunes from Hardanger; Hommage à Nadia Boulanger
Bacewicz: Oberek No.1
Gershwin: 3 Preludes
Michel Legrand: Sans toi from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Piazzolla: Le grand tango
L Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps
N Boulanger: Cantique arr. for voice, violin, cello, harp & organ (Lux aeterna)
Manfred Honeck & Emanuel Ax
Performers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Manfred Honeck conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Repertoire
J Strauss II: Overture, Die Fledermaus
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.25 in C, K.503
Interval
Strauss: Elektra Suite arr. Honeck & Ille
Mahler 6 with Marin Alsop
Performers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Esther Yoo violin
Repertoire
Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposium for violin, strings & percussion
Interval
Mahler: Symphony No.6
Chineke! Orchestra: Hailstork + After Dark
Performers
Chineke! Orchestra
Tatiana Pérez conductor
Plínio Fernandes guitar
Repertoire
Stravinsky: Suite No.1 for chamber orchestra; Suite No.2 for chamber orchestra
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar & orchestra
Interval
Eliana Echeverry: Suite Arrullos sinfónicos (Symphonic lullabies) from Diez lunas para una espera (10 Moons for waiting)
Adolphus Hailstork: Symphony No.1
Concerto Italiano: Monteverdi’s Madrigals
Performers
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini director
Repertoire
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Bk.3
Christmas Oratorio: Parts 1 – 3
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Václav Luks conductor
Sofia Kirwan-Baez soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
Florian Störtz bass
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Repertoire
Zelenka: Credo from Missa Omnium Sanctorum, ZWV.21
Bach: Cantata 1 (Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage)
Interval
Bach: Cantata 2 (Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend); Cantata 3 (Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen) from Christmas Oratorio. Performed in German, with surtitles.
Christmas Oratorio: Parts 4 – 6
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Václav Luks conductor
Sofia Kirwan-Baez soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
Florian Störtz bass
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Repertoire
Zelenka: Statio quadruplex for Processione Theophorica, ZWV 158
Bach: Cantata 4 (Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben)
Interval
Bach: Cantata 5 (Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen); Cantata 6 (Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben) from Christmas Oratorio. Performed in German, with surtitles.
Thick & Tight: Camp as Christmas
Stravinsky's The Firebird
Performers
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Eric Lu piano
Repertoire
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Interval
Stravinsky: The Firebird, Suite (1945)
OAE TOTS
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Repertoire
Programme to be announced
OAE TOTS at LPO FUNharmonics
A Viennese House Party
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Matthew Truscott director, violin
Jane Gower bassoon
Repertoire
Mozart: Minuetto (2nd movement) from String Quartet in B flat, K.458 (Hunt); Overture, The Marriage of Figaro
Dittersdorf: Symphony in C (The 4 Ages of the World)
Vanhal: Bassoon Concerto in C; Double Bass Concerto in E flat; Double Bassoon Concerto in F
Interval
Mozart: Serenade in D, K.239 (Serenata notturna)
Haydn: Symphony No.101 (The Clock)
Chineke! Orchestra: Romeo and Juliet
Performers
Chineke! Orchestra
Stephanie Childress conductor
to be announced soprano
Repertoire
Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite, Op.79
Richard Thompson: The Shadow of dawn - song cycle
Interval
Prokofiev: Montagues and Capulets (The dance of the knights); The young Juliet; Masks (Romeo and Mercutio masked); Dance (Dance of the five couples); The balcony scene; Friar Laurence; The death of Tybalt; Romeo at Juliet's Tomb (Juliet's funeral); The death of Juliet from Romeo and Juliet
While you're with us
Thinking
Fountains
Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.
Modified Social Benches
Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.
William Pye's Zemran
Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.