Classical Season 2018 / 19 For full details and to book online, please visit southbankcentre.co.uk/classical September 2018 Wednesday 19 September, 7.30pm Tuesday 25 September, 7.30pm Thursday 27 September, 7.30pm Stephen Cleobury: Wars of the Three Kingdoms Philharmonia Orchestra: Howells & Vierne International Chamber Music Series Bruckner, Wagner & Sunday 16 September, 2pm Schoenberg Part I International Organ Series Hespèrion XXI A Beginner’s Guide to Stephen Cleobury organ Jordi Savall director Salonen Series Classical Music Ashley Riches baritone Alfonso (the son) Ferrabosco Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Get all your pressing classical David Adams violin Dovehouse Pavan a 5 Camilla Nylund soprano music questions answered in this Kate Gould cello Anthony Holborne The Teares of Wagner Siegfried’s Death interactive concert experience Vierne Les Angelus for voice & the Muses a 5 and Funeral March from Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall organ, Op.57 William Brade Mohrfields a 5; Götterdämmerung £10* Rheinberger Suite in C minor for Scottish dance Schoenberg Erwartung - opera violin, cello & organ, Op.149 Orlando Gibbons Fantasia a 3, in 1 act for soprano & orchestra Sunday 16 September, 3pm Howells By the waters of No.6; In Nomine a 4 Bruckner Symphony No.6 Tchaikovsky Gala Babylon for baritone, violin, cello Matthew Locke Suite No.2 in G Royal Festival Hall London Concert Orchestra & organ, Op.10; Partita for organ minor/major from A Concert in £45 £36 £28 £19 £12 Premium seats £58* Stephen Bell conductor Royal Festival Hall Fower Parts Jennifer Pike violin £15* William Lawes Concert Suite Saturday 29 September, 7.30pm `for the violls’ a 5, No.5 in C; Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture, London Philharmonic Saturday 22 September, 6.30pm Concert Suite `for the violls’ a 5, Orchestra: Uchida Plays Mozart Romeo & Juliet; Violin Concerto; No.3 in C minor Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Debashish Bhattacharya & Vladimir Jurowski conductor Praveen Sheolikar John Jenkins Pavan a 5, No.2 in Miniature Overture, March, G minor; Air a 4 in D (The Newark Mitsuko Uchida piano Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Darbar Festival Siege); In Nomine a 6, No.1 in Sarah Connolly Russian Dance, Dance of the Praveen Sheolikar violin G minor mezzo-soprano reed flutes & Waltz of the Vinod Lele tabla Matthew Locke Suite No.2 in D Stuart Skelton tenor Flowers from The Nutcracker interval minor/major from A Concert in Mozart Piano Concerto No.27 Suite; Finale from Swan Lake; Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya Fower Parts in B flat, K.595 1812 Overture slide guitar Queen Elizabeth Hall Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Royal Festival Hall Sukhwinder Singh tabla £45 £35 £25 £15* Royal Festival Hall £46 £39.50 £32.50 £24.50 £19.50 £16.50* Programme to be announced £46 £39 £32 £25 £19 £14 £10 Wednesday 26 September, 7.30pm Premium seats £65* Sunday 16 September, 4pm Queen Elizabeth Hall £50 £35 £25 £18* London Philharmonic Sunday 30 September, 7.30pm Aurora Orchestra: Orchestra: Adès Conducts Smoke and Mirrors Saturday 22 September, 7.30pm In Seven Days Philharmonia Orchestra: Nicholas Collon conductor Star Wars and Beyond: Bruckner, Wagner & Changing Faces: Schoenberg Part II Marcus Farnsworth chansonnier A Sci-fi Spectacular Stravinsky’s Journey Jane Mitchell concept and direction Salonen Series London Concert Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor Beethoven Symphony No.5 John Rigby conductor Kirill Gerstein piano Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor (performed from memory) Alan Silvestri Back to the Wagner Prelude & Liebestod HK Gruber Frankenstein!! Stravinsky Symphony in Three Future; Predator Movements from Tristan und Isolde Queen Elizabeth Hall David Arnold Independence Day Thomas Adès In Seven Days Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht £40 £35 £25 £10* Hans Zimmer Inception (Concerto for piano and Bruckner Symphony No.7 Jerry Goldsmith Alien; Star Trek orchestra) Royal Festival Hall Monday 17 – Friday 21 £45 £36 £28 £19 £12 Premium seats £58* John Williams Adventures on Lutosławski Symphony No.3 September, 7.30pm 6pm, Royal Festival Hall Earth from ET; Close Encounters Royal Festival Hall Royal Festival Hall at 6pm: pre-concert talk. of the Third Kind; Jurassic Park; £46 £39 £32 £25 £19 £14 £10 Indian Music Course Admission free. Premium seats £65* Darbar Festival Minority Report; Star Wars; Superman; War of the Worlds Jameela Siddiqi course tutor Royal Festival Hall Thursday 27 September, 6pm Harmeet Virdee sitar £49.50 £42.50 £34.50 £26.50 £19.50 £16.50* October 2018 Sukhdeep Dharjal tabla Music of Today: Powerful Monodramas Blue Room, Level 1, Royal Festival Hall Sunday 23 September, 5.30pm £60 for 5 sessions* Ashwini Bhide Deshpande & Players from the Philharmonia Wednesday 3 October, 7.30pm Purbayan Chatterjee Orchestra Llŷr Williams: Beethoven, Pierre-André Valade conductor Schumann & Brahms Darbar Festival Salome Kammer soprano Purbayan Chatterjee sitar Hilary Summers contralto International Piano Series Sukhvinder Singh tabla Hans Zender Cabaret Voltaire Llŷr Williams piano interval for voice & ensemble (UK Beethoven 32 Variations on an Ashwini Bhide Deshpande premiere) Original Theme in C minor, WoO.80 khayal vocal Philippe Manoury Blackout Schumann Humoreske in B flat, Vinod Lele tabla monodrama for contralto & Op.20 Vinay Misra harmonium ensemble (UK premiere) Brahms Theme and variations Programme to be announced Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall in D minor arr. for piano from Admission by free ticket. Queen Elizabeth Hall String Sextet No.1 in B flat, Op.18; Contact the Ticket Office* £50 £35 £25 £18* Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.5 Queen Elizabeth Hall £45 £35 £25 £18 £10* Queen Elizabeth Hall at 6.15pm: Llŷr Williams discusses the programme. Admission free. * There are no transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For all other bookings transaction fees apply: £3 online; £3.50 over the phone. If you wish to receive tickets in the post, a £1 delivery charge applies. Friday 5 October, 7.30pm Tuesday 9 October, 7.30pm Saturday 13 October, 7.45pm Tuesday 16 October, 7.45pm Bryn Terfel Andris Nelsons and the Muriel Spark Centenary Charlotte Bray: Chamber Music Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Concert with the Nash Mariani Piano Quartet conductor to be announced International Orchestras Ensemble Ducasse Trio Bryn Terfel bass Andris Nelsons International Chamber Music Series Huw Watkins piano Programme includes: Gewandhauskapellmeister Stephanie Gonley violin Interview with Charlotte Bray Mozart Madamina, il catalogo Kristine Opolais soprano Michael Gurevich violin Charlotte Bray On the other e questo (Catalogue aria) from Andris Dzenitis New work Lawrence Power viola shore for cello Don Giovanni; Non più andrai Tchaikovsky Liza’s arioso from Adrian Brendel cello Emilie Mayer Piano Quartet No.2 in G from The Marriage of Figaro The Queen of Spades; Polonaise Ian Brown piano Charlotte Bray Chant for Wagner Leb wohl, du kuhnes, & Tatyana’s Letter Scene from with Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano clarinet trio; Invisible Cities for herrliches Kind! (Wotan’s Eugene Onegin Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, viola & piano (UK premiere); farewell) from Die Walküre, Act 3 Mahler Symphony No.1 K.478 Beyond for violin; Zustände for Verdi L’onore! Ladri! (Honour! Royal Festival Hall David Matthews New work on piano quartet You rogues!) from Falstaff £75 £60 £45 £30 £20* Muriel Spark poems for voice, piano Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Traditional Oh Shenandoah & string quartet (World premiere) £20 £15* Spiritual Deep river Wednesday 10 October, 7.30pm Brahms 2 Songs for mezzo- Jerry Bock If I were a Rich Man soprano, viola & piano, Op.91 Thursday 18 October, 7.30pm from Fiddler on the Roof London Philharmonic Orchestra: Concerto for Dvořák Piano Quintet No.2 in A, Cristina Ortiz: Chopin Royal Festival Hall Op.81 £90 £80 £70 £60 £46 £32 £20* Orchestra International Piano Series Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Karina Canellakis conductor £30 £22 £15* Cristina Ortiz piano Friday 5 October, 7.30pm & Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall at Saturday 6 October, 2pm Chopin Fantaisie in F minor, Sibelius Pohjola’s daughter 6.15pm: pre-concert talk. Admission free. Op.49; Sonata No.2 in B flat BBC Concert Orchestra: Julian Dvořák Piano Concerto minor, Op.35 (Marche funèbre) Joseph’s Tristan and Isolde Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Sunday 14 October, 12 noon York Bowen 6 Preludes from 24 Clark Rundell conductor Royal Festival Hall The Highway Rat: London Preludes, Op.102 £46 £39 £32 £25 £19 £14 £10 Philharmonic Orchestra Carleen Anderson singer Premium seats £65* Chopin 4 Etudes from 12 Ken Papenfus singer FUNharmonics Family Concert Etudes, Op.25; Nocturne in C Christine Tobin singer sharp minor, B.49 (Op. posth.); Saturday 13 October, 3pm Live orchestral soundtrack to Cleveland Watkiss singer Barcarolle in F sharp, Op.60; The Highway Rat Julian Joseph Trio Behind the Pipes Polonaise in A flat, Op.53 Royal Festival Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall Members of the Julian Joseph Meet the Royal Festival Hall organ. £20 £18 £16 £14 £12 (adults) £45 £35 £25 £18 £10* All Star Big Band Royal Festival Hall £10 £9 £8 £7 £6 (children)* £12* BBC Singers Royal Festival Hall from 10am: pre-concert Julian Joseph Tristan and Isolde foyer activities. Admission free. Friday 19 October, 7.30pm (World premiere) Saturday 13 October, 7.30pm London Philharmonic Queen Elizabeth Hall London Philharmonic Sunday 14 October, 4pm Orchestra: Moscow Nights £25 £18 £12* Orchestra: Life, Death and Alexander Ardakov Piano Alondra de la Parra conductor Saturday 6 October, 12 noon Shameless Excess Recital: Great Romantic Pieces Benjamin Grosvenor piano What You Need To Know: Jérémie Rhorer conductor D. Scarlatti Sonata in D minor, Glinka Overture, Ruslan and Mahler’s Symphonies 1 & 5 Louise Alder soprano Kk.9; Sonata in F minor, Kk.466; Lyudmila Tackle Mahler’s Symphonies Toby Spence tenor Sonata in E, Kk.380; Sonata in Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 No.1 & No.5 in this study day.