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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesday 18 September 2024

Wed 18 Sep 2024, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
Dancing chickens, luminous skulls, a witch’s hut... sounds spectacular? It’s amazing what you can achieve with a head full of stories, an ear for musical colour, and a few shots of vodka!
In the opening concert of our new season, guest conductor Long Yu - China’s pre-eminent living conductor - opens up a veritable musical picture book, and whether it’s a radiant vision of a Russian dawn or Mus

Thursday 26 September 2024:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday 26 September 2024

Thu 26 Sep 2024, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
The composers of the Romantic era liked their landscapes untamed, their stories sensational and their emotions larger-than-life - so that’s exactly what conductor Jac van Steen delivers tonight.
Mendelssohn conceived his 'Scottish’ Symphony at twilight in Edinburgh, as he wandered the ruins of Holyrood Abbey: what follows is a sweeping musical drama of mist-covered moors and warring clans.


Wednesday 30 October 2024:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesday 30 October 2024

Wed 30 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
Trumpets ring out as Shostakovich prepares to cut loose and party. Sergei Prokofiev meets a French

Tuesday 12 November 2024:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Tuesday 12 November 2024

Tue 12 Nov 2024, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
, then pours it all out in music of unforgettable beauty and power.
Understandably, any performance

Thursday 28 November 2024:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday 28 November 2024

Thu 28 Nov 2024, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
The RPO’s Principal Associate Conductor Alexander Shelley has been called 'a natural communicator’ - and tonight he has a joyous story to tell.
He kicks off with the whirlwind energy and homespun high-spirits of Smetana’s irresistible comedy overture. He finishes with the blazing trumpets and big, sunlit melodies of Brahms’ second and happiest symphony - it was written while the composer was o

Thursday 27 February 2025:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday 27 February 2025

Thu 27 Feb 2025, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
When Johan Dalene won the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in 2019, one critic predicted that he’d become the greatest Swedish violinist in generations: a player with 'a wondrous tone, an elegant straightforwardness and a freshness of utterance’.
We just say come and hear for yourself, as Dalene returns for his second Cadogan Hall concert as the RPO’s Artist-in-Residence. He joins

Wednesday 12 March 2025:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesday 12 March 2025

Wed 12 Mar 2025, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
'Take me away... I have killed her: Carmen, my beloved!’ Bizet’s Carmen is one of the world’s most popular operas, and with good reason - it’s bursting with melodies that, once heard, are never forgotten. Tonight’s concert climaxes with an orchestral journey through this tale of doomed passion beneath the blazing Spanish sun: from the seductive Habanera to the swaggering Toreador’s Song , it’s jus

Wednesday 9 April 2025:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesday 9 April 2025

Wed 9 Apr 2025, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
If you enjoy Dvo?ák’s 'New World’ Symphony (No. 9), you’re going to love the one that he wrote back

Wednesday 16 April 2025:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesday 16 April 2025

Wed 16 Apr 2025, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
Elgar’s Enigma Variations began as a parlour game - a series of musical portraits of the composer’s nearest and dearest. It grew into the warmest, tenderest and most stirring masterpiece in all of British music: who isn’t moved by the profound emotion of Nimrod?
Few artists understand British music better than former English National Opera music director Martyn Brabbins, and tonight Enigma cro

Thursday 1 May 2025:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday 1 May 2025

Thu 1 May 2025, 19:30 - Cadogan Hall, London
'I am the new Bacchus, pressing out glorious wine for the human spirit,’ declared Ludwig van






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