2024/25 London Season
This autumn, explore the music of the Nordic countries in our series Nordic Soundscapes, with our Principal Conductor Santtu. And enjoy great music from Mozart to Mahler, featuring some of the most inspiring musicians in the business.
Welcome to our 2024/25 season at our home in the heart of London.
You can hear our Principal Conductor Santtu’s interpretation of a wide range of repertoire, from Debussy to Shostakovich’s first and last symphonies.
Charismatic violinist Nemanja Radulović is our Featured Artist this season. He’s playing Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto in October, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in April, and in February he play-directs a deeply personal programme of Bach and melodies from his native Serbia, France and Spain.
On 14 February, our Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop is joined by two champion tango dancers in a programme with a South American flavour. And on 24 April, as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival, she conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, with an animated film by artist William Kentridge.
Our Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen returns in November to conduct the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto, and in March Riccardo Muti, our Principal Conductor back in the 1970s, makes a long-anticipated return with Verdi’s powerful Requiem.
We hope to see you there.
Multibuy offer:
Book 3 – 5 concerts and get 10% off
Book 6 – 8 concerts and get 15% off
Book 9 – 10 concerts and get 20% off
Book 11 or more concerts and get 30% off
CANCELLED: Philharmonia Chamber Players: Salonen and Nielsen
Philharmonia Wind Quintet
- Salonen Memoria
- Nielsen Wind Quintet
Marin Alsop conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony
Marin Alsop – conductor
Sasha Cooke – mezzo-soprano
- Gustav Mahler Blumine
- Alma Mahler Selection of songs (orch. David & Colin Matthews), including:
- Die stille Stadt
- Bei dir ist es traut
- Laue Sommernacht
- In meines Vaters Garten
- Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5
Morning Song
Sigrún Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths – workshop leader
Philharmonia musicians
Notes on Nature 2: The Forest
Julian Glover (journalist) – host
Vidya Patel (dancer, Philharmonia Artist in Residence) – host
Annika Lindskog (musicologist) – host
Sigrun Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths (Icelandic musician) – host
Sibelius & Grieg: In the Land of the Mountain King
Emilia Hoving – conductor
- Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
- Outi Tarkiainen Mosaics (UK premiere, with film)
- Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Philharmonia Chamber Players: Turina and Ravel
Rebecca Chan – violin
David López Ibáñez – violin
Sylvain Séailles – viola
Ella Rundle – cello
- Turina La oración del torero
- Ravel String Quartet
Santtu and Nemanja Radulović
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nemanja Radulović – violin
- Khachaturian Three Pieces from the ballet 'Gayaneh': Dance of the Rose Maidens, Lullaby, Sabre Dance
- Khachaturian Violin Concerto
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Daydreams'
Notes on Nature 3: Wildlife
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (Philharmonia Principal Conductor) – host
Laurence Rose (conservationist, composer) – host
Ruth Padel (poet, novelist) – host
María Dueñas plays Sibelius
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
María Dueñas – violin
- Larsson Gothe Submarea (UK premiere, with film)
- Sibelius Violin Concerto
- Nielsen Symphony No. 5
Notes on Nature 4: The Human Dimension
Andrew Mellor (journalist, critic) – host
Love Ssega (musician) – host
Feimatta Conteh (Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager) – host
Salonen conducts Sibelius and Lindberg
Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor
Lawrence Power – viola
- Wennäkoski Flounce
- Lindberg Viola Concerto (UK premiere)
- Sibelius Symphony No. 1
Herbert Blomstedt and Leonidas Kavakos
Herbert Blomstedt – conductor
Leonidas Kavakos – violin
- Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4, K. 218
- Mahler Symphony No. 9
Santtu and Jess Gillam
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophone
- Shostakovich (arr. Cornall) Suite from Moscow, Cheryomushki
- Glazunov Saxophone Concerto
- Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Chopin
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii – piano
- Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
- Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1
- Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Beethoven
Manfred Honeck – conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard – piano
- Weber Overture, Der Freischütz
- Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
- Dvořák Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’
Marin Alsop conducts Bernstein and Piazzolla
Marin Alsop – conductor
Ksenija Sidorova – accordion
Adrien Bariki-Alaoui – tango dancer
Iro Davlanti-Lo – tango dancer
- Gershwin Cuban Overture
- Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
- Lobo (orch. Nelson Ayres) Pé de Vento
- Piazzolla Aconcagua Concerto
- Piazzolla Tanti Anni Prima
- Piazzolla (arr. John Lenehan) Libertango
Free Tango Workshop
Adrien Bariki-Alaoui – tango dancer
Iro Davlanti-Lo – tango dancer
Philharmonia Chamber Players: Spotlight on the Clarinet
Mark van de Wiel – clarinet
Rebecca Chan – violin
Fiona Cornall – violin
Scott Dickinson – viola
Karen Stephenson – cello
- Gipps Rhapsody in E flat Op. 23 for clarinet and string quartet
- Weber Clarinet Quintet
Daniel Lozakovich plays Prokofiev
Tugan Sokhiev – conductor
Daniel Lozakovich – violin
- Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
- Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
Järvi conducts Stravinsky’s The Firebird
Paavo Järvi – conductor
Nicolas Altstaedt – cello
- Stravinsky Petrushka
- Erkki-Sven Tüür Cello Concerto No. 2 ‘Labyrinths of Life’ (UK premiere)
- Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919)
Nemanja Radulović: Journeys with a violin
Nemanja Radulović – director / violin
Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay – violin
String players of the Philharmonia Orchestra
- Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
- Bach Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052R
- Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
- Interspersed with:
- Hristovski (arr. Sedlar & Radulović) Makedonsko devojče
- De Falla (arr. Sedlar, Kreisler & Radulović) Spanish Dance from La Vida Breve
- Muréna (arr. Sedlar & Radulović) Indifférence
- Šišić (arr. Sedlar) Hommage à Aleksandar Šišić
Mao Fujita plays Mozart Part 1
Giedrė Šlekytė – conductor
Mao Fujita – piano
- Kodály Dances of Galánta
- Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 K. 595
- Brahms Symphony No. 1
Bancroft conducts Also sprach Zarathustra
Ryan Bancroft – conductor
Michelle Cann – piano
- Ives The Unanswered Question
- Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
- Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Philharmonia Chamber Players: Beethoven’s Septet
Maura Marinucci – clarinet
Yaroslava Trofymchuk – cello
Other players tbc
- Beethoven Septet, Op. 20a
Mao Fujita plays Mozart Part 2
Osmo Vänskä – conductor
Mao Fujita – piano
- Mazzoli These Worlds In Us
- Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 K. 503
- Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 ‘Reformation’
Muti conducts Verdi’s Requiem
Riccardo Muti – conductor
Juliana Grigoryan – soprano
Elīna Garanča – mezzo-soprano
Piotr Beczała – tenor
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo – bass
Philharmonia Chorus
- Verdi Requiem
Santtu conducts French masterpieces
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Javier Perianes – piano
Mark van de Wiel – clarinet
- Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
- Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Egyptian’
- Franck Symphony in D minor
Philharmonia Chamber Players: Spotlight on the Harp
Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay – violin
Rebecca Chan – violin
Scott Dickinson – viola
Karen Stephenson – cello
Sam Coles – flute
Maura Marinucci – clarinet
Heidi Krutzen – harp
- Mozetich Angels in Flight
- Ravel Introduction and Allegro
Santtu conducts Prokofiev and Shostakovich
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nemanja Radulović – violin
- Prokofiev Classical Symphony
- Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1
- Shostakovich Symphony No. 1
Santtu conducts Shostakovich and Mendelssohn
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Arabella Steinbacher – violin
- Rossini William Tell Overture
- Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
- Shostakovich Symphony No. 15
Oh To Believe in Another World: Shostakovich 10
Marin Alsop – conductor
William Kentridge – director
Philharmonia Chorus
- Bernstein Chichester Psalms
- Shostakovich Symphony No. 10, with Oh To Believe in Another World, a film by William Kentridge
The Bach Choir: Belshazzar’s Feast
David Hill – conductor
Christopher Purves – baritone
The Bach Choir
- Delius The Song of the High Hills
- Blackford La Sagrada Familia Symphony (World premiere)
- Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
Music of Today: Composers' Academy
composers to be announced
Santtu and Nikolai Lugansky
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nikolai Lugansky – piano
- Ravel Alborada del gracioso
- Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
- Ravel La Valse
- Respighi Pines of Rome