Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Santtu-Matias Rouvali took up the baton as Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in September 2021. He is just the sixth person to hold that title since the Philharmonia was founded in 1945.
In our 80th birthday season, he collaborates with soloists including Víkingur Ólafsson, Hilary Hahn and Lisa Batiashvili, and conducts music from Beethoven to Bernstein. In the season finale, he recreates an epic all-Strauss concert originally conducted in 1947 by Richard Strauss himself.
Forged in Sound: Heavy Metal Orchestrated
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Mr Lordi
Alison Mosshart
Suzi Quatro
- Metallica Orion
- Lordi Hard Rock Hallelujah
- Guns n' Roses / Bob Dylan Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- The Kills Doing it to Death
- Metallica Enter Sandman
- Suzi Quatro Can the Can
- Motörhead Ace of Spades
- Holst Mars from 'The Planets'
- Nelson Steampunk Blizzard
- Shostakovich Allegro from Symphony No. 10
- Wagner Ride of the Valkyries
- Saint-Saëns Excerpts from Symphony No. 3, 'Organ'
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Santtu conducts a Strauss extravaganza
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor – piano
- Strauss Don Juan
- Strauss Burleske
- Strauss Symphonia Domestica
- Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (first sequence)
General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.