Carmina Burana with Santtu-Matias Rouvali
General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 20 October. Join the Friends to access priority booking.
Artists
Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Hayato Sumino – piano
Brett Sprague – tenor
Julie Roset – soprano
Germán Olvera – baritone
Programme
Wolfe Fountain of Youth
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F
— Interval —
Orff Carmina Burana
A dazzling new work, a jazz-inflected concerto and one of the great choral blockbusters promise a spectacular end to the season.
Santtu-Matias Rouvali leads a programme that moves from contemporary imagination to irresistible theatrical power. Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth opens with bold sonorities and propulsive energy, setting the tone with music that feels urgent, vivid and alive. Guiness World Record holder Hayato Sumino is the soloist in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, blending symphonic sweep, rhythmic punch and lyrical warmth in a work that glitters with metropolitan style.
Orff’s Carmina Burana crowns the season with one of the most electrifying works ever written for chorus and orchestra. Based on a remarkable collection of 13th-century poems discovered in a Bavarian monastery, its texts were written by rebellious medieval students and wandering scholars celebrating love, luck, springtime, drinking and the unpredictability of fortune. Alongside the famous O Fortuna are moments of wit and irreverence – including the unforgettable lament of a swan being roasted for dinner. Framed by O Fortuna at both its opening and close, the work turns the Wheel of Fortune full circle in a finale of overwhelming power that is impossible to forget.
Need to know
Prices & Discounts
From £20
Multibuy offer available; under-18s and concessions discounts available.
The price of each ticket includes a £2 restoration levy which will be shown as part of your total at checkout. The restoration levy goes towards the upkeep and improvement of Southbank Centre’s historic venues.
The price also includes a £3 booking fee per transaction. This fee will be added to your total at checkout.
Running time
2 hr 15 mins, including an interval
Recommended age
From 7+
Programme notes
Printed programmes will be available at the venue. Digital programme notes will be available a week before the concert.
Box office
Philharmonia Box Office: 0800 652 6717
Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm
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