‘The Jurowski era looks set to be a golden one’
Daily Telegraph, October 2007
Welcome to our 2008/09 season at home in London
After last year’s rapturous return to Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and the inauguration of our Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski, this season we mark the career and creativity of one of Jurowski’s most cherished composers: Pyotr Tchaikovsky. We also welcome Yannick Nézet-Séguin as our Principal Guest Conductor and look forward to a season of inspiring concerts.
Revealing Tchaikovsky
Join us for a two-week focus on the music of Tchaikovsky (22 October – 7 November 2008) in collaboration with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Discover the early symphonies, lesser known orchestral works, the rarely heard completion of the Third Piano Concerto, and a concert performance of the opera Iolanta.
Tchaikovsky’s music is placed in the context of his predecessors and successors, including Schumann, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, Taneyev and Kalinnikov.
New Principal Guest Conductor
We celebrate the exciting appointment of 32-year-old French Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin as our Principal Guest Conductor, and look forward to his four concerts with us:
Ravel La Valse and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (10 October 2008)
Bruckner Seventh Symphony (11 February 2009)
Brahms A German Requiem (4 April 2009)
Dvořák Seventh Symphony and Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 (27 May 2009)
We mark the 200th Anniversary of Mendelssohn’s birth
Piano Concerto 1 (14 March 2009 with Stephen Hough)
Piano Concerto
2 (8 October 2008 with Louis Lortie)
London première of the reconstructed Piano Concerto in E minor, completed by Marcello Bufalini (4 April 2009 with Roberto Prosseda)
Violin Concerto (24 January 2009 with Anne-Sophie Mutter)
Symphony 4 (27 May 2009)
Symphony 5 (31 May 2009)
Midsummer Night’s Dream Suite (25 April 2009)
Conductors and soloists
Established artists appearing with the Orchestra include conductors Kurt Masur, Neeme Järvi, Marin Alsop, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Temirkanov, Christoph Eschenbach, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Sir Mark Elder, and soloists Anne-Sophie Mutter, Matthias Goerne, Christian Lindberg, Barbara Bonney, Hélène Grimaud, Mischa Maisky and Stephen Hough.
Opera and choral works
The Orchestra continues its collaboration with Opera Rara with concert performances of Donizetti’s Parisina (6 December 2008) and Rossini’s Ermione (28 March 2009) under the baton of conductor David Parry.
Vladimir Jurowski conducts concert performances of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta (25 October 2008) and Martynov's Vita Nuova (18 February 2009).
Other choral works this season include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (18 October 2008)and Symphony 9 (4 February 2009), Choral, Dvořák’s Requiem (7 February 2009) and Brahms’s A German Requiem (4 April 2009).
New music this season
- a new violin concerto, Mambo, Blues and Tarantella, by our Composer in Residence Mark-Anthony Turnage (24 September 2008 with Christian Tetzlaff)
- the world première of Vladimir Martynov’s concept piece Vita Nuova (18 February 2009)
- the UK premières of both the Cello Concerto by Benjamin Yusupov (22 April 2009 with Mischa Maisky) and the orchestral song-cycle for speaker and bass Mein Herz brennt by Torsten Rasch (31 May 2009)
As the Orchestra continues to build on its enviable national and international reputation under Vladimir Jurowski’s stewardship, I hope you’ll join us at home in London for some fascinating, varied, thought-provoking and entertaining music.
Timothy Walker AM
Chief Executive and Artistic Director
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