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2009-10 was one of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s most ambitious and varied seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, offering favourites of the symphonic and concerto repertoire with a stunning lineup of conductors and soloists, and adventurous programmes to take you on a journey to discover something new.
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Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski’s imagination, technical ability and artistic knowledge generate wonderful evenings of music with a real sense of occasion. This season he presides over Between Two Worlds, a celebration of the unique world of Alfred Schnittke, as well as bringing us a host of established masterworks, including Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.
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View list of Schnittke Festival concerts > In Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s second season as Principal Guest Conductor he explores the French repertoire that has proved central to his formidable reputation.
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Osmo Vänskä curates a four-concert survey of symphonies and other works by his great Finnish compatriot Jean Sibelius. Marin Alsop conducts the music of her teacher Leonard Bernstein, and Kurt Masur marks Mendelssohn’s 200th anniversary year.
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‘Firsts’ this season include a new symphony by Ravi Shankar, a new Percussion Concerto by Sibelius’s Finnish successor Einojuhani Rautavaara, a new orchestral work from our Composer in Residence Mark-Anthony Turnage, and the first European performance of Philip Glass's Violin Concerto 2 (The American Four Seasons).
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Vladimir Jurowksi – Principal Conductor
Mahler Resurrection Symphony
Between Two Worlds: Alfred Schnittke
Christmas Celebration
Szymanowski Violin Concerto 1 /Shostakovich Symphony 4
Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Prokofiev
Janáček and Suk
Shostakovich The Gamblers, Suite from ‘The Nose’, Symphony 1
Early 20th century Russia: Prokofiev and Myaskovsky
Wagner, Brahms and Liszt
Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Principal Guest Conductor
Bruckner Symphony 8 / Rautavaara Incantations world première
Two concerts of French masterworks by Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc and Ravel
Prokofiev Violin Concerto 1/ Beethoven Symphony 7
Miraculous Logic: The Music of Jean Sibelius
Osmo Vänskä conducts Sibelius’s seven symphonies, set alongside some of the great Finnish composer’s lesser known works for soloists and orchestra.
Between Two Worlds: Alfred Schnittke
One of the most eclectic and exuberant voices of the late 20th century, Alfred Schnittke absorbed a millennium of music fragments from plainchant to pop, and brought together the scholarly and the trivial, the tonal and the dissonant. Vladimir Jurowski conducts three concerts and a day of discussion and music.
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Glass Violin Concerto 2 (The American Four Seasons) European première
Rautavaara Incantations world première of his percussion concerto
Schnittke Excerpts from ‘The History of D. Johann Faustus’ UK première
Ravi Shankar Symphony world première
Turnage new work world première
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