2022/23 London Season

London Philharmonic Orchestra 2022/23 Concert Season

September 2022- May 2023 at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall 

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We are thrilled to share with you our 90th anniversary season – celebrating incredible creativity, and sharing a profound sense of humanity.

It is an enticing season of discovery. Reflecting upon the Orchestra’s illustrious 90-year history, we will perform some now-indispensable music written especially for the LPO, including Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. A major focus on composers born in our country sees performances of both symphonies by Elgar, multiple compositions by Tippett and Thomas Adès, as well as four major works by Vaughan Williams in celebration of his 150th anniversary.

The Orchestra’s commitment to everything new and creative includes world premieres of Mark Simpson’s Piano Concerto and Composer-in- Residence Brett Dean’s In spe contra spem, as well as the UK premiere of Heiner Goebbels’s immersive spectacle A House of Call. We have also commissioned new works from a diverse range of composers from around the world – including Agata Zubel, Elena Langer and Vijay Iyer – whose contributions have been marginalised for too long.

Reflecting the narratives of our time, a recurring theme of the 2022/23 season is our connection to the issues of belonging and displacement. The feelings of kinship and place will be explored through such masterpieces as Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, Smetana’s Má Vlast and George Walker’s Lilacs. Just what is the concept of home to people who have experienced exile, homelessness or despair as a result of wars, political instability or racism – conditions that have forced countless refugees to leave their homes and to flee their native countries? We will survey music by composers whose work reflects upon the social and political transformations underpinning their lives, such as the Austrians Erich Korngold and Paul Hindemith, the Hungarian Béla Bartók, the Cuban Tania León, the Ukrainian Victoria Vita Polevá, and the Syrian Kinan Azmeh. And, of course, the theme of displacement will help us embrace the musical representations of very different cultures from all over the globe and the vibrancy created when these different cultures meet.

We are joined in these explorations by our Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis and Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski, plus, as always, world-renowned guest artists including Víkingur Ólafsson, Danielle de Niese, Miloš Karadaglić, Beatrice Rana, Randall Goosby, Gil Shaham, Leif Ove Andsnes and many others.

We look forward to the future with excitement and welcome you to join us at the Royal Festival Hall for a season of adventure!

Tickets go on sale to the general public 10am Monday 11 April 2022. 

 

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