London Philharmonic Orchestra 2022/23 Concert Season
September 2022- May 2023 at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall
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.
Fri 16 Sep | Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde
We join forces with Opera Rara for a rare revival of Offenbach’s 1869 comic opera La Princesse de Trébizonde.
Edward Gardner - conductor
Lise Lindstrom - Tove
Karen Cargill - Wood-Dove
David Butt Philip - Waldemar
Robert Murray - Klaus the Fool
James Creswell - Peasant
London Philharmonic Choir
Members of the London Symphony Chorus
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Tom Coult - Violin Concerto: ‘Pleasure Garden’ (London premiere)
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 9
Copland - Appalachian Spring
Douglas J Cuomo - Saxophone Concerto: ‘a raft, the sky, the wild sea’ (UK premiere)
Derrick Skye - Prisms, Cycles, Leaps
Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Joshua Weilerstein - conductor
Joe Lovano - saxophone
Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
Tippett - A Child of Our Time
Edward Gardner - conductor
Nadine Benjamin - soprano
Sarah Connolly - mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Tarver - tenor
Roderick Williams - baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
London Adventist Chorale
Soloists of the Royal College of Music
Copland - El Salón México
David Bruce - The Peacock Pavane (world premiere)
Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
Gabriela Ortiz - Antrópolis
de Falla - The Three-Cornered Hat: Suites 1 & 2
Tan Dun - conductor
Sen Guo - soprano
Huiling Zhu - mezzo-soprano
Kang Wang - tenor
Shenyang - bass-baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
London Chinese Philharmonic Choir
Edward Gardner - conductor
Karen Cargill - Marguerite
David Junghoon Kim - Faust
Christopher Purves - Mephistopheles
Jonathan Lemalu - Brander
London Philharmonic Choir
Members of the London Symphony Chorus
London Youth Choir
Telemann - Suite for Orchestra: Burlesque de Quixotte
Ravel - Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Ibert - Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte
R Strauss - Don Quixote