London Philharmonic Orchestra

30 October 2024 to 2 November 2024 Royal Festival Hall

Karina Canellakis
Karina Canellakis

A wonderful slate of concerts conducted by LPO’s Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis.

Karina Canellakis conducts Schumann & Bruckner: Wed 30 Oct 2024, 6.30pm

London, Royal Festival Hall - Tickets from £14

Performers: Karina Canellakis conductor & Truls Mørk cello

Run time: 2 hours and 20 Minutes

From forest shadows to sunlit peaks; quiet melancholy to heaven-storming joy. Karina Canellakis presents a programme of passion and adventure.

Mists swirl, the air shivers and somewhere, far away, a solitary horn sounds a call to adventure. There might be symphonies that open more beautifully than Bruckner’s Fourth, but we can’t think of any! And that’s just the beginning of a musical journey that sweeps from forest shadows to sunlit peaks; quiet melancholy to heaven-storming joy. In Bruckner’s 200th anniversary year, the LPO’s inspirational Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis makes it the climax of a deeply romantic programme that also stars cellist Truls Mørk in the tender, passionate music of Robert Schumann – a composer with the soul of a poet.

 

Tchaikovsky’s Sixth: Sat 2 Nov 2024, 7.30pm

London, Royal Festival Hall - Tickets £9.8 - £70

Performers: Karina Canellakis conductor and Vadym Kholodenko piano

Run time: 2 Hours and 5 Minutes

Karina Canellakis presents an emotion-packed programme, with Tchaikovsky’s tragic final symphony.

Waves crash, tempests rise, and emotions surge and roar so fiercely that the words to express them simply don’t exist. That’s where music comes in, and when LPO Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis is holding the baton, there’ll be no holding back. Passion is the key tonight, whether Kaija Saariaho’s opening Lumière et Pesanteur, Beethoven’s darkest concerto (with the charismatic Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko at the keyboard) or Tchaikovsky’s tragic, autobiographical final symphony. ‘Pathétique’ means ‘full of emotion’ and if you’ve already experienced Canellakis’s special chemistry with the players of the LPO, you’ll know to bring the tissues.

Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.

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