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Tickets:

£48.50, £44.50, £39.50, £29.50, £21. Under 25s and f/t students £14

Group bookings

Buy 10 tickets and get the 11th free

Buy 20 or more tickets in the top three price areas and all tickets are reduced to the next price level, plus the leader goes free

Schools tickets

£14 per student, one free teacher per 10 pupils

Signed Performance

Treat yourself to our Virtuoso Lounge upgrade and enjoy reserved seating, personal table service, snacks and drinks, and more.

Lounge Experience

Join us for a free pre-concert talk to discover more about the pieces being performed

Programme

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 (Eroica)

Performers and Cast

Esa-Pekka Salonen

We’re delighted to welcome Esa-Pekka Salonen back to The Anvil.

Also Sprach Zarathustra opens with one of the most striking fanfares in all music. The music then goes through all sorts of transformations relating to different sections of the book which inspired it, before dissolving into a hushed, enigmatic ending, poised uncertainly between two keys.

The Eroica symphony expanded both symphonic form and musical language in one astounding blow, and established Beethoven as the leading composer of his day. The emotional heart of the piece is the famous funeral march, and it ends with a set of variations on a simple tune that overflows with musical imagination.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is Anvil Arts’ Orchestra in Partnership