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Tickets:

£46, £42, £35, £27, £18. Under 25s and f/t students £12 (includes £4 booking fee)

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

£12 per student, one free teacher per 10 pupils (includes £4 booking fee)

Talk

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

Programme

Sibelius: Finlandia
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 3
Stravinsky: Suite: The Firebird (1945)

Performers and Cast

Víkingur Ólafsson: piano
Santtu-Matias Rouvali

The Philharmonia Orchestra celebrates its 80th birthday, and Víkingur Ólafsson is its Featured Artist, so we are delighted to welcome them to open the season.

Finlandia, part of a suite which Sibelius wrote for a patriotic pageant in 1900, is possibly his most famous and stirring piece.

The opening movement of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto is full of tension and drama. The slow movement is a lyrical dialogue between the soloist and woodwinds, while the vivacious finale is punctuated with quicksilver piano cadenzas.

The Firebird was Stravinsky's first big success, a richly coloured ballet score based on a Russian folk tale in which the young prince overcomes a demon with the protection of a feather from the fabled firebird. It is glittering, imaginatively orchestrated music, with a rhythmic impetus all Stravinsky’s own.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is Anvil Arts' Orchestra in Partnership.