2013 /14
Concerts September 2013 - June 2014
Royal Festival Hall
Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and
Artistic Advisor
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JANUARY 2014
Thu 23 / 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons / Hélène Grimaud
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2;
Symphony No. 4
Thu 30 / 7.30pmPhilippe Jordan /
Angela Denoke
WAGNER Overture,
Tannhäuser / STRAUSS
Selection of songs; Don Juan;
‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ and
‘Closing Scene’, Salome
FEBRUARY 2014
Thu 6 / 7.30pm Nicholas Collon /
Pekka Kuusisto
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes,
Peter Grimes / ADÈS Violin
Concerto / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 6
Thu 20 / 7.30pmAndris Nelsons /
Christian Tetzlaff
BRAHMS Academic Festival
Overture; Violin Concerto;
Symphony No. 2
Sun 23 / 7.30pmAndris Nelsons / Christian
Tetzlaff/Hanna Weinmeister/
Tanja Tetzlaff/Martin
Helmchen/Annette Dasch /
James Rutherford /
Philharmonia Chorus
BRAHMS
Piano Quartet No.3, Werther;
Ein deutsches Requiem
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Sun 20 / 3.00pmVladimir Ashkenazy/
Alice Sara Ott/Ladies of the
Philharmonia Chorus DELIUS The walk to the
Paradise Garden / GRIEG Piano
Concerto / HOLST The Planets
Thu 24 / 7.30pmJuraj Valcuha / Sunwook Kim
CHERUBINI Overture,
Medea / BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 4; Symphony No. 7
Thu 31 / 7.30pmYuri Temirkanov / Vilde Frang
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1,
Classical; Violin Concerto No. 2 /
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
NOVEMBER 2013
Thu 14 / 7.30pmGustavo Dudamel
MAHLER Symphony No. 7
Sat 30 / 1.30pmCarl Davis
NAPOLÉON (live with film)
DECEMBER 2013
Thu 12 / 7.30pmTugan Sokhiev / Viktoria
Mullova / Anastasia Kalagina
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto /
MAHLER Symphony No. 4
MSEPTEMBER 2013
Thu 26 / 7.30pmEsa-Pekka Salonen /
Paul Groves/ Christianne
Stotijn/Gerald Finley/
Philharmonia Chorus
BERLIOZ
Romeo and Juliet
Sun 29 / 3.00pmEsa-Pekka Salonen /
Piotr Anderszewski
BEETHOVEN Overture,
Namensfeier /
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto/
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
OCTOBER 2013
Thu 10 / 7.30pmAndris Nelsons /
Hélène Grimaud
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1;
Symphony No. 1
Sun 13 / 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons / Christian
Tetzlaff / Tanja Tetzlaff
BRAHMS St Anthony Variations;
Double Concerto in A minor;
Symphony No. 3
Thu 17 / 7.30pmVladimir Ashkenazy /
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
STRAVINSKY Four Norwegian
Moods / STRAVINSKY Violin
Concerto / TCHAIKOVSKY
Manfred Symphony
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 /
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MARCH 2014
Sun 9 / 3.00pmPablo Heras-Casado /
Nikolai Lugansky
BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont;
Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor /
MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 3, Scottish
Thu 20 / 7.30pmLorin Maazel
STRAUSS Also sprach
Zarathustra / Ein Alpensinfonie
Sun 23 / 3.00pm
Lorin Maazel / Esther Yoo
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel /
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3,
K216 / MUSSORGSKY (arr. Ravel)
Pictures at an Exhibition
APRIL 2014
Thu 3 / 7.30pm Edward Gardner /
Ruxandra Donose
WAGNER Overture, Rienzi /
BERLIOZ La mort de Cléopâtre /
ELGAR Symphony No. 1
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Arabella Steinbacher
JANÁCEK Overture, Jealousy /
DVORÁK Violin Concerto
in A minor / SUK Praga /
JANÁCEK Sinfonietta
Sun 13 / 7.30pmJakub Hrůša /
Lukás Vondrácek et al
SUK Scherzo Fantastique /
DVORÁK Piano Concerto /
JANÁCEK Glagolitic Mass
Sun 27 / 3.00pmJohn Wilson/
Cast to be announced
STRAUSS Die Fledermaus
MAY 2014
Thu 1 / 7.30pmVladimir Ashkenazy et al
PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite /
PROKOFIEV Ivan the Terrible
(Concert Oratorio with live
film extracts)
Thu 8 / 7.30pmDavid Afkham /
Sergey Khachatryan
LINDBERG Chorale / BERG
Violin Concerto / SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 9, The Great
Thu 15 / 7.30pm Jakub Hrůša / Truls Mørk DVORÁK Cello Concerto
SUK Asrael Symphony
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Nicholas Angelich
FAURÉ Suite, Pelléas et
Mélisande Op. 80 / RAVEL
Piano Concerto in G / DEBUSSY
La mer / STRAVINSKY Suite,
The Firebird (1919)
Sat 31 / 7.30pmYuri Temirkanov /
Denis Kozhukhin
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto
No. 1 / DVORÁK Symphony No. 9,
From the New World
JUNE 2014
Thu 5 / 7.30pmChristoph von Dohnányi /
Eva-Maria Westbroek
BEETHOVEN Overture,
Leonore No.1
STRAUSS Four Last Songs /
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9
Thu 12 / 7.30pm Paavo Järvi / Kirill Gerstein
GLINKA Overture, Ruslan and
Ludmilla / RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 3 /
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Thu 26 / 7.30pmEsa-Pekka Salonen /
Lisa Batiashvili/Olivier Latry
SAARIAHO Maan varjot
(Earth’s Shadows) (UK
première) SIBELIUS; Violin
Concerto; Symphony No. 2
Sun 29 / 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen et al
MAHLER Symphony No. 8,
Symphony of a Thousand
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Thursday 26 September 2013 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano
Paul Groves tenor
Gerald Finley baritone
Philharmonia Chorus
BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet
Esa-Pekka Salonen opens the new
season with a first-rate cast performing
Berlioz’s captivating choral symphony,
Romeo and Juliet. Widely considered
to be his most original and dramatic
programmatic work, it is a tour de force
for orchestra, chorus and soloists. A
personal homage to his own heroes,
Shakespeare and Beethoven, it has been
described by the musicologist Donald
Tovey as “one of the most gigantic and
convincing masterpieces
of music-drama” ever written.
Sung in French with English surtitles
This concert is supported by Michael
and Mercedes Hoffman
6pm, Pre-concert talk,
Royal Festival Hall. Dr Sarah Hibberd
introduces this evening’s programme.
FREE admission
SALONEN CONDUCTS BERLIOZ’ ROMEO AND JULIET
SALONEN 30TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Sunday 29 September 2013 3.00pm
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SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Piotr Anderszewski piano
BEETHOVEN Overture, Namensfeier
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Cast in five trailblazing movements,
the Symphonie fantastique celebrates
Berlioz’s delirious infatuation with the
Irish actress, Harriet Smithson, who
crops up throughout by means of her
own musical signature, or idée fixe. After
taking a draft of opium, Berlioz’s wild
ravings climax in a ‘Witches’ Sabbath’
finale, which sees Harriet consorting
with all manner of ghouls and fiends.
This afternoon’s concert marks the exact
date of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s début
appearance with the Philharmonia
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Thursday 10 October 2013 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor
Hélène Grimaud piano
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
The opening concert in Andris Nelsons’s
Brahms series features two masterworks
of blazing intensity. Brahms’s First
Piano Concerto is an astonishing
achievement for a 25-year-old, yet
he felt so intimidated by Schumann’s
prediction that he was the man destined
to ‘take over the mantle of Beethoven’
that he was 43 before going public with
his all-encompassing First Symphony.
Sunday 13 October 2013 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor
Christian Tetzlaff violin
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
BRAHMS St Anthony Variations
(Variations on a Theme by Haydn)
BRAHMS Double Concerto in A minor
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
Although a traditionalist at heart,
Brahms is always full of surprises.
A stand-alone set of variations for
orchestra seems a perfectly innocent
idea, yet it had hardly ever been done
before. Likewise a symphony of swirling
emotions in which every movement
ends quietly (audiences at the time
were taken completely unawares), and
a Romantic concerto in which the two
soloists have to share the limelight.
6pm, Pre-concert talk,
Royal Festival Hall.
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Thursday 17 October 2013 7.30pm
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
STRAVINSKY Four Norwegian Moods
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony
Rarely heard in concert, Tchaikovsky’s
gripping Manfred Symphony was inspired
by Lord Byron’s poem about a guilt-
ridden mountain dweller who summons
seven spirits in the vain hope they might
help him forget the past. The music’s
lurching from uncontainable elation to
inconsolable despair is the perfect foil
for the rhythmically cool, neoclassical
soundscapes of Stravinsky’s Violin
Concerto and the simply styled folk
melodies of the Four Norwegian Moods.
Sunday 20 October 2013 3.00pm (Please note start time)
SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
Alice Sara Ott piano
Ladies of the Philharmonia Chorus
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
GRIEG Piano Concerto
HOLST The Planets
Composed in 1868 while he was
holidaying with his wife and young child
in Denmark, Grieg’s Piano Concerto
embodies the spirit of one of the happiest
times in the composer’s life. But it was
more than two years later, after he
showed it to the great Franz Liszt, before
it achieved the public popularity that it
has enjoyed ever since. By comparison,
Holst’s planetary masterwork hit the
British music scene like a thunderbolt.
Almost overnight, he found himself
elevated from the position of a virtual
unknown into a national celebrity.
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Thursday 24 October 2013 7.30pm
Juraj Valcuha conductor
Sunwook Kim piano
CHERUBINI Overture, Medea
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Wagner referred to Beethoven’s Seventh
as the ‘apotheosis of the dance’, noting
that rhythm is the music’s prime
motivating force. Time and time again
throughout the symphony, Beethoven
takes a small rhythmic idea and runs
with it over and over as if mesmerised
by the intoxicating power of its
repetition, climaxing in a final coda
of overwhelming joy and excitement.
In this concert, music by Beethoven is
paired with an operatic overture by the
contemporary composer that he most
admired, Luigi Cherubini.
Thursday 31 October 2013 7.30pm
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Vilde Frang violin
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
Prokofiev and Rachmaninov were
like chalk and cheese. Both were
brilliant composer-pianists, but
whereas Prokofiev was an iconoclast
who delighted in railing at tradition,
Rachmaninov inherited Tchaikovsky’s
mantle without demur. They shared a
genius for indelible melody, however,
Prokofiev’s being typically cool and
sleek while Rachmaninov preferred
super-heated luxuriance.
6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival
Hall. A portrait of Christophe Bertrand,
conducted by Alejo Pérez with Elizabeth
Calleo (soprano).
FREE admission
JURAJ VALCUHA
TEMIRKANOV 75TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT
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Saturday 30 November 2013 1.30pm (Please note start and running times)
CARL DAVIS conductor/composer
Napoléon (silent film with live music)
Carl Davis’s epic score for the 1927
silent film of Napoléon (directed by
Abel Gance) is not only the longest
ever composed, but is also widely
celebrated as one of the finest. In this
performance of the elaborately tinted
and toned restoration by Photoplay
Productions and BFI – complete with
its dazzling triptych finale – music and
film lovers are given a rare opportunity
to experience one of the greatest
achievements in cinema history, a
seamless blend of epic film and Davis’s
own unique creative genius.
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plus a 100-minute interval at c. 5.00pm.
End time c. 9.30pm.
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Thursday 14 November 2013 7.30pm
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
MAHLER Symphony No. 7
The Seventh is one of Mahler’s most
bewitching musical creations. At its
heart are two movements entitled
Nachtmusik (‘Night Music’) and a central
scherzo whose haunting atmosphere and
ghostly meanderings appear to inhabit
another world. Add to that a pair of
outer movements of deeply unsettling
changeability and Dudamel’s conducting
alchemy, and you are guaranteed a night
out to remember.
This concert is supported by Joscelyn Fox
and the Edwin Fox Foundation
6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall.
A portrait of Benedict Mason,
conducted by Johannes Debus with
Valentina Coladonato (soprano).
FREE admission
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Thursday 23 January 2014 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor
Hélène Grimaud piano
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Andris Nelsons’s Brahms series
continues with the epic Second Piano
Concerto, a symphonic powerhouse of
scorching virtuosity that the composer
mischievously described as ‘a set of
little piano pieces’. The majestic Fourth
Symphony was the last of his works he
saw performed. Applause broke out at
the end of every movement leaving the
great man with tears streaming down
his face.
6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival
Hall. A portrait of Jonathan Harvey,
conducted by Antony Hermus with
Hae-Sun Kang (violin).
FREE admission
Tugan Sokhiev’s appearance
is supported by
The Meyer Foundation
Thursday 12 December 2013 7.30pm
Tugan Sokhiev conductor
Viktoria Mullova violin
Anastasia Kalagina soprano
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MAHLER Symphony No. 4
Two of the most enchanting pieces
of the Romantic era, Mendelssohn’s
life-enhancing concerto creates the
impression of having been conceived
in one miraculous sweep (in fact it
took him six years, on and off), while
Mahler’s Fourth possesses a magical,
Mendelssohnian innocence, culminating
in one of the most angelically beautiful
song-settings ever composed.
This concert is supported by the Friends
of the Philharmonia Orchestra
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Thursday 30 January 2014 7.30pm
Philippe Jordan conductor
Angela Denoke soprano
WAGNER Overture, Tannhäuser
STRAUSS Songs with orchestral
accompaniment
STRAUSS Don Juan
STRAUSS ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’
and ‘Closing Scene’, Salome
There could be no better way to
begin our celebration of the 150th
anniversary of Strauss’ birth than
with this captivating programme,
announced by the composer who was
his most potent influence: Richard
Wagner. In his orchestral swashbuckler
Don Juan, Strauss takes the listener
on an exhilarating helter-skelter
ride of orchestral machismo, surfing
the unquenchable tide of the Don’s
libidinous exploits. The programme
concludes with music from the climax
to his sumptuous and shocking one-act
opera Salome, including the famous
‘Dance of the Seven Veils’.
Vocal works sung in German with
English surtitles
6pm, Pre-concert recital,
Royal Festival Hall. Recital by Ziyu
Shen, winner of the 2013 Lionel Tertis
International Viola Competition.
NICHOLAS COLLON
Nicholas Collon’s appearance
is supported by The Meyer
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Thursday 6 February 2014 7.30pm Nicholas Collon conductor
Pekka Kuusisto violin
BRITTEN ‘Four Sea Interludes’,
Peter Grimes
ADÈS Violin Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 6
This classic, all-British programme
features two established masterpieces
from the period immediately following
the Second World War, and a modern
gem from Thomas Adès. Subtitled
‘Concentric Paths’, it consists of three
spellbinding movements – ‘Rings’,
‘Paths’ and ‘Rounds’ – that constantly
grab the attention with their audacious
creative surge and sense of spiralling
towards the unknown.
6pm, Pre-concert recital,
Royal Festival Hall. Recital by oboist
Oliver Phillips, a winner of the Martin
Musical Scholarship Fund.
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Thursday 20 February 2014 7.30pm Andris Nelsons conductor
Christian Tetzlaff violin
BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
Tonight’s programme finds Brahms at
his most radiantly inspired and upbeat.
The ebullient Academic Festival Overture
raises the curtain on one of the great
violin concertos, which soars aloft with
ecstatic brilliance. When working on
his sublime Second Symphony, Brahms
wrote contentedly to a friend: ‘The
melodies flow so freely that one must be
careful not to tread on them.’
Sunday 23 February 2014 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor
Christian Tetzlaff violin
Hanna Weinmeister viola
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
Martin Helmchen piano
Annette Dasch soprano
James Rutherford baritone
Philharmonia Chorus
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 3 in C
minor, Op.60, Werther
BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem
Andris Nelsons’s Brahms series climaxes
in Ein deutsches Requiem, composed
in memory of the composer’s mother
and his most famous champion, Robert
Schumann. In this epic masterwork he
poured out his heart as never before,
a profound emotional release from a
young composer who had emerged from
impoverished beginnings and now stood
on the verge of international acclaim.
A masterwork on a different scale opens
the concert. The turbulent, forceful
impulse that drives the Third Piano
Quartet was revealed to be inspired by
the desperation in Goethe’s Werther,
hence its nickname.
6pm, Pre-concert recital,
Royal Festival Hall. Recital by pianist
Yoshio Hamano, a winner of the Martin
Musical Scholarship Fund.
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Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Nikolai Lugansky piano
BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5,
Emperor
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish
This afternoon’s concert offers a
stunning reminder as to how quickly
the musical world changed between
Beethoven’s galvanising psychological
dramas (as encapsulated in his
Egmont Overture and Emperor Piano
Concerto) and Mendelssohn’s fleet-
footed Romanticism, which looks
simultaneously back to Mozart and
forward to Wagner, subtly shaded by
the rhythms of Scottish folk music.
This concert is supported by the Principal
Friends of the Philharmonia Orchestra
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Thursday 27 February 2014 7.30pm
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor
Martin Helmchen piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
The 35 year old Richard Strauss caused
a sensation with his tone poem ‘A Hero’s
Life’ when it was premièred in 1898,
shocking musicians and critics with
what was assumed to be an egotistical
display of musical autobiography. Since
then opinion has been divided – might
it be an ironic statement of musical
bombast? – but few disagree that it is an
extraordinary achievement, rich with
flamboyance, colour and pictorial drama.
6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall.
A portrait of Karin Rehnqvist, conducted
by Peter Tilling with Marie Axelsson and
Johanna Bölja Hertzberg (voice).
FREE admission
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Sunday 23 March 2014 3.00pm
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SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES
Lorin Maazel conductor
Esther Yoo violin
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3, K216
MUSSORGSKY (arr. Ravel) Pictures at
an Exhibition
This afternoon’s concert opens with one
of Strauss’s most sparkling miniatures.
Till Eulenspiegel depicts the ‘merry
pranks’ of its eponymous hero, a
German peasant who flirts, teases,
pokes fun at the clergy and rides his
horse through a marketplace. It is
paired with Ravel’s equally pictorial
orchestration of Mussorgsky’s musical
walk through an art gallery, Pictures
at an Exhibition.
This concert is sponsored
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A series of special concerts marking the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Richard
Strauss led by conductors with a personal affinity for his music. The Philharmonia
Orchestra has a particularly close historic relationship with the music of Strauss
(who conducted the Orchestra in 1947); it performed the world première of the Four
Last Songs in 1950 after the composer’s death.
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Thursday 20 March 2014 7.30pm
Lorin Maazel conductor
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
STRAUSS Ein Alpensinfonie
Our Strauss celebrations continue with
two of his most celebrated orchestral
blockbusters. Also sprach Zarathustra,
Strauss’s ‘homage to Nietzsche’s genius’,
became a runaway hit after film director
Stanley Kubrick used it to open 2001:
A Space Odyssey, while the Alpine
Symphony recounts a mountaineering
adventure in graphic detail for an
orchestra of over 150 players.
Part of the Southbank Centre’s Pull Out
All The Stops Organ Series
6pm, Pre-concert recital,
Royal Festival Hall. Recital by cellist
Yuki Ito, a winner of the Martin Musical
Scholarship Fund.
FREE admission
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Thursday 3 April 2014 7.30pm
Edward Gardner conductor
Ruxandra Donose mezzo-soprano
WAGNER Overture, Rienzi
BERLIOZ La mort de Cléopâtre
ELGAR Symphony No. 1
A glorious programme charting the
three main stages of Romanticism, from
Berlioz through Wagner to the sunset
glow of Elgar’s majestic First Symphony,
a work so overwhelming that the
première audience began applauding
EDWARD GARDNER
at the end of the slow movement,
forcing Elgar to come on stage and take
a bow before continuing.
Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre will be
sung in French with English surtitles
6pm, Pre-concert recital,
Royal Festival Hall. Recital by pianist
Dinara Klinton, a winner of the Martin
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A series of three concerts celebrating the musical legacy of Antonín Dvorák
through his own music and the voices of the compatriot composers he particularly
influenced, his son-in-law Josef Suk and Leoš Janácek. Jakub Hrůša is one of
the most exciting and authentic interpreters of this colourful, vibrant and unique
musical language.
Thursday 10 April 2014 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Arabella Steinbacher violin
JANÁCEK Overture, Jealousy
DVORÁK Violin Concerto in A minor
SUK Praga
JANÁCEK Sinfonietta
The first concert in Jakub Hrůša’s Czech
series opens with two rarely-performed
works: Janácek’s breathtaking overture
Jealousy, and Josef Suk’s symphonic
poem Praga. Dvorák’s enchanting Violin
Concerto is followed by Janácek’s best
known work, the Sinfonietta, a dazzlingly
inventive score dedicated to ‘the free
Czech men and women of today’.
6pm, Pre-concert performance,
Royal Festival Hall. Royal College of
Music students perform Janácek’s
Capriccio, introduced by Jakub Hrůša.
FREE admission.
Sunday 13 April 2014 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Lukáš Vondrácek piano
Gun-Brit Barkmin soprano
Monica Groop mezzo-soprano
Peter Berger tenor
Mischa Schelomianski bass
Thomas Trotter organ
Bristol Choral Society
SUK Scherzo Fantastique
DVORÁK Piano Concerto
JANÁCEK Glagolitic Mass
Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass is an exultant
affirmation of the power of love and
friendship. ‘In the tenor solo I hear a
high priest,’ Janácek explained, ‘in the
soprano solo a girlish angel and in the
chorus our people.’ Each of the five main
choral sections is preceded by a thrilling
instrumental fanfare, culminating in a
lustrous solo organ fantasia before the
work’s uplifting final section
Part of the Southbank Centre’s Pull Out
All The Stops Organ Series
6pm, Pre-concert talk, Royal Festival
Hall. Jakub Hrůša in conversation with
Nigel Simeone. FREE admission
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Sunday 27 April 2014 3.00pm (Please note start time)
SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES
John Wilson conductor
Simon Butteriss director and Dr Blind
Toby Spence Gabriel von Eisenstein
Rosalinde to be announced
Alan Opie Frank
Pamela Helen Stephen Prince Orlofsky
Rebecca Bottone Adele
Philharmonia Voices
STRAUSS Die Fledermaus
A very special afternoon of sparkling
Viennese wit and music-making.
Mistaken identity, infidelity and
excessive champagne consumption
abound in this brilliantly clever
commentary on the glittering hedonism
of late 19th century Vienna.
John Wilson brings his trademark verve
and panache to what is widely regarded
as Johann Strauss’s finest score.
Semi-staged performance in English
translation with surtitles
Premium prices apply, see page 23
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Thursday 1 May 2014 7.30pm
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
Lilli Paasikivi mezzo-soprano
Nathan Berg bass-baritone
Narrator to be announced
Philharmonia Voices
PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite
PROKOFIEV Ivan the Terrible
(Concert Oratorio with live film extracts)
The collaborations between filmmaker
Sergei Eisenstein and composer
Sergei Prokofiev are some of the
most successful in film history. The
director saw Prokofiev as a ‘man of the
screen’ and applauded the composer’s
‘magnificence of lyricism’. In Ivan the
Terrible, the tumultuous backdrop of the
Tsar’s 40-year reign allows for a varied
and colourful score, complete with
marches, dances and lullabies, which
is presented here alongside selected
excerpts from the film.
Sung in Russian with English surtitles
Thursday 8 May 2014 7.30pm
David Afkham conductor
Sergey Khachatryan violin
LINDBERG Chorale
BERG Violin Concerto
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, The Great
A fascinating programme featuring three
highly distinctive works bound together
by a common musical theme. In the case
of Berg’s Violin Concerto and Lindberg’s
Chorale it is a chorale melody employed
by Bach, the first three notes of which
also act as a musical motto for Schubert’s
Great Symphony, whose ‘heavenly
length’ (Schumann) grows entirely out
of its distinctive rising shape.
6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival
Hall. A portrait Of Chris Paul Harman,
conducted by Celso Antunes.
FREE admission
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
DAVID AFKHAM
The big laurel wreaths go to the fearless orchestra,
sharp as a knife.The Times, May 2013
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Jakub Hrůša conductor
Truls Mørk cello
DVORÁK Cello Concerto
SUK Asrael Symphony
The final Czech concert conducted by
Jakub Hrůša pairs Dvorák’s eloquent
Cello Concerto with his son-in-law
Josef Suk’s heartfelt Asrael Symphony.
This is a rare opportunity to hear one
of the large-scale masterpieces of the
symphonic repertoire. This personal,
eternal work was composed on learning
of the loss of the two most important
people in Suk’s life: his wife, Otilka, and
his mentor, Dvorák. ‘Music saved me’,
Suk said.
6pm, Pre-concert performance,
Royal Festival Hall.
Royal College of Music students perform
Janácek’s Diary of One Who Disappeared,
introduced by Jakub Hrůša.
FREE admission.
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Thursday 22 May 2014 7.30pm
Tugan Sokhiev conductor
Nicholas Angelich piano
FAURÉ Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
DEBUSSY La mer
STRAVINSKY Suite, The Firebird (1919)
Debussy’s principal aim in La mer
was ‘to create a mysterious harmony
between nature and the imagination’,
to translate the play of light on the
water and the sea’s place in the
natural world into musical sound.
Both Fauré and his pupil Ravel tended
more towards meticulously fashioned
soundscapes, while in The Firebird
Stravinsky took the Russian Nationalist
tradition to new levels of sensuality.
Saturday 31 May 2014 7.30pm
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Denis Kozhukhin piano
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, From the
New World
Written in 1893 to celebrate the 400th
anniversary of Columbus’s discovery
of America, From the New World
explodes with American folk-inspired
rhythms and melodies. However, Dvorák
does not completely shun the infectious
folk music of his native Bohemia,
the influence of which can be heard
throughout the symphony.
6pm Music of Today, Royal Festival
Hall Composers Academy culmination
concert featuring works by Samantha
Fernando, Michael Cutting, and
Matthew Kaner. Clark Rundell conducts.
FREE admission
TUGAN SOKHIEV
YURI TEMIRKANOV
It was an heroic achievement, which at the end left us all speechless.
The Daily Telegraph, May 2013
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Thursday 5 June 2014 7.30pm
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor
Eva-Maria Westbroek soprano
STRAUSS Four Last Songs
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9 We end our Strauss series fittingly with
the composer’s last completed work – a
work that was premièred in 1950 by the
newly formed Philharmonia Orchestra
in London. Few compositions come
close to its autumnal peace, best shown
in its final movement, ‘Im Abendrot’,
which portrays an ageing couple
watching the setting sun, closing their
eyes. Bruckner’s monumental Ninth
Symphony stands alongside the other
epoch-defining Ninth symphonies of
Beethoven and Mahler. In the hands
of perhaps the greatest interpreter
of Bruckner’s music alive, this is an
unmissable concert.
6pm, Pre-concert recital,
Royal Festival Hall. Recital by
saxophonist Amy Green, a winner
of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
FREE admission
Thursday 12 June 2014 7.30pm
Paavo Järvi conductor
Kirill Gerstein piano
GLINKA Overture, Ruslan and Ludmilla
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Paavo Järvi conducts an all-Russian
programme including Shostakovich’s
Fifth Symphony. It seems there was
no escaping the censorious spotlight of
Stalin’s cultural watchdog: Shostakovich
had effectively been backed into a
STRAUSS 150TH ANNIVERSARY 2014
PAAVO JÄRVIcorner when he produced his all-
conquering Fifth Symphony as an
‘artist’s response to just criticism’. Even
Rachmaninov, then living in America,
wasn’t spared when in the 1930s he was
declared ‘an enemy of Russia’ and his
music outlawed.
6pm, Pre-concert recital,
Royal Festival Hall. Recital by harpist
Rosanna Rolston, a winner of the
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
FREE admission
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Thursday 26 June 2014 7.30pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Olivier Latry organ
Lisa Batiashvili violin
SAARIAHO Maan varjot (Earth’s
Shadows) (UK première)
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the music
of his homeland in this all-Finnish
programme. Sibelius was initially
obsessed with the idea of becoming
a world-class violinist and even got
as far as an audition with the Vienna
Philharmonic. Had he succeeded, some
of the greatest orchestral music of the
20th century may never have been
written. The most immediate outcome
was the glorious Violin Concerto,
composed for the virtuoso which
Sibelius never became. Opening the
concert, the UK première of a work
written for the Philharmonia and the
newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall
organ by leading Finnish composer,
Kaija Saariaho.
Part of the Southbank Centre’s Pull Out
All The Stops Organ Series
Sunday 29 June 2014 7.30pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Elisabeth Meister soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn soprano Lucy Crowe soprano Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Justina Gringyte mezzo-soprano Tenor to be announced Roland Wood baritone Peter Rose bass Chorus to be announced Tiffin Boys’ Choir
MAHLER Symphony No. 8, Symphony
of a Thousand
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Mahler’s
mighty Symphony of a Thousand
to close the season. A hedonistic
amalgam of the medieval Latin hymn
Veni, creator spiritus (‘Come Thou,
infinite Creator’) and the closing scene
of Goethe’s Faust, Mahler’s Eighth
Symphony is scored for epic forces
including eight vocal soloists, two choirs
and a massive orchestra embracing six
clarinets (2 in E flat), four trombones,
offstage brass, two harps, mandolin and
a vast array of percussion instruments.
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All of our concerts are eligible for
substantial discounts if you book
for more than 3 concerts in one
transaction. Concerts that are
premium priced but eligible for
subscription discounts are marked on
the booking form with the symbol.
The table below will help you to
calculate the cost of your tickets by
showing you the price per ticket in
each seating area at each discount
code. If you would like us to calculate
the total cost, please leave payment
totals blank and we will advise you
when we send your tickets.
Subscription ticket prices (for seating plan see page 23)
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PHONE: Call the FREEPHONE Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office
on 0800 652 6717 to book your
tickets (Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm
call back answerphone service
out of hours).
POST: Fill in the booking form
and post to Philharmonia Orchestra
Box Office, FREEPOST RRGT-
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(NB this facility is not available
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E-MAIL: [email protected]
FAX: Complete the booking form
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Tickets may also be purchased from Southbank Centre PHONE: 0844 847 9921 (9am-8pm daily) * ONLINE: www.southbankcentre.co.uk * FAX: 0871 663 2594 * IN PERSON: Ticket Office, Royal
Festival Hall 10am–8pm daily
* Transaction fees apply. No fee
for Southbank Centre Members
GROUP BOOKINGS Book 10 or more tickets for any
concert and qualify for the
Philharmonia Orchestra Group rate:
25% discount. Other benefits include
1 free ticket for every 20 purchased,
flexible reservations and exclusive ticket offers.
School parties: 50% discount and 1 free
teacher’s ticket for every 10 purchased.
FAMILY TICKETS – SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR CHILDREN Each adult attending a concert
can purchase up to 2 tickets
for under-16s at half-price.
Philharmonia Orchestra concerts
are usually suitable for children aged
7 upwards. Children under 6 may
not be admitted at the discretion
of the orchestra and hall
management. Please contact
us to discuss your requirements
if you need additional guidance.
CONCESSIONS A limited allocation of half-price
tickets is available for recipients
of Jobseekers Allowance, Income
Support, Pension Credit, Under-16s
and full-time students. Appropriate
cards to be shown.
Please note that discounts /concessions cannot be combined.
PATRONS WITH DISABILITIESSouthbank Centre is accessible to
people with disabilities. Visitors with
a disability should join Southbank
Centre’s free Access List. You may be
eligible for tickets at concessionary
prices; a free ticket for a companion
who can assist you during your
visit; and receive information in
alternative formats. To join please
call 0844 847 9910, email [email protected] or visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk / accessThe auditorium is fitted with
Sennheiser infra-red systems.
Receivers can be collected from
cloakroom in Royal Festival Hall.
LEVEL ACCESSThere is level access throughout
Royal Festival Hall from the internal
lifts (some of the lifts have a limited
weight capacity; please call
0844 847 9910 to confirm), and there
are wheelchair spaces in the boxes,
choir seats, side and rear stalls
of the auditorium. Tickets for
wheelchair spaces can be booked
online or by phone on 0800 652 6717
or 0844 847 9910.
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HOW TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS
Freephone Box Office 0800 652 671720
Royal Festival HallPricing Codes
No. of Concerts Price per ticket
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7Signature seats
Full price (1-2 concerts)
Standard Premium
£48£60
£40.00£45.00
£31.00£36.00
£25.00£29.00
£20.00£24.00
£15.00£18.00
£12.00£15.00
£9.00£11.00
£48£60
£36.00£40.50
£27.90£32.40
£22.50£26.10
£18.00£21.60
£13.50£16.20
£10.80£13.50
£8.10£9.90
£48£60
£34.00£38.25
£26.35£30.60
£21.25£24.65
£17.00£20.40
£12.75£15.30
£10.20£12.75
£7.65£9.35
£48£60
£32.00£36.00
£24.80£28.80
£20.00£23.20
£16.00£19.20
£12.00£14.40
£9.60£12.00
£7.20£8.80
£48£60
£30.00£33.75
£23.25£27.00
£18.75£21.75
£15.00£18.00
£11.25£13.50
£9.00£11.25
£6.75£8.25
£48£60
£28.00£31.50
£21.70£25.20
£17.50£20.30
£14.00£16.80
£10.50£12.60
£8.40£10.50
£6.30£7.70
Standard Premium
Standard Premium
Standard Premium
Standard Premium
Standard Premium
3-5 concerts10%6-8 concerts15%
9-11 concerts20%12-14 concerts25%
15+ concerts30%
Transaction fees apply, phone and post £2.75, online £1.75 on all bookings through the Philharmonia box office
BOOKING FORM
Preferred Pricing
& Area CodeDate No of subscrip-tion tickets
No of additional tickets (charged at full price)
1st choice 2nd choice
FS / P1 RS / P1 2
Sub-total: cost of subscription ticketsAdd together the discounted prices of your tickets – see p.16 for details
Sub-total: cost of additional tickets
Total
Add a £2.75 fee per transaction
Cut out and post this booking form to: Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office, FREEPOST RRGT-AHSU-GXRE, London, SE1 7NX
Or scan and email to:
Or fax to:020 7921 3950 =Premium prices apply
1. Select the concerts you wish
to attend
2. Select where you would like to
sit in the concert hall from the plan
overleaf (NB you do not have to sit in
the same area for all of your concerts
– please indicate your requirements
on the booking form)
Please note that choir seats are not available for the concerts marked ‘Choir n /a’ 3. If you require additional tickets for
any concerts please indicate
the number you require in the
‘additional tickets’ box
If you would like help completing
your booking form, please call us
on FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717.
If you would prefer us to calculate
the total costs of your tickets, please
feel free to leave the payment totals
blank: we will advise you of the costs
when we send your tickets.
Example
26 Sep 2013 Salonen et al (Choir n/a)
29 Sep 2013 Salonen / Anderszewski
10 Oct 2013 Nelsons / Grimaud
13 Oct 2013 Nelsons / Tetzlaff
17 Oct 2013 Ashkenazy / Kopatchinskaja
20 Oct 2013 Ashkenazy / Ott
24 Oct 2013 Valcuha / Kim
31 Oct 2013 Temirkanov / Frang
14 Nov 2013 Dudamel
30 Nov 2013 Davis/Napoléon (Choir n/a)
12 Dec 2013 Sokhiev / Mullova / Kalagina
23 Jan 2014 Nelsons / Grimaud
30 Jan 2014 Jordan / Denoke
6 Feb 2014 Collon / Kuusisto
20 Feb 2014 Nelsons / Tetzlaff
23 Feb 2014 Nelsons et al (Choir n/a)
27 Feb 2014 Dohnányi / Helmchen
9 Mar 2014 Heras-Casado / Lugansky
20 Mar 2014 Maazel
23 Mar 2014 Maazel / Yoo
3 Apr 2014 Gardner / Donose
10 Apr 2014 Hrůša / Steinbacher
13 Apr 2014 Hrůša et al (Choir n/a)
27 Apr 2014 Wilson (Choir n/a)
1 May 2014 Ashkenazy et al (Choir n/a)
8 May 2014 Afkham / Khachatryan
15 May 2014 Hrůša / Mørk
22 May 2014 Sokhiev / Angelich
31 May 2014 Temirkanov / Kozhukhin
5 Jun 2014 Dohnányi / Westbroek
12 Jun 2014 Järvi / Gerstein
26 Jun 2014 Salonen / Batiashvili / Latry
29 Jun 2014 Salonen et al (Choir n/a)
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BOOKING INFORMATION / TICKET PRICES
PREMIUM CONCERTS All of our concerts are eligible for substantial discounts
if you book for more than 3 concerts in one transaction.
Concerts that are premium priced but eligible
for subscription discounts are marked on the booking
form with the symbol.
* SIGNATURE SEATS
We have selected the front stalls seats in the auditorium
with the best acoustic and view (concerts with a piano
soloist will have keyboard side premium seats) and will
sell these on a first come first served basis at £48 each
and £60 for concerts where premium pricing applies.
Subscription discounts do not apply although these
events can be included in the total number of concerts
when applying the subscription discount. Please call
FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717 for more information.
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE: Great discounts if you book for 3 or more concerts!Book for 3 or more concerts and receive the following
discounts on your tickets:
3-5 concerts 6-8 concerts 9-11 concerts 12-14 concerts 15 + concerts
For discounted ticket prices see page 16Philharmonia Orchestra subscribers also receive other
special benefits, including:
- Free ticket exchange scheme (up to 2 working days
before concert)
- Flexible payment: spread the costs of your tickets
over 3 months
SINGLE TICKET PRICES Transaction fees apply, phone and post £2.75, online £1.75 on all bookings through the Philharmonia box office
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Prices codes Signature seats * P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7
Standard pricedconcert
£48 £40 £31 £25 £20 £15 £12 £9
£60 £45 £36 £29 £24 £18 £15 £11 Premium priced concert
Location (Royal Festival Hall)
Selected Front Stalls
Front Stalls (FS)Rear Stalls (RS)Boxes (BX)
Front Stalls (FS)Rear Stalls (RS)Balcony (BY) Boxes (BX)Side Stalls (SS)
Front Stalls (FS)Rear Stalls (RS)
Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY)Side Stalls (SS) Wheelchair (WH)
Rear Stalls (RS)Balcony (BY) Wheelchair (WH)
Rear Stalls (RS)Balcony (BY)Side Stalls (SS)Wheelchair (WH)
Rear Stalls (RS)Balcony (BY)Side Stalls (SS)Choir (CH)Wheelchair (WH)
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Rear Stalls
Side Stalls Side Stalls
BoxesBoxes
Front Stalls
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P4P7 P6
P6 P5
P4
P2 P2
P1P2 P2
P2
P2
P3
P7
P7
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P7P6
P5P4P3P2
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SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERSThe Philharmonia Orchestra is grateful to its sponsors and supporters who make
possible the quality and diversity of its work. The Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2013 / 14
Royal Festival Hall season would not be possible without the particular support
of Mr Vincent Meyer and The Meyer Foundation.
The Philharmonia Orchestra would
also like to thank the following major
donors and Trusts and Foundations:
Memorial Charity
Foundation
The Wixamtree Trust
The income that the Philharmonia
Orchestra receives through our public
funding and sales at the Box Office covers
only 60% of our annual expenditure. This
means that, even with consistently sold-
out concert halls, our artistic ambitions
can only be realised with contributions
from generous individuals, corporate
support and Trusts and Foundations.
There are many different ways you can
support the Philharmonia. You may
wish to make a personal contribution to
support our work by becoming a Friend
or a member of our Conductors’ Circle,
entitling you to a number of benefits
that grant you exclusive access to the
Orchestra and its players.
Your company may also benefit from
a relationship with the Orchestra as part
of our Members’ Club or as a Corporate
Partner, taking advantage of a range
of bespoke corporate entertaining and
marketing opportunities that we can offer.
For more information on how you can
support the Philharmonia:
Tel 020 7921 3903
Email [email protected]
Web philharmonia.co.uk/support
SUPPORT US WELCOME TO SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALLSouthbank Centre is located on
the Thames riverside between Golden
Jubilee and Waterloo Bridges.
Getting to Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre. Belvedere Road,
London SE1 8XX
By underground: To Waterloo
or cross the river from Temple,
Embankment or Charing Cross
By rail: To Waterloo or Waterloo East
or cross the river from Charing Cross
By bus: To Waterloo: 1, RV1, 4, 26,
59, 68, X68, 76, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176,
188, 243, 341, 521 stop on Waterloo
Bridge; 77, 211, 381, 507 stop in York Rd
and Stamford St.
24-hour bus information 020 7222 1234
Southbank Centre has 2 car parks,
both open 24 hours:
Southbank Centre Car Park
– Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre Car Park
– Hungerford Bridge
Evening discounted rates apply after 5pm.
southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info/parking
Access
Southbank Centre is accessible to people
with disabilities.
Access line 0844 847 9910
www.southbankcentre.co.uk / access
Shop & Eat at Southbank Centre
With sweeping views across the River
Thames from the London Eye to
St Paul’s Cathedral, Festival Riverside
and Festival Terrace are lined with shops
and a range of restaurants, linking
the constantly evolving creative spaces
in Southbank Centre.
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