Composer

Experience stunning performances and sensational stories featuring remarkable women. Anna Sułkowska-Migoń—known in the orchestra world for her sensibility to nuance and detail—opens her SLSO debut with a dynamic overture by fellow Polish musician, Grażyna Bacewicz. Leila Josefowicz displays her formidable talent in Berg’s soul-searching Violin Concerto, written in remembrance of a lost friend. And the orchestra conjures the magic of Scheherazade’s 1,001 tales in Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved interpretation of the centuries-old Middle Eastern legend.

Scheherazade

Powell Hall

Debussy’s Nocturnes feature dazzling soundscapes, from the drifting clouds of Nuages to the dazzling light effects of Fêtes.

EPSG:4326

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

Barbican Centre

Violist Lawrence Power returns to perform Cassandra Miller’s acclaimed Viola Concerto, a piece heralded on its 2022 premiere as an instant classic. Miller weaves her personal attachments into music, creating a work that is delicate, emotionally charged, and deeply human.

Romeo & Juliet

The Bridgewater Hall

BBC Philharmonic - Romeo & Juliet

A pianist of profound emotional sensitivity, Mao Fujita is also a savvy programmer. He illustrates the youthful genius of Beethoven and Brahms in their first piano sonatas, the virtuosity of the variation form in contrasting sets by Mendelssohn and Berg, and the originality of Wagner in the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, perhaps the very essence of Romanticism.

Mao Fujita in Recital

Severance Music Center

Alban Berg revolutionised the opera tradition in 1925 with a gripping story that combines drama, murder and social study. The folk opera stars Daniel Schmutzhard (Wozzeck) and Annette Dasch (Marie), together with chief conductor Vassilis Christopoulos on the podium of the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, explore the expressive sound world of Berg’s masterpiece. After his successful Austrian debut in Graz with Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser and stints in Vienna and Salzburg, director Evgeny Titov returns to Graz Opera with one of the most important operas of the 20th century.

Wozzeck

Oper Graz

Following her hauntingly beautiful music theater performance in 2024’s A Song by Mahler, Jennifer Johnson Cano brings her “voluminous voice with remarkable agility” (Washington Post) back to PCMS. This performance with her husband, acclaimed collaborative pianist Christopher Cano, and St. Louis Symphony Principal Violist Beth Guterman Chu, features solo pieces, duos, and trios that highlight the eloquence and depth of the modern mid-range.

Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo Beth Guterman Chu, viola Christopher Cano, piano

 Benjamin Franklin Hall

Subscription Concert

Kurpark Bad Oeynhausen

Konzerthalle, Bad Salzuflen

Detmold University of Music

Stadthalle Gütersloh

Schützenhof city park

Stadtpark Schützenhof Hangül GmbH

Stadttheater Lippstadt

Minden City Theater

Paderhalle Paderborn

Tchaikovsky wrote his Fourth Symphony during a period of great personal turmoil, and this is evident in the music, which is permeated with the composer's inner struggle to find meaning and peace amidst chaos. The work opens with a grand and somber theme, symbolizing fate, which plays a central role throughout the symphony. Some call the work Tchaikovsky's Symphony of Fate.

Tchaikovsky & Berg

Aalborg Central Waterfront

A most heart-stirring concert awaits you, portraying vastly different approaches to grief and memory. In the “Eroica,” grief turns into fury, when the original dedicatee, Napoleon, crowns himself emperor and the enraged Beethoven now celebrates only “the memory of a great man.” From two bolts-out-of-the-blue chords to exhilarating finale, the Symphony’s majesty and drama, extraordinary scope, and bold harmonies all proclaim a new era in music. Turning his grief into sorrow, Berg inscribes his heartbreaking Concerto, sensitively performed by our concertmaster, “To the memory of an angel”—a vivacious 18-year-old girl struck down by polio. He paints her portrait in the first movement, and, in the emotional heart of the Concerto, incorporates Bach’s chorale, “It is enough; Lord, if it pleases you/Unshackle me.”

Beethoven’s Eroica

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Willamette University

Special Student Project: 20th and 21st Century Chamber Concertos: A Centennial Perspective

Manhattan School of Music

Beethoven's piano sonatas are one of the absolute monuments, not only in piano literature, but in classical music as a whole. At the concert in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall, Fujita performs Beethoven's first piano sonata, where he still stands on the shoulders of Haydn and Mozart, but heralds what is to come.

Mao Fujita

Mogens Dahl Koncertsal

The tragic drama of an oppressed person from society’s lower classes: Wozzeck, a hardworking but penniless soldier, is increasingly losing control of his life and his mind. He is seized by increasingly violent psychotic episodes, until in a delusion, he stabs and kills his girlfriend Marie.

Bebelplatz

Soprano Louise Alder returns to Garsington Opera for a recital with renowned pianist Joseph Middleton. Joseph is widely regarded as one of the most exceptional pianists of his generation and is renowned for his song accompaniment and he collaborates with many of the world’s foremost singers, being described by the New York Times as “the perfect accompanist”. Louise was last on the Garsington stage as Pamina Die Zauberflöte in 2018 and has since gone on to delight audiences worldwide, most recently as Countess Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne this summer. Louise sings at the last night of the BBC Proms this summer and makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in November.

Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton

Wormsley

Joined by the phenomenal soprano Lucy Crowe, we journey across centuries and styles. From Handel and Haydn’s bright elegance to the vivid, kaleidoscopic textures of Messiaen, and from Berg’s exquisite The Nightingale to Gershwin’s jazz-tinged lyricism, come for an inspiring and beautiful range of music. Soar through centuries of music with one of the country’s most exciting orchestras and finest of singers.

Fantasia Orchestra with Lucy Crowe: Birdsong

Smith Square Hall

In March 1913, Arnold Schönberg conducted a musical program at the Vienna Musikverein, which was later called the “scandal concert.” The program included his Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, a wall-breaker in the prevailing musical order. In addition, Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlied and Alban Berg’s songs to poems written on landscape postcards by the Bohemian poet Peter Altenberg were heard. A general uproar broke out during the Altenberg songs, and supporters and opponents of the modernists clashed.

Scandal concert

Espoo Cultural Centre

Experience an unforgettable lunchtime concert of chamber music as the Kyan Quartet returns to Smith Square Hall with a bold and thought-provoking programme. The concert opens with Alban Berg’s gripping String Quartet No. 3—an intense, single-movement work that captures the expressive extremes of early 20th-century modernism. Full of sudden contrasts, fleeting lyricism, and structural intricacy, Berg’s quartet is a cornerstone of the Second Viennese School, offering a richly emotional and intellectually compelling listening experience.

Kyan Quartet

Hailed by The Strad for playing with “tremendous heart and beauty,” the Ivalas Quartet has been changing the face of classical music since its inception in 2017 with a mission to enrich the classical music world by spotlighting past and present BIPOC composers alongside the standard repertory. Among the many composers whose works they have championed are Eleanor Alberga, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Jessie Montgomery, Angélica Negrón, Iván Enrique Rodríguez, Carlos Simon, Alvin Singleton, and George Walker. They premiered Derrick Skye’s Deliverance through a commission from Caramoor in 2024.

Ivalas Quartet

High School of Fashion Industries

Experience the sublime beauty of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, lovingly written in memory of the French composer’s father. Soprano Sarah Dufresne and baritone Xiaomeng Zhang join forces with the Vancouver Chamber Choir to present this monumental choral work of eternal serenity. Maestro Tausk leads the orchestra in Johannes Brahms’ Song of Destiny and Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, dedicated by the composer to “the memory of an angel” and masterfully interpreted by violinist Maria Milstein.

Fauré’s Requiem

Orpheum

Since 2010, chamber music ensembles of the Staatskapelle have been performing at the Bode Museum, a jewel of Berlin's museum landscape. Matinee concerts lasting just over an hour in the Gobelin Hall, with diverse programs that include music from the Baroque and Classical periods as well as works from the Romantic and Modern periods, can easily lead into further hours in the museum—for example, with a guided tour of the exhibition and the "Artwork of the Day," a private tour, or a culinary finale in the stylish museum café.

Museum Concert I

UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel

125 years Wiener Symphoniker

Vienna Music Society

In a society that is numb, exploitative, and characterized by clear hierarchies, the soldier Wozzeck is a powerless outsider: living in the most humble and precarious circumstances, he finds himself at the very bottom of the social fabric. Someone like him has "only one corner of the world": his love for Marie and their illegitimate child. Oppressed by his captain and abused by a doctor for inhumane experiments, he is increasingly plagued by delusions. When Marie begins an affair with the drum major, Wozzeck loses his last grip. The hopelessness of his existence ultimately drives him to commit a violent act himself.

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Discover the sublime in Messiaen’s transcendent L’Ascension. Stefan Jackiw takes on Berg’s moving Violin Concerto, an homage to innocence lost, while Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration provides a powerful exploration of life’s ultimate journey. Music Director Jun Märkl conducts this concert of reflective depth and stirring melodies.  

Transformations of Spirit: Jackiw plays Berg

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Hans Graf brings “a brave new world of music-making” (The Straits Times) to Schubert’s romantic Symphony No. 8, the great “Unfinished” masterwork that packs a lifetime of hope, suffering, and joy into just two perfect movements. “Spellbinding soloist” Renaud Capuçon performs Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto—a mysterious, autumnal farewell “to the memory of an angel.”

Schubert’s “Unfinished” Capuçon plays Berg

Kennedy Center

"Not Bach, he should be called the sea!" Ludwig van Beethoven once said with reference to Johann Sebastian Bach. And the influence this had on later generations is truly enormous. In 1911, Arnold Schoenberg peppered his "Harmonielehre" with examples from the Thomaskantor's work. Schoenberg's student Anton Webern, in turn, arranged the "Ricercar" from Bach's "Musical Offering" for orchestra in 1935. His plan: to make not only all six parts audible, but also the components of the fugue subject through sophisticated instrumentation. Alban Berg, Schoenberg's second student, went a step further. His Violin Concerto, also composed in 1935, is contemporary music par excellence. But the melody to which the entire work leads is the Bach chorale "Es ist genug". It forms the moving conclusion of a concerto dedicated to Manon Gropius, Alma Mahler's daughter, who died young.

2nd Symphony Concert

Theater Nordhausen

House of Art

One of the most revered artists of his generation, Stephen Kovacevich performs piano sonatas by Beethoven, Schubert, and Berg. 

Stephen Kovacevich, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts joins Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles and the San Francisco Symphony for Berg’s Seven Early Songs. Although Berg was in his early 20s at the time and a devoted disciple of Schoenberg, these surging and sumptuous songs reveal his late-Romantic leanings, too. Occasional touches of Strauss, Mahler, Brahms, Debussy, and Wagner combine with Berg’s rigorous originality in an appealing package. Mahler understood the value of his First Symphony right away, confessing that conducting it “sent shivers down my spine.” Mahler ensures all our senses will be fully engaged from the opening movement, a deliciously drawn-out meditation on D major that deploys harmonics in the strings to create its cosmic drone—an effect he described as “a shimmering and glimmering of the air.” You can best believe it’s still bejeweled.

Runnicles Conducts Mahler 1

Davies Symphony Hall

Based on Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck, Berg’s opera is a harrowing and brilliant critique of the cycles of suffering imposed by systems of power, laced with moments of wry humor that expose the absurdity of human folly. It reveals how decisions driven by war, greed, and disregard for human lives cascade downward, devastating the less fortunate while reflecting on universal struggles that resonate across time. Berg’s expressionist opera is acknowledged as the most important of the early 20th century.

West Edge Opera

Pentecost Festival: Chamber Concert

Baden-Baden

A look into the "abyss of man": 100 years after the premiere, Alan Gilbert conducts the opera "Wozzeck" by Alban Berg at the Hamburg International Music Festival. On May 23 and 25 in the Elbphilharmonie.

IMF: Alan Gilbert conducts Alban Berg's "Wozzeck"

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Igor Stravinsky’s wild Russian folk-fable of a ballet The Firebird, retains the power to shock and enthrall into its second century. Kicking off the program is the 2002 orchestral piece Chorale—based on the familiar Bach chorale “Es ist genug”—from Esa-Pekka Salonen’s longtime friend Magnus Lindberg. Alban Berg’s last completed score and probably his most famous, the Violin Concerto functions both as an elegy for a surrogate daughter who died too soon, and as a requiem for himself.

Salonen Conducts The Firebird

"Man is an abyss, it makes you dizzy when you look down."
With incomparably stirring, moving music, Alban Berg focuses on the inner life of a person who is neither a hero, nor a privileged person, nor a chosen one: the penniless soldier Wozzeck could hardly be worse off. Derided, mistreated and abused by society, he barely has enough to feed Marie and their illegitimate child. The progressive deterioration of his physical and mental health leads to catastrophe.

Staatstheater Darmstadt

In 2025, the Dresdner Musikfestspiele brings the NHK Symphony Orchestra, renowned throughout the world as one of Asia’s leading orchestras, to Dresden for the first time, where it gives two performances. Under the baton of its chief conductor Fabio Luisi, the former general music director of the State Opera of Saxony in Dresden, it will join forces with the outstanding Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai to interpret Alban Berg’s astoundingly beautiful and moving Violin Concerto »Dem Andenken eines Engels« (To the Memory of an Angel) on the evening before the Festival’s official opening night.

Suwanai – NHK Symphony Orchestra - Luisi

Frauenkirche Dresden

Simone Young

Gasteig HP8

This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production from the extraordinary imagination of South African artist William Kentridge, offering audiences an immersive, interdisciplinary experience described as “a breathtaking masterpiece... a work of art across many genres."

Canadian Opera Company

Katherine Ivie, voice - Second Year Master's Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

It is exactly 100 years since the birth of Pierre Boulez, the influential, groundbreaking composer and conductor who was closely associated with the Staatskapelle Berlin. He often conducted concerts by the orchestra, which appointed him honorary conductor in 2005 on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This year's FESTTAGE concert will feature music that is directly associated with Boulez, music by two composers with whom he had a special relationship, Alban Berg and Gustav Mahler. There will also be a composition by Boulez himself, the Notations for large orchestra, with which the Staatskapelle is very familiar thanks to repeated performances in the past.

Festive Concert Staatskapelle Berlin

Berliner Philharmonie

Joint Student Recital: Rafaela Doser & Nazmee Kamal

Carnegie Mellon University

In a proven and moving mixture of words, images and sound, musicians from the orchestra remember former employees of the opera who were expelled by the National Socialists from 1933 onwards. Between the movements, Margarita Broich reads from personal documents of Paul Feher (tenor), Theo Front (assistant director), Berthold Goldschmidt (musical advisor) and Hilde Reiss (chorus singer).

Chamber Music V: Against forgetfulness

Deutsche Oper Berlin

One of Britain’s preeminent 21st-century string quartets returns to Carnegie Hall’s most intimate stage. Renowned for its Haydn cycle, the Doric String Quartet opens the performance with one of the composer’s six Op. 20 quartets. The enormity of these early works’ influence on music is often noted, and in No. 4—the most popular of the set—their inexhaustible vibrancy remains equally striking. Berg’s passionate and visceral Lyric Suite follows, promising a journey of stunning contrast. The concert ends with the bittersweet potency of Beethoven’s final complete opus: his String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135.

Doric String Quartet

Carnegie Hall

The Leonkoro Quartet, an ensemble that has swiftly risen to prominence since its inception in Berlin in 2019, is set to perform as part of the University of Chicago's 2024/25 Classic Concert Series. Named after the Esperanto word for lionheart, the quartet features the talents of string players Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz, Amelie Wallner, and Mayu Konoe. Their remarkable ascent in the classical music world is underscored by their victory at the prestigious Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and their selection for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists program. 

Renowned for their perfectly unanimous, colorful, and original performances, the Leonkoro Quartet has captivated audiences across Europe's premier venues and festivals. Their blend of youthful exuberance and mature musical insight distinguishes them as a standout ensemble of their generation. The program for their performance includes Joseph Haydn's Quartet in F Major, Op. 50, No. 5 The Dream, Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, and Felix Mendelssohn's Quartet in e minor, Op. 44, No. 2. This carefully curated selection showcases the quartet's versatility and deep understanding of both classical and contemporary repertoires, promising an evening of profound musical exploration and exceptional artistry.

Leonkoro Quartet

Logan Center

“Let us fly without rest or pause into the land of my dreams…” For Claude Debussy, the poetry of Baudelaire conjured new and ravishing colours, just waiting to be transformed into sound. Over in 1890s Vienna, meanwhile, those same verses unlocked dark passions and wild (sometimes dangerous) imaginings – a glorious, iridescent turmoil into which Alban Berg dived headlong.

Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg

Leonkoro Quartet is comprised of string-players Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz, Amelie Wallner, and Mayu Konoe. Their swift rise in classical music is highlighted by their victory at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and their selection for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists program. Capturing hearts in Europe's premier venues and festivals, Leonkoro's blend of youthful exuberance and mature musical insight makes them a standout ensemble of their generation.

University of Utah

Founded in Berlin in 2019, Leonkoro Quartet solidified its place among celebrated chamber music ensembles, sweeping competitions across Europe in 2022. We are fortunate to witness their exceptional artistry firsthand as the CMH Emerging Young Ensemble of the 2024-2025 Season — in particular Alban Berg’s lovely Lyric Suite, and Ravel’s String Quartet on his 150th birthday!

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

The Leonkoro Quartet, founded in Berlin in 2019, is framed by brothers Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz on first violin and cello, while the middle voices are formed by Amelie Wallner on second violin and Mayu Konoe on viola. In Esperanto, Leonkoro means Lionheart, alluding to a children’s book about two brothers, a book that juxtaposes the grave reality of death with a large and heartfelt yearning for comfort and solace – a sentiment that string quartet repertoire addresses in several instances.

Leonkoro String Quartet (SF debut)

Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Lesher Center for the Arts

Chamber Music in the Brahms-Saal

### Event Description: BSO: Heyward Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth

**Event Title:** BSO: Heyward Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth

**Date and Time:** Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 8:00 PM

**Location:** The Music Center at Strathmore

**Event Overview:**
Join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for an evening of profound musical exploration as Jonathon Heyward conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. This iconic piece, known for its dramatic journey from darkness to light, will be performed alongside other significant works, creating a rich tapestry of sound and emotion.

**Program:**
- **BERG:** Violin Concerto
- **MARTINŮ:** Memorial to Lidice
- **BEETHOVEN:** Symphony No. 5

**Featured Artists:**
- **Conductor:** Jonathon Heyward
- **Violinist:** Augustin Hadelich

**Event Highlights:**
- **Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony:** A powerful narrative of fate and faith, this symphony is a cornerstone of classical music, renowned for its emotional depth and dramatic structure.
- **Berg’s Violin Concerto:** A hallmark of the violin repertoire, this concerto offers a mysterious, autumnal sound world, masterfully interpreted by virtuoso Augustin Hadelich.
- **Martinů’s Memorial to Lidice:** A poignant tribute to the victims of a Nazi massacre, this piece intertwines elements of Beethoven’s Fifth and the St. Wenceslas Chorale, serving as both a tender hymn and a fervent prayer.

**Additional Information:**
- **Tickets:** Available for purchase on the BSO website.
- **Note:** This event is not presented by Strathmore.
- **Accreditation:** Strathmore is Global Biorisk Advisory Council STAR accredited.

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Heyward Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth

The Music Center at Strathmore

In a surge of passion and drama, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony traces a clear narrative of darkness to light, probing the eternal questions of fate and faith. A hallmark of the violin repertoire, Berg's concerto delves into a mysterious, autumnal sound world, played to perfection by celebrated virtuoso Augustin Hadelich. Just as Berg sought spiritual solace by quoting a chorale by J.S. Bach, Martinů draws upon Beethoven's Fifth and the St. Wenceslas Chorale in this memorial to a Nazi massacre, both a tender hymn and a fervent prayer.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony & Augustin Hadelich

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

In celebration of the 100th birthday of Pierre Boulez, conductor Daniel Cohen joins BBC NOW for an evening of 20th Century gems, kicking off with Boulez’s own Livres pour cordes. Unsurpassable beauty and depth run deep in this angular and fragmentary work, which is nothing but lyrical throughout.

Boulez at 100

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Sophia Grace Donelan is a student of Nova Thomas. 

Sophia Grace Donelan, Soprano

In 1935, Anton Webern followed the example of his teacher Arnold Schönberg, who had studied Bach's music intensively between the two world wars. Following his teacher's ideals, Webern orchestrated the "Ricercar" from Bach's "Musical Offering". Alban Berg, also a student of Schönberg, saw his violin concerto as a requiem for Manon Gropius, who died of polio at the age of just 18. A..

Guest Concert

Jugendstil-Festhalle

Sebastian Bohren knows both sides. The Swiss is not only an outstanding representative of the younger generation of violinists. As the organizer of his own concert series and a festival, he is also a successful cultural manager. It is therefore not surprising that he is concerned about the concert business. "We musicians should take more responsibility for our...

Festhalle Wörth

Sebastian Bohren knows both sides. The Swiss is not only an outstanding representative of the younger generation of violinists. As the organizer of his own concert series and a festival, he is also a successful cultural manager. It is therefore not surprising that he is concerned about the..

BASF-Feierabendhaus

Karina Canellakis conducts Debussy’s La Mer, which shimmers with a multitude of orchestral textures in its portrayal of the sea. Messiaen’s Les Offrandes oubilées is a profound expression of his devout faith, and Berg’s Violin Concerto — here performed by Veronika Eberle — blends modern compositional techniques with deep emotions. This concert begins with a musical meditation by Saariaho.

Canellakis Conducts Messiaen and La Mer

David Geffen Hall

Classical art songs and modern poetry – lieder recital meets poetry reading in this series of events organised jointly with the Haus für Poesie Berlin. Each of the four evening events held in the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin will feature a poet reading original works whose themes complement the songs on the programme.

Songs and Poets: Drink soul! Drink loneliness!

One of the most exciting and original voices on the international string quartet scene today, the Berlin-based Leonkoro Quartet bring their youthful inimitable joie de vivre to a programme of chamber music greats by Haydn, Berg and Ravel.

Royal Irish Academy of Music

Under the baton of Vasily Petrenko, the orchestra performs music that has never lost its power to thrill – including Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with Paul Lewis.

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Southbank Centre

Music thrives on change: for centuries, great composers have channelled the spirit of their age into music that shocked some and gripped others – but has never lost its power to thrill. Stravinsky’s taboo-smashing ballet provides the final blast tonight, as Vasily Petrenko conducts this explosive opening concert of the RPO’s new series. But first he explores the rich, strange and sometimes violent new sounds that Alban Berg created in the Vienna of Klimt and Mahler. And he is joined by the superb British pianist Paul Lewis in a masterpiece that broke all the rules and still sounds just as exciting today as when it was premiered. It’s the concerto they call the ‘Emperor’: daring, majestic and filled from beginning to end with the irrepressible genius of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

Royal Festival Hall

We are delighted to welcome the new Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth, in a programme which highlights connections in Viennese music across generations.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

The Anvil

Brahms finished his Second Symphony directly on the heels of his First, but it would be hard to find two more different works. Occasionally referred to as his ‘Pastoral’ symphony, it is of a much happier and lighter nature, and it was immediately taken to the hearts of Viennese audiences, with its sunny themes and numerous dance-like melodies – gentle and lyrical. In their simple beauty the themes give the impression of having been written down in inspired spontaneity. Berg was not a musician of revolutionary temperament. On the contrary, he had great reverence for musical tradition, demonstrated in his Violin Concerto which draws substance from, and pays homage to, the musical past. Throughout the work Berg uses the Lutheran chorale It is Enough to form repeated phrases before ending in peaceful reverence; this perhaps explains Berg’s dedication “to the memory of an angel.” Johann Strauss’ sweeping waltz conjures the elegance of the Viennese dancehalls.

BSO: Viennese Whirls

Portsmouth Guildhall

Music from different worlds and centuries collide in Domingo Hindoyan’s debut with Ensemble 10:10. Featuring Liverpool's own William Bracken on piano, Alban Berg's 1920s masterpiece was fashioned in the intellectual cauldron of Vienna. Kareem Roustom’s Violin Concerto was inspired by a musical phrase from a Mozart concerto which invoked his own Arabic musical heritage and language, and will be played tonight by its dedicatee, Michael Barenboim. On the other hand, Sam Kane – winner of the 2023 Rushworth Composition Prize – takes his musical roots from his own Irish ancestry.

Ensemble 10:10

Yoko Ono Lennon Centre

The Twilight of the Austrian Hapsburg Empire

First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City

### Event Description: Strauss, Berg & Brahms - LPO

**Event Title:** Strauss, Berg & Brahms - LPO

**Date and Time:** Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 7:30 PM

**Location:** Royal Festival Hall, London

**Ticket Price:** £7 - £70

**Event Overview:**
Join the London Philharmonic Orchestra for an evening of profound musical exploration as they present works by Richard Strauss, Alban Berg, and Johannes Brahms. Under the baton of Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, and featuring the exceptional violinist Isabelle Faust, this concert promises to be a deeply moving experience.

**Programme:**
- **Richard Strauss:** Metamorphosen (26 minutes)
- **Alban Berg:** Violin Concerto (28 minutes)
- **Johannes Brahms:** Symphony No. 2 (40 minutes)

**Performers:**
- **Edward Gardner:** Conductor
- **Isabelle Faust:** Violin

**Event Highlights:**
- **Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen:** A poignant reflection on the devastation of wartime Germany, this piece is both a lament and a testament to resilience.
- **Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto:** Dedicated to the memory of a young girl, this concerto transforms personal grief into a universal expression of beauty and sorrow.
- **Brahms’s Symphony No. 2:** Composed in the serene Austrian Alps, this symphony radiates warmth and joy, yet carries an undercurrent of introspection.

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**Related Event:**
- **LPO Showcase: Foyle Future Firsts and the Royal Academy of Music**
  - **Date and Time:** Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 6:00 PM
  - **Description:** Join the current cohort of Future Firsts, students from the Royal Academy of Music, and members of the LPO for a vibrant performance conducted by Edward Gardner.

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**Additional Information:**
- **Insight and Commitment:** Edward Gardner and Isabelle Faust are renowned for their deep musical insight and commitment, ensuring every note resonates with emotion, whether tragic, troubled, or joyful.

**Quotes:**
- "Isabelle Faust is a fearless leader in the realms of the violin." - Süddeutsche Zeitung

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- **Brahms, Symphony No. 2 I. Allegro non troppo**
- **Timpani Moments Brahms 2: I. Allegro Non Troppo**

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- **Recording:** Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

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Strauss, Berg & Brahms

When memories turn into music, the personal becomes universal: Brahms’ sunny Second Symphony lights up this London Philharmonic Orchestra concert.

Separated by a few short years and the turn of a century, this concert features two utterly different string quartets from two modernist giants who typify the staggering range of fin de siècle classical music.

Schoenberg’s visionary second quartet sees Ensemble 360 joined by superstar soprano Claire Booth for a surprisingly accessible and personal work that stretches from the intimate to the interstellar. Debussy’s sensual and impressionistic quartet shimmers with life and light between opening storms and a grand conclusion.

Contrasts

Sheffield Theatres

Lulu's uniqueness challenges the norm. Is she real, a mythological figure or a figment of men's imagination? Innocent victim or a destructive demon? She's none of these things yet all of them. This feral, vulnerable, creature's struggle with the world, during which she's appropriated and exploited before being murdered, began when she was dragged out of her element.

Lulu

Oper Frankfurt

Join us for an exquisite evening at the Salle Philharmonique in Liège on Sunday, November 24th, 2024, at 4:00 PM for a recital that promises to be a highlight of the musical season. Esteemed pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, renowned for her profound musicality and legendary status among pianists of our time, will grace the stage as part of the prestigious "Piano 5 étoiles" series.

Elisabeth Leonskaja, a true heir to the great Russian musical tradition, embodies the quintessence of music-making. With a powerful stage presence and an ethereal approach to performance, she brings to life the works of Mozart, Berg, and Schubert in a recital that showcases her unparalleled talent and deep musical insight. The program features Mozart's Sonatas in F major, K. 280, and D major, K. 576, Berg's Sonata Op. 1, and culminates with Schubert's monumental Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960, a pinnacle of the piano literature.

The recital, lasting approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes, is not just a concert but an immersive experience into the genius of classical music, interpreted by one of its most distinguished exponents. Tickets are priced at 34 / 18 / 11, offering options for every enthusiast to witness this unforgettable performance.

For more information on accessing the venue and booking your tickets, please visit the Salle Philharmonique de Liège at Boulevard Piercot, 25-27, B - 4000 Liège, Belgium. Ticket reservations can be made online, at the OPRL ticket office, or by phone, ensuring your place at this not-to-be-missed event. Join us for a musical journey with Elisabeth Leonskaja that promises to be both enlightening and inspiring.

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

Winner of the coveted Premio Abbiati (Best Soloist of the Year) in 2022, pianist Filippo Gorini is a supremely gifted musician who has impressed in many of the world’s great concert venues. In his Carnegie Hall debut recital, he performs Beethoven’s “Diabelli Variations,” a virtuosic undertaking that has earned Gorini a Diapason d’Or, as well as five-star reviews in The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, and Le Monde. Berg’s single-movement Piano Sonata and Schubert’s exquisite Piano Sonata in A Major are also featured in this remarkable debut

Filippo Gorini, Piano

The British pianist and composer has shown a predilection for rare repertoire, especially from the Romantic period and the 20th Century, which has seen him champion such figures as the Austrian Egon Kornauth (1891-1959) and the Ukrainian Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931). International Record Review found his interpretations on CD of the former ‘most engaging and enterprising ... [he] is a most perceptive advocate of this music.’

Jonathan Powell piano

Wigmore Hall

New for the 2024-25 season, select events are available as Pay-What-You-Wish ticketing, allowing you to choose the ticket price that's right for you. When purchasing tickets online, you'll see a $1 base price during checkout and you'll have the opportunity to enter your preferred ticket price as a donation. Or visit the Box Office (155 W 65th St) to purchase in person, Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5pm.

The New Series | Schoenberg and Beyond

The Juilliard School

Founded in 2019 in Berlin, the Leonkoro (‘Lionheart’) Quartet are one of the most exciting ensembles on the international scene.

Their many accolades include First Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet

Competition and the Concours International de Quatuor in Bordeaux. Currently BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, their programme includes the first of three of Mendelssohn’s wonderful string quartets presented by New Town Concerts this season.

The Queen's Hall

Joseph Haydn's Opus 33 was a big bang in music history, because with it he achieved nothing less than the invention of the classical string quartet. The quartets of Opus 20 were a milestone on this path: They are an exciting look right into the composer's workshop. We look over Haydn's shoulder, so to speak, hear how he experiments, how he tries out new things and pushes boundaries - and finally finds his very own personal language when it comes to string quartets. Haydn's quartets were so perfectly balanced, so precisely formed, that he became a role model for subsequent generations of composers. And the young British Barbican Quartet, which won first prize at the renowned ARD Music Competition in 2022, is tracing these lines of development. For example, with Ludwig van Beethoven, who gave Haydn's classical tone an emotional depth, particularly impressively in the harrowing and at the same time immensely comforting "Song of Thanksgiving" from the String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. While Alban Berg takes the string quartet genre into the modern age with his Opus 3, the last work he composed during his studies with Arnold Schoenberg.

Barbican Quartet

Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

Isabelle Faust returns to Berwaldhallen with Alban Berg's violin concerto – written in memory of a young girl. Principal conductor Daniel Harding also leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the overture to Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser , an opera about the struggle between virtuous and sensual love. In addition, the German Romantic composer Emilie Mayer's Seventh Symphony.

Composer

Alban Berg

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