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| Igor Levit (Picture: Felix Broede ) |
The Southbank Centre has introduced its Autumn/Winter programme for 2024/25 which features a five-day Opening Weekend, residencies from violist Lawrence Energy, organist James McVinnie and Manchester Collective, and guests embrace Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson, the Borodin Quartet celebrating its eightieth anniversary, Concerto Italiano, The West-Jap Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performing Stravinsky’s The Ceremony of Spring and the BBC Live performance Orchestra with Unclassified Stay.
The Opening Weekend, from 25 to 29 September 2024, options Joyce DiDonato in Berlioz with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia launching its Nordic Soundscapes collection with Sibelius, Grieg and María Sigfúsdóttir carried out by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, violist Lawrence Energy and composer Thomas Ades, the Multi-Storey Orchestra, cellist Matthew Barley, the Paraorchestra, and the Scottish Ensemble. Pianist Igor Levit performs works by Bach, Brahms and Beethoven in his Royal Pageant Corridor solo recital debut.
Lawrence Energy will proceed his residency by becoming a member of forces with composer/soprano Heloise Werner and lutenist Sergio Bucheli, and Energy is the soloist within the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Manchester Collective continues its residency with collaborations with pianist extraordinaire Zubin Kanga and cellist phenomenon Abel Selacoe. Organist James McVinnie [see my recent interview with him] continues his residency with Stanford, Byrd, and Liszt on the RFH organ, and Bach on organ and piano.
Daniel Barenboim can be conducting the West-Jap Divan Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, Chineke! carry out music by Florence Worth (the UK premiere of her Symphony No. 4!), Eleanor Alberga, Valerie Coleman and Brian Raphael Nabor, the London Symphony Orchestra pairs Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 with Schoenberg’s A survivor in Warsaw, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment can be burning the candle at each ends, presenting all of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and performing Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 (not in the identical programme!).
The London Sinfonietta is celebrating Schoenberg’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary, with Jonathan Berman conducting the Ode to Napoleon (no, I’ve by no means heard that reside both) and Chamber Symphony. They are going to be joined by the Royal Academy of Music’s Manson Ensemble for a efficiency of Morton Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett. The Philharmonia Orchestra’s Music of Right now will function conductor Chloe Rooke and soprano Ella Taylor in Saariaho’s Semafor and Hans Abrahmsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs. The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s season will embrace Evan Williams’ Lifeless White Man Music (Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble), and Sarod participant Amjad Ali Khan performs his personal concerto Samaagam alongside a brand new overture by Reena Esmail and choices from movie soundtracks by AR Rahman.
The complete season is out there through the Southbank Centre web site.
