Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
Performers
| Louis Lortie | Piano |
| BBC Symphony Chorus | |
| BBC Symphony Orchestra | |
| Edward Gardner | Conductor |
Leading champion of Lutosławski’s music and
Music Director of English National Opera, Edward
Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra
in a programme contrasting one each of the Polish
composer’s earliest and latest works with music
by the British composer Gustav Holst. Completed
shortly before the occupation of Poland,
Lutosławski’s Symphonic Variations is juxtaposed
with Holst’s rarely heard tribute to Thomas Hardy,
Egdon Heath. Louis Lortie is the soloist in
Lutosławski’s monumental 1988 Piano Concerto
in a concert that closes with Holst’s extraordinarily
visionary The Planets.Tickets £7.50 - £36.
Music Director of English National Opera, Edward
Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra
in a programme contrasting one each of the Polish
composer’s earliest and latest works with music
by the British composer Gustav Holst. Completed
shortly before the occupation of Poland,
Lutosławski’s Symphonic Variations is juxtaposed
with Holst’s rarely heard tribute to Thomas Hardy,
Egdon Heath. Louis Lortie is the soloist in
Lutosławski’s monumental 1988 Piano Concerto
in a concert that closes with Holst’s extraordinarily
visionary The Planets.Tickets £7.50 - £36.
