| Piotr Anderszewski | Piano |
| London Symphony Orchestra | |
| Sir John Eliot Gardiner | Dirección |
Sir John Eliot Gardiner explores Schumann at his most urgent, dramatic and tender.
Desperate, heartfelt and elegant, the ManfredOverture opens with an urgent impetus that only increases through the work, displaying the intense strife which lies ahead for its protagonist. Then hear a Piano Concerto as challenging for the player’s poetic imagination as it is for their virtuosity; Schumann’s exquisite piano writing and the delicately tender relationship between soloist and orchestra are like none heard in Piano Concertos before him.
From the dramatic first trumpet-call which awakens the frozen landscape, Schumann’s Symphony No 1 is a celebration of spring. Move through the season and the gruff folksong Scherzo until finally the season departs with a cheery farewell, a jubilant conclusion which dances into summer.
Tickets: £56 £41 £31 £22 £16
Tickets on sale online from 10am on 2nd February 2018.
Change of programme
At the request of the soloist Piotr Anderszewski this concert will now feature Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1, in place of the Schumann Piano Concerto.