Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony
This event has already happened
This event took place on Wednesday 20 March 2024.
- Wednesday 20 March 2024
- Cadogan Hall
Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Need to know
Repertoire
- Delius Irmelin: Prelude
- Chopin Piano Concerto No.2
- Beethoven Symphony No.3, 'Eroica'
Features
- Jamie Phillips Conductor
- Lucas Krupinski Piano
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Poets and revolutionaries: Jamie Phillips conducts Beethoven and Lucas Krupiński plays Chopin.
“If I understood war as well as I understand music, I would conquer him” said Beethoven of the Emperor Napoleon. Instead, he did the next best thing – and composed a symphony so revolutionary that, from opening explosion to victorious finish, it’s still shaping the way we think and feel about the power of music.
With the young British conductor Jamie Phillips at the helm, this should be a highlight of the RPO season, and the same goes for tonight’s chance to hear Łukasz Krupiński – winner of the San Marino International Piano Competition – in Chopin’s deliriously poetic Second Piano Concerto.
First, though, a real rarity: the ravishing prelude to Delius’s forgotten fairytale opera Irmelin – British music doesn’t get more magical than this.
Large print versions and digital formats of the programme for this concert are available on request for customers with accessibility requirements. Please email your request to Doran Crowhurst crowhurstd@rpo.co.uk at least one full week before the performance.