Events Calendar
Nielsen Maskarade: Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4
Grieg Peer Gynt (excerpts), with narration
Lise de la Salle Piano
Tama Matheson Actor
Conductor to be announced
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates Cadogan Hall’s 20th anniversary
The overture to Nielsen’s joyful and exuberant opera Maskarade, is the perfect start to our celebrations, filled as it is with all the fun and drama of a masked ball. Despite being considered the ‘national opera’ of Denmark and acknowledged by Denmark’s Ministry of Culture in 2006 as one of the nation’s 12 greatest musical works, the piece is rarely performed outside of the composer’s home country.
Beethoven’s lyrical fourth piano concerto opens with a quiet invitation from the soloist to join them, and the Orchestra, on a musical journey like no other. Lise de la Salle is the perfect guide for this piece that was nearly eclipsed by Beethoven’s other works, but was championed by none other than Felix Mendelssohn, whose own Violin Concerto we will hear on Saturday 29 June.
For the second half of tonight’s concert, we welcome back to the stage Tama Matheson, who will bring to life some of the incidental music which Edvard Grieg wrote for Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. Regular RPO audience members may remember Matheson’s unique 2022 rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which he embodied Shakespeare and retold the story live on stage.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Cadogan Hall were saddened to hear of the untimely passing of Sir Andrew Davis, who was due to conduct this performance. Bookers will be contacted as soon as possible with an update regarding the conductor for the concert.
We send our deepest sympathies to Sir Andrew’s family.
Ticket information
Doors: 6.45pm
Concert starts: 7:30pm (approximate end time: 9.45pm)
Tickets from £18 (prices are subject to change)
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