In light of the coronavirus outbreak and current restrictions, this performance has been cancelled.

With full support from the Orchestra, we are doing our utmost to support the national effort in reducing the spread of coronavirus, and the health and well-being of all our visitors, staff members, and visiting performers is our number one priority.

Bookers will be refunded the full cost of tickets and any drinks vouchers to the card that they paid with. If you would prefer a Cadogan Hall credit voucher, please contact the Box Office on 020 7730 4500 (Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm) or via our online form as soon as possible.

In this lunchtime concert, there’s a distinctly Russian flavour combined with hints of folk music, film scoring and a trip to Finland in a selection of exquisite works for chamber orchestra.

Balakirev’s Islamey, bearing the subtitle ‘An Oriental Fantasy’, was inspired by a visit to the Caucasus. Although written for concert performance, Stravinsky’s Danses concertantes is structured like a ballet and has a playful quality as well as hints of America, where he composed the piece.

One of Sibelius’ most popular concert items, his melancholy Valse triste leads us into Shostakovich’s Hamlet: Suite. Taken from his compelling film score to the 1964 Russian adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it is some of Shostakovich’s finest dramatic writing.

This is a socially distanced performance.