Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2023-24 season

For the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, music-making is about hitting heights and touching hearts. Our new season sets out to do just that: discovering new worlds, revisiting favourites, and sharing it all with some of the most exciting conductors and soloists working today. Works like Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony, Brahms’ German Requiem and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto are all enduring classics for a reason. With guest artists as inspirational as our Artist-In-Residence Zlatomir Fung, violinist Francesca Dego, pianist Martin James Bartlett and conductors Domingo Hindoyan and Nil Venditti, they’ll sparkle like new.

We’re also eager to share discoveries and rediscoveries with you, including music by composers like Louise Farrenc, Doreen Carwithen and Ida Moberg: when you hear their music, you’ll wonder why you haven’t heard it sooner.

Then there are the old friends we can’t wait to welcome back: Principal Guest Conductor Alexander Shelley and violinist Fumiaki Miura to name just two. In the welcoming atmosphere of Cadogan Hall, their artistry will feel close enough to touch. Whoever’s performing, and whatever we play, one thing will remain constant: the commitment, skill and sheer passion for music of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra itself.

James Williams
(Managing Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

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Series discounts*
Book 2 or 3 concerts, save 15%
Book 4 or 5 concerts, save 25%
Book 6 or more concerts, save 30%

Group discounts
Groups of 6+ save up to 35% – see the rpo.co.uk/groups for details.

ENCORE members
£5 off top three ticket prices

(*excludes Christmas Cracker concert; to qualify for series discount, the same number of tickets must be bought for each event in the same transaction; series discounts cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or applied retrospectively.)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Elena Schwarz, conductor & Zlatomir Fung, cello

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Wednesday 27 September 2023, 7.30pm

Demons, seascapes and green English fields – from Elgar’s Cello Concerto to Stravinsky’s The Firebird. With a burst of flame and a cascade of sparks, the magical Firebird leaps into life. When Igor Stravinsky composed his great ballet,...
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Alexander Shelley, conductor & Felix Klieser, French horn

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Felix Klieser performs Mozart

Thursday 12 October 2023, 7.30pm

Raw passion and great tunes from Bizet, Tchaikovsky, and Felix Klieser – horn player extraordinaire. A whirl of strings, a blast of trumpets: when Richard Strauss’s Don Juan rockets into action, you can practically smell the aftershave. That is j...
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Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor & Fumiaki Miura, violin

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 7.30pm

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Brahms’ Fourth, and pure drama from Louise Farrenc. Although they called her the ‘female Beethoven’, the 19th-century French composer Louise Farrenc was very much her own woman, and only now in t...
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Daniel Hyde, conductor & Sophie Bevan, soprano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Brahms’ German Requiem

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 7.30pm

The deep consolation of Brahms’ German Requiem, plus Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne. ‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.’ When Johannes Brahms composed his German Requiem, he wasn’t thinking of hea...
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Tito Muñoz, conductor & Francesca Dego, violin

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sibelius’ Violin Concerto

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 7.30pm

Shostakovich and Sibelius, with conductor Tito Muñoz and violinist Francesca Dego. ‘I need the sound of the trampling of steel-shod boots,’ Shostakovich told the first performers of his Ninth Symphony – but this audacious, irreverent m...
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Shiyeon Sung, conductor & Zlatomir Fung, cello

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Beethoven, Haydn and Schumann

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 7.30pm

Big emotions and great melodies with Artist-in-Residence Zlatomir Fung. Symphonies didn’t really come naturally to Robert Schumann, but love songs did and with its quiet poetry, joyous sunbursts and coded messages to his beloved wife Clara, his...
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Charlotte Corderoy, conductor & Martin James Bartlett, piano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Scheherazade

Thursday 29 February 2024, 7.30pm

Tales of a thousand nights: Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov, and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. Once upon a time… Composers have always told stories: an enchanted lake ripples in the moonlight, hinting at tales untold; four horns throw down...
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Nil Venditti, conductor & Richard Ion, bassoon

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony

Tuesday 5 March 2024, 7.30pm

Nil Venditti conducts music of sunlight and celebration by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. When the young Felix Mendelssohn saw Italy for the first time, his heart leaped for joy. In his ‘Italian’ Symphony, you can hear it doing exac...
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Jamie Phillips, conductor & Łukasz Krupiński, piano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 7.30pm

Poets and revolutionaries: Jamie Phillips conducts Beethoven and Łukasz 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 b...
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Domingo Hindoyan, conductor & Matthew Gee, trombone

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony

Wednesday 1 May 2024, 7.30pm

Much-loved classics and tuneful discoveries from Domingo Hindoyan and Principal Trombone Matt Gee. Don’t mention the Hovis ad (if you can even remember it), because – with its great tunes, grand emotions and sweeping drama – Dvořák’...
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Emilia Hoving, conductor & Zlatomir Fung, cello

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sibelius’ Second Symphony

Thursday 16 May 2024, 7.30pm

Rossini, Saint-Säens and Sibelius at his sunniest: timeless melodies loved the world over. Sibelius thought of his Second Symphony as a great river flowing to the sea, others have heard a musical portrait of a nation waking to freedom. From pastoral...
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Jean-Luc Tingaud, conductor & Louis Lortie, piano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Ravel’s Mother Goose

Thursday 23 May 2024, 7.30pm

Pianist Louis Lortie stars in a concert of Ravel and Poulenc – music with a certain “je ne sais quoi”. Naughty, but very nice. They do things differently in France, where elegance and seduction dance a delicate valse, and enjoyment is a...
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Jordan de Souza, conductor & Nicholas McCarthy, piano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 7.30pm

Hearing is believing in Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand and Tchaikovsky’s explosive Fourth Symphony. When the pianist Paul Wittgenstein lost his right hand in the First World War, he asked Ravel to write him something he could play with his le...
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