Concerts

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Prepare to be enchanted as John Wilson and Sinfonia of London bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert featuring beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time including South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I and more.

Love is the theme of a Prom that opens with history's greatest seducer, Don Juan, in Strauss’s swashbuckling tone-poem and closes with the sensuous, diaphanous textures of Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe. At the centre is one of Bernstein’s most lyrical orchestral works. James Ehnes is the soloist in Serenade – a violin concerto by another name that muses on, and interrogates, the nature of love itself.

Idyllic. Pure. The sound of England.There’s little music that is so immediately associated with England and its landscapes than that of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The haunting yet stirring Fantasia on a Theme
by Thomas Tallis starts your evening, which is capped with Elgar’s tender and meltingly beautiful Serenade. In between you’ll hear Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - music that’s brimming over with ideas, wit and energy.

Regularly voted one of Britain’s favourite pieces of classical music, Vaughan Williams’s Tallis Fantasia is at the heart of this fabulous programme of English music. John Wilson is in demand at the highest level across the globe, having conducted many of the world's finest orchestras over the past 30 years. Britten’s Serenade is one of his best loved works and the programme ends with the musical fireworks of Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra. Add in lush music from two other fine English composers in Howell and Delius and we have a wonderful programme of truly gorgeous music.

Described by The Guardian as 'a handpicked supergroup', whose rare 'live performances are a special occasion', the orchestra will be joined for this performance by British tenor Laurence Kilsby and British horn player Christopher Parkes.

Serenade brings together major string works from the Edwardian repertoire, including Vaughan Williams’ icily ethereal Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horns and Strings, alongside Arthur Bliss’s Music For Strings, and Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings.

Sinfonia of London's international debut, featuring Strauss - Don Juan, Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 with Benjamin Grosvenor and Elgar - Enigma Variations.

Swinging. Timeless. All the classics.

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Tears. Riddles.A musical portrait like no other.
Elgar’s Enigma Variations is undoubtedly one of the most popular pieces of music out there, and it’s easy to see why.
It's an amiable portrait of his friends, each portrayed with the composer's trademark charm, wit, invention and sentiment. There are mischievous dogs, ocean-going steamers and summer walks, and we defy you not to have a tear in your eye for ‘Nimrod’.
Also in the programme, star pianist Alexandre Kantorow performs Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3.