Current season – 2022/2023
Our 2022/2023 season includes
Berlioz La damnation de Faust Edward Gardner
Elgar The Apostles Sir Mark Elder
Holst The Planets Christopher Warren-Green
Janáček Glagolitic Mass Edward Gardner
Elena Langer The Dong with a Luminous Nose Andrey Boreyko
Ligeti Requiem Edward Gardner
Schoenberg Gurrelieder Edward Gardner
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 Gianandrea Noseda
Tan Dun Buddha Passion Tan Dun
Tippett A Child of Our Time Edward Gardner
Schoenberg Gurrelieder
Saturday 24 September 2022
7.00 pm, Royal Festival Hall
Edward Gardner conductor
Lise Lindstrom Tove
Karen Cargill Wood-Dove
David Butt Philip Waldemar
Robert Murray Klaus the Fool
James Creswell Peasant
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
Members of the London Symphony Chorus
Schoenberg Gurrelieder
Please note start time is 7pm.
Sung in German with English surtitles
Tippett A Child of Our Time
Saturday 26 November 2022
7.30 pm, Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 27 November 2022
3.00 pm, Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
Edward Gardner conductor
Nadine Benjamin soprano
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Tarver tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
London Adventist Chorale
Soloists of the Royal College of Music
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Tippett A Child of Our Time
Generously supported by Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet
Katherine Jenkins
Thursday 8 December 2022
7.30 pm, Royal Albert Hall
London Concert Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
Christmas with Katherine Jenkins and friends
Tan Dun Buddha Passion
Sunday 22 January 2023
7.30 pm, Royal Festival Hall
Tan Dun conductor
Sen Guo soprano / indigenous female singer
Huiling Zhu mezzo-soprano
Kang Wang tenor
Shenyang bass-baritone
Batubagen indigenous male singer / Dunhuang xiqin
Yining Chen pipa / dancer
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
London Chinese Philharmonic Choir
Tan Dun Buddha Passion (UK première)
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust
Saturday 4 February 2023
7.30 pm, Royal Festival Hall
Edward Gardner conductor
Karen Cargill Marguerite
John Irvin* Faust
Christopher Purves Méphistophélès
Jonathan Lemalu Brander
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
Members of the London Symphony Chorus
London Youth Choir
Berlioz La damnation de Faust
Sung in French with English surtitles
*Unfortunately the advertised tenor, David Junghoon Kim, is indisposed and unable to perform. We are very grateful to John Irvin for stepping in at short notice to sing the role of Faust.
Elena Langer The Dong with a Luminous Nose
Saturday 18 March 2023
7.30 pm, Royal Festival Hall
Andrey Boreyko conductor
Kristina Blaumane cello*
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
Victoria Vita Polevá Nova (world première)
Elena Langer The Dong with a Luminous Nose (world première)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
*Chair supported by Bianca and Stuart Roden.
Shostakovich Symphony No 13
Sunday 2 April 2023
7.00 pm, Barbican Hall
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Simon Trpčeski piano
Vitalij Kowaljow bass
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5
Shostakovich Symphony No 13 (Babi Yar)
Janáček Glagolitic Mass
Saturday 6 May 2023
7.30 pm, Royal Festival Hall
Edward Gardner conductor
Alina Ibragimova violin
Sara Jakubiak soprano
Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence tenor
Matthew Rose bass
Catherine Edwards organ
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
Tippett Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Janáček Glagolitic Mass
Holst The Planets
Saturday 20 May 2023
7.30 pm, Royal Festival Hall
Christopher Warren-Green conductor
Danny Driver piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
Verdi Overture, La forza del destino
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2
Holst The Planets
Elgar The Apostles
Saturday 10 June 2023
6.00 pm, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Sophie Bevan The Angel Gabriel/The Blessed Virgin Mary
Alice Coote Mary Magdalene
Ed Lyon John
Roderick Williams Jesus
David Stout Peter
Clive Bayley Judas
The Apostles
Aiden McCusker Tenor 1
Yihui Wang Tenor 2
Rowan Gillard Tenor 3
Alex Gibb Baritone 1
Rajnard Hrascanec Baritone 2
James Connolly Bass 1
Jeremyn Leong Bass 2
Harrison Morton-Deaville Bass 3
Students appear by kind permission of the RNCM.
Hallé Orchestra
Hallé Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Elgar The Apostles
Ligeti Requiem
Friday 11 August 2023
7.30 pm, Royal Albert Hall
Prom 36
Edward Gardner conductor
Jennifer France soprano
Clare Presland mezzo-soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Kor
Royal Northern College of Music Chamber Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Ligeti Requiem
Ligeti Lux aeterna
Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra