CONCERTS
2024/25 Season
The international series
Upcoming Concerts
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (London)
BEETHOVEN & SCHUMANN
Sunday, 6 April 2025 – 7.30 p.m.
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, London
Aleksandar Serdar, piano
English Chamber Orchestra
Łukasz Borowicz, conductor
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (1807)
Schumann: Piano Concerto (1845)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (1808)
Beethoven style is well reflected in his 5th symphony as well
as in his later overtures. This great artistic legacy is here jux-
taposed with Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Written nearly 40
years after Beethoven’s 5th and well into the Romantic era, it
is impressive to observe how “modern” Beethoven was some
40 years prior to the time of full fruition of Romantic ideas —
ideals that were followed and expanded on so consummately
by composers like Schumann.
Beethoven style is well reflected in his 5th symphony as well as in his later overtures. This great artistic legacy is here juxtaposed with Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Written nearly 40 years after Beethoven’s 5th and well into the Romantic era, it is impressive to observe how “modern” Beethoven was some 40 years prior to the time of full fruition of Romantic ideas — ideals that were followed and expanded on so consummately by composers like Schumann.
ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE ’S (NY)
ELEGY OF CROSS TIMBERS/ New York City
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
Saturday, 31 May 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
Bizjak Piano Duo
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
Pendrecki: Polymorphia (1961) (NY premere)
for 48 strings
Martinů: Double Concerto Op. 271 (1938)
for two string orchestras, piano, and timpani
Sofia Gubaidulina: Fachwerk (2009 rev. 2024) (NY premiere)
for bayan, strings and percussion
Shostakovich: Symphony for Strings (1939)
for string orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH CELEBRATION
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 7.30 p.m.
Cadogan Hall, London
Lusine Khachatryan, piano
English Chamber Orchestra
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor (1933)
Britten: Variations of a Theme of Frank Bridge (1937)
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (1939)
(String Quartet No. 8, arr. Barshai)
Artistically uncompromising, intense, and dramatic, Shosta-
kovich stands as a towering figure of Modern Romanticism.
We celebrate his great achievement on this 50th anniversary
of his passing by presenting two of his famous work as well as
a virtuoso piece for strings by Benjamin Britten — a piece Brit-
ten first recoded with the English Chamber Orchestra back in
1967.
Artistically uncompromising, intense, and dramatic, Shostakovich stands as a towering figure of Modern Romanticism. We celebrate his great achievement on this 50th anniversary of his passing by presenting two of his famous work as well as a virtuoso piece for strings by Benjamin Britten — a piece Britten first recoded with the English Chamber Orchestra back in 1967.
