Singapore and Australia Tour
17–30 November 2014

For the first time in 30 years the Orchestra will visit Australia on this 2-week trip that also takes in Singapore. Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev will conduct Russian works from his homeland, and pianist Denis Matsuev will perform piano concertos by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.

Thursday 11 December 7.30pm, Barbican Hall
6.15pm Free pre-concert talk: Alexandre Desplat in conversation

Alexandre Desplat conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring some of his best known film music at the Barbican on 11 December. French composer Desplat is one of Hollywood’s most sought after film score writers and has a close relationship with the LSO, widely regarded as one of the world’s finest film orchestras. They will perform music from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King's Speech, The Queen, Philomena, Argo, The Imitation Game, Twilight: New Moon, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Coco before Chanel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, many of which were originally recorded by the LSO.

• PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR VALERY GERGIEV CONTINUES REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIANS SERIES
• GIANANDREA NOSEDA CONDUCTS MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO 6 AND LISZT’S PIANO CONCERTO NO 2 WITH ALICE SARA OTT
• SIR MARK ELDER AND SUSAN GRAHAM PERFORM BERLIOZ’S LES NUITS D’ÉTÉ
• DAVID AFKHAM CONDUCTS THE LSO IN BRAHMS, BEETHOVEN AND WEBERN
• CELLIST NATALIE CLEIN AND FRIENDS GIVE FOUR BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS AT LSO ST LUKE’S

• SIR SIMON RATTLE CONDUCTS SCHUMANN’S DAS PARADIES UND DIE PERI AND STRAVINSKY’S THE RITE OF SPRING
• CONDUCTOR XIAN ZHANG CONDUCTS THE LSO WITH PIANIST VALENTINA LISITSA
• ROBIN TICCIATI CONDUCTS A PROGRAMME OF RAVEL, TOSHIO HOSOKAWA AND MAHLER