Kirill Gerstein: Spotlight Artist
Genius in Full Flow – Beethoven, Adès and Bartók
Inspired. Irrepressible. Enthralling.
Thursday 12 October 2023 • 7pm
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The Concert
Béla Bartók Divertimento for Strings
Thomas Adès Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Interval – 20 minutes
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 7
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Kirill Gerstein piano
London Symphony Orchestra
The concert will finish at approximately 9pm (timings are subject to change)
Tickets
£70 £55 £39 £25 £18
+ £4 booking fee per online/phone transaction
Wildcard Tickets
£12/£16 + booking fee as above
Guaranteed entry – your seat will be allocated on the day.
Limited releases throughout the season. Full details
Save on Your Booking
Multibuy Discounts – save up to 40%
Under-18s – £6 tickets
14–25s – discounts for Young Barbican Members
Groups of 10+ – save at least 20%
Access – free companion tickets for Barbican Access Members
Full details below
A triumphantly brilliant symphony and an instantly popular 21st-century concerto.
The Programme
At the first performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No 7, the crowd demanded an immediate encore of the astonishingly beautiful second movement. 21st-century listeners may be familiar with its stirring melody from the climactic moment of the film The King’s Speech. Beethoven himself wrote that this ‘Grand Symphony in A’ was ‘one of my very best’. To hear it live is a thrilling experience.
This performance opens with the delightful romp of Bartók’s Divertimento and Thomas Adès’ stylish Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. In Pappano’s own words, the Concerto ‘is incredible because it jumps off the page: somehow it dances, it moves. It has an amazing funeral march type of second movement, which has a tread that somehow provokes the inner rhythm of us all.’
The Performers
Sir Antonio Pappano, Chief Conductor Designate, and the LSO bring out the inspiration and passion of these rewarding works. Adès’ concerto was composed with Kirill Gerstein in mind – this is the performance you want to hear live, forming part of Gerstein’s Spotlight Artist series.
Music needs to move people … after listening to something, we should be enlightened somehow, shown different emotional corners in the human experience. Thomas Adès does this in a virtuosic way.
– Sir Antonio Pappano
Generously supported by The Huo Family Foundation
Header Image © Mark Allan
Read: 'For a conductor, this is a dream position'
‘The idea of music that, by its very nature, dances, has been in my mind, and how this can be pushed to the extreme. I think that’s the thread that pulls everything together in my concerts this season … It’s that kind of risk that I find so exciting in music.’
Sir Antonio Pappano, Chief Conductor Designate, introduces his concerts in the 2023/24 season.
Kirill Gerstein: Spotlight Artist 2023/24
Pianist Kirill Gerstein introduces the music he’ll be playing across four concerts with the LSO this season, and the meaning each piece has for him.
Booking and Discounts
Booking Your Tickets
Online at lso.co.uk or barbican.org.uk
By phone on +44 20 7870 2500 (Monday to Friday 12–5.30pm)
In person at the Barbican Centre
£4 booking fee per transaction when booking online or by phone
Refunds and Exchanges
If you can no longer user your tickets, you can exchange them for another LSO concert or Barbican credit voucher (valid for six months). Please inform the Box Office at least 24 hours before the performance (two weeks for group bookings). A per-ticket administration fee applies for all exchange services.
Questions About Your Booking?
Contact the Barbican Box Office at tickets@barbican.org.uk.
Visit the Barbican website for conditions of sale.
The LSO reserves the right to change artists or programmes if necessary. If the event is cancelled, all bookers will receive a refund. All discounts are subject to availability and may not be combined. Box office calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance or training purposes.
Multibuy Discounts
Book 2 to 3 concerts and save 10%
Book 4 to 7 concerts and save 20%
Book 8 to 11 concerts and save 30%
Book 12 or more concerts and save 40%
Plus retain your discount for any later bookings within the season.
Multibuy Discounts: Full Details
Wildcards
£12 or £16 (£10 or £15 for Half Six Fix concerts), plus booking fee. You are guaranteed entry to the concert but you won’t know your exact seat until the evening of the performance. Will you be lucky and bag a top-price seat in the stalls? Find out more about Wildcards.
Young People
£6 tickets for under-18s. Discounted tickets are available for selected LSO concerts for 14–25s through Young Barbican, and for full-time students through Student Pulse London.
Groups of 10+
Save 20%, or 30% when booking two or more concerts in the same season, plus additional benefits. Find out more about group booking.
Access Members
Members of the Barbican’s Access Scheme can book wheelchair places priced at the lowest price for that event and book a free companion seat. Join the Barbican Access Scheme.
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