Event Diary

October 2008

Sunday, 12th

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Eastbourne
Sunday 2 November 2008 | 3.00pm Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture, Romeo and Juliet Chopin Piano Concerto 2 Prokofiev Ballet Suite, Romeo and Juliet Stuart Stratford conductor Adolfo Barabino piano It's no surprise that Shakespeare's romantic play inspired creative works from Russia's best-loved composers. Framing the luxury and rapture of the Second Piano Concerto by Chopin are visions of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers from Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev - visions that have become as synonymous with the characters they depict as they have with the musical idelas of Romanticism. Magical moments abound in scores filled with delightful orchestral effects and impassioned romance that will warm any autumnal Sunday! Tickets £12 - £24 Premium seats £28 Book now 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Discounted subscription packages available. Hear it first! Visit www.lpo.org.uk/listen Access our online playlist of the music for our concerts.

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Eastbourne
Sunday 12 October 2008 | 3.00pm Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Bernstein Overture, Candide Copland Appalachian Spring Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Barber Adagio for Strings Bernstein West Side Story, Symphonic Dances Carl Davis conductor Louis Schwizgebel-Wang piano Carl Davis launches our Eastbourne season with a cascade of stateside classics, opening with the swashbuckling overture to Bernstein's satirical musical Candide. Then come two utterly contrasting musical views of America: the spacious open landscape of Copland's depiction of a rustic wedding in the Appalachians, and Gershwin's bustling bluesy cityscape. Barber's moving Adagio precedes a rip-roaring finale, the rhythmically infectious symphonic dances from Bernstein's musical West Side Story. Join us as we launch the season with a bang! Tickets £12 - £24 Premium seats £28 Book now 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Discounted subscription packages available. Hear it first! Visit www.lpo.org.uk/listen Access our online playlist of the music for our concerts. The appearance of Louis Schwizgebel-Wang is sponsored by Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.

January 2009

Sunday, 11th

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Eastbourne
Sunday 11 January 2009| 3.00pm Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Rossini Overture, William Tell Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Tchaikovsky Symphony 4 Michal Dworzynski conductor Milos Karadaglic guitar Tchaikovsky wrote of his Fourth Symphony that it expressed 'an escape from reality'. And it's not just Tchaikovsky's emotionally engaging symphony that offers such an opportunity in this concert: the heavenly melodies of Rodridgo's Concierto de Aranjuez will ease you into a beautiful dream, after the infectious gallop of Rossini's William Tell overture has whipped the rug of reality from under your feet. The appearance of Milos Karadaglic is supported by St Giles Properties and Paul and Jenny Gillham. Tickets £12 - £24 Premium seats £28 Book now 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Discounted subscription packages available. Hear it first! Visit www.lpo.org.uk/listen Access our online playlist of the music for our concerts. 2.00pm-2.30pm Free, Congress Suite Performance by Eastbourne Youth Concert Band and members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

February 2009

Sunday, 8th

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Eastbourne
Sunday 8 February 2009| 3.00pm Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Nicolai Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 Nicholas Milton conductor Andrei Korobeinikov piano Amidst the torture of the composer's emotional life, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony seems at once a calming breeze and an energetic gale, as the composer throws dazzling shafts of bright optimism into his typically languorous orchestral shadows. No less Romantic, though perhaps less troubled was Sergei Rachmaninov of whose rapturous Second Piano Concerto the Marilyn Monroe character in the famous movie The Seven Year Itch said: 'Every time I hear it, I go to pieces. It shakes me, it quakes me. It makes me feel goosepimply all over. I don't know where I am or who I am or what I'm doing. Don't stop. Don't ever stop!' The appearance of Andrei Korobeinikov is supported by Mr and Mrs Julian Simmonds. Tickets £12 - £24 Premium seats £28 Book now 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Discounted subscription packages available. Hear it first! Visit www.lpo.org.uk/listen Access our online playlist of the music for our concerts.

May 2009

Sunday, 10th

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Eastbourne
Sunday 10 May 2009| 3.00pm Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Beethoven Overture, Leonore 3 Mozart Violin Concerto 5 in A, K219 (Turkish) Dvorják Symphony 8 Simon Streatfeild conductor Kolbjørn Holthe violin 'The crown of Dvorják’s work' and 'one of the considerable achievements of symphonic literature' are both critical descriptions not of Dvorják’s famous Ninth Symphony, but its immediate predecessor, the Eight, with its infectious finale fashioned as a pot-pourri of Czech folk tunes. So insistent was Beethoven that his Overture to the opera Fidelio be admired for its perfection that he re-wrote it four times, eventually settling on this exquisitely crafted version, heard before Mozart's sublime fifth and final Violin Concerto. Tickets £12 - £24 Premium seats £28 Book now 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Discounted subscription packages available. Hear it first! Visit www.lpo.org.uk/listen Access our online playlist of the music for our concerts.

June 2009

Sunday, 7th

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Eastbourne
Sunday 7 June 2009 | 3.00pm Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Beethoven Overture, Egmont Beethoven Piano Concerto 3 Brahms Symphony 1 Ralf Sochaczewsky conductor Finghin Collins piano Launching mid-sentence, pushing outwards, inwards, upwards and downwards, Brahms's First Symphony took a long time coming, but its opening bars herald the composer as one who was to address the symphony with distinctly original ideas. Yes, Beethoven's insistence and thrust is there, as is the clipped finesse of early Brahms, but the rigour, ardour and depth is all new. This is a work for which the London Philharmonic Orchestra has developed an acclaimed affinity in recent years. Tickets £12 - £24 Premium seats £28 Book now 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Discounted subscription packages available. Hear it first! Visit www.lpo.org.uk/listen Access our online playlist of the music for our concerts. 2.00pm-2.30pm Free, Congress Suite Performance by East Sussex Music Service String Ensemble and members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.