Venue: Royal Concert Hall
Running time: Doors: 6.00pm. 1st Half: 7.30pm - 8.20pm, 20 minute interval, 2nd Half: 8.40pm - 9.35pm (Subject to change)
Important Information
Age Guidance: 7+
Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult aged 18+
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Booking Dates
From 10 June : Season Ticket booking
From 17 June: 3-11 concert Multibuy booking, Spectacular Six Packages & Concert Coaches
From 23 June: General booking for individuals and groups
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Alim Beisembayev piano
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Kazakh pianist Alim Beisembayev shot to international fame when winning the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021 and also taking home the medici.tv Audience Prize. Not long after, he won worldwide acclaim by making his BBC Proms debut with only two days’ notice. He’s an artist who thrives on big repertoire and they don’t come much bigger than Prokofiev’s 2nd Piano Concerto, the centrepiece of this Royal Liverpool Philharmonic programme. Premiered in 1913, Prokofiev’s Concerto vividly embodies the energy of the machine age: one commentator described it moving ‘with the relentless force and fluidity of a speeding locomotive.’ The soloist is continually pushed to the limit, whether in its lush and expansive theme or its finger-crunching cadenza.
Bookending Prokofiev’s concerto are two Romantic Russian classics. Rimsky Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture shares the sweeping melodies and glorious orchestration of his Scheherazade, painting a vivid picture, in the composer’s words, of ‘the unbridled pagan-religious merry-making of the morn of Easter Sunday.’ Considered to be very progressive when first performed – dangerously so in the opinion of some critics – Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony continues Tchaikovsky’s preoccupation with fate and deploys his peerless melodic gifts to stunning effect in a heartfelt slow movement, one of his greatest waltzes and an unstoppable marching finale.
Free pre-concert talk, 6.20pm in the auditorium: Dr Joanne Cormac, University of Nottingham, introduces the programme.
Season Ticket and Multibuy Package Discounts
12 concerts – Save 30%
10 -11 concerts – Save 25%
7 – 9 concerts – Save 20%
5 – 6 concerts – Save 15%
3 – 4 concerts – Save 10%
Book as a group
Make it a big night out and get bigger discounts by booking as a group. Save 20% for parties of 10 – 19 and 30% for parties of 20 or more, with a wide choice of seats for each member of your party. Please contact our Group Sales team on 0115 989 5555 to book.
Concert Coaches
We run seven Concert Coaches, from Loughborough, Sleaford/Grantham, Southwell, Worksop/Retford, Ashbourne/Derby, Bakewell/Matlock and Lincoln/Newark. These offer affordable, stress-free return coach travel, picking up at convenient stops on the way and dropping off/picking up at the Royal Concert Hall doors. Please contact our Group Sales team on 0115 989 5555 to book.
Under 26s and full-time students
Under 26s and students in full time education can book seats in any area of the hall for £5 each. Just select the Under 26 price from the drop-down list when selecting a seat. Please note: you may be asked to show proof of age or student status when you enter the auditorium.
Bargain Seats
These are available in the choir stalls at £9.50 for orchestral series concerts only and can be purchased from 12pm on the day of the concert online, by phone, or at the box office counter. Please note that these seats are subject to availability.
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