There's a cloakroom in the Green Side Foyer, Level 4, Royal Festival Hall. Toilets, including accessible toilets, are open on Level 2 of the Royal Festival Hall. The concerto is in five short movements, each describing a different material being weathered – worn down, re-shaped, damaged, but perhaps also rendered more beautiful and more precious. Well now’s your chance – the extraordinarily talented Fröst is the soloist in a new concerto, Weathered, by Clyne. ‘Until you’ve heard Martin Fröst, you really haven’t heard the clarinet’, according to The Times. Pekka Kuusisto brings together three composers’ takes on Shakespeare’s story, from the ‘Sinfonia’ that opens Bellini’s 1830 opera The Capulets and the Montagues, to Bernstein’s 1957 Broadway triumph West Side Story.īellini’s trumpets and drums foretell a fatal battle, Tchaikovsky frames his yearning love theme with music full of anxiety and violence.Īnd Bernstein captures the febrile energy and passion of adolescence in memorable numbers including ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Mambo’.įollowing these retellings of Romeo and Juliet, the Philharmonia’s Featured Composer Anna Clyne turns to a very different source of inspiration.
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