The Firebird

Tamara Stefanovich: one of the world’s great interpreters of 20^th- and 21^st-century piano music. Mark Simpson: a British composer with a boundless imagination, whose music pulses with the neon-lit energy of 21st-century urban life. Bring them together with Edward Gardner and the LPO in the world premiere of a new piano concerto, and sparks are bound to fly. That’s just the centrepiece of a concert that begins with Dorothy Howell’s sensuous tone-poem, and ends with Stravinsky’s magical The Firebird – a fairytale of love, darkness and dazzling light.

*Edward Gardner’s position with the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.

**Please note change of artist from previously advertised.

†Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Philharmonie Essen and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.