Philharmonia Orchestra

Weber’s magnificent overture to his most successful opera concentrates the most important elements of the drama into a memorable tone-poem. Weber’s first clarinet concerto brilliantly exploits the qualities of instrument, with the music ranging in character from grand declamation to jaunty and playful, with a particularly imaginative and effective slow movement.

The prolonged effort that Brahms’ First Symphony cost the composer as he struggled to escape from the shadow of Beethoven is well known. Nevertheless it resulted in one of his most satisfying works.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is Anvil Arts’ Orchestra in Partnership.

* Marta Gardolinska is taking time to care for her growing family, and is no longer able to conduct. We are grateful to Nodoka Okisawa for stepping in. Nodoka has been appointed 14th Chief Conductor of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra from March 2023 and is the Münchner Symphoniker’s Artist in Residence for 22/23. She won the Besançon competition in 2019 and in 2018 won the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting. From 2020 until 2022 she was assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Berlin Philharmonic.