2024/25 Southbank Centre Season
BOOKING INFORMATION
Priority booking for Friends & Patrons of the OAE opens on Wednesday 17 April at 10.00am.
General booking for events between October 2024 and January 2025 will open on Tuesday 23 April at 10.00am.
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
Sun 13 Oct | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallWe mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth with principal guest artist Adam Fischer. The Symphony No. 5 embraces the range of human experience, from humour to the sacred.
The Brandenburg Concertos
Wed 13 Nov | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallBach's groundbreaking 'Six Concertos for several instruments' puts the collective virtuosity of the OAE in the spotlight. Revel in the complete set in all its "imperfections" and "daring combinations"!
Baroquebusters
Thu 9 Jan 2025 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallJulia Bullock brings the vocal fireworks to an evening celebrating the Greatest Hits of the 18th Century. A baroque-tastic exploration of why the masterpieces of the time became so popular and remain so today.
Beethoven: Hero/Rebel
Thu 27 Feb 2025 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallAs the dream of liberty promised by Napoleon crumbled to dust, Beethoven faced his own personal struggles. Maxim Emelyanychev and Vilde Frang join us in two works that capture the rebellious spirit and herosim of the time.
Das Jahr – The Year
Sun 23 Mar 2025 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallOlga Pashchenko showcases Fanny Mendelssohn's cycle of 13 piano pieces describing the passage of a year, within a reimagining for period instrument orchestra by four contemporary composers: Roxanna Panufnik, Electra Perivolaris, Freya Waley-Cohen and Errollyn Wallen.
Bach: St Matthew Passion
Thu 3 Apr 2025 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Royal Festival HallFrom intimate grief to monumental crowd scenes, the St Matthew Passion is Bach's most profound musical testimony. The sorrowful retelling of Jesus' final hours is sculpted into a gripping drama under the direction of Jonathan Cohen.
Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Thu 22 May 2025 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Royal Festival HallThe remarkable Sir András Schiff sprinkles fantasy and magic as he performs the most romantic of piano concertos alongside Mendelssohn's impish music for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Enigma Variations
Wed 4 Jun 2025 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallFew pieces are as shrouded in mystery as the Enigma Variations with its hidden theme. The electrifying Dinis Sousa conducts the work the made Elgar an international name.
