The programme includes Bax Tintagel, Grieg Piano Concerto (soloist Jan Lisiecki), and Sibelius Suite, Belshazzar’s Feast and Symphony No 5. Venue Royal Festival Hall at 19.30.
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Sakari Oramo conducts BBC SO
This concert will be the conclusion of a day of total immersion in the works of György Ligeti. The concert includes the Vioin Concerto (soloist Augustin Hadelich), the Piano Concerto (soloist Nicholas Hodges) as well as Atmospheres, San Francisco Polyphony and Clocks and Clouds. Venue Barbican Hall at 19.30
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
The concert programme includes Sibelius The Oceanides, Salonen’s Cello Concerto (soloist Truls Mørk) and Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. Venue: The Royal Festival Hall at 19.30
Sakari Oramo conducts BBC SO
The concert programme includes Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (soloists Stuart Skelton and Elizabeth Kulman), Mozart’s Symphony No 35 (“Haffner”) and Thomas Larcher’s Nocturne Insomnia. Venue : Barbican Hall at 19.30.
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
The concert includes works by Ravel – La valse and the piano concerto in G (soloist Alice Sara Ott) and Sibelius – Valse Triste and Symphony No 1. Royal Festival Hall at 19.30
Sakari Oramo conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra
The programme includes the world premiere of Richard Causton’s Ig zeg: Nu, Schumann’s cello concerto performed by Steven Isserlis and Brahms’ Third Symphony. Barbican Hall at 19.30
Annual General Meeting a Europe House
This year our AGM will be held at the Offices of the European Commission Representation in London, 32 Smith Square, SWI. Formal Notice of the Meeting will be sent to members nearer to the date.
Talk by Col. Pasi Saarikoski and tea at the RAF Club
2018 marked the centenary of the Royal Air Force and also that of the Finnish defence Forces. We are marking both these centenaries (albeit a little late, but what is 9 weeks out of a 100 years?) with an afternoon visit to the Royal Air Force Club, 128 Piccadilly. There will be tea after which Col. Pasi Saarikoski, the Defence Attache at the Finnish Embassy, will look back at the history and achievements of the Finnish Defence Forces over the last 100 years. This event is limited to members only.
Talk by Eeva Lennon
Eeva Lennon has worked as a foreign correspondent for more than half a century. She started her career in Paris in the 1960’s, where she reported for Yleisradio and Uusi Suomi. This was the time of de Gaulle’s presidency, his two vetoes against Britain joining the EEC, the student protests of 1968 and violence connected with the aftermath of the Algerian war. In the early 1970’s Eeva moved to London. She continued working as a correspondent for Yleisradio but also contributed to the social democratic newspaper, Demari, and other journals. Her memoirs were published in October under the title Eeva Lennon, Lontoo. Her book is almost 400 pages long, so there is much for her to choose from. In addition to her experiences in Paris and London, she will she will also talk about her childhood in Finland during the war.
The meeting will be held at St Giles International, 154 Southampton Row, London WC1B 5JX at 6.30 for 7.00pm. Members should contact the Hon. Secretary in the usual way. Non-members who would like to attend should contact him using the Contact Form on this website.
World Premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Triumph to Exist
The World Premiere of Magnus Linberg’s Triumph to Exist will form part of a concert of music by four composers set against the backgropund of the turmoil of the Fiurst World War. The other works are Debussy Berceuse heroique, Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles and Janacek, The Eternal Gospel. Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall at 19.30