CONCERTS
2024/25 Season

The international series

Upcoming Concerts

SHOSTAKOVICH CELEBRATION
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 7.30 p.m.
Cadogan Hall, London
Lusine Khachatryan, piano

Philip Cobb, trumpet
English Chamber Orchestra
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor (1933)


Britten: Variations of a Theme of Frank Bridge (1937)


Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (1939)
     (String Quartet No. 8, arr. Barshai)

Artistically uncompromising, intense, and dramatic, Shosta-
kovich stands as a towering figure of Modern Romanticism.

We celebrate his great achievement on this 50th anniversary
of his passing by presenting two of his famous work as well as

a virtuoso piece for strings by Benjamin Britten — a piece Brit-
ten first recoded with the English Chamber Orchestra back in

1967.

Artistically uncompromising, intense, and dramatic, Shostakovich stands as a towering figure of Modern Romanticism. We celebrate his great achievement on this 50th anniversary of his passing by presenting two of his famous work as well as a virtuoso piece for strings by Benjamin Britten — a piece Britten first recoded with the English Chamber Orchestra back in 1967.

ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (London)

The Coming Season

AWAKENING . . .
The 2025/26 Concert Season
Stay tuned - Coming Soon

ABOUT THE COMING 2025/26 SEASON

The new season explores various sides of our current existence with their latent threats and possibilities for revitalization and rebirth. Here is a clarion call for action:

For it has all been told and foretold – how life will turn out: the fires, scorched earth, political upheaval, suffering, death, and destruction. What clever life travelers are we and what are we teaching our young? The sobering state of life as we have crafted it calls for an awakening – a realization that we must change our course or else annihilate ourselves by our own hand. We must choose: Will this be the dusk of life descending or the downing of a new day?

We must decide . . .

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