Dear Sir/Madam,

The London Philharmonic Orchestra would like to offer your ensemble the following special offer to see two forthcoming LPO concerts.

I do hope you will be able to attend,

Best wishes,

Heather

The Future of Romance | £8 SPECIAL OFFER

On Sunday 31 May you can hear the UK première of Torsten Rasch’s dramatic composition Mein Herz brennt. This work is Rasch’s 21st-century journey into the future of romantic music, inspired both by great romantic song-cycles and poetry written by the lead singer of German industrial rock band Rammstein. Sung, whispered, shouted, and accompanied by a stunning spectrum of orchestral sound, it is a captivating cycle of songs. The music tells of the kind of love and loss found in works by Mahler and in nineteenth-century poetry – emotive, personal feelings that were lost in much of the 20th century’s modernism. The performance will be sung in German with English surtitles.

Also in the concert is Mahler’s Totenfeier. This was Mahler’s first purely orchestral composition and some say ‘the earliest indication of genius’. Although it was never performed or published as a single work in Mahler’s lifetime he re-fashioned the work as the first movement of his great Second Symphony, entitled Resurrection.  The concert will be conducted by highly acclaimed Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski.

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Sunday 31 May | 7.30pm | Royal Festival Hall

Mendelssohn Symphony 5
Mahler Totenfeier
Torsten Rasch My Heart is on Fire (UK première)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor | René Pape bass | Katharina Thalbach reciter

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Best Available Seat £8 | Quote ‘Amateur Orchestra Offer’ | (Usual prices up to £38)

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Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; no booking fee

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Mozart Flute Quartet at Wigmore Hall | £8 SPECIAL OFFER

Opening the concert is Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D, his best known piece for flute and strings.  It has a delicate slow movement leading to an irresistible finale. It will be performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra flautist Susan Thomas who currently plays, with the aid of an Ian Fleming Scholarship, a Louis Lott flute, the flautists’ equivalent of a Stradivarius. Dvořák’s String Sextet was composed in the same productive period of Dvorak’s compositional life in which he composed the tuneful and genial Slavonic Dances. The String Sextet is ‘Slavonic’ in nature and contains delightful melodies and harmonies throughout.

Wednesday 10 June 2009 | 7.30pm
Mozart Flute Quartet in D, K.285
Glinka Gran Sestetto Originale
Bartók Selection from 44 Duos for two violins
Dvořák String Sextet in A, Op. 48
Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sue Thomas flute

BOOK NOW | Quote ‘Amateur Orchestra Offer’ | Best Available Seat £8 (usually up to £24)

London Philharmonic Orchestra Box Office | 020 7840 4242 | www.lpo.org.uk

Monday-Friday 10am-5pm (excluding bank holidays); no booking fee. Bookings must be made before 12.30pm on the day of the concert. Offer not available online or through the Wigmore Hall box office.

Heather Barstow

Marketing Assistant

0207 8404223

2008/09 Season in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 27 May 2009 | 7.30pm | Royal Festival Hall
Mendelssohn Symphony 4 (Italian)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2
Dvořák Symphony 7
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor | Aldo Ciccolini piano
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