Name: Heroes and heroines
Start: 2023-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Conductor

Dima Slobodeniouk

Pianist

Beatrice Rana

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Heroes and heroines

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Heroes and Heroines: Stride (+2 More)

Public

Stride

Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, op. 25

Lemminkäinen Suite, op. 22

Approved

South Bank Centre

‘A mighty hero, in his veins the blood of ages … but alas, he had his failings.’ Sibelius’ retelling of the Lemminkäinen myth is unveiled by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

According to Finnish mythology, Lemminkaïnen is a hero with a dark side: loving, hunting and challenging death itself.

Sibelius retold his exploits in music that’s as colourful as a film score and as gripping as any fantasy epic – with the eerie Swan of Tuonela at its shadowy heart.

The heroine at the centre of Tania León’s Stride, too, is someone ‘who did not take “no” for an answer’.

That makes it a wonderfully appropriate upbeat to the headlong energy of Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto, played by the dazzling Beatrice Rana.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Crew

Ensemble