Members of the Company attended this magnificent evening of music at the Barbican Centre to help the LSO connect with the City Livery Companies, Clubs and Guilds.
We were introduced to the evening with a pre-concert performance of music by George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert and Leroy Anderson, performed by LSO String Experience musicians.
The LSO String Experience scheme enables young string players at the start of their professional careers to gain work experience by playing in rehearsals and concerts with the LSO, and is a project from LSO Discovery, their learning and community programme which reaches 60,000 people every year.
The formal events started with Karol Szymanowski’s Concert Overture, which required most instruments to be played as loudly and dramatically as possible.
This was followed by Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2. Yuja Wang at the piano demonstrated incredible dexterity and energy, especially in her encore pieces.
During the interval Dame Kathryn McDowell welcomed Liverymen and Freemen to a special reception.
We then heard Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 1 which used 8 tympani and 8 double bases plus a full orchestra to hit us in our seats.
It was a most enjoyable and rousing evening.
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