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LSO/Marta Gardolińska & Gareth Davies

Boulanger, Dalbavie & Tchaikovsky

,LSO St Luke's
Marta Gardolińska

Big music in a small venue. Up close in LSO St Luke’s, guest conductor Marta Gardolińska makes the air shake with music by Boulanger, Dalbavie and Tchaikovsky – his volcanic Fourth Symphony.

The orchestra shouts, and a solo flute turns dizzying cartwheels. Savage fanfares sound: and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony plunges into a life-or-death struggle with the force he called ‘Fate’. And in another world, a young genius distils the vitality of a spring morning into music that glistens like dew.

If this concert sounds colourful, that’s because it is – and up close, in the intimate performance space of LSO St Luke’s, you’ll feel every glint of light and roar of terror. The luminous optimism of the young Lili Boulanger is poles apart from the raw passion and white-hot melodies of Tchaikovsky’s semi-autobiographical symphony, but guest conductor Marta Gardolińska will make them both spring vividly to life – just as the LSO’s Principal Flute Gareth Davies will bring out all the dazzle and daring of Dalbavie’s 21st-century classic.

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Programme

  • Lili Boulanger   D’un matin de printemps
  • Marc-André Dalbavie   Flute Concerto
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   Symphony No 4
  • Silvestrov   Prayer for Ukraine

Performers

  • London Symphony Orchestra  
  • Marta Gardolińska   conductor
  • Gareth Davies   flute

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LSO St Luke's

Location
161 Old St
London
EC1V 9NG

Nearby public transport
The closest London Underground station is Old Street.The nearest National Rail station is Old Street (for Great Northern services), with Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Blackfriars and City Thameslink all within walking distance. Bus services running to LSO St Luke's are 55, 243 (stop nearest to LSO St Luke's), 43, 76, 141, 205, 214, 271. 

Car and bicycle parking
The nearest paid car parking is at the Barbican. There are occasionally disabled parking spaces available at the venue, but these must be booked in advance by calling LSO St Luke's on 020 7490 3939. The nearest TfL Bicycle Hire docking station is at Old Street tube station.