Welcome back to the magnificent Cadogan Hall, following closely on from our last concert there in February where 500 of you enjoyed a “Night at the Movies!” our next concert is a repertoire of absolute classics and will serve as a great early-summer night out for your colleagues!

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Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” – “a symphony in four parts”, according to Hector Berlioz – opens the evening, after which the London Phoenix Orchestra are joined by acclaimed pianist Simon Callaghan for Rachmaninov’s most popular piece, his Piano Concerto No.2.

Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, Symphony No. 6, premiered just nine days before the composer’s death in 1893, is a subversion of symphonic form, and the culmination of Tchaikovsky’s musical exploration of the inexorability of fate. Its emotional range and depth make it one of the masterpieces of the 19th century. Tchaikovsky himself described it as “the best thing I ever composed or shall compose”.