The LPO performed at the Congress Theatre’s opening concert in 1963, and are proud to celebrate over 60 years of performances at the venue!

Once again, the 2024/25 season at the Congress Theatre is filled with iconic works, outstanding soloists and charismatic conductors. Discover Sunday afternoons filled with wonder, from the opening concert with conductor Vinay Parameswaran and cellist Sterling Elliott, to Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 2 with soloist Ben Goldscheider, Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony under LPO Fellow Conductor Matthew Lynch, and the season finale with conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and pianist Jan Lisiecki.

Congress Theatre

Carlisle Road Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 4BP

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Beethoven’s Seventh

Repertoire

Sibelius Finlandia (8’) Listen

Dvořák Cello Concerto (40’) Listen

Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (36’) Listen

Performers

Vinay Parameswaran conductor
Sterling Elliott cello*

Beethoven set out to make the whole world drunk with joy, and from first note to last, his Seventh Symphony simply blazes with pure, irrepressible life-force.

It’s a torrent, a celebration, a cosmic dance. Sounds like we’re overselling it? Just wait until you hear the Seventh played live by the full London Philharmonic Orchestra under our dynamic guest conductor Vinay Parameswaran. But then, everything about this concert is off-the-scale: from Sibelius’s stirring hymn to freedom, to the unchained melody of Dvořák’s glorious Cello Concerto – an ideal showcase for the inspirational young American cellist Sterling Elliott.

_{*Alexandra Jupin Award recipient. An annual award for an artist making their debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.}

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Sun 17 Nov 2024, 3.00pm