Alice Sara Ott plays Beethoven

The evening

Mahler meets Beethoven in one dazzling concert.

There’s no sound quite like the beginning of Mahler’s First Symphony; a vast, shining stillness that could be a spring morning, or the dawn of the Universe itself. Either way, you know you’re in for an adventure, and there’s no better guide than LPO Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis, an artist who strikes sparks from everything she touches. And imagine the chemistry, too, when she joins pianist Alice Sara Ott in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Some say that it’s his greatest. We just know that whenever Ott performs, the music seems to come alive. Join us, and hear for yourself.

*Karina Canellakis’s position with the LPO is generously supported by Richard Buxton.

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