Merry Pranks

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1

Elgar Falstaff

R Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Vladimir Jurowski conductor

Yefim Bronfman piano

‘A goodly, portly man, of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble carriage’. And as this musical portrait of Falstaff lumbers humorously into life, you’ll hear Shakespeare’s fat knight transformed into pure Elgar. Witty, stirring and surprisingly poignant, Falstaff is one of British music’s most unexpected masterpieces; a fitting companion for the dazzling orchestral high-jinks of Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel. And since both composers revered Brahms, his First Piano Concerto makes a perfect opener. Vladimir Jurowski is joined by Yefim Bronfman, whose combination of gentleness and power is ideally suited to this epic – yet profoundly intimate – Concerto.

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8XX

No refunds or exchanges after booking.

Approximate run time: 130 mins

Saturday 27 April | 7.30pm 

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Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

By tube

Waterloo (Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Waterloo & City lines) (200 metres)

Embankment (District & Circle lines) (600 metres) 

By bus

Route RV1 stops on Belvedere Road (less than a minute’s walk away)

Routes 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 521, N1, N68, N171 and N343 stop on Waterloo Bridge (a two-minute walk away)

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