On Tour in Essen
Sir Antonio Pappano and Seong-Jin Cho
Philharmonie Essen
Sunday 5 October 2025 • 7pm
Book TicketsThe Concert
Gioachino Rossini
Overture: Semiramide
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No 2
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No 10
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Seong-Jin Cho piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Tickets
Tickets
Available from Philharmonie Essen
The Music
The concert opens with the spirited overture to Rossini’s final Italian opera Semiramide.
Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 brings a different kind of intensity: lyrical, intimate, and full of yearning. The middle movement of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 is amongst the composer’s most ravishing music, sparked by his unrequited love for soprano Konstancja Gladkowska.
Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya called Shostakovich’s blistering Symphony No 10 ‘a composer’s testament of misery, forever damning a tyrant.’ Premiered soon after Stalin’s death, the work blends solemnity and mocking sneers that are as powerful as anything the composer wrote.
The Performers
The LSO is joined by South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho. Sir Antonio Pappano, LSO Chief Conductor, conducts.
