Elegant. Uplifting. Impassioned.
Stravinsky, Chopin and Borodin
Artist Portrait: Seong-Jin Cho
Thursday 12 February 2026 • 7pm
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Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento from
‘The Fairy’s Kiss’ (rev 1949) (20 mins)
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No 2 (30 mins)
Interval
Alexander Borodin
Symphony No 2 (30 mins)
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Seong-Jin Cho piano
London Symphony Orchestra
The concert will finish at approximately 9.05pm, including a 20-minute interval (timings subject to change).
Concert repeated on Sunday 15 February.
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The Concert
Bask in the Romantic flavours of Borodin’s folk-inspired Second Symphony, Stravinsky’s sublime neo-Classical homage to Tchaikovsky, and dazzling, deeply felt Chopin.
The Music
Inspired by a number of Tchaikovsky’s piano works and songs, The Fairy’s Kiss is Stravinsky’s ‘compatriot homage’ to his fellow countryman. The music is charming, romantic, and quotes frequently from the elder composer’s music.
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. And Borodin’s Second Symphony is one of the most melodically rich in all of Russian music, its final movement overflowing with spirited energy.
The Performers
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho and conductor Gianandrea Noseda make a formidable partnership in this concert of richly Romantic classics, forming part of Seong-Jin Cho’s Artist Portrait series with the LSO.
[It possesses] a perfection almost ideal, its expression now radiant with light, now full of tender pathos.
Composer Franz Liszt on the second movement of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2
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