There are many Prokofiev works scheduled for this season to mark his anniversary, with cycles of works starting in the autumn. Two UK orchestras will be performing the complete symphonies over the season, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the concerts listed here are concerts up to the end of the year by these and other UK orchestras.

Barbican Box Office tel: 020 7638 8891 (booking fee payable)

26 November

Prokofiev - Symphony No.2
Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.2

Paavo Berglund, conductor
Nikolaj Znaider, violin

Invitation concerts are free. To book tickets for 22 October tel: 020 8576 1227.
Please note tickets are not available on the day and all concerts are subject to studio capacity.

22 October (at 7:30pm)

Prokofiev - Symphony No.3

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

1 December (at 3:00pm)

(BBC Symphony Orchestra subscribers have priority on this event;
tickets available to the public after 21 October).
Tickets for this concert from Barbican Box Office.

Prokofiev - Symphony No.4 (1930 version)
Prokofiev - Symphony No.4 (1947 version)

Sir Edward Downes, conductor

1 December (at 10:30 - 1:30)

Study morning chaired by Gerard McBurney - "Prokofiev and his Symphonies"
This event is open to ticket-holders of the afternoon concert.

Box Office tel: 0131 228 1155

Box Office tel: 0141 353 8000

28 November - Glasgow
29 November - Edinburgh

Prokofiev - Symphony No.1
Prokofiev - Symphony No.2

Alexander Lazarev, conductor

6 December - Edinburgh
7 December - Glasgow

Prokofiev - Symphony No.3

Alexander Lazarev, conductor

12 December - Glasgow
13 December - Edinburgh

Prokofiev - Symphony No.4 (revised version)

Alexander Lazarev, conductor

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