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Lisa de la Salle to perform as piano soloist in place of Ingrid Fliter as NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover makes welcome return to the UK for a five-concert tour with Chief Conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky.
All other details of the performance remain unchanged.
Tour itinerary comprises dates in Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, London and Basingstoke (Monday 12 to Friday 16 October)
Lisa de la Salle and Nikolai Lugansky join as soloists respectively in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Rachmaninov’s youthful Piano Concerto No.1
The NDR Radiophilharmonie orchestra, based in Hannover, the capital city of Lower Saxony, is set to return to Britain this autumn for a five-concert tour under the direction of its Chief Conductor, Stanislav Kochanovsky. The tour opens on Monday 12 October at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester before continuing to Symphony Hall Birmingham on 13 October, with Lisa de la Salle as soloist for both concerts. Nikolai Lugansky will join the touring party for performances at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham (14 October), London’s Cadogan Hall (15 October) and The Anvil, Basingstoke (16 October). The partnership between Stanislav Kochanovsky and the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover has already drawn high praise from UK critics, with Gramophone selecting their debut album of works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tcherepnin as one of its prestigious Editor’s Choice recordings in May 2025.
“It’s a great pleasure as well as a certain responsibility to come to Britain with my dear colleagues,” says Stanislav Kochanovsky. “I am proud of the results of our creative work together and look forward to sharing them with our audiences on tour. We’ve joined forces and woven together our different musical traditions and cultural backgrounds through intensive work on projects like our Tchaikovsky recordings and recent Schumann-Tchaikovsky Festival. Our British audience will witness the orchestra’s wonderful signature German sound as well as the shared vision we’ve created in the Russian repertoire.”
In 2014 Hannover was appointed a UNESCO City of Music, the title an acknowledgement of the city’s vibrant music scene and cultural policy which offers exceptional conditions for music and artistry to thrive. The Hanoverian orchestra comes to the UK having celebrated its 75th anniversary across the 2025-26 season
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