Celebrated actor Simon Callow will join us as the narrator for our Firebird Festival Night with Yury Revich. Following the concert there will be a post-concert VIP champagne and canapé reception hosted by Yury Revich.
Tuesday 18 November 2025 St George’s Hanover Square
Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 9 in A, Op. 49 Kreutzer Revich Prelude Revich Violet Revich Choriner Wald Revich Clocks Massenet Meditation from Thaïs Sarasate Carmen Fantasy
London Firebird Orchestra Violin/Director Yury Revich Narrator Simon Callow
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Concert ticket-holders are welcome to purchase tickets for the Firebird Festival Night’s Concert: VIP Champagne & Canapé Reception on Tuesday 18 November following our fabulous concert featuring award-winning violinist Yury Revich and celebrated actor Simon Callow at St George’s Hanover Square, Mayfair…
In the concert violinist, composer and director Yury Revich brings us his ‘Festival Nights’ straight from Vienna. The main feature is an arrangement of Beethoven’s dazzling Kreutzer Sonata for Violin and String Orchestra.
The performance will be narrated by the celebrated actor Simon Callow, reading excepts from Tolstoy’s dramatic novella of the same name The Kreutzer Sonata.
This will be complemented by beautifully melodious compositions by Yury alongside works by Massenet and Sarasate.
Following the concert there will be a Private VIP Reception hosted by Yury Revich in the Undercroft at St George’s Hanover Square. Champagne and canapés will be served. The reception will last for an hour.
Firebird Festival Night and VIP Champagne followed by Canapé Reception
St George’s Hanover Square Tuesday 18 November 2025
Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 9 in A, Op. 49 (‘Kreutzer’) Revich Prelude Revich Violet Revich Choriner Wald Revich Clocks Massenet Meditation from Thaïs Sarasate Carmen Fantasy
London Firebird Orchestra Violin / Director / Composer Yury Revich Narrator Simon Callow
Photo credits: Champagne image – Alexander Naglestad via Unsplash Yury Revich – Mattia Baldi
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Firebird’s fun-filled fiesta of fabulous music on 18 Novemberbrings the magic of Vienna to London with director, violinist and composer Yury Revich, narrator Simon Callow and Ukrainian jazz singer Natisa Gogol…
Yury Revich brings us his ‘Festival Nights’ straight from Vienna. The main feature is an arrangement of Beethoven’s dazzling Kreutzer Sonata for Violin and String Orchestra. The performance will be narrated by the celebrated action Simon Callow, reading excepts from Tolstoy’s dramatic novella of the same name The Kreutzer Sonata.
This is complemented by beautifully melodious compositions by Yury alongside works by Massenet and Sarasate.
Simon Callow CBE is widely considered an English ‘National Treasure’ as an actor, writer, and director. We are thrilled to be inviting him as the narrator in our Firebird Festival Night. Simon Callow has played roles ranging from Mozart and Napoleon to Charles Dickens and is instantly recognisable on film, television and stage.
Also joining us will be the wonderful Ukrainian Jazz Singer Natisa Gogol, who will perform Gershwin’s The Man I Love and more. Natisa’s incredible journey from the breakout of war in her native Ukraine to becoming a rising star in the world of singer-songwriting is truly inspiring. It’s no surprise to hear Natisa’s name on the lips of more and more music fans.
The fourth generation of a family of solo violinists, composer Yury Revich is a winner of both ECHO Classic and International Classical Music Awards and enjoys a busy international schedule of concerts and concertos across the globe. He is also UNICEF Austria Ambassador and has performed at each Firebird season since 2019.
Firebird Festival Night
St George’s Hanover Square Tuesday 18 November 2025
Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 9 in A, Op. 49 Kreutzer Revich Prelude Revich Violet Revich Choriner Wald Revich Clocks Massenet Meditation from Thaïs Sarasate Carmen Fantasy GershwinThe Man I Love and more
London Firebird Orchestra Violin / Director / Composer Yury Revich Narrator Simon Callow Vocalist Natisa Gogol
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Pianist and Artistic Director Marc Corbett-Weaver’s annual recital at St George’s Hanover Square features some of the great master-works of the repertoire.
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Firebird’s artistic director, Marc Corbett-Weaver performs a key work of Beethoven’s ‘Heroic’ decade – his Waldstein sonata – alongside music by Lisztand Bach/Busoni…
Busoni’s legendary piano transcription of J S Bach’s monumental Chaconne from the D minor Partita for solo violin is filled with passion, drama, profundity and despair as it journeys through the theme’s many different variations.
The three movements in Beethoven’s thrilling and exquisite Waldstein Sonata are often likened to different times of the day – a bustling morning, a serenely beautiful afternoon and a dream-filled night.
The Waldstein Sonata was composed during his extraordinary Heroic Decade, which also gave rise to the Appassionata Sonata, Violin Concerto, Symphonies Nos. 3-7, his only opera, Fidelio, and the final three piano concertos.
Liszt’s monumental B minor Sonata is considered the pinnacle of Sonata form. This virtuosic work ranks amongst the most technically demanding pieces for the instrument and is filled with drama, excitement and beautiful dolce melodies.
“Marc Corbett-Weaver showed himself to be an interpretive artist fully immersed in the subtleties and considerable technical demands of each composer’s writing.“ Musical Opinion Magazine
Piano Recital with Marc Corbett-Weaver
Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 Beethoven Sonata in C, Op. 53 Waldstein Liszt Sonata in B minor
Tuesday 14 October 2025, 7.30pm St George’s Hanover Square, Mayfair
Scan the QR code to download your FREE programme for our season’s opening concert on Tuesday 30 September at St Georges Hanover Square, Mayfair, London.
Firebird’s 14th season of concerts opens with the glorious Violin Concerto by Brahms with prize-winning Italian soloist Matteo Cimatti. This will be followed by the enthralling New World Symphony by Dvořák.
Dvořák’s New World
A beautiful Violin Concerto by Brahms
A masterpiece by Dvořák with From the New World
St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 30 September 2025
London Firebird Orchestra Conductor George Jackson Violin Matteo Cimatti
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The soloist in Firebird’s opening concert of the season on Tuesday 30 September is violinist Matteo Cimatti performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Find out more about this fabulous Italian musician…
Matteo was one of the winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Final Auditions in May 2025.
Watch Matteo’s superb YCAT audition piece as he performs Edward Elgar’s Sospiri Op.70 back in May this year…
‘…refined playing and melodious and intense tone…’
(ANSA)
As a soloist he has appeared with several orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed in numerous festivals across Europe and received awards and prizes from many of the continent’s leading competitions.
Having graduated from the Haute École Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland in 2024, Matteo is now based between London and Switzerland.
An enthusiast chamber player from a very young age, Matteo is a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel.
Matteo’s upcoming highlights include his debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Internationales Musikfestival Heidelburger Fruhling and a return to the Wigmore Hall for another recital.
This season’s opening concert features Dvořák’s masterpiece From the New World and Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D with Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti.
Dvořák’s New World
St George’s Hanover Square Tuesday30 September 2025
London Firebird Orchestra Conductor George Jackson Violin Matteo Cimatti
The opening concert of Firebird’s 14th Season on Tuesday 30 September features Dvořák’s masterpiece From the New World and Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D with Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti and our truly outstanding Firebird orchestra…
Two monumental composers from the Romantic era – yet from two different musical worlds.
Dvořák
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), who frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. He was ‘arguably the most versatile… composer of his time’ (Music in the 19th century, OUP) and became an international figure who spent much of his career in New York.
By contrast, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was considered relatively conservative, yet continuing on the line of great symphonists from Beethoven. His music remains a staple of the concert repertoire to this day.
Brahm’s was partly responsible for Dvořák’s success, being on the Jury for the Austrian State Prize for composition which Dvořák won aged age 33. Brahms was said to be ‘visibly overcome’ by the ‘mastery and talent’ of the younger composer.
Our soloist for the Brahms concerto will be the prize-winning Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti. Fresh from engagements and competitions across Europe, Matteo’s playing has been praised by ANSA for ‘refined playing and melodious and intense tone’. His rich singing style is perfectly suited to the Brahms.
Dvořák’s New World
The season’s opening concert features Dvořák’s masterpiece From the New World and Brahms‘ Violin Concerto in D with Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti.
St George’s Hanover Square Tuesday 30 September 2025
London Firebird Orchestra Conductor George Jackson Violin Matteo Cimatti
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The season’s opening concert features Dvořák’smasterpiece From the New World and Brahm’sViolin Concerto in D with Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti. * St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 30 September 2025
Piano Recital with Marc Corbett-Weaver
Pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver performs a key work of Beethoven’s ‘Heroic’ decade – the Sonata in C Waldstein and Liszt’sSonata in B minor. * St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Firebird Festival Night
Join London Firebird Orchestra and internationally-acclaimed violinist Yury Revich for a chamber orchestral concert featuring Beethoven’s epic Kreutzer Sonata for Solo Violin and strings, with a celebrity narrator. Popular show-pieces by Massanet, Sarasate and Revich himself make for a riveting evening. * St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 18 November 2025
Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations
Beautiful music by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Mozart feature in this concert in which London Firebird are joined by Belarusian cellist Aleksei Kiseliov and soprano Elisabeth Karani. * St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 10 February 2026
“We are delighted to announce full details of Firebird’s 2025/26 Season, bringing glorious classics to the London stage with fine international soloists of the younger generation. We look forward to welcoming you to the concerts.” Artistic Director Marc Corbett-Weaver
Mendelssohn’s Dream
In association with the London Chamber Music Society, this concert features Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no.4 and music by Puccini and Haydn. * St John’s Waterloo: Sunday 8 March 2026
Mozart’s Strassburg
The multi-award-winning violin star Yury Revich returns for our Spring Concert, playing Mozart’s Strassburg Violin Concerto andSaint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, beforeBeethoven’s Erioca. * St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 28 April 2026
Firebird for Schools
Firebird brings the magical world of orchestral music to audiences of local schoolchildren with a celebrity-narrated performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. * St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 12 May 2026
Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto
Tchaikovsky’sPiano Concerto No.1 and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No.2 feature in Firebird’s popular Summer Concert, with pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver and conductor George Jackson. * St George’s Hanover Square: Tuesday 9 June 2026
London Firebird Orchestra’s 13th Season featured exhilarating performances at St George’sHanover Square, The Royal College of Music and SJE Arts Oxford.
Watch conductor George Jackson with pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2 at the final concert of the 24-25 season in June.
“The London Firebird Orchestra’s 13th season showcased a dazzling range of talent, with concerts and recordings at St George’s Hanover Square, SJE Arts Oxford (sponsored by the Morris-Venables Charitable Foundation) and the Royal College of Music; culminating, in April and June, with the two largest audiences we have performed to at St George’s, for which we opened the gallery.”
Said Artistic Director Marc Corbett-Weaver
Highlights from the 2024-25 season, which featured violinists Yury Revich and Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, pianists Amiri Harewood and Marc Corbett-Weaver, and Trio Concept.
“I would like to thank all of the Players, Soloists and Conductors who took part; the Crew; our Sponsors, Benefactors and Friends – and our wonderful, loyal audience. We wish everyone a blissful summer and we look forward to seeing you again for the 14th season, which begins in September 2025.”
Added Marc
Violinist and composer Yury Revich with Firebird’s Artistic Director Marc Corbett-Weaver
75% of the orchestra’s activities are funded by donations from our wonderful Sponsors, Benefactors and Friends – providing a vital bedrock of funding.
If you are not already a member, please consider supporting Firebird’s amazing work. There are many benefits in being a member too.
We are now finalising the orchestras 2025-26 concert season which begins this September. You will see yet more sensational soloists, some familiar returning stars and a fabulous programme of classical greats. The complete series will be live on our website over the coming weeks.
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