Season Opening: Manfred Honeck's Pastoral and Elektra
17 SEP 2026 (Thu) 7:30pm
Venue Information
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
Buy TicketsTicketing enquiries (URBTIX): 3166 1100
Programme enquiries: 2721 2332
Programme
From Beethoven’s Countryside to Strauss’s Inferno
What better way to open a new season than with the Pastoral Symphony, a visionary work that opened new possibilities for symphonic music and gave it a vivid narrative voice? Honeck juxtaposes its evocation of Beethoven’s love of nature – where flowing streams and birdsong yield to the exhilaration of a thunderstorm and radiant thanksgiving – with his own Suite from Strauss’s Elektra. Set against the mythic backdrop of Mycenae in the years after the Trojan War, the Suite further distils the seething world of Elektra, Clytemnestra, and Orest through its music of psychological violence, dark obsession, and explosive orchestral brilliance.
The concert runs approximately 2 hours with an intermission.
Artist
General Discount:
- Local full-time students, citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities & the minder*, CSSA recipients: 50% off (this discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers)
* For the purchase of each concessionary ticket for people with disabilities, the customer can purchase one ticket of the same concession for a minder.
- General public is entitled to 15% off for each purchase of standard tickets for 4 and more selected programmes#
# Discounts are calculated for each transaction and cannot be applied to the next transaction. This discount cannot be used in conjunction with other offers, and is not applicable for Chamber Music Concerts, Tarmo Peltokoski Conducts Mahler 8, Standard Chartered Global Private Bank Proudly Sponsors: Yo-Yo Ma Plays Elgar and Jockey Club TUTTI Programme: Jockey Club Masters Series: Gustavo Dudamel: Beethoven 9 with HK Phil. - Group Booking (standard tickets only): 10% off for 11-20 tickets, 15% off for 21-40 tickets
Membership Discount:
Club Bravo members: 15% off
Young Audience Scheme members: 60% off (max. 1 ticket, please select student ticket type), accompanying family members – 10% off (max. 2 tickets)
City Contemporary Dance Company “Dance Inspirations” members, Chung Ying “Energy Fun Club plus” members, CineClub (including Firebird & Goldcrest Subscribers), Friends of Hong Kong Ballet, Friends of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Friends of Hong Kong Dance Company (including Prestige & Classic Members), HKRep Pals, Zuni Friends: 10% off
Discounts are only available at URBTIX outlets upon presentation of valid staff/membership cards:
Staff of Swire Group: 15% off
Standard Chartered Cathay Mastercard Holders: 15% off
City Contemporary Dance Company “Student Dance Inspirations” members, Members of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators' Association, Gold and Black Card-holders of eslite, HKU SPACE Alumni members, LCSD Museums Pass Holders, Members of Hong Kong Orchestral Teachers’ Circle, Members of Hong Kong Piano/Electone Teachers’ Circle, MOVIE MOVIE Members, MyBookOne Club Member: 10% off
- No eating or drinking
- No photography, recording or filming
- Latecomers will only be admitted at suitable break
- Please turn off your mobile phone and other electronic devices
- Please keep noise to a minimum during the performance
- Please reserve your applause until the end of the entire work
- Stalls C1-2/61-62, AA1-7/94-100, BB1-8/94-101 & HH27
- Wheelchair Box 1-2
