Barnstorming from coast to coast, London’s Philharmonia celebrates its 80th-anniversary celebration with 10 concerts featuring nine selections in eight cities (follow this link for details). The principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, a Finnish wild child, whips up lots of excitement. At the keyboard, the Icelandic superstar Víkingur Ólafsson is sure to inspire in Beethoven’s lofty Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”) and to seduce in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. Orchestral selections include grandiloquent scores by Sibelius, Shostakovich, and the Philharmonia’s composer-in-residence Gloria Ortiz, represented by Si el oxígeno fuera verde, a U.S. premiere. Two evenings on the tour are under the baton of Marin Alsop, the orchestra’s principal guest conductor. At Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvia (October 26), and on the first of two evenings at Carnegie Hall (October 27), Alsop takes charge of Tchaikovsky’s swooning Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and Bartók’s kaleidoscopic Concerto for Orchestra. In between, the winning young French pianist Alexandre Kantorow takes the solo part in Prokofiev’s evergreen Piano Concerto No. 3. —Matthew Gurewitsch

The Philharmonia Orchestra will tour the United States, with stops in Davis, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Costa Mesa, California, followed by Ann Arbor, Michigan; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Bethesda, Maryland; and New York City