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Royal Festival Hall concert series

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Wednesday 26 March 2014
The king of instruments

Celebrate the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall organ with Poulenc and Saint-Saëns

7.30pm, Royal Festival Hall, London

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Friday 14 March 2014
A tribute, a gift

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Bruckner's Symphony No. 3

7.30pm, Royal Festival Hall, London

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Wednesday 19 March 2014
Transcendence and transfiguration

Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration, and Emanuel Ax performs Bach

7.30pm, Royal Festival Hall, London

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New CD release
Orff: Carmina Burana

An all-time favourite - Carmina Burana - now available on the LPO Label

£9.99

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Just released on the LPO Label is a CD of Orff's spectacular choral work Carmina Burana. Recorded live at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on 6 April 2013 as part of the year-long The Rest Is Noise festival, the performance is conducted by Hans Graf and features soloists Sarah Tynan,...
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CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 1
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On Friday 7 March 2014, 20-year-old Venezuelan conductor Ilyich Rivas made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall. He conducted a programme of Dvořák, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich with piano soloist Simon Trpčeski. The concert was repeated at Southend on Saturday 8 March and Eastbourne on Sunday...
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'The London Philharmonic Orchestra's strings combine passion and poise, the woodwinds are exquisite, and Jurowski accepts the music as a lyrical outpouring. In short, unlike John Eliot Gardiner's wham-bam approach, the LPO's principal conductor marries the best of tradition with the best of modern practice.' (4 stars)Andrew Clark, Financial Times,...
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Reviews of Friday's concert with Ilyich Rivas and Simon Trpceski are on our website here: http://t.co/lUua30ezuJ

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The Sunday Times loved our new Brahms Symphonies 3&4 CD with Jurowski. Listen to clips here: http://t.co/y0AIpAxdmK http://t.co/BbEqaVwaB3

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What a fantastic evening last night with llyich Rivas making his LPO debut! We're on to Southend-on-Sea with the same programme today.

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CD: Orff – Carmina Burana

CD: Orff – Carmina Burana

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is an infectious and brilliantly orchestrated work, combining gloriously bawdy vulgarity and moments of touching beauty. The inspiration for the work struck Orff in 1935 when he encountered a vivid set of medieval poems charting the...
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CD: Orff – Carmina Burana

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CD: Bruckner – Symphony No. 7
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CD: Bruckner – Symphony No. 7

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CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
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CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

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CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 1

CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 1
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CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 1

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CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
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CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

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CD: Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
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CD: Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7

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CD: Julian Anderson orchestral works
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CD: Julian Anderson orchestral works

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CD: Turnage – Orchestral Works Volume 3
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CD: Turnage – Orchestral Works Volume 3

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CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

Brahms was well into his forties by the time he completed a symphony – but by the time he reached his third, he’d hit his stride. Sweeping string melodies and autumnal colours interwoven with his recurring musical motto of ‘free...
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CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

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CD: Shostakovich – Symphony No. 8

CD: Shostakovich – Symphony No. 8
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CD: Shostakovich – Symphony No. 8

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CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 2
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CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 2

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CD: Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé
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CD: Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé

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CD: Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde

CD: Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde

In Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Mahler married together for the first time the lyricism of the song-cycle and the formal ambition of the symphony. With texts based on Chinese poems reflecting on themes of...
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CD: Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde