London Philharmonic Orchestra

September 2014 - May 2015
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Royal Festival Hall concert series

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Friday 7 March 2014
History-making firsts

Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Dvorak and Mahler conducted by Ilyich Rivas

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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New CD release: Orff's Carmina Burana

New CD release: Orff's Carmina Burana

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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New CD release: Orff's Carmina Burana

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CD reviews – Mahler Das Lied von der Erde / Nézet-Séguin
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CD reviews – Mahler Das Lied von der Erde / Nézet-Séguin

Recordings

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

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Rehearsing now on the Royal Festival Hall stage for our GCSE New Horizons performance, talented Year 10s playing today at 6pm. It's free!

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New video: introducing Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1
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New video: introducing Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1

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Concert reviews: Vladimir Jurowski conducts MacMillan and Mahler, 15 January 2014
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Concert reviews: Vladimir Jurowski conducts MacMillan and Mahler, 15 January 2014

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Concert reviews: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms and Beethoven, 17 January 2014
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Concert reviews: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms and Beethoven, 17 January 2014

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Spring 2014 edition of Tune In
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Spring 2014 edition of Tune In

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Concert reviews: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms & Bruckner, 26 February 2014

Concert reviews: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms & Bruckner, 26 February 2014

On Wednesday 26 February 2014 at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski gave a concert comprised of Brahms's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with soloists Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott, followed by Bruckner's Symphony No. 2. The concert was broadcast live...
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Concert reviews: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms & Bruckner, 26 February 2014

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RT @jessicaduchen: Intrigued to see how Ilyich Rivas will get along conducting @LPOrchestra tonight. He is all of 20. Youngest conductor ev…

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London Philharmonic Orchestra announces new Composer in Residence: Magnus Lindberg
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London Philharmonic Orchestra announces new Composer in Residence: Magnus Lindberg

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Tickets Please! Help us fill our concert hall
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Tickets Please! Help us fill our concert hall

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CD reviews – Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

CD reviews – Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

'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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CD reviews – Vladimir Jurowski conducts Brahms Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
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Rehearsing now on the Royal Festival Hall stage for our GCSE New Horizons performance, talented Year 10s playing today at 6pm. It's free!

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RT @jessicaduchen: Intrigued to see how Ilyich Rivas will get along conducting @LPOrchestra tonight. He is all of 20. Youngest conductor ev…

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Tickets are still available for Ilyich Rivas's LPO debut tonight! Read the programme notes beforehand online: http://t.co/ZhdXYbaXY8

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Coming to our concert this evening? Come early to see some talented GCSE students perform their own compositions in the RFH for free at 6pm!

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Watch our intro to Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto: 'the most inward, the heart's jewel' before our concert on 14 Mar http://t.co/WsfRqT72Iw

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Tomorrow BEING the performance of the New Horizons composition project, with 4 school groups onstage at the RFH, 6pm. It's free. Join us!

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LPO double bassist George tutors a group of Year 10s on our New Horizons composition project, ready for tomorrow... http://t.co/Owrjdidtfu

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RT @HHS_HeathBarn: At the @LPOrchestra Bright Sparks KS3 Schools Concert, waiting for the orchestra to arrive! http://t.co/0cK89tnpkD
Recordings
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