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The latest news about our concerts, recordings, concert streams and Education & Community programme.
LPO touring 2017/18 in numbers
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- Published: 24 May 2018
After another busy year of performing concerts all over the world, we've clocked up some pretty impressive numbers! Alongside our concert season at home in London, find out where we visited in our 2017/18 season...
Springtime music playlist
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- Published: 24 April 2018
Spring is finally upon us! And we're looking forward to celebrating this Friday at Southbank Centre with Dvořák's brilliant Symphony No. 8, a work full of sunlight, birdsong and unbridled melody. Get into the spirit of spring (even if the weather doesn't want to play along) with our pick of the best sunny music from the LPO label...
Follow along with Beethoven's Violin Concerto
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- Published: 16 April 2018
Follow the stunning Second Movement of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in this short video, before Gil Shaham performs it live on Saturday 21 April.
Bryce Dessner in conversation
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- Published: 10 April 2018
On Friday 13 April 2018 we're giving the world premiere of Bryce Dessner's Concerto for Two Pianos with legendary piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque, as part of our Breaking Ground series of new music concerts at Southbank Centre.
Thomas Adès on Powder Her Face Suite
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- Published: 04 April 2018
Hear Thomas Adès discuss his latest Powder Her Face Suite, and the opportunities writing for a full orchestra has given his score.
Jesús López-Cobos (1940-2018)
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- Published: 23 March 2018
We were saddened this month to hear of the death of Jesús López-Cobos, former Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981 to 1986.
London Philharmonic Choir on Stravinsky and Bernstein
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- Published: 22 March 2018
Hear members of the London Philharmonic Choir discuss Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms ahead of their performance on Saturday 24 March as part of Changing Faces: Stravinsky's Journey.
