Listen to our Classical music blog for May Highlights

Posted on May 2, 2012 by elsieburke

In this month’s podcast members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment discuss working with Sir Simon Rattle, and Vladimir Ashkenazy gives his personal perspective on Shostakovich’s Babi Yar Symphony. Plus a member of Spira mirabilis talks about the ensemble’s unique approach to Beethoven’s music.

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Listen to our classical music podcast for April highlights

Posted on April 4, 2012 by elsieburke

Colin Currie premieres a powerful and imaginative new Percussion Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a performance Gilbert & Sulivan’s finest operetta The Yeomen of the Guard, and meet a player-piano who is the star of this year’s Nancarrow festival.

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Getting to know conductor Thomas Blunt

Posted on April 3, 2012 by elsieburke

Conductor Thomas Blunt is one of the current participants in the International Conductors’ Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation, which culminates in a concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall on 13 April 2012. Alongside the other two young conductors, Domingo Hindoyan and Ward Stare, Thomas will conduct the Orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 [...]

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Getting to know conductor Domingo Hindoyan

Posted on April 3, 2012 by elsieburke

Conductor Domingo Hindoyan is one of the current participants in the International Conductors’ Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation, which culminates in a concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on 13 April 2012 at Royal Festival Hall. Alongside the other two young conductors, Thomas Blunt and Ward Stare, Domingo will conduct the Orchestra in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with soloist John [...]

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Composer Julian Anderson presents his new work ‘The Discovery of Heaven’

Posted on March 16, 2012 by elsieburke

Julian Anderson is the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Composer in Residence, and his new, three movement orchestral work ‘The Discovery of Heaven‘ is premiered on 24 March 2012. Learn more about the work in the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s March podcast. You can hear the London Philharmonic Orchestra premiere Julian Anderson’s The Discovery of Heaven alongside Delius’s Sea [...]

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Marin Alsop podcast

Posted on February 13, 2012 by elsieburke

Artist in residence Marin Alsop has performed two concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Southbank Centre this February. Listen to the LPO February podcast where she introduces works by Martinů, Dvořák and Liszt.

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Listen to the LPO’s latest podcast: Scriabin’s Prometheus, Poem of Fire

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Alison Fraser

The Greek myth of Prometheus has attracted composers over the centuries, including Beethoven, Liszt, Nono and Scriabin. The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski explores the myth, and in particular the visionary work created by Scriabin – Prometheus, Poem of Fire, which has claim to be the first true ‘multi-media’ work for orchestra and [...]

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Video Game Heroes – Day 2 of recording plus behind-the-scenes video

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Alison Fraser

Day two of recording for conductor Andrew Skeet and Southbank Centre Resident Orchestra, the LPO, with their upcoming album Video Game Heroes. Here’s the latest from the studio and check out the video below for some background to this exciting new project! Great day in Angel studios  – day two of the recording.  What a [...]

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The Greatest Video Games Music performed by the LPO – Conductor Andrew Skeet’s recording diary

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Alison Fraser

The LPO’s 2011/12 classical season at Southbank Centre kicks off in style with something a little bit different. We’ve had music from films and TV, but now the LPO are bringing the Greatest Video Games Music to the Royal Festival Hall. Experience total orchestral immersion in the worlds of Angry Birds, Elder Scrolls, Zelda, Super [...]

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The Mozart Question: Education resources

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Liz White

Sunday 5 December, 3.30pm, Royal Festival Hall The Mozart Question is a story accessible to young and old, but it is also one rooted in a dark and challenging period of history. To accompany their performance of The Mozart Question, the London Philharmonic Orchestra in association with the Holocaust Education Trust, have created online resources. [...]

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