Who doesn't love some Elgar strings on a Monday afternoon? ✨
If you’re craving more, join the Philharmonia Orchestra and Nicola Benedetti this weekend for a truly unmissable programme
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📆 Sat 18 April, 7.30pm | The Anvil, Basingstoke
📆 Sun 19 April, 3pm | Royal Festival Hall, London
Rehearsals are in full swing with Bruce Liu! 🎹✨
Tonight in Bedford, we kick off the first of three concerts this weekend, conducted by Ryan Bancroft. Here’s a sneak peek inside the rehearsal room - Ravel’s infectious rhythms are starting to take over… 🕺
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We’re delighted to welcome back Ryan Bancroft! 🎶✨
The acclaimed American conductor returns this week for three performances, featuring music from Britten, Ravel and Tchaikovsky. Here's a look back at his electrifying performance of a Beethoven classic. 💪
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Stomping into the Easter weekend with music from Anna Clyne. 👀🦵
Enjoy this encore extract from last month's performance of 'Restless Oceans', led by our Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop and featuring the multi-dextrous players of the Orchestra!
Happy World Piano Day! 🎹🎶
As we prepare for today's performance of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto with Denis Kozhukhin, we’re revisiting the concerto that came just before it - the Fourth, often considered his second most beloved with Steven Osborne.
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A moment of Scheherazade magic with Marin Alsop 😍🎶
Enjoy this rehearsal excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakov's masterpiece, led by our Principal Guest Conductor ahead of our recent performance at the Royal Festival Hall. An enduring favourite for audiences and musicians alike.
Bruce Liu returns for Ravel's Piano Concerto in G! 🎹🎶
In just a few weeks, we’re delighted to welcome back the brilliant Canadian pianist for Ravel's vibrant concerto - inspired by the Spanish and jazz rhythms he discovered whilst touring the US.
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The epic finale of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 🙌✨
A behind-the-scenes glimpse from yesterday’s rehearsals, ahead of our sold-out performance at the Royal Festival Hall with conductor Kent Nagano, soprano Jane Archibald, mezzo-soprano Christina Bock, and the Philharmonia Chorus.
Epic Mahler moments 🥁💪
As we gear up for this week’s performance of Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 2 with conductor Kent Nagano, enjoy the electrifying finale of his Symphony No. 3, featuring this thunderous timpani climax.
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Wagnerian brass beauty in Bruckner’s Eighth 😍🎶
A moment from rehearsals with conductor Lawrence Renes, featuring a beautiful Wagner tuba solo. In this symphony, 4 horn players switch to Wagner tubas, creating a sound designed to mimic the church organs that Bruckner loved.
Marin Alsop returns this week for concerts in Canterbury, London and Manchester! 😍🎶
Here's an extract from rehearsals during her last visit in February, rehearsing 'Jupiter' from Holst’s The Planets. 🪐
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This week we welcome back American cellist Alisa Weilerstein 🤩🎶
Ahead of tomorrow evening's UK premiere of Gabriela Ortiz's Cello Concerto, 'Dzonot' in Canterbury, enjoy this beautiful extract from Dvořák's Silent Woods for cello and orchestra.
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Gabriela Ortiz's ‘Si el oxígeno fuera verde’ 😍🙌
Ahead of the UK premiere of her Cello Concerto ‘Dzonot’ with Alisa Weilerstein next week, enjoy our performance of ‘Si el oxígeno fuera verde’, performed earlier this season with Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
A world premiere of Jonathan Dove's 'Rainbow' with former Principal Clarinettist Mark van de Wiel! 😍🎶
Join us for an evening celebrating the clarinet, with 'Rainbow', Copland's Clarinet Concerto and that iconic opening to Rhapsody in Blue.
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Celebrating Kurtág at 100 with Víkingur Ólafsson 🎉
We marked the 100th birthday of György Kurtág with a special concert honouring his legacy. Thank you to our Featured Artist, conductor Elena Schwarz, presenter Tom Service and Ólafsson’s wife Halla Oddný Magnúsdóttir!
📸 Alejandro Sanchez-Garrido
An evening celebrating the clarinet 🎶😍
We’re thrilled to welcome back our former Principal Clarinet, Mark van de Wiel, to perform Copland's Clarinet Concerto, and the world premiere of a brand new concerto, commissioned from his friend Jonathan Dove.
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A sneak peek at John Adams’s 'After The Fall' with Víkingur Ólafsson! 👀🎹✨
Join us at 7.30pm at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre for what promises to be an unforgettable evening.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen + Ravel = pure magic 🪄🎶
This week we’re thrilled to welcome our former Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen back for Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé. To set the scene, here’s an extract from another Ravel masterwork - Mother Goose. ✨
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🎼 Applications are now open for the 2026/27 Philharmonia Instrumental Fellowship Programme!
The Fellowship offers an extensive range of training opportunities for young musicians who aspire to become professional orchestral musicians.
Apply now:
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Bruckner 8 in rehearsal with conductor Lawrence Renes! 🎶🙌
The Wagner tubas are at the ready as we prepare for Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. Join us at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall tomorrow night at 7.30pm
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Arturo Márquez on Danzón No. 2 with Gabriela Ortiz 🇲🇽🎶
Ahead of next month’s performances in Canterbury, London and Manchester, Arturo Márquez reflects on his iconic Danzón No. 2 in conversation with our Featured Composer Gabriela Ortiz.
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Gabriela Ortiz and Alisa Weilerstein on 'Dzonot' - Ortiz’s Cello Concerto, written especially for Weilerstein 🇲🇽🎶
Join us in Canterbury, London and Manchester for the UK premiere of this new work by our Featured Composer.
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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in rehearsal, ahead of the Philharmonia Festival in Mauritius 🇲🇺🎶
Conductor Alexandre Bloch joins us for a week of concerts in Mauritius, as we perform one of the most iconic and instantly recognisable moments in classical music.
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"I found an amazing group of players who were very warm, extremely supportive and open." 💬🤩
Esa-Pekka Salonen reflects on meeting the Orchestra for the very first time, his favourite thing about being a conductor and the role of music in today's world.
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Sean Shibe on the guitar concerto 'battle’ ahead of his performance of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. 🙌🎼
💬 “I don’t think there is really a better example of Rodrigo’s gift for slow melodic writing.”
🎟️ Limited tickets available - don’t miss it.
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Happy Birthday, Mendelssohn! 🎉
Did you know a stormy Scottish sea cave inspired one of his most famous pieces? 🌊⛰️
His Hebrides Overture was born after an 1829 visit to Fingal’s Cave on the Isle of Staffa, painting a moody picture of the Atlantic swell.
This is how the week should start. 🌍✨
Enjoy the opening of Holst’s Jupiter from The Planets, as we get ready for Sunday’s space-themed performance at the Royal Festival Hall.
Sun 8 Feb | Royal Festival Hall, London
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Is this the most beautiful melody ever written? 👀🎹
Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, rehearsed here by pianist Boris Giltburg and conductor Lawrence Foster, is one of those pieces that stops time.
If this moves you…wait until Sunday’s performance of Symphonic Dances! 🎶✨
Mars, the Bringer of Main Character Energy.
In just over a week, our Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop conducts Star Wars & The Planets at Royal Festival Hall, Sunday 8 Feb 🪐
Last few tickets 🎟️
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THIS moment in Sibelius 5 though… 🦢😍
Start your week with Sibelius: a rehearsal extract from his Fifth Symphony, conducted by Paavo Järvi. A powerful celebration of life and nature, inspired by the composer’s vision of sixteen swans in flight.
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