Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Language available : englishAwarded the Royal title in 1957, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra presents its schedule of concerts under the aegis of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, which offered its first event on March 12, 1840. Alone among Britain's orchestral societies, the RLPS owns its own concert hall, a 1939 art deco structure designed by Herbert J. Rowse. It is the U.K.'s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra. Vasily Petrenko was appointed principal conductor of the orchestra in September 2006 and in September 2009 became chief conductor. Petrenko joins a distinguished line of musicians who have led the orchestra during its illustrious history, including Max Bruch, Sir Charles Hallé, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Pritchard, Sir Charles Groves, Walter Weller, David Atherton, Marek Janowski, Libor Pešek KBE, Petr Altrichter, and Gerard Schwarz. The orchestra gives over 60 concerts each season, and in recent seasons has given world premiere performances of major works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir John Tavener, Karl Jenkins, Stewart Copeland, Michael Nyman, Michael Torke, Nico Muhly, James Horner, and Sir James MacMillan alongside works by Liverpool-born composers and others based in North West England. Collaborations with international artists from rock and pop include those with Liverpool's own Sir Paul McCartney (the Liverpool Oratorio), Elvis Costello, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Ian Broudie and the Lightning Seeds, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Cast. In the 2010s, additions to the orchestra's critically acclaimed catalog of recordings include Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony and Pastoral Symphony No. 4 with Andrew Manze. Manze's Vaughan Williams cycle was the orchestra's second to receive wide acclaim; an earlier set under Vernon Handley was recorded in the mid-1980s. With Vasily Petrenko, recordings include Rachmaninov's complete piano concertos and three symphonies, and the complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Elgar. The recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was the Gramophone Awards' Orchestral Recording of the Year in 2011. Tchaikovsky's Symphonies 1, 2 and 5 won Orchestral Recording of the Year and Recording of the Year at the BBC Magazine Awards in 2017. The orchestra's fall 2017 concerts included a diverse mix of genres typical of symphonic programs on both sides of the Atlantic, yet rooted in the orchestra's geography and traditions. Rising cellist Alexey Stadler performed Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, and the Philharmonic gave the UK premiere of Philip Glass' Symphony No. 11. The cross-genre popularity of birds was addressed by "The Birds," a Petrenko-conducted program featuring Stravinsky's The Firebird, Respighi's The Birds, and works by Delius and Korngold. In October the orchestra performed the score to the film Casablanca live, accompanying a showing of the film, while two separate concert programs took Holst's The Planets as a point of departure. "Rachmaninov's Third: The World's Toughest Piano Piece?" the orchestra asked in promotions for a November concert featuring rising Russian virtuoso Boris Giltburg.
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Awarded the Royal title in 1957, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra presents its schedule of concerts under the aegis of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, which offered its first event on March 12, 1840. Alone among Britain's orchestral societies, the RLPS owns its own concert hall, a 1939 art deco structure designed by Herbert J. Rowse. It is the U.K.'s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra.
Vasily Petrenko was appointed principal conductor of the orchestra in September 2006 and in September 2009 became chief conductor. Petrenko joins a distinguished line of musicians who have led the orchestra during its illustrious history, including Max Bruch, Sir Charles Hallé, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Pritchard, Sir Charles Groves, Walter Weller, David Atherton, Marek Janowski, Libor Pešek KBE, Petr Altrichter, and Gerard Schwarz.
The orchestra gives over 60 concerts each season, and in recent seasons has given world premiere performances of major works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir John Tavener, Karl Jenkins, Stewart Copeland, Michael Nyman, Michael Torke, Nico Muhly, James Horner, and Sir James MacMillan alongside works by Liverpool-born composers and others based in North West England.
Collaborations with international artists from rock and pop include those with Liverpool's own Sir Paul McCartney (the Liverpool Oratorio), Elvis Costello, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Ian Broudie and the Lightning Seeds, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Cast.
In the 2010s, additions to the orchestra's critically acclaimed catalog of recordings include Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony and Pastoral Symphony No. 4 with Andrew Manze. Manze's Vaughan Williams cycle was the orchestra's second to receive wide acclaim; an earlier set under Vernon Handley was recorded in the mid-1980s.
With Vasily Petrenko, recordings include Rachmaninov's complete piano concertos and three symphonies, and the complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Elgar. The recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was the Gramophone Awards' Orchestral Recording of the Year in 2011. Tchaikovsky's Symphonies 1, 2 and 5 won Orchestral Recording of the Year and Recording of the Year at the BBC Magazine Awards in 2017.
The orchestra's fall 2017 concerts included a diverse mix of genres typical of symphonic programs on both sides of the Atlantic, yet rooted in the orchestra's geography and traditions. Rising cellist Alexey Stadler performed Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, and the Philharmonic gave the UK premiere of Philip Glass' Symphony No. 11. The cross-genre popularity of birds was addressed by "The Birds," a Petrenko-conducted program featuring Stravinsky's The Firebird, Respighi's The Birds, and works by Delius and Korngold. In October the orchestra performed the score to the film Casablanca live, accompanying a showing of the film, while two separate concert programs took Holst's The Planets as a point of departure. "Rachmaninov's Third: The World's Toughest Piano Piece?" the orchestra asked in promotions for a November concert featuring rising Russian virtuoso Boris Giltburg.
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Concerto pour piano
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 2 nov. 2009
5 de DiapasonHi-Res AudioThese accounts of four diverse works by Ralph Vaughan Williams are in every way splendid. James Judd clearly knows his way around these scores, and hi ...
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Symphonie n°7 "Léningrad"
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 29 apr. 2013
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Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau, Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on 30 apr. 2021
In Vienna, Alexander Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker conducted experiments that could be seen as a middle road between the rigorous writing of Brahms, th ...
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Symphonie n°10
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 10 nov. 2010
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Dimitri Chostakovitch : Symphonie n° 4
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 30 sep. 2013
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TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Manfred Symphony / Voyevoda (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Petrenko)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 29 sep. 2008
Gramophone AwardIf after hearing this superb 2008 Naxos disc some obstinate listeners insist on maintaining that the Manfred Symphony and the symphonic ballad The Voy ...
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ALWYN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 1 jan. 2005
"Louis' art is not hard to follow. Louis' art is not hard to swallow." ("Everybody Loves Louis" from Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondh ...
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Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead & The Rock
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Avie Records on 1 feb. 2010
5 de DiapasonThese may not be the greatest performances of these three Rachmaninov works ever recorded, but they are very close. Some might point to Eugene Ormandy ...
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Symphonie n°8
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 9 mei 2010
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Stravinsky: Petrushka, Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Balletten - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on 30 okt. 2020
The collaboration of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and conductor Vasily Petrenko continues to yield satisfying results as orchestra and leader come ...
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Shostakovich, D.: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 28 sep. 2009
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Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 / Harp Concerto, Lyra Angelica
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 1 aug. 2005
To commemorate William Alwyn's centenary in 2005, Naxos began its series of his complete symphonies and other orchestral works with recordings of the ...
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Symphony No. 4 / Sinfonietta
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 21 feb. 2006
If you're thinking of trying a single disc of the symphonic music of William Alwyn, you might think about trying this one of his Fourth Symphony coupl ...
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Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on 11 okt. 2019
Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s cycle of the 9 Vaughan Williams symphonies have been praised by the reviewers, and their ...
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Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a theme by Purcell, Op. 34
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on 25 jun. 2021
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Viana da Motta: À pátria – Sinfonia
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 25 sep. 2015
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Curse of the Werewolf - The Prisoner - The Net - So Long at the Fair Medley
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 16 mei 2006
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The Gerard Schwarz Collection
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 13 okt. 2017
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Bernstein: On the Waterfront
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by BIS on 23 feb. 2018
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 & Prince Rostislav (Édition StudioMasters)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics International on 25 okt. 2013
Hi-Res AudioRachmaninov's Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13, seems to have finally bounced back from its disastrous premiere, at which César Cui said that it woul ...
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Symphonies n°6 et n°12
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 26 sep. 2011
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