London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) has held a prominent place in British music-making for more than seven decades. With a wide reach across Britain, in addition to its regular concerts in London's Cadogan Hall, including concerts in places where access to orchestral music is limited, the RPO can lay claim to the title of Britain's national orchestra. The RPO incorporates the pops-oriented Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the avant-garde Sharp Edge group, and RPO Resound, a community and educational outreach program.
The RPO's broad contemporary appeal, which has included appearances with popular music stars and on film, television, and video game soundtracks, would have been lauded by its founder and first conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, who set up the RPO in 1946 and helped lead a vital revival in the U.K.'s orchestral life after World War II. The new orchestra prospered, beginning a long summer residency at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1948 and touring the U.S. in 1950, becoming the first English orchestra to do so since 1912. Rudolf Kempe became principal conductor upon Beecham's death in 1961. The orchestra hit a rough patch in the early '60s under the leadership of Beecham's widow; Kempe departed (and then returned), and the orchestra temporarily lost the right to use the "royal" designation. That was restored by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966, and several strong conductors, Antal Doráti (1975-1978), André Previn (1985-1992), and Vladimir Ashkenazy (music director, 1987-1994), built the orchestra artistically. Later conductors have included Daniele Gatti, Yuri Temirkanov, Charles Dutoit, and Vasily Petrenko, who began his tenure as music director in 2021.
The RPO is especially notable for the depth and variety of its recording program, which in the first few years of its existence had already topped 100 items; by the early 2020s decade, the orchestra had issued many hundreds of recordings, stretching from pop (disco enthusiasts will remember it as the orchestra featured on the Hooked on Classics recordings of the 1980s) to new avant-garde music. Among these was a 125-album contract with the Tring label. The orchestra's RPO Records, formed in 1986, is thought to have been the first recording label owned by a symphony orchestra; such an arrangement is now commonplace. The following year, the RPO launched the light music (or pops in the U.S.) companion group, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.
In 1993, the RPO inaugurated an educational and community outreach program titled RPO Resound. This program provides musical experiences outside of traditional concert settings, such as schools, prisons, and hospitals. Among the key projects for this program is the stroke rehabilitation project STROKESTRA. The RPO is the resident music ensemble of Cadogan Hall in Chelsea, becoming the first London orchestra to have a permanent home, giving its first concert there in 2004. In 2019, the RPO released Animal Requiem by rocker Pete Townshend's collaborator and marital partner, Rachel Fuller. That year, the RPO was named the associate orchestra of the Royal Albert Hall. Among the orchestra's 2022 albums are a recording of two Sibelius Symphonies and Air, featuring the music of Oliver Davis. The next year, they teamed with Joe Hisaishi for A Symphonic Celebration, which reimagined songs from beloved Studio Ghibli animated films.
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Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Classica - Pubblicato da London Philharmonic Orchestra il 1 mag 2006
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French Opera Arias
Samuel Ramey, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Julius Rudel
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 lug 1991
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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre etc
Carlos Bonell, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit, Alicia de Larrocha, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 18 set 1995
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Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2/Danse Macabre
Alfred Brendel, Bernard Haitink, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca (UMO) il 1 gen 1972
La discografia ideale di Qobuz16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos 1-6, Manfred Symphony, Overtures & Rococo Variations
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 24 mar 2017
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Haydn: 12 "London" Symphonies
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 2004
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Holst: A Winter Idyll - Elegy - Indra - A Song of the Night - Sita Interlude - Invocation - The Lure - Morning of the Year Dances
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorraine McAslan, Alexander Baillie, London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton
Classica - Pubblicato da Lyrita il 1 gen 1993
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Solti - Richard Strauss - The Operas
Sir Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 22 ott 2012
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Brahms: Double Concerto, Op. 102 & Horn Trio, Op. 40
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Heinrich Schiff, Marie-Luise Neunecker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 14 ott 1997
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Mahler: Symphony No. 6
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
Classica - Pubblicato da London Philharmonic Orchestra il 1 giu 2009
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Coleridge-Taylor & Harrison: Works for Violin & Orchestra
Lorraine McAslan, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
Classica - Pubblicato da Lyrita il 1 set 2007
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 - Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Classica - Pubblicato da London Philharmonic Orchestra il 1 ott 2011
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Beethoven: "Pastorale" Symphony No.6 & "Egmont" Overture
James Loughran, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Collins Classics il 13 set 2011
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Scott: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 2 - Early One Morning
John Ogdon, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Lyrita il 1 gen 2007
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De Curtis: Torna a Surriento (Arr. Chiaramello)
Freddie De Tommaso, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Renato Balsadonna
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 28 gen 2022
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Johannes Brahms : Symphony n°1 - Tragic Overture - Academic Festival Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 1 feb 2005
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Kathleen Ferrier: Récital Bach & Haendel
Kathleen Ferrier, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1960
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Conductor's Gallery, Vol. 8: Grzegorz Fitelberg
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzegorz Fitelberg
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. il 25 ago 2023
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Brahms: Haydn Variations, Schicksalslied & Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 18 ago 2023
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Saint-Saëns: Overture to La Princesse Jaune, Requiem, Symphony No. 3
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, London Philharmonic Orchestra, James O'Donnell
Classica - Pubblicato da Signum-Cala il 26 apr 2019
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British Horn Concertos
David Pyatt, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
Classica - Pubblicato da Lyrita il 1 feb 2007
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