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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

February 2024

  • Roland Wood singing and looking very like Karl Marx in Marx in London!

    The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review

    A day in the life of the father of communism is full of laughs in Scottish Opera’s new production of Jonathan Dove’s buoyant farce. Elsewhere, notable house debuts at ENO, a Bruckner double bill and Rachmaninov to remember

November 2023

  • Lang Lang plays the Goldberg Variations (also Robert Schumann Arabesque in C major, Op 18) in the Barbican Hall on Friday 10 December 2021. Photo by Mark Allan

    Lang Lang/RPO/Wigglesworth review – virtuosic pianism as sonic warfare

    The superstar pianist played Saint-Saëns’ second piano concerto to a rapt hall and was joined by his wife for Carnival of the Animals. Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite gave the Royal Philharmonic a chance to shine

October 2023

  • Team performance … Petrenko and Lugansky with the RPO at Royal Festival Hall.

    RPO/Lugansky/Petrenko review – orchestra claps packed audience as transformation continues

    A warhorse work from Rachmaninov and endlessly shifting combinations from Elgar showcased the Royal Philharmonic’s current form

June 2023

  • ‘I need to get cracking’ … Sutton, who composed the music for War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

    ‘I’ve never been so productive’: the composer who wrote a concerto during 12 lots of chemo

    Adrian Sutton, the Olivier-winning composer who has incurable cancer, is in an extraordinary race against time – to mount a celebratory concert of his work. He details his battles over the past six months

May 2023

  • Nicole Chevalier in Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

    The week in classical: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs; RPO/Petrenko; LPO/Mäkelä – review

    Chart-topping Górecki becomes exquisite spectacle at ENO; Mahler’s Third is worth the wait; plus, the Finnish flourish of Klaus Mäkelä

February 2023

  • In great form … Vasily Petrenko and the RPO at the Royal Festival Hall.

    RPO/Petrenko review – dazzling Scriabin and spine-tingling Wagner

    After a sombre opening, the ecstasies promised in the evening’s theme were reached with Wagner and Scriabin. The Royal Philharmonic and its new conductor are clearly enjoying themselves in this imaginative and accessible season

October 2022

  • Every detail carefully defined … Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    RPO/Petrenko review – Mahler’s grand and imposing 8th sounds as if it belongs here

    Vasily Petrenko and the huge forces required for this choral symphony navigated the score with agility and conviction, but the dramatic connection remained elusive

November 2021

  • Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO at Southbank Centre on 3 Nov 2021 credit Ben Wright and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2

    RPO/Petrenko review – British focus for ambitious orchestra’s new era

    New Royal Philharmonic music director Vasily Petrenko excelled in pacey but nuanced performances of Walton and Elgar, with violinist Ning Feng the dazzling soloist

February 2021

  • Louis Clark conducting

    Louis Clark obituary

    Keyboard player with the Electric Light Orchestra who went on to create the Hooked on Classics series with the Royal Philharmonic

January 2018

  • Charles Dutoit conducts the Royal Philharmonic

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conductor quits over abuse claims

    Charles Dutoit’s position described as ‘untenable’ after six women accuse him of sexual assault

December 2017

  • Charles Dutoit conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual assault

    Celebrated 81-year-old leaves his post ‘for the immediate future’ after musicians accuse him of forcibly kissing and groping them over a period of 15 years

December 2016

  • City of London Choir and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Haydn: Mass in Time of War; Nelson Mass CD review – mixed blessings

    City of London Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Davan Wetton
    (RPO)

June 2016

  • ‘Expressive’: Harriet MacKenzie makes Gunning’s violin concerto ‘sing like a bird’.

    Christopher Gunning: Violin concerto, Cello concerto review – prolific and accessible

    RPO/Gunning
    A warm celebration of the Brecon Beacons and a dark meditation on ageing and loss are added to the composer’s impressive canon

March 2016

  • Charles Dutoit conducts Press image from EvansC@rpo.co.uk at Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    RPO/Dutoit review – eloquence, dark intensity and insights into Stravinsky

    Charles Dutoit brought out the beauty of the RPO’s engaging orchestral sound and cellist Gautier Capucon was gracefully beguiling playing Dvořák

August 2015

  • Charles Dutoit conducts the RPO in Prom 45

    RPO/Dutoit review – dexterity and refinement

    Charles Dutoit trod a clear-minded path through the complexities of Shostakovich’s 15th; pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja’s Mozart – with cadenzas by Britten – was less successful

January 2015

  • Willard White.

    RPO/Dutoit review – Bartók’s portrait of marital failure chillingly realised

    Soloists Willard White and Ildikó Komlósi conquer Bluebeard’s Castle, as Charles Dutoit marshals the RPO with probing virtuosity, writes Tim Ashley

September 2014

  • Charles Dutoit

    Prom 60: RPO/Dutoit review – aplomb and bags of panache

    It was hard to imagine Respighi's Roman trilogy done better, writes Tim Ashley

May 2014

  • Composer Michael Nyman.

    RPO/Nyman/Vincent review – lacklustre music-making

    A disappointing evening marking the composer's 70th birthday

March 2013

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