‘[Jurowski’s] Fourth is distinguished by intelligent phrasing in the two outer movements and a sense of the symphony’s unstoppable drive, while the Fifth has a lithe pulse and, in the Andante cantabile, exquisite taste.’
Andrew Clark, Financial Times

‘An emotional rollercoaster ride, with Jurowski drawing huge sonorities from the LPO strings, and the woodwind solos poignantly phrased. Tchaikovsky’s genius – and his inner turbulence – are revealed with devastating impact.’
Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times (CD of the Week, 23 Sep 2012)

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Two brand new releases on the LPO Label this month – both available now.

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Mambo, Blues and Tarantella; Riffs and Refrains; Texan Tenebrae; On Opened Ground; Lullaby for Hans

Vladimir Jurowski, Marin Alsop, Markus Stenz (conductors), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)

£9.99 | LPO-0066
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3 for 2 offer – buy all three LPO Turnage CDs for just £20

Michael Morpurgo: The Mozart Question
Audiobook based on Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning children’s book, narrated by the author with music by Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Messiaen and J Strauss, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Michael Morpurgo, Alison Reid (narrators), Nicholas Collon (conductor), Jack Liebeck (violin)

£9.99 | LPO-0067
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Our recording of Barber’s Adagio for Strings has been nominated for a Classic BRIT award for Single of the Year, but we need your vote to help us win! Vote here and be in with a chance to win tickets to the awards.

This track is taken from our album The 50 Greatest Classical Pieces of Classical Music conducted by David Parry, released last year on the X5 label.

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Each year September heralds new beginnings for the Orchestra – with the start of our season of London concerts at the end of the month.  Held at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, where we’re one of the Resident Symphony Orchestras, this series of concerts between September and May each year showcases the orchestra, and the wide repertoire that it plays. The first concerts in the year are conducted by our Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski, who is highly praised not only for his powerful interpretations of core symphonic repertoire but also for his innovative and unusual programming.

The first concerts of the year offer the chance to listen to early 20th century opera in the concert hall (Strauss and Zemlinsky on 26 September), and to track the influence of bells on Russian composers writing across the 20th century (Rachmaninov, Miaskovsky, Denisov and Shchedrin on 29 September). In this podcast, Vladimir Jurowski introduces both programmes, setting out the significance of bells to Russians through the ages, as well as the influence the newly translated poetry of Edgar Allan Poe had on Russian composers in the early part of the century.

The new release on the LPO Label is Vladimir Jurowski’s 2011 performances of Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4 & 5. You can listen to excerpts and buy the CD from lpo.org.uk/recordings

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Our latest LPO Label release, Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 with conductor Vladimir Jurowski, has been chosen as Album of the Week by Classic FM. Presenter John Suchet will be playing movements from the disc on his show at 10.15am each morning this week. Here’s what Classic FM had to say about the CD:

‘From the intensity of the first movement, to the melancholic second, and the redemption of the triumphant finale, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski capture the emotions running deep within the music … It’s an emotional rollercoaster through the depths of despair to a form of musical redemption, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra expertly guiding us through.’
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
£10.99 (2 CDs)
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 19 March and 4 May 2011
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Saturday’s ‘Music in the Courtyard’ concert at the Royal Academy of Arts was a huge success! A sell-out audience enjoyed French Impressionist masterpieces by Ravel, Dukas, Duparc and Chausson with conductor Fabien Gabel, soprano Danielle de Niese and violinist Simone Lamsma. Here are some photos from the concert.

Photo 1 © Helen Searl, 2 & 3 © Charlotte Fielding

The concert was streamed live by the Guardian and is still available to watch online for 14 days at www.lpo.org.uk/ra. There’s also a chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher by completing a short survey afterwards.

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This Saturday, 1 September, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Academy of Arts join forces to present Music in the Courtyard, a unique outdoor concert celebrating Impressionist masterpieces from the realms of visual arts and orchestral music, with kind support from JTI.

The concert is now sold out, but will be streamed live by the Guardian from 7.30pm on Saturday via lpo.org.uk/ra. I hope you can join us! It will also be available for 14 days after the concert for on-demand streaming.

Royal Academy Director of Academic Affairs and the exhibition’s co-curator, MaryAnne Stevens, introduces the concert by putting the music in the context of the Impressionist movement in art.

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Not one but two new CDs just released on the London Philharmonic Orchestra CD Label:

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
£10.99 (2 CDs)
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 19 March and 4 May 2011
LPO-0064
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Paavo Berglund conducts Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 and The Swan of Tuonela
£9.99 (1 CD)
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 31 May 2011 (Symphony 5), 6 December 2003 (Symphony 6), and at  Queen Elizabeth Hall on 22 September 2006 (The Swan of Tuonela)
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra appeared at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 18 August as part of the BBC Proms. Under conductor Vladimir Jurowski, the Orchestra performed Weber’s overture to Der Freischütz, Mahler’s song-cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, and Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. Here are the first reviews of the concert:

‘Jurowski’s interpretation [of Manfred] reminded us that its psychological complexity and force are as much rooted in detail as in cumulative sweep. The opening woodwind phrases were carefully moulded, yet also indicative of a soul in crisis. The phantasmagoric scherzo, depicting Manfred’s encounter with the witch of the Alps, was played with quicksilver virtuosity, while the orgiastic opening to the finale was brilliant as well as wild.’
Tim Ashley, The Guardian

‘Manfred, though, is one of Tchaikovsky’s greatest virtuoso scores, and the LPO was clearly revelling in it, with some brilliantly liberated woodwind-playing, a lithe string sound that fed us just enough opulence and a stunningly fine scherzo, all driven by Jurowski’s unflappable, spacious appraisal.’
Peter Reed, Classicalsource.com

‘The text is short and wistful, but Coote gave it the most wonderful resonance, with a sound of sustained richness and a coloration subtly graded along the gamut of pitch and emotion. Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic were her sensitive companions.’
Michael Church, The Independent

‘Jurowski really is the man you need for this sort of thing [Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony] — he drives it all on, tortured Romantic hero, innocent victim and dramatically evocative backdrop of nature and all. The doom-filled close of the first movement, the delicate second and above all the minutely judged scherzo in the third all found the orchestra in cracking form.’
Melanie Eskenazi, MusicOMH.com

‘Jurowski brings an astonishing breadth and depth to [Manfred], seeping it in the queasy twists and turns of the protagonist’s mind, and the LPO responds to that challenge with vehemence.’ (5 stars)
Neil Fisher, The Times (not online)

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We are delighted to introduce the four composers who have been selected for the Leverhulme Young Composers Programme for 12/13. Please welcome…

Hannah Kendall
Daniel Kidane
Peter Yarde Martin
Stephen Willey

These four composers will work throughout the year with our Composer in Residence, Julian Anderson. The programme will culminate in the LPO’s Debut Sounds concert on 10 June, 2013 for which each will write an 8-minute piece for a chamber orchestra of LPO players and performers taking part in the Foyle Future Firsts programme.

Hannah Kendall studied at the University of Exeter and the Royal College of Music. Her music has been performed by the BBC Singers and Onyx Brass amongst others. Her submitted piece, Shard, was premiered at the Cheltenham Festival by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra earlier this year.

Daniel Kidane has studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the St Petersburg Conservatoire. He has written music with the Manchester Camarata and RLPO’s 10/10 ensemble and has had his music performed in festivals in Oxford and Bath, at the Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group and at the Adelaide International Cello Festival.

Peter Yarde Martin is a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge and is currently studying with Malcolm Singer at the Guildhall. He has written music for dance, for members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and has been workshopped by the Britten Sinfonia.

Stephen Willey is currently studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He is co-founder and director of the ensemble Thumb and his music has also been performed by the BCMG. In addition, he has written music for theatre productions at the Birmingham Rep and Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.

We are very much looking forward to working with Hannah, Daniel, Peter and Stephen and cannot wait to hear their upcoming work.

This programme is supported by an Arts Portfolio Grant from The Leverhulme Trust. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is extremely grateful for the long-term support of The Leverhulme Trust for this scheme.

For more information on this and other education programmes, visit www.lpo.org.uk/education