Philharmonia Orchestra reviews
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Philharmonia/Rouvali)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali (Signum Classics)
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake (excerpts)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali (Signum Classics)
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; Le Martyre de saint Sébastien; La mer
Philharmonia Orchestra/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi)
Works by Sibelius, Stravinsky & Pei Lu
Zhi-Jong Wang; Philharmonia Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling (Accentus Music)
Dvořák: Cello Concerto; Schumann: Cello Concerto; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 – Aria
Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jean Martinon; London Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini (ICA Classics)
R Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel; Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1; Brahms: Violin Concerto
Endre Wolf; Paul Tortelier; LSO/Norman Del Mar, Walter Goehr; Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert Menges (First Hand Records)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A minor; Symphonic Dances
Philharmonia Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Signum)
Dang Thai Son and Philharmonia Orchestra perform Paderewski's Piano Concerto in A minor and Danses polonaises
The centenary of Polish independence, which propelled Ignacy Jan Paderewski into highest political office, is inspiring something of a retrospective of his music. Polish National Opera will be putting on a major staging
Fantasia: Anne Akiko Meyers performs Szymanowski and Ravel
Anne Akiko Meyers commissioned Rautavaara to compose this Fantasia, and it was one of the Finnish composer’s final pieces before his death in 2016. Like many of his later works it’s elegiac in character, with a strong, lush tonal base: a warm cushion of orchestral sound supporting the continuous solo line, which hardly has a rest after the first entry.
Otto Klemperer Conducts JS Bach's St Matthew Passion
Performed by Peter Pears, the Boys of Hampstead Parish Choir and the Philharmonia Orchestra.