Philharmonia Orchestra

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The Philharmonia Orchestra, which is resident at London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Bedford Corn Exchange, Leicester’s De Montfort Hall and The Anvil, Basingstoke, performs at venues around the country as The Classic FM Orchestra on Tour.

Philharmonia Week on Classic FM

From Saturday 5th June right through to Sunday 13th June we'll be celebrating our partnership with the Philharmonia Orchestra with a selection of their finest recordings on The Full Works Concert , among the highlights are a brand new Charles Mackerras Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 recording, and the first broadcast of the new Esa-Pekka Salonen Mahler Symphony No.9 CD. Plus, Classic FM Arts Daily will be talking to members of the orchestra and those involved behind the scenes.

About the Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the world’s great orchestras. Acknowledged as the UK’s foremost musical pioneer, with an extraordinary recording legacy, Philharmonia Orchestra leads the field for its quality of playing, and for its innovative approach to audience development, residencies, music education and the use of new technologies in reaching a global audience.
 
Together with its relationships with the world’s most sought-after artists, most importantly its Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra is at the heart of British musical life.

Today, the Philharmonia Orchestra has the greatest claim of any orchestra to be the UK’s National Orchestra. It is committed to presenting the same quality, live music-making in venues throughout the country as it brings to London and the great concert halls of the world.

In 2009/2010 the Orchestra is performing more than 150 concerts, as well as presenting chamber performances by the Soloists of Philharmonia Orchestra, and recording scores for films, CDs and computer games.

For almost 15 years now the Orchestra’s work has been underpinned by its much admired UK and International Residency Programme, which began in 1995 with the launch of its residencies at the Bedford Corn Exchange and London’s Southbank Centre.

During 2009/2010 the Orchestra not only performs more than 50 concerts at Southbank Centre’s refurbished Royal Festival Hall, but also celebrates its 13th year as Resident Orchestra of De Montfort Hall in Leicester, its ninth year as Orchestra in Partnership at the Anvil in Basingstoke.

The Orchestra’s extensive touring schedule this season includes performances in more than 30 of the finest international concert halls in Europe, China and Japan, with conductors including Eska-Pekka Salonen, Christoph von Dohanyi, Valdimir Askenazay, Riccardo Muti and Lorin Maazel.

Interact with the Philharmonia Orchestra Throughout its history, the Philharmonia Orchestra has been committed to finding new ways to bring its top quality live performance to audiences worldwide, and to using new technologies to achieve this. Many millions of people since 1945 have enjoyed their first experience of classical music through a Philharmonia recording, and in 2009 audiences can engage with the Orchestra through webcasts, podcasts, downloads, computer games and film scores as well as through its unique interactive music education, The Sound Exchange, which is now visited by almost 2 million people a year.