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.

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.

Maazel: Mahler Cycle 2011

2011 is a year of major worldwide Mahler celebrations and the Philharmonia Orchestra is marking the event with Maestro Lorin Maazel, one of the world's finest Mahlerians. Maestro Maazel will conduct a one-man journey through all ten Mahler symphonies and four major orchestral song cycles in concerts from April to October 2011.

The series includes concerts in Basingstoke, Bristol, Gateshead, Hull, Manchester and Warwick, a complete symphony cycle at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall with soloists including Simon Keenlyside, Sarah Connolly and Matthias Goerne, and a 12-concert tour in France, Germany and Luxembourg.

Find out more about the Mahler Cycle and book tickets

Anne-Marie Minhall spoke to Lorin Maazel about Mahler in two video interviews. Watch them below.

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.