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Alexander Verney-Elliott

A revelatory rapturous Brahms German Requiem from Manfred Honeck and the LSO

29/01/202628/01/2026 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Brahms: Dame Imogen Cooper (piano), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Chen Reiss (soprano), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Manfred Honeck (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 25.1.2026. (AV-E)

Timpanist Patrick King © Mark Allan/LSO

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Earthshaking Piano Concerto from Fazil Say and the Philharmonia Orchestra

04/12/202502/12/2025 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sibelius, Say, Dvořák: Fazil Say (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra / Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 30.11.2025. (AV-E)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra © PO/Marc Gascoigne

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Elegant Elgar from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the RFH

29/11/202528/11/2025 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Elgar: Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.11.2025. (AV-E)

Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano) and the LPO conducted by Edward Gardner © Mark Allan

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The great BRSO play a transfixing Janáček Taras Bulba, and a transcending Bruckner Seven

14/11/202514/11/2025 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Janáček, Bruckner: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 12.11.2025. (AV-E)

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra © Astrid Ackermann

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Philharmonia Orchestra’s triumphant 80th birthday concert at the Royal Festival Hall

06/11/202505/11/2025 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sibelius, Lindberg, Shostakovich: Christian Lindberg (trombone), Philharmonia Orchestra / Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 2.11.2025. (AV-E)

Composer and trombonist Christian Lindberg

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The LPO’s exhilarating Mozart 25th Piano Concerto, anticlimactic Rachmaninov Second Symphony

24/11/202527/10/2025 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Rachmaninov: Paul Lewis (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 25.10.2025. (AV-E)

Karina Canellakis conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra © LPO

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BBC SO’s shivering Schnittke, shattering Shostakovich

24/11/202527/10/2025 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schnittke, Shostakovich: Timothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.10.2025. (AV-E)

Hannu Lintu © Marco Borggreve

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Philharmonia Orchestra’s Saint-Saëns suffers from organ failure

29/09/202526/09/2025 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ortiz, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns: Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Olivier Latry (organ), Philharmonia Orchestra / Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, 25.9.2025. (AV-E)

The Philharmonia conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali © Philharmonia Orchestra/Mark Allan

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