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May the 4th Be With You 🌟
Happy Star Wars day! To celebrate, we're throwing it back to our performance of John Williams’s Across the Stars with the legendary Anne-Sophie Mutter 🌠
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Test your timpani skills with the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 🎶
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Happy Tchaikovsky day! 🎂
183 years ago today, the composer was born. Here he is at his passionate best, conducted by @kcanellakis 🥰
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Happy birthday Camille Saint-Saëns 🎂
The composer was born 187 years ago today! Here’s an LPO favourite moment from his Third Symphony 🎶
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Happy birthday Elgar! 🎈
Here’s 'Nimrod' from his Enigma Variations to get your day off to a dramatic start.
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#OnThisDay in 1860, Gustav Mahler was born 🎈
Celebrate with the epic ending of his Eighth Symphony.
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In the final movement of Nielsen’s fourth symphony, two timpani players attempt to disrupt the orchestra. Watch Simon and Tony demonstrate this spectacular moment ahead of our performance next Wednesday with Edward Gardner.
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The second movement of Brahms 4 is fascinating. It sounds simple, but it’s filled with complexity 🧠
Here’s the first couple of minutes 🎼
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The mighty end of the first movement of Sibelius 5 is technically challenging for the timpanist, with both sticks striking quickly and loudly in unison.
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You asked for it! To celebrate launching the second half of #LPOStravinsky at @southbankcentre next week, here’s a Rite of Spring Clap-along to really test your skills... lpo.uk/2OCtK46
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Beethoven-inspired Brahms 🎶
Here’s the beautiful opening melody from the finale of Brahms’s First Symphony, often compared with Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Can you hear similarities?
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Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake as he originally imagined it, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski 🦢🦢🦢
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Happy birthday Wagner! 🎉
Before we blow out the candles on the cake, here’s a brassy moment from his Tannhäuser Overture🎺
And for all of the Wagner opera fans out there, we have a gift for you...
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Test your tapping skills with the third movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6.
Hear it live this Friday!
#TapThatTimp
#TimpaniTuesday
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Saint-Saëns supremacy 🎼
Time for a Saturday scroll through the second movement of Saint-Saëns's iconic organ symphony, featuring none other than @annalapwood 👏
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Counting your bars' rest like...
#BernieSanders
ALT Bernie Sanders sat at the timpani among the LPO brass and percussion section
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Happy birthday Dvořák 🎁
THE Antonin Dvořák was born on this day in 1841 🎈 And yes, we are going to celebrate by listening to his iconic Symphony No. 9, From the New World, on repeat all day 😜
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Happy Birthday Sergei Rachmaninoff 🎂
The great composer would have been 151 today 😲 Time to celebrate with one of his most loved pieces, his Piano Concerto No. 2. (Performed by
Kirill Gerstein)
Recognise this from anywhere? 🤔
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🎼Scroll along Mahler's aching message of love to his wife Alma🎶 We are thrilled to play this tomorrow evening at the @southbankcentre🌹
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Happy birthday Brahms, born on this day in 1833! 🎂
To celebrate, here’s a clip from our archives – the wonderful Sir Stephen Hough playing the third movement of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 🎹
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Happy birthday Beethoven! 🎶
It’s not known for certain when Beethoven was born but many believe it was 16 December. ✨ Does anyone know which symphony this horn trio can be found in? 🤔
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The opening of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. A nerve-racking moment for any trumpet player! 😬 Played here by our wonderful Principal Trumpet Paul Beniston.
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Beautiful Beethoven 💗
End your Wednesday on a high with this sunny section of Beethoven Symphony No.7 🌞
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Everyday's arm day for our Principal Percussionist Andy Barclay 💪
You can catch this incredible cymbal moment from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 this season in London, Brighton, and Eastbourne (don’t say we don’t spoil you!)
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Some dreamy Debussy to brighten your Wednesday evening 💫
We can't wait to perform this piece on 24 November at the @southbankcentre, book here: bit.ly/3oUOjML 🎵
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In Tannhäuser Overture, the trombone section plays the theme of the Pilgrim’s Chorus.
Enjoy this great moment from rehearsals last month.
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Happy #ViolinDay! 🎻
Here’s a clip of the brilliant Gil Shaham playing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto for you.
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Happy Birthday Schumann 🎂
The end of his Symphony No. 4 is wild! Here’s a clip from a live performance last year.
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🥁Tap along with us! Step into the timpani part of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances💃 and to hear it live, come down to @southbankcentre on Saturday 4 March.
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Hit rewind ⏪
We're throwing it back to 2022 and reliving the magic of Bruch's Violin Concerto, beautifully performed by the one and only @NickyBenedetti ✨
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Percussive planets 🪐
We're blasting off to space tomorrow evening at the @southbankcentre with Holst's The Planets! Get ready for lift-off with us by playing along with the percussion parts for Uranus, the Magician 🪄
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Where are all Brahms fans💙
Here’s a joyous bit of timpani and triangle from the third movement of his Fourth Symphony 🥁🎶
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Yesterday, we asked you to choose a piece to undergo some Christmassy treatment 🔔 You chose Dies Irae from Verdi’s Requiem. Here it is in all of its jingle bell glory... 🎄
Terrible idea or genius? 😬
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Simply out-of-this-world ✨
Take some time out this afternoon to enjoy an old favourite – Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from Holst's The Planets 🫶
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What better way to sign off for the year than with some beautiful Brahms ✨
Thank you to all of our followers for your continued support... here's to a new year filled with music and magic 💛
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Can your eyes keep up with Denis Kozhukhin’s playing? 👀
The opening of Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 gets off to a mighty start from the first bar. Here’s a throwback to when pianist Denis Kozhukhin performed the piece with us in March 2021.
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Richard Strauss was born on this day in 1864, so take a moment to enjoy this terrific timpani from Also sprach Zarathustra 🥁
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Happy Birthday Mahler 🎂
The man of the moment would have been 164 today 😲 Time to celebrate with a slice of his 5th Symphony 🍰
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Divine Debussy 🌿
A sunny day calls for some sunny music ☀️ Take a load off with Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 🌼
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A moment of calm to ease you into the weekend ✨
Here’s the wonderful @MilosGuitar playing Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez in rehearsals last year, conducted by Karen Kamensek. ❤️
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Can you follow along? 🤯
Tchaikovsky wrote a smashing part for the cymbals in his Fourth Symphony, but we wonder why they don’t play the final note 🤔
What do you think?
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The only thing better than a bank holiday? 🤔
A bank holiday with Brahms, of course! Finish the long weekend on a high note with this beautiful moment from his Third Symphony, wonderfully conducted here by Alpesh Chauhan 🌞
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Antonín Dvořák was born 180 years ago today! He made some excellent timpani parts, including this one from the Finale of his New World Symphony 🎶
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Dive into Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 🎶
We’re playing this at @EBTheatres this Sunday, along with more Beethoven and Mozart. Our Sunday = made 🙌 We’d love to see some of you there!
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Its Bernstein’s Birthday 🎂
The great conductor and composer would have been 103 today ✨ Time to celebrate with one of his Coolest melodies 😉
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Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony ends with the shepherds’ song of thanksgiving – cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm 🌞
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Holst up! The Planets content incoming 🪐
Can you keep up with this perplexing percussion tap-along?
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DON’T PLAY IN THE GAP!!!
In this Beethoven 5 excerpt, there’s a bar of silence that’s easily missed if you don’t know the music. What’s the most embarrassing musical mistake you ever made?
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#TapThatTimp
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Happy Valentine's Day ❤️
And as music is the food of love, we give you the fourth movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, the Adagietto 🌹 Did you know the Adagietto was written as a love song to Mahler's wife, Alma?
The perfect valentine's gift for sure 🥰
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Listen closely to Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and you'll find the same melody popping up throughout the movements, but with a twist! At different moments, it morphs into a graceful waltz, a powerful march, and more.
Can you keep up with its transformations? 👀
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Mozart’s Requiem is full of enchanting moments ✨
Enjoy this solo performed by tenor Ilker Arcayürek, captured from a performance earlier this year.
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It’s pretty hot here in London, so here’s some suitable hot-sounding music from Debussy. 🌞 You can almost hear the temperature. (Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.)
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It was the hottest day of the year 🥵 but this moment from a Bruch rehearsal with brilliant @NickyBenedetti was just beautiful 🎻 A good way to start your weekend!
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✨Float away with this sweet moment from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet - Love theme.
Hear us perform the Fantasy Overture at @brightdome on 11 February
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Concentration caps on 🧢
Ahead of the release of our album 'Jurowski conducts Stravinsky' this Friday, we thought we’d test your counting skills with this bass drum moment from his Sacrificial Dance 🥁 Can you keep up?
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Every day is arm day for the percussion section 💪 Here’s the epic ending of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.
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Swan Lake supremacy 🦢
It's a classic for a reason, and we can't wait to play it in our 2024/25 season 😉
Explore our upcoming concerts via the link in our bio 🎶
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What happens when two comedians conduct an orchestra? Chaos 😅
@robbeckettcomic and Romesh Ranganathan joined us for a sold-out performance at the @southbankcentre…it was definitely memorable 🤣 Watch it on @RobAndRomeshVs tomorrow on @SkyTV at 9pm.
#RobandRomeshVS
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Still recovering from our performance of The Rite of Spring? No matter, time for a revisit of our Sacrificial Dance clap-along - try to keep up! #LPO2018Recap 🔥💃🔥
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Sunday scaries? Not today! 🎉
We're celebrating the bank holiday with a banger: Mozart's Symphony No. 40 😎
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The second movement of Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 is restless and thrilling. Here’s a scrolling score adventure from last year, conducted by Principal Conductor Edward Gardner.
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We're waltzing our way into January with this magical melody from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet, which we performed back in December 🩰
Talk about a feel-good tune for the New Year! 🌟
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What a score! 🎉
We’re still on a Beethoven high after kicking off our new season with the mighty Eroica Symphony on Wednesday! The great composer was really on a scroll 😉 when he was writing this melody – can you hear how it’s passed around the orchestra throughout this fugue?
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The second movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 4 is fascinating. It sounds simple, but it’s filled with complexity 🧠
Here’s the first couple of minutes for your bank holiday. 🎼
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In the final movement of Nielsen’s fourth symphony, two timpani players gloriously attempt to disrupt and disintegrate the orchestra. Watch Simon and Tony demonstrate this spectacular moment.
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Love is in the air ✨
Enjoy this mid-afternoon mood boost courtesy of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture – an all-time orchestral favourite which we performed back in March with the fantastic @gemmanewmusic 💛
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And relax...🕊️
This moment in Brahms’s Piano Concerto feels like a breath of fresh air ☁️ We’ll be playing it at the @southbankcentre on 19 October with Emanuel Ax, conducted by our Principal Guest Conductor @kcanellakis 🥰
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Nerves of steel 💪
This shocking moment from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is a beast to play! 🤭 Do you think you could avoid playing in the gaps?
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Winter Daydreams ❄️
We loved playing Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony ‘Winter Daydreams’ at the weekend. Here’s a glorious horn melody from the second movement 🎶
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Holst up! Another Jupiter clip incoming 🚀
Round off your Tuesday afternoon with another out-of-this-world melody from The Planets 💛
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Sleeping Beauty 🌸🩰
On this day in 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born. With all the Sleeping Beauties talk today, it feels fitting to share a moment from our Christmas performance of his much-loved ballet score.
What’s your favourite Tchaikovsky piece? 🎶
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Drum roll please 🥁
Our Principal Guest Conductor @kcanellakis returns to London in November to conduct Tchaikovsky’s iconic Symphony No. 6 🙌
Tchaikov-see you there 👋
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Love is in the air 💘
Happy Valentine's Day from us all at the LPO! What better way to celebrate than with the most famous of star-crossed lovers — Romeo and Juliet ✨
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For the Brahms fans💙
Here’s a joyous bit of timpani and triangle from the third movement of his Fourth Symphony 🥁🎶
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A little Elgar for your evening 💙
Here’s one of our favourite moments from Symphony No. 2 🎶
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Scroll up, scroll up! 🎼
Start your weekend off on the right note with this drama-fuelled moment from Tchaikovsky’s stunning Fifth Symphony 🔥
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Elgar supremacy 💪
We're clearly in an Elgar mood at the LPO this week and couldn't help but share another stunning snippet, this time from his glorious Second Symphony 💛
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The cheer at the end 🙌
Here’s our viola section powering their way through a tricky moment in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite earlier today. Let’s hope they get another cheer at the @southbankcentre tomorrow night!
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Bring on the Beethoven 💪
Scroll into the weekend with a little throwback to our rehearsals of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony 🎼
Do you recognise this piece from any films? 👑
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From the Archives:
Alongside all the brass, the fanfare that opens Janáček’s Sinfonietta features a great line for timpani! Can you follow the changing tempos and time signatures?
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Richard Strauss was a master storyteller. In this mighty work, you can practically smell the testosterone when Don Juan leaps into red-blooded life.
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Wishing HRH The Duke of Kent a very happy birthday! This year also marks the 40th year of his generous patronage of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. We hope you have a wonderful day.
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Did you know that ‘All by Myself’ by Eric Carmen was based on the second movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2? Join us on Friday 10 February at the @southbankcentre to hear it live 💓
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What goes well with a hot, sunny afternoon in the UK? ☀️ An ice-cold beer, yes. But also, Julia Fischer playing some beautiful Mozart. Enjoy!
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A little Saturday fun 🥳
Scroll along with Javier Perianes as he plays through the opening of Beethoven’s third Piano Concerto 🎹
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An epic ending for both the organ and the timpani. 💥 Here’s a throwback to our performance of Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 last year with @annalapwood
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Beautiful, brilliant Brahms 😍
We’ll be hearing lots of this piece in the next couple of months 🙌 With our Principal Conductor Ed Gardner, we’re playing it at the
@southbankcentre on 27 September, and then we’re taking it on tour to South Korea, Taiwan and Germany 🌏
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Magical Mahler ✨
In need of an epic Saturday soundtrack? Look no further than Mahler's drama-filled Fifth Symphony! Here's one of our favourite moments – a stormy passage from the second movement 🔥
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An emotional rollercoaster 🥹
We’re heading up north this weekend to play the Enigma Variations at the @sage_gateshead and @bridgewaterhall. Will we see you there? 🌟
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