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INTERVIEW: At home with RLPO conductor Vasily Petrenko

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT

THE woman behind heart-throb composer Vasily Petrenko is making tea in their spacious kitchen when I arrive. Evgenia Petrenko is petite, pretty and softly-spoken, with big brown eyes and a wide, shy smile.

CLASSICAL PREVIEW: Sporting Anthems To Welcome The 2012 Games at the Philharmonic Hall

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT

SING Live Merseyside is celebrating the London Olympics with a special concert at the Philharmonic Hall on February 12.

CLASSICAL REVIEW: The RLPO play Schubert’s Unfinished at the Philharmonic Hall

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

AFTER all the hype of the Leningrad Symphony in the last fortnight or so, it felt like coming back to earth with a concert of Bruckner and Schubert. That’s what it might have been. In reality, it was much different.

Johann Strauss Orchestra to return to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT

THE Johann Strauss Orchestra is returning to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall this weekend.

National Youth Orchestra returns to the Philharmonic Hall

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE National Youth Orchestra returns to the Philharmonic Hall this week after its sell-out performance in January, 2010.

Concert planned to celebrate life Liverpool Orchestral Society founder Alfred E Rodewald

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THE life of Liverpool Orchestral Society founder Alfred E Rodewald will be celebrated in a concert marking the 150th anniversary of his birth.

CLASSICAL REVIEW: John Suchet presents Spirit of Christmas at the Philharmonic Hall

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

WITH a seasonal sprinkling of snow outside and a programme of festive carols inside, the Phil’s traditional Spirit of Christmas concert could surely win over even the most curmudgeonly Grinch.

Former ITV newsreader John Suchet on Beethoven and presenting the RLPO’s Spirit of Christmas concerts

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

GIVEN his passion for a certain charismatic composer you’d expect John Suchet’s Philharmonic Hall appearances to be connected to the RLPO’s ongoing Beethoven series.

As the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra prepares for its sell-out Mahler 9 concert, Laura Davis takes a look at the Curse of the Ninth

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Why are composers nervous about completing their ninth symphony?, asks Laura Davis

CLASSICAL REVIEW: The RLPO play Requiem, Philharmonic Hall

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THIS was something of a chalk and cheese choral concert. On one hand, there was a finely-crafted Fauré Requiem, with all its sublime counterpoint and subtle key changes. And there was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, probably his best-known work and once a piece hard to avoid for anyone who watches the work of choirs and choral societies.