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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Sharing wonder through orchestral music ✨ At home at @southbankcentre, @glyndebourne, @EBTheatres, @BrightDome and @saffronhallsw 🏡 Online at @marqueeartsTV 📺
Joined March 2010
- Test your timpani skills with the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 🎶
00:00 - Happy Tchaikovsky day! 🎂 183 years ago today, the composer was born. Here he is at his passionate best, conducted by @kcanellakis 🥰
00:00 - Happy birthday Camille Saint-Saëns 🎂 The composer was born 187 years ago today! Here’s an LPO favourite moment from his Third Symphony 🎶
00:00 - Happy birthday Elgar! 🎈 Here’s 'Nimrod' from his Enigma Variations to get your day off to a dramatic start.
00:00 - #OnThisDay in 1860, Gustav Mahler was born 🎈 Celebrate with the epic ending of his Eighth Symphony.
00:00 - 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. lpo.uk/2nu16dd
00:00 - The second movement of Brahms 4 is fascinating. It sounds simple, but it’s filled with complexity 🧠 Here’s the first couple of minutes 🎼
00:00 - 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. lpo.uk/LegendsOfTheNo…
00:00 - 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
00:00 - 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?
00:00 - Ever fancied playing the timpani part of O Fortuna? 💭 Take it away...
00:00 - Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake as he originally imagined it, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski 🦢🦢🦢
00:00 - 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... lpo.org.uk/event/gotterda…
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