LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of England's major symphonic institutions. Founded in the 1930s, it became known for concert work, recordings, opera partnerships, and a repertory that ranges from the Classical canon to modern orchestral music. Its MusicTales presence links the orchestra with English musical life, recording history, and the international circulation of symphonic repertory.

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  Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001...
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  The Oceanides: the deeply impressionistic tone poem by Sibelius

  The magnificent mythology of ancient Greece describes the Oceanids as water nymphs whose life and functions are...
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  Nobuo Uematsu refreshed prog rock concepts for his epic Final Fantasy score

  Being a self-taught musician, Nobuo Uematsu accidentally entered the world of video game development where, quite...
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  Only 3 Mantras survived from Sanskrit opera Avatara by John Foulds

  One of the greatest areas of music history still remaining largely uncharted is the influence of Indian philosophy on...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Mother of film score genre learned music through BBC radio broadcasts

  Doreen Mary Carwithen, also known as Mary Alwyn, was the first student to be selected from the Royal Academy to join an...
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  ORCHESTRA

  English Idyll through the eyes of the Lost Generation hero

  Promising English composer George Butterworth appeared to show no interest in writing symphonic music, instead...
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  ORCHESTRA

  The Third Norfolk Rhapsody, lost a hundred years ago, was reconstructed recently

  Vaughan Williams composed three Norfolk Rhapsodies in 1905 and 1906, shaping them on folk melodies he had gathered...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Peaceful sound for troubling times in The Lark Ascending

  Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending is a contemplative and tender tone poem composed as a reaction to George...