From the Royal Albert Hall with love 🍸🤵🏻‍♂️💌 Last night we gave the music of cinema's great spy a spectacular symphonic treatment in The Music of Bond, featuring conductor Stephen Bell, vocalists Alison Jiear and Matt Ford, presenter Charlie Higson and BSL interpreter Kate Green. 📷 Danny Kaan

'The deeps have music soft and low When winds awake the airy spry...' Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday at a sea-swept Cadogan Hall with conductor Antony Hermus for Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Elgar's Sea Pictures with @jessdandy.bsky.social, and Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony.

Today we're off on a spectacular voyage at Cadogan Hall with conductor Antony Hermus as we embark on Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, ride the impassioned waves of Elgar's Sea Pictures with contralto @jessdandy.bsky.social, and traverse the wild Highlands in Mendelssohn's Symphony No.3, 'Scottish' 🌊⛵⛰️

💿 Our latest release has hit No.5 in the Classical Charts! Recorded live at Southbankcentre's Royal Festival Hall, our Music Director Vasily Petrenko conducts two seldom-heard masterpieces from 1913 - Elgar's Falstaff and Rachmaninoff's The Bells.

Out now! 💿 Today we launched our collaboration with harmonia mundi with the release of Rachmaninoff’s The Bells and Elgar’s Falstaff conducted by Vasily Petrenko, recorded live at performances at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

👏👏👏 to the City of London Choir and soprano Ailish Tynan for a magnificently soulful performance of Poulenc's Gloria last night at Cadogan Hall, under the baton of Daniel Hyde. We also performed Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24, Barber's Adagio for Strings and Knoxville 1915, and Debussy's Clair de Lune.

"When I first worked with the RPO back in 2019, I was instantly made to feel at home by the warm and welcoming atmosphere. I’m so proud to now be joining as a member of this fantastic trumpet section." Today we're excited to welcome Kaitlin Wild as our new Sub-Principal Trumpet! 🎺

Did you know that this Art Deco landmark in Kilburn once hosted Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Shirley Bassey, The Rolling Stones and Tom Jones? Today we're performing the first concert at the Gaumont State Cinema for nearly 50 years as part of the Kilburn Music Mile Festival.

Yesterday at St Paul's Cathedral @johnrutter.bsky.social conducted the premiere of his I'll Make Me a World with mezzo-soprano Melanie Marshall, baritone Jonathan Brown and The Bach Choir. We also performed John's The Gift of Life, as well as Vaughan Williams' Symphony No.5. 📷 Duncan Wood

This Saturday, join @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social, plus Soprano Francesca Chiejina and Tenor Sam Furness, for An Evening at the Opera (at the Hexagon) - and immerse yourself in a majestic array of operatic classics, including music by Puccini, Verdi and Gershwin. buff.ly/Hn3DIkd

Want to hear a world premiere by our Artist Laureate @johnrutter.bsky.social in the stunning surroundings of @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social? Sound-only seats for Wednesday 5 November are available to book for just £15: rpo.co.uk/soundonlystpauls

And that's a wrap on our tour to Spain! We had a fantastic final concert in Madrid's Auditorio Nacional de Música with Vasily Petrenko and Simon Trpčeski, who played Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3, and we also performed Guinovart's La Vida Secreta and Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka 🩰 #RPOonTour

Stage Team Move A Piano Down Stairs, c.2025, digital, smartphone 📷 The backstage crew of Valencia's Palau de la Música

Thank you to everyone who came to our sold-out concert in Madrid's Auditorio Nacional de Música last night with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko and pianist Mao Fujita! We're back here tonight with Simon Trpčeski for the final concert of our Spain tour. #RPOonTour 📷 Rafa Martin/Ibermusica

Our season at Southbank Centre with Vasily Petrenko in spring/summer 2026 is now on sale! From the raw power of Shostakovich's Tenth, the cosmic visions of Wagner's Parsifal, and Scriabin's ecstatic Third Symphony, we'll make music that speaks directly to you. rpo.co.uk/rpoxvp 📷 Frances Marshall

Thank you to everyone who came to Barcelona's @palaumusicacat.bsky.social to support us last night! Tonight we'll be in the Auditorio de Zaragoza with Simon Trpčeski - see you there! 🎺 #RPOonTour

😍 This evening we're performing Grieg, Sibelius and Albert Guinovart in the stunning @palaumusicacat.bsky.social, Barcelona, with Vasily Petrenko and pianist Mao Fujita 🎹 #RPOonTour 📷 Rebecca Rimmington, Sali-Wyn Ryan, Richard Ion

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Yesterday we arrived at Valencia's Palau de la Música for the first stop on our tour to Spain with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko 🎶 Today we'll be in Barcelona's @palaumusicacat.bsky.social with pianist Mao Fujita! #RPOonTour 🇪🇸 📷 Andrea Goytre

Did you know that Poulenc performed his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra with Benjamin Britten at the Royal Albert Hall in 1945?

Still buzzing from our concert on Tuesday 💙🩷 It was incredible to bring Mahler's First Symphony to so many of you at the Royal Albert Hall with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko, as well as Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Philharmonia Chorus and treble Edward Scholes. 📷 Andy Paradise

Does this tune sound familiar to you too? 🤔 Our Principal Double Bass Jason Henery shows off a solo from Mahler's First Symphony, which we'll be bringing to the Royal Albert Hall tonight, along with Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Puccini's Preludio sinfonico.

Today's the day! 🥳 We're opening our 2025–26 season with Music Director Vasily Petrenko tonight at the Royal Albert Hall with Mahler's monumental Symphony No.1 - we can't wait to see you all there!

Only four days to go until our series of Mahler symphonies this season with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko begins at the Royal Albert Hall! Here's a clip from when we performed Mahler's Symphony No.3 at the Royal Albert Hall back in 2023 🎻

We visited some stunning natural scenery last night with our Conductor-in-Residence @kevinjohnedusei.bsky.social at Cadogan Hall in Sibelius' majestic Symphony No.2, Grieg's Piano Concerto with @borisgiltburg.bsky.social, and Gabriella Smith's Field Guide, filled with the noisy abundance of life.

Tonight we're performing with @kevinjohnedusei.bsky.social in his first concert as our Conductor-in-Residence at Cadogan Hall, with Sibelius' Symphony No.2, Gabriella Smith's Field Guide, and Grieg's Piano Concerto with @borisgiltburg.bsky.social. We hope to see you there! 🎹🎺🎻

Grieg with @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social and Vasily Petrenko in 20 mins @royalderngate.bsky.social 😀

It was a joy to be a part of the latest album of music from our Artist Laureate, John Rutter, 'In the Poet's Garden', which features his recent choral music inspired by poetry from across the ages that set his musical imagination alight ✍️

This weekend, explore Mahler’s vast emotional worlds in three unforgettable performances of his choral symphonies under the baton of Vasily Petrenko from the Royal Albert Hall, the Second, Third and Eighth, streaming free of charge until Monday 13 October. Watch now: www.rpo.co.uk/mahlerweekend

We’re thrilled to be part of Multitudes at Southbank Centre - a multi-arts festival, powered by orchestral music. On Thu 23 Apr we're performing Messiaen's Turangalîla with Vasily Petrenko, pianist Steven Osborne and ondes Martenot player Cécile Lartigau, alongside an original film by 1927 Studios.

Last night we kicked off our 2025–26 London season with the rocking and rolling of Symphonic Queen at the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Edith Bowman, conducted by Matthew Freeman, and featuring the Symphonic Voices. We can only hope you had as much fun as we did! 📷 Frances Marshall

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We've just made some exciting announcements ahead of our new season... 🎉 @johnrutter.bsky.social has been appointed our Artist Laureate, Emilia Hoving has been named our Associate Conductor, and @kevinjohnedusei.bsky.social will be our Conductor-in-Residence at Cadogan Hall for the 2025–26 Season.

This weekend we performed at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest with Vasily Petrenko, Alexandre Kantorow for Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2, and Bruce Liu for Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations, as well as Enescu's Symphony No.1 & Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. 📷 1,2 Andrada Pavel 3,4 Andrei Gîndac

Charisma and colour from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic at the Proms @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social ✍️ Chris Garlick bachtrack.com/review-petre...

Beginning soon - our Music Director Vasily Petrenko will appear on BBC Radio 3's In Tune with @petroc.bsky.social at 5pm to discuss our appearance at the BBC Proms this Sunday. 📻 Listen live on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This weekend we travelled to Ulrichshusen and Redefin for the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with cellist Daniel Müller-Schott and Anne-Sophie Mutter, the final concerts of our tour to Europe in August with Vasily Petrenko. Thank you to everyone who supported us! #RPOonTour

Last night we performed at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden for the Rheingau Musik Festival with Bruce Liu and Vasily Petrenko - thank you for having us! This evening we'll be in the Wiesbaden Kurpark with Anne-Sophie Mutter! 🎻#RPOonTour

Today we're in Neumünster for the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Vasily Petrenko, playing John Williams' Violin Concerto No.2 and Shostakovich's The Gadfly 🎺 We've also been furnished with cakes and sandwiches made by the Festival volunteers! #rpoontour

"There's been so much amazing creativity, ideas and imagination flying around in the classrooms."✨ As part of Wandsworth's year as London Borough of Culture the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social led musical experiences in local primary schools🎶 Watch the video⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcyP...

☀️🌊⛪ Yesterday we performed at the beautiful Ravello FestivaI with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko. Next stop - Neumünster tomorrow! #RPOonTour

We're looking for two Tutti Viola players to join the Orchestra 🎶🎶 📅 Applications close on Wednesday 10 September 📝 Find out more about applying: www.rpo.co.uk/about/work-with-us/1027-tutti-viola

Last night we were in Merano's Kurhaus with Vasily Petrenko for the 40th Südtirol Festival, our tenth appearance there. We performed Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and were joined by Pablo Ferrández for Dvořák's Cello Concerto - thank you for making us feel so welcome! #rpoontour 📷 Sarah Bardwell

We're kicking off our tour to Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria this month with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko with a concert at the beautiful Kurhaus in Merano with cellist Pablo Ferrández 🇮🇹 #RPOonTour 📷 Sali-Wyn Ryan

Last week our Composer-in-Association Joe Hisaishi made his debut at the BBC Proms, conducting Steve Reich's The Desert Music, music from The Boy and the Heron, and The End of the World. We were joined by counter-tenor John Holiday, the BBC Singers, Philharmonia Chorus & the National Youth Voices.

Getting jazzy with it for our Composer-in-Association Joe Hisaishi's The End of the World 🎷 He'll conduct the piece in his debut at the BBC Proms this Thursday @royalalberthall.bsky.social with the BBC Singers and Philharmonia Chorus - see you there!

“It means a lot more than I can put in words…” We recently had the privilege of working with women from @cleanbrk.bsky.social on our #LullabyProject partnership with @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social #Resound 🎧 Listen to the songs 👉 bit.ly/LullabyProje... 📸 by Tracey Anderson

Happy birthday to our Conductor-in-Residence for the 2025–26 season @kevinjohnedusei.bsky.social! 🥳 Read his insights into his upcoming concerts with us in our 2025–26 season at Cadogan Hall: www.rpo.co.uk/about/our-people/conductors/982-kevin-john-edusei 📷 Simon Pauly

Did you know..? Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms had its UK premiere 60 years ago today!

This evening you can celebrate the #Lionessess win and listen to the broadcast premiere of Shirley J. Thompson's Momentum: Concerto for Football on BBC Radio 3's Classical Mixtape at 7pm, which was written and recorded for the Orchestra to perform for the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 ⚽