Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips ... is sometimes known as the kitchen department. The timpani, or kettledrums, are a percussion instrument ...

With the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Simon ... The texture builds inexorably, with throbbing brass and pounding timpani until the organ suddenly and dramatically enters the ...

The Philharmonia is an orchestra based in London. Since 1995 it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the Resident Orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the ...

On the evidence of the 83-year-old maestro’s performance with the same orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall last night, the answer would have to be a resonant affirmative. The Philharmonia Chorus ...

All the hallmarks of a Muti performance are on display as the maestro returns to conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra in a ...

Maestro Atsushi Yamada of the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York discusses the organization's inclusion of original films to accompany its performances. Yamada along with filmmakers Bec Soane and ...

Forget, for a moment, the legend and the lustre. If you knew nothing about Riccardo Muti’s half-century of history with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem for the writer-patriot Alessandro Manzoni – he first ...