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 Orchestra is returning to Basingstoke with some of the world's biggest classical music stars. On Saturday, February 1, the orchestra, which has a partnership with Anvil Arts, will be ...

Ten months ago, the Philharmonia, considered by many to be London’s finest orchestra, had been formally dissolved by its founder-owner, Impresario Walter Legge (TIME, April 17). Nonetheless ...

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 ...

Gerald Scholl's performance was as eye-opening as it was ear-pleasing, and the audience responded with a standing ovation.

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 ...