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The BBC Philharmonic announces its 2025/26 season

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The yellow label has issued a six-CD box of performances by Long Yu, China’s most powerful conductor. Long Yu is artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic and of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. […]
An ecstatic reception of Petrenko’s Mahler Ninth with the Israel Philharmonic has been accompanied by thoughtful reviews. Petrenkko himself wrote in a programme note that he did not accept the collective conducting wisdom that the […]
The orchestra is in mourning for it former principal clarinet, Peter Schmidl, who died unexpectedly at the weekend, aged 84. Schmidl, born in Olomouc (Cz), was the son and grandson of principal clarinettists of the […]