Yesterday we dug into the story of Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony at Cadogan Hall with @leahbroad.bsky.social, Vasily Petrenko and our Principal Viola Abigail Fenna, uncovering the nuances of the music and how people in Mozart's time would have responded to it, before we performed the symphony in full.

COMING SOON! A brand-new Christmas release with The Cambridge Singers and the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social. johnrutter.com/news-feature...

Earlier this month we toured Japan with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii 🗾 See more photos from our travels in our latest blog: www.rpo.co.uk/stories/phot... #RPOonTour

We couldn't have wished to spend our 80th Anniversary celebrations in better company 💗🎼 Thank you to all who joined us at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday for a special evening with Vasily Petrenko, Julia Fisher, Pablo Ferrández, Jan Lisiecki and composer Errollyn Wallen. 📷 Andy Paradise

Wishing a very happy birthday to our Artist Laureate and Honorary Life Member, @johnrutter.bsky.social 🎶 We'll be back with John in the concert hall at his legendary Christmas Celebration at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 4 December ✨ 📷 Duncan Wood

This past weekend we finished up our tour to Japan with a concert at Osaka Festival Hall with Vasily Petrenko and Nobuyuki Tsujii 🎹🎶 Thanks for the memories!

A joyful new commission to celebrate the Orchestra's 80th Anniversary, Errollyn Wallen's FLARE, premieres at the Royal Albert Hall on Wed 23 Sep with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko. Read our interview with Errollyn ahead of the premiere: www.rpo.co.uk/stories/an-interview-with-errollyn-wallen

'Japan has been part of my life for at least 30 years by now... coming back another time feels like being able to discover even more in a very familiar place which you love.' Our Music Director Vasily Petrenko recently spoke about our tour to Japan this month: best-japanese.co.uk/vasily-petre...

Vasily Petrenko on the RPO’s Japan Tour - Best Japanese

Vasily Petrenko talks about his connection to Japan, Nobuyuki Tsujii, the RPO and AI ahead of the RPO Japan Tour 2026, with concert dates and venues.

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'I am so excited to join the RPO. I look forward to getting to know my amazing new colleagues and playing the huge variety of repertoire that the RPO does so well.' Today we welcome James Bower as our new Principal Timpani. We're glad to have you on the team! 🥁

Discover what goes on under the bonnet of Mozart's last and greatest symphony, 'Jupiter', in our new concert format at Cadogan Hall on Thursday 1 October at 6pm and 8.30pm. [1/2]

'[The RPO] positively dazzled.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @theartsdesk.bsky.social Did you catch us at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday? We gave a sold-out performance of Walton's Symphony No.2 and Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Pablo Ferrández, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. 📷 Mark Allan

🎧 There's only nine days left for you to listen to our performance with Vasily Petrenko of Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead, Joe Hisaishi's The Border (Concerto for 3 Horns and Orchestra) and Scriabin's Symphony No.3, 'The Divine Poem' from Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall.

Radio 3 in Concert - The dazzling cosmos of Scriabin’s The Divine Poem - BBC Sounds

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Hisaishi

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57 years ago today, the first human beings walked on the Moon 🧑‍🚀🌔 Discover the story of the Apollo 11 mission told through stunning original footage and music by Anne Nikitin in The Moonwalkers at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 20 October. 🚀 rpo.co.uk/moonwalkers

This past week, BBC Radio 3 has been broadcasting performances featuring the Orchestra and our Music Director Vasily Petrenko from the Royal Albert Hall and Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on the programmes Classical Live and Radio 3 in Concert. Catch up on rpo.co.uk/radio3

Our incredible Sub-Principal Flute, Jo Marsh, has smashed through a challenge she set for herself for the Orchestra’s 80th Anniversary year: visiting 80 schools across the country to introduce school children to orchestral music and answer questions from them about being a musician.

🔔 Tonight on BBC Radio 3 at 7.30pm you can hear vivid musical colours from the world of late-Romanticism and beyond in Hisaishi x Scriabin – a broadcast of our concert recorded at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on Friday 5 June. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Just released! We are so excited that our 2026–27 residency concerts at Reading's The Hexagon @rdgwhatson.bsky.social are now available for booking at rpo.co.uk/reading We'll be performing...

Thank you to all the brilliant audience members, big and small, who made Noisy Kids @rdgwhatson.bsky.social The Hexagon on Saturday out of this world! 👽🧑‍🚀🎶🎻🎺 Together we played, danced and sang through your favourite sci-film themes and orchestral pieces that were inspired by the night sky ✨

'The majestic solemnity of the RPO's sound... melted away my scruples.' The Telegraph On Friday 5 June we performed the final concert of our 2025–26 London season with Vasily Petrenko at Southbank Centre. Read more: programmewww.rpo.co.uk/stories/photos-hisaishi-scriabin 📷 Sarah Louise Bennett

We had the enormous pleasure of sharing the stage yesterday with the stunning Clara Jumi-Kang and Ben Glassberg for our season finale at @cadoganhall.bsky.social, featuring Britten's introspective Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's tumultuous reckoning with fate in his Symphony No.5.

Joe Hisaishi is a name familar to fans of Japanese cinema - he's written music for all but one of Miyazaki's films - but he's also Composer-in-Association with the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social, and a brand new miniature from him opens this Saturday's concert at The Hexagon. 1/2

'Mahler’s Third is a profound parable of nature’s suffering and the pursuit of its purifying redemption.' Dr Genevieve Robyn Arkle, author of the sleeve notes for our recent Mahler 3 release, explores the symphony through the lens of ecology and the climate crisis. Listen on Monday's Front Row:

Front Row - Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Pan African art and John Taverner's opera Krishna - BBC Sounds

Samira Ahmed's guests include Thomas Bangalter, Ekow Eshun and David Pountney.

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On Friday 5 June we performed our final concert of the season at Southbank Centre with Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead and Scriabin's Symphony No.3, as well Joe Hisaishi's The Border Concerto for Three Horns, featuring Ben Hulme, Alexander Edmundson and Katy Woolley. 📷 Sarah Louise Bennett

Out now via harmonia mundi! Embracing the whole world, Mahler’s Symphony No.3 is a vast fresco in which nature, man and the spiritual interact on a cosmic scale. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, Vasily Petrenko reveals all the richness of this visionary peak of post-Romanticism. [1/2]

'The whole RPO championed this concerto as if they believed in it.' @bachtrack.com Last week we joined Ray Chen at the Royal Albert Hall for Korngold's cinematic Violin Concerto, before Mahler's Fifth with Music Director Vasily Petrenko. www.rpo.co.uk/stories/phot... 📷 Frances Marshall

'I begin a journey into the unknown, I travel between fear and hope...' Last night we made a spiritual journey with Taneyev's cantata John of Damascus with the Philharmonia Chorus, and the numinous legend of Wagner's Parsifal in an orchestral suite conducted by Vasily Petrenko. 📷 Mark Allan

And in the evening, guest conductor Cornelius Meister leads them through Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, plus a delightful new miniature from Composer-in-Association Joe Hisaishi, and Clara-Jumi Kang is the soloist on Britten’s captivating Violin Concerto. whatsonreading.com/ClassicalMus... 2/2

The @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social are back at The Hexagon on 13 June with two very different concerts. In the day, it's another Noisy Kids, a fun-filled, interactive concert designed for young music lovers. The theme this time is "It Came From Outer Space"! whatsonreading.com/ClassicalMus... 1/

Although less well known today than Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, Taneyev's music is every bit as powerful and masterfully crafted, and the Romantic composer's influence was instrumental to their creative output. Read about the life of 'the Russian Bach': www.rpo.co.uk/stories/russ...

For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we're sharing a story from Sound Sanctuary, our programme to support the mental health of people in Brent. Participants, alongside RPO players, created a piece of music inspired by their love of nature to celebrate David Attenborough’s 100th birthday... [1/2]