Information about pieces and composers, and the OrchMap, an interactive map of the orchestra with LPO players introducing their instruments.
In Autumn 2020, our OrchLab project focused on Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a colourful orchestral work describing a visit to an art gallery and depicting the paintings there in music. In this activity, we invite you to play along with the last movement of this work, ‘The Great Gate of Kyiv’, which describes
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In a recent OrchLab project, we used a famous suite of music called The Planets, by Gustav Holst, as our inspiration music. You can find out more about it in our Planets Listening Guide. In this activity we’re going to create our own graphic musical score, which we can then use to create our own
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In June 2020 the OrchLab team had planned to run live workshops with Garwood Foundation and St Cecilia’s Leonard Cheshire centre, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic we took our workshops online instead. As part of these sessions we had a ‘Listening Party’ where we watched specially created videos of LPO musicians making music together
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In June 2020 the OrchLab team had planned to run live workshops with Garwood Foundation and St Cecilia’s Leonard Cheshire centre, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic we took our workshops online instead. As part of these sessions we had a ‘Listening Party’ where we watched specially created videos of LPO musicians making music together
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In June 2020 the OrchLab team had planned to run live workshops with Garwood Foundation and St Cecilia’s Leonard Cheshire centre, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic we took our workshops online instead. As part of these sessions we had a ‘Listening Party’ where we watched specially created videos of LPO musicians making music together
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When OrchLab visited St Cecilia’s and Garwood Foundation in early 2020, we used Mahler’s Symphony No.5 as our project inspiration. This Listening Guide gives some background information about Gustav Mahler and his fifth symphony, and takes you through the beautiful Adagietto movement. Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler was an Austro-German composer who lived between 1860–1911. He
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Explore the instruments of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Select an instrument shaded dark grey, and watch videos of LPO players introducing their instruments.
In 2019, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed and recorded Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.5, a huge piece for orchestra, which the composer wrote in 1901-2. You can find out more about Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (and in particular its famous Adagietto) in our Listening Guide. This ‘Play along’ activity features a waltz tune from the third movement
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