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Review: RLPO Opening Night ****1/2
It’s been quite a week for Eric Lu. While other 20-year-olds were preparing to go back to college after the summer, the youthful virtuoso...


Conductor Vasily Petrenko to leave the RLPO
Vasily Petrenko has announced he is set to leave the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The 41-year-old will depart Hope Street at...


RLPO reveals a packed new season at Liverpool Phil
A talented young cellist picked to play for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding will become one of the RLPO’s ‘artists in residence’...


Review: Beethoven First Piano Concerto at RLPO ****1/2
This week appears to have been a warm walk down memory lane for the prolific polymath – and prolific Tweeter – Stephen Hough. Back in the...


Review: Klezmer-ish at the Music Room ****
The Liverpool Phil actively encourages its players to progress their own musical interests and ambitions outside the confines of the...


OMD joined by RLPO for their 40th anniversary
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2018 – and they’re set to team up with the RLPO for two new...


Review: RLPO and Nobuyuki Tsujii present Rhapsody ****1/2
First there was the muscular lyricism of Julian Rachlin’s Brahms Violin Concerto matched with a vibrant and colourful Enigma Variations,...


Review: RLPO and Petrenko play Turangalila *****
Romantic love and death have long been artistic bedfellows, the inspiration for great literature and art, from Tristan and Isolde to...


Review: Elgar's Enigma at the RLPO ****
After Sgt Pepper – complete with bells, whistles and confetti – at the arena last week, the RLPO is back to regular business in Hope...


Review: Celebrating Sgt Pepper Live at Echo Arena ****
It was 10 years ago today – well, OK, give or take 24 hours – the Echo Arena was christened with a fanfare, Britannia, a real Beatle and...
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