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2026/27
Scheherazade
- Mel Bonis
- Trois femmes de légende: Salomé, Ophélie et le Songe de Cléopâtre
- Lili Boulanger
- Psalm 130 ‘Du fond de l'abîme’
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Scheherazade
- Karel Deseure
- conductor
- Lily Mo Browne
- mezzo-soprano
- Sam Marston
- tenor
- Matthew Hamilton
- Director of Choirs and Singing
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Four Last Songs
- Nikolai Tcherepnin
- La Princesse lointaine
- Strauss
- Four Last Songs
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Scheherazade
- Karel Deseure
- Conductor
- Elizabeth Llewellyn
- Soprano
Bolt's War
- Doreen Carwithen
- Suffolk Suite
- Vaughan Williams
- The Lark Ascending
- Alan Bolt
- Overture for a Festival
- Butterworth
- The Banks of Green Willow
- Ravel
- Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Andrew Manze
- Conductor
- Braimah Kanneh-Mason
- Violin
Nobu Returns
- Carmel Smickersgill
- A Brick Thrown With Love
- Shostakovich
- Piano Concerto No.2
- Mussorgsky
- Night on the Bare Mountain
- Sibelius
- Symphony No.6
- Andrew Manze
- Principal Guest Conductor
- Nobuyuki Tsujii
- piano
Boléro
- Thomas Adès
- Three Studies from Couperin
- Saint-Saëns
- Piano Concerto No.2
- Debussy
- La Mer
- Ravel
- Boléro
- Dinis Sousa
- conductor
- Mariam Batsashvili
- piano
The Rite of Spring
- Britten
- Suite on English Folk Tunes, Opus 90 "A time there was..."
- Gavin Higgins
- Clarinet Concerto (world premiere)
- Stravinsky
- The Rite of Spring
- Adam Hickox
- Conductor
- Mark Simpson
- Soloist
Different Trains: Made in Liverpool
- Grace-Evangeline Mason
- The Water Garden (for wind and harp)
- Nneka Cummins
- finding gills (when they try to drown you)
- Mark Simpson
- Straw Dogs
- Andrew Barney
- Into the Aether
- Steve Reich
- Different Trains (with the film by Bill Morrison)
- Clark Rundell
- Conductor
- Linton Stephens
- Presenter
- Liverpool Philharmonic 10:10 Ensemble
Classic FM Hall of Fame
- John Williams
- Main Theme from Star Wars
- Beethoven
- Symphony No. 7 (finale)
- Vaughan Williams
- Fantasia on Greensleeves
- Barber
- Adagio for Strings
- Dani Howard
- Arian (world premiere)
- Britten
- The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
- Delibes
- Hunter's Fanfare from Sylvia
- Khachaturian
- Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
- Walton
- Crown Imperial
- John Williams
- Theme from Schindler's List
- Klaus Badelt
- The Curse of the Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean
- Márquez
- Conga del Fuego Nuevo
- Domingo Hindoyan
- Chief Conductor
- Aled Jones
- presenter
Mahler Symphony No. 2: Resurrection
- Mahler
- Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
- Domingo Hindoyan
- Chief Conductor
- Matthew Hamilton
- Director of Choirs and Singing
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
- Lucy Crowe
- soprano
- Natalie Lewis
- mezzo-soprano
