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Want to know more about the music?
For each Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra concert during the 2025/26 season, you can read our free digital programme notes below and access texts and translations.*
Whether you’re attending one of our concerts or not, this is the perfect place to explore our programme or find out more about Classical music.
Our programme notes are written by Stephen Johnson and Catherine Jones.
You can also view our 2022/23 season, 2023/24 season and 2024/25 season programme notes.
*Please note that texts and translations will not be provided on this page for The Sound of Julie Andrews, Elvis: Viva Las Vegas!, A Christmas Gaiety, Spirit of Christmas, Boogie Wonderland and Good Vibrations.
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Season Opening Concert: Dream Team, Thursday 18 & Sunday 21 September
Amadeo Roldán La Rebambaramba
Jennifer Higdon blue cathedral*
Arturo Márquez Trumpet Concerto
Dvořák Symphony No.9, ‘From the New World’Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Pacho Flores trumpet
Percussionists from Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company and In Harmony Liverpool* -
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Thursday 25 September
Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Mark Simpson Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth, Concerto for viola and orchestra (UK premiere)
Graham Fitkin Metal
Debussy (arr. Wood) La cathédrale engloutie
Mussorgsky (arr. Wood) Pictures at an ExhibitionAndrew Manze conductor
Timothy Ridout viola -
Ravel La Valse, Thursday 2 October
Copland El Salón México
Britten Violin Concerto
Carlos Simon Four Black American Dances
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte, and La ValseAlpesh Chauhan conductor
Simone Lamsma violin -
Inspirations - Ensemble 10:10, Wednesday 8 October
Arvo Pärt Mein Weg
Luciano Berio Requies
Cameron Biles-Liddell Ghost Dances (Concerto for Chamber Orchestra) (world premiere, RPS commission)
Luke Bedford By the Screen in the Sun at the Hill on the Gold
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Hrím
Judith Weir Heroic Strokes of the Bow
Geoffrey Paterson conductor -
Sibelius Symphony No.5, Saturday 11 October
Boccherini/Berio Ritirata notturna di Madrid
Bernstein Chichester Psalms*
Copland Clarinet Concerto
Einojuhani Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus
Sibelius Symphony No.5
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Julian Bliss clarinet
Agustin Pennino countertenor*
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Matthew Hamilton Director of Choirs and Singing -
Shostakovich Symphony No.7, Sunday 19 October
Liadov Baba-Yaga
Victoria Borisova-Ollas Oh Giselle, remember me... (UK premiere)
Shostakovich Symphony No.7, ‘Leningrad’Vasily Petrenko conductor
Victor Julien-Laferrière cello -
Brahms Symphony No.4, Thursday 23 October
Ida Moberg Sunrise from Sunrise Orchestral Suite
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.4
Kristiina Poska conductor
Inmo Yang violin
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