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It’s certainly a week for prodigal returns at Hope Street. Tomorrow, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s greatest son – Sir Simon Rattle –...

The crackle of guns, the doleful tolling of bells. Shostakovich may not have been there in person (he was born the following year) but in...

It’s 15 years since the RLPO and Vasily Petrenko gathered on the Philharmonic Hall stage to record Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. A lot...

Six years ago, Vasily Petrenko spent his 40th birthday conducting his annual White Nights concert at the Philharmonic Hall. In fact,...

They may not have killed a fatted calf, but there was a (sustained and deserved) standing ovation and even flowers to welcome the return...

And so, farewell Vasily Eduardovich Petrenko, no longer ‘Liverpool’s latest signing’ but off to pastures new after 15 years at Hope...

Pianist Simon Trpceski will be reunited with Vasily Petrenko for the Liverpool conductor’s final concerts at the Philharmonic Hall. The...

My but who could have imagined a Sunday afternoon of classical music could be quite such an emotional experience? I realise I said...

The RLPO will perform nine new concerts at the Philharmonic Hall during June and July. They include two final appearances for Vasily...

It should have been a chance to enjoy some master music-making and to say goodbye to someone who has shaped the scene at Hope Street (and...