✨ Coming very soon ✨ Recorded live at the Southbank Centre last year, our UK premiere performance of James MacMillan’s stunning Christmas Oratorio will be available to stream, download and buy from next Friday! 🙌 Pre-order and hear a preview here: https://smarturl.it/lpochristmasoratorio | London Philharmonic Orchestra

This Saturday, we're heading to East Ayrshire for our latest collaboration with Sir James MacMillan and his celebrated music festival, The Cumnock Tryst! Back in February, MacMillan conducted the Scottish premiere of his powerful 'Concerto for Orchestra', alongside eight brand-new works by younger Scottish composers he has mentored through his festival. In his Concerto for Orchestra 'Ghosts', MacMillan weaves a rich musical tapestry, “haunted by other, earlier musical spirits and memories", with

Sir Mark Elder took to The Bridgewater Hall stage for the final time as Hallé Music Director over the weekend. Two sold out performances were a fitting farewell in celebration of Sir Mark’s championship of the Hallé’s choral ensembles, the first half of the concerts featured the massed voices of the Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir and Hallé Children’s Choir as they performed the European premiere of James MacMillan’s Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia. The second half, saw the Hallé perform Mahler’s