The Liverpool Phil is to be featured on Sky TV's in a new deal announced with the RLPO and the TV channel.
The partnership will focus on the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Mahler Edition concert series under the baton of Chief Conductor, Vasily Petrenko.
The Mahler Edition is a two-year journey through Mahler’s complete orchestral works in celebration of the anniversary of the composer’s 150th birthday and 2011 is the 100th anniversary of his death.
The series also features recitals of his works and pieces by Schumann, Beethoven, Schubert and Bach in their Mahler editions.
The concert series, which the Sunday Times voted as one of the ‘Top 100 Tickets for 2010’, began on 25th January with a performance of Symphony No. 1 of which The Guardian newspaper reviewer said: “If it continues in this vein, Liverpool's Mahler cycle could be one of the most appealingly idiosyncratic odysseys of this anniversary year.”
Sky Arts filmed the Orchestra during rehearsals for a 10-minute documentary Sky Arts at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for broadcast from mid-February across Sky Arts television channels and website.
The programme features rehearsals of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, interviews with Vasily Petrenko, Executive Director Andrew Cornall and Liverpool Phil musicians.
Later in the year, Sky Arts will film another 30 minute documentary, further exploring the Phil’s two-year journey through Mahler’s orchestral works, as part of the channel’s own season of programmes around Mahler’s anniversaries.
Michael Eakin, Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic said: “We are delighted to have Sky Arts as a TV media partner for our Mahler Edition concert series. Our recent performance of the first symphony was a thrilling taster of what’s to come.
"Sky Arts commitment means we now have the opportunity to bring the acclaimed and much talked-about partnership between our musicians and Vasily Petrenko here in Liverpool direct into the homes of Sky’s millions of viewers.”
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