Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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I work for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and that was recommended by one of the musicians.

And it's such a lovely album, and there's definitely loads of folk influence that we can hear in that.

I can't believe this show is just flying by.

But certainly it's still there.

And all of the decisions moving the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra there... was a huge thing when you think about it.

I mean, to get the RPO based in Wigmore Street to go to Wembley and become the orchestra in residence was a big deal for them.

Is that a big foundation of quite a lot of placemaking these days, to try and convince big, well-known cultural organisations to become... anchor tenants if you like of an area I'm thinking obviously of Kings Cross with various institutions including the art students and other places across London is that a kind of plank

Now, this was the year when Star Sound started it all off with all the Segway tracks and then everyone wanted to get involved.

Even the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra down five places to this week's number nine.

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Johnny Lance says, I remember this on Top of the Pops.

Yeah, I seem to remember the two Ronnies doing a spoof version of this as well.

Yeah, yeah.

And they do use my favorite, well, probably my favorite version of Burning Love in this, which they took the Royal Philharmonic version and then kind of did some extra remixing with it.

That's one of the best mixes for me on the album or in the movie.

Here's the thing that my brain does, and I want to know if you're the same.

This is an official opening gala, so we'll have all kinds of media there, and the mayor of Warsaw will be attending to open the proceedings for us.

That's at Cadogan Hall, which is the home of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.

On the 12th of September, we have two separate concerts where we'll feature the female talent of the Polish jazz.

The legendary Urszula Dudziak will be the headliner at 8.30 p.m., and an earlier concert will present Kaja's new record, Josiah, which shows reinterpretations of her own hits, as well as new music with a jazz quartet.

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He has also attained success as a songwriting musician with the release of Greg Evigan with London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, an album featuring eight of his original pieces backed up by the 65-piece London Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios, yes, the recording home of the Beatles.

Welcome, Greg, to Toronto Legends.

Thank you for joining me.

But I haven't talked to him lately, no.

Now, music has always been a through line during your life and your entertainment career.

And let's talk about your album, Greg Evigan, with London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in Studio One, otherwise known as The Big Room, at London's iconic Abbey Road Studios.

You are a big Beatles fan.

And Chapel Down has the last 25 years, we've been investing behind the Chapel Down brand.

We sponsor Royal Ascot, England Cricket, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boat Race.

And so we find that when consumers are purchasing sparkling wine, the number one driver is, is it a brand that they've heard of? And so now actually Chapel Down has 49% brand awareness in the UK.

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And he introduced me to Rochester Council, Medway, and we did shows for them for 25 years in the end, three or four concerts down there.

And through that, I used to do a lot of shows with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a lot of classical big spectaculars.

And Stephen Caulfield, he owns a farm next door to Michael Evers' farm, next door to Worthy Farm in Glastonbury.

And Michael was interested in doing something back in, I think it was 1996, where because the festival is quite disruptive, obviously, to the whole local area, you know, bringing that number of people in on country roads, you know, that probably if you tried to start a festival like that these days, you'd never get it off the ground.