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Rapsodia Sinfonica by Spanish composer Joaquín Torino now.

This is dedicated to the celebrated pianist Antonio Lucas Moreno and is performed here by pianist Alicia de la Rocha and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Rafael Frebeck de Burgos. . . ¶¶ ¦ ¦ Thank you.

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Rapsodia Sinfonica by Joaquin Tarina.

Alicia de la Rocha was at the piano, and Rafael Fruebeck de Burgos led the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Next up, a 1990 composition by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Tafe Zwilich, who is also one of America's most frequently and genuinely popular living composers.

He has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, among many others.

Abroad, Jakiv has appeared with such ensembles as the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

Jakiv has performed in numerous major festivals and concert halls around the world, including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Celebrity Series of Boston, and the Washington Performing Arts Society, to name a few.

Jakiv tours frequently with his musical partners, pianist Conrad Thau and cellist Jay Campbell, as part of the Junction Trio.

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from the London Philharmonic version.

And then also Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the soundtrack.

It's also 75.

Hello, I'm Yolanda Brown and this is Pitch Me Classical, the podcast dedicated to demystifying classical music and answering your questions with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

And today we're going to tackle an assertion that, fairly or unfairly, often gets thrown at classical music.

The orchestras just play the same old stuff, right? So that's the cliche, but does it stand up once you look a little bit closer? I'm joined by two LPO members, Kate and Henry, who are going to help me unpack that and debate whether orchestras really are stuck on repeat.

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Thank you so much to Kate and to Henry for their brilliant insights.

I don't often get moved on the scale very much, but you really brought repetition and what repetition can mean to life.

I mean, it's a ...

But also, I remember now when I talked about seeing UHF, I said London Philharmonic.

I remember this now.

But it's the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The London Philharmonic is not coming to LA to play the UHF score.

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Just for UHF.

doing I seem confident about it and in an ideal world it would.

I am the conductor of the London Philharmonic and they are all beautifully in tune.

In reality, it's more like giving a bunch of six-year-olds some stuff out of the cupboards that hasn't been filled in years.

We're lucky.

And then I put it out.

It went into the studio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

And we tried some songs and it sounded awful.

It really sounded awful.