Later this month, the London Philharmonic Choir and Trinity Boys Choir will be joining forces with our great friends, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and conductor Ludwig Wicki, for an epic journey across Middle Earth.

Beethoven wanted his Ninth Symphony to embrace all humanity, so when Tan Dun set out to compose his own tribute to Beethoven after being commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS), he aimed just

Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater was commissioned by the Warsaw patron of the arts, Dr Bronislaw Krystall, and was meant as a Requiem dedicated to the memory of his prematurely deceased wife. However, after the sudden

In 804 the Japanese Buddhist priest Kūkai, then aged 30, joined the Japanese ambassadorial delegation of four ships going on a perilous voyage to China as he wished to develop his study in philosophy,