Beethoven Symphony No. 9 conducted by Otto Klemperer (Royal Festival Hall, London, 1970) #WithMe

This Easter, at a time when the Philharmonia Orchestra is not able to perform on stage due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to offer our audiences something in place of the concerts we would have been performing at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. So tune in at 7pm on Friday 10 April for a streamed concert from our archive. In fact, it’s almost exactly 50 years old. 2020 is our 75th anniversary, so tonight we thought we would take a step back in time to a special moment in the Philharmonia’s hist