The count down is on ⏰✨🎇 As we race towards 2026, we’re pausing to look back at some of your favourite LPO moments of 2025. First up, it’s Strauss’s epic Alpine Symphony. We packed the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall stage to bring this mammoth piece to life in February, wind machines and all 🍃Were you there? | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Sunrise with Strauss's Alpine Symphony 🏔️🎶 What better way to start your Saturday than with Strauss and a supersized orchestra? Enjoy this performance conducted by our Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall in 2021. Love Strauss? Santtu will be conducting a Strauss extravaganza for our 80th birthday season. Book now: https://philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/santtu-conducts-a-strauss-extravaganza/ | Philharmonia Orchestra

Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony depicts the composer’s childhood memory of an ascent up a mountain. The soundscape is complete with depictions of dawn, the climb, storms, the summit, sunset, and more. Strauss is not the only musician who’s climbed a mountain! Several musicians of the Orchestra have bested some of the toughest hikes and trails in North America—from notable fourteeners to the Grand Traverse Trail, these musicians can do it all! Hear the masterpiece this week during Orchestra After 5:

Get ready for this week's concerts with a look at the rehearsal for Strauss' "An Alpine Symphony"! Tickets are still available ow.ly/hOQ830fFgHj | Boston Symphony Orchestra