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Performance TitleThe Rest is History with Live Orchestra: Tchaikovsky and Wagner
Performance Date4 May 2025
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersLeia Zhu - violin,
Ingela Brimberg,
Toby Spence,
John Findon - vocals
Orchestra or BandPhilharmonia Orchestra
ConductorsOliver Zeffman
Performance NotesThe world’s most popular history podcast, The Rest Is History, is set to return with a brand new show.

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook will take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history’s greatest composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner. Accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Zeffman. Featuring violin soloist Leia Zhu, Soprano Ingela Brimberg and Tenors Toby Spence and John Findon.

The repertoire will include excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Violin Concerto, Nutcracker and 1812 Overture. As well as Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Tristan und Isolde.
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13439The Rest is History with Live Orchestra: Tchaikovsky and Wagner2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2583Philharmonia Orchestra; Philharmonia Concert Society; 1948-
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