Music lovers will be able to join Sir Simon Rattle as he conducts the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra in a 3D cinema experience making it the first concert to be screened in 3D in the UK.

More than 60 cinemas across the UK will be showing the concert between May 9 and 29 which features the Berlin Philharmonic performing Mahler's Symphony No 1 and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

The film will be entitled Musical journey and the director Michael Beyers, has said that he hopes that the project will help to transport cinema goers into the concert itself with them feeling like they are “in the middle of music and life”.

The concert was filmed in November last year at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore with 3D camera operators from germany and technical teams from Japan and America all coming together in Singapore to film the concert and create the 3D movie experience.

One of the musicians involved in the project, violinist Stanley Dodds, told The Guardian newspaper: “Nothing of its kind has ever been done before. It gives you the feeling of being in an orchestra. When you see the winding tubes of a horn, or a very nice old Italian violin in 3D, you feel you could touch it.”

He added: “You can observe the concentration and intensity of the musicians facial expressions and body language.”

Already opera and ballet productions have been screened in 3D at cinemas in the UK, however this will be the first time that cinema goers in the UK will have the opportunity to watch a classical concert in this way.