Digital Programmes

The great Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski makes a welcome return to the Barbican with a recital contrasting masterpieces by Bach and Beethoven with the heady world of Szymanowski and the extreme concision of Webern.

For tonight’s recital we welcome Maxim Vengerov – who this year celebrates a remarkable 40-year performing career – and Polina Osetinskaya; their contrasted programme explores the intertwined worlds of Clara and Robert Schumann and Brahms and, in the second part, a 20th-century icon: Prokofiev.

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Beatrice Rana brings characteristic imaginative flair to her recital tonight, with a programme that takes us from Liszt’s great sonata into the early 20th century and the contrasting sound worlds of Scriabin, Debussy and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

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Click to read the free digital programme on the Britten Sinfonia website.

Tonight’s concert from the Mullova Ensemble has been some quarter century in the making; it offers a typically provocative rethinking of Schoenberg’s great Romantic sextet Verklärte Nacht, heard in an entirely fresh setting.

What Is Happening Inside? is a development programme in which young people produced sound pieces that engaged with what happens inside institutions and considered how communities can take control.

Find out more about the production and the creative team behind it in this digital programme.

Find out more about the production and the creative team behind it in the digital programme, which includes an artists's introduction to the work and further information about this year's Dance Umbrella Festival.

Hear one, choose one: Axelle Fanyo invites the audience to curate the perfect programme, from enchanting French music to American song cycles that set your imagination free.

Fabio Biondi leads his crack period-instrument ensemble Europa Galante in a programme built around one of classical music’s most famous works, complemented by arias sung by rising star Nardus Williams.

Grammy-winning vocal group Roomful of Teeth returns with new music by composers celebrated for breaking down cultural boundaries.

Find out more about the production and the creative team behind it in the digital programme.

Click to read the programme for this performance on the BBC website.

Find out more about the festival and its incredible line-up in the digital programme. 

Find out more about the production and the creative team behind it in the digital programme.

Young Changemakers: The Lift Off is an exhibition documenting the process the changemakers have undertaken to influence strategic change at the Barbican.

Vladimir Jurowski directs the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in three Romantic masterpieces: Wagner at his most erotic, Schumann’s Piano Concerto, a love-letter to his wife Clara, and Mahler’s glistening Fourth Symphony.

In the first of two concerts Vladimir Jurowski directs the Bayerisches Staatsorchester – which is celebrating its 500th birthday – in a claustrophobic vision of snow, an elegiac 20th-century violin concerto and a mighty Alpine tone-poem.

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The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra today makes its debut at the Barbican; it was founded in response to the invasion by Russia and it proves not only the universality of music as a language, but its power to silence aggression.