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The Ballet Black ensemble perform: one dancer places a crown on the other dancers' head as the rest of the ensemble gathers and crouches around them.
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Ballet Black: Heroes

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Now in their 22nd year, Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black return to our stage with a double bill featuring new and innovative work.

Rev Richard Coles standing in a walled garden, smiling at the camera
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Classical music

BBC Singers with Rev Richard Coles: Murder at the Monastery

Ahead of the June publication of his new novel, Rev Richard Coles reads extracts of his new book, joining the BBC Singers who perform iconic choral classics to set the scene.

Sofi Jeannin conductor
Rev Richard Coles* narrator
BBC Singers
Headshot of Yeonjoon Yoon
Event
Classical music Contemporary music

Um [Sprouting]

Um [Sprouting] is a project of original works by pianist, composer, improviser and winner of Guildhall School's prestigious Gold Medal in 2018, Yeonjoon Yoon.

Yeonjoon Yoon pianist, composer
Yeji Kim haegeum
Hannah Kim percussion, voice
Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 848: Prelude No 3 in C sharp major
Brad Mehldau After Bach: Rondo
Schönberg Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op 19
Isang Yun Fünf Stücke für Klavier
Chopin Etude Op 10, No 1
Philip Glass Etude Book 1, No 2
Yeonjoon Yoon Etude No. 1, Recursion
Yeonjoon Yoon Um [Sprouting]
Mu-ak [Shaman Dance]
Improvisation
Kiwa Underwater
Jak-dal [Downpour]
San-myeong [Trembling Peaks]
Sakamoto (arr Yeonjoon Yoon, Yeji Kim, Hannah Kim) Thousand Knives
Lise de la Salle looking at the camera, with purple and pink circular lines framing her face
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Rakitina: Rachmaninov's Rhapsody

Three composers, three dramatic meditations on Fate and the Day of Judgement.  Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony maps a journey from darkness to light, reflecting the crisis of his collapsed marriage.

Sofia Gubaidulina The Wrath of God
Sergei Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Anna Rakitina* conductor
Lise de la Salle piano
Photo of Fatma Said from the side, her head partially obscured by the red sleeve of her raised arm
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Classical music

Fatma Said and Joseph Middleton

Soprano Fatma Said and pianist Joseph Middleton give a recital that contrasts songs on nocturnal theme by Mozart, Schubert and Robert Schumann with sunnier Spanish repertoire.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Als Luise die Briefe ihres Liebhabers verbrannte
Abendempfindung
Der Zauberer
Franz Schubert Rastlose Liebe
Nachtviolen
Ganymed
'Ständchen' from Schwanengesang
Robert Schumann 'Meine Rose' from Sechs Gedichte von Nikolaus Lenau und Requiem
'Frühlingsnacht' from Liederkreis
'Mond meiner Seele Liebling' from 7 Lieder
'Liebeslied' from Lieder und Gesänge, Vol 2
'Singet nicht mit Trauertönen' from Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister
'Widmung' from Myrthen
Manuel De Falla Siete canciones populares
Tus Ojillos Negros
Fernando Obradors 'Del cabello más sutil' from Canciones Clásicas Españolas, Vol 1
Jose Serrano Marinela
Najib Hankash Aatini al Naya Wa ghanni
Fatma Said soprano
Joseph Middleton piano
Fatma Said leaning against a while pillar looking at the camera
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Classical music

Masterclass with Fatma Said

A soprano with a 'startlingly beautiful voice' (Limelight), Fatma Said shares the stage with talented young musicians from Guildhall School in an intimate evening masterclass.

Fatma Said soprano
Guildhall School musicians
Sakari Oramo conducting, with blue circular swirls framing him
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo: A Sea Symphony

Full sail for new shores: Sakari Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, Britten’s Double Concerto and an enchanting, newly uncovered late work by Oliver Knussen.

Oliver Knussen Cleveland Pictures
Benjamin Britten Double Concerto for Violin and Viola
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No 1, A Sea Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Vilde Frang violin
Lawrence Power viola
Sija Aalto soprano
Morgan Pearse baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
Batman with live orchestra
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Classical music

Batman Live in Concert (12)

Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Warner Bros Pictures’ iconic 1989 DC Superhero film, Batman, live in concert.

Members of the Kingdom Choir - some seated and some standing - in a large room with arched windows
Event
Classical music Contemporary music

The Kingdom Choir

Following their sell-out London show, legendary choir The Kingdom Choir continue their 30th anniversary celebrations with a show-stopping performance in our Hall.   

The Kingdom Choir
Karen Gibson conductor
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason smiling at each other. Sheku is holding his cello and bow and they are standing in front of a white background.
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Classical music

Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason

Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason team up for a recital of cello sonatas by Felix Mendelssohn, Fauré, Chopin and Beethoven, who pioneered the form.

Felix Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No 1 in B-flat major
Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata No 5 in D major
Gabriel Fauré Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor
Frédéric Chopin Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Anne-Sophie Mutter holding a violin
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adès

Threads of the past are woven into a radiant future in four ingenious compositions, presented by Thomas Adès, Anne-Sophie Mutter and the LSO.

Igor Stravinsky Orpheus
Witold Lutosławski Partita
Thomas Adès Air – Homage to Sibelius: Violin Concerto (UK premiere)
Igor Stravinsky Agon
London Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
Painting of Ignatius Sancho
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Sons of England

Countertenor Reginald Mobley and AAM explore a different vision of the English baroque: in which the music of Purcell, Handel and Ignatius Sancho redefined the culture of a nation.

John Dowland Lachrimæ Antiquae from Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
Melancholy Galliard
Henry Purcell 'Britain, thou art now great' from Why, why are all the Muses mute?
'Music for a while' from Oedipus
Keyboard Ground in D minor
'Here the deities approve' from Welcome to all the pleasures
'Strike the viol' from Come, Ye Sons of Art
Trio Sonata in E minor
O solitude, my sweetest choice
John Blow 'So ceased the rival crew', 'We beg not hell, our Orpheus to restore' and 'The power of Harmony too well they know' from An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
Attrib Cesare Morelli, Samuel Pepys Beauty retire
Ah! How pleasant 'tis to love
Go, perjured man! And if thou e'er return
Beauty, thou scene of love
Francesco Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Follia (after Corelli Op 5 No 12)
Thomas Arne Sweet muse inspire thy suppliant bard
Jean Baptiste Loeillet Sonata in A minor for Flute and Continuo, Op 3 No 4
George Frideric Handel Keyboard Sonata
Mi palpita il cor
Charles Ignatius Sancho (arr Nico Canzano) Suite of Songs and Dances
Roderick Williams From Ignatius Sancho (world premiere)
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director and harpsichord
Reginald Mobley countertenor
Barbican Hall photo
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Family Concert

Presented in a fun and informative way, LSO Family Concerts feature music based on a theme and offer the chance for everyone to get involved by playing or singing along with audience participation.

Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Phil
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Classical music

Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel: Dvořák 9

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a concert of bold themes and dazzling orchestral colours, including the UK premiere of the Violin Concerto Altar de cuerda by Gabriela Ortiz.

John Williams Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Gabriela Ortiz Violin Concerto (UK premiere)
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No 9, From the New World
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
María Dueñas violin
Lion's head on a black background
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Classical music

Handel's Alcina

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A charming sorceress. A dashing knight. A daring fiancée.

Georgie Malcolm Alcina
Yolisa Ngwexana Morgana
Samantha Hargreaves Oberto
Shana Moron-Caravel Ruggiero
Julia Sanchez Merino Bradamante
Jonah Halton & Emyr Jones Oronte
Alaric Green Melisso
John Ramster director
James Henshaw conductor
Louis Carver designer
Andy Purves lighting designer
Sam Bernstein associate lighting designer
Jono Strutt video designer
Michael Rose assistant conductor & chorus master
William Byram assistant director
Meghan Rhoades, Henry Reavey & Samuele Piccinini répétiteurs