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Sakari Oramo conductor
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Oramo conducts Mahler

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s tragic Sixth Symphony: a powerful opening to our new concert season.

Gustav Mahler Symphony No 6
Sakari Oramo conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Birdseye view of concert at LSO St Luke's
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Classical music

LSO Discovery Friday Lunchtime Concert

Make lunchtime musical with a free, bite-size concert, suitable for everyone over the age of 5. Hear live music up close, with a small group of LSO String Experience musicians.

Double bass section with choir in background
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Classical music

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Ludovic Morlot, Music Director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conducts the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in their first concert of the academic year.

Gity Razaz Mother
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No 41, Jupiter
Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Claude Debussy Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra
Francis Poulenc Gloria
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Guildhall Symphony Chorus
Ludovic Morlot conductor
Linnhe Robertson chorus trainer
Alannah Makoni saxophone
Seohyun Go soprano
Lodestar Trio holding their instruments
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Classical music

Lodestar Trio

By inclination one of music’s most intrepid cross-pollinators the Lodestar Trio breezes through the baroque on an exhilarating genre-bending journey into Nordic folk music and beyond. 

Johann Sebastian Bach Musette in G major
Tarquinio Merula Ciaconna in C major
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Allegro Assai’ from Violin Sonata in C major
'Gavotte II’ from Cello Suite No 6
Olav Mjelva Hjaltaren
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Sarabande' from Cello Suite No 6
Jean-Baptiste Lully Loure in F major
Trad Norwegian Minuet I
Norwegian Minuet II
Max Baillie Rolling to Roros
Johann Sebastian Bach Air on the G string
'Bourrée' from Violin Partita No 3
'Sarabande' from Cello Suite No 5
François Couperin Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Prelude' from Cello Suite No 6
Erik Rydvall Jubileumspolska
Olav Mjelva Deliverance
Lodestar Trio:
Max Baillie violin
Erik Rydvall swedish nyckelharpa
Olva Mjelva norwegian hardanger fiddle
A composite image featuring Eric Whitacre, Anna Lapwood, Abel Selaocoe and the BBC Singers
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Classical music

BBC Singers Centenary Concert

The BBC Singers celebrate their 100th birthday and look forward to the future with a host of star artists and special guests including Eric Whitacre, Anna Lapwood, and Abel Selaocoe. 

Johann Sebastian Bach Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
Abel Selaocoe Improvisation
Shruthi Rajasekar Numbers
Hans Zimmer (arr Anna Lapwood) Chevaliers de Sangreal
Eric Whitacre Lux Aurumque
Arnold Schoenberg Friede auf Erden
Roderick Williams Inform, Educate and Entertain (BBC commission, world premiere)
Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms
Anne Dudley The Decadence Waltz
Iain Farrington On with the show – a whistlestop tour of musicals
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sofi Jeannin conductor
Owain Park conductor
Nicholas Chalmers conductor
Eric Whitacre conductor
Abel Selaocoe cello
Anna Lapwood organ
A black & white photograph of Piotr Andrejewski
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Classical music

Piotr Anderszewski

Beethoven and Bartók both insist that there’s no such thing as a ‘mere bagatelle’ when Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski pairs two compelling sets of inventive miniatures. 

Ludwig van Beethoven Bagatelles, Op 126
Johannes Brahms Nos 1 and 3 from Four Pieces For Piano, Op 119
Nos 1, 2 and 6 from Six Pieces for Piano, Op 118
No 2 from Three Intermezzi for Piano, Op 117
Béla Bartók Bagatelles
Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No 1, BWV 825
Piotr Anderszewski piano
Spinifex Gum
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Classical music Contemporary music

Spinifex Gum

An all-indigenous female youth choir from North East Australia with dance, visuals, plus a visceral song cycle about ancestry and stewardship. The result? The dazzling phenomenon that is Spinifex Gum.

Marliya Choir
Gondwana Voices
Farnham Youth Choir
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Youth Chorus
Lyn Williams choral director
Deborah Brown choreographer
Mark Myers sound
The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble performing in a church
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Classical music Contemporary music

Britten Sinfonia and The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble

Music and Maths, Synths and Soundtracks, with Will Gregory – one half of electropop duo Goldfrapp – and the ultra-versatile orchestra Britten Sinfonia.

Johann Sebastian Bach/Wendy Carlos Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Henry Purcell/Wendy Carlos Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Bernard Herrmann Fahrenheit 451 Suite
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
John Carpenter Escape from New York
Vangelis Chariots of Fire Theme
Ron Grainer/Delia Derbyshire Doctor Who Theme
Will Gregory Archimedes Suite
Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
Britten Sinfonia
A deer in a forest
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Actéon and Pygmalion

Charpentier’s Actéon and Rameau’s Pygmalion: two mythological mini-masterpieces of baroque opera, in an exuberant concert performance.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Actéon
Jean-Philippe Rameau Pygmalion
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Anna Dennis soprano
Rachel Redmond soprano
Katie Bray mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker tenor
Abstract image of violin
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Classical music Contemporary music

The Expanded Violin/Anselm McDonnell

A deep dive into the potential of the violin, expanding and enhancing the instrument through microtonality, electronics, and the sound of multiple violins.

Bertrand Chamayou
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sousa

Channel waves, folk rhythms and the heartbeat of the cosmos, as conductor Dinis Souza, pianist Bertrand Chamayou and the BBC Symphony Orchestra play Debussy, Bartók and Unsuk Chin. 

Unsuk Chin Alaraph: Ritual of the Heartbeat
Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No 3
Claude Debussy La mer
Maurice Ravel Boléro
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dinis Sousa conductor
Bertrand Chamayou piano
The cast of The Golden Stool performing on stage, wearing long golden dresses
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Classical music

The Golden Stool, or the story of Nana Yaa Asantewaa

Interweaving singing, dance, and cutting-edge theatre, Gorges Ocloo’s ground-breaking AfrOpera re-examines Nana Yaa Asantewaa’s defiant stance against colonialism and cultural appropriation.

Gorges Ocloo The Golden Stool
LOD Musiktheater
Nobulumko Mngxekeza-Nziramasanga soprano
Nonkululeko Nkwinti mezzo-soprano
Sheku Kanneh-Mason sitting on a wooden stool with his cello, in front of a pale blueish gray background
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Classical music

Sinfonia of London/John Wilson with Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Embedding the intricacies of the patter song, Kenneth Hesketh’s orchestral show-stopper prefaces two compelling master works as John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London return. 

Kenneth Hesketh PatterSongs
Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2
Sergei Rachmaninov Symphony No 1
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
On the bottom right of the image, an orchestra is performing on stage. Behind them is a projection of a still from Life on Our Planet, showing a huge shark appearing to swim towards the audience.
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Classical music

Life on Our Planet in Concert (PG)

From esk film, in association with Netflix and Silverback Films, comes a natural history concert experience: Netflix’s Life on Our Planet, with highlights from the series and an incredible live score.

Lorne Balfe Life on Our Planet
London Symphony Orchestra
Anthony Gabriele conductor
The Dudok Quartet playing their instruments. They are positioned in a close huddle, each person facing a different direction. They are against a cream coloured background.
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Classical music

Dudok Quartet: Abandoned Voices

Alongside something hot off the press, death, despair, and eternity stalk the Dudoks’ typically ear-opening programme in which Messiaen tempers the anguished ardour of Gesualdo and Schubert.

Olivier Messiaen (arr Dudok Quartet) Oraison
Bushra El Turk Three Tributes
Carlo Gesualdo (arr Dudok Quartet) 'Deh come invan sospiro' from Libro Sesto Madrigali
Franz Schubert String Quartet No 14, Death and the Maiden
Dudok Quartet