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The London Symphony Orchestra on the Barbican Hall stage in front of a full audience of families
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Family Concert

A fun opportunity for families to learn more about music and the instruments of the orchestra, with music based on a theme and free workshops before the concert. 

Sakari Oramo conductor
Event
Classical music

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
Conductor Francois-Xavier Roth conducting on the Barbican Hall Stage. He is wearing a dark suit with a tie.
Event
Classical music

LSO Chamber Ensemble/François-Xavier Roth

Fanfares, massed cellos and electronics – a fascinating celebration of the music of Pierre Boulez, in his centenary year.

Pierre Boulez Messagesquisse
Dérive 1
Fanfare for the 80th Birthday of Georg Solti
Sonatine for Flute and Piano
Anthèmes 2 for Electronics and Violin
Musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth conductor
Composer Anselm McDonnell conducing with a baton. He has a colourful patterned shirt, glasses and red hair.
Event
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.

Black and white image of a forest on the Isle of Mull
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Classical music Contemporary music

Waves Crash on Old Street/Rufus Isabel Elliot

A collaboration with KNOCKvologan Studies, Isle of Mull, imagines voices from the distant past and the distant future that belong to an ancient forest on an island off the west coast of Scotland.

LSO Discovery participants playing brass instruments
Event
Classical music

LSO Discovery Showcase

Curated by LSO animateur Rachel Leach, this showcase brings together the Orchestra with participants from all across LSO Discovery’s work.

Ilya Gringolts
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Classical music

Glowing Colours and Grand Passions

Glowing colours and grand passions: Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join violinist Ilya Gringolts in Szymanowski’s gorgeous concerto – plus music by Wagner, Strauss and Dora Pejačević.

Dora Pejačević Overture for Orchestra in D minor
Karol Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 1
Richard Wagner Siegfried-Idyll
Richard Strauss Death and Transfiguration
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Ilya Gringolts violin
The Carducci Quartet in a forest, standing in a row holding their instruments
Event
Classical music

Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 4

Three quartets unite to perform the Chamber Symphony enlargement of Shostakovich’s 8th quartet, crowning a programme including Firsova’s ardent, deftly-plotted Quartet No 4.

Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 4
Quartet No 13
Elena Firsova Quartet No 4
Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 8
Carducci Quartet
Elmore Quartet
Kyan Quartet
The Carducci Quartet standing in a line in front of an old, dilapidated building, their instruments in cases on the floor beside them.
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Classical music

Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 5

Our Shostakovich cycle began with the Quartet No 1, and ends, inevitably, with No 15, staring death resolutely in the face, a work heart-stopping in its searing intensity.

Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 10
Quartet No 7
Quartet No 15
Carducci Quartet
Kyan Quartet
Sir Andrew Davis conducting
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra: Davis conducts Berlioz

Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Chorus rediscover the tenderness and wonder of Berlioz’s magical Christmas cantata, L’enfance du Christ. 

Hector Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
BBC Symphony Chorus