Barbican Presents

Mon 18 Nov 2019, 19:30

Dudamel, Yuja Wang, the Rite of Spring and a John Adams premiere – a concert that positively shouts energy, colour and joy.

Sun 10 Nov 2019, 14:30

Pianist Tamara Stefanovich takes us on a musical journey through the Étude: three centuries of musical questions and open-ended answers.

Mon 4 Nov 2019, 19:00

Conjuring magical bullets and demonic hordes in the dark heart of the German forest, Weber’s sinister operatic fairy tale is told through some of the 19th century’s most gloriously gothic music.

Sat 2 Nov 2019, 18:30

A musical tribute to a woman who united the worlds of 19th-century romanticism and cutting-edge science – Ada Lovelace: thinker, computer pioneer and enchantress of numbers.

Wed 30 Oct 2019, 20:00

A rare opportunity to see the Philip Glass Ensemble, as they perform one of the composer’s early masterpieces for the first time in over 48 years in the UK.

Wed 30 Oct 2019, 17:30

Head to the Members' Lounge before Philip Glass & the Philip Glass Ensemble and catch a pre-show set with nonclassical.

Wed 23 Oct 2019

Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter – two giants of contemporary culture – come together in a major new collaboration: a cinematic exploration of Richter’s intense, abstract painting 946-3.

Tue 22 Oct 2019, 19:30

Scandinavia’s super-orchestra bring their silken strings and luminous woodwind to bear on Strauss and Shostakovich, before joining forces with another giant of Norwegian music, Leif Ove Andsnes.

Mon 21 Oct 2019, 19:30

All human life is here: Samuel Adamson’s theatrical celebration of Baroque music brings to life the sights, sounds and stories of 17th-century London through the eyes of a court trumpeter.

Mon 14 Oct 2019, 19:30

Few living composers communicate with the emotional directness of James MacMillan, and the opportunity to hear two substantial new works in one concert is genuinely rare.

Sat 5 Oct 2019, 19:30

Richard Tognetti sweeps the Australian Chamber Orchestra from inter-war England to the dark heart of the Viennese psyche.

Fri 4 Oct 2019, 19:30

Photographer Bill Henson’s dramatic night-time landscapes and moody explorations of sensuality form the backdrop to a meditative soundscape of music in this arresting multi-sensory journey.

Thu 3 Oct 2019, 19:30

There are as many ways to unlock the miracles of Bach’s Goldberg Variations as there are performers – and when those performers are Tognetti and the ACO, the possibilities grow exponentially.

Sat 21 Sep 2019, 20:00

Hard-grooving ensemble Third Coast Percussion perform new works by two musical visionaries – iconic minimalist composer Philip Glass, and pop polymath Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange).

Philosopher-pianist Jeremy Denk and the Casals Quartet show that epic emotions can come in small packages, playing the piano quintets of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

‘An evening of delightfully and unwaveringly engaging theatre’ was how Opera Today described the previous instalment of The English Concert’s Handel opera cycle. Expect more of the same in Tamerlano.

The French mezzo explores the twin worlds of French and German song: miniature universes of concentrated emotion, where not a note goes to waste.

Join us as we take the pulse of musical modernism in the UK in a free showcase of cutting-edge compositions from classical music’s coalface.

This performance will now be taking place in the Hall on Sun 6 Jun. All bookers have been notified.

Sir Antonio Pappano accompanies Georgian mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili, a singer whom esteemed conductor Ricardo Muti has named ‘without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet’.