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Browse concerts from the Barbican Classical Music programme featuring leading orchestras and soloists from around the world.

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Gustavo Dudamel smiling while holding his baton above his head
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London Symphony Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel

Four stories of faraway lands, opulence, and scandal.

Image of the band Bang on a Can stood next to each other
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Terry Riley 90th Birthday Tribute

Celebrate Terry Riley's 90th with a mesmerising tribute featuring Bang on a Can All-Stars, SHABAKA, Valentina Magaletti and special guests.

A view from the ground up of tall buildings
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Academy of Ancient Music: Bach's The Art of the Fugue

Four actors, four musicians, one unparalleled musical genius. From the theatrical imagination of Bill Barclay, a completely new journey into Bach’s astonishing The Art of Fugue.

Dima Slobodeniouk clasping his hands in front of his face, with pink circular swirls around him
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Slobodeniouk conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

From the depths to the stars; from romance to tragedy: Dima Slobodeniouk pairs Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with Lili Boulanger’s mighty shout of hope and praise. 

Leila Josefowicz
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London Symphony Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki

Showpieces for the orchestra meet a dazzling concerto, brimming with characteristic Stravinsky flair and melody.

Quatuor Diotima holding broken instruments.
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Quatuor Diotima: Boulez Anniversary Concert

Performed by one of its outstanding interpreters, Boulez’s uncompromising Livre pour quatuor is at the heart of a centenary tribute to the composer referencing Webern, Bach, and impassioned Debussy. 

Pablo Ferrandez holding his cello
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Elgar's Cello Concerto & Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances

A Russian in exile, an Englishman in despair, and a Puerto Rican take on fantastical fandangoes: a welcome visit from the RLPO under its charismatic Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan.

Sir Antonio Pappano conducting
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London Symphony Orchestra/ Half Six Fix – Berlioz

Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.

Lisa Batiashvili holding her violin and wearing a black dress standing in front of a black background.
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London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Dreams and fantasies from enigmatic Szymanowski to Berlioz’s most rock’n’roll work, the Symphonie fantastique. 

A photo of Mark Elder with pink circular swirls around him
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BBC Symphony Orchestra: Elder conducts Mahler

Goodnight, Vienna: Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, as the BBC Symphony Orchestra brings its season to an unforgettable close. 

Sir Antonio Pappano landscape pose
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London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Two portraits from a magician of orchestral colour, Richard Strauss – plus a young Mozart dances on the violin 

A profile shot of Cassie Kinoshi holding her saxophone in front of a concrete wall
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Cassie Kinoshi x Ensemble Intercontemporain

Spearheaded by France’s flagship contemporary music group, the new, the nearly new, and a 20th century classic are stitched into a programme that explores slavery and the Caribbean experience. 

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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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.

Lukas Sternath sitting in a seat of an empty concert hall
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ECHO Rising Stars at 30: Lukas Sternath

Join pianist Lukas Sternath for a mesmerising recital featuring an eclectic programme full of contrasts.

Carlos Ferreira standing with his clarinet against an orange wall
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ECHO Rising Stars at 30: Carlos Ferreira

Jazz-inspired music meets a brand new commission plus one of the cornerstones of the clarinet repertoire, with Portuguese clarinettist Carlos Ferreira.