What’s on

19 –26 Apr 2018

Mahler’s final symphony meets a new work by British composer Helen Grime in this double-bill with the LSO’s Music Director.

27 Apr 2018, 19:00

Celebrated vocal coach Mary King leads a workshop on some of Handel’s most popular choral works.

27 Apr 2018, 19:30

The livewire piano duo of Timo Andres and David Kaplan plays Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances.

28 Apr 2018, 19:30

Man’s humanity to man amid the horrors of war links this imaginative programme that includes a world premiere by New Zealand composer Ross Harris.

28 Apr 2018, 20:30

Electronics, jazz, classical textures and roaring improvisation collide as musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra and artists from the London jazz scene blur boundaries and break down beats.

1 May 2018, 19:30

War crimes and forbidden songs; video, electronics and percussion: Powerplant place musical explosives under the lies of an uncertain century.

2 May 2018, 19:30

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic begin their 2018 Barbican residency with music by Shostakovich, Varèse and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

3 May 2018, 19:30

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil New Music Group bring their acclaimed Green Umbrella music series to the Barbican, presenting three contemporary classical works from important contemporary voices.

4 May 2018, 11:00

Dudamel rehearses NYOGB's Inspire Orchestra and Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles members in Marquez's Danzon No 9, after the young musicians present their manifesto for the future of the arts.

4 May 2018, 13:00

Trumpeter Tamás Pálfalvi is already a name to be reckoned with in his native Hungary, and in this entertainingly eclectic ECHO recital you’ll hear why.