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Discovery showcase
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Discovery Showcase

LSO Discovery participant groups perform together with the London Symphony Orchestra, in a showcase of the LSO’s learning and community programme.

Members from Collegium Vocale Gent dressed in black, standing in front of a concrete wall
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Classical music

Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe: Bach B Minor Mass

Philippe Herreweghe directs Collegium Vocale Gent in Bach’s glorious Mass in B minor, joined by outstanding soloists Dorothee Mields, Hana Blažíková, Alex Potter, Guy Cutting and Johannes Kammler.

Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe conductor
Dorothee Mields soprano
Hana Blažíková soprano
Alex Potter countertenor
Guy Cutting tenor
Johannes Kammler baritone
dirk brosse
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: LSO on Film

Since 1935, the LSO has contributed soundtracks to over two hundred movies, including some of the greatest ever made.

London Symphony Orchestra
Dirk Brossé conductor & curator
Side profile photo of Katia and Marielle Labèque standing close together. Behind them is an illustration of the side profile of two women, mirroring the position of Katia and Marielle. The hair of the illustrated women flows backwards, turning into the keys of a piano.
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Classical music

Philip Glass: Cocteau Trilogy

Legendary sibling pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque present their recent collaboration with American minimalist composer Philip Glass: arrangements for two pianos of his Cocteau Trilogy.

Philip Glass Orphée
La Belle et La Bête
Les Enfants Terribles
Katia and Marielle Labèque piano
Cyril Teste artistic director
Nina Chalot stage designer
Noseda/prokofiev
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Prokofiev 7

As part of his exploration of Prokofiev's symphonies, Gianandrea Noseda introduces the composer’s mysterious Seventh.

Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 7
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor and presenter
Noseda and Jansen
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

What is lost returns once more in emotive music conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, LSO Principal Guest Conductor.

Ludwig van Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 3
Sally Beamish Distans: Concerto for Violin and Clarinet
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 7
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Janine Jansen violin
Martin Fröst clarinet
Three opera singers sat on a bed with red rope-like hanging down from ceiling. Small ensemble performing in background
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Classical music

Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Opera Makers

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Opera Makers features scenes from three Puccini operas, and new works written by composers and librettists on Guildhall’s MA in Opera Making & Writing.

Evan Snyder (composer), Hannah Hayden (librettist) The Casserole
Will Gardner (composer), Sara Clifford (librettist) Time and Tide
Zygmund De Somogyi (composer), Alexia Peniguel (librettist) Ursa Minor
Puccini Scene from La rondine
Puccini Scene from Turandot
Puccini Scene from Edgar
Ashley Dean director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Laurie Slavin assistant director
Alistair Burton assistant conductor
Ben Kubiak répétiteur
Samuele Piccinini répétiteur
Henry Reavey répétiteur
Meghan Rhoades répétiteur
Christina Poulitsi
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

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You may recognise Carl Orff’s endlessly hummable cantata, but you’ve never heard it quite like this.

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No 3
Carl Orff Carmina Burana
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Christina Poulitsi soprano
Sunnyboy Dladla tenor
Elliot Madore baritone
London Symphony Chorus
Tiffin Boys’ Choir
Free Lunchtime Concert 230317
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Classical music

LSO Discovery Friday Lunchtime Concert

Curious about instrumental music? Looking to make lunchtime musical? Try a bite-size, informal concert, performed by musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra.

An armoured knight standing in a grassy field holding a sword
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Handel's Orlando

Passion, magic and spectacular singing: Iestyn Davies stars alongside Handel expert Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music in a concert performance of Handel’s epic fantasy opera Orlando.

George Frideric Handel Orlando
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director and harpsichord
Iestyn Davies Orlando
Rachel Redmond Dorinda
Anna Dennis Angelica
Matthew Brook Zoroastro
Sophie Rennert Medoro
Classical Pride composite image of artists in the event
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Classical music

Classical Pride: Classical Drag!

Framed as a competition, join stars of the London drag scene Snow White Trash, Barbs, Beau Jangles, Freddie Love and Vinegar Strokes as they go head-to-head in this outlandish contest.

Close up black and white photo of Alexandros Kapelis
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Classical music

Berliner Barock Solisten: Bach's Complete Keyboard Concertos

The Berliner Barock Solisten and pianist Alexandros Kapelis come together for Bach’s six concertos for solo keyboard and orchestra: a tour-de-force not seen on the concert stage in recent memory.

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in D major, BWV 1054
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in A major, BWV 1055
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in D minor, BWV 1052
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in E major, BWV 1053
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in F minor, BWV 1056
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in G minor, BWV 1058
BERLINER BAROCK SOLISTEN Baroque Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic
Alexandros Kapelis piano
Artist performing to audience at front of stage
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Classical music Contemporary music

Music Education Islington: New Sounds Festival Concert

Led by a group of young event producers, this evening concert will round off Music Education Islington's second annual New Sounds Festival.

Members of the Fourth Choir singing on stage
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Classical music

Classical Pride: My Beloved Man

My Beloved Man – a celebration by the Fourth Choir, London’s LGBTQ+ classical choir, of the love affair between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

Henry Purcell Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts
Samuel Barber The Coolin
Pérotin Beata Viscera III
Imogen Holst The Cobbler
Sweet Country
Benjamin Britten The Ballad of Green Broom
Aaron Copland Help Us O Lord
Michael Tippett 'Deep River' from A Child of Our Time
Benjamin Britten 'Time' (Choral Dance 1) from Gloriana
'Concord (Choral Dance 2) from Gloriana
Thomas Morley Hard by a Crystal Fountain
Claudio Monteverdi 'Che dar più vi poss’io' from Madrigals, Book 5
'Io mi son giovinetta' from Madrigals, Book 4
Imogen Holst A Hymne to Christ
Leonard Bernstein 'Somewhere' from West Side Story
Benjamin Britten Hymn to the Virgin
Henry Purcell (arr Nicholas Chalmers) Dido’s Lament
Isobel Waller-Bridge New work (world premiere)
The Fourth Choir
Petroc Trelawny presenter
Nicholas Chalmers conductor
Séamus Rea concept and script
A close up shot of a violinist playing his violin on stage
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Classical music

Classical Pride: A Proud Future

A Proud Future features the star performers and composers from the LGBTQ+ student bodies of London’s conservatoires.