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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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Total Immersion: Icelandic Chill - Film & Talk

A screening of the BBC’s classic 2015 nature documentary Iceland: Land of Ice and Fire.

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Total Immersion: Icelandic Chill - Meet the Composers #1

Hear from some of the composers whose music will be performed in the afternoon concert in Milton Court Concert Hall. 

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Total Immersion: Chamber and Choral Icelandic treasures

The BBC Singers and Guildhall Musicians explore Icelandic chamber and vocal music – sounds of wild beauty and quiet, luminous power.

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Total Immersion: Icelandic Chill - Meet the Composers #2

Hear from some of the composers whose music will be performed in the evening concert in the Barbican Hall.

 

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Total Immersion: Icelandic Soundworlds

Europe’s most northerly capital city pulses with creativity. Tonight, the BBC Symphony Orchestra embraces the Reykjavík new music scene in all its diversity and flair.

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ECHO Rising Stars: Valerie Fritz

Austrian cellist and ECHO Rising Star Valerie Fritz performs with acclaimed Bosnion accordionist Goran Stevanovich in the atmospheric setting of LSO St Luke’s. 

Robert Schumann Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 arr. for Violoncello and Accordion
Olivier Messiaen Louange à l'éternité de Jésus arr. for Violoncello and Accordion
Jennifer Walshe THE SHEER TASK OF BEING ALIVE (UK premiere of ECHO commission)
Sofia Gubaidulina In croce for Violoncello and Akkordeon
Mijolaj Majkusiak Rhythms of doubt, part III
Valerie Fritz cello
Goran Stevanovich accordion
Conductor Gianandrea Noseda holds a microphone and presents his pre-concert Half Six Fix talk
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London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff's First Symphony, once a failure, now shines with ominous drama and triumphant brass. Under Noseda's baton, the LSO ignites its fiery brilliance.

Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor & presenter
Patricia Kopatchinskaja on stage at the Barbican Hall playing her violin
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London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

Two of Debussy’s restless, impressionistic Nocturnes, Berg’s anguished Violin Concerto; plus Rachmaninoff’s sweeping early symphony, full of youthful energy. 

Claude Debussy Nuages & Fêtes from ‘Three Nocturnes’
Alban Berg Violin Concerto
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
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Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi

The BBC Singers join the strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, organist Iain Farrington and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for an emotive programme of music to touch the very heavens.

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Free Friday Lunchtime Concert: Relaxed Concert

A relaxed concert from the LSO, tailored for people who have sensory and communication impairments, learning disabilities, or who are neurodiverse. 

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Rachel Leach presenter
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Montero plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto

Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and a UK premiere from Julia Adolphe. Big emotions and natural wonders from Kristiina Poska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Julia Adolphe Underneath the Sheen
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kristiina Poska conductor
Gabriela Montero piano
Yuja Wang
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London Symphony Orchestra/Tarmo Peltokoski

Feel the energy of Rautavaara’s joyously rhythmic concerto, and journey to Wagner’s fantastical world of gods, giants and river-maidens.

Einojuhani Rautavaara Piano Concerto No 1
Richard Wagner arr Henk de Vlieger The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure
London Symphony Orchestra
Tarmo Peltokoski conductor
Yuja Wang piano
Ian Bostridge
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Fretwork with Ian Bostridge & Elizabeth Kenny

Tenor Ian Bostridge, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, and viol consort Fretwork delve into the timeless melancholy and beauty of John Dowland’s music, paired with a modern reflection by Adrian Williams.

Works to include lute solos and songs by John Dowland (1563 - 1626), such as Flow my tears, In darkness let me dwell and Lachrimæs, and Adrian Williams' Teares to Dreams (2004) inspired by Dowland's pavans.
Ian Bostridge tenor
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Fretwork viol consort- Emilia Benjamin, Jonathan Rees, Joanna Levine, Sam Stadlen, Richard Boothby
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Ara Malikian

Join the virtuoso violinist on an emotional and energetic journey, full of surprises—from flying pianos to imaginative soundscapes - showcasing the universal language of music.

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London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Laura Bowler

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.

Laura Bowler The White Book (UK premiere)
London Symphony Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan soprano and presenter
Bar Avni conductor and presenter