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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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Solem Quartet group photo (from left to right) with William Newell holding a violin Stephanie Tress holding a cello, Amy Tress holding a violin and Stephen Upshaw holding a violin
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Classical music Contemporary music

Ryoji Ikeda: op. 2+3

An exciting premiere of the joint musical composition by acclaimed Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda and the Solem Quartet. 

Ryoji Ikeda Op 2 [for string quartet] (2001-02)
Ryoji Ikeda Op 3 [for string quartet] (2002)
Amy Tress violin
William Newell violin
Stephen Upshaw violin
Stephanie Tress cello
Musicians in a blue lit hall
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Classical music Contemporary music

Jerwood Composer+ Showcase

One-of-a-kind performances curated and developed by early-career composers as part of LSO Jerwood Composer+.

Choir dressed in dark blue singing
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Classical music Contemporary music

Ryoji Ikeda: music for choir

In 2024 Ryoji Ikeda created music for choir for the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, as part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024. 

Valerie Fritz holding a cello in front of a stage light
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Classical music

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 New work (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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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Rachmaninoff

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. 

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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Classical music

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
Image of Sofi Jeannin
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Classical music

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.

A view from the balcony at the back of the Jerwood Hall in LSO St Luke's, showing the audience sat in chairs and two musicians bowing on-stage
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Classical music

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. 

To be announced
Rachel Leach presenter
An image of Kristiina Poska surrounded bya green circle against a green background
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Classical music

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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Classical music

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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Classical music

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
A portrait photo of Barbara Hannigan, wearing a grey jumper and facing the camera
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Classical music

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
Barbara Hannigan conducting the LSO, arms outstretched to either side.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan

New music by Laura Bowler preludes Ligeti’s ethereal, dreamlike soundworld and Richard Strauss’s colossal, awe-inspiring homage to Nietzsche.

Laura Bowler The White Book*
György Ligeti Lontano
Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
London Symphony Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan conductor & soprano
Bar Avni conductor*
Image of Sakari Oramo surrounded by a blue circle against a blue background
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Classical music

Oramo conducts Brahms' Second Symphony

Sakari Oramo pairs flair and exoticism with idyllic cheer in this dual outing of Romantic masterpieces: Saint-Saëns’ fifth piano concerto and Brahms’ Second Symphony.

LSO Discovery Family Concert
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Family Concert

A fun opportunity for families to learn more about music and the instruments of the orchestra, with music based on a theme and free workshops before the concert. 

London Symphony Orchestra