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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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Valerie Fritz holding a cello in front of a stage light
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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. 

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

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. 

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. 

Image of Sofi Jeannin
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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.

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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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. 

An image of Kristiina Poska surrounded bya green circle against a green background
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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.

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.

Ian Bostridge
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Fretwork with Ian Bostridge & Elizabeth Kenny

Tenor Ian Bostridge is joined by Elizabeth Kenny on the lute, and viol consort Fretwork for an exploration of music by John Dowland.

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

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

Image of Sakari Oramo surrounded by a blue circle against a blue background
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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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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. 

Painting fragment of a woman's hand
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Academy of Ancient Music: Gambarini: English Impresaria

Elegance, exuberance, and one remarkable woman: Academy of Ancient Music travels to Georgian London and the lost world of musical innovator Elisabetta da Gambarini.

Recycling concerto
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Britten Sinfonia: Recycling Concerto

Nature and conservation are at the heart of this uplifting programme of orchestral works. 

Dalia Stasevska
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Yeol Eum Son plays Bartók's Third Piano Concerto

A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican.