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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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Sir Antonio Pappano talking to the audience in the Barbican concert hall
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Enigma Variations

Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert, showcasing two works by Vaughan Williams. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.

Edward Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor and presenter
Sir Antonio Pappano conducting in the Barbican concert hall
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO journey from darkness to light in Mahler's rapturous Fifth Symphony, alongside Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Edward Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma
Gustav Mahler Symphony No 5
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
A view of the Jerwood Hall in LSO St Luke's from the balcony, looking down on rows of audience members sitting on chairs, facing a cellist and pianist 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
A pairing of men in boots and stockings
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Handel's Serse

Laurence Cummings directs Academy of Ancient Music and a world-class cast in a concert performance of Serse – Handel’s sensational opera of love and power in ancient Persia. 

George Frederic Handel Serse
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Paula Murrihy Serse
Louise Alder Romilda
Rachel Redmond Atalanta
Rebecca Leggett Arsamene
Claudia Huckle Amastre
Luca Tittoto Ariodate
Thomas Chenhall Elviro
Top angle shot of the orchestra mid performance
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Classical music

Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Daniel Harding

Daniel Harding conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in works by Haydn, Hummel and Beethoven, with virtuoso trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger as soloist.

Image of Tyshawn Sorey pointing at the camera
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Classical music

Davóne Tines x Tyshawn Sorey's Monochromatic Light

Pulitzer winner Tyshawn Sorey honours Morton Feldman and the Rothko Chapel with a meditative new work exploring sound, memory, and spiritual resonance, featuring Artist in Residence Davóne Tines.

Elisabeth Leonskaja
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Classical music

Elisabeth Leonskaja In Recital

World renowned Russian-Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja brings her dazzling technical prowess and exceptional musicality to the Barbican Hall for the first time in over a decade.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No 18 in D major K 576
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat major D 960
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
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. 

To be announced
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the LSO on the Barbican stage, with LSO cellos and violas in the background.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

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Wagner plunges the depths and rises to ecstatic heights in one of the greatest and most intense of operatic love stories.

Richard Wagner Tristan and Isolde
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Clay Hilley Tristan
Sara Jakubiak Isolde
Marina Prudenskaya Brangaene
Franz-Josef Selig King Marke
Gyula Orendt Kurwenal
Neal Cooper Melot
Michael Gibson Sailor/Shepherd
London Symphony Chorus