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Classical music

BBC SO Total Immersion: Italian Radicals

Miniatures by Berio, Maderna, Nono and Dallapiccola, introduced and performed live by virtuoso instrumentalists and singers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Luciano Berio O King
Bruno Maderna Honeyrêves
Luigi Nono sofferte onde serene
Luigi Dallapiccola Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio
Bruno Maderna Serenata per in satellite
Viola
Guildhall School musicians
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Classical music

BBC SO Total Immersion: Italian Radicals Talk

An introduction to the music in tonight’s concert with Professor Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford) and Associate Professor Harriet Boyd-Bennett (University of Nottingham).

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Classical music

BBC SO Total Immersion: Sinfonia... and more

Martyn Brabbins, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers launch an evening-long odyssey through the music of Dallapiccola, Maderna, Nono and Berio.

Luigi Dallapiccola Three Questions With Two Answers
Luigi Nono Canti de vita e amore
Bruno Maderna Oboe Concerto No 3
Luciano Berio Sequenza IXc for bass clarinet
Sinfonia
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Nicholas Daniels oboe
Thomas Lessels bass clarinet
Anna Dennis soprano
John Findon tenor
BBC Singers
Herman Czech
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Hermann Czech

The hugely influential Austrian architect looks back on a career that is now in its seventh decade.

April Koyejo-Audiger looking at the camera, with circular purple and red swirls around her head
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Brabbins: Old Pictures, New Worlds

Martyn Brabbins takes the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on an adventure that spans oceans – from a majestic choral masterwork from 19th century Brazil to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

José Maurício Nunes Garcia Missa de Santa Cecília
Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
April Koyejo-Audiger soprano
Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo-soprano
Joshua Stewart tenor
Ross Ramgobin baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
Actress Isabelle Huppert poses as Mary Stuart in an old-fashioned gown against a purple background.
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Theatre & dance

Théâtre de la Ville–Paris: Mary Said What She Said

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Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert and director Robert Wilson reunite on this breathtaking show charting the life and torments of Mary Stuart, the sovereign whose passions cost her a crown.

Images of the composers in the concert arranged in six rows on the right side of the frame, with a black and white paintbrush stroke design on the left side.
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Classical music

Britten Sinfonia and the Marian Consort

The radical spirit of 16th-century composer Carlo Gesualdo is the point of departure for this programme of ancient and modern music.

Gilles Binchois Two Chansons (arr for strings by Lisa Illean)
John Dunstable Regina Caeli
Thomas Adès Darknesse visible
Lisa Illean arcing, stilling, bending, gathering (UK premiere, Britten Sinfonia co-commission)
Vicente Lusitano Heu me Domine
Allor che ignuda
Carlo Gesualdo Moro lasso
Hei mihi Domine
Sparge la morte
Brett Dean Carlo
Britten Sinfonia
The Marian Consort
Sona Jobarteh holding a kora
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Contemporary music

Sona Jobarteh

Multi-instrumentalist and esteemed kora player, Sona Jobarteh performs her expansive and ambitious sophomore album Badinyaa Kumoo as part of her tour.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducting
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Mahler’s magnificent vision of a world teeming with joyful life.

Gustav Mahler Symphony No 3
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Sopranos & Altos of the London Symphony Chorus
Tiffin Boys’ Choir
The Sixteen Choir, standing in a room
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Classical music

The Sixteen: Monteverdi Vespers

World renowned ensemble The Sixteen brings one of the cornerstones of the classical repertoire, Monteverdi’s monumental Vespers of 1610, back to London after a sell-out UK tour in 2019.

Claudio Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
The Sixteen choir & orchestra
Harry Christophers conductor
Members of the Ballet Black company pose in a line, smiling. They are standing against a grey background.
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Ballet Black: Heroes

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Now in their 22nd year, Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black return to our stage with a double bill featuring new and innovative work.

Jean Toussaint playing the saxophone
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Contemporary music

Guildhall Big Band presents Wayne Shorter's 60s

Guildhall Big Band and tenor saxophone legend Jean Toussaint celebrate Wayne Shorter's 60s, including a newly arranged suite for Big Band from Shorter's 1966 album All Seeing Eye.

Guildhall Big Band
Matt Skelton director
Jean Toussaint tenor saxophone
Rev Richard Coles standing in a walled garden, smiling at the camera
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Classical music

BBC Singers with Rev Richard Coles: Murder at the Monastery

Ahead of the June publication of his new novel, Rev Richard Coles reads extracts of his new book, joining the BBC Singers who perform iconic choral classics to set the scene.

Sofi Jeannin conductor
Rev Richard Coles* narrator
BBC Singers
Lise de la Salle looking at the camera, with purple and pink circular lines framing her face
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Rakitina: Rachmaninov's Rhapsody

Three composers, three dramatic meditations on Fate and the Day of Judgement.  Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony maps a journey from darkness to light, reflecting the crisis of his collapsed marriage.

Sofia Gubaidulina The Wrath of God
Sergei Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Anna Rakitina* conductor
Lise de la Salle piano
Feliciano Centurión, Eye with ñandutí, from the series La Mirada (Gazing), c. 1994.
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Art & design Cinema Tours & public spaces

Unravel: BSL Tour with John Wilson

A British Sign Language tour of Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, exclusively for D/deaf and hard of hearing visitors, highlighting key artworks.