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Art & design

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

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Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition.

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

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Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

Colin Stetson
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Contemporary music

Colin Stetson: Hereditary + London Contemporary Orchestra

Canadian-American Saxophonist Colin Stetson is joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra to perform live selections from his soundtrack to the A24 horror film masterpiece, Hereditary.

Anthony McGill smiling at the camera while holding his clarinet
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Classical music

Anthony McGill: Gran Partita

Clarinettist Anthony McGill collaborates with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and stars of the next generation from Guildhall School, as he closes his Milton Court residency.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet (with Kaleidoscope Collective)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gran Partita (with Guildhall musicians)
Kaleidoscope Collective
Anthony McGill clarinet
Guildhall School musicians
Kate Atkinson looking at the camera, with circular purple and red swirls around her
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Classical music

Kate Atkinson and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The author of Life After Life, Case Histories and Behind the Scenes at the Museum, joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to read from her own work, and share the music that has moved and inspired her.

Leevi Madetoja A Comedy Overture
Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari Overture to Il Segreto di Susanna
George Gershwin (arr Simon Nathan) Someone to Watch Over Me
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 'Song Form: Largo' from Sinfonietta No 1
Charles Williams Devil's Galop
Anna Clyne Fractured Time
Joseph Haydn 'Chaos' from The Creation
Thomas Adès Overture to 'Hotel Suite' from Powder Her Face
George Gershwin Promenade – Walking the Dog
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kate Atkinson author & speaker
Jamie Parker singer
Photo of music artist Adrianne Lenker
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Contemporary music

Adrianne Lenker With Friends

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American indie-folk singer, songwriter and musician Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) performs solo material from her forthcoming album and catalog.

Leonidas Kavakos looking at the camera while holding his violin
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Classical music

Masterclass with Leonidas Kavakos

'A great violinist at the top of his game' (Gramophone), Leonidas Kavakos shares his expertise with burgeoning young musicians from Guildhall School.

Leonidas Kavakos violin
Guildhall School musicians
Two hands reach towards each other towards a swirling black circle with the word 'cycles' in the middle
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Theatre & dance

Boy Blue: Cycles

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The Olivier award-winning dance theatre company returns with a world premiere that celebrates change and the beauty of perpetual motion.

Gold Medal winner Alexandra Achillea Pouta receiving prize from Roberta Alexander
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Classical music

The Gold Medal 2024

The final of Guildhall School's most prestigious music prize returns with a concert at Barbican Hall, offering the chance to enjoy three concertos by outstanding Guildhall instrumentalists.

Lucinda Chua & Gayla Bisengalieva stand in landscape and black and white
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Contemporary music

Lucinda Chua & Galya Bisengalieva with LCO

Singer & musician Lucinda Chua performs music from her debut album YIAN and new EP Reclaiming The Rose with Kazakh composer & violinist Galya Bisengalieva performing her latest album Polygon.

Leonidas Kavakos looking to his right and smiling
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Classical music

Kavakos Plays Bach: Part 1

In the first of two concerts, Leonidas Kavakos performs three works from J S Bach’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas, each one an intimate, intricate masterpiece.

Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Partita No 3 in E major
Sonata No 2 in A minor
Sonata No 3 in C major
Leonidas Kavakos violin
Leonidas Kavakos with his hands clasped sitting on a bench, his violin standing upright next to him
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Classical music

Kavakos Plays Bach: Part 2

Leonidas Kavakos gives the second of his two recitals devoted to the Six Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas by J S Bach, including the extraordinary Chaconne.

Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata No 1 in G minor
Partita No 1 in B minor
Partita No 2 in D minor
Leonidas Kavakos violin
Cairokee standing facing each other, with spotlights on their faces
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Contemporary music

Cairokee

The trailblazing Egyptian rock band debut new music and perform their classic anthems as part of their sold out European tour. 

An image of the Roman colosseum, with yellow and red colours overlaid and circular swirls framing the image
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Cinema Classical music

BBC SO Total Immersion: Voyage to Cythera (15)

Directed by Frank Scheffer, Voyage to Cythera explores Italian composer Luciano Berio's tribute to Gustav Mahler.

An image of the Roman colosseum, with pink and purple colours overlaid and circular swirls framing the image
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Classical music

BBC SO Total Immersion: Italian Radicals Talk

Professor Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford) and Associate Professor Harriet Boyd-Bennett (University of Nottingham) introduce Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono and Luigi Dallapiccola.