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Kangmin Justin Kim and Mark Stone
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Classical music

Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly

A smash-hit Broadway play turned movie, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly metamorphoses into music theatre as the UK premiere of Huang Ruo’s operatic reworking takes wing.

London SymphonyOrchestra  performing on the Barbican Hall stage.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/ Half Six Fix – Beethoven

Kick-start your evening with a Half Six Fix concert. One piece in a 60-minute concert, introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action. 

Isabelle Faust
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adès

Composers being playful: early Beethoven's wit and jokes pair with a cat-and-mouse chase around the orchestra from Ondřej Adámek. 

Kirill Gerstein
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Classical music

Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto

Expect epic visions and piano playing that’s out of this world when Kirill Gerstein and Sakari Oramo champion Ferruccio Busoni’s stupendous Piano Concerto, as well as music by Grazyna Bacewicz. 

A composite image of the musicians in the Magnum Opus showcase
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Classical music

Britten Sinfonia: Magnum Opus Composer Showcase

Discover three new chamber concertos by composers whose careers are just taking off. 

Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott
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Classical music

Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma reunites with long-time duo partner Kathryn Stott in two masterly sonatas and sublimely unruffled Arvo Pärt.

Conductor Andre J Thomas takes his bow on the Barbican stage with the London Symphony Orchestra and LSO Community Gospel Choir
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Symphonic Gospel

Experience the unrestrained power of American gospel music, with the symphonic sound of the LSO and a chorus of voices from across the London community, curated and conducted by André J Thomas.

A person wearing a black mask
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Die Fledermaus

150 years after its first performance in Vienna, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus arrives at Silk Street Theatre this Autumn.

Violinist Francesca Dego
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Daniele Rustioni

A spotlight on Romanticism with three beautifully contrasting pieces: Liszt in fine form, late Mendelssohn and ‘Great’ Schubert.

Ilya Gringolts
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Classical music

Oramo conducts Strauss and Wagner

Glowing colours and grand passions: Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join violinist Ilya Gringolts in Szymanowski’s gorgeous concerto – plus music by Wagner, Strauss and Dora Pejačević.

Klaus Makela is conducting in front of a black background, his right hand holding the baton and his left hand above his shoulder
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Klaus Mäkelä

Tales of ancient spirits and savage dreams from Sibelius and Stravinsky, alongside the fluid, lyrical melodies of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto.

A statue of a Viennese gentleman
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Viennese Virtuosity

Musical metamorphoses: Mozart, Haydn and their colleagues come together as AAM celebrates a friendship that transformed music for ever.

Rafael Payare striking a pose with his baton held above his head
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Classical music

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal/Rafael Payare

Conducted by Rafael Payare, the Montréal orchestra’s Barbican concert launches a European tour. Preceding symphonic Berlioz, Javier Perianes is the soloist in Beethoven’s playful Piano Concerto No 1. 

A planet in space
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Classical music

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: The Planets

Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company Alpesh Chauhan leads Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in an out-of-this-world programme.

The jazz ensemble seed.
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Classical music Contemporary music

London Symphony Orchestra x seed. featuring Cassie Kinoshi

The LSO is joined by the Mercury Prize-nominated ensemble seed., led by saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, for an evening of new music and collaboration.