Tchaikovsky faces his demons in the fate-filled Fourth Symphony, before the ravishing pastoral music of English composer Vaughan Williams with soloist Antoine Tamestit.
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikosvkySymphony No 4
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsFlos Campi for Viola & Chorus
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsDona nobis pacem
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappanoconductor
Antoine Tamestitviola
London Symphony Chorus
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Classical music
The Marian Consort: The Language of Flowers
Acclaimed choral ensemble Marian Consort pays tribute to flowers and gardens both actual and allegorical, with music from the late Renaissance to the present day.
Rodrigo de CeballosHortus Conclusus
Amy BryceMadrigals for Plants
Juan Gutiérrez de PadillaMissa Ego flos campi – Kyrie and Gloria
Sebastián de VivancoVeni dilecte mi
Benjamin BrittenFlower Songs
Juan Gutiérrez de PadillaMissa Ego flos campi – Credo
Tomás Luis de VictoriaVidi speciosam
Sebastián de VivancoSicut lilium
Leo ChadburnFlower Dictionary
Francisco GuerreroEgo flos campi
The Marian Consortvocal ensemble
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Vaughan Williams
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.
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsFlos Campi for Viola and Chorus
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsDona nobis pacem
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappanoconductor
Antoine Tamestitviola
London Symphony Chorus
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
Thea Musgrave paints with radiant colours, Walton gives flight to the viola, and Vaughan Williams dreams of London.
Thea MusgravePhoenix Rising
William WaltonViola Concerto
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsA London Symphony (Symphony No 2)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappanoconductor
Antoine Tamestitviola
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Classical music
A Christmas Odyssey
Following the success of their festive 'Live from London' collab in 2024, Adrian Scarborough (History Boys, Gavin and Stacey) joins the BBC Singers on a Christmas journey of carols & literature.
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Classical music
Arcadi Volodos in Recital
The Russian born master pianist Arcadi Volodos returns to the Barbican for a journey to the heart of the Romantic spirit.
Franz SchubertSonata in A major D959
Robert SchumannDavidsbündlertänze Op 6
Franz Liszt arr. VolodosHungarian Rhapsody No 13 in A minor, S. 244/13
Arcadi Volodospiano
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Classical music
Academy of Ancient Music: Handel's Messiah
Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music perform Handel’s Messiah – a Christmas tradition that they’ve made their own.
George Frederic HandelMessiah
Academy of Ancient Music
Nardus Williams soprano
Reginald Mobleyalto
Thomas Walkertenor
Ashley Richesbass
Laurence Cummingsdirector & harpsichord
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
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Relive the golden age of Hollywood and beyond with music by some of cinema’s most brilliant and influential composers.
Miklós RózsaPrelude, The Mother’s Love and Parade of the Charioteers from ‘Ben Hur’; Movements 2 & 3 from Violin Concerto
Bernard HerrmannScène d’amour from ‘Vertigo’
David RaksinLaura; Love is for the Very Young from ‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ Suite
Max SteinerOpening Title Sequence from ‘Gone with the Wind’
William WaltonSelections from ‘Henry V’ Suite
Nino RotaWaltz from ‘The Godfather’
Ennio MorriconeGabriel’s Oboe from ‘The Mission’; Music from ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in America’
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappanoconductor
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Classical music
MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio
Sir James MacMillan conducts a starry performance of his huge, life-affirming Christmas Oratorio – music that speaks to listeners of all faiths and none.
James MacMillan Christmas Oratorio
BBC Symphony Orchestra
James MacMillanconductor
Rhian Loissoprano
Roderick Williamsbaritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
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Classical music
The National Youth Orchestra
Join us as The National Youth Orchestra takes to the stage for a massive orchestral experience, alongside conductor Alexandre Bloch and cellist Inbal Segev.
Claude DebussyIbéria
Karim Al-ZandCity Scenes
Anna ClyneDANCE for cello and orchestra
Maurice RavelRapsodie Espagnole
The National Youth Orchestra
Alexandre Blochconductor
Inbal Segevcello
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle
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A 300-year-old woman confronts mortality, identity and lost love in this concert performance of Janáček’s intense operatic drama.
Clemens Schuldt and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Shakespearean classics, Strauss at his most sumptuous, and a new British concerto for cellist Guy Johnston.
Two showcases of Bartók’s unbridled passion for Hungarian folk music, plus de Falla’s sun-drenched tale of love and deception.
Béla BartókViolin Concerto No 2
Béla BartókFive Hungarian Folksongs for Voice and Orchestra (1933)
Manuel de FallaThe Three Cornered Hat – Ballet
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Rinat Shaham mezzo-soprano
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Classical music
Riot Ensemble: Too Much is Never Enough
Step into a kaleidoscopic world of sound as one of the UK’s leading new-music ensembles, Riot Ensemble, brings an electrifying programme by a new generation of creatives.
Corie Rose SoumahLimpidités IV
Anna MeredithBrisk Widow
Eden LonsdaleTränen und Ozean
Alex PaxtonShrimp BIT Babyface
Riot Ensemble
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Classical music
Julia Wolfe: unEarth
US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp.
