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Imogen Cooper
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck

Subtle elegance and introspection infuse Mozart’s late piano concerto, while Brahms brings hope and solace in times of loss. 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No 27
Johannes Brahms German Requiem
London Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck conductor
Imogen Cooper piano
Chen Reiss soprano
Gerald Finley bass
London Symphony Chorus
Stevens and Pound
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Classical music

Britten Sinfonia/Stevens & Pound: Earth and other planets

An exhilarating re-imagining of Holst's The Planets for folk duo and orchestra, interspersed by text written and narrated by acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane.  

Maurice Ravel orch. Percy Grainger La Vallée des cloches
Benjamin Britten English Folksong Suite: A Time There Was
Percy Grainger Lincolnshire Posy
Gustav Holst / Stevens & Pound The Silent Planet (Mars; Venus; Jupiter; Mercury; Earth)
Stevens & Pound folk duo (melodeon/harmonica and percussion)
Robert Macfarlane narrator
Britten Sinfonia
Maxim Vengerov
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Classical music

Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya in Recital

The world-renowned duo of violinist Maxim Vengerov and pianist Polina Osetinskaya take to the Barbican stage for an evening that sets the gold standard for contemporary duet performance.

Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Sonata
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Franz Schubert Sonatina G minor D 408
Johannes Brahms Sonata No 3 in D minor
Maxim Vengerov violin
Polina Osetinskaya piano
Patricia Kopatchinskaja on stage at the Barbican Hall with her hand on her chest smiling
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Treviño

Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja revels in a modernist masterwork, before Rachmaninoff’s tempestuous Symphony No 2, full of Romantic ardour. 

Olivier Messiaen Hymne
Márton Illés ‘Vont-tér’ for Violin and Orchestra
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Treviño conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
An image of Elizabeth Bass surrounded by a green circle against a green background
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Classical music

Oramo conducts Beethoven's Fourth Symphony

Music that glitters, sings and dances for joy, as Sakari Oramo pairs two newly minted classics with Beethoven’s brightest symphony.

Cecilia Damström ICE
Detlev Glanert Harp Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Elizabeth Bass harp
A portrait of all three members fo The Unthanks
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Contemporary music

The Unthanks: 20th Anniversary Special

Marking 20 years together and 10 years since their BBC Folk Album of the Year Mount The Air, they return with a concert filled with the folk harmonies and inventive sounds that defined their journey.

Image of the Barbican conservatory
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Writing Ecologies: Reading Performance

Our series of workshops in the Conservatory culminates in a special literary event which will see the creation of new pieces of literature on ecology, written surrounded by nature.  

Song of the Sea
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Classical music

Sea Beneath the Skin / Song of the Earth

Reflecting on the powerful words of Teresia Teaiwa, Theatre of Kiribati merges Pacific rituals with Gustav Mahler’s Song of the Earth in a moving reflection on humanity and collective action.

The Theatre of Kiribati
Britten Sinfonia
Lemi Ponifasio director
Nuno Coelho conductor
Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano
Pavel Černoch tenor
An image of Lisa Batiashvili surrounded by a red circle against a red background
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Classical music

Oramo conducts Stravinsky and Lindberg

Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.

Magnus Lindberg Violin Concerto No. 1
Igor Stravinsky Perséphone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Peter Tantsits tenor
BBC Symphony Chorus
Narrator to be announced
Conductor Elim Chan holding her baton and looking down.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Elim Chan & Olivier Stankiewicz

A world premiere concerto from one of Britain’s finest composers, folk-inspired celebration of dance by Bartók plus Rachmaninoff’s late and great orchestral showstopper. 

Béla Bartók Dance Suite
Colin Matthews Oboe Concerto (world premiere)
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
London Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan conductor
Olivier Stankiewicz oboe
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho in front of a white wall, with eyes closed lifting his hands as if playing the piano
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda & Seong-Jin Cho

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Bask in the Romantic flavours of Borodin’s folk-inspired Second Symphony, Stravinsky’s sublime neo-Classical homage to Tchaikovsky, and dazzling, deeply felt Chopin. 

Igor Stravinsky Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’ (rev 1949)
Frédéric Chopin Piano Concerto No 2
Alexander Borodin Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Seong-Jin Cho piano
A painting of a person looking up while someone holds a mirror behind them
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Songs of Love & War

Academy of Ancient Music performs Monteverdi’s genre-defying Madrigals of Love and War. Unrequited passion has never sounded sweeter. 

Claudio Monteverdi
Sinfonia, a doi violini e una viola da brazzo
Altri canti d'amor
Hor che'l ciel e la terra (prima parte)
Così sol d'una chiara fonte viva (seconda parte)
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Amor, amor from Lamento della Ninfa
Ballo: Move al mio bel suon
Anna Dennis soprano
Ed Lyon tenor
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Davone Tines in an avant garde suit
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Classical music

Rustioni conducts Bernstein and Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff, Bernstein and Davóne Tines – a fresh perspective on America’s past, present and future from Daniele Rustioni and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'
Various Artists ANTHEM (collaboratively arranged by Michael Schachter, Caroline Shaw, Davóne Tines and Tyshawn Sorey, including text by Mahogany L. Browne)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni conductor
Davóne Tines bass-baritone
Stephen Osborne standing in front of a rusted door looking pensively to the left
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Classical music

Steven Osborne in Recital

The revered Scottish pianist performs Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat major and Beethoven’s monumental Diabelli Variations, considered a seminal work in the piano literature.

Adrian Sherwood
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Contemporary music

Adrian Sherwood and more

The revered English record producer performs live with his own band for the first time, bulldozing the boundaries between funk, reggae, dub and industrial noise.