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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Writing Ecologies: 11 Jan
Deepen your connection with nature through this writing workshop in the midst of our Conservatory, guided by an established author.
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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.
Julia WolfeunEarth
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Else Torpsoprano
BBC Singers
Finchley Children's Music Group
Julia Wolfecomposer
Anne Kauffmandirector
Lucy Mackinnonprojection designer
Ben Stantonlighting designer
Kenny Savelsonexecutive producer
Asher Lloyd Ehrenbergassociate director
Produced by Bang on a Can
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Writing Ecologies: 25 Jan
Surrounded by the greenery of our Conservatory, join an established author for a workshop that invites you to explore how writing can illuminate our connection to the natural world.
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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 MozartPiano Concerto No 27
Johannes BrahmsGerman Requiem
London Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck conductor
Imogen Cooper piano
Chen Reiss soprano
Gerald Finley bass
London Symphony Chorus
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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 GraingerLa Vallée des cloches
Benjamin BrittenEnglish Folksong Suite: A Time There Was
Percy GraingerLincolnshire 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
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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 ShostakovichViolin Sonata
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Franz SchubertSonatina G minor D 408
Johannes BrahmsSonata No 3 in D minor
Maxim Vengerovviolin
Polina Osetinskayapiano
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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 MessiaenHymne
Márton Illés‘Vont-tér’ for Violin and Orchestra
Serge RachmaninoffSymphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Treviño conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskajaviolin
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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 Oramoconductor
Elizabeth Bassharp
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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.
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Sea Beneath the Skin / Song of the Earth
Reflecting on the powerful words of the late Kiribati poetess and activist Teresia Teaiwa, Lemi Ponifasio's Sea Beneath the Skin creates a poignant performance featuring the Theatre of Kiribati.
