What’s on

Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert, featuring an iconic symphony by Shostakovich. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.

Korngold tugs at the heart in his Hollywood-flavoured concerto, while Shostakovich’s Fifth unleashes big tunes and white-hot intensity. 

Leipzig’s got talent: in 1723 Bach competed for one of Germany’s top musical jobs. Today, Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music reveal exactly what he was up against.

Chamber music by composers who adored the traditional music of central and eastern Europe re-imagined for orchestra and folk band.

Legendary pianists Maria João Pires and Marc-André Hamelin join forces for the first time to perform seminal works for piano duo.

Elgar’s oratorio includes some of his most deeply felt music, sumptuously scored and plumbing every emotion from anguish to elation. 

Elgar’s oratorio includes some of his most deeply felt music, sumptuously scored and plumbing every emotion from anguish to elation. 

Join us for an evening of cutting-edge contemporary music with four world premieres from the LSO Soundhub 2025/26 Members.

Cellist Abel Selaocoe is joined by a brilliant line-up of South African friends, including Nduduzo Makhathini and Mbuso Khosa (African Heritage Ensemble), for an evening of shared stories and songs.

Hollywood dreams meet all-American nightmares. Fabien Gabel conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music from Vertigo and The Sea Hawk and dives into the myths and memories of a new American century.

A new dance work by Mthuthuzeli November channels the deep spirituality of South Africa with music by Abel Selaocoe, Nduduzo Makhathini and Mbuso Khoza. 

Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero performs an assortment of piano pieces from and inspired by Spain. 

Âme Creative Studios make their Barbican debut with Lawrence Power in a concert that breaks down the walls of the concert hall and takes you on a musical journey across the City of London at night.

Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.

The BBC Singers join the Academy of Ancient Music under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for one of the ‘greatest musical work of art of all times and nations’: Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor. 

Tchaikovsky juggles beauty and suffering, Britten reflects powerfully on grief and conflict, and Bernstein grapples with the modern world. 

Georgian pianist and ECHO Rising Star Giorgi Gigashvili performs much-loved piano pieces alongside a new work by Georgian composer Natalie Beridze.

Richard Strauss breathes dizzying life into 18th-century Vienna, Wagner recreates medieval Rome and Beethoven marries tenderness and high spirits. 

Academy of Ancient Music joins The Wave Quartet in an ingenious, audacious musical voyage across five centuries.