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Bharathi Prathap singing, sitting cross-legged and wearing colourful clothes
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Classical music Contemporary music Talks & events

Symphonic Electronics: Meet Steven Daverson

BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composers Steven Daverson, Shiva Feshareki and creative sound engineers about symphonic electronics.

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Classical music Contemporary music

Symphonic Electronics: Iridescence

The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – 'symphonic' in the ancient Greek meaning 'harmonious'. 

Programme to include:
Juste Janulyte Irridescene (UK premiere)
Guildhall School musicians
BBC Singers
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Classical music Contemporary music

Symphonic Electronics: Continents, Computers and Electronic

Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki. 

Steven Daverson Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background UK Premiere, BBC co-commission
Misato Mochizuki Intrusions UK premiere
Tristan Murail Gondwana
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Carl Faia live electronics
Steven Daverson live electronics
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Classical music Contemporary music Talks & events

Symphonic Electronics: Stargazing: the future

Tom Service talks to Mike Roberts, Head of Electronic Music and Music Technology at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Guildhall students about the bigger picture. 

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Classical music Contemporary music

Symphonic Electronics: Shiva Feshareki and Stockhausen

Vintage Stockhausen plus a new adventure from British-Iranian composer and sonic explorer Shiva Feshareki – the world premiere of her Barbican commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 

Shiva Feshareki Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory
Karlheinz Stockhausen Cosmic Pulses
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jack Sheen conductor
Shiva Feshareki turntables, live spatial electronics, sound design
Daniel Hulme systems design
Amir Feshareki costume design
Christopher Williams lighting design
Mansfield Park artwork - a young woman looking up surrounded by smokey haze
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove

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Immerse yourself in the charm and wit of Mansfield Park, Jonathan Dove's enchanting opera based on Jane Austen’s novel, performed in the author's 250th anniversary year.

Martha Argerich playing the piano
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Classical music

Martha Argerich with the Oxford Philharmonic

Following sensational concerts in Oxford and Germany last season, Martha Argerich returns to perform with the Oxford Philharmonic with concerts in both Oxford and London.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Ballade
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4
Martha Argerich piano
Marios Papadopoulos conductor
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Louis Lortie
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Classical music

Louis Lortie: Chopin Études

Across a single evening the Chopin pianist par excellence revisits the complete Chopin Études – a set of ground-breaking, multi-faceted works.

Frédéric Chopin Études, Op 10
Trois Nouvelles Études, B130
Études, Op 25
Louis Lortie piano
Elim Chan holding her baton, with pink circular swirls around her
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Classical music

Chan conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony

Conductor Elim Chan and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor: a dream-team joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich, Britten and the UK premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek’s ravishing Moondog. 

Elizabeth Ogonek Moondog (UK premiere)
Benjamin Britten Piano Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No 10
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Photo of Carducci Quartet in formal dress smiling at the camera
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Classical music

Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 2

Sofia Gubaidulina contemplates unfinished J S Bach as the Carduccis survey Shostakovich in triplicate across some two decades.

Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 12
Quartet No 6
Sofia Gubaidulina Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H
Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 3
Carducci Quartet
Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas conducting Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
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Classical music

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: An Alpine Symphony

Join Guildhall Symphony Orchestra for an awe-inspiring evening of music in Barbican Hall, conducted by alumnus Roberto González-Monjas.

John Butt directing the Dunedin Consort
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Classical music

Bog Cantata with the Dunedin Consort

Beguiling baroque expressions of loss and longing  accompany an intriguing world premiere that originates from a medieval book of psalms found by chance in a peat bog in Ireland in 2006.

Jan Dismas Zelenka Lamentation V
Georg Philipp Telemann Du aber, Daniel
Johann Sebastian Bach Actus Tragicus
David Fennessy Bog Cantata
Dunedin Consort
John Butt conductor
Nardus Williams* soprano
Jess Dandy alto
Ed Lyon tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
Sheku Kanneh-Mason sitting with his cello in a mountainous landscape, with a lake in the distance behind him
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Classical music

Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov: Shostakovich 5

An orchestra blazing burnished colours, rich string tone, and boundless refinement, the Czech Philharmonic launches a two-day residency with a concert of Shostakovich.

Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1
Symphony No 5
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Katia and Marielle Labèque posing with two grand pianos
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Classical music

Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov: Mahler 5

The second concert in the Czech Philharmonic’s residency boasts Mozart's vivacious concerto written for (and tonight performed by) two siblings alongside Mahler's Symphony No 5. 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos
Gustav Mahler Symphony No 5
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Katia and Marielle Labèque piano
The London Symphony Orchestra on the Barbican Hall stage in front of a full audience of families
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Family Concert – Lost Things

A fun opportunity for families to learn more about music and the instruments of the orchestra, with music based on a theme and free workshops before the concert.