Digital Programmes

The legendary Evgeny Kissin returns to the Barbican for a typically ambitious programme in which sonatas by Beethoven and Prokofiev rub shoulders with the lyrical beauty of Chopin and the passion of early Brahms.

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Star cellist Guy Johnston joins Britten Sinfonia in a programme of powerful music by Tavener, Beethoven and Bartók.

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Wrapped up in the string quartet repertoire is, among other things, a great complexity of feeling: the four players representative of so many of a composer’s innermost thoughts and challenges.

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Maxim Emelyanychev leads Il Pomo d’Oro and a stellar cast in two Baroque tragedies – Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Carissimi’s Jephte – that share tales of love and sacrifice, searingly brought to life with their masterly music.

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Many of Freya Waley-Cohen's recent works play with myths, magic and the occult as lenses through which to look at the contemporary world. Tonight we hear two of these works, including the premiere performance of her complete Spell Book.

Find out more about the production and the creative team behind it in our digital programme. 

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet makes a stylish return to the Barbican in music from his native France; in his hands, Debussy’s Préludes transcend the keyboard, conjuring a world of beauty, musical originality and irresistible characterisation.

Abel Selaocoe presents a mesmerising fusion of musical worlds, bringing together timeless minimalism and the intricate harmonies of the Baroque era with the unique timbres of African strings.

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Popular plucked-string instruments such as the guitar and lute are arguably better placed than other classical instruments to move across and behind nationalist, stylistic and historical lines. This is a notion with which Sean Shibe himself would surely agree – as witness today’s beautifully curated programme.

If any composer deserves a label of ‘visionary’, it’s surely Gavin Bryars. 

In Women’s Words, beloved French duo soprano Natalie Dessay and pianist Philippe Cassard give women the spotlight, whether as composers or as heroines of their own stories.

For the second concert in his residency Anthony McGill is joined by pianist Michael McHale for a programme celebrating the richness of his native America, with works by Bernstein, Copland, Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery and James Lee III.

Trailblazing clarinettist Anthony McGill embarks on his residency at Milton Court with an evening of conversation and performance; at its heart is the European premiere of Anthony Davis’s powerful You Have the Right to Remain Silent.