London Symphony Orchestra
Resident Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is built on the belief that extraordinary music should be available to everyone, everywhere. It was established in 1904 and today is among the world’s top orchestras
As Resident Orchestra at the Barbican since the Centre opened, it performs some 50 concerts here every year, under the batons of a family of conductors that includes Chief Conductor Designate Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor Emeritus Sir Simon Rattle, Principal Guest Conductors Gianandrea Noseda and François-Xavier Roth, Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas and Associate Artists Barbara Hannigan and André J Thomas.
Events
London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan
Miracles and myths abound, from Bartók’s surreal ballet to Sibelius’s Finnish landscape – plus, a captivating new piece by Golfam Khayam.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
Tippet's moving pacifist oratorio meets Beethoven’s immense Choral Symphony.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Shostakovich in both revolutionary and festive mood alongside a MacMillan Concerto, written for Nicola Benedetti.
London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Prokofiev 2
Kick-start your evening with a Half Six Fix concert. One piece in a 60-minute concert, introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Prokofiev’s mind-blowing second Symphony, plus early Beethoven and a charming opener from Schubert.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestral fireworks with early Shostakovich and Schnittke, joined by the London Symphony Chorus for some stirring Brahms.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle
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Janáček’s hilarious satire about art, lunar travel, nationalism – and sausages.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel
Four stories of faraway lands, opulence, and scandal.
London Symphony Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki
Showpieces for the orchestra meet a dazzling concerto, brimming with characteristic Stravinsky flair and melody.
London Symphony Orchestra/ Half Six Fix – Berlioz
Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
Dreams and fantasies from enigmatic Szymanowski to Berlioz’s most rock’n’roll work, the Symphonie fantastique.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
Two portraits from a magician of orchestral colour, Richard Strauss – plus a young Mozart dances on the violin
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
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Sir Antonio Pappano conducts a concert performance of Strauss’ scandalous opera Salome, with the brilliant soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role.
London Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adès
Threads of the past are woven into a radiant future in four ingenious compositions, presented by Thomas Adès, Anne-Sophie Mutter and the LSO.
London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas
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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Mahler’s magnificent vision of a world teeming with joyful life.
LSO Soundhub Showcase
Enjoy sounds from the cutting-edge of contemporary, as LSO musicians perform brand-new music by LSO Soundhub composers.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
A playful concerto offers a boost to your mood, and a symphony reaches for hope in the midst of war.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
The sun comes out in Lili Boulanger’s lively tone poem, and lyrical feelings bloom in music by Samuel Barber and Sergei Rachmaninov.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
The gauzy soundscape of Ravel’s pastoral ballet meets a sparkling new concerto by Wynton Marsalis, in this concert with conductor Sir Antonio Pappano and trumpet soloist Alison Balsom.
London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
Vivid, moreish music by Unsuk Chin and Donghoon Shin, plus beguiling works by emerging talents, conducted by François-Xavier Roth.
London Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding
A solitary trumpet sounds: and so we enter Jörg Widmann’s heavenly maze and Mahler’s profoundly expressive Fifth Symphony.
London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
A concert brimming with flare: Beethoven's Symphony No 2 and Symphony No 8, and Unsuk Chin's Piano Concerto.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle
A new work by John Adams is flanked by Gershwin’s most seductive tunes.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle
Shocking, dissonant, savagely ironic: Shostakovich’s Fourth was a statement of rebellion against Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship.
London Symphony Orchestra/Nathalie Stutzmann
In this mighty symphony, the culmination of his life’s work, Bruckner strove for total perfection.
London Symphony Orchestra/Nathalie Stutzmann
Quicksilver inspiration and spectacular melodies flow in music written at the height of success.
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Profile: London Symphony Orchestra
Listen to our selection of LSO recordings from across the years in our Spotify playlist.
Barbican Sessions: Peter Moore
London Symphony Orchestra’s young trombonist, Peter Moore, performs 'Doolallynastics – a brief torture for solo trombone’ by Brian Lynn in our latest Barbican Session, filmed in one of our Frobisher Auditoriums.
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