London Symphony Orchestra

Stravinsky meets Tchaikovsky, Anderszewski plays Bartók, and a baby elephant dances a polka: Sir John Eliot Gardiner is the ringmaster in an exuberantly colourful concert.

Principal Guest Conductor François-Xavier Roth conducts the LSO in works by Bartók, Ligeti & Haydn.

Triple threat: when mezzo Joyce DiDonato, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and maestro Sir Antonio Pappano are in the same concert, what more is there to say?

Want to know more about classical music but not sure where to start? Make the most of your lunchbreak and enjoy a free, 45-minute informal concert at LSO St Luke’s.

Two great musical traditions, and two distinct ways of hearing the universe. Sir Simon Rattle journeys from Schubert to Ravel, by way of Dutilleux, Debussy and Gustav Mahler.

Hear new music by the two early-career composers on Phase I of LSO Discovery’s Soundhub scheme, developed in collaboration with LSO musicians, with varied works from Soundhub Associates.

Arcana came to its composer in a dream. Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is more like a nightmare. Tonight’s Half Six Fix is about imaginations running off the leash.

A new orchestral performance of Soweto Kinch’s The Black Peril with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’ symphony is one of the most original and devastating masterpieces of 20th-century music. Gianandrea Noseda conducts it tonight

LSO musicians retell a popular children’s story through music. Dance and sing your way through the concert as the instruments bring the tale to life.

The phenomenal Krystian Zimerman performs Beethoven’s darkest piano concerto, and Sir Simon Rattle conducts music by Paul Hindemith at his most irreverent, and his most inspiring.

Sir Simon Rattle launches the LSO’s new season with a celebration of British music – including Britten, Tippett and Thomas Adès, plus a world premiere from Mark-Anthony Turnage.

Ravel dances on the edge of the volcano, Stravinsky plays a hand of poker, and violinist extraordinaire Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins François-Xavier Roth for something new.

Ravel does jazz, Varèse fuses Mayan rituals with 1930s electronica, and Hector Berlioz goes completely off the rails, in this very French extravaganza from François-Xavier Roth.

Tchaikovsky’s last symphony, Debussy’s iridescent visions, and a brand new violin concerto, performed by the one and only Nicola Benedetti.

In the week that he turns 50, Thomas Adès conducts his dazzling piano concerto In Seven Days alongside Sibelius' Sixth Symphony.

Dancing on the edge of a volcano: Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Shostakovich stared the 20th century in the eye. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and conductor Susanna Mälkki show us what they saw.

Want to know more about classical music but not sure where to start? Make the most of your lunchbreak and enjoy a free, 45-minute informal concert at LSO St Luke’s.

Not so private passions. Sir Simon Rattle conducts personal favourites from three centuries, by Strauss, Brahms and Haydn.

Rhythm, glamour and the sad, sweet songs of exile. Sir Simon Rattle introduces Rachmaninov’s neglected Third Symphony.