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/François-Xavier Roth
François-Xavier Roth conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, plus a modern classic with master-violinist Christian Tetzlaff
London Symphony Orchestra/LSO Panufnik Composers Workshop
In these free public workshops, witness a pivotal point in the process of writing a new three-minute orchestral piece, as the LSO play works by the latest cohort of Panufnik composers.
London Symphony Orchestra/LSO Futures
François -Xavier Roth makes musical history, with world premieres fresh from the imaginations of some of the boldest and brightest living composers.
London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
Yuja Wang gives the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s flamboyant new Piano Concerto: outsized inspiration, for a pianist who knows no limits.
London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas
As part of his Artist Portrait series, violinist Christian Tetzlaff joins Michael Tilson Thomas to explore the sunlit world of Brahms’ Violin Concerto.
London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas
LSO Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas joins Korean piano superstar Sunwook Kim in Brahms’ explosive First Piano Concerto.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle
Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO dive headlong into the dream-world of Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, and welcome the BBC Singers for a special performance of an intricate work by Poulenc.
London Symphony Orchestra/Jonathan Stockhammer
Sunrises, seascapes and blue Californian skies: it’s all about colour as the LSO presents 20th-century favourites by Ravel, Debussy and John Adams.
London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Harmonielehre
Half Six Fix is a 60-minute burst of music to kick-start your evening. Grab a drink and take your seat, as Jonathan Stockhammer introduces you to the vast expanses of John Adams’ Harmonielehre.
London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix - Prokofiev 3
Half Six Fix is a 60-minute burst of music to kick-start your evening. Grab a drink and take your seat, as Gianandrea Noseda introduces Prokofiev's explosive Third Symphony.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Shostakovich boldly addressed human suffering in his Symphony No 13; Beethoven saluted the human spirit in his Emperor Concerto. Gianandrea Noseda conducts them both tonight.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Fantasy and fury: Gianandrea Noseda conducts Prokofiev at his most climactic, and Beethoven at his most serene, with violinist Lisa Batiashvili as soloist.
London Symphony Orchestra: Things to Come
Alexander Korda’s cinematic vision of the future, with Arthur Bliss’s classic score played live by the orchestra who originally recorded it – the London Symphony Orchestra.
London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan
Berg, Bach, Haydn and Claude Vivier – Barbara Hannigan brings four maverick masterworks into a very personal kind of conversation.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Payare
Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Gubaidulina: dark fairytales and magical stories, with conductor Rafael Payare and violinist Vilde Frang.
London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
Schubert asks big questions, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann has some very modern answers, as François-Xavier Roth conducts music of quiet faith and dazzling wit.
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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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