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/Pappano
Sir Antonio Pappano champions one of the unsung masterpieces of 20th-century opera – Luigi Dallapiccola’s shattering Il Prigioniero.
London Symphony Orchestra/Pappano
From Renaissance Venice to the streets of post-war Rome, Sir Antonio Pappano explores the passion, the melody and the sun-kissed colours of an Italy we almost never hear.
Lift Every Voice
André J Thomas, one of the world’s greatest experts in choral music, unites the voices of gospel and community choirs from across London in a celebration of gospel music to nourish the soul.
LSO/Marta Gardolińska & Gareth Davies
Big music in a small venue. Up close in LSO St Luke’s, guest conductor Marta Gardolińska makes the air shake with music by Boulanger, Dalbavie and Tchaikovsky – his volcanic Fourth Symphony.
London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas
LSO Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas brings a lifetime’s insight and experience to Gustav Mahler’s mighty Fifth Symphony: a story of life, death and love beyond words.
London Symphony Orchestra/Dima Slobodeniouk
Sibelius’s Second Symphony crowns a concert that begins with Sofia Gubaidulina’s Offertorium – a true modern classic, performed by the incomparable Baiba Skride.
LSO Family Concert
Join the London Symphony Orchestra for a musical time travel adventure spanning the centuries.
London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle & Magdalena Kožená
Sir Simon Rattle explores the dark secrets and memorable melodies of Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and other satirical musical bulletins.
London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle & Magdalena Kožená
Beat the commute at this Half Six Fix concert, with Sir Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kožená and Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins.
London Symphony Orchestra / Xian Zhang & Peter Moore
Tales of fantasy from Stravinsky and Ravel, a song of exile from Qigang Chen, and a homecoming for Dani Howard’s new trombone concerto – played by one of the LSO’s own brass stars.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda & Simone Lamsma
Gianandrea Noseda conducts Prokofiev’s ‘symphony of the greatness of the human spirit’, and Simone Lamsma is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s hugely popular Violin Concerto.
London Symphony Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth
The future starts here, as Håkan Hardenberger and Patricia Kopatchinskaja join François-Xavier Roth for a concert that pairs Richard Strauss with three 21st-century premieres.
LSO/Rattle & Veronika Eberle
Veronika Eberle performs two violin concertos by Beethoven: the Op 61 – with specially written cadenzas by Jörg Widmann – and a fragment of the C major.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle & Nicole Cabell
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Dvořák, Schumann and George Walker, in a concert filled with feelings that run too deep for words.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle
Fabulous colours and untamed emotions. Sir Simon Rattle celebrates the music he loves – and the sheer wonder of the sound it makes.
London Symphony Orchestra/Christophers
Let there be light! The LSO toasts the Barbican’s 40th birthday with Haydn’s Creation and pre-concert performances on the foyers showcasing a new generation of performers and creators (3 Mar).
LSO Family Concert: How to Build an Orchestra
Join the LSO and animateur Rachel Leach as they guide you through the instruments and the amazing sounds an orchestra can make.
London Symphony Orchestra/ Barbara Hannigan
Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Poulenc’s La voix humaine: two stories of emotion in the raw from Barbara Hannigan, an artist who shoots straight for the heart and never misses.
London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan
Barbara Hannigan conducts, presents and sings Poulenc’s opera La voix humaine: a heart, a soul and a whole human life, in one devastating telephone call.
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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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