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Classical Music 2025/26

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Discover an extraordinary season of classical music featuring a stellar line-up of homegrown and international talent alongside the London Symphony Orchestra, and our Associates.

This season we explore our deep connection with the natural world including Julia Wolfe's unEarth, Lemi Ponifasio's Sea Beneath the Skin, and Anna Meredith’s Anno, a bold reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. We also pay tribute to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in his 90th birthday year with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, The Carice Singers, and the 12 Ensemble.

Recitalists include cellist Seth Parker Woods, violinists Maxim Vengerov and Anne-Sophie Mutter, and pianists Arcadi Volodos, Tamara Stefanovich, Evgeny Kissin, and Elisabeth Leonskaja. We also welcome some of the world's leading orchestras and ensembles, such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Arcangelo, Sinfonia of London, and Le Poème Harmonique. We also feature bass-baritone Davóne Tines and pianist Gabriela Montero as artists-in-residence.

Booking opens as follows at 10am:

Wed 9 Apr Premier, Principal and Director's Circle Patrons
Fri 11 Apr Barbican Patrons
Mon 14 Apr Members Plus
Tue 15 Apr Members
Wed 16 Apr General booking

Video credit:  Our Resident Orchestra the London Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano

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