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Darbar
Bharathi Prathap singing, sitting cross-legged and wearing colourful clothes
Darbar
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Sir Simon Rattle facing the audience in the Barbican concert hall
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Mahler

Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert, showcasing Mahler's Fourth Symphony, introduced by the performers and with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.

Gustav Mahler Symphony No 4
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor and presenter
Lucy Crowe soprano
Soprano Lucy Crowe pictured in a field, with the sun setting in the background
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

Serenity, beauty and the sense of an ending infuse music by Richard Strauss and Mahler, preluded by Gerhard’s immersive soundscapes. 

Roberto Gerhard Symphony No 3, Collages
Richard Strauss Four Last Songs
Gustav Mahler Symphony No 4
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Lucy Crowe soprano
Sir Simon Rattle conducting from the podium in the Barbican concert hall
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

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Sir Simon Rattle conducts four powerful moments from the final chapter of Wagner's epic Ring cycle, alongside his Siegfried Idyll.

Richard Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Richard Wagner Excerpts from Götterdämmerung
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Anja Kampe Brünnhilde
Elizabeth DeShong Waltraute
Ensemble La Poeme Harmonique on stage
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Classical music

Le Poème Harmonique: Allegri's Miserere

Become immersed in the sounds of a different world with French ensemble Le Poème Harmonique, exploring the mystical, ceremonial energy at the heart of music from the Counter Reformation.

Claudio Monteverdi Pascha Concelebranda
Francesco Cavalli Sinfonia
Luigi Rossi Un allato messagier
Claudio Monteverdi Si dolce è'l martire
Anonymous Domine ne in furore
Antonio Maria Abbatini Sinfonia
Marco Marazzoli Passacaglia Chi fà?
Un sonno ohimè
Anonymous Telluris alma Conditor
Gregorio Allegri Miserere mei Deus
Le Poeme Harmonique
Vincent Demestre director
dirk brosse
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: LSO on Film – Blockbusters

Spectacular cinematic scores from some of the biggest and most celebrated movies of all time – all originally recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. 

To be announced
London Symphony Orchestra
Dirk Brossé conductor
Trio Concept
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Classical music

ECHO Rising Stars: Trio Concept

An opportunity to hear the award-winning Trio Concept performing a selection of piano pieces from Paris and beyond from across the last century.

Lili Boulanger D'un soir triste
D'un matin de printemps
Alfredo Casella Sicilienne et Burlesque
Clemens Thomas New work (ECHO commission)
Maurice Ravel Trio in A minor
Trio Concept
Sir Antonio Pappano talking to the audience in the Barbican concert hall
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Enigma Variations

Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert, showcasing two works by Vaughan Williams. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.

Edward Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor and presenter
Sir Antonio Pappano conducting in the Barbican concert hall
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO journey from darkness to light in Mahler's rapturous Fifth Symphony, alongside Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Edward Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma
Gustav Mahler Symphony No 5
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
A view of the Jerwood Hall in LSO St Luke's from the balcony, looking down on rows of audience members sitting on chairs, facing a cellist and pianist on stage
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Classical music

Free Friday Lunchtime Concert: Relaxed Concert

A relaxed concert from the LSO, tailored for people who have sensory and communication impairments, learning disabilities, or who are neurodiverse. 

To be announced
Rachel Leach presenter
A pairing of men in boots and stockings
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Handel's Serse

Laurence Cummings directs Academy of Ancient Music and a world-class cast in a concert performance of Serse – Handel’s sensational opera of love and power in ancient Persia. 

George Frederic Handel Serse
Academy of Ancient Music
Paula Murrihy Serse
Louise Alder Romilda
Rachel Redmond Atalanta
Rebecca Leggett Arsamene
Claudia Huckle Amastre
Luca Tittoto Ariodate
Thomas Chenhall Elviro
Elisabeth Leonskaja
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Classical music

Elisabeth Leonskaja In Recital

World renowned Russian-Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja brings her dazzling technical prowess and exceptional musicality to the Barbican Hall for the first time in over a decade.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No 18 in D major K 576
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat major D 960
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
LSO Discovery Family Concert
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Family Concert

A fun opportunity for families to learn more about music and the instruments of the orchestra, with music based on a theme and free workshops before the concert. 

To be announced
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the LSO on the Barbican stage, with LSO cellos and violas in the background.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

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Wagner plunges the depths and rises to ecstatic heights in one of the greatest and most intense of operatic love stories.

Richard Wagner Tristan and Isolde
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Clay Hilley Tristan
Sara Jakubiak Isolde
London Symphony Chorus