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Bharathi Prathap singing, sitting cross-legged and wearing colourful clothes
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Conductor Elim Chan holding her baton and looking down.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Elim Chan & Olivier Stankiewicz

A world premiere concerto from one of Britain’s finest composers, folk-inspired celebration of dance by Bartók plus Rachmaninoff’s late and great orchestral showstopper. 

Béla Bartók Dance Suite
Colin Matthews Oboe Concerto (world premiere)
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
London Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan conductor
Olivier Stankiewicz oboe
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho in front of a white wall, with eyes closed lifting his hands as if playing the piano
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda & Seong-Jin Cho

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Bask in the Romantic flavours of Borodin’s folk-inspired Second Symphony, Stravinsky’s sublime neo-Classical homage to Tchaikovsky, and dazzling, deeply felt Chopin. 

Igor Stravinsky Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’ (rev 1949)
Frédéric Chopin Piano Concerto No 2
Alexander Borodin Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Seong-Jin Cho piano
A painting of a person looking up while someone holds a mirror behind them
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Songs of Love & War

Academy of Ancient Music performs Monteverdi’s genre-defying Madrigals of Love and War. Unrequited passion has never sounded sweeter. 

Claudio Monteverdi
Sinfonia, a doi violini e una viola da brazzo
Altri canti d'amor
Hor che'l ciel e la terra (prima parte)
Così sol d'una chiara fonte viva (seconda parte)
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Amor, amor from Lamento della Ninfa
Ballo: Move al mio bel suon
Anna Dennis soprano
Ed Lyon tenor
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
An image of Davóne Tines surrounded by a blue circle against a blue background
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Classical music

Rustioni conducts Bernstein and Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff, Bernstein and Davóne Tines – a fresh perspective on America’s past, present and future from Daniele Rustioni and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'
Davóne Tines ANTHEM
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni conductor
Davóne Tines bass-baritone
Tamara Stefanovich
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Classical music

Tamara Stefanovich in Recital: Labyrinth

Tamara Stefanovich presets Labyrinth - a curated sequence including works by JS Bach (Art of Fugue), Claude Debussy (Preludes), Franz Liszt and Gyorgy Kurtag (Jatekok).

Johann Sebastian Bach Capriccio for the departure of a beloved brother
György Kurtág Eight Piano Pieces, Op 3
'La fille aux cheveux de lin' from Játékok
Claude Debussy Prelude La fille aux cheveux de lin
György Kurtág Birthday Elegy for Judit - for the second finger of her left hand
'Apple Blossom' from Játékok
Franz Liszt Nuages gris
Unstern
György Kurtág Adoration, Adoration, Accursed Desolation
Doina
Claude Debussy 'Des pas sur la neige' from Preludes Book I
Étude 6 pour les huit doigts
Étude 11 pour les arpèges composés
György Kurtág Objet trouvé
12 Microludes
Antiphony in f-sharp
Les adieux
Johann Sebastian Bach Contrapunctus No 1 from Art of the Fugue
György Kurtág Ligatura y
Johann Sebastian Bach Contrapunctus No 14 from Art of the Fugue
Tamara Stefanovich piano
Musicians in a blue lit hall
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Classical music Contemporary music

Jerwood Composer+ Showcase

One-of-a-kind performances curated and developed by early-career composers as part of LSO Jerwood Composer+.

Valerie Fritz holding a cello in front of a stage light
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Classical music

ECHO Rising Stars: Valerie Fritz

Austrian cellist and ECHO Rising Star Valerie Fritz performs with acclaimed Bosnion accordionist Goran Stevanovich in the atmospheric setting of LSO St Luke’s. 

Robert Schumann Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 arr. for Violoncello and Accordion
Olivier Messiaen Louange à l'éternité de Jésus arr. for Violoncello and Accordion
Jennifer Walshe New work (ECHO commission)
Sofia Gubaidulina In croce for Violoncello and Akkordeon
Mijolaj Majkusiak Rhythms of doubt, part III
Valerie Fritz cello
Goran Stevanovich accordion
Conductor Gianandrea Noseda holds a microphone and presents his pre-concert Half Six Fix talk
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Rachmaninoff

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

Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor & presenter
Patricia Kopatchinskaja on stage at the Barbican Hall playing her violin
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

Two of Debussy’s restless, impressionistic Nocturnes, Berg’s anguished Violin Concerto; plus Rachmaninoff’s sweeping early symphony, full of youthful energy. 

Claude Debussy Nuages & Fêtes from ‘Three Nocturnes’
Alban Berg Violin Concerto
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Image of Sofi Jeannin
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Classical music

Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi

The BBC Singers join the strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, organist Iain Farrington and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for an emotive programme of music to touch the very heavens.

A view from the balcony at the back of the Jerwood Hall in LSO St Luke's, showing the audience sat in chairs and two musicians bowing 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
An image of Kristiina Poska surrounded bya green circle against a green background
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Classical music

Montero plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto

Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and a UK premiere from Julia Adolphe. Big emotions and natural wonders from Kristiina Poska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Julia Adolphe Underneath the Sheen
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kristiina Poska conductor
Gabriela Montero piano
Yuja Wang
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Tarmo Peltokoski

Feel the energy of Rautavaara’s joyously rhythmic concerto, and journey to Wagner’s fantastical world of gods, giants and river-maidens.

Einojuhani Rautavaara Piano Concerto No 1
Richard Wagner arr Henk de Vlieger The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure
London Symphony Orchestra
Tarmo Peltokoski conductor
Yuja Wang piano
Ian Bostridge
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Classical music

Fretwork with Ian Bostridge & Elizabeth Kenny

Tenor Ian Bostridge is joined by Elizabeth Kenny on the lute, and viol consort Fretwork for an exploration of music by John Dowland.

Works to include lute solos and songs by John Dowland (1563 - 1626), such as Flow my tears, In darkness let me dwell and Lachrimæs, and Adrian Williams' Teares to Dreams (2004) inspired by Dowland's pavans.
Ian Bostridge tenor
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Fretwork viol consort- Emilia Benjamin, Jonathan Rees, Joanna Levine, Sam Stadlen, Richard Boothby
A portrait photo of Barbara Hannigan, wearing a grey jumper and facing the camera
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Laura Bowler

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

Laura Bowler The White Book (UK premiere)
London Symphony Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan soprano and presenter
Bar Avni conductor and presenter