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Browse concerts from the Barbican Classical Music programme featuring leading orchestras and soloists from around the world.

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An image of Elizabeth Bass surrounded by a green circle against a green background
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Oramo conducts Beethoven's Fourth Symphony

Music that glitters, sings and dances for joy, as Sakari Oramo pairs two newly minted classics with Beethoven’s brightest symphony.

Song of the Sea
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Sea Beneath the Skin / Song of the Earth

Reflecting on the powerful words of Teresia Teaiwa, Theatre of Kiribati merges Pacific rituals with Gustav Mahler’s Song of the Earth in a moving reflection on humanity and collective action.

An image of Lisa Batiashvili surrounded by a red circle against a red background
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Oramo conducts Stravinsky and Lindberg

Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.

Collage of Purbayan Chatterjee and Ramana Balachandhran
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Darbar: Purbayan Chatterjee + Ramana Balachandhran

An extraordinary double bill of Indian classical excellence where seasoned artistry meets youthful virtuosity, creating music that stirs and thrills one's soul.

Conductor Elim Chan holding her baton and looking down.
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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. 

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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London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda & Seong-Jin Cho

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. 

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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. 

Davone Tines in an avant garde suit
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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.

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The Sound of Epic Anime

The Sound of Epic Anime makes its UK premiere in our Hall. 

Stephen Osborne standing in front of a rusted door looking pensively to the left
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Steven Osborne in Recital

The revered Scottish pianist performs Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat major and Beethoven’s monumental Diabelli Variations, considered a seminal work in the piano literature.

Portrait of Jóhann Jóhannsson against a blue and black background
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Classical music Contemporary music

Jóhann Jóhannsson / London Contemporary Orchestra

This special performance of Jóhann Jóhannsson's Cinematic Suites, brings to life the evocative musical landscapes of three acclaimed films: Prisoners, Sicario and Arrival.

Tamara Stefanovich
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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).

two violinist playing the violin diagonally from each other
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Ryoji Ikeda: music for strings

Ensemble Modern is a curious loudspeaker for music of our times: courageous, uncompromising, energetic. An essential, aesthetically polyglot amplifier for trend-setting sound concepts.

 4 percussionists standing around an installation of 12 suspended cymbals
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Ryoji Ikeda: music for percussion 1 & 2

Alongside his monumental installations combining video and electronic sounds, Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has also been working on pure acoustic sounds projects.

Solem Quartet group photo (from left to right) with William Newell holding a violin Stephanie Tress holding a cello, Amy Tress holding a violin and Stephen Upshaw holding a violin
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Ryoji Ikeda: op. 2+3

An exciting premiere of the joint musical composition by acclaimed Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda and the Solem Quartet.