What’s on

Sun 23 Mar 2025, 19:00

Tippet's moving pacifist oratorio meets Beethoven’s immense Choral Symphony.

Mon 24 Mar 2025, 19:30

The classic, multi-Oscar-winning film screened in synchronisation with Howard Shore's score for the first time, as part of the London Soundtrack Festival.

Tue 25 Mar 2025, 19:30

80 years after the end of WWII, we hear musical responses from then and now. 

Tue 25 Mar 2025, 19:30

The Berliner Barock Solisten and pianist Alexandros Kapelis come together for Bach’s six concertos for solo keyboard and orchestra: a tour-de-force not seen on the concert stage in recent memory.

Thu 27 Mar 2025, 19:30

The multinational young Kyan Quartet joins the Carduccis as Gubaidulina’s compact Quartet No 2 is stitched into a Shostakovich sequence including the penultimate quartet, with its focus on the cello.

Sun 30 Mar 2025, 11:00

Two classic BBC Television documentaries - a compilation fronted by Tom Service, and Barrie Gavin presenting one of his own many Boulez films. 

Sun 30 Mar 2025, 13:30

Musicologist Professor Jonathan Cross talks to former members of the BBC SO as well as former Radio 3 Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon – about their personal experience of working with Pierre Boulez. 

Sun 30 Mar 2025, 15:00

Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet, performed by the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.

Sun 30 Mar 2025, 17:00

Musicologist Professor Jonathan Cross talks to Dame Gillian Moore – a lifelong advocate for Boulez’s music – about his creative and cultural legacy. 

Sun 30 Mar 2025, 19:00

An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon Pli. 

Wed 2 Apr 2025, 19:30

Our current Artist Spotlight, Khatia Buniatishvili, joins forces with her sister Gvantsa for an exhilarating evening of piano duo music from Mozart to Gershwin via Ravel.

Thu 3 Apr 2025, 19:00

Shostakovich in both revolutionary and festive mood alongside a MacMillan Concerto, written for Nicola Benedetti.

Thu 3 –Fri 4 Apr 2025

Experience a new dance and sonic performance that takes inspiration from the intersectional life of the Black American composer Julius Eastman.

Fri 4 Apr 2025, 19:30

Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg. 

Sun 6 Apr 2025, 9:45

Discover the universal aspects of Guru Nanak’s experiential philosophy of oneness, which underpins Nanak’s entire teaching about the nature of consciousness and reality.