The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration.
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Art & design
Noah Davis
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Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
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Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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Art & design
Noah Davis: Relaxed View
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Our Relaxed Viewings are dedicated to visitors who'd benefit from a more informal approach to noise and movement in the space, or who feel more comfortable knowing that they can enter and exit freely.
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Iridescence
The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – 'symphonic' in the ancient Greek meaning 'harmonious'.
Programme to include:
Juste JanulyteIrridescene (UK premiere)
Guildhall School musicians
BBC Singers
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Continents, Computers and Electronic
Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.
Steven DaversonFigures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background UK Premiere, BBC co-commission
Misato MochizukiIntrusions UK premiere
Tristan MurailGondwana
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkovconductor
Carl Faia live electronics
Steven Daversonlive electronics
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Shiva Feshareki and Stockhausen
Vintage Stockhausen plus a new adventure from British-Iranian composer and sonic explorer Shiva Feshareki – the world premiere of her Barbican commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Shiva FesharekiBab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory
Karlheinz StockhausenCosmic Pulses
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jack Sheenconductor
Shiva Fesharekiturntables, live spatial electronics, sound design
Daniel Hulme systems design
Amir Fesharekicostume design
Christopher Williamslighting design
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Classical musicTheatre & dance
Guildhall School: Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove
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Immerse yourself in the charm and wit of Mansfield Park, Jonathan Dove's enchanting opera based on Jane Austen’s novel, performed in the author's 250th anniversary year.
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Classical music
Martha Argerich with the Oxford Philharmonic
Following sensational concerts in Oxford and Germany last season, Martha Argerich returns to perform with the Oxford Philharmonic with concerts in both Oxford and London.
Samuel Coleridge-TaylorBallade
Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No 2
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskySymphony No 4
Martha Argerichpiano
Marios Papadopoulosconductor
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
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Theatre & dance
THE SEAGULL
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Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.
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Art & designTalks & events
Architecture on Stage: Hugh Strange
Explore the work of Hugh Strange, whose buildings are rooted in the precise and economic use of low-carbon materials and a sensitivity to the particularities of their sites.
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Classical music
Louis Lortie: Chopin Études
Across a single evening the Chopin pianist par excellence revisits the complete Chopin Études – a set of ground-breaking, multi-faceted works.
Frédéric ChopinÉtudes, Op 10
Trois Nouvelles Études, B130
Études, Op 25
Louis Lortiepiano
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Classical music
Chan conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony
Conductor Elim Chan and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor: a dream-team joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich, Britten and the UK premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek’s ravishing Moondog.
Elizabeth OgonekMoondog (UK premiere)
Benjamin BrittenPiano Concerto
Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No 10
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chanconductor
Benjamin Grosvenorpiano
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Classical music
Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 2
Sofia Gubaidulina contemplates unfinished J S Bach as the Carduccis survey Shostakovich in triplicate across some two decades.
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 12
Quartet No 6
Sofia GubaidulinaReflections on the Theme B-A-C-H
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 3
Carducci Quartet
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Contemporary music
Kim Deal
Alternative-rock icon Kim Deal brings her new debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More, to life with an ensemble in this one-off show.
