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LSO Violinist Maxine Kwok introducing the LSO on the Barbican stage, at a Half Six Fix concert.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Walton

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

Violinist Janine Jansen performing on the Barbican Hall stage. She is wearing a laced black top and has long dark hair.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Bringing together Walton’s turbulent first Symphony with passionate statements of love and outrage from two American greats.

Marie Jacquot conducting, with blue circular swirls around her
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Classical music

Paul Huang plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto

Grand passions and big tunes from Mendelssohn, Korngold and Augusta Holmès, as conductor Marie Jacquot makes her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 

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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Italian Legacies

Swinging London meets Italian flair, 18th century style. AAM presents Georgian England in the company of Arne, Boyce, Geminiani and Bach. But not the Bach you’re expecting…

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Evocative portraits of night and the sea in an all-British programme: enigmatic Maconchy, meditative Walton, and awe-inspiring Vaughan Williams.

Audience members talking to each other at a Half Six Fix concert.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Vaughan Williams

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

Domingo Hindoyan conducting, with green circular swirls around him
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Classical music

Hindoyan conducts Barber's Violin Concerto

Big skies and new worlds: Domingo Hindoyan conducts three musical salutes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, including Barber’s glorious Violin Concerto. 

BBC Singers with James MacMillan
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Classical music

James Macmillan: Ordo Virtutum (UK Premiere)

As part of their centenary season, the BBC Singers present the UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s epic new work in four sections, Ordo Virtutum.

Davóne Tines, Khari Lucas and John Bitoy sitting on a yellow sofa
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Classical music Contemporary music

ROBESON with Davóne Tines and The Truth

Davóne Tines and The Truth’s new work ROBESON explores the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson alongside pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas.

Ennio Morricone conducting, with an image of a reel of film in glowing red colours overlaid
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Classical music

Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra: 100 Years of Cinema

In tribute to Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, the Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra takes us on a journey through 100 years of cinema with music from some of the greatest films of all time.

A Spanish flamenco dancer dancing in a red dress. An image of a guitar is Photoshopped on top of her dress.
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Classical music

Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra: Sketches of Spain

The Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra takes us to sunny Spain in a celebration of some of the best classical music from and about their homeland.

Black and white photo of Evgeny Kissin sitting at a piano
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Classical music

Commemorating Shostakovich: Evgeny Kissin and friends

A glittering constellation of performers join Evgeny Kissin for an immersive dive into three works that together span Shostakovich’s creative evolution the last a soul-searing farewell.  

A black and white photograph of a black woman in a floral dress and white hat
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Classical music

Women of the Windrush

Abigail Kelly stars in Shirley J. Thompson’s one-woman, one-act opera which weaves together filmic documentary and song in a heart-warming love letter to the resilience of the Windrush settlers. 

Wavy black lines across spanning the length of the image, suggestive of sound waves. In the centre of the image is the outline of a quaver. Around it are blue circular swirls.
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Classical music Contemporary 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'. 

Wavy white lines across spanning the length of the image, suggestive of sound waves. In the centre of the image is the outline of a quaver. Around it are blue circular swirls.
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Classical music Contemporary 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.