US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp.
Works to include Julia Wolfe'sunEarth
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Else Torpsoprano
BBC Singers
Finchley Children's Music Group
Julia Wolfecomposer
Anne Kauffmandirector
Lucy Mackinnonprojection designer
Ben Stantonlighting designer
Kenny Savelsonexecutive producer
Asher Lloyd Ehrenbergassociate director
Produced by Bang on a Can
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Talks & eventsTake part
Writing Ecologies: 25 Jan
Surrounded by the greenery of our Conservatory, join an established author for a workshop that invites you to explore how writing can illuminate our connection to the natural world.
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck
Subtle elegance and introspection infuse Mozart’s late piano concerto, while Brahms brings hope and solace in times of loss.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPiano Concerto No 27
Johannes BrahmsGerman Requiem
London Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck conductor
Imogen Cooper piano
Chen Reiss soprano
Gerald Finley bass
London Symphony Chorus
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Classical music
Britten Sinfonia/Stevens & Pound: Earth and other planets
An exhilarating re-imagining of Holst's The Planets for folk duo and orchestra, interspersed by text written and narrated by acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane.
Maurice Ravel orch. Percy GraingerLa Vallée des cloches
Benjamin BrittenEnglish Folksong Suite: A Time There Was
Percy GraingerLincolnshire Posy
Gustav Holst / Stevens & Pound The Silent Planet (Mars; Venus; Jupiter; Mercury; Earth)
Stevens & Pound folk duo (melodeon/harmonica and percussion)
Robert Macfarlane narrator
Britten Sinfonia
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Classical music
Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya in Recital
The world-renowned duo of violinist Maxim Vengerov and pianist Polina Osetinskaya take to the Barbican stage for an evening that sets the gold standard for contemporary duet performance.
Dmitri ShostakovichViolin Sonata
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Franz SchubertSonatina G minor D 408
Johannes BrahmsSonata No 3 in D minor
Maxim Vengerovviolin
Polina Osetinskayapiano
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Treviño
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja revels in a modernist masterwork, before Rachmaninoff’s tempestuous Symphony No 2, full of Romantic ardour.
Olivier MessiaenHymne
Márton Illés‘Vont-tér’ for Violin and Orchestra
Serge RachmaninoffSymphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Treviño conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskajaviolin
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Classical music
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.
Cecilia Damström ICE
Detlev Glanert Harp Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramoconductor
Elizabeth Bassharp
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Talks & eventsTake part
Writing Ecologies: Reading Performance
Our series of workshops in the Conservatory culminates in a special literary event which will see the creation of new pieces of literature on ecology, written surrounded by nature.
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Classical music
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.
The Theatre of Kiribati
Britten Sinfonia
Lemi Ponifasiodirector
Nuno Coelhoconductor
Fleur Barronmezzo-soprano
Pavel Černochtenor
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Classical music
Oramo conducts Stravinsky and Lindberg
Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.
Magnus Lindberg Violin Concerto No. 1
Igor Stravinsky Perséphone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramoconductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Peter Tantsits tenor
BBC Symphony Chorus
Narratorto be announced
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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 BartókDance Suite
Colin MatthewsOboe Concerto (world premiere)
Serge RachmaninoffSymphonic Dances
London Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chanconductor
Olivier Stankiewiczoboe
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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 StravinskyDivertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’ (rev 1949)
Frédéric ChopinPiano Concerto No 2
Alexander BorodinSymphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Nosedaconductor
Seong-Jin Chopiano
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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 Dennissoprano
Ed Lyontenor
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummingsdirector & harpsichord
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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'
Various ArtistsANTHEM (collaboratively arranged by Michael Schachter, Caroline Shaw, Davóne Tines and Tyshawn Sorey, including text by Mahogany L. Browne)
Sergei RachmaninoffSymphony No. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni conductor
Davóne Tines bass-baritone
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Contemporary music
Adrian Sherwood and more
The revered English record producer performs live with his own band for the first time, bulldozing the boundaries between funk, reggae, dub and industrial noise.
