Reflecting on the powerful words of the late Kiribati poetess and activist Teresia Teaiwa, Lemi Ponifasio's Sea Beneath the Skin creates a poignant performance featuring the Theatre of Kiribati.
The Theatre of Kiribati
Britten Sinfonia
Fleur Barronmezzo-soprano
Lemi Ponifasiodirector
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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'
Davóne Tines ANTHEM
Sergei RachmaninoffSymphony No. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni conductor
Davóne Tines bass-baritone
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Classical music
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).
Johann Sebastian BachCapriccio for the departure of a beloved brother
György KurtágEight Piano Pieces, Op 3
'La fille aux cheveux de lin' from Játékok
Claude DebussyPrelude La fille aux cheveux de lin
György KurtágBirthday Elegy for Judit - for the second finger of her left hand
'Apple Blossom' from Játékok
Franz LisztNuages gris
Unstern
György KurtágAdoration, Adoration, Accursed Desolation
Doina
Claude Debussy'Des pas sur la neige' from Preludes Book I
Étude 6 pour les huit doigts
Étude 11 pour les arpèges composés
György KurtágObjet trouvé
12 Microludes
Antiphony in f-sharp
Les adieux
Johann Sebastian BachContrapunctus No 1 from Art of the Fugue
György KurtágLigatura y
Johann Sebastian BachContrapunctus No 14 from Art of the Fugue
Tamara Stefanovichpiano
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Classical music
ECHO Rising Stars: Valerie Fritz
Austrian cellist and ECHO Rising Star Valerie Fritz performs with acclaimed Bosnion accordionist Goran Stevanovich in the atmospheric setting of LSO St Luke’s.
Robert SchumannFive Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 arr. for Violoncello and Accordion
Olivier MessiaenLouange à l'éternité de Jésus arr. for Violoncello and Accordion
Jennifer WalsheNew work (ECHO commission)
Sofia GubaidulinaIn croce for Violoncello and Akkordeon
Mijolaj MajkusiakRhythms of doubt, part III
Valerie Fritzcello
Goran Stevanovichaccordion
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Rachmaninoff
Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.
Serge RachmaninoffSymphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Nosedaconductor & presenter
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Two of Debussy’s restless, impressionistic Nocturnes, Berg’s anguished Violin Concerto; plus Rachmaninoff’s sweeping early symphony, full of youthful energy.
Claude DebussyNuages & Fêtes from ‘Three Nocturnes’
Alban BergViolin Concerto
Serge RachmaninoffSymphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Nosedaconductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
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Classical music
Montero plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and a UK premiere from Julia Adolphe. Big emotions and natural wonders from Kristiina Poska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Julia Adolphe Underneath the Sheen
Sergei RachmaninoffPiano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kristiina Poska conductor
Gabriela Montero piano
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Tarmo Peltokoski
Feel the energy of Rautavaara’s joyously rhythmic concerto, and journey to Wagner’s fantastical world of gods, giants and river-maidens.
Einojuhani RautavaaraPiano Concerto No 1
Richard Wagner arr Henk de VliegerThe Ring: An Orchestral Adventure
London Symphony Orchestra
Tarmo Peltokoski conductor
Yuja Wang piano
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Classical music
Fretwork with Ian Bostridge & Elizabeth Kenny
Tenor Ian Bostridge is joined by Elizabeth Kenny on the lute, and viol consort Fretwork for an exploration of music by John Dowland.
Works to include lute solos and songs by John Dowland (1563 - 1626), such as Flow my tears, In darkness let me dwell and Lachrimæs, and Adrian Williams' Teares to Dreams (2004) inspired by Dowland's pavans.
Ian Bostridgetenor
Elizabeth Kennylute
Fretwork viol consort- Emilia Benjamin, Jonathan Rees, Joanna Levine, Sam Stadlen, Richard Boothby
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Laura Bowler
Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.
Laura BowlerThe White Book (UK premiere)
London Symphony Orchestra
Barbara Hannigansoprano and presenter
Bar Avniconductor and presenter
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan
New music by Laura Bowler preludes Ligeti’s ethereal, dreamlike soundworld and Richard Strauss’s colossal, awe-inspiring homage to Nietzsche.