Commemorating Shostakovich: Evgeny Kissin and friends
A glittering constellation of string players joins Evgeny Kissin for an immersive dive into three sonatas that together span Shostakovich’s creative evolution – the last a soul-searing farewell.
Dmitri ShostakovichCello Sonata
Violin Sonata
Viola Sonata
Evgeny Kissinpiano
Gidon Kremerviolin
Maxim Rysanovviola
Alexander Kniazevcello
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Art & design
Noah Davis
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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Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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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Cinema
Macbeth: David Tennant and Cush Jumbo
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo star in this new adaptation of Shakespeare's tale of ambition, dedication, and unearthly riddles.
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Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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.
Event
Cinema
NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
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Classical music
Women of the Windrush
Nadine Benjamin 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 migrants.
Shirley J ThompsonWomen of the Windrush
Nadine Benjaminsoprano
Caroline Jaya-Ratnampiano
Shirley J Thompsonartistic director
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Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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.
Event
Classical musicTalks & events
Total Immersion: Meet Steven Daverson
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Steven Daverson, creative sound engineers and others about symphonic electronics.
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Classical music
Total Immersion: 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 music
Total Immersion: Continents, Computers and Electronic Dreams
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
Misato MochizukiIntrusions
Tristan MurailGondwana
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkovconductor
Carl Faia live electronics
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Classical musicTalks & events
Total Immersion: Meet Shiva Feshareki
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Shiva Feshareki and sound systems designer Daniel Hulme about Feshareki’s new work Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory.
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Classical music
Total Immersion: 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
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Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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.
Event
Theatre & dance
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Enter the world of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, a spellbinding journey through jealousy, loss, and forgiveness.
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Classical musicTheatre & dance
Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove
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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Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
Free
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.
Event
Contemporary music
Brit Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Brit Floyd returns to the stage with their biggest and most spectacular production to date, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here.
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Art & design
Noah Davis
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.
