Concert Pulse
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Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.
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London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Shostakovich in both revolutionary and festive mood alongside a MacMillan Concerto, written for Nicola Benedetti.
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Moving Eastman
Experience a new dance and sonic performance that takes inspiration from the intersectional life of the Black American composer Julius Eastman.
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Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Our current Artist Spotlight, Khatia Buniatishvili, joins forces with her sister Gvantsa for an exhilarating evening of piano duo music from Mozart to Gershwin via Ravel.
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon Pli.
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon Pli.
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - The Second Piano Sonata
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet, performed by the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - The Second Piano Sonata
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two works for solo clarinet, performed by Tamara Stefanovich, the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at the BBC (Film)
Barbican Centre, Cinema 1 (London)
Two classic BBC Television documentaries - a compilation fronted by Tom Service, and Barrie Gavin presenting one of his own many Boulez films.
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at the BBC (Film)
Barbican Centre, Cinema 1 (London)
Two classic BBC Television Boulez documentaries - a compilation fronted by Tom Service, and one of Barrie Gavin's many celebrated films.
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Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 3
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
The multinational young Kyan Quartet joins the Carduccis as Gubaidulina’s compact Quartet No 2 is stitched into a Shostakovich sequence including the penultimate quartet, with its focus on the cello.
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Britten Sinfonia: 1945 – A Kind of Haunting
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
80 years after the end of WWII, we hear musical responses from then and now.
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London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
Tippet's moving pacifist oratorio meets Beethoven’s immense Choral Symphony.
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Australian Chamber Orchestra/Richard Tognetti
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
'Is there a better chamber orchestra in the world?' (The Guardian). Australia's premiere ensemble performs works by JS Bach, Sofia Gubaidalina and Shostakovich.
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London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Miracles and myths abound, from Bartók’s surreal ballet to Sibelius’s Finnish landscape – plus, a captivating new piece by Golfam Khayam.
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London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Bartók
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
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.
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Ibn Battuta: The Traveller of Time
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Journey into the unknown with musical pioneer Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI in a concert inspired by the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta, and narrated by Peaky Blinders actor Assaad Bouab.
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Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra, LSO & Sir Antonio Pappano
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Wynton Marsalis and Sir Antonio Pappano blend jazz, blues and classical music in the crossover collaboration with the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, LSO & Sir Antonio Pappano
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Wynton Marsalis and Sir Antonio Pappano blend jazz, blues and classical music in the crossover collaboration with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
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Transatlantic: Classical Masters
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
AAM rediscovers the glorious music of Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia – in the company of his heroes Mozart and Haydn.
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London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
Albert Roussel and Maurice Ravel paint vivid portraits of the animal kingdom, Benjamin Britten conjures up a savage parade, and Joseph Haydn takes a trip to London for his final symphony.
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Stasevska conducts Ravel
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
For sheer sonic splendour, it’s hard to top Janáček’s Sinfonietta – but when Dalia Stasevska and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet perform Bartók and Ravel with the BBC SO, they’ll give it their best shot.
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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Bychkov: Mahler 5
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
The second concert in the Czech Philharmonic’s residency boasts Mozart's vivacious concerto written for (and tonight performed by) two siblings alongside Mahler's Symphony No 5.
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Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov: Mahler 5
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
The second concert in the Czech Philharmonic’s residency boasts Mozart's vivacious concerto written for (and tonight performed by) two siblings alongside Mahler's Symphony No 5.
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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Bychkov: Shostakovich 5
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
An orchestra blazing burnished colours, rich string tone, and boundless refinement, the Czech Philharmonic launches a two-day residency with a concert of Shostakovich.
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Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov: Shostakovich 5
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
An orchestra blazing burnished colours, rich string tone, and boundless refinement, the Czech Philharmonic launches a two-day residency with a concert of Shostakovich.
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Reformations: Cantata
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
Beguiling baroque expressions of loss and longing tempered with Bohemian lamentation accompany an intriguing world premiere that originates from a chance find in an Irish peat bog.
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Bog Cantata with the Dunedin Consort
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
Beguiling baroque expressions of loss and longing accompany an intriguing world premiere that originates from a medieval book of psalms found by chance in a peat bog in Ireland in 2006.
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Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 2
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court (London)
Sofia Gubaidulina contemplates unfinished J S Bach as the Carduccis survey Shostakovich in triplicate across some two decades.
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Chan conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony
Barbican Centre, Barbican Hall (London)
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.