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| Sunday 19-May-13 07:30pm |
 Barbican Centre: Hall, LondonTchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 19-May-13 07:30pm Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Tickets £10-£36 | ||
| Wednesday 22-May-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Valery Gergiev 60th Birthday Gala Concert |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 22-May-13 07:30pm Valery Gergiev 60th Birthday Gala Concert Join us for a special gala performance to celebrate the 60th birthday of the LSO's Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev. Tickets £10-£36 | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London BBC Symphony Orchestra / Metzmacher |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra / Metzmacher Tickets £10 - 30. Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911), Des Knaben Wunderhorn (selection of songs) | ||
| Wednesday 29-May-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Academy of Ancient Music / Imeneo - opera in concert |
Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Rebecca Bottone, Soprano: Rosmene Lucy Crowe, Soprano: Clomiri David Daniels, Countertenor: Tirinto Vittorio Prato, Baritone: Imeneo Stephan Loges, Bass-baritone: Argenio Choir of the AAM |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 29-May-13 07:30pm Academy of Ancient Music / Imeneo - opera in concert Tickets £8 - 35. Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Rebecca Bottone, Soprano: Rosmene Lucy Crowe, Soprano: Clomiri David Daniels, Countertenor: Tirinto Vittorio Prato, Baritone: Imeneo Stephan Loges, Bass-baritone: Argenio Choir of the AAM | ||
| Sunday 9-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London MTT and Yo-Yo Ma |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 9-Jun-13 07:30pm MTT and Yo-Yo Ma Tickets £10-£36 | ||
| Tuesday 11-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Britten, Shostakovich & Copland |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 11-Jun-13 06:00pm Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Britten, Shostakovich & Copland | ||
| Tuesday 11-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London MTT and Yo-Yo Ma |
Britten, The Prince of the Pagodas, ballet, Op.57a (arr. Cooke and Mitchell) |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 11-Jun-13 07:30pm MTT and Yo-Yo Ma Tickets £10-£36 Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), The Prince of the Pagodas, ballet, Op.57a (arr. Cooke and Mitchell) | ||
| Wednesday 12-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Britten, Shostakovich & Copland II |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 12-Jun-13 06:00pm Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Britten, Shostakovich & Copland II | ||
| Wednesday 12-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London MTT and Yo-Yo Ma |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 12-Jun-13 07:30pm MTT and Yo-Yo Ma Tickets £10-£36 | ||
| Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Les Arts Florissants / Monteverdi Madrigals |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm Les Arts Florissants / Monteverdi Madrigals Claudio Monteverdi’s madrigals have been described as a ‘theatre of the senses.’ These multi-voiced songs of life and love are intense dramas in miniature; quests for human expression that were as unprecedented as they were influential. In his Fifth book, things changed: the introduction of basso continuo – instruments to provide bass lines and harmonies – liberated Monteverdi’s voices above. This new freedom in the Fifth Book gives wings to Monteverdi’s rapturous visions of beauty and attraction, the sort of intricate, nimble and urgent beauty that Paul Agnew routinely brings from specialist Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants. Tickets £15 - 35. | ||
| Sunday 16-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Songs by Schubert |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 16-Jun-13 06:00pm Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Songs by Schubert | ||
| Sunday 16-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London A Tribute to Sir Colin Davis |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 16-Jun-13 07:30pm A Tribute to Sir Colin Davis Tickets £10-£36 | ||
| Tuesday 18-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London A Tribute to Sir Colin Davis |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 18-Jun-13 07:30pm A Tribute to Sir Colin Davis Tickets £10-£36 | ||
| Wednesday 10-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London The French Connection |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 10-Jul-13 07:30pm The French Connection In this evening of French choral and orchestral music, scenes of pagan sensuality are contrasted with two very different sacred works. Debussy’s Prelude and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe are impressionistic and colourful depictions of mythical landscapes dominated by the seductive melodies of a flute. They are framed by Faure’s serene and elegiac Requiem and Poulenc’s joyful setting of the Gloria.Image credit: London Concert Choir | ||
| Sunday 15-Sep-13 07:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Rigoletto - in concert |
London Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor Dimitri Platanias, Baritone: Rigoletto Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Gabor Bretz, Bass: Sparafucile Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Julian Dran, Tenor: Borsa Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: Giovanna Matthew Hargreaves, Bass-baritone: Count Ceprano Valeria Tornatore, Mezzo-soprano: Countess Ceprano Arutjun Kotchinian, Bass: Monterone London Symphony Chorus |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 15-Sep-13 07:00pm Rigoletto - in concert Tickets £10 - £37. London Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor Dimitri Platanias, Baritone: Rigoletto Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Gabor Bretz, Bass: Sparafucile Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Julian Dran, Tenor: Borsa Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: Giovanna Matthew Hargreaves, Bass-baritone: Count Ceprano Valeria Tornatore, Mezzo-soprano: Countess Ceprano Arutjun Kotchinian, Bass: Monterone London Symphony Chorus | ||
| Thursday 19-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Sir Colin Davis with Mitsuko Uchida |
Kaner, New work |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 19-Sep-13 07:30pm Sir Colin Davis with Mitsuko Uchida Tickets £10 - £37. Kaner, Matthew (b. 1986), New work | ||
| Sunday 22-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring |
Weber, Invitation to the Dance, Op.65 (orch. Berlioz) |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 22-Sep-13 07:30pm Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring To mark the 100th anniversary of the riotous premiere of The Rite of Spring, a whole day of events, culminating in an evening concert that recreates the explosive musical cocktail of that concert. Immerse yourself in the Parisian artistic world of 1913 with two retrospective films, Riot at the Rite and Ballet Russes, an intimate portrait of the surviving dancers in Diaghilev’s ground-breaking company. In the evening, Russian conductor Alexander Vedernikov leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme that places Stravinsky’s ballet in the context of the dance music tradition, including Borodin’s colourful Polovtsian Dances, Weber’s Invitation to the Dance and Stravinsky’s own orchestration of Chopin’s Grande valse brilliante. Tickets £10 - 32. Total Immersion Day Pass £18 - 35. Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826), Invitation to the Dance, Op.65 (orch. Berlioz) | ||
| Wednesday 25-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Strauss and Mahler |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 25-Sep-13 07:30pm Strauss and Mahler Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Saturday 28-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Academy of Ancient Music / Monteverdi L'Orfeo |
Academy of Ancient Music Richard Egarr, Conductor John Mark Ainsley, Baritone: Orpheus Sophie Bevan, Soprano: Euridice Daniela Lehner, Soprano: La Musica/Mezzo-soprano: Hope (Speranza) Nathan Berg, Bass: Caronte Thomas Hobbs, Baritone: Apollo Choir of the AAM |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Saturday 28-Sep-13 07:30pm Academy of Ancient Music / Monteverdi L'Orfeo Semi-staged concert performance. Tickets: £10-35
Four centuries ago Claudio Monteverdi created a piece that would change theatrical history and give birth to opera as we know it. In L’Orfeo, Monteverdi’s spectacular ability to amplify the beauty of poetry with music was joined for the first time with his astounding gift for the theatrical. Now, the Academy of Ancient Music blows away the cobwebs of history and presents Monteverdi’s most significant work with all the freshness, vitality, colour and verve with which it astounded a Mantuan audience in 1607. Expert players, engaging singers and authentic instruments will draw you in to Monteverdi’s world of sensual beauty and exquisite charm. Academy of Ancient Music Richard Egarr, Conductor John Mark Ainsley, Baritone: Orpheus Sophie Bevan, Soprano: Euridice Daniela Lehner, Soprano: La Musica/Mezzo-soprano: Hope (Speranza) Nathan Berg, Bass: Caronte Thomas Hobbs, Baritone: Apollo Choir of the AAM | ||
| Sunday 29-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London LSO Discovery Day on Shostakovich |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 29-Sep-13 07:30pm LSO Discovery Day on Shostakovich Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Thursday 3-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Daniel Harding with Lisa Batiashvili |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 3-Oct-13 07:30pm Daniel Harding with Lisa Batiashvili Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Thursday 10-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Bernard Haitink with Emanuel Ax |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 10-Oct-13 07:30pm Bernard Haitink with Emanuel Ax Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Tuesday 15-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Bernard Haitink with Emanuel Ax - concert 2 |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 15-Oct-13 07:30pm Bernard Haitink with Emanuel Ax - concert 2 Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Tuesday 22-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 22-Oct-13 07:30pm Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle The nervous, self-effacing Johannes Brahms had a habit of making promises he couldn’t keep. Most blatant was the assertion in 1872 that he’d ‘never write a symphony’. Sure enough, and despite the thuds of Beethoven’s footsteps ringing in his ears, Brahms proved himself spectacularly wrong. When the composer’s First Symphony finally arrived, it made the most awesome of entrances – launching with a turbulent face-off between pounding drums, climbing strings and plunging woodwinds. Brahms was shaking the very ground before him, and this was just the start. The Leipzig Gewandhaus follows its landmark Beethoven cycle at the Barbican with the symphonies of Johannes Brahms, starting here. Tickets:
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| Wednesday 23-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 23-Oct-13 07:30pm Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle Overlooking the still, glistening lake at Wörthersee, Johannes Brahms set about creating a symphony that captured all he saw: a clear, light day; the infinite beauty of the sunset; the stillness of night; a peaceful awakening. Brahms captured that glowing, spacious joy in his second piano concerto, too, written after a reviving holiday in Italy which represented the most contented period in his life. Did those sentiments shape the calm, joyous opening gesture from Brahms’s horn, and the ensuing music that radiates warmth, love and longing? The Leipzig Gewandhaus continues its Brahms journey at the Barbican with works of rapture and stillness.
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| Saturday 26-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Music by Poulenc, Roussell and Ravel |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Saturday 26-Oct-13 07:30pm Music by Poulenc, Roussell and Ravel We welcome three very special guests for this all-French programme: the inimitable Marc Minkowski, who has done so much to revitalize the performance of his native repertoire, is joined by two young stars of the piano, David Kaddouch and Guillaume Vincent for Poulenc’s scintillating concerto for two pianos. The BBC Singers premiered the composer’s moving tribute to the human spirit, Figure Humaine, which sets poems by Paul Eluard secretly circulated during the Occupation. Ravel had few rivals as an orchestrator as his Mother Goose ballet suite reveals, with its beguiling pavane for Sleeping Beauty, striking oriental evocations and fantastical fairy garden. Tickets £10 - 32. | ||
| Sunday 27-Oct-13 02:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London LSO Discovery Family Concert - Symphonie fantastique |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 27-Oct-13 02:30pm LSO Discovery Family Concert - Symphonie fantastique Tickets £5 for under 16s, £10 adults. | ||
| Sunday 27-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London LSO String Ensemble |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 27-Oct-13 08:00pm LSO String Ensemble Tickets: £10 £15 £20. | ||
| Tuesday 29-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 29-Oct-13 07:30pm Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle Long before he got into his symphonic stride, Brahms attempted to confront his Beethoven-shaped demons through the medium of the piano concerto – the first of which he conceived as the most monumental, original and hard-hitting orchestral achievement since Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. It took Brahms a long time to get his concerto just right, but when he did, he delivered a piece of staggering emotional breadth and new-found virtuosity that still thrills and surprises a century and a half later – the perfect foil to the impulsive flow, profound darkness and compelling depth of his heart-on-sleeve Third Symphony.
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| Wednesday 30-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 30-Oct-13 07:30pm Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is the most spiritual of his orchestral scores – the supreme achievement of his quest to wed discipline and emotion. This piece ends the orchestra's cycle of the composers symphonies and is joined by the only one of Brahms’s concertos that shares that autumnal poise, those golden-browns of resignation and the symphonic breadth that communicates everything Brahms held dear. Leonidas Kavakos joins the orchestra for this poignant conclusion to its four-concert portrait of the most exquisite craftsman ever to write for orchestra.
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| Thursday 31-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Berlioz with Valery Gergiev |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 31-Oct-13 07:30pm Berlioz with Valery Gergiev Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Friday 1-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Programme 2: Berlioz |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Friday 1-Nov-13 07:30pm Programme 2: Berlioz Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Saturday 2-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Mahler's Symphony no. 1 |
Murail, New work, BBC co-commission, world première |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Saturday 2-Nov-13 07:30pm Mahler's Symphony no. 1 For Sakari Oramo’s first Barbican concert as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he presents a characteristic mixture of cutting-edge and much-loved music. Following a world premiere by the leading spectral composer Tristan Murail, part of this season’s focus on new French music, iconic pianist Olli Mustonen and star Russian trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov, described as ‘the Caruso of the trumpet’, join forces for Shostakovich’s sparkling Piano Concerto No 1. From the shining idyll that opens Mahler’s first symphony, we are transported into a world rich in folk song, dance, marches and unsettling juxtapositions in this thrilling orchestral masterpiece.Tickets £10 - 32. Murail, Tristan (b. 1947), New work, BBC co-commission, world première | ||
| Sunday 3-Nov-13 07:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust in concert |
London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev, Conductor Olga Borodina, Mezzo-soprano: Marguerite Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Méphistophélès London Symphony Chorus |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 3-Nov-13 07:00pm Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust in concert Tickets £10 - £37. London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev, Conductor Olga Borodina, Mezzo-soprano: Marguerite Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Méphistophélès London Symphony Chorus | ||
| Wednesday 6-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 6-Nov-13 07:30pm Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Thursday 7-Nov-13 07:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust in concert |
London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev, Conductor Olga Borodina, Mezzo-soprano: Marguerite Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Méphistophélès London Symphony Chorus |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 7-Nov-13 07:00pm Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust in concert Tickets £10 - £37. London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev, Conductor Olga Borodina, Mezzo-soprano: Marguerite Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Méphistophélès London Symphony Chorus | ||
| Friday 8-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Barbican Britten: Bostridge sings Our Hunting Fathers |
Purcell, Chacony in G minor, Z807 (arr. Britten) |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Friday 8-Nov-13 07:30pm Barbican Britten: Bostridge sings Our Hunting Fathers Benjamin Britten arrived in north America in 1939 – talented, idealistic and hungry for success. One of his first creations was the fanfare Young Apollo, inspired by Keats’s ‘new dazzling sun-god, quivering with radiant vitality’, a work of consistent and almost overwhelming brilliance. Young rising star pianist and 2010 BBC Young Musician of the Year Lara Melda performs the solo sections this evening. At the other end of his life Britten became preoccupied with the recollection of times lost. His Suite on English Folk Tunes is a touching act of homage to both the country he felt so rooted to and the tradition of folksong to which he owed so much. Guardian of Britten’s very distinct vocal tradition Ian Bostridge sings the composer’s savage view of man’s inhumanity to man, the visceral song cycle Our Hunting Fathers.
Tickets: £10-35 Purcell, Henry (1659-1695), Chacony in G minor, Z807 (arr. Britten) | ||
| Tuesday 12-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Programme 2: Berlioz |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Tuesday 12-Nov-13 07:30pm Programme 2: Berlioz Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Wednesday 13-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 13-Nov-13 07:30pm Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Thursday 14-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Berlioz with Valery Gergiev |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 14-Nov-13 07:30pm Berlioz with Valery Gergiev Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Monday 18-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Artist Spotlight: Maxim Vengerov / Polish Chamber Orchestra |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Monday 18-Nov-13 07:30pm Artist Spotlight: Maxim Vengerov / Polish Chamber Orchestra Mozart’s miraculous violin concertos – the last four written in remarkably quick succession and under the lightning flash of creative inspiration – were unprecedented in their combining of outer lightness with inner complexity. In the Third, Mozart increased the interplay between the freely-flying violin and the curiously questioning orchestra. In the Fifth, he tapped into the earthy drones and insistent rhythms of vernacular Turkish music to create one of the most hard-hitting finales of the century. Maxim Vengerov performs both concertos here, alongside sweet and moving violin-and-orchestra works by Tchaikovsky accompanied by the fast-rising Polish Chamber Orchestra.
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£15-65 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893), Sérénade mélancolique in B minor, for violin and orchestra, Op.26 | ||
| Wednesday 20-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Schubert and Mahler |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 20-Nov-13 07:30pm Schubert and Mahler Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Thursday 28-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Schubert and Wagner |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 28-Nov-13 07:30pm Schubert and Wagner Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Sunday 1-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Patrick Doyle's 60th Birthday Concert |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 1-Dec-13 07:30pm Patrick Doyle's 60th Birthday Concert 6.15pm Pre-concert talk with Patrick Doyle.Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Wednesday 4-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Music by Ravel, Busoni, Schreker and Schoenberg |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 4-Dec-13 07:30pm Music by Ravel, Busoni, Schreker and Schoenberg French soprano Nora Gubisch can trace her ancestry right back to Ravel’s close friend Ricardo Viñes, and her lustrous voice and idiomatic style make her the ideal soloist for his ravishing orchestral songs, Shéhérazade. We are treated to Schreker’s irridescent overture for large orchestra and two poignant elegies by Busoni and Ravel before being plunged into the seething creative whirl of Schoenberg’s masterpiece, the Chamber Symphony No 1. Tickets £10 - 32. | ||
| Thursday 5-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Sir Colin Davis conducts Beethoven and Dvorak |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 5-Dec-13 07:30pm Sir Colin Davis conducts Beethoven and Dvorak Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Friday 6-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Janine Jansen and Friends |
Bach J.S., Violin Concerto in D minor Janine Jansen, Violin/Director Boris Brovtsyn, Violin Cindy Albracht, Violin Fredrik Paulsson, Violin Tijmen Huisingh, Violin Julia-Maria Kretz, Violin Monika Urbonaite, Violin Pauline Sachse, Viola Nimrod Guez, Viola Maarten Jansen, Cello Rick Stotijn, Double Bass Ramón Ortega Quero, Oboe Jan Jansen, Harpsichord |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Friday 6-Dec-13 07:30pm Janine Jansen and Friends When the fire and passion of Vivaldi’s virtuosic violin concertos reached the ears of the ordered and disciplined Lutheran Johann Sebastian Bach, something special happened. Freed from his organ bench in the early 1720s, Bach composed a series of concertos for the violin that combined energetic propulsion and free-spirited individuality with the intricacy and cohesion he had made his own. Janine Jansen, the Dutch musician known for her expressive and infectiously energetic violin-playing, performs the concertos here with musicians from the Utrecht festival she herself founded.
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£15-45 Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), Violin Concerto in D minor Janine Jansen, Violin/Director Boris Brovtsyn, Violin Cindy Albracht, Violin Fredrik Paulsson, Violin Tijmen Huisingh, Violin Julia-Maria Kretz, Violin Monika Urbonaite, Violin Pauline Sachse, Viola Nimrod Guez, Viola Maarten Jansen, Cello Rick Stotijn, Double Bass Ramón Ortega Quero, Oboe Jan Jansen, Harpsichord | ||
| Wednesday 11-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Murray Perahia / Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields |
Programme to include: Stravinsky, Concerto in E flat major for chamber orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks" (directed by ASMF leader) |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Wednesday 11-Dec-13 07:30pm Murray Perahia / Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields In Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, the rules changed. Suddenly symphony and concerto were merged. Suddenly the pianist was the hero, able to sway, confront and ultimately win over the orchestral masses pitted against him. Beethoven’s heroic course was almost run, and in this imposing, insistent and deeply spiritual piece, he had changed the Piano Concerto for ever. Playing it here is a true elder statesman of the piano, a recording legend and a pianist whose mastery of stylistic and emotional control are unsurpassed. Murray Perahia plays, and directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in a concert of musical landmarks.
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£15-45 Programme to include: Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971), Concerto in E flat major for chamber orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks" (directed by ASMF leader) | ||
| Thursday 12-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Michael Tilson Thomas with Simon Trpceski, piano |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Thursday 12-Dec-13 07:30pm Michael Tilson Thomas with Simon Trpceski, piano Tickets £10 - £37. | ||
| Sunday 15-Dec-13 02:00pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Berlioz L'enfance du Christ |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Sunday 15-Dec-13 02:00pm Berlioz L'enfance du Christ A seasonal concert featuring Berlioz’s luminous re-telling of the Christmas story. The composer delved back into his tender boyhood memories for this unusual oratorio. While it contains the terror of Herod’s dream and the Holy Family’s flight, it’s also suffused with a gentleness not found in many of his works. On hearing the first completed performance of ‘The Holy Family at rest’, Berlioz wrote to his sister: ‘It is really good, it is innocent and touching (do not laugh), in the style of the illuminations of old missals.’ Tickets £10 - 32. | ||
