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Venue: Barbican Centre, London

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AddressSilk Street
London
EC2Y 8BQ
United Kingdom
ContainsArt Gallery
Cinema 1
Cinema 3
Conservatory
Fountain Room
Frobisher Rooms
The Curve
The Pit
Barbican Foyer
Barbican Hall
Barbican Theatre
Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Milton Court Concert Hall
Google maps51° 31' 12.372" N 0° 5' 38.089" W
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LondonHalf Six Fix: Shostakovich

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Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.47
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Antonio Pappano

LondonSir Antonio Pappano & Vilde Frang

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Holst I., Korngold, Shostakovich
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Antonio Pappano; Vilde Frang

LondonThe Chosen One

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Graupner, Telemann, Bach
Academy of Ancient Music; Laurence Cummings; Rowan Pierce; Helen Charlston; Nick Pritchard; Ben Kazez

LondonSir Antonio Pappano: The Dream of Gerontius

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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Oratorio for soloists chorus and orchestra, Op.38
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Antonio Pappano; Emily D'Angelo; David Butt Philip; London Symphony Chorus

LondonMaking America: Blanchard, Herrmann & Latimer

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Herrmann, Latimer, Blanchard, Korngold
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Fabien Gabel; Selina Ott

LondonArtist in Residence - Gabriela Montero in Recital

Barbican
Scarlatti, Soler, Albéniz, Granados, Chopin, de Larrocha, Mompou, Liszt
Gabriela Montero, Piano

LondonDarkness Visible: Âme x Lawrence Power

Barbican
Lawrence Power; Âme Creative Studio

LondonMaking America: Billy Childs’s Saxophone Concerto

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Du Yun, Childs, Adams
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Elena Schwarz; Steven Banks
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Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

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With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.  
****1
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Sakari Oramo and Yeol Eum Son summon up vivid landscapes

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Yeol Eum Son's superb performances of Bartók and Finzi are matched by intense and heady readings of Stravinsky and Weir by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo. 
****1
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Han Kang’s The White Book takes on a compelling new life

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At the Barbican, Laura Bowler's new work for Barbara Hannigan translates Han Kang's novel into a soundscape of icy stillness
****1
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A curious evening from Noseda, Kopatchinskaja and the LSO

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Good, bad, but never ugly, a curious evening unfolds at the Barbican, inspired at times, ill-judged in places.
***11
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The BBC Singers at full throttle at Milton Court

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Powerful Herbert Howells, together with affecting Shaw and engaging MacMillan from the BBC Singers, with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Sofi Jeannin.
****1
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From snow to sludge: Icelandic music at the Barbican Centre

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A bewildering evening at the Barbican, where ambitious Icelandic programming collapses under its lofty ambition of defying genres and making music more appealing to a wide variety of audiences.
**111
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Borodin steps into the symphonic limelight: Noseda and the LSO

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Seong-Jin Cho continues his Artist Portrait series with the LSO by performing Chopin's poetic Second Piano Concerto. 
****1
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Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

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Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.
*****
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