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| Address | Silk Street London EC2Y 8BQ United Kingdom |
| Contains | Art 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 maps | 51° 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

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