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| 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: Rachmaninov
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Rachmaninov: Symphony no. 1 in D minor, Op.13
London Symphony Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda
LondonArtist Portrait: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
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Debussy, Berg, Rachmaninov
London Symphony Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda; Patricia Kopatchinskaja
LondonHowells’ Hymnus Paradisi
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MacMillan, Shaw, Weir, Rautavaara, Howells
BBC Concert Orchestra; Sofi Jeannin; Iain Farrington; BBC Singers
LondonMontero plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
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Adolphe, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Kristiina Poska; Gabriela Montero
LondonTarmo Peltokoski & Yuja Wang
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Rautavaara, Wagner
London Symphony Orchestra; Tarmo Peltokoski; Yuja Wang
LondonFretwork with Ian Bostridge & Elizabeth Kenny
Dowland, Williams
Ian Bostridge; Elizabeth Kenny; Fretwork
LondonHalf Six Fix: Laura Bowler
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Bowler: New work
London Symphony Orchestra; Bar Avni; Barbara Hannigan
LondonBarbara Hannigan & Bar Avni
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Bowler, Ligeti, Strauss R.
London Symphony Orchestra; Barbara Hannigan; Bar Avni
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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.
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.
Fine Lindberg and Stravinsky double bill from the BBC Symphony
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After a performance of Magnus Lindberg’s First Violin Concerto by Lisa Batiashvili at the Barbican, Stravinsky’s Perséphone stands the test of time.
UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance
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Wolfe's climate-change oratorio, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, already feels out of date.
Rattle and the LSO sell a travel package to Hungary and Spain
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Opening her LSO Artist Portrait series, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto before Rattle and the LSO whisk the audience to Falla’s Andalusia.
Sir James MacMillan delights with his Christmas Oratorio
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MacMillan's large scale choral work offers a rich variety of texts and musical ideas, the composer conducts the BBC Symphony with unerring precision.
A poet of the keyboard: Arcadi Volodos and the measure of an artist
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From Schubert and Schumann to Liszt, Arcadi Volodos makes a triumphant return to London's Barbican.