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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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London50 Years of Bohemian Rhapsody

Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Queen
Guildhall Session Orchestra

LondonConsone Quartet X Chiaroscuro Quartet

Barbican
Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn
Consone Quartet; Chiaroscuro Quartet

LondonPuccini's 'La rondine'Concert performance

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Puccini: La rondine
Carlo Rizzi; Opera Rara; BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers; Ermonela Jaho; Ellie Neate

LondonThe Hermes Experiment in the Conservatory: Instead of Many Islands, Let Us Be a Mighty River

Barbican
The Hermes Experiment; Héloïse Werner; Oliver Pashley; Anne Denholm

LondonThe Marian Consort: The Language of Flowers

Barbican
Ceballos, Bryce, Gutiérrez de Padilla, Vivanco, Britten, Victoria, Chadburn, Guerrero
Marian Consort

LondonSpotlight Artist: Antoine Tamestit

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Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Antonio Pappano; Antoine Tamestit; London Symphony Chorus

LondonHalf Six Fix: Vaughan Williams

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Vaughan Williams
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Antonio Pappano; Antoine Tamestit; London Symphony Chorus

LondonA Christmas Odyssey with Adrian Scarborough

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Various: Various Christmas Works
Owain Park; Adrian Scarborough; BBC Singers
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Top drawer French music from Ott, Bloch and the LSO

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Debussy and Ravel frame a performance of Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra as Alexandre Bloch guests with the London Symphony Orchestra. 
****1
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Maxime Pascal shows his mettle in Boulez and three world premieres

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Seong-Jin Cho brings pianistic glamour to a bold programme of premieres in the LSO's Futures concert. 
****1
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Vivid Janáček and flowing Bruckner from Rattle and the BRSO

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The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conclude the UK leg of their European tour at the Barbican, pairing Janáček’s Taras Bulba with Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.
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Adès and the LSO compelling in Rautavaara and Sibelius

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Thomas Adès and the London Symphony Orchestra make the best possible case for SIbelius' lesser played symphonies, the Fourth and Sixth and Johan Dalene turns on the romanticism in Rautavaara.
*****
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Gesualdo Passione with Les Arts Florissants

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Fusing the Renaissance polyphony of Les Arts Florissants with the contemporary dance of Compagnie Amala Dianor was an ambitious experiment, which displayed great virtues but didn't quite come off.
***11
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Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra opens its season at the Barbican on top form in Mahler's last completed symphony. 
****1
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Galloping demons: Pappano and the LSO in Shostakovich 10

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Sir Antonio Pappano the charioteer whips his forces to attack the fleeing Shostakovich in the Tenth Symphony at the Barbican. 
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Victory Symphonies? Pappano and the LSO in Leningrad and Vienna

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Prokofiev opens Seong-Jin Cho’s LSO Artist Portrait series, sandwiches between symphonies by Shostakovich and Beethoven. 
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