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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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LondonLouis Demetrius Alvanis plays Beethoven

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LondonTansy Davies: Passion of Mary Magdalene

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LondonHalf Six Fix: Dvořák

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Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op.95
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LondonAnja Bihlmaier & Gareth Davies

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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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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. 
****1
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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.

**111
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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. 
****1
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