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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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LondonGambarini: English Impresaria
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Gambarini
Academy of Ancient Music; Bojan Čičić; Mhairi Lawson
LondonStravinsky's Firebird
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Weir, Bartók, Finzi, Stravinsky
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo; Yeol Eum Son
LondonRobert Levin in Residence: Mozart and Beethoven – Improvisation and Celebration

Mozart, Beethoven
Robert Levin; David Dolan; Dame Emma Kirkby; Eclectic Voices
LondonLouis Demetrius Alvanis plays Beethoven
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Beethoven
Louis Demetrius Alvanis, Piano
LondonTansy Davies: Passion of Mary Magdalene

Davies: Passion of Mary Magdalene
John Butt; Anna Dennis; Marcus Farnsworth; Dunedin Consort
LondonHalf Six Fix: Dvořák
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Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op.95
London Symphony Orchestra; Anja Bihlmaier
LondonAnja Bihlmaier & Gareth Davies
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Bernstein, Liebermann, Dvořák
London Symphony Orchestra; Anja 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.
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.
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.
