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Tenor Ian Bostridge, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, and viol consort Fretwork delve into the timeless melancholy and beauty of John Dowland’s music, paired with a modern reflection by Adrian Williams.
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Tonight is all about big, beautiful melodies.
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Dark and stormy drama from Maconchy and Williams, transcendence from Vaughan Williams – and Britten’s ‘musical espresso’.
New music by Laura Bowler preludes Ligeti’s ethereal, dreamlike soundworld and Richard Strauss’ colossal, awe-inspiring homage to Nietzsche.
Tonight’s concert celebrates the clarinet, and the outstanding playing of Mark van de Wiel.
Sakari Oramo pairs flair and exoticism with idyllic cheer in this dual outing of Romantic masterpieces: Saint-Saëns’ fifth piano concerto and Brahms’ Second Symphony.
Sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun is joined by players from the London Philharmonic Orchestra for sparklingly cinematic music for sitar and strings.
Marin Alsop conducts ‘Mexico’s second national anthem’ and an exciting new cello concerto by the Philharmonia’s Featured Composer Gabriela Ortiz.
With a voice praised for its shimmering beauty, astonishing agility and emotional depth, the renowned soprano is joined by guest baritone Edward Nelson for a 40th-anniversary celebration of song and opera, spanning music by Vivaldi, Donizetti, Delibes, Bellini, Duparc, Lehár, Korngold, Rossini, and Rodgers & Hammerstein.
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Three pieces focused on nature and conservation: Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus and Gregor Mayrhofer’s Recycling Concerto.
A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican.
J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in D, Mozart’s youthful Litaniae Lauretanae, and Handel’s triumphant Dettingen Te Deum feature in this stirring concert of sacred music performed by Ealing Choral Society, The Hanover Band, and top soloists, conducted by Peter Asprey.
A double bill of Pietro Mascagni's opera 'Cavalleria rusticana' and a rare performance of his follow-up work, 'Silvano', in concert performances by the Chelsea Opera Group conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren.
The Doctors' Orchestra, joined by prize-winning pianist Krzysztof Moskalewicz, performs Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Brahms' powerful Symphony No. 4. Smetana's much-loved symphonic poem Vltava (The Moldau) opens the concert.
The Philharnonia invites you into Gustav Mahler’s world – a world saturated with orchestral colour.
This concert brings together two great romantic German composers, and features Mendelssohn's Cantata Verleih uns Frieden and Hear My Prayer, and Brahms' much-loved Requiem, which the composer referred to as a 'human requiem', written to console the living and to explore grief in its many forms, rather than to accompany the dead.
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A chance to experience the extraordinary gifts of this renowned pianist and composer in a selection of his own works alongside music by Bach.