Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute Half Six Fix concert. Introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action. But the composer’s retelling of this Russian ...

Kaleidoscopic music by Adès and Ruders meet Sibelius’ evocative landscapes, and the promise of vibrant new music by Alex Paxton. The LSO welcomes composer and conductor Thomas Adès for the first ...

André J Thomas celebrates the power of American gospel music, alongside the LSO and over 250 voices from communities across London. Discover orchestral and choral arrangements of some of the ...

Beethoven’s defiant Symphony No 5 meets the sneering mockery of Shostakovich and Prokofiev in exhilarating mood. In 1945, Soviet authorities expected Shostakovich to use his Ninth Symphony to ...

Dark fire and glittering ice: Mozart’s Requiem crowns an evening of deep emotions and natural wonders from Sakari Oramo and pianist Martin Helmchen. With some pieces, the myth is almost as compelling ...

In her 1971 Märchen – Poem, Sofia Gubaidulina uses music of transcendent beauty to conjure a stick of chalk that dreams of life outside the classroom drawing beautiful landscapes. Stravinsky’s 1910 ...

An evening celebrating music at the forefront of composition, as we hear three world premieres, alongside Pierre Boulez’s magnetic memoriam to fellow composer Bruno Maderna. After two years of close ...

Step into the world of Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell’s celebrated masterpiece, brought to life in the intimate setting of Guildhall School’s Milton Court Theatre. One of the earliest and most ...

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts two dramatic, emotionally intense American symphonies, both born of 20th-century tumult. Dedicated to the memory of JFK, the spectacular Kaddish Symphony explores ...

Thomas Adès leads us through Sibelius’ Finland and conjures magical images in his own evocation of a Celtic legend. Icy restraint, subtle beauty and soulful warmth combine in two of Sibelius’ ...

Debussy’s impressionistic colours give way to Ravel’s dazzling concerto and wild, untamed waltz; Lutosławski exhilarates in his Concerto for Orchestra. Debussy’s 1894 impressionistic musical canvas ...

Thea Musgrave paints with radiant colours, Walton gives flight to the viola, and Vaughan Williams dreams of London. Phoenix Rising is one of Thea Musgrave’s most electrifying and adventurous scores, ...