LondonClassicalConcerts

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Hall, 31-Jan-2025 / 19:30

Jonathan Biss

Barbican Hall, 6-Oct-2023 / 19:30

Alexandra Dariescu

Barbican Hall, 6-May-2022 / 19:30

Nikolai Medtner

Nikolai Lugansky

The Orchestra performed on the 25^th of April 2021 at the Barican Hall.

Unfortunately, the Orchestra's two concert scheduled for the 2^nd of May 2020 at the Barbican Hall were cancelled due to the pandemic.

Barbican Hall, 12-Nov-2019 / 19:30

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov - Conductor
Neil Gaiman - Narrator

Royal Albert Hall, 8-Sep-2019 / 19:30

Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Louis Andriessen: The Only One
Judith Weir: Forest
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major (final version, 1919)

Nora Fischer - Singer
Sakari Oramo - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 24-Aug-2019 / 19:30

Silvestri: Three Pieces for strings
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor (56 mins)

Seong-Jin Cho - Piano
Cristian Măcelaru - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 11-Aug-2019 / 20:00

Detlev Glanert: Weites Land (‘Musik mit Brahms’ for orchestra, 12 mins, UK premiere)
Schubert: Einsamkeit for soprano and orchestra (21 mins, orch. D. Glanert)
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major (55 mins)

Christina Gansch - Soprano
Semyon Bychkov - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 28-Jul-2019 / 19:30

Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles …

Martin Owen - Horn, David Hockings, Alex Neal - Percussion, Nicolas Hodges - Piano, Sakari Oramo - Conductor

Barbican Hall, 29-Sep-2018 / 19:30

Holst: The Planets

Ben Gernon - Conductor, Brian Cox - Presenter

Royal Albert Hall, 17-Aug-2018 / 19:30

Pekka Kuusisto - Violin, Sakari Oramo - Conductor

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Philip Venables, Béla Bartók: Venables Plays Bartok (world premiere)
Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat major

Royal Albert Hall, 7-Aug-2018 / 19:30

Thea Musgrave: Phoenix Rising
Brahms: A German Requiem

Golda Schultz - Soprano, Johan Reuter - Baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus, Richard Farnes - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 2-Aug-2018 / 19:00

Glinka: Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No 2)
Joby Talbot: Ink Dark Moon for guitar and orchestra (world premiere)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker – Act 1

Miloš Karadaglić - Guitar
Finchley Childrens Music Group
Alexander Vedernikov - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 13-Jul-2018 / 19:30

Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
Holst: The Planets
Anna Meredith and 59 Productions: Five Telegrams (world premiere)

National Youth Choir of Great Britain
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Proms Youth Ensemble
Sakari Oramo - Conductor

Barbican Hall, 2-Feb-2018 / 19:30

Finzi: Cello Concerto in A minor
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10

Paul Watkins - Cello
Sir Andrew Davis - Conductor

Barbican Hall, 6-Jan-2018 / 19:30

Sibelius:
- Symphony No 7
- Luonnotar
- Symphony No 2
Aarre Merikanto: Ekho (UK Premiere)

Sakari Oramo - Conductor
Anu Komsi - Soprano

Royal Albert Hall, 5-Sep-2017 / 19:30

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Bartok: Piano Concerto No 2
Dvořák: Symphony No 8 in G major

Karina Canellakis - Conductor
Jeremy Denk

Royal Albert Hall, 31-Aug-2017 / 19:30

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev: Overture - The Oresteia
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1
Tchaikovsky: Manfred

Kirill Gerstein - Piano
Semyon Bychkov - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 26-Aug-2017 / 19:30

Smetana: Má vlast – Tábor; Blaník
Martinu: Field Mass
Dvorák: Hussite Overture
Janácek: The Excursions of Mr Broucek – Song of the Hussites
Suk: Prague

Svatopluk Sem - Baritone
BBC Singers (men’s voices)
Jakub Hruša - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 22-Aug-2017 / 19:30

Sibelius: Scènes historiques – Suite No. 1 (18 mins)
Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor (24 mins)
Elgar: Symphony No 3 (elab. Payne) (58 mins)

Javier Perianes - Piano
Sakari Oramo - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 14-Aug-2017 / 19:30

Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hibiki (European premiere)

Kazushi Ono conductor
Finchley Children’s Music Group / New London Children’s Choir
Inon Barnatan - Piano, Sally Matthews - Soprano
Mihoko Fujimura - Mezzo-soprano

Royal Albert Hall, 6-Aug-2017 / 18:00

Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (orch. Shostakovich, concert performance sung in Russian)

Semyon Bychkov - Conductor, Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, BBC Singers, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Ante Jerkunica as Ivan Khovansky, Christopher Ventris as Andrey Khovansky, Vsevolod Grivnov as Golitsin, Elena Maximova as Marfa, Ain Anger as Dosifey, George Gagnidze as Shaklovity, Jennifer Rhys-Davies as Susanna, Norbert Ernst as Scribe, Anush Hovhannisyan as Emma, Colin Judson as Kuzka

Royal Albert Hall, 28-Jul-2017 / 19:30

Korngold: The Sea Hawk – overture (6 mins)
Anders Hillborg: Sirens (33 mins) UK premiere
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (45 mins)

Hannah Holgersson - Soprano / Ida Falk Winland - Soprano
BBC Symphony Chorus
James Gaffigan - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 24-Jul-2017 / 19:30

Unknown: The National Anthem (arr. Wood)(3 mins)
Berlioz: Overture - Le carnaval romain (9 mins)
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor (34 mins)
Elgar: Overture - Cockaigne (In London Town) (14 mins)
Walton: Façade Suites No. 1 and No. 2 – Popular Song (14 mins)
Holst: The Perfect Fool, Op 39 (11 mins)
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (6 mins)
Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (8 mins)

Beatrice Rana - Piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis - Conductor