Past Events
January 12, 2015
LSO / Rattle / Schumann: Das Paradies und die
8:00 pm – 12:00 am
Philharmonie Luxembourg
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September 19, 2015
BBC Philharmonic / Mena / Foulds: Mantras
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Bridgewater Hall
Booking NowThe ladies of the LSC repeat their performance of “Three Mantras”, which they gave during the BBC Proms season 2015 with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena, this time at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on Sunday, 19th September at 7.30 pm. Juanjo Mena, pianist Steven Osborn
October 13, 2015
LSC / Halsey / Rachmaninov: Vespers
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Temple Church
Booking NowUnder Chorus Director, Simon Halsey, the London Symphony Chorus gave several performances of Rachmaninov’s “Vespers (All-Night Vigil)” in 2014, and subsequently recorded it for LSO-Live. This performance, once again conducted by Simon Halsey, will primarily be a sonic experience; t
November 1, 2015
LSC / Halsey / Lang/Copland/Britten
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Milton Court
Booking Now“Sound Unbound” is a weekend festival (31st October and 1st November) at the Barbican that seeks to release classical music from its traditional confines. The performance in Milton Court by the LSC at 12:00 noon on Sunday, 1st November is a specially devised programme, led and conducted
November 6, 2015
LSO / Gaffigan / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowBernstein’s “Chichester Psalms” has been performed several times by the London Symphony Chorus, including with the composer himself in 1986, subsequently recorded under Richard Hickox later that year. It appears in this concert of all-American connections and more than a touch of j
December 8, 2015
LSC / Halsey / Livability Christmas Carols
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Booking NowHosted by Livability Vice Presidents, BBC Songs of Praise presenter Pam Rhodes and The Reverend Canon Roger Royle, this will be a festive evening of carols performed by the LSC, conducted by Chorus Director, Simon Halsey, and it will include popular congregational carols. This annual concert in aid
December 13, 2015
LSO / Halsey/ Choral Christmas
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe Barbican stage will be packed with over 300 singers and LSO instrumentalists to herald Christmas, in a concert that will include traditional audience carols and Christmas songs. This special event brings together the children in the LSO Discovery Choirs, local singers in the LSO Community Choir
January 10, 2016
LSO / Rattle / Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe London Symphony Chorus will be making the choral contribution to this innovative new production of Debussy’s “Pelleas et Melisande”. This concert sees long-term collaborators conductor Sir Simon Rattle and director Peter Sellars return to this opera for the first time since the
March 20, 2016
LSO / Harding / Schumann: Faust Szenen
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowSchumann’s “Scenes from Goethe’s Faust” has been labelled the composer’s “magnum opus”. Schumann never saw all three parts of the work performed in the same concert, or published together. The piece has been deemed among Schumann’s most moving works an
March 24, 2016
LA Phil / Dudamel / Mahler: Symphony No 3
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe ladies of the London Symphony Chorus have in the history of the Chorus given over 30 performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, but few performances can have been so eagerly anticipated as the one with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under their celebrated conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. This will
April 17, 2016
LSO / Rattle / Haydn: The Seasons
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowUltimately, though it was the chorus’s evening, and they rose to the work’s challenges superbly, with plenty of warm tone from sopranos and basses, and great strength in the alto and tenor lines. “Komm, Holder Lenz” sounded admirably fervent. The finest of pianissimos greeted the torpor of S
April 24, 2016
LSO / Elder / Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe London Symphony Chorus sang with a lush sound that matched the orchestra’s, and they had some of the most exciting moments of drama in Elgar’s score. They were beautiful as mourners and angels, and appropriately terrifying as the chorus of demons.
May 12, 2016
LSO / Tilson Thomas/ Beethoven Symphony No 9
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking Now. . . it was a robust London Symphony Chorus that really inspired – fervent, powerful and unflagging, with irreproachable high As from the sopranos.
June 5, 2016
LSO / Harding / Mahler: Symphony No 2
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking Now… the London Symphony Chorus entered almost imperceptibly, demonstrating ideal control under the excellent guidance of Simon Halsey. The final pages of the symphony were suitably transcendent, with orchestra, soloists, and chorus filling the hall with blazing sound.
June 26, 2016
LSO / Rattle / Maxwell Davies: The Hogboon
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe Chorus’s newly-appointed President, Sir Simon Rattle, will be conducting a new community and children’s opera by the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, “The Hogboon” on Sunday, 26th June at the Barbican. The opera is based on a local goblin myth from Orkney. This will be the world premiere o
July 29, 2016
LSO / Haitink / Mahler: Symphony No 3
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Royal Albert Hall
Booking NowThe ladies of the London Symphony Chorus will be appearing in the BBC PROMS 2016 in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday, 29th July at 7.00 pm. This concert will mark the 50th-anniversary year of the first appearance of conductor Bernard Haitink at the PR
September 18, 2016
LSO / Noseda / Verdi: Requiem
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowGianandrea Noseda opens the London Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-2017 season with Verdi’s monumental Requiem at the Barbican, with a first performance at 7.00 pm on Sunday, 18th September. A cast list of outstanding Italian opera stars has been assembled for the performances in London, which
September 20, 2016
LSO / Noseda / Verdi: Requiem
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowGianandrea Noseda opens the London Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-2017 season with Verdi’s monumental Requiem at the Barbican, with a first performance on Sunday, 18th September and this second performance at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, 20th September. A cast list of outstanding Italian opera stars has been
October 6, 2016
LSO / Stier / Symphonic Fantasies London
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowAway from the mainstream of conventional symphony chorus concerts, this will be a particularly exciting evening of live video game music. It will be the LSO’s seventh such performance and follows sell-out performances in London and Japan earlier in 2016. There is great anticipation of the
October 30, 2016
LSO / Noseda / Verdi: Requiem
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York City
Booking NowGianandrea Noseda opened the London Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-2017 season with Verdi’s monumental Requiem at the Barbican, with two London performances. The same forces now appear in New York in Lincoln Centre’s David Geffen Hall for a matinee at 3.00 pm on Sunday, 30th October. A cast l
December 4, 2016
LSO / Adams / Adams: El Niño
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowEl Nino will be conducted by the composer himself, John Adams, which will be inspiring for all of us. Described as a “nativity oratorio” with a libretto by the composer, retells the Christmas story, with the first half focusing on Mary’s thoughts before the birth in Bethlehem,
December 11, 2016
LSO / Adams / Adams: El Niño
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Philharmonie, Paris
Booking NowThis second performance of El Nino will be conducted by the composer himself, John Adams, which will be inspiring for all of us. Described as a “nativity oratorio” with a libretto by the composer, retells the Christmas story, with the first half focusing on Mary’s thoughts befo
December 21, 2016
LSO / Halsey / Choral Christmas
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowAs we move to the shortest day of the year, it is time to herald our traditional Choral Christmas Concert at the Barbican in company with the LSO Brass Ensemble, the LSO Community Choir and the LSO Discovery Choirs, all conducted by our Chorus Director, Simon Halsey. With a choir of over 300 voices,
January 14, 2017
LSO / Rattle / Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowFirst premiered in 1978, “Le Grand Macabre” has received more than 30 stage productions, even though Ligeti himself was not convinced that it should be called an opera. A revised version was premiered in 1997 by Peter Sellars, who will be responsible for this semi-staged production at
January 15, 2017
LSO / Rattle / Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowFirst premiered in 1978, “Le Grand Macabre” has received more than 30 stage productions, even though Ligeti himself was not convinced that it should be called an opera. A revised version was premiered in 1997 by Peter Sellars, who will be responsible for this semi-staged production at the Barb
March 19, 2017
LSO / Luisi / Brahms: Requiem
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe first half of this concert consists of a performance of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”) to be followed by Brahms “German Requiem” conducted by Fabio Luisi with the London Symphony Orchestra. Brahms’ Requiem can be seen as humanist rather than Christia
March 23, 2017
LSO / Antinoglu / Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowAlain Altinoglu, the conductor of this evening’s concert, is making his debut with the LSO. The concert will open with Prokofiev’s “Overture on Hebrew Themes” and Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. l with soloist Gautier Capucon. Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe&#
April 8, 2017
LPO / Jurowski /Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (with
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Royal Festival Hall
Booking NowThe London Symphony Chorus will join forces with the London Philharmonic Choir and London Philharmonic Orchestra under their Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical con
May 18, 2017
LSO / Elder / Holst: The Planets
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowHolst’s suite “The Planets” will occupy the second part of this dramatic programme with the LSO conducted by Mark Elder. It begins with Vaughan Williams “Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus” and Brahms’ “Double Concerto” in which the soloists will be
May 28, 2017
LSO / Haitink / Bruckner: Te Deum
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowIt is a particular joy for the LSC to be joining forces with the LSO under Bernard Haitink for this evening of Bruckner. Haitink is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading interpreters of the composer. The “Te Deum” is dedicated “Ad maiorem Dei gloriam” (to
June 18, 2017
LSO / Stier / Symphonic Odysseys
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Philharmonie, Paris
The Symphonic-Odyssey concert on this trip to the Philharmonie de Paris will be a homage to Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu, and will feature music from some of his most iconic video game scores. They will include, “Final Fantasy”, “Blue Dragon”, “Lost Odyssey”
June 20, 2017
LSO / Stier / Symphonic Odysseys
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
This Barbican concert follows the performance of Symphonic-Odyssey at the Philharmonie de Paris and is a homage to Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu. It will feature music from some of his most iconic video game scores. They will include, “Final Fantasy”, “Blue Dragon”, “Lost Odyssey
June 25, 2017
LSO / Harding / Mahler: Symphony No 3
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowMahler’s Symphony No. 3 is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, and in its final form consists of six movements. The ladies of the London Symphony Chorus will join Anna Larsson (alto) under LSO Principal Guest Conductor Daniel Harding, who is continuing to prove why he is conside
August 19, 2017
LSO / Rattle / Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Royal Albert Hall
“Gurre-Lieder” is always a special event, and this performance at the BBC PROMS 2017 is certainly going to be that. The cantata is written for massive forces and they will be gathered together on Saturday, 19th August (performance at 7.30 pm) at the Royal Albert Hall. The artists include the Lon
September 17, 2017
LSO / Rattle / Berlioz: Damnation of Faust
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowBerlioz was inspired by Goethe’s dramatic poem “Faust”, and the musical work that he produced defies easy categorisation. The composer eventually called it a “legende dramatique” (dramatic legend). Although Berlioz was eager to see the work staged, most of its fame ha
September 19, 2017
LSO / Rattle / Berlioz: Damnation of Faust
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowBerlioz was inspired by Goethe’s dramatic poem “Faust”, and the musical work that he produced defies easy categorisation. The composer eventually called it a “legende dramatique” (dramatic legend). Although Berlioz was eager to see the work staged, most of its fame ha
November 5, 2017
LSO / Alsop / Bernstein: Symphony No. 3
9:00 pm – 12:00 am
Barbican
Booking Now“Kaddish” is Leonard Bernstein’s 3rd Symphony written for large orchestra, choir (plus children’s choir), a soprano soloist (on this occasion Laura Claycomb) and the voice of a narrator. The title of the piece refers to the Jewish prayer that is chanted at every synagogue s
November 26, 2017
LSO / Pappano / Liszt: Faust Symphony
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowIn a concert that is “Total Liszt”, Antonio Pappano conducts the LSO in three contrasting works. The programme begins with Liszt’s orchestration of Sciarrino’s “Sposalizio” followed by “Totentanz” in which the piano soloist is Alice Sara Ott. The eve
December 3, 2017
LSO / Halsey / LSO Choral Christmas
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThis time of year would not be complete without our annual Christmas celebration, an essential part of the festive calendar. This will be the fourth year in which over 300 singers will have been assembled, including members of the London Symphony Chorus, children from the LSO Discovery choirs and
December 16, 2017
LSO / Rattle / Bernstein: Wonderful Town
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowNew York, New York – so good they named it twice. If you can make it there, you’re gonna make it anywhere! That’s what the two sisters in Bernstein’s musical tribute to the Big Apple, “Wonderful Town” are looking for. “Wonderful Town” is not as wel
December 21, 2017
LSO / Rattle / Bernstein: Wonderful Town
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowNew York, New York – so good they named it twice. If you can make it there, you’re gonna make it anywhere! That’s what the two sisters in Bernstein’s musical tribute to the Big Apple, “Wonderful Town” are looking for. “Wonderful Town” is not as wel
January 13, 2018
LSO / Rattle / Genesis Suite
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe London Symphony Chorus will be providing the choral element for “Genesis Suite”, a 1945 work for narrator, orchestra (on this occasion the LSO) and chorus. This rarely performed piece is an interpretation of the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis, by seven different compose
January 25, 2018
LSO / Roth / Debussy: Three Nocturnes
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowIn this concert of “Essential Debussy”, conductor Francois-Xavier Roth celebrates the centenary of the death of Claude Debussy with several of his most celebrated works. The evening begins with “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune”, followed by Fantasy for Piano and
February 4, 2018
LSO / Bychkov / Mahler: Symphony No. 2
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowMahler’s Symphony No. 2 known (although not by the composer) as the “Resurrection Symphony” was written between 1888 and 1894 with a first performance in 1895. The symphony is in five movements and the chorus sings in the final movement only. The symphony is written on a truly co
May 4, 2018
LA Philharmonic/ Dudamel /Beethoven No. 9/ Be...
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowA highlight of the London Symphony Chorus’s year will be this concert in which Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic complete their 2018 residency at the Barbican, and with two pieces that are full of promise and expectation. The concert opens with Bernstein’s “Chicheste
May 6, 2018
LA Philharmonic/ Dudamel/ Beethoven No. 9/ Be...
Philharmonie, Paris
This programme is a highlight of the London Symphony Chorus’s year, in which Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic complete their 2018 residency at the Barbican, and with two pieces that are full of promise and expectation. It is a particular pleasure for the chorus to be able to repe
May 20, 2018
LSO / Tilson Thomas / Beethoven: Missa Solemn
9:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowBeethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” is considered by many to be his finest achievement and along with Bach’s “Mass in B minor” one of the most significant mass settings. The particular challenges of the work mean that it is not often performed and it will be the culm
July 22, 2018
BBC NOW / Sondergard / Mahler: Symphony No. 8...
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Royal Albert Hall
Any performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 is always a special event. When it takes place as part of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, it becomes extra special. This epic work is often called “Symphony of a Thousand”, although this was a title that Mahler never gave to it. On thi
August 18, 2018
LSO / Rattle / Ravel: L’enfant et les s...
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Royal Albert Hall
The LSC returns to the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday, 18th August (performance at 7.30 pm) with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Principal Conductor Simon Rattle in Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les Sortileges”, which concert performance will be sung in French with surtitles. The cast inclu
September 16, 2018
LSO / Rattle / Britten: Spring Symphony
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowSimon Rattle begins his Roots and Origins series at the beginning of the 2018-19 season with a rare combination of three distinctive works, all steeped in history and folk tradition. The concert begins with Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances and Janacek’s Sinfonietta. The London Symphony Cho
September 18, 2018
LSO / Rattle / Britten: Spring Symphony
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowSimon Rattle begins his Roots and Origins series at the beginning of the 2018-19 season with a rare combination of three distinctive works, all steeped in history and folk tradition. The concert begins with Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances and Janacek’s Sinfonietta. The London Symphony Cho
November 4, 2018
LSO / Noseda / Macmillan: All the Hills and V...
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowJames Macmillan’s new work All the Hills and Vales Along was commissioned by the LSO and 14-18 NOW:WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, with the world premieres taking place at the Cumnock Tryst festival (chamber version) on 6th October and at the Barbican with the LSO (orchestral version) on 4th No
November 11, 2018
LSO / Roth / Bartok: Cantata Profana & H...
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowIn this programme, conductor Francois-Xavier Roth brings together three composers, who, in their own lifetimes were considered to be at the forefront of modern music. The concert begins with Ligeti’s Lontano, which conjures images of “long submerged dream worlds of childhood”
December 8, 2018
LSO / Alsop / Bernstein: Candide
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThese two performances of Candide (matinee on 8th December and evening on 9th December) round off the celebrations of Bernstein’s centenary year, and it is very fitting that they should be conducted by Marin Alsop, who was herself mentored by the composer of this so-called “operetta
December 9, 2018
LSO / Alsop / Bernstein: Candide
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThese two performances of Candide (matinee on 8th December and evening on 9th December) round off the celebrations of Bernstein’s centenary year, and it is very fitting that they should be conducted by Marin Alsop, who was herself mentored by the composer of this so-called “operetta
December 13, 2018
LSO / Rattle / Szymanowski: Harnasie
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThis eclectic programme, ranging as it does from Eastern European folk music, through Latin American rhythms, to jazz from recent history, is considered by the LSO to be Simon Rattle’s most ambitious programme yet. The LSC’s contribution is in Szymanowski’s Harnasie, which was
February 23, 2019
Netherlands Philharmonic / Albrecht / Mahler:...
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
In the scope of its ambition as well as its sheer physical dimensions, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is one of the largest musical works ever created. The forces required to perform this vast symphony are almost without parallel in musical history: two very large mixed choirs, children’s choi
February 24, 2019
Netherlands Philharmonic / Albrecht / Mahler:...
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
In the scope of its ambition as well as its sheer physical dimensions, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is one of the largest musical works ever created. The forces required to perform this vast symphony are almost without parallel in musical history: two very large mixed choirs, children’s choi
March 3, 2019
LSO / Pappano / Puccini: Messa di Gloria
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe London Symphony Chorus has previously sung and recorded Puccini’s Messa di Gloria conducted by Antonio Pappano on EMI Classics (2001), and it will be a considerable pleasure for us to return to this neglected piece, consisting as it does of the melodies that always characterise PucciniR
March 24, 2019
LSO Sing project / Halsey / David Laing: Publ...
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowAs part of LSO Futures, the Chorus will be taking part in a Barbican concert, but they will be performing in the foyers of the Barbican Arts Centre at the beginning of the evening while members of the audience are taking their seats in the hall The work will be the UK premiere of Da
June 2, 2019
LSO / Tilson Thomas / Ives: A Symphony –...
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe concert at the Barbican on Sunday, 2nd June will inevitably be dominated by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (the so-called Emperor Concerto) with Daniil Trifonov as soloist in a concerto that requires a pianist of exceptional capability. The evening begins with Michael Tilson Thomas condu
June 27, 2019
LSO / Rattle / Janacek: The Cunning Little Vi
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe LSC season culminates in three performances of Janacek’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen (on 27th and 29th June in the Barbican and on 2nd July in the Philharmonie in Paris). These will be conducted by Simon Rattle with the welcome return for these semi-staged performances of the cele
June 29, 2019
LSO / Rattle / Janacek: The Cunning Little Vi
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Barbican
Booking NowThe LSC season culminates in three performances of Janacek’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen (on 27th and 29th June in the Barbican and on 2nd July in the Philharmonie in Paris). These will be conducted by Simon Rattle with the welcome return for these semi-staged performances of the cele
July 2, 2019
LSO / Rattle / Janacek: The Cunning Little Vi
8:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Philharmonie, Paris
The LSC season culminates in three performances of Janacek’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen (on 27th and 29th June in the Barbican and on 2nd July in the Philharmonie in Paris). These will be conducted by Simon Rattle with the welcome return for these semi-staged performances of the cele