In Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, the LSO and LSC are giving two performances of his Symphony No. 9 at the Barbican. The first will be part of “Half Six Fix” series at 6.30 pm on Wednesday, 12th February (with an introduction to the music by th
Sir Simon Rattle, Principal Conductor of the LSO, considers Beethoven to be “absolutely inescapable”, and that is especially true in the year of his 250th anniversary. His choral work “Christ on the Mount of Olives” is very rarely heard, and tells