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Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 23 May 2012
A programme of fascinating contrasts, juxtaposing the sunny temperament of Mozart with Shostakovich's haunting Symphony No.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 24 May 2012
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 24 May 2012
The London Sinfonietta's long association with British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle continues with an event which uncovers his musical language with help from the composer himself and live excerpts from London Sinfonietta.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 25 May 2012
Spira Mirabilis, the extraordinary new orchestra drawing together Europe's finest individual young players, returns to Southbank Centre following their spectacular London debut last season - where Beethoven's Eroica symphony 'coursed through the orchestra like an electric current' (The Times).
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 26 May 2012
Spira Mirabilis, the extraordinary new orchestra drawing together Europe's finest individual young players, returns to Southbank Centre following their spectacular London debut last season - where Beethoven's Eroica symphony 'coursed through the orchestra like an electric current' (The Times).
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 31 May 2012
Janácek's Sinfonietta, scored for an extraordinary 14 trumpets, expresses his patriotic motivation, as does Dvorák's Symphony No.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra *rescheduled*
Sunday 3 June 2012
Please note - the date for this concert has changed to 3pm on Tuesday 5 June. It was originally scheduled for Sunday 3 June.
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Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 5 June 2012
An afternoon of great English music in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, opening with Walton's Crown Imperial March, performed at the coronations of King George VII and HM Queen Elizabeth II.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 7 June 2012
The Philharmonia's Honorary Conductor for Life conducts Brahms's Second Symphony.
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Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 9 June 2012
A screening of Ben Hur - one of the great epics of cinema history - with a live orchestral soundtrack performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 9 June 2012
What are the inspirations for music and contemporary art and is it possible to combine the two? Martin Creed, Turner prize-winner for Work No.
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Royal Festival Hall
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sunday 10 June 2012
Sir Simon Rattle conducts a programme of Romantic music, featuring Pierre-Laurent Aimard performing Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand.
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Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 10 June 2012
London's ground-breaking classical night, The Night Shift, returns for its last appearance at Southbank Centre until the autumn.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 11 June 2012
From the charming to the down-right scary, London on Film is a snapshot of cinematic history using classic film scores.
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Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 12 June 2012
The title of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture has a rather studious ring to it, but in fact is one of his liveliest works, based on a series of student drinking songs and written to balance the more sombre style of his Tragic Overture.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Tristan Murail's masterpiece Les Courants de l'espace is a rich, orchestral palette of ever-changing sound images, shimmering between moments of haunting simplicity and passages of swirling density.
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Royal Festival Hall
Barts Choir and Philharmonia Orchestra
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Barts Choir celebrates Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a feast of music for royal occasions from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 14 June 2012
András Schiff conducts and performs an all-Mozart programme, a composer who Schiff has described as 'a gift to mankind', his music of 'such sublime quality, its message so universal'.
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Royal Festival Hall
Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Saturday 23 June 2012
A sensation wherever they play, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela make an exciting return to Royal Festival Hall with their charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamel for the next stage in Southbank Centre's Sounds Venezuela.
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The Clore Ballroom
Stockwell Children's Orchestra, In Harmony Lambeth
Saturday 23 June 2012
Join the children of Stockwell Children's Orchestra from In Harmony Lambeth as they open the Nucleo with a performance with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, Chairman and Founder of In Harmony Sistema England.
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