Saturday 2 April 2022

BBC Shows and Tours - Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra this April and May at the Barbican

 

BBC Shows
 
Concerts to look out for in April and May.
 
Nicola Bennedetti
 
Romantics in Exile
Friday 8 April

Sakari Oramo conducts a forgotten symphony overflowing with passion and Nicola Benedetti plays the violin concerto that stole the movies’ greatest tunes.
 
Zadie Smith
 
Zadie Smith and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Friday 22 April

Zadie Smith, one of the most influential cultural figures in Britain, joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to read from some of her best-known works in an evening of words and music.
 
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
 
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Medtner, Kidane and Nielsen
Friday 6 May

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts music of inner peace and outer turmoil from composers enduring war, illness, disease – and the 2020 lockdown.
 
Ryan Woigglesworth
 
The Other Vaughan Williams
Friday 13 May, Hall

The composer who brought us gentle, pastoral music like The Lark Ascending processes the aftermath of war, in a concert featuring the modern premiere of a lost work by César Franck. 
 
Nathalie Stutsmann
 
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6
Sunday 22 May

Nathalie Stutzmann makes her BBC Symphony Orchestra podium debut in Tchaikovsky’s most emotional symphony, while orchestra and chorus are united for Brahms at his most hushed. 
 
Alphesh Chauhan
 
Stephen Hough Plays Rachmaninov
Friday 27 May

Star pianist Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini while Alphesh Chauhan conducts Bruckner’s unfinished final symphony.