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Joyce DiDonato in a blue floaty top with her arms above her head, with red face paint on her temple and the sides of her face
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Joyce DiDonato: Eden

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Joyce DiDonato explores the majesty, might and mystery of nature, contemplating our place on this planet through the magic of theatre and the transformative power of music.

Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Rachel Portman The First Morning of the World (UK premiere*)
Gustav Mahler ‘Ich atmet einen linden Duft!’ from Rückert-Lieder
Biagio Marini ‘Con le Stelle in Ciel che mai’ from Scherzi e canzonette
Josef Mysliveček ‘Toglierò le sponde al Mare’ from Adamo ed Eva
Aaron Copland ‘Nature, the Gentlest Mother’ from Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Giovanni Valentini Sonata enharmonica
Francesco Cavalli ‘Piante ombrose’ from La Calisto
Christoph Willibald Gluck 'Danza degli spettri e delle furie: Allegro non troppo’ from Orfeo ed Euridice
Christoph Willibald Gluck ‘Misera, dove son… Ah! non son io che parlo’ from Ezio
George Frideric Handel ‘As with rosy steps the morn’ from Theodora
Gustav Mahler 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ from Rückert-Lieder
Richard Wagner 'Schmerzen’ from Wesendonck Lieder
George Frideric Handel 'Frondi tenere e belle… Ombra mai fù’ from Serse
il Pomo d'Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor
Joyce DiDonato executive producer and mezzo-soprano
Manuel Palazzo actor
Bishop Ramsey CE School Choir
Music Centre London Choir
Marie Lambert-Le Bihan stage director
John Torres lighting designer
Photo of Nicola Benedetti playing the violin
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Classical music

BBC SO/Oramo & Benedetti: Romantics in Exile

Sakari Oramo conducts a forgotten symphony overflowing with passion and Nicola Benedetti plays the violin concerto that stole the movies’ greatest tunes.

Erich Korngold Violin Concerto
Rued Langgaard Symphony No 1, Klippepastoraler
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
John Holiday smiling, sitting on a stool
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Classical music

Vivaldi: Sacred and Secular

Spend a day with the music of Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi and in the company of John Holiday, ‘one of the finest countertenors of his generation' (LA Times).

2pm, Concert 1
Antonio Vivaldi 'Spring' from The Four Seasons
Stabat Mater
Concerto Nos 10 and 11 from L'Estro Armonico
'Summer' from The Four Seasons
7.30pm, Concert 2
Antonio Vivaldi 'Autumn' from The Four Seasons
Nisi Dominus
Concerto Nos 5 and 8 from L'Estro Armonico
'Winter' from The Four Seasons
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone director
John Holiday countertenor
Janine Jansen
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda & Janine Jansen

Gianandrea Noseda conducts Prokofiev’s ‘symphony of the greatness of the human spirit’, and Janine Jansen is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s hugely popular Violin Concerto.

George Stevenson Vanishing City*
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 5
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Janine Jansen violin
A thorny bush
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: J S Bach's St John Passion

On Good Friday, Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music bring all their insight and commitment to the rarely heard 1725 version of J S Bach’s St John Passion. 

Johann Sebastian Bach St John Passion (1725 version)
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist*
Dingle Yandell Christus*
Zoe Brookshaw soprano
Jessica Cale soprano
Anna Harvey alto
Jessica Dandy alto
Hugo Hymas tenor
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
George Humphreys bass*
William Gaunt bass
The players of Simply Quartet stand separately, each with a different coloured rectangle behind them
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Classical music

ECHO Rising Stars: Simply Quartet

Simply Quartet are, simply, ‘one of the brightest quartets of its generation’ says Vladimir Balshin. As cellist of one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished chamber groups, he should know.

Anton Webern Five movements for String Quartet
Julia Lacherstorfer un:fold*
Bela Bartók String Quartet No 6
Simply Quartet
Black and white portrait photo of Zadie Smith
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Classical music

Zadie Smith and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Zadie Smith, one of the most influential cultural figures in Britain joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a concert blurring boundaries between music and words.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon conductor
Zadie Smith author & speaker
Group of young musicians with their instruments on a yellow background
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NOYO Debut Concert

Debut performance of the National Open Youth Orchestra

Peter Moore
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London Symphony Orchestra / Xian Zhang & Peter Moore

Tales of fantasy from Stravinsky and Ravel, a song of exile from Qigang Chen, and a homecoming for Dani Howard’s new trombone concerto – played by one of the LSO’s own brass stars.

Maurice Ravel Mother Goose – Suite
Dani Howard Trombone Concerto
Qigang Chen L’Eloignement
Igor Stravinsky The Firebird – Suite (1919 version)
London Symphony Orchestra
Xian Zhang conductor
Peter Moore trombone
Magdalena Kožená
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle & Magdalena Kožená

Beat the commute at this Half Six Fix concert, with Sir Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kožená and Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins.

Kurt Weill The Seven Deadly Sins
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor & presenter
Magdalena Kožená Anna
Andrew Staples father
Alessandro Fisher brother
Ross Ramgobin brother
Florian Boesch mother
Sarah Playfair casting consultant