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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25209
    #1

    Barbican season 2017-2018

    Anybody got any must see concerts for this season?

    I'm sure there is lots good to enjoy, but the Barbican website has exhausted my patience, and it has to be something a bit special to get me over there anyway.

    Does anybody know if there is a paper listing available these days ?

    Anyway, one I fancy is the JEG Schumann/Berlioz concert on March 11, Second Symphony and Nuits D'Ete. Silly day for a concert , Sunday, but so it goes.
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.
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  • pastoralguy
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 7757
    #2
    I'm really looking forward to the RSNO's opening concert in October which features Nicola Benedetti in Elgar's Violin Concerto coupled with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Two of my all time favourite works which seem odd bed fellows!

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    • Petrushka
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12247
      #3
      I've picked out three of the Rattle/LSO concerts and already have my tickets for the three Stravinsky ballets, Firebird, Petrushka and the Rite, on Sept 21 plus two next April featuring Mahler 9 and Mahler 10. Not at home at the moment so exact dates not to hand.

      There are a couple of LSO/Haitink concerts in October but alas, I've no holidays left at work.

      Again, details not to hand, but I thought the season outside the LSO concerts was pretty dull.
      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163
        #4
        Details here:

        Classical music | Barbican
        https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/classical-music
        Browse concerts from the Barbican Classical Music programme featuring leading orchestras and soloists from around the world
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25209
          #5
          And hey bungo, a nice catalogue arrived in the post today.

          Only goes up to January, mind, but good news anyway.
          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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          • bluestateprommer
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3009
            #6
            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
            Anybody got any must see concerts for this season? I'm sure there is lots good to enjoy, but the Barbican website has exhausted my patience, and it has to be something a bit special to get me over there anyway.
            Not that the opinion of a Yank nowhere near London counts for much, but just at a glance, if I had loads of time and $$ (OK, ££), and if I were over there, I'd check out Barbican concerts like these:

            Total Immersion: Julian Anderson Chamber Music
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6qgwh
            Anderson’s chamber works here span 21 years of his compositional life, and reveal his characteristically acute ear for texture on a small scale.


            Total Immersion: Julian Anderson
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9hxj5
            Julian Anderson in orchestral mode, exploring space, time and texture in a way that makes him one of the most distinctive composers writing today.


            John Storgårds conducts UK Premiere by Betsy Jolas
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ecdv2m
            The doyenne of French composers, Betsy Jolas, brings one of her latest works to London, presented alongside music by Lili Boulanger and Gustav Mahler.


            John Storgårds conducts UK Premiere by Betsy Jolas
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ecdv2m
            The doyenne of French composers, Betsy Jolas, brings one of her latest works to London, presented alongside music by Lili Boulanger and Gustav Mahler.


            Sibelius Symphonies: Symphony No. 3
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ez35v2
            Two symphonies written 50 years apart, and perfectly complementary, bookend two great French works for piano and orchestra played by a master.


            Sibelius Symphonies: Symphonies No. 4 & 6
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e2hxj5
            Two of Sibelius’s most rewarding symphonies bookend the UK premiere of Anders Hillborg’s Violin Concerto No. 2 played by Lisa Batiashvili.


            Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ed9whn
            A rich survey of Salonen’s music with orchestra including the thrilling Wing on Wing inspired by the striking architecture of LA’s Disney Hall.


            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9bzc8 (not for the first half, but rather the 2nd half)

            https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e4mrzc (mainly for the 1st half)

            The two BBC SO / Oramo concerts with Sibelius are for admittedly selfish reasons, as 3 & 6 are the two Sibelius symphonies that I've never heard live.

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            • Beef Oven!
              Ex-member
              • Sep 2013
              • 18147
              #7
              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              And hey bungo, a nice catalogue arrived in the post today.

              Only goes up to January, mind, but good news anyway.
              Snap!

              Btw, do you still want to go to Sibelius 6/7 RFH?

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25209
                #8
                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                Snap!

                Btw, do you still want to go to Sibelius 6/7 RFH?
                Yes.
                you ? TBF, you can't get enough Sibelius live. At least that is what the promoters seem to think !! anyway, I'm up for it.
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Beef Oven!
                  Ex-member
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147
                  #9
                  Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                  Yes.
                  you ? TBF, you can't get enough Sibelius live. At least that is what the promoters seem to think !! anyway, I'm up for it.
                  Me too, just need to double check that day in my diary - that's a busy week for me. Will get back to you.

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25209
                    #10
                    Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                    Me too, just need to double check that day in my diary - that's a busy week for me. Will get back to you.
                    Great, hope you can make it.
                    And lets hope they get the programme right this time. Last time we went to hear some Sibelius they advertised several works incorrectly......
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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