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Wigmore Hall
Piano recitals, song and chamber ensembles are the focus at this Marylebone concert hall, with lunchtime and evening programmes throughout the season.
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MF Robots
MF Robots brings Dawnn Joseph and the live band to Village Underground, with Abi Clarke announced for DJ duties around the performance.
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Trees: Live in Concert
Filmmaker Sam Green and composer Caroline Shaw bring a live orchestral film experience to the Barbican, with writing by Rebecca Solnit.
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Yuja Wang and Gustavo Gimeno: Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky
Yuja Wang plays Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto in a programme framed by Night on the Bare Mountain and a suite from Swan Lake.
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Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony and Fujikura with Pappano
Antonio Pappano conducts Mahler’s Second Symphony and the UK premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Amber Alchemy, with the London Symphony Chorus.
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Troxy
Large-scale gigs and live entertainment occupy Troxy’s Art Deco hall on Commercial Road, east of the central concert circuit.
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Half Six Fix: Bruckner’s Ninth
Antonio Pappano introduces and conducts Bruckner’s final symphony in an early-evening Half Six Fix at the Barbican.
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EartH
EartH brings a tiered theatre, a standing hall and smaller gathering spaces together for live music, club nights and festivals in Dalston.
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Edmund Finnis
Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins Antonio Pappano for Edmund Finnis’s Cello Concerto, followed by Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony.
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Electric Ballroom
A Camden High Street live venue for touring bands and club events, immediately useful when an evening is built around a particular gig.
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Tchaikovsky, Hannah Kendall and Liadov
Fleur Barron performs the world premiere of Hannah Kendall’s I have discovered the secret of death, alongside Liadov and Tchaikovsky.
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Electric Brixton
Brixton’s former cinema hosts concerts and electronic music nights, with a programme that moves between live performance and late dancing.
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Thomas Adès conducts Sibelius and Nørgård
Bertrand Chamayou plays Adès’s In Seven Days in a programme that also includes Per Nørgård’s Dream Play and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony.
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KOKO
The restored Camden theatre hosts live bands, jazz evenings and electronic nights beneath its balconies, with different formats across the week.
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Sibelius, Saariaho and Adès with Anna Dennis
Soprano Anna Dennis and the London Symphony Chorus join Thomas Adès for a programme moving between Sibelius, Saariaho and his own music.
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Ministry of Sound
The Gaunt Street club remains a destination for dance-music nights built around DJs, promoters and a multi-room sound experience.
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Half Six Fix: Steve Reich at 90
Susanna Mälkki introduces Steve Reich’s Three Movements and Music for Ensemble & Orchestra in a compact early-evening celebration.
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Phonox
A focused Brixton dancefloor where DJ residencies and longer sets shape the night, with a no-camera approach to the room.
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Steve Reich at 90 with Susanna Mälkki
Five works trace different scales of Steve Reich’s writing, from Music for Pieces of Wood to the larger forces of Music for Ensemble & Orchestra.
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Night Tales
A Hackney terrace and indoor club make Night Tales work for an early drink that develops into a longer night of music.
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Soweto Kinch: Trilogy
Saxophone, vocals and orchestra meet as Soweto Kinch revisits The Black Peril, White Juju and Soundtrack to the Apocalypse.
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Omeara
Live music and club programming occupy an intimate railway-arch venue in the London Bridge area, within the wider Rae’s complex.
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Half Six Fix: Vaughan Williams
Antonio Pappano pairs Vaughan Williams’s A Pastoral Symphony with Symphony No 8 in an early-evening concert with introductions.
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The Cause
The Cause’s current Dock Road home hosts electronic music and community-led nightlife in east London, with nights that can spread across several spaces.