What's On

Specially tailored for people with autism, sensory and communication impairments and learning disabilities, this concert features many of the same pieces as the lunchtime Discovery concert. Babies under 1 year old are welcome but please consider how children may affect the experience for other audience members and the performers. Contact celia.wynnewillson@lso.co.uk to find out more.

lso.co.uk/fridaylunchtimes

Join us as the LSO’s regular Friday lunchtime season of informal and informative concerts joins up with Baroque at the Edge to explore 20th century Russian responses to the baroque in chamber music by Bach, Stravinsky, Schnittke and Shostakovich. Presenter Rachel Leach will be on hand to explain, and there will be a chance to put your questions to her and the musicians. Contact rebecca.ranson@lso.co.uk to find out more.

lso.co.uk/fridaylunchtimes

Renowned for his eclectic tastes ranging from baroque to techno, experimental pianist and composer Francesco Tristano presents piano2.0, mixing acoustic and electronics in a unique sequence of Bach, Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Gibbons and his own compositions.

The Italian-born violinist performs variations by Van Eyck, extensions and elaborations of madrigals by Monteverdi and Rore, a new work by Jocelyn Campbell, and tributes to Lead Belly (via Cassandra Miller and Kurt Cobain) and Fugazi.

Fiona Talkington talks to writer Clare Norburn and Oliver Webber, director of the Monteverdi String Band, about the making of this evening’s concert-play and the life and work of the great philosopher.

Bach cello suites re-imagined, natural sounds of Finland, and the deep tones of bass guitar come together in this unique and atmospheric collaboration.

Another exciting and innovative concert-play from Clare Norburn to follow the successes at previous festivals of Breaking the Rules and Burying the Dead. As a scientist and philosopher, Galileo was the odd-one-out in a family of musicians. In this  exploration of his ideas, music by Monteverdi, Kapsberger and Galileo’s own father and brother acts as a trigger to memory,  transporting us back to his lectures and early experiments, and recalling matters of family, cosmology, and ultimately his  betrayal and trial for heresy.

German viol virtuoso Hille Perl and daughter Marthe bring new sounds and approaches to music ranging from Marais and Soler to Irish traditional to Poulenc and contemporary.

Before their Sunday-night concert ‘Songs of Longing and Exile’, Stile Antico and Woven Gold lead a singing workshop for all ages and abilities on music of longing, including works by John Dowland. Music-reading ability is not needed for this workshop.

Henry Purcell, English traditional songs, Lou Reed, Joy Division and more meet in typically personal and powerful realisations by the inimitable Norwegian singer and creator of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra.

Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble  Stile Antico are joined by oud-player Rihab Azar and Woven Gold, the London-based choir of refugees and asylum-seekers, to explore displacement and exile. Their concert includes John Dowland’s probing cycle of  seven pavans probing cycle of seven pavans, Lachrimae, with new texts from poet Peter Oswald based on the testimonies
of modern-day refugees and migrants, as well as Bodrum Beach, a piece composed for the project by Giles Swayne.

This project is supported by Arts Council England, Golsoncott Foundation, Leche Trust, Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and Stile Antico Foundation