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London Symphony Orchestra 2017/18: Concerts to book now

By CW Contributor on 31/1/2017

Music-lovers rejoice! Culture Whisper conducts you through the London Symphony Orchestra's first season with its new music director, Sir Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Rattle is leaving Berlin to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

This is Rattle

A 10-day festival of music celebrates the arrival in the capital of Sir Simon Rattle as the new music director of the London Symphony Orchestra

WHEN

14 Sep 2017 – 24 Sep 2017, times vary

WHERE

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Half Six Fix

An hour's music is the perfect antidote to a demanding day, and starts the evening out in style

WHEN

01 Nov 2017 – 28 Mar 2018, three concerts

WHERE

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Leonard Bernstein was an inspiring conductor and composer. Photograph: LSO archive

Bernstein 100

Bernstein composed musicals that live in your head, but 100 years since his birth it's time to explore beyond West Side Story

WHEN

05 Nov 2017 – 28 Jan 2018, times vary; 10 events

WHERE

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Sir Simon Rattle is bringing music seldom heard to the Barbican. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Genesis Suite

A rare chance to catch a piece with not just one but seven composers

WHEN

On 13 Jan 2018, 7:30 PM – 9:40 PM

WHERE

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

The exciting British composer Helen Grime has written a new work for the LSO. Photograph: Jonathan Wrather

Mahler 9

British music is being championed by Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra, and that includes new compositions, like Helen Grime's

WHEN

19 Apr 2018 – 26 Apr 2018, two performances of the same programme

WHERE

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

London Symphony Orchestra 2017/18: Concerts to book now

Music-lovers rejoice! Culture Whisper conducts you through the London Symphony Orchestra's first season with its new music director, Sir Simon Rattle

This is Rattle

Half Six Fix

Bernstein 100

Genesis Suite

Mahler 9

London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle

Barbican

John Adams's Doctor Atomic, Barbican Hall

Love Classical, festival of classical music, Royal Albert Hall

The Winter's Tale ★★★★★ review, English National Opera

New York Philharmonic Residency, Barbican Centre

La Traviata, Royal Opera House review ★★★★★

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Festival Hall