The Bang on a Can All-Stars team up with BBC Singers and conductor Tecwyn Evans for the UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical Anthracite Fields.
Young refugees from an award-winning poetry programme perform their own spoken word over orchestral backing tracks written in collaboration with composer Toby Young.
The incomparable Alfred Brendel coaches two professional string quartets in a public masterclass on music close to his heart - that of Beethoven and Schubert.
The music: The OAE perform the cantata Bach wrote for New Year’s Day, 1725. The science: Last year scientists, led by Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, discovered ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system.
Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins present Rebecca Clarke’s little-known early violin sonata alongside music by the French composers she admired, Debussy and Lili Boulanger.
Kings Place Resident Aurora Orchestra explores the different guises of transformation in the music of Anna Meredith, Emily Hall, and Mozart.
The Chilingirian Quartet are joined by Prunella Pacey to explore two more of Mozart’s six string quintets with viola.
Scottish pianist Steven Osborne is one of Britain's most treasured musicians, whose insightful and idiomatic interpretations open up a world of immense musical depth.
In an exceptional melding of man and machine, Dan Tepfer uses the Yamaha Disklavier piano to bring together his world-class pianism with his background in physics and programming.
World-class pianist, improviser and now composer, Gabriela Montero, joins the Scottish Ensemble for a powerful programme including her new work for piano and string orchestra Babel.
Rachel Podger is joined by mezzo Ciara Hendrick for this alluring sequence featuring vocal and instrumental music of the Italian Renaissance and French Baroque.
The music: A cantata written when Bach was very busy – he was expected to produce six over the course of a month at the same time that he was writing the St John Passion. The science: How did the universe emerge from its dark ages after the Big Bang? Dr Emma Chapman tells us more...
The Consone Quartet explore and recreate the soundworld of the classical and early Romantic string quartet repertoire on period instruments.
Joanna MacGregor is one of today’s most invigorating of all high-profile musicians. Her remarkable programme brings together Beethoven with three outstanding female composers.
Internationally renowned pianist Lucy Parham is joined by acclaimed actors Henry Goodman and Juliet Stevenson for this special programme marking the bicentenary of Clara Wieck-Schumann.
The fêted Swedish-based Kungsbacka Trio return to Kings Place with two great works by Robert and Clara Schumann, prefaced by Natalie Klouda’s Fantasy Triptych.
The music: This theatrical cantata opens with an anguished tenor aria and remains one of the most furious and intense of the collection. The science: Professor Lewis Dartnell closes the season with a look at the latest research in astrobiology – the search for extraterrestrial life.
Italian pianist Alessandro Vena makes his UK debut with a programme including Chopin, Rachmaninov and Debussy
The multi-award winning Schumann Quartett return to Kings Place with a fascinating programme inspired by Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
London Sinfonietta’s latest Turning Points event features works by two of its greatest exponents; Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
Haydn’s witty, urbane Quartet in G from his Op. 33 set begins the Dante Quartet’s varied programme.
Leokadiya Kashperova was an acclaimed pianist and composer whose career and reputation were swallowed up by the 1917 Revolution. In this special programme, Andrei Ioniță gives the UK premiere of her glorious First Cello Sonata.
The Aquinas Trio focus on the three piano trios of Robert Schumann, putting each with a Haydn trio and a contemporary work.
This year’s Choral Pilgrimage brings together music past and present, highlighting The Sixteen’s choral journey over the last 40 years.