Southbank Centre

Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, London

Guide at Southbank Centre London, july 2024

European Poetry Festival: Norwegian Poetry

Wed 3 Jul 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London

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Supported by NORLA and The Royal Norwegian Embassy in London, this is a unique exploration of

Apartment House: Annea Lockwood & José Maceda

Thu 4 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

Join us for the opening concert of Sound Within Sound , with music inspired by nature from Annea Lockwood and uniquely-scored chamber music from José Maceda.
Read, watch and listen more Explore the beautiful and innovative chamber music of composers Annea Lockwood and José Maceda, both of who took inspiration from the natural world.
Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born sound artist who use

London Sinfonietta: Carrillo & Revueltas

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 19:00 - Southbank Centre, London

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Performers London Sinfonietta Repertoire Programme includes : Revueltas : Chamber works to be

Éliane Radigue’s Occam Ocean

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 18:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Begin your evening with the free-flowing sounds of Éliane Radigue’s Occam Ocean , which invites you to slow down and be engulfed in music.
Read, watch and listen more Named after the theory of philosopher William of Ockham, that the simplest option is always the best, Radigue’s ethereal sounds invite audiences to discover the beauty of subtle and unshowy mastery of instruments.
This instal

Maya Dunietz Performs Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 20:30 - Southbank Centre, London

The composer’s beautiful piano works are brought to life, transporting us to the holy setting where the nun wrote her music.
Read, watch and listen more 'Emahoy was ninety-three when I met her... She couldn’t easily get out of bed, so our conversations took place in a necessarily intimate way, with me sitting on a stool at her bedside, leaning right in so she could hear what I was saying,’ rem

London Sinfonietta: Ustvolskaya

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:00 - Southbank Centre, London

The London Sinfonietta plays music from an extraordinary composer who resisted conforming under the
... political dissent as party-line music.
The London Sinfonietta explores the extraordinary progressive... radical resistance and musical brilliance at once.
Performers London Sinfonietta Repertoire Programme

Mozart Requiem

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

London Philharmonic Choir Repertoire Mozart : Overture, The Magic Flute ; Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K

Deep Listening: Else Marie Pade

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Immerse yourself in the unsettling sonic world of the composer dubbed the 'Technogranny’, with compositions inspired by the sounds of a 20th-century fairground.
Read, watch and listen more Dyrehavesbakken - or Bakken as it’s commonly known - is the world’s oldest amusement park, located just north of Copenhagen. Imagine the medley of sounds that made up the soundscape of this park in the mid-2

Quatuor Bozzini: Crawford Seeger & Abrams

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 18:30 - Southbank Centre, London

fellow North Americans to London to fill the Purcell Room with innovative music.
While America adored

Siwan Rhys: Ustvolskaya Solo Piano Works

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 15:45 - Southbank Centre, London

Siwan Rhys approaches the physical limits of piano-playing in Galina Ustvolskaya’s hurtling, ferocious outpouring of frustration and resistance.
Read, watch and listen more There aren’t many piano compositions which leave the hands and arms of the pianist bruised.
It’s also not every day that a pianist has to make sense of a score which contains passages marked 'very, very, very loud’, fol