After 6am, Music, Classical

Horologe. Courtly French versus earthy English, period instrument ensemble Horologe present two programmes of Baroque love and loss, with dramatised songs and instrumental music by Clérambault, Rameau, Lawes, Hayes, Purcell and others. This was music written for performance in patron's homes in their private chambers…

Explore the mixed-up show-off 1980s as we create the soundtrack to the decade. There was the 1980s decade that the I Love You television programmes mock and celebrate, where everything seemed about Me, Me and Me again. It included the big hair and the eye-popping shoulder pads, the MTV gloss and champagne bubbles and…

SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER Weekend events from 10am The Pill. Rebellion. Experimentation. Protest. Civil Rights. This weekend we look at the Vietnam protests, pop art, social change, the anti-nuclear movement, civil rights, the Profumo affair, Skiffle, the Beatles and maverick composers including Frank Zappa, Stockhausen…

SATURDAY 26 – SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER Weekend events from 10am The Pill. Rebellion. Experimentation. Protest. Civil Rights. This weekend we look at the Vietnam protests, pop art, social change, the anti-nuclear movement, civil rights, the Profumo affair, Skiffle, the Beatles and maverick composers including Frank…

Film screening: 2001: A Space Odyssey Following sell-out successes in 2010 and 2011, Southbank Centre presents Stanley Kubrick's seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey with live music. Conducted by Benjamin Wallfisch, the enormous forces of Philharmonia Orchestra and Philharmonia Voices join together to perform the…

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Classical music competition that requires contestants to perform in at least three languages.

Classical music competition that requires contestants to perform in at least three languages.

Classical music competition that requires contestants to perform in at least three languages.

Classical music competition that requires contestants to perform in at least three languages.

An evening of thrilling 20th century classics from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief guest conductor, Ilan Volkov, who is widely renowned for the passion and intensity of his music making. Sinfonia by Luciano Berio is a virtuoso work full of colour and humour that poses profound questions about what a…

The London-based seven-piece performs a crossover of the indie-rock and classical genres.

The official opening to the festival, led by the city's Provost with the anthems of participating countries played by the Youth Symphonic Orchestra Rijnstreek.

• Written by: Gaubert

The flute and piano duo performs works by Handel, Mozart, Gaubert, Reinecke and Bizet.

• Written by: Lawes

The orchestra performs Blow's Suite from Venus And Adonis, Dowland's Lachrimae Antiquae; Lachrimae Antiquae Novae; Lachrimae Verae, William Byrd's The Queenes Alman from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Purcell's Suite from The Fairy Queen, Lawes's Pavan from Consort Sett A 5 In C and Locke's Suite from The Tempest.

• Directed by: Richard Egarr (cond)
• Written by: Beethoven

Richard Egarr conducts Mozart's Symphony No 41, Jupiter, Haydn's Symphony No 104, London and Beethoven's Symphony No 9, Choral, with Elizabeth Watts, soprano, Daniela Lehner, mezzo-soprano, Benjamin Hulett, tenor and Andrew Foster-Williams, bass.

• Directed by: Bernard Labadie (cond)
• Written by: Handel

Bernard Labadie conducts Handel's Messiah, with Lydia Teuscher, soprano, Iestyn Davies, countertenor, Jeremy Ovenden, tenor and Andrew Foster-Williams, bass.

• Written by: Pergolesi

The group performs Vivaldi's Stabat Mater and Salve Regina, Unico Willhelm van Wassenaer's Concerto Armonico No 2 In B Flat Major and Concerto Armonico No 3 In A Major, plus Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, with Andreas Scholl, countertenor and Klara Ek, soprano.

• Written by: Mendelssohn

The orchestra performs Brahms's Sextet In G, Dvorak's String Sextet In A and Mendelssohn's Octet For Strings In E Flat.

• Written by: Arvo Part

The group performs Elgar's Introduction And Allegro, Britten's Les Illuminations, Part's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten and Britten's Serenade and Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge.

• Directed by: Murray Perahia (dir)
• Written by: Beethoven

The orchestra performs Stravinsky's Concerto In E Flat Major, Dumbarton Oaks, Haydn's Symphony No 77 In B Flat and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5, 'Emperor', with Murray Perahia, piano.

• Written by: Bridge

The flautist, violinist, violist, cellist, harpist and pianist perform Bridge's Cello Sonata In D Minor, Faure's Violin Sonata No 2 In E Minor, Debussy's Sonata For Flute, Viola And Harp and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2 In E Minor.

The cellist and pianist duo performs a selection of classical pieces.

The organists perform various works.