LSO: Noseda conducts Verdi: Requiem

Gianandrea Noseda gathers together an outstanding cast of Italian stars for this searing performance of Verdi’s Requiem. PROGRAM Verdi: Requiem

LSO: Rattle conducts Mahler & Turnage

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO give the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Remembering. The work is written in memory of Evan Scofield, the son of guitarist John Scofield, with whom Turnage worked closely. The premiere is coupled with Mahler’s Sixth Symphony; a disturbing in its nihilistic despair yet attains a true and monumental grandeur. PROGRAM Turnage: Remembering ‘In Memoriam Evan Scofield’; Mahler: Symphony No 6

LSO: Roth conducts Bruckner, Debussy & Bartók

Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the LSO in Debussy’s evocative Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune, alongside Bartok’s Viola Concerto with Anton Tamestit and Bruckner’s Symphony No.4, filled to te brim with evocative images of love, nature and a simpler time. PROGRAM Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; Bartók: Viola Concerto; Bruckner: Symphony No 4

LSO: Rattle conducts Stravinsky Ballet Music

An authority on Stravinsky, Sir Simon Rattle celebrates three of the composer’s revolutionary ballets. Stravinsky sent shockwaves through classical music in the 20th century. His first three ballets – The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, all composed between 1911 and 1913 – brought a new and frenzied sense of rhythm, so distressing to audiences that it caused uproar; The Rite of Spring even caused a riot. And it’s not hard to see why. Is there any moment in music more demonic than the opening to The Firebird, a terrifying rumble of strings that would make Jaws tremble? There are few pieces more unsettling than The Rite of Spring with ist carnal, tribal rhythms; or Petrushka with ist impish Punch and Judy puppets. Sir Simon Rattle brings these three creations to life in this dramatic programme. PROGRAM STRAVINSKY The Firebird (original ballet), Petrushka (1947 version), The Rite of Spring

LSO: Bychkov conducts Mahler

Hear the full power of the LSO, soloists and chorus, as they take on Mahler’s epic ‘Ressurection’ Symphony. PROGRAM Mahler: Symphony No 2

LSO: Rattle conducts Mahler and Tippett

From blissful radiances to a last lament, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the final works of Sir Michael Tippett and Gustav Mahler. Tippett never shied away from breaking new musical ground, and his last major work, ‘a song without words for orchestra’, was no exception. Inspired by journeys to Senegal, The Rose Lake is the imaginary chant of the breathtaking, rose-hued Lake Retba. Each section of the orchestra is illuminated, with driving percussive forces and soaring melodies portraying a euphoric awakening of the landscape. The Rose Lake is a hymn of nature; but Mahler’s final work, left unfinished and restored after years of collaboration, is the cry of a desperate man. Condemned to life with a fatal heart condition and a failing marriage, his Tenth Symphony is a heartrending goodbye – as the composer himself inscribed on the manuscript, ‘farewell, farewell’. PROGRAM Tippett: The Rose Lake; Mahler: comp COOKE Symphony No 10

LSO: Rattle conducts Folk Roots, Urban Roots

Jubilent Eastern European folk music, swinging Latin American rhythms and toe-tapping jazz are brought together in an ambitious programme featuring the legendary Labeque Sisters under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle. PROGRAM Bartok: Hungarian Peasant Songs; Szymanowski: Harnasie; Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto; Golijov: Nazareno; Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riff

LSO: Gergiev conducts Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette

In this groundbreaking take on William Shakespeare’s bittersweet tragedy, Hector Berlioz combines the playwright’s influence with all the musical drama of Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies. PROGRAM Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Overture: Benvenuto Cellini

LSO: Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann

Inspired by his travels around Britain, and full of the influence of the rolling Scottish landscape, Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 – often known as ‘Scottish’ – and his Overture: The Hebrides are among his most popular and admired works. Programmed with Schumann’s richly imaginative Piano Concerto, acclaimed pianist Maria João Pires joins the Orchestra as soloist.”Even if they spoke with different accents these genial Romantics were united in their ambitious fervour for ‘abstract’ music to be acknowledged as having the same expressive force as poetry, drama or the literary novel. The three works on this album exemplify the endeavour and range of invention of two of them, friends and colleagues in Leipzig” (Sir John Eliot Gardiner). PROGRAM Mendelssohn, Overture: The Hebrides, Symphony No. 3; Schumann, Piano Concerto