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Brutalism meets orchestral beauty as we mark 40 years of the Barbican Centre with music as idealistic, integral and provocative as the building itself.

A compelling synthesis of film and music as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ SO performs Vaughan Williams’s groundbreaking orchestral score live to accompany a screening of Charles Frend’s landmark movie.

The perfect introduction to Frank Zappa: Alex Winter’s new landmark documentary explores the man, the music and the phenomenon – both on the stage and far from it.

Guildhall’s Ubu Ensemble pay homage to Frank Zappa’s iconic last album, harvested from his appearance at the 1992 Frankfurt Festival.

For Frank Zappa, the symphony orchestra was the consummate vehicle for musical storytelling. Brad Lubman leads this performance culminating in Zappa’s acknowledged orchestral masterpieces.

John StorgÃ¥rds joins the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra to conduct Dmitri Shostakovich’s dramatic Fifth Symphony, a journey through life by Modest Mussorgsky and a fantastical work from Sofia Gubaidulina.

Jordan de Souza conducts an overture by Louise Ferrenc, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with soloist Francesca Dego.

Much talked-about Canadian conductor Jordan De Souza makes his UK concert debut in music devilishly enjoyable, wickedly entertaining and frantically unpredictable.