Thursday, September 18, 2025 Barbican Hall, London Having opened the new season with the Third Symphonies of Bernstein (‘Kaddish’) and Copland, the latter played again early evening yesterday, Sir Antonio and the LSO coupled two further such works here, beginning with the compact five-movement Ninth of Shostakovich, not the bells-and-whistles, end-of-WWII extravaganza that the authorities … Continue reading LSO – live on Stage+ – Antonio Pappano conducts Symphonies by Shostakovich (No.9) and Beethoven (the Fifth), with Seong-Jin Cho playing Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.