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Two different concert nights for 23–24 October
Choose orchestral storytelling on Friday or voices, electronics and percussion on Saturday. These are separate bookings at different venues, not a two-day ticket or a continuous festival.
Friday: a new concerto beside The Firebird
Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra with pianist Tamara Stefanovich.
Dorothy Howell’s Lamia opens; Mark Simpson’s Piano Concerto receives its world premiere; Stravinsky’s complete 1910 Firebird follows the interval. The venue flags a change from the originally advertised artist.
Use this current programme rather than an older season leaflet.
- Friday 23 October
- The Firebird · 19:30 BST · Royal Festival Hall
- Friday tariff
- From £20; confirm selected seats and basket total
- Saturday 24 October
- Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang + Shards · 19:30 BST · Barbican Hall
- Saturday tariff
- From £24, listed as £20 plus £4 transaction fee
- Booking
- Two independent performances; check each official seller
- Last source check
- 20 October 2026; no live seat-inventory guarantee
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Saturday: sound in two different forms
Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang bring The Endless Dance, combining electronics and Chinese instrumentation around the calendar’s 24 solar terms.
Shards opens with the world premiere of Underland, adapting Peel’s score for choir, electronics and imagery drawn from Robert Petit’s film. This is a different musical proposition from Friday’s orchestra, not another performance of the same programme.
A small chooser before you buy
Choose Friday if an orchestra, a piano soloist and a clearly listed interval suit your group.
Choose Saturday if discovering a collaboration across electronic, percussion and vocal sound is the main appeal. If budget is decisive, compare the actual seats offered rather than only the two starting prices.
If one venue is much easier to reach, weigh that benefit before adding a cross-city journey.
Timing and cost without false precision
Both start at 19:30 BST.
Friday is listed at approximately two hours and from £20; Saturday starts from £24 including the advertised £4 transaction fee, but no finish is confirmed here. The figures belong to separate booking systems.
We have not checked out seats or assumed that the lowest band remains available. Confirm the selected performance, full total and any access requirements directly.
One evening can be enough
Treat a concert as the anchor rather than squeezing in a second ticketed attraction.
A nearby meal and a flexible earlier walk can make a calmer plan. For Friday, save Royal Festival Hall rather than Queen Elizabeth Hall; for Saturday, save Barbican Hall.
If you attend both nights, plan each journey separately instead of assuming the same station, entrance or booking conditions.
The weekend clock change
These two performances take place before the clocks return to GMT on Sunday 25 October.
Their published 19:30 starts are therefore BST. When comparing a Sunday booking or an overseas calendar invitation, use Europe/London for that particular date rather than applying one fixed UTC offset to the whole weekend.
Questions, answered
Does one ticket cover both concerts?
No. Friday’s Southbank concert and Saturday’s Barbican performance are separate bookings.
Which one is at the Barbican?
Hannah Peel, Beibei Wang and Shards on Saturday 24 October.
Is the Saturday finish confirmed?
Not in this guide. The Friday running time is approximately two hours; do not transfer it to Saturday.
