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The LSC's current season is drawing to a spectacular finale with performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 at St. Paul's Cathedral with the LSO under Valery Gergiev, and the PROMS performance of Janacek's Glagolitic Mass with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Plans have just been announced for the 2009/09 season and they include some very special events, including Walton's Belshazzar's Feast conducted by Sir Colin Davis.  Sir Colin will also be conducting two performances of Berlioz's Te Deum and the Verdi Requiem.

The Verdi Requiem is the featured work in the LSC's tour to Denver in October, which will on this occasion be conducted by Maestro Lawrence Golan with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra.  European tours are also in the pipeline for the forthcoming season. 

Valery Gergiev, principal conductor of the LSO, will be conducting Act 3 of Wagner's Parsifal at the Barbican with the LSO and under Michael Tilson Thomas, the Chorus will take part in Villa- Lobos's Choros No. 10.

Continuing Richard Hickox's journey through the works of Vaughan Williams, the LSC will be taking part in a performance of Dona Nobis Pacem with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.  The other concert with Richard Hickox in this season will be Arthur Bliss's rarely heard choral work Morning Heroes.

The London Symphony Orchestra has recently published its programme for the 2008/09 season, and it includes the following concerts at the Barbican involving the London Symphony Chorus:

Sunday, 28th September & Tuesday, 30th September 2008

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast (Conductor: Sir Colin Davis; Baritone: Peter Coleman Wright) 

Sunday, 11th January and Wednesday, 14th January 2009

Verdi: Requiem (Conductor: Sir Colin Davis; Soprano, Christine Brewer; Mezzo-Soprano, Larissa Diadkova; Tenor, Stuart Neill; Bass, Orlin Anastassov)

Sunday, 22nd and Monday, 23rd February 2009

Berlioz: Te Deum (Conductor: Sir Colin Davis; Tenor: Colin Lee)

Thursday, 12 March 2009

Wagner Parsifal (Act III) (Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Cast includes: Rene Pape as Gurnemanz)

Sunday, 7th June 2009

Bliss: Morning Heroes (Conductor: Richard Hickox)

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Tuesday, 22nd September

Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Faust: (to be announced), Marguerite, Bernarda Fink; Mephistopheles, Thomas Quasthoff; Brander, Florian Boesch

All concerts are at the Barbican Hall.  You can choose your own seat online by visiting: lso.co.uk (£1 booking fee), or by calling 0845 120 7591 (£2 booking fee).