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BBC Symphony Orchestra: Total Immersion - Icelandic Chill
BBC Symphony Orchestra: Total Immersion - Icelandic Chill: All Events
Sun 22 Feb 2026
- 19:00Barbican, London
Europe’s most northerly capital city pulses with creativity. Tonight, the BBC Symphony Orchestra embraces the Reykjavík new music scene in all its diversity and flair.
Europe’s most northerly capital city pulses with creativity. Tonight, the BBC Symphony Orchestra embraces the Reykjavík new music scene in all its diversity and flair.
Programme
- Another Kind of PeaceWorld Premiere
- I WANT TO BE ALIVEUK Premiere
- interval
- HringlaUK Premiere
- Dreamland SuiteUK Premiere
Performers
- Christian Karlsenconductor
- Bára Gísladóttirdouble bass
- 17:00Barbican, London
Hear from some of the composers whose music will be performed in the afternoon concert in Milton Court Concert Hall.
- 14:30Milton Court Concert Hall
sounds of wild beauty and quiet, luminous power.
- 13:30Barbican, London
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to Andrew Mellor about the music and composers featured in today’s first concert.
- 11:00Barbican, London
A screening of the BBC’s classic 2015 nature documentary Iceland: Land of Ice and Fire.
