Southbank Centre are delighted The Duet Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (The Tragic), a work representing the full maturity of Mahler’s compositional abilities, full of drama, tenderness, and vast colourful orchestrations for a massive symphony orchestra.

The orchestra and the Duet Philharmonic Chorus also perform Stravinsky’s most religious work, The Symphony of Psalms, a work of extraordinary spiritualism connecting his relationship between Man and God.

Both works by Mahler and Stravinsky contain expansive and beautiful melodic lines, traditional harmonic language, and each composer’s personal stamp of form, structure and emotion.

The Duet Philharmonic Orchestra comprises the best-of-the-best music students from schools across the UK who perform every two years at Royal Festival Hall. The concert commences with a performance of Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, an exemplary tapestry of Wagner’s leitmotif technique revealing all of the themes from the vast opera distilled into simultaneous counterpoint.

Performers:

Duet Philharmonic Orchestra 
Ronald Corp conductor
Duet Philharmonic Chorus 

Repertoire:

Wagner: Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Interval
Mahler: Symphony No.6

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Make this Valentine’s day an excuse to indulge and take a look at the amazing offers at Marriott County Hall. 

The Library

Looking for a classy joint for Valentine's Day? Treat that special someone to a romantic dinner with breath-taking views over the Houses of Parliament and the River Thames. Impress your loved one with a three-course menu and a cocktail for £50 per person. 

Find out more and book. 

Gillray’s Steakhouse & Bar

Your better half is a meat lover just like you? Gillray's offers a special 600g sirloin to share on Valentine's Day.
Join us and choose our delectable £60 sharing sirloin.
Book your table at +442079028000 or [email protected]

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 Romance Getaway Package

Pull out all the stops for the one you love. This deal includes chocolate and bubbly in your room, plus breakfast the next morning, all at one of London’s most attractive hotels.

Find out more and book. 

Have you ever considered commuting to/from work by river?
A seat with a view, space to think and a fresh cup of coffee?

Now's your chance to try a happier commute with 20% off weekly and monthly season tickets on the River Bus.

MBNA Thames Clippers high speed catamarans serve 22 piers across London, including London Eye, Waterloo. Relax in the comfortable, climate-controlled cabins or on the outside back deck; enjoy a coffee in the morning from the licensed on-board bar or a chilled beer or wine on your way home. Services depart every 20 minutes from key piers and run from 5am until late at night.

Offer fares to/from London Eye (Waterloo) Pier (Central Zone) start from £31.44 for a weekly pass, or £94.36 for a monthly.

Terms and Conditions
New season ticket customers or first time purchasers via app only. 
For full T&Cs and to find out how to claim head here.

When the Christmas lights have come down, the daily commutes have returned and it’s dark by the time you leave the office, you’ll need some cheering up. That’s what Winter Dining is for.

The Oxo chefs have been busy creating mouth-watering delights to warm your cockles. And, for the first time ever, there is a menu in both the Brasserie and the Restaurant.

With delicious dishes including sea bass with squid ink linguine and Champagne sauce and beef cheek and oxtail ragu with truffle cheese macaroni, how could you possibly resist? Dessert includes spiced panna cotta with cranberries and chocolate mousse with Griottine cherries. To top it all off, Oxo Tower Bar and Brasserie are giving you a choice of exclusive winter cocktails to spice up your evening.

So, tear yourself away from your hibernation station, throw on your bobble hat and make your merry way over to the OXO Tower.

OXO Tower Restaurant

Three courses and a cocktail £39

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OXO Tower Brasserie

Three courses and a cocktail £30

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The Winter Dining menu will be available at OXO Tower Restaurant and Brasserie from 2 January – 28 February 2019 for up to 7 guests. Terms and Conditions apply and certain dates are excluded. Menus are subject to change.

Restaurant lunch availability: Monday to Friday 12 midday – 2.30 pm

Restaurant dinner availability: Sunday 6.30pm – 9.30pm; Monday and Tuesday 6pm – 10.30pm; Wednesday 6pm – 6.30pm, 9pm – 10.30pm; Thursday 6pm – 6.30pm, 9.30pm – 10.30pm; Friday 6pm, 9.45pm – 10.45pm; Saturday 10pm – 10.45pm

Brasserie lunch availability: Monday to Friday 12 midday – 12.30 pm, 2pm – 4.30pm

Brasserie dinner availability: Sunday 5pm – 6.15pm, 9pm – 10pm; Monday 5pm – 6.15pm, 9pm – 10.30pm; Tuesday and Wednesday 5pm – 6pm, 9pm – 10.30pm; Thursday 5pm – 6pm, 9.30pm – 10.30pm; Friday 5pm – 5.45pm, 9.45pm – 10.45pm; Saturday 10pm – 11pm

Book now. 

Running every 20 minutes between key piers from 6am until after 11pm, MBNA Thames Clippers is the best way to reach London’s most popular riverside attractions including London Eye, North Greenwich for The O2 and ICON Outlet, Greenwich, Tower and Battersea Power Station.

Outdoor back decks, comfortable seats inside with large windows and on-board licensed bars makes sightseeing from the river even more enjoyable.

Hop-on and hop-off all day between 17 piers and save 10% when buying your ticket online!
With a Family River Roamer kids (5-15 years) travel for free!

Book here.

Enjoy bao buns and bubbles at the multi award winning modern Pan-Asian cuisine restaurant, Chino Latino based at the Park Plaza.

With two bao buns and a pint of beer for £9.99 or a glass of bubbles for £14.99, Chino Latino are determined to make weekday lunchtimes a special occasion. 

Available Monday to Friday 12-2.30 excluding bank holidays.

Unbeatable views, live entertainment and great food: one way of  fitting in all that  London has to offer is on one of City Cruises keynote dining cruises on the River Thames.

City Cruises boats are ideal for watching the majesty of London and the tidal Thames pass by – perhaps as you enjoy a glass of bubbles? Big Ben, London Eye, Tower Bridge and the magical Thames feature on all our cruises. The London Showboat, our premier dinner cruise, goes, if tide and time allow, all the way to the Thames Barrier.

Enjoy either Lunch, Afternoon Tea, an Evening Cruise, London Showboat or the Thames Jazz Cruise with 30% off! 

Find out more and book here.

Michelangelo Antonioni : Confronting the Modern World with Style @ BFI Southbank until 28 February 
 

Antonioni profoundly influenced cinematic style, mood and outlook. Don’t miss the BFI’s retrospective to this Italian master. Highlights include an extended run of his haunting film The Passenger, featuring a magnetic Jack Nicholson as the jaded journalist who swaps his identity – with dangerous consequences.

“Until the film is edited, I have no idea myself what it will be about... Perhaps the film will only be a mood, or a statement about a style of life”

With their groundbreaking style and distinctive worldview, the influential films of Michelangelo Antonioni feel strangely timeless.

Never really a neo-realist, the former critic quickly established himself with a striking series of features notable for their visual elegance, narrative subtlety, and cool yet compassionate fascination with people striving to find satisfaction in a modern world devoted to material wellbeing, ‘progress’ and fleeting passions and fashions. Wary of melodrama and genre, Antonioni focused on mood, gesture and environment; silence was as meaningful as dialogue, and figures moved through landscapes that spoke volumes about longing, spiritual listlessness and solitude. In 1960, with the controversial L’avventura, his importance as an experimental innovator was recognised internationally: with its enigmatic characters and ambiguous storylines, its long shots and long takes, its chic costumes, distracted dancing and casual sex, modern art-cinema had truly arrived.

See the full listing of films in the series and purchase, here.

Get two for one tickets for any film in the season by simply quoting: antonioni241 at checkout. 

The holidays are about indulgence and celebration, so why have wine when you could have Champagne?

Like any great wine, Champagne can be paired excellently with food, the restaurant's Executive Head Chef has crafted an exclusive fish dish that pairs masterfully with the world’s best-rated House of Champagne – Krug.

The fabulous dish showcases wild turbot, creamed truffle potatoes, sea fennel and shellfish reduction, but the magic is in how it expresses the Champagne’s ability to complement a diversity of flavours. As fish is the House’s ingredient of choice for the year, this is a match made in heaven.

If you’re on board, head to the Restaurant where you can order the wild turbot and enjoy a glass of Krug Champagne, all for £40.

For further information or to make a booking please contact Oxo Tower here.