Playlist: Multitudes
Get a feel for our electrifying new arts festival, powered by orchestral music
An opportunity to experience the music of an orchestra, completely reimagined. That’s the premise of Multitudes, which we held for the first time here at the Southbank Centre in April and May 2025.
Bringing together world-class orchestras – including each of our six Resident Orchestras – with a host of ambitious and exciting artists and performers, Multitudes offered new ways to connect with music. It’s a world where compositions old and new were brought to life with the collaboration of dancers, visual artists, poets and MCs, and where the music is taken beyond our auditoria.
To give you a flavour of Multitudes’ debut year we put together this playlist featuring some of the works, composers and performers who joined us in spring 2025.
‘We’re offering both artists and audiences a platform to explore the rich and varied tapestry of sound that defines classical music today’
Mark Ball, Artistic Director, Southbank Centre
Who is composer Alban Berg?
Discover the Austrian composer who hid an affair in his music score and whose first orchestral work caused a riot.
My mixtape: John Gosling’s 10 tracks for Lee Alexander McQueen
The musician and producer shares a playlist of pieces which put him in mind of his friend, the designer Lee Alexander McQueen.
Playlist: Classical favourites, inspired by Multitudes
Listen to a playlist created for Multitudes by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and pupils at Acland Burghley School.