Professor Gail Whiteman discusses resilience, creativity and climate change.
Jazz legend Terence Blanchard joins the LPO for a rare UK appearance.
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Elgar’s oratorio includes some of his most deeply felt music, sumptuously scored and plumbing every emotion from anguish to elation.
Two extraordinary late works from Brahms and Shostakovich, written for the evocative, earthy tones of the viola.
The distinguished mezzo-soprano performs a thoughtfully curated programme that tells a remarkable story: how European composers, fleeing their homelands during the turbulent 1930s, transformed exile into opportunity in America during the ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’. With music ranging from Korngold, Weill and Eisler to Gone With The Wind, Mary Poppins and Pinocchio.
Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra presents Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People — Brent Michael Davids’s searing work which confronts hard truths about America’s founding.
The internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano, accompanied by a three-piece guest ensemble, journeys through two vibrant musical worlds: she brings warmth and wit to French chansons by Lemarque, Betti, Trenet, Chaminade, Hahn, Ferré, and others, and then turns to the theatrical and daring world of German cabaret, including music by Glanzberg, Hollaender, Jary, Weill, and Eisler.
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