Elizaveta Ivanova and Sanja Bizjak present a performance of Prokofiev’s Sonatas in this BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.
A new season begins with music that speaks to the heart.
When it came to emotion, the composers of the Romantic era never held back.
The NDR Radio Philharmonic Hanover ignites the stage with Prokofiev’s sparkling 'Classical' Symphony, Rachmaninov’s dazzling, youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 with star pianist Nikolai Lugansky, and Brahms’ joyful, sunlit Symphony No. 2.
Tchaikovsky’s explosive Manfred Symphony meets the sunlit warmth of Brahms’s Violin Concerto.
Debussy’s 'La mer' crowns a concert that surges with elemental power; whether Britten’s East Anglian seascapes or Shostakovich at his punchiest.
Be among the first to hear a brand-new piano concerto, alongside music inspired by myth and magic.
Randall Goosby plays Barber’s Violin Concerto; a soaring prelude to the UK premiere of Caroline Shaw’s intergalactic oratorio, The Listeners.
Inspired by lyricism and pastoral beauty, a programme including sumptuous works by Butterworth (A Shropshire Lad) and Vaughan Williams (The Lark Ascending), Mozart’s good-humoured Violin Concerto No. 5, and Dvořák’s exuberant Symphony No. 8.
Beethoven's famous four-note opening is just the beginning of one of the most powerful journeys in classical music.