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If you haven't heard Mahler's Tenth, you haven't truly known him.
Subtle elegance and introspection infuse Mozart’s late piano concerto, while Brahms brings hope and solace in times of loss.
Hear the power of the Royal Festival Hall’s organ unleashed in eclectic music running the gamut from Bach to Errollyn Wallen.
The celebrated pianist explores short-form pieces of music across the ages with an aural sampler of different composers, culminating in Chopin’s 24 Preludes.
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja revels in a modernist masterwork, before Rachmaninoff’s tempestuous Symphony No 2, full of Romantic ardour.
Douglas Boyd directs a programme featuring a charming Haydn symphony and Strauss’ witty orchestral suite Le bourgeois gentilhomme.
Music that glitters, sings and dances for joy, as Sakari Oramo pairs two newly minted classics with Beethoven’s brightest symphony.
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a conductor? Join us for the day as Royal College of Music students, alumni, professors and special guests come together for the College’s Festival of Conducting!
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Hailed as “a magnetic presence” by New York Classical Review, Alena Baeva joins the Philharmonia Orchestra for Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a work of striking contrasts and emotional depth. Lyrical, long-breathed melodies fill the first two movements, but the violin’s singing lines are tinged with darkness, and give way to a stumbling dance in the finale.
Tangram are flipping the script with an evening of comedy and new music by East and Southeast Asian creatives. The spirit of it? Punching back at Orientalism in Western classical music and bringing audiences into their own imaginative soundworlds and hilarious stories.
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Four composers, each with a thousand tales to tell.
Tangram are flipping the script with an evening of comedy and new music by East and Southeast Asian creatives. The spirit of it? Punching back at Orientalism in Western classical music and bringing audiences into their own imaginative soundworlds and hilarious stories.
Trumpeter and vocalist Georgina Jackson directs the RCM Jazz Orchestra in a programme featuring music by the legendary Quincy Jones.
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Roam around our spaces to discover 200 musicians from six orchestras across multiple stages, performing classical music’s greatest hits.
Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.
Delving back into the rich history of Mediterranean medieval music, the collective offers up a window into a world gone by.
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Get ready for surging emotions, burning colours and glorious singing.
Marin Alsop conducts three of the most popular works in the orchestral repertoire in this space-themed concert for all the family.
A world premiere concerto from one of Britain’s finest composers, folk-inspired celebration of dance by Bartók, plus Rachmaninoff’s late and great orchestral showstopper.