Drama, fantasy and something wholly new: music by Brahms, Debussy and Laurence Osborn.
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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.
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Be among the first to hear a brand-new piano concerto, alongside music inspired by myth and magic.
Three leading early music performers unite in music by Marais, Forqueray, Couperin and others, exploring the brilliance and elegance of the French Baroque.
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Dvořák’s radiant Violin Concerto takes centre stage in an evening of bold colour and orchestral brilliance.
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.
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Beethoven's famous four-note opening is just the beginning of one of the most powerful journeys in classical music.
Cellist Andreas Brantelid and pianist Julien Quentin present a performance of Prokofiev’s and Shostakovich’s cello sonatas in this BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.
Elusive dreams, a soaring symphony, plus Thomas Adès conducts French pianist Bertrand Chamayou in his own vibrant evocation of the Creation.
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Mahler meets Beethoven in one dazzling concert.
The brilliant trumpeter and colleagues celebrate Nadia and Lili Boulanger through music by the remarkable sisters, their students, teachers and contemporaries.
The multi-talented musical friends come together under the name Council to welcome us for an intimate evening of original songs, chamber and folk music.
Composer and conductor Thomas Adès celebrates elemental Sibelius, shimmering Saariaho and a new version of his darkly prescient orchestral fable.
Sakari Oramo conducts Brahms’s epic First Symphony, and joins Korean violin phenomenon Inmo Yang in Bartók’s impassioned First Violin Concerto.
The master of minimalism at 90: Susanna Mälkki leads the celebration of Steve Reich with five of his most iconic, influential works.
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Emanuel Ax plays one of Mozart’s greatest concertos, framed by music from two operas that couldn’t be more different.
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Three very different musical stories come together in one unforgettable concert.
Three great orchestral works that balance turbulence with tranquility featuring Mendelssohn’s storm‑tossed Hebrides Overture, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor with Jeneba Kanneh‑Mason, and Brahms’ deeply expressive Third Symphony.