Drama, fantasy and something wholly new: music by Brahms, Debussy and Laurence Osborn.
Debussy’s 'La mer' crowns a concert that surges with elemental power; whether Britten’s East Anglian seascapes or Shostakovich at his punchiest.
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.
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.
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.
The charm of chamber music finds its ideal home in LSO St Luke’s, in curated series of concerts recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
Semyon Bychkov enters the wild, wonderful dreamworld of the mighty Seventh Symphony.
Tread the snowy expanses of Sibelius’ Finland and Vaughan Williams’ Antartica, and warm up to the impressionistic hues of Dubugnon’s new concerto.
Tread the snowy expanses of Sibelius’ Finland and Vaughan Williams’ Antartica, and warm up to the impressionistic hues of Dubugnon’s new concerto.
Be enchanted by Renaissance songs of passion and longing in a rare UK visit from the pioneering ensemble, performing the complete Third Book of Madrigals.
Rites of spring: Stravinsky, Hillborg and a spectacular Mendelssohn rediscovery from Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Hear music crackling with energy, from Beethoven’s fiery Appassionata Sonata to Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, played by one of today’s most dazzling pianists.