Oramo conducts Ravel and Beethoven
Beethoven’s Eroica, Ravel’s exotica, and the adventures of the Argonauts: mezzo Jennifer Johnston joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and no emotion is off-limits.
Oramo conducts Sibelius
From the elemental grandeur of Sibelius to the miracle of a globe-skimming dragonfly, Sakari Oramo joins violinist Johan Dalene to explore new horizons and old.
Symphony Orchestra of India 2 - From Wagner to Williams
John Williams’ grand Imperial March from Star Wars is followed by Brahms’ virtuosic Second Piano Concerto with soloist Pavel Kolesnikov. The second half features a suite of music from Wagner’s last, great opera, Parsifal.
Christmas Cracker (matinee)
December would not be the same without the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s much-loved Christmas Cracker concert. Filled with festive favourites and sing-along classics for all ages; it’s the perfect way to celebrate the magical Christmas season.
Christmas Cracker (evening)
December would not be the same without the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s much-loved Christmas Cracker concert. Filled with festive favourites and sing-along classics for all ages; it’s the perfect way to celebrate the magical Christmas season.
Prokofiev & Brahms – Gianandrea Noseda
A symphony thwarted by history, and a concerto from a composer at his peak.
Schumann Symphony No 2
My soul doth magnify the Lord: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in music from four centuries that aims directly at the human heart.
Gavin Bryars at 80
Celebrate the pioneering composer's 80th birthday, with some of Gavin Bryars’s most iconic works, performed by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble.
Michael Collins & Friends: Late Brahms
Clarinettist Michael Collins, pianist Andreas Haefliger and the Talich String Quartet join forces on some of the most beautiful of Brahms’ chamber works.
Mutter plays John Williams
A concert that no lover of movie music will want to miss.
The music of John Williams: Academy Award-winning composer of film scores ranging from Superman to Harry Potter. The artistry of Anne-Sophie Mutter: undisputed queen of violin virtuosos, an artist with fingers of steel and a tone of pure gold. Tonight they come together, as Mutter gives the UK premiere of Williams’s Violin Concerto No. 2. ‘I took my inspiration and energy directly from this great artist’, says Williams, and along with classic scores by Leonard Bernstein and Williams himself, it’s the centrepiece of a concert that no lover of movie music will want to miss.
Randall Goosby: Intersections - Black Music & Words
Southbank Centre Resident Artist Randall Goosby leads us on a journey reflecting on the relationship between poetry, folk songs and the music of Black composers.
Janáček’s Jenůfa
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Janáček’s searing, magnificent opera explores a woman’s limited options in a suffocating small town.
Miloš & Arcangelo Ensemble
A celebration of Baroque masterpieces by Vivaldi, Marcello, Boccherini, Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, Rameau, Weiss and Purcell by virtuoso guitarist Miloš and the award-winning, internationally-acclaimed period performance ensemble Arcangelo.
ECHO Rising Stars: Sean Shibe
Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe takes us on a journey through guitar and lute music across the centuries from Couperin to Adès.
BBC Concert Orchestra: Streets of America
From West Side Story to Biden’s America: Kwamé Ryan shares the USA’s untold stories, including the UK premiere of a piece by Gabriel Kahane.
Family Ties – The Schumanns and The Mendelssohns
Sister and brother, husband and wife: for the Schumanns and Mendelssohns, musical genius was a family affair, and when you hear their music played together it evokes a whole, wonderfully vivid world of love, friendship and imagination without limits.
The distinguished Ukrainian conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk follows Felix and Fanny from their childhood home in Berlin to the moors and mists of 19th-century Scotland, while pianist Alexander Melnikov explores the relationship between Clara and Robert Schumann – a husband and wife united in their devotion to the piano, to art and to each other
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Oramo conducts Stravinsky and Sibelius
Sakari Oramo joins star violinist Vilde Frang to bend time and play the unplayable – whether Andrew Norman’s American odyssey or Sibelius at his most passionate.
African Strings with Abel Selaocoe
Abel Selaocoe presents a mesmerising fusion of musical worlds, bringing together timeless minimalism and the intricate harmonies of the Baroque era with the unique timbres of African strings.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Short in length but limitless in imagination, all 24 of Debussy’s magical Préludes for piano are performed by one of their supreme living interpreters, Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Symphonie fantastique
A composer’s mind is an exotic place at the best of times.
Still, nothing in music quite matches the fabulous, opium-fuelled phantasmagoria that is Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Born of unrequited love, and sweeping from pastoral love-scenes to the foot of the guillotine itself, it never fails to startle and amaze. Guest conductor Ryan Bancroft brings all his verve, and teams up with one of the piano’s great poets – Inon Barnatan – to find new depths in Tchaikovsky’s grandest and best-loved piano concerto. You’ve heard it before, but not like this.