Performances of Claude Debussy at BBC Music

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade

The BBC Singers and Principal Guest Conductor Owain Park join forces with acclaimed Nigerian-Scottish trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo.

Join us in Nottingham with conductor Elena Schwarz for Debussy’s La Mer, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and Dani Howard’s Trombone Concerto featuring Peter Moore.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a programme that is a greater expression of the titanic power of the symphony orchestra. Tonight, more is most certainly more.

Isata Kanneh-Mason conquers the legendary “Everest of piano concertos” and Delyana Lazarova makes her debut as Principal Guest Conductor!

Isata Kanneh-Mason conquers the legendary “Everest of piano concertos” and Delyana Lazarova makes her debut as Principal Guest Conductor!

*Laniakea* is Hawaiian for ‘immeasurable celestial paradise’, a term that perfectly describes the music of Camille Pépin.

Shimmering soundscapes of impressionist magic and hidden treasures

Rachmaninov's First Symphony is a gripping climax to this concert which also features Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.2: an afternoon that begins in the dream-world of Debussy’s mythical Faun, and ends at the gates of the inferno.

A dreamlike tale of love and fate, wrapped in Debussy’s hypnotic harmonies.

One of Debussy’s best loved musical pictures sets the mood as his faun dreams wonderous dreams. There is no better counterpart to this than Dvorak’s ardent and ever popular Cello Concerto.

A dreamlike tale of love and fate, wrapped in Debussy’s hypnotic harmonies.

A mysterious princess, a remote castle, and a tense love triangle shape Debussy’s dark, dreamlike fairytale opera. Pelléas et Mélisande blends shadowy symbols with shimmering music. Rory Kinnear directs, with Ryan Wigglesworth leading a stellar cast.