Performances of BBC Symphony Orchestra at BBC Music

Jonathon Heyward returns to the studio conducting works by Christian Jost and Mieczysław Weinberg.

Find out what sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun has planned for his brand-new collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Follow a trail through undiscovered musical landscapes in this new collaboration between electronic music artist Halina Rice and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Christian Karlsen conducts Radio 3's New Music Show, featuring works by Lisa Streich, Toshio Hosokawa and the BBC Symphony Orchestra's very own Nicholas Korth.

The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel

A chance to encounter two leading contemporary artists in collaboration with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The sonic scope of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied meets its match in the musical spectacle of Pierre Boulez’s ‘majestic processional’ Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s ‘grotesque pantomime’ The Miraculous Mandarin, and Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing

Sir Mark Elder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, massed choirs and four star soloists in Delius’s A Mass for Life, which celebrates the transcendent power and triumph of the human spirit in the face of death

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, heard here with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska

An all-French programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot sees Bizet’s incidental music for The Girl from Arles performed alongside a fantasy on themes from his popular opera Carmen, reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate

Composer and conductor Thomas Adès joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela

Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, accompanied by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises, star turns and all the traditional favourites

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra open their new season with Mahler’s heartrending Ninth Symphony.

Become Ocean: Dalia Stasevska conducts John Luther Adams’s 21st century cult classic.

Nil Venditti, Jess Gillam and the BBC Symphony Orchestra travel from the West of Ireland to the shores of the Bosphorus, in music by Ottorino Respighi, Giacomo Puccini, Fazil Say and Anna Clyne.

Unchained emotion: the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Dvořák’s most passionate symphony, and joins pianist Alexander Gadjiev in Respighi’s sumptuous, unfairly neglected Piano Concerto.

Shostakovich’s shattering Eighth Symphony is the climax of a gripping all-Russian programme from BBC Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Hannu Lintu and viola phenom Timothy Ridout.

Dark fire and glittering ice: Mozart’s Requiem crowns an evening of deep emotions and natural wonders from Sakari Oramo and pianist Martin Helmchen.

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.

Music from the abyss: Kirill Karabits and the BBC Symphony Orchestra embrace Tchaikovsky at his wildest, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann at his most vital.

Grand passions and impossible dreams, as Elena Schwarz and Erika Baikoff join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a concert of Ravel, Franck and the extraordinary Elzbieta Sikora.

Ermonela Jaho stars in Puccini’s bittersweet romance, his opera La rondine, incorporating music that has not been heard this century.

A festive treat with a ghostly difference: a night of classic stories and haunting melodies from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sir James MacMillan conducts a starry performance of his huge, life-affirming Christmas Oratorio – music that speaks to listeners of all faiths and none.

Visions of Spain and songs of freedom from the BBC Symphony Orchestra – plus a musical stroll with a haunting difference, as baritone Andrew Hamilton becomes Mahler’s wayfaring lad.

Winter Daydreams: Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra share the seasonal freshness of Tchaikovsky’s magical First Symphony.

Clemens Schuldt and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Shakespearean classics, Strauss at his most sumptuous, and a new British concerto for cellist Guy Johnston.

US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Hana Chang joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo as part of the Anvil Arts International Concert Series.

Music that glitters, sings and dances for joy, as Sakari Oramo pairs two newly minted classics with Beethoven’s brightest symphony.

Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.

Rachmaninov, Bernstein and Davóne Tines – a fresh perspective on America’s past, present and future from Daniele Rustioni and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

A screening of the BBC’s classic 2015 nature documentary Iceland: Land of Ice and Fire.

Hear from some of the composers whose music will be performed in the afternoon concert in Milton Court Concert Hall.

Hear from some of the composers whose music will be performed in the afternoon concert in Milton Court Concert Hall.

Europe’s most northerly capital city pulses with creativity. Tonight, the BBC Symphony Orchestra embraces the Reykjavík new music scene in all its diversity and flair.

Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and a UK premiere from Julia Adolphe. Big emotions and natural wonders from Kristiina Poska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sakari Oramo pairs flair and exoticism with idyllic cheer in this dual outing of Romantic masterpieces: Saint-Saëns’ fifth piano concerto and Brahms’ Second Symphony.

A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican.

Hollywood dreams meet all-American nightmares. Fabien Gabel conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music from Vertigo and The Sea Hawk – and dives into the myths and memories of a new American century.

Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra presents Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People — Brent Michael Davids’s searing work which confronts hard truths about America’s founding.

Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.