Taibhithe de Richard Strauss ag BBC Orchestras and Choirs

This first BBC Symphony Orchestra concert features two masterpieces by Richard Strauss in which darkness is transformed into light. Featured artist Leila Josefowicz plays Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto, and Anu Komsi sings Strauss’ Four Last Songs.

Music for beginnings and endings. It’s hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant, first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

The irresistible sway of Johann Strauss’s An der schönen blauen Donau has made it arguably the most famous waltz of all time.

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

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.

Rhapsodies on love, death, and lust

Earthly travail lead to heavenly bliss in Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration. To conduct we welcome back award-winning French conductor Alexandre Bloch.

Earthly travail lead to heavenly bliss in Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration. To conduct we welcome back award-winning French conductor Alexandre Bloch.