Performances of Anja Bihlmaier at BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA between performances of two iconic 19th-century tone-poems: Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique

Join us in Nottingham for Bartók’s gripping one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle.

Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók sits somewhere between a gothic tale of horror and a psychological dissection of a twisted relationship.

Elegant and virtuosic, Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D Major is celebrated for both its charm and technical brilliance, filled lyrical melodies, high-register passages and rapid runs.

Wolfe was two blocks from the Twin Towers when the planes hit on September 11, 2001. *Big Beautiful Dark and Scary* is the sound of that aftermath: an ominous, awesome wall of sound.