Grand passions and epic vistas: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is the gateway into a lost world of central European music, as Sakari Oramo opens the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s new season.

Award-winning conductor Delyana Lazarova makes her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of music by Tchaikovsky and Adam Schoenberg.

Leslie Suganandarajah conducts music by Unsuk Chin, Vaclav Trojan and Johannes Brhams.

Rising young Finnish conductor Kristian Sallinen makes his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Violence, delicacy and sounds to liberate the imagination: as Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra put Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at the centre of a century of sonic adventure.

Darkness meets light as Shostakovich’s shattering Tenth Symphony confronts music of ecstasy, beauty and soaring optimism by Olivier Messiaen and Outi Tarkiainen.

Fairytale colours, Ukrainian courage and a talking violin. Roderick Cox conducts Stravinsky and Debussy and Ilya Gringolts gives the world premiere of a violin concerto with a difference.

Join the BBC Symphony Chorus for a free concert at Maida Vale Studios.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra open the Eufonie Festival in Warsaw.

Two different centuries, and two very different – but equally heartfelt – fourth symphonies. Semyon Bychkov conducts music by Detlev Glanert and Johannes Brahms.

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.

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.

My soul doth magnify the Lord: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBCSO and Chorus in music from four centuries that aims directly at the human heart.