Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka leads the orchestra and chorus in Beethoven’s masterful Missa Solemnis

The festival concludes with John Luther Adams’ epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean, with the Welsh symphonic premiere of a Huw Watkins piece and a festival commission by David Roche.

CoLaboratory is a brand new series of events at BBC Hoddinott Hall presenting unique concert experiences for music lovers, as BBC NOW invite partners from across the artistic spectrum to collaborate with them, fusing two musical worlds.

It was London that brought Grace Williams together with Ralph Vaughan Williams, her teacher at the Royal College of Music, and with Benjamin Britten, her fellow student there.

Hope vies with tragedy in the works of Dvořák and Sibelius.

Sibelius’ new symphonic sound

The worlds of fairy-tale and dream mingle in music seen through the eyes of a child.

‘Seasonal’ events in December usually mean Christmas – with all the bells and whistles. This ‘Winter Afternoon’ is more directly seasonal, taking us to the chilly snowscapes of Russia.

CoLaboratory is a brand new series of unique concert experiences for music lovers at BBC Hoddinott Hall, as BBC NOW invite partners from across the artistic spectrum to collaborate with them, fusing two musical worlds.

CoLaboratory is a brand new series of unique concert experiences for music lovers at BBC Hoddinott Hall, as BBC NOW invite partners from across the artistic spectrum to collaborate with them, fusing two musical worlds.

All the string players of BBC NOW get some rare time off in this concert that puts winds and brass front and centre alongside the BBC National Chorus of Wales.

BBC NOW kick off the 2019/20 season at BBC Hoddinott Hall with Debussy’s beautiful symphonic poem Prelude a l’Apres-midi d’un faune – the perfect start for a Friday afternoon.