Sakari Oramo joins star violinist Vilde Frang to bend time and play the unplayable – whether Andrew Norman’s American odyssey or Sibelius at his most passionate.

Night thoughts: from the magic of Helen Grime to the fantasy of Richard Strauss and the unchained emotion of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique symphony, conducted by a true rising star.

Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony crowns an evening of music that speaks directly to the world around us, in the first London appearance by conductor Kahchun Wong.

Alexander Malofeev plays Prokofiev, and Hannu Lintu conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in colourful showpieces by Adams and Stravinsky – plus a Bernard Rands world premiere.

Meet Missy Mazzoli – in person and on film: a collection of short films introducing Missy Mazzoli and her music. Hosted by Sara Mohr Pietsch.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra as composer Missy Mazzoli introduces four of her most powerful (and personal) orchestral pieces.

Meet Missy Mazzoli – in person and on film: a collection of short films introducing Missy Mazzoli and her music. Hosted by Sara Mohr Pietsch.

Missy Mazzoli introduces her own music, and music that inspires her, performed by the superb young artists of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar – the story of a woman who redefined the possible, performed by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, the BBC Singers and musicians from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Still waters run deep: Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Chorus perform Brahms’s German Requiem, plus two emotionally-charged rediscoveries from postwar Finland.

Let there be light! The UK premiere of James MacMillan’s Fiat Lux, conducted by the composer himself.

Clemens Schuldt conducts Raymond Yiu’s powerful new violin concerto, framed by explosions of colour and joy from Kodály and Beethoven.

Hilarious and horrifying, The Death of Stalin is a comedy of terrors, screened in live synchronisation with Christopher Willis' powerful score for the first time.

Severed heads, demonic orgies and obsessive love. Jader Bignamini pairs Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the equally colourful imaginations of Poulenc and Camile Pépin.

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for an evening of words and music with award-winning author, Kate Atkinson.

A screening of Frank Scheffer's documentary in which Luciano Berio discusses the creative process behind his masterpiece, Sinfonia.

An introduction to the four composers in Total Immersion: Italian Radicals.

Miniatures by Berio and Maderna, introduced and performed live by virtuoso instrumentalists and singers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Professor Jonathan Cross and Dr Harriet Boyd introduce the music in tonight's Total Immersion concert

Martyn Brabbins, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers launch an evening-long odyssey through the music of Dallapiccola, Maderna, Nono and Berio.

Martyn Brabbins takes the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on an adventure that spans oceans – from a majestic choral masterwork from 19th century Brazil to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Three composers, three dramatic meditations on Fate and the Day of Judgement.

Full sail for new shores: Sakari Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, Britten’s Double Concerto and the London premiere of Oliver Knussen’s exquisite Cleveland Pictures.

Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures bursts open, as the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays a live accompaniment to two wonderful animated adventures.