Sat 8 Aug 2026

• 10:30

  Bristol: BBC Young Composer Workshop

  Bristol Beacon

  BBC Young Composer workshops offer 12- to 18-year-olds the opportunity to create, collaborate and hone their music making skills together with support from experienced composers and musicians.

  
• 17:00

  Russian Classics (Bristol)

  Bristol Beacon

  The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra presents an all-Russian programme that includes Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Gubaidulina’s Fairy-Tale Poem

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  The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra presents an all-Russian programme that includes Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Gubaidulina’s Fairy-Tale Poem

  Programme

  • • • Dmitry Shostakovich
      • Festive Overture(7 mins)
      • Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major(30 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Sofia Gubaidulina
      • Fairy-Tale Poem(12 mins)
    • • Sergey Rachmaninov
      • Symphonic Dances(35 mins)

  Performers

  • Maximilian Hornung

    cello
    cello
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • Adam Hickox

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Dmitry Shostakovich
  • Sofia Gubaidulina
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

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  Also part of

  Proms on TV

  

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  Standing £15-57 (+ booking fee)

  Standing £15-57 (+ booking fee)
• 19:30

  Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’

  Royal Albert Hall

  Thomas Adès conducts the National Youth Orchestra in a thrilling musical journey to Hell and back, featuring Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Purgatorio, the central panel of Adès’s own Dante-inspired ballet

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  Thomas Adès conducts the National Youth Orchestra in a thrilling musical journey to Hell and back, featuring Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Purgatorio, the central panel of Adès’s own Dante-inspired ballet

  Programme

  • • • Franz Liszt
      • Mephisto Waltz No. 1(11 mins)
    • • Thomas Adès
      • Dante – Part 2: Purgatorio(24 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Hector Berlioz
      • Symphonie fantastique(49 mins)

  Performers

  • National Youth Orchestra
  • Thomas Adès

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Franz Liszt
  • Thomas Adès
  • Hector Berlioz

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  Also part of

  Classical for starters Proms on TV

  

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  Seats from £19.34 to £71.36 (including booking fee)

  Seats from £19.34 to £71.36 (including booking fee)
• 20:00

  ’Round Midnight (Bristol)

  Bristol Beacon

  A special live edition of the acclaimed late-night Radio 3 jazz show ’Round Midnight, this year with a focus on centenary artist John Coltrane and his 1965 album A Love Supreme

  Also part of

  Proms Across the UK Proms on TV

  

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  Seats £22 (+ booking fee)

  Seats £22 (+ booking fee)