BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo launches the 2016-17 season with a UK premiere from Brett Dean and Richard Strauss’s extravagant tone poem.

A screening of the 1922 silent film Robin Hood accompanied by a live performance of Neil Brand’s magnificent score.

Joshua Weilerstein conducts Rachmaninov’s energising Symphonic Dances and the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet Diffraction.

A journey celebrating Bennett’s mastery of the orchestra with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the composer’s former musical partner Claire Martin.

An invigorating concert featuring the world premiere of a Concerto for Brass and Orchestra, Haydn’s Symphony No 83 amusingly nicknamed ‘The Hen’, and Stravinsky’s epic The Firebird.

Two Russian blockbusters frame the UK premiere of True Fire: a new commission specially written for Barbican featured artist Gerald Finley.

Tasmin Little performs Szymanowski's Violin Concerto

Drama frames tonight’s concert with two Shakespearean invocations and a world premiere by Philip Cashian.

Marin Alsop conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Glass programme, including the UK premiere of his Concerto, written for renowned piano duo and siblings, Katia and Marielle Labèque.

Thrills and high drama are guaranteed with Kabalevsky’s rip-roaring overture and Shostakovich’s powerful Tenth Symphony, all conducted by BBC Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.

Rachmaninov’s final symphony concludes a concert that includes Franz Schreker’s interlude from his opera Der ferne Klang and a brand new work by Nicola LeFanu.

Lothar Koenigs conducts Bruckner’s hugely popular symphony, while Nicolas Hodges is soloist in the irrepressible German composer Wolfgang Rihm’s beautiful Second Piano Concerto.

Experience the music of Scandinavian contemporaries Nielsen and Sibelius, whose music is close to the heart of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo

Two works by two Hungarian composers sit side by side in a dramatic highlight of the BBC SO’s season – Bartók’s virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra and the UK premiere of living composer Peter Eötvös’s one-act opera, Senza Sangue.

A half dozen of Varése’s finest scores for orchestra round off the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 360-degree exploration of the maverick composer’s works.

Sir Andrew Davis conducts Elgar’s evergreen ‘Enigma’ Variations before the BBC SO is joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus and superb soloists for Bliss’s powerful cantata, The Beatitudes.