Performances of John Storgårds at BBC Music

A chance to hear Shostakovich’s blistering operatic tragedy with Amanda Majeski starring as Katerina and Nicky Spence as her lover Sergey

There’s nothing quite like Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Join us in the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Studio in MediaCityUK for this absolute masterpiece.

For our season opener, an assembly of composers who, by embracing pain, find solace, redemption, and clarity.

As part the 28th Beijing Music Festival, we visit China with our Chief Conductor John Storgårds. Hayato Sumino joins us as soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Grief, rage and manic intensity.

A full orbit of the sun with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

City Noir is John Adams’s musical tribute to half-lit rooms, venetian blinds, desperate men, dangerous women, secrets, lies, and the City of Angels.

Grit courses through Julia Wolfe’s *Anthracite Fields*, her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio for choir and ensemble that serves as a musical memorial to American miners and their struggle. *‘I guess I have a bias towards the grit.'* – Julia Wolfe

We continue our thrillingly up-close series at the RNCM with a heavyweight artistic collaboration – our Chief Conductor John Storgårds joins the acclaimed pianist Tamara Stefanovich in this exploration of the pure power of the piano.

In this striking exploration of Nordic soundscapes, Chief Conductor John Storgårds will flex every Finnish musical muscle as he leads the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mahler’s Resurrection is a colossal work of drama, beauty, and power.