The BBC Philharmonic’s first concert of 2019 lifts the January gloom with music from Eric Coates – renowned for his light, orchestral compositions.

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios for UK premieres of recent works by four Icelandic composers.

The BBC Singers perform J S Bach's festive masterpiece, the Christmas Oratorio.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of David Fennessy's 'The Ground', the latest in the orchestra’s 'Scottish Inspirations' BBC Commissions, and Per Nørgård's Symphony No.7.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by David Fennessy, Per Nørgård and Simon Steen-Andersen in a 'Hear and Now' concert.

Join CBBC’s Naomi Wilkinson, actor and singer Turlough Convery and the brilliant BBC Concert Orchestra to set off on a musical adventure at sea.

A unique collaboration between RNCM string students and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the 2019 RNCM Strings Festival

Jörgen van Rijen performs James MacMillan's 'Trombone Concerto'.

Violinist Jennifer Pike and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing join the BBC Concert Orchestra for music by a selection of female and French composers.

The Art of Mahler part 1

Mahler’s ‘Rückert’ songs and troubled tenth symphony are moving meditations on themes of beauty, death and martyrdom. With its reflective opening movements, Beethoven’s fourth concerto sets the mood perfectly.

A concert of musical darkness and light pairs Beethoven’s sunny Violin Concerto with the atmospheric shadows of Schoenberg’s *Pelleas und Melisande*.

The Art of Mahler part 1

New York’s electric Bang on a Can All-Stars team up with BBC Singers and conductor Tecwyn Evans for the UK premiere of Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe’s haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical Anthracite Fields.

Mahler’s ‘Rückert’ songs and troubled tenth symphony are moving meditations on themes of beauty, death and martyrdom. With its reflective opening movements, Beethoven’s fourth concerto sets the mood perfectly.

This concert is part of the RNCM’s ‘In Focus: George Benjamin’ festival

Two great Romantic works – Schumann’s heart-on-sleeve Cello Concerto and Brahms’ Third Symphony – celebrate the friendship and musical kinship between the two composers.

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra for a night of music for superheroes.

In the year of his 60th birthday, the BBC Singers celebrate the a capella choral works of British composer Jonathan Dove.

Celebrating 10 years of BBC Hoddinott Hall!

Have a go at conducting!

Join Ken Bruce, superstar guest singers and the BBC Concert Orchestra for an evening of popular classics, film music and songs from the shows.

A live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of English tone-poems

Come and hear the latest in composition in Wales, as composers worthy of wider exposure have the opportunity to hear their works performed by the Orchestra.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by Bartók and Liszt.

Andrew Griffiths conducts the BBC Singers in the world premiere of John Pickard’s Mass in Troubled Times, which is programmed alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G Minor for unaccompanied choir.

John Butt, one of the boldest and most innovative Bach-interpreters today, conducts the BBC Symphony Chorus in its first performance of Bach’s mighty B Minor Mass for 40 years.

Clarinettist Julian Bliss joins the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Andrew Gourlay for a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Bennett, Cowie and Emily Howard.

The BBC Concert Orchestra marks the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death with a concert exploring his influence upon other great romantic composers.

Spanish accents

Our new partnership with Lancaster University is the start of a close relationship between the musicians, our audiences and academics.

Bask in music inspired by the sun and colours of Spain, whether through one of the country’s modern masters, or via the vivid imagination of Ravel and Debussy.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts Mahler's 'Symphony No.1' at City Halls, Glasgow.

Spanish accents

Andrew Gourlay and pianist Martin James Bartlett join the BBC Philharmonic for a concert of Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky

Bask in music inspired by the sun and colours of Spain, whether through one of the country’s modern masters, or via the vivid imagination of Ravel and Debussy.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by Bernstein, Bloch and Mahler at the Music Hall.

Award-winning American conductor Karina Canellakis pairs one of Beethoven’s best-loved symphonies with a major UK premiere by Austrian musical maverick Thomas Larcher.

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, returns to Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by Bernstein, Bloch and Mahler in Edinburgh.

The BBC Singers present A Tale of Two Dragons.

Robert Quinney returns to conduct the BBC Singers in a concert of music inspired by The Orgelbüchlein Project, with William Whitehead playing works from Das Orgelbüchlein throughout the concert.

Pianist Louis Lortie joins conductor Moritz Gnann for today’s afternoon concert.

Shostakovich’s emotionally-charged epic Fourth Symphony is the centrepiece of a concert that also includes a new concerto for BBCSO Principal Trombonist Helen Vollam.

Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall, Sir Andrew Davis conducts L'enfance du Christ

Sir Andrew Davis conducts Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ in BBC Hoddinott Hall to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death.

As part of BBC Radio 3’s celebration of one of the greatest composers of the Romantic period, Hector Berlioz. Nicolas Kruger conducts the BBC Singers in a concert of songs and choral music by Berlioz.

The BBC Concert Orchestra marks the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death with a concert exploring the dramatic connection between his music and the stage.

A free pre-concert event

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Pascal Rophé conducts a triple bill of works by Berlioz streamed live from City Halls, Glasgow.

Pascal Rophé conducts three works by Berlioz at City Halls, Glasgow.

Hector Berlioz was the ultimate Romantic composer, pouring out his most passionate emotions in music of dazzling imagination and power.

Come and hear the latest in composition in Wales, as composers worthy of wider exposure have the opportunity to hear their works performed by the Orchestra.

Come and hear the latest in composition in Wales, as composers worthy of wider exposure have the opportunity to hear their works performed by the Orchestra.

Come and hear the latest in composition in Wales, as composers worthy of wider exposure have the opportunity to hear their works performed by the Orchestra.

Ilan Volkov conducts works by Bruckner, CPE Bach and Stravinsky.

Ilan Volkov conducts works by Bruckner, CPE Bach and Stravinsky in Perth.

The nimble, Classical wit of Mozart’s Symphony No 35 is here set against the expansive sensuality and Romantic richness of Mahler’s great orchestral song-cycle *Das Lied von der Erde*.

A free pre-concert event

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra, saxophonist Jess Gillam and violinist Thomas Gould for an evening of classical favourites.

The BBC Singers perform at the Contemporary Music Festival at the University of Plymouth. The theme of the 2019 festival, Multiverse proposes a weekend of musical interpretations of the quantum world.

Beethoven's Violin Concerto

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales celebrate St David’s Day with traditional songs, choral works and the chance to sing-along with Wales’ finest.

This musical extravaganza features songs from best-loved Tony® and Academy Award®-winning scores including Beauty and the Beast, Aida, The Lion King, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Tarzan® and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

This 1976 BBC Omnibus documentary explores György Sándor Ligeti the man and his music.

A concert of Ligeti chamber works traces the composer’s stylistic evolution from early experiments to mature reconsideration.

This musical extravaganza features songs from best-loved Tony® and Academy Award®-winning scores including Beauty and the Beast, Aida, The Lion King, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Tarzan® and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

An introduction to this Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music.

A concert of Ligeti’s choral works takes the audience from abstraction to emotional intensity, and from cloudy, spectral beauty to bold dissonance.

This musical extravaganza features songs from best-loved Tony® and Academy Award®-winning scores including Beauty and the Beast, Aida, The Lion King, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Tarzan® and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Many of György Ligeti’s greatest orchestral works come together in a kaleidoscopic concert of shifting colours and shimmering plays of texture.

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic at the “Musika-Musica” Festival, Bilbao

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic at the “Musika-Musica” Festival, Bilbao

Michael Bolton performs his beloved classic songs with the BBC Concert Orchestra

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios for an exciting programme of UK premieres by Dutch composers Jan-Peter de Graaff and Mayke Nas, and Kurdish-Dutch composer Hawar Tawfiq, chosen and conducted by Jac van Steen.

John Wilson conducts works by Bernstein, Barber and Rachmaninov

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios for a programme of world and UK premieres of music by French composers and composers working in France, chosen by conductor Pierre-André Valade.

BBC NOW celebrates International Women's Day with a programme featuring the music of Augusta Holmes, Clara Schumann, Joan Tower and Florence B. Price.

The orchestra returns to Inverness as John Wilson conducts works by Bernstein, Barber and Rachmaninov.

Kabantu explores music that exists beyond boundaries with the BBC Singers aboard the Cutty Sark.

Join the Nottinghamshire Family Orchestra & Chorus and play your part in Soundstage, Nottingham’s film music festival.

Come and explore the music featured in tonight's concert

BBC Philharmonic Schools' Concerts 2019

The BBC Concert Orchestra and Keith Lockhart provide a musical take on some of the great double acts from history, literature, musical theatre and popular culture.

BBC Philharmonic Schools' Concerts 2019

Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic at Hull City Hall

Thomas Dausgaard conducts an evening of works inspired by Spain.

English Accents

With its brisk Charlestons and snappy urban energy, Gershwin’s concerto never loses its fizz, offset by Clyne’s musical poetry and Elgar’s dynamic variations.

Thomad Dausgaard conducts works by Debussy, Falla and Ravel in Aberdeen.

Join the Nottinghamshire Family Orchestra & Chorus and play your part in Soundstage, Nottingham’s film music festival.

Elgar Enigma Variations

BBC Proms Dubai 2019 opens with a world premiere,Tmesis from the exciting British composer Bushra El–Turk, drawing on her Lebanese roots for its sound world. The second half features Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers showcase some of the most exciting Choral music of the last 100 years in a programme that ranges from Gershwin to Abba, Francis Poulenc to Laura Mvula.

Alexander Liebreich conducts Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.

William Walton’s ravishingly beautiful Cello Concerto dates from the 1950s and precedes what will surely be one of the highlights of this 2019 BBC Dubai Proms – the premiere in Dubai of Beethoven’s great choral symphony (No.9) Conducted by Richard Farnes

Join Nineties workout legend Mr Motivator and the BBC Philharmonic for a fun-packed and truly motivational exercise class for all ages and abilities.

We’re off to see the Wizard! Join the BBC Concert Orchestra for a musical celebration of The Wizard of Oz.

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic for this evening's concert at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall

The BBC SSO’s Leader, Laura Samuel, performs Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto.

Hosted in inimitable style by Petroc Trelawny, the Last Night of the 2019 BBC Dubai Proms brings everyone together for the kind of musical party every great music festival should have.

A free pre-concert event

Take a journey into classical music with BBC National Orchestra of Wales’ ever popular family concert.

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and London Contemporary Voices for a night of spiritual songs from the stage and screen, reflecting on the story of Good Friday.

Scottish conductor Rory Macdonald and pianist Martin Roscoe join the orchestra for a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Thibaut Garcia, joins BBC NOW to play Joaquin Rodrigo’s beautiful classic for guitar and orchestra: Concierto de Aranjuez.

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Thibaut Garcia, joins BBC NOW to play Joaquin Rodrigo’s beautiful classic for guitar and orchestra: Concierto de Aranjuez.