Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - polyphony at its most graceful and nimble.

Strauss' Rosenkavalier Suite

Schreker's Chamber Symphony

The BBC Singers are joined by Hungarian conductor Gergely Madaras and the Academy of Ancient Music in a performance of Handel’s epic oratorio, Israel in Egypt.

Cancelled: Afternoon Concert: Simpson plays Simpson

Gavin Higgins' What Wild Ecstasy

A chance to hear some recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Hannah French presents the BBC Singers in a new recording of Rossini's Petite messe solennelle.

Tune in for an eclectic and chilled orchestral concert with a winter feel, given at the Alexandra Palace Theatre, London last December. With conductor Ben Glassberg and violinist Mari Samuelsen.

Wagner's Siegfried Idyll

Cancelled: Steven Osborne plays Mozart

The BBC Concert Orchestra join a glittering cast to perform hit songs from the musicals.

Music from the snowy north to celebrate the BBC SO's ninetieth anniversary, in performances of Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Dvorak and Mozart.

Penny Gore introduces memorable performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers in Afternoon Concert on BBC Radio 3.

Music spanning five centuries from the snowy north, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers: a Tallis motet, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Hovhaness's Mysterious Mountain Symphony.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts works by Lindberg, Saariaho and Sibelius's Seventh Symphony.

The Firebrand of Florence, Kurt Weill's 1945 'opera for Broadway', recreated at London's Barbican Centre.

Bartok's Divertimento

Mozart, Dvořák & Suk

Nicholas Kok conducts the BBC Singers in music by David Fennessy, and BBC Singers Chief Conductor Bob Chilcott conducts his own music and works by Henryk Górecki, James MacMillan and Jenny McLeod.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra capture the heat of Arabia with Ravel's Shéhérazade and Saint-Saens' Egyptian Concerto.

William Mathias' Melos

Baroque meets tango in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro estaciones portenas.

Manuel de Falla's El Retable de Maese Pedro

Sally Beamish's Under the Wing of the Rock

Isserlis plays Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto

A programme of drama and opulence courtesy of Tchaikovsky, Ginastera and Shostakovich.

Tune in for a week-long celebration of women composers from around the world, featuring the BBC Philharmonic and its companion BBC orchestras and choirs.

Jessica Horsley conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert for International Women's Day, live from the Watford Colosseum.

The BBC Philharmonic and its companion BBC orchestras and choirs in a week-long celebration of women composers from around the world - today, hear 20th-century trailblazers Grace Williams, Dorothy Howell and Minna Keal.

The BBC Philharmonic and its companion BBC orchestras and choirs in a week-long celebration of women composers from around the world. Today, don't miss Jamaican-born, British-based Eleanor Alberga's oboe quintet 'Succubus Moon.'

The BBC Philharmonic and its companion BBC orchestras and choirs in a week-long celebration of women composers from around the world. Today, Cecile Chaminade's symphonic ballet Callirhoë and music by British composers including Elizabeth Maconchy.

Sheku Kannen-Mason plays Dvořák

The final day of a week-long celebration of women composers from around the world, with the BBC orchestras and choirs. Today, large-scale works by Germaine Tailleferre and Gloria Coates amongst many other gems.

Mozart Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'

Tom McKinney introduces a selection of our recordings for Manchester Week on BBC Radio 3 - including music by Sibelius, Takemitsu and Nielsen

Colin Matthews ... through the glass

Tom McKinney introduces the final selection of our music for Manchester Week on BBC Radio 3

Tunes for Tots returns! And this time we're on the farm...

Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte

Daniel Hyde, Director of Music at King's College Cambridge, conducts the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra, in a live Radio 3 in Concert from Watford Colosseum.

Elena Urioste (violin) and Tom Poster (piano) play and direct the orchestra. Recorded 25 March 2021

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2

Four Movements for Orchestra by Nielsen, orchestrated by Joseph Swensen

Richard Blackford's The Better Angels Of Our Nature

Pianist Steven Osborne joins the orchestra to celebrate his 50th birthday.

Venture to the beautiful Scottish Highlands with the conductor Alpesh Chauhan as the craggy landscapes are brought vividly to life through music.

Choral Evensong from St Peter's, Eaton Square with the BBC Singers

Beethoven Symphony No. 4

Live from Glasgow, day one of the Tectonics Festival.

Carlijn Metselaar's Time for your Walk

Peter Phillips conducts Renaissance music from South America

An online and on-air version of the festival for 2021

Live from Glasgow, day two of the Tectonics Festival.

BBC NOW perform the World Premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's Five Waltzes

Paul Weller stars in a special performance curated by Creative Artist in Association Jules Buckley with the BBC SO.

BBC NOW perform Haydn's Symphony No. 90

Music by Ravel, Vaughan Williams and more, conducted by John Wilson.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra returns to Snape Maltings with music by Mozart, Britten, Julian Anderson and Ryan Wigglesworth.

Colin Currie gives the UK Premiere of the composer's percussion concerto from 2011.

Berg's Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite

Matthew Featherstone and Catrin Finch perform Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp with BBC NOW and conductor Chloé van Soeterstède.

Recorded in St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, the BBC Singers and conductor David Hill are joined by organist Thomas Trotter for a concert of French and English choral music.

BBC NOW perform the world premiere of Matthew Taylor's Symphony No. 6

Ravel's Ma Mere l’Oye, Cinq pieces enfantines - Mother Goose, Five children’s pieces

A programme of choral music to mark the summer solstice.

BBC NOW perform Boléro de Concert by Lefébure-Wély arr. Donal Bannister

BBC NOW perform Haydn's Symphony No. 88

Spoken word performer George the Poet presents his unique combination of music, poetry and social commentary, with live orchestral accompaniment from players of the BBC Concert Orchestra.

This Classical Life: Live. Eclectic music and conversation, with Jess Gillam, the BBC Concert Orchestra and four special guest musicians.

BBC NOW perform Pryor's Thoughts of Love, arranged by Donal Bannister

BBC NOW Brass and Percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft

Can a composer look forwards while also dipping into the past? That’s the question at the heart of Igor Stravinsky’s 'Pulcinella', performed here by Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska conducts a colourful concert that features PIVOT, a new work by New York-based composer Anna Clyne.

BBC NOW perform Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture with conductor Dougie Boyd

Music by Jessie Montgomery, Maxwell Davies and Beethoven.

BBC NOW Brass perform Drei Nachtstücke by Schumann arr. Donal Bannister

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra returns for its second Prom of the season, pairing Beethoven’s scintillating concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with his multilayered Second Symphony – plus a highly charged world premiere from American composer George Lewis.

Fearless violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja traces the evolution of Hungarian folk song in a Prom that features Bartók’s ferocious Second Violin Concerto, performed alongside Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Our annual concert with the Vale of Glamorgan Festival brings together music by all five of this year’s festival’s featured composers.

Tenor Joshua Ellicott and conductor Peter Whelan join the BBC SSO in East Lothian as the Lammermuir Festival returns to live music-making after two years.

Welcome back to live concerts at City Halls! Sibelius's extraordinary one-movement Seventh Symphony is the climax of an evening that pairs the composer with fellow Finns: violin maverick Pekka Kuusisto and composer Magnus Lindberg.

The BBC Concert Orchestra returns to The Granaries Square in Floriana, Malta, this time for a concert extravaganza celebrating one of the world’s greatest rock bands.

Sibelius, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn with cellist Jakob Kullberg and Chief Guest Conductor John Storgårds

Welcome back to live concerts at the Usher Hall with the BBC SSO. And who else would we play but Sibelius, with whom the orchestra has long been associated.

Although Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft, started his journey with us back in September 2020, audiences in Cardiff are yet to see his brilliance on the stage of St David’s Hall – but the wait is over!

Superstar oboist François Leleux returns to the City Halls as both director and soloist.

After 19 months that have changed us all, we open a new chapter at the Barbican. Here is music infused with the miracle of life, with the joy of existence and with the shadows of mourning.

Ben Palmer conducts music for choir and organ by Benjamin Britten and Kristina Arakelyan, with organist Anna Lapwood.

Dalia Stasevska and Davóne Tines present music that feels as real as life itself – images of human struggles from the 1890s and the 2020s, truths hard to hear that need to be told.

The BBC Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth with an afternoon of Classical-era gems from Haydn and Mozart, broadcast live from Salford

The BBC Philharmonic returns to Hanley with an evening of music from Vivaldi, Bartok & Tchaikovsky, with violinist Jack Liebeck

Choral music spanning six centuries reflects on sorrow, darkness and grief – and the consoling light that glows deep within us all.

Mendelssohn and Brahms with violinist James Ehnes and conductor Roderick Cox

Join us on BBC Radio 3 for a concert broadcast live from Maida Vale Studios.

A free concert of contemporary music for BBC Radio 3's 'New Music Show'

A concert featuring pre recorded music by Malcolm Arnold, with Martyn Brabbins and Rumon Gamba conducting

The best-selling children’s author reads from her books in a multimedia orchestral adventure through the imagination, with special guests including actor Dani Harmer (AKA Tracy Beaker herself!)

Be inspired by Jörg Widmann: composer, conductor and clarinettist extraordinaire.

The BBC Philharmonic perform live music from MediaCity UK with a programme of Sibelius, Brahms and Lilburn, conducted by Gemma New

BBC NOW perform the world premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said, alongside Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto and Helen Grime's Limina.

Certain musicians seem to make everything they touch buzz with electricity – and few do so with more verve, humour or flair than Jörg Widmann: composer, conductor and clarinettist extraordinaire.

Expand your imagination with artists who blur genre lines and the BBC Concert Orchestra

It was London that brought Grace Williams together with Ralph Vaughan Williams, her teacher at the Royal College of Music, and Benjamin Britten, a fellow student there.

The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin celebrate the 60th anniversary of 'Let The Peoples Sing'.

Relive one of the beautiful game’s greatest final day dramas. Highlights of the 1989 knife-edge match at Anfield are projected onto a screen as composer and Arsenal fanatic Mark-Anthony Turnage gives the game the symphonic treatment.

Weill, a Tom Coult world premiere and Ravel with violinist Daniel Pioro and conductor Elena Schwarz

Listen to Weill, Coult and Ravel, recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 6 November 2021

The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin perform a sequence of music for Remembrancetide.

A live BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert with music by Herschel, Britten, Missy Mazzoli, Robert Laidlow and Emily Howard

Conductor Yutaka Sado leads a programme of Beethoven, Debussy and Yaushi Akutagawa.

Ryan Bancroft conducts Brahms, Mozart and Schumann

The BBC Philharmonic and violinist Daniel Pioro meet at Leeds Conservatoire for this special concert focussing on the sound world of the string orchestra

A famous opening, an outpouring of tunes, and a heart-stopping slow movement: Grieg's youthful Piano Concerto is a crowd-pleaser par excellence!

A live BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert with Elizabeth Watts soprano, featuring the music of Richard Strauss, chosen by BBC Philharmonic musicians Clare and Peter Dixon

1930s America: two composers in search of their roots.

Trailblazing trumpeter Yazz Ahmed joins forces with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the London Jazz Festival.

Tobias Feldmann replaces the previously-advertised Veronika Eberle.

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Synthesizers, Science and Symphonies!

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra showcase an explosive, reflective and rapturous Croatian symphony once buried by history.