Welcome the New Year in style with a cocktail of popular classics.

Digital Concert: Beethoven's Egmont Overture

We begin our Spring Season with the launch of our Nielsen Cycle.

Following rave reviews for his interpretations of Beethoven in the 1808 Concert back in 2020, conductor Jaime Martín returns to conduct BBC NOW in a programme by composers all heavily influenced by folk music.

Pianist Stephen Hough joins the BBC Philharmonic, in concert in Hanley, for Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto

Following rave reviews for his interpretations of Beethoven in the 1808 Concert back in 2020, conductor Jaime Martín returns to conduct BBC NOW in a programme by composers all heavily influenced by folk music.

The BBC Philharmonic perform Russian music at the 2019 Proms, including Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake

The BBC Philharmonic with music by Bartok and Malcolm Arnold, conducted by Ben Gernon

Digital Concert: Peteris Vasks' Cantabile

Watch the outstanding Duo Jatekok, Naïri Badal and Adélaïde Panaget, tackle Poulenc's sensational concerto for two pianos.

Listen to Betsy Jolas, Dutilleux, Copland and Dvořák, recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 11 December 2021

The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion in music written in the prisons and ghettos of the Second World War opens with a film in testament to acts of creativity from the musicians of Terezín.

Musical testaments by Hans Krása and Pavel Haas written inside Theresienstadt, and a compelling symphony by Schulhoff that warns of impending human catastrophe.

This concert has been cancelled.

The BBC Singers offer haunting choral music from the Theresienstadt ghetto, with reflective interludes provided by students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Discover the political, satirical opera that dared to hope for a better world, even as its composer suffered in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

Extraordinary music written amid the hopelessness of prison and concentration camps that dared to seek the truth – and to hope for better times.

Our afternoon concerts are back! The first is spearheaded by Artist in Residence, Jörg Widmann.

BBC NOW perform Sarah Jenkins' Trallali, Trallaley, Trallalera

A live broadcast as part of BBC Radio 3's Manchester Week - with cellist Guy Johnston and conductor Ben Gernon

The BBC Philharmonic perform Schmidt, Rachmaninov & Dvorak at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, conducted by Ben Gernon and with pianist Sunwook Kim

Hear evocative musical journeys by composers past and present – a sleigh-ride through frozen Finland, a road-trip from LA to San Diego and a fateful Austrian carriage-ride.

A live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford as part of a BBC Radio 3 and and UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project collaboration

BBC NOW perform Schmidt's Symphony No. 3

Join Violinist, Benjamin Beilman, and Conductor, Antony Hermus, as they take you through the glitz and glamour of Korngold's Violin Concerto.

Please be aware the BBC SSO is making changes to forthcoming concerts across Scotland.

From the factory floor to the heights of heaven – imposing Russian music from both sides of the iron curtain under the baton of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska.

Genres meet and mingle at a listening party hosted by the BBC Concert Orchestra and presenter Elizabeth Alker.

Ustvolskaya, Shostakovich and Dvořák with cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and conductor Anja Bihlmaier

Join the BBC SSO and RSNO in concert as part of the Association of British Orchestra's Conference in Glasgow 2022.

BBC NOW's principal cellist Alice Neary and the BBC NOW strings performs Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile

In a concert marking 100 years of the BBC, conductor Semyon Bychkov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra look back to the year of the Corporation’s founding – and forward to the music of the coming century.

Ian Skelly presents a concert, live from Watford Colosseum, featuring leader Nathaniel Anderson-Frank playing Vaughan Wiliams's The Lark Ascending, plus songs from Clare Teal.

As part of a weekend of music from the BBC Orchestras celebrating BBC 100, enjoy music from Hindemith, Schumann, Aziza Sadikova (UK premiere, BBC commission) and Tippett with pianist Giulia Contaldo and BBC Philharmonic Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber

Howard Goodall conducts the BBC Singers in a concert of restorative, radiant choral music separated by a century but united by tragedy.

As part of a weekend of music from the BBC Orchestras celebrating BBC 100, the SSO presents new music from opposite ends of the century…

Peter Phillips, the founder and director of The Tallis Scholars, returns to collaborate with the BBC Singers in a programme of settings of the biblical Lamentations of Jeremiah.

Joana Carneiro takes you through Stravinsky's 1911 ballet, Petrushka.

Please note that this repertoire is different to that originally advertised.

The BBC Philharmonic take to the stage at Victoria Hall, Hanley for a programme of Rachmaninov, Bizet and Beethoven

Please be aware the BBC SSO is making changes to forthcoming concerts across Scotland.

Celebrating fifty years of collaboration with the BBC SO, Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis pairs works by two 20th-century giants, Alban Berg and Sergey Rachmaninov.

We are sorry to announce that this concert has been cancelled due to weather conditions

The BBC Philharmonic take to the stage at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham for Elgar's Symphony No.1

BBC NOW perform John Metcalf's Dances from Forgotten Places as part of the 2021 Vale of Glamorgan Festival

BBC SSO Associate Conductor, Alpesh Chauhan, guides you through the magic of Bruckner's Symphony No.4.

Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin directs an intriguing programme pairing Renaissance works with contemporary pieces based on them.

An evening of music with Canada’s boutique singer-songwriter, reimagined with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Please be aware the BBC SSO is making changes to forthcoming concerts across Scotland.

A triple helping of Vaughan Williams as part of a special concert series with the Hallé, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth – featuring tenor Alessandro Fisher and conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Mimma the Musical - a new musical of war & friendship

Listen again to a triple helping of Vaughan Williams as part of a special concert series with the Hallé, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth – featuring tenor Alessandro Fisher and conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Alexander Melnikov plays Brahms and our Nielsen cycle continues with Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard.

Brutalism meets orchestral beauty as we mark 40 years of the Barbican Centre with music as idealistic, integral and provocative as the building itself.

Beethoven and Ella Milch-Sheriff (UK premiere, BBC co-commission) with pianist Stephen Hough (BBC Philharmonic Artist in Residence 2021-22), narrator Eli Danker and BBC Philharmonic Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber

The BBC Singers, together with conductor Grace Rossiter and organist Anna Lapwood mark International Women’s Day with a live broadcast of music by leading women composers of the 21st Century.

Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey leads us in a programme featuring contemporary classical music, written and inspired by women composers and poets.

Telling the tale of a skylark singing an impossibly exquisite, almost heavenly, song, Rosanne Philippens gives voice to the bird.

We are absolutely delighted to welcome back Christoph König to conducts works by Mahler and Grace Williams.

Telling the tale of a skylark singing an impossibly exquisite, almost heavenly, song, Rosanne Philippens gives voice to the bird.

A compelling synthesis of film and music as the BBC SO performs Vaughan Williams’s groundbreaking orchestral score live to accompany a screening of Charles Frend’s landmark movie.

Telling the tale of a skylark singing an impossibly exquisite, almost heavenly, song, Rosanne Philippens gives voice to the bird.

Transport yourself to Venice with our Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov, as he takes you through the works of Rameau, Maderna, Frescobaldi and Haydn.

BBC NOW perform Dvorak's Humoresque

Celebrating conductor Owain Arwel Hughes's 80th birthday

Celebrating conductor Owain Arwel Hughes's 80th birthday

Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin celebrates the work of one of England’s finest composers, Henry Purcell.

The perfect introduction to Frank Zappa: Alex Winter’s new landmark documentary explores the man, the music and the phenomenon – both on the stage and far from it.

Guildhall’s Ubu Ensemble pay homage to Frank Zappa’s iconic last album, harvested from his appearance at the 1992 Frankfurt Festival.

Tudur Owen presents Elin Fflur and BBC NOW

The second of our concerts in the 'Toward the Unknown Region' series shared with the Hallé to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan William's birth. Music from Vaughan Williams with the Hallé Choir and conductor Sir Andrew Davis

For Frank Zappa, the symphony orchestra was the consummate vehicle for musical storytelling. Brad Lubman leads this performance culminating in Zappa’s acknowledged orchestral masterpieces.

Celebrating conductor Owain Arwel Hughes's 80th birthday

Michael Sanderling returns with Swedish Soprano, Miah Persson, to explore Mahler's Fourth Symphony.

John Storgårds joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to conduct Dmitri Shostakovich’s dramatic Fifth Symphony, a journey through life by Modest Mussorgsky and a fantastical work from Sofia Gubaidulina.

The BBC Philharmonic are back at Hanley, Stoke on Trent, for Schubert, Mozart and Tchaikovsky

An afternoon of Coates with the BBC Philharmonic and John Wilson, conductor

Listen again to a triple helping of Vaughan Williams as part of a special concert series with the Hallé, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth - featuring music from Vaughan Williams with the Hallé Choir and conductor Sir Andrew Davis

Bag your FREE tickets for our ‘Drawn to Music’ schools concerts in Cardiff on 31 March/1 April.

Bag your FREE tickets for our ‘Drawn to Music’ schools concerts in Cardiff on 31 March/1 April.

Experience one of the most poetic seascapes ever painted by an orchestra. Allow Martyn Brabbins to guide you through the wave of sound that is Debussy's ‘La Mer’.

Jordan de Souza conducts an overture by Louise Ferrenc, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with soloist Francesca Dego.

Bag your FREE tickets for our ‘Drawn to Music’ schools concerts in Cardiff on 31 March/1 April.

Bag your FREE tickets for our ‘Drawn to Music’ schools concerts in Cardiff on 31 March/1 April.

Much talked-about Canadian conductor Jordan De Souza makes his UK concert debut in music devilishly enjoyable, wickedly entertaining and frantically unpredictable.

This fun, lively and engaging one hour concert will take you on an exciting musical adventure.

This fun, lively and engaging one hour concert will take you on an exciting musical adventure.

Kings Place Resident Orchestra Aurora team up with the BBC Singers for a richly varied Passiontide concert for Voices Unwrapped, including James Macmillan’s choral masterpiece Seven Last Words from the Cross.

One of the world’s finest opera singers performs the songs and music he loves best.

The BBC Philharmonic take to the stage at City Hall, Sheffield for a programme of Elgar, Ravel and Vaughan Williams

A groundbreaking new chamber opera by Errollyn Wallen, celebrating the life of forgotten blind composer & performer Maria Theresia von Paradis.

Sakari Oramo conducts a forgotten symphony overflowing with passion and Nicola Benedetti plays the violin concerto that stole the movies’ greatest tunes.

The Passion is one of the greatest dramas ever depicted, and here, in possibly the most profound and epic of all Passion settings, Bach explores and tells the story in a way that only the genius of Bach truly can.