BBC Symphony Orchestra digital programme archive
Discover the stories behind the music with our digital programmes.
2025/26
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MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio
19:30 Fri 19 Dec 2025 Barbican, London
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Ghost Stories and Music for Christmas
19:00 Sun 14 Dec 2025 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Adès, Coleridge-Taylor and Sibelius
19:30 Fri 7 Nov 2025 Barbican, London
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Mozart's Requiem
19:30 Fri 31 Oct 2025 Barbican, London
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Lintu conducts Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony
19:30 Fri 24 Oct 2025 Barbican, London
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Nil Venditti conducts Clyne and Respighi
19:30 Fri 17 Oct 2025 Barbican, London
2024/25
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Elder conducts Mahler
19:30 Fri 23 May 2025 Barbican, London
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Slobodeniouk conducts Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
19:30 Fri 16 May 2025 Barbican, London
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Hough plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto
19:30 Fri 25 Apr 2025 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Mahler's Fourth Symphony
19:30 Wed 16 Apr 2025 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams
19:30 Fri 11 Apr 2025 Barbican, London
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Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg
19:30 Fri 4 Apr 2025 Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez
All day, Sun 30 Mar 2025 Barbican, London
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Stasevska conducts Ravel
19:30 Wed 12 Mar 2025 Barbican, London
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Chan conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony
19:30 Fri 28 Feb 2025 Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics
All day, Sun 23 Feb 2025 Barbican, London
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Hindoyan conducts Barber's Violin Concerto
19:30 Thu 13 Feb 2025 Barbican, London
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Jacquot conducts Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
19:30 Fri 7 Feb 2025 Barbican, London
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Hrůša conducts Beethoven and Shostakovich
19:30 Fri 31 Jan 2025 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Mahler's Tenth and The Lark Ascending
19:30 Fri 24 Jan 2025 Barbican, London
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Wild Isles: Live in Concert
19:00 Sat 18 Jan 2025 Barbican Hall
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Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
19:30 Fri 13 Dec 2024 Barbican, London
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Yeol Eum Son plays Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto
19:30 Fri 6 Dec 2024 Barbican, London
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Haydn and Strauss: Nelson Mass and A Hero’s Life
19:30 Fri 29 Nov 2024 Barbican, London
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Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto
19:30 Fri 1 Nov 2024 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Strauss and Wagner
19:30 Fri 8 Nov 2024 Barbican, London
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Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto
19:30 Sat 12 Oct 2024 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Mahler
19:30 Thu 26 Sep 2024 Barbican, London
2023/24
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A Sea Symphony
19:30 Fri 24 May 2025 Barbican, London
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Rachmaninov's Rhapsody
19:30 Fri 17 May 2024 Barbican, London
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Old Pictures, New Worlds
19:30 Fri 10 May 2024 Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: Italian Radicals
All day, Sun 5 May 2025 Barbican, London
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Fantastic Symphony
19:30 Fri 19 Apr 2024 Barbican, London
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Clemens Schuldt conducts Beethoven
19:30 Wed 20 Mar 2024 Barbican, London
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Let there be Light
19:30 Fri 15 Mar 2024 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Brahms
19:30 Fri 8 Mar 2024 Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli
All day, Sun 25 Feb 2024 Barbican Hall
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Fireworks and Fantasies
19:30 Fri 16 Feb 2024 Barbican, London
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Wong conducts Shostakovich
19:30 Fri 9 Feb 2024 Barbican, London
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Tchaikovsky, Grime & Strauss
19:30 Thu 1 Feb 2024 Barbican, London
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Frang plays Stravinsky
19:30 Sat 20 Jan 2024 Barbican, London
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Heaven, Earth and the Human Heart
19:30 Fri 15 Dec 2023 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Sibelius
19:30 Fri 8 Dec 2023 Barbican, London
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Fantastic Voyages
19:30 Fri 1 Dec 2023 Barbican, London
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Bychkov conducts Brahms
19:30 Fri 24 Nov 2023 Barbican, London
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The Faun and the Firebird
19:30 Fri 3 Nov 2023 Barbican, London
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Rites Remade
19:00 Sun 22 Oct 2023 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Mahler
19:30 Fri 6 Oct 2023 Barbican, London
2022/23
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Joby Talbot's Everest
Fri 23 Jun 2023 Barbican, London
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Symphonies of the human spirit
19:30 Fri 26 May 2023 Barbican, London
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Father John Misty sings Scott Walker with Jules Buckley
19:30 Fri 19 May 2023 Barbican, London
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A Child of Our Time
19:30 Fri 12 May 2023 Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: Spotlight on Kaija Saariaho
All day, Sun 7 May 2023 Barbican, London
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Sakari Oramo and Inmo Yang
19:30 Sat 15 Apr 2023 Barbican, London
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Ian McEwan with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Fri 31 Mar 2023 Barbican, London
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Brabbins conducts Beowulf and Job
19:30 Fri 17 Mar 2023 Barbican, London
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Bringuier conducts Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel
19:30 Fri 10 Mar 2023 Barbican, London
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Swan Lake retold and told anew
19:30 Fri 3 Mar 2023 Barbican, London
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New conducts Gershwin & Barber
19:30 Fri 24 Feb 2023 Barbican, London
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Lintu conducts Rachmaninov & Stravinsky
19:30 Fri 17 Feb 2023 Barbican, London
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Dalene & Ridout play Mozart
19:30 Fri 10 Feb 2023 Barbican, London
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Mahler's Symphony No. 5
19:30 Fri 20 Jan 2023 Barbican, London
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Rachmaninov and Lyatoshinsky
15:00 Sun 15 Jan 2023 Barbican, London
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
19:30 Tue 20 Dec 2022 Barbican, London
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The Lark Ascending
19:30 Fri 9 Dec 2022 Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: George Walker
All day, Sat 26 Nov 2022 Barbican, London
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Elgar's Cello Concerto
19:30 Fri 21 Oct 2022 Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller
All day, Sun 9 Oct 2022 Barbican, London
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Oramo conducts Rachmaninov
19:30 Wed 5 Oct 2022 Barbican, London
