Experience highlights from the hit BBC series on the big screen with live orchestral music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted and presented by the series’ composer George Fenton.

An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing final masterpiece Hush.

The Year 1905: Shostakovich’s monumental symphony meets Beethoven at his brightest. Unchained energy from conductor Jakub Hrusa, pianist Jonathan Biss and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Vinay Parameswaran makes his conducting debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, leading a grand programme of works by Carlos Simon, Jacques Ibert and Sergei Prokofiev.

Grand passions and big tunes from Mendelssohn, Korngold and Augusta Holmès, as conductor Marie Jacquot makes her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Big skies and new worlds: Domingo Hindoyan conducts three musical salutes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, including Barber’s glorious Violin Concerto.

An introduction to Symphonic Electronics with Tom Service and Steven Daverson.

The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – “symphonic” in the ancient Greek meaning “harmonious”.

Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.

A continued exploration of Symphonic Electronics.

Stockhausen’s last electronic piece, plus a new adventure from experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki: Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory. A wondrous finale to a day of sonic innovation.

Conductor Elim Chan and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor: a dream-team joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich, Britten and the UK premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek’s ravishing Moondog.

Russian Romantics share the stage in this rich and lyrical programme conducted by Elena Schwarz in her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a programme of farewells.

For sheer sonic splendour, it’s hard to top Janáček’s Sinfonietta – but when Dalia Stasevska and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet perform Bartók and Ravel with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, they’ll give it their best shot.

Two innovative ballets, two major symphonic scores and two piano concertos are on the programme of this singular diptych, featuring as soloist the loyal Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo artist François-Frédéric Guy.

Two innovative ballets, two major symphonic scores and two piano concertos are on the programme of this singular diptych, featuring as soloist the loyal Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo artist François-Frédéric Guy.

An overview of Pierre Boulez's relationship with the BBC and its orchestras.

An introduction to Pierre Boulez with Jonathan Cross.

Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet - one with electronics - performed by the hugely talented musicians of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.

A continued exploration of Pierre Boulez with Jonathan Cross and Gillian Moore

An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon pli.

Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.

England’s dreaming: Sakari Oramo rediscovers rare and wonderful British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Doreen Carwithen and Malcolm Arnold.

Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler’s playful Fourth Symphony – and plays the violin too, as Kurt Weill retells the myth of Orpheus in his own, utterly original style.

Stephen Hough plays Beethoven and Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler’s First Symphony. Genius, pure and simple, from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Conductor Lee Reynolds and soprano Sophia Burgos return to the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk and cellist Sterling Elliott make their debuts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Conductor Kristian Sallinen returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and violinist Hyeyoon Park plays Florence Price's Second Violin Concerto.

From the depths to the stars; from romance to tragedy: Dima Slobodeniouk pairs Prokofiev’s 'Romeo and Juliet' with Lili Boulanger’s mighty shout of hope and praise.

Pierre Bleuse returns to the studio conducting works by Roxanna Panufnik and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Goodnight, Vienna: Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), as the BBC Symphony Orchestra brings its season to an unforgettable close.

Join some of your favourite CBeebies friends to celebrate the natural world at the spectacular Wildlife Jamboree with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and brilliant conductor Karen Ní Bhroin.

Join some of your favourite CBeebies friends to celebrate the natural world at the spectacular Wildlife Jamboree with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and brilliant conductor Karen Ní Bhroin.

This first BBC Symphony Orchestra concert features two masterpieces by Richard Strauss in which darkness is transformed into light. Featured artist Leila Josefowicz plays Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto, and Anu Komsi sings Strauss’ Four Last Songs.

Sakari Oramo directs scintillating forces in a divine setting by Britten of W.H. Auden’s poetry; its war-torn angst is dissolved in the triumphant resolution of Sibelius’ grand Fifth Symphony.

Quentin Blake’s glorious, multicoloured Box of Treasures bursts open as the BBC Symphony Orchestra accompanies two wonderfully animated adventures live: Angel Pavement and Loveykins.

Jonathon Heyward returns to the studio conducting works by Christian Jost and Mieczysław Weinberg.

Find out what sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun has planned for his brand-new collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Follow a trail through undiscovered musical landscapes in this new collaboration between electronic music artist Halina Rice and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Christian Karlsen conducts Radio 3's New Music Show, featuring works by Lisa Streich, Toshio Hosokawa and the BBC Symphony Orchestra's very own Nicholas Korth.

The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel

A chance to encounter two leading contemporary artists in collaboration with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The sonic scope of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied meets its match in the musical spectacle of Pierre Boulez’s ‘majestic processional’ Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s ‘grotesque pantomime’ The Miraculous Mandarin, and Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing

Sir Mark Elder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, massed choirs and four star soloists in Delius’s A Mass for Life, which celebrates the transcendent power and triumph of the human spirit in the face of death

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, heard here with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska

An all-French programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot sees Bizet’s incidental music for The Girl from Arles performed alongside a fantasy on themes from his popular opera Carmen, reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate

Composer and conductor Thomas Adès joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela

Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, accompanied by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises, star turns and all the traditional favourites

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra open their new season with Mahler’s heartrending Ninth Symphony.

Become Ocean: Dalia Stasevska conducts John Luther Adams’s 21st century cult classic.

Nil Venditti, Jess Gillam and the BBC Symphony Orchestra travel from the West of Ireland to the shores of the Bosphorus, in music by Ottorino Respighi, Giacomo Puccini, Fazil Say and Anna Clyne.

Unchained emotion: the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Dvořák’s most passionate symphony, and joins pianist Alexander Gadjiev in Respighi’s sumptuous, unfairly neglected Piano Concerto.

Shostakovich’s shattering Eighth Symphony is the climax of a gripping all-Russian programme from BBC Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Hannu Lintu and viola phenom Timothy Ridout.

Dark fire and glittering ice: Mozart’s Requiem crowns an evening of deep emotions and natural wonders from Sakari Oramo and pianist Martin Helmchen.

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.

Music from the abyss: Kirill Karabits and the BBC Symphony Orchestra embrace Tchaikovsky at his wildest, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann at his most vital.

Grand passions and impossible dreams, as Elena Schwarz and Erika Baikoff join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a concert of Ravel, Franck and the extraordinary Elzbieta Sikora.

Ermonela Jaho stars in Puccini’s bittersweet romance, his opera La rondine, incorporating music that has not been heard this century.

A festive treat with a ghostly difference: a night of classic stories and haunting melodies from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sir James MacMillan conducts a starry performance of his huge, life-affirming Christmas Oratorio – music that speaks to listeners of all faiths and none.