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BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season Calendar

By Year

2022
2023

Wed 5 Oct 2022
- 19:30
  Oramo conducts Rachmaninov
  Barbican, London
  Boris Giltburg plays Rachmaninov and Sakari Oramo conjures sounds of pure enchantment as the BBC Symphony Orchestra opens its new season with a glittering programme.
  Boris Giltburg plays Rachmaninov and Sakari Oramo conjures sounds of pure enchantment as the BBC Symphony Orchestra opens its new season with a glittering programme.
  Programme
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
  Sophie Lacaze
  Sighs of StarsBBC co-commission: world premiere
  Sergey Prokofiev
  CinderellaSuite No. 1
  Performers
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Boris Giltburg
  piano
  piano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Sophie Lacaze
  Sergey Prokofiev
Sun 9 Oct 2022
- 11:00
  Sibelius and Storytelling
  Barbican, London
  An introduction to Sibelius‘ music and the stories in today’s Total Immersion.
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller
- 13:00
  Sibelius Songs and Melodramas: Phantoms, Visions, Siren Voices
  Milton Court Concert Hall
  Poetry and music merge in readings and songs: an atmospheric starting point for our day of Total Immersion in the world of Sibelius the Storyteller.
  Poetry and music merge in readings and songs: an atmospheric starting point for our day of Total Immersion in the world of Sibelius the Storyteller.
  Programme
  Jean Sibelius
  Part-songs, Op. 13selection
  Part-songs, Op. 17selection
  Norden(The North)
  Svartsjukans nätter, JS 125(Nights of Jealousy)
  Ett ensomt skidspår (A Lonely Ski Trail)(A Lonely Ski Trail)
  Performers
  Curt Ray
  actor
  actor
  Shayde Sinclair
  actor
  actor
  Guildhall School Musicians
  Composers
  Jean Sibelius
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller
- 15:00
  Stories, Quests, and Secret Sagas
  Barbican, London
  Sibelius the Storyteller: Sakari Oramo conducts four vivid musical mini-epics, accompanied by readings from the ancient stories that inspired them.
  Sibelius the Storyteller: Sakari Oramo conducts four vivid musical mini-epics, accompanied by readings from the ancient stories that inspired them.
  Programme
  Jean Sibelius
  Scènes historiques I, op. 25: No. 1. All'Overtura
  En saga
  The Bard, Op 64
  Pohjola's Daughter
  Performers
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
  narrator
  narrator
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Jean Sibelius
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller
- 17:30
  Songs and Seasons: Spring Dreams, Summer Fire, Winter Nights
  Milton Court Concert Hall
  Explore Finland’s choral tradition, as Owain Park and the BBC Singers present songs and poetry by Sibelius, his pupils, and their Finnish contemporaries.
  Explore Finland’s choral tradition, as Owain Park and the BBC Singers present songs and poetry by Sibelius, his pupils, and their Finnish contemporaries.
  Programme
  Jean Sibelius
  Part-songs, Op. 18selection
  Leevi Madetoja
  Part-songs
  Toivo Kuula
  Part-songs, Op. 11selection
  Jean Sibelius
  Rakastava(The lover)
  Performers
  BBC Singers
  Owain Park
  conductor, piano
  conductor, piano
  Laura Lake Adebisi
  actor
  actor
  Hughie O'Donnell
  actor
  actor
  Composers
  Jean Sibelius
  Leevi Madetoja
  Toivo Kuula
  Also part of
  BBC Singers 2022-23 Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller
- 19:30
  Crossings, Creations, and Immersions
  Barbican, London
  The last word: an evening of music and words inspired by Finnish legend and landscape, before Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Sibelius’s final great masterpiece Tapiola.
  The last word: an evening of music and words inspired by Finnish legend and landscape, before Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Sibelius’s final great masterpiece Tapiola.
  Programme
  Jean Sibelius
  Night Ride and Sunrise, Op 55
  The Echo Nymph
  Soluppgång, op. 37 no. 3
  Luonnotar
  Tapiola
  Performers
  Anu Komsi
  soprano
  soprano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
  actor
  actor
  Composers
  Jean Sibelius
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller
Fri 21 Oct 2022
- 19:30
  Elgar’s Cello Concerto
  Barbican, London
  Dalia Stasevska conducts cellist Sol Gabetta in Elgar’s Cello Concerto – the centrepiece of a concert powered by natural wonders and elemental emotions.
  Dalia Stasevska conducts cellist Sol Gabetta in Elgar’s Cello Concerto – the centrepiece of a concert powered by natural wonders and elemental emotions.
  Programme
  Iain Farrington
  A Party with Auntie
  Dai Fujikura
  Glorious CloudsUK premiere
  Edward Elgar
  Cello Concerto in E minor
  Jean Sibelius
  Symphony No. 1 in E minor
  Performers
  Sol Gabetta
  cello
  cello
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Dalia Stasevska
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Iain Farrington
  Dai Fujikura
  Edward Elgar
  Jean Sibelius
Sat 29 Oct 2022
- 29 Oct – 6 Nov 2022
  BBC Proms Japan
  Bunkamura, Toyko
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra goes on tour for BBC Proms Japan under the baton of Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska.
Sat 19 Nov 2022
- 19:30
  BBC SO at Bath Mozart Fest
  The Forum, Bath
  us in Bath with conductor Kevin John Edusei and pianist Sir Stephen Hough.
  us in Bath with conductor Kevin John Edusei and pianist Sir Stephen Hough.
  Programme
  Johannes Brahms
  Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
  Antonín Dvořák
  Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’
  Performers
  Stephen Hough
  pianist
  pianist
  Kevin John Edusei
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Johannes Brahms
  Antonín Dvořák
Sat 26 Nov 2022
- 13:00
  A Voice of his Own: the BBC Singers perform George Walker
  Milton Court, London
  A voice of his own: the BBC Singers perform the choral music of George Walker and his contemporaries.
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: George Walker BBC Singers 2022-23 BBC Singers at Milton Court 2022-23
- 15:00
  Talk: Inside the Music of George Walker
  Barbican, London
  An introduction to some of the works in the Guildhall Musicians’ and BBC Symphony Orchestra’s concerts today.
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: George Walker
- 17:00
  The World in a Grain of Sand: Chamber Music by George Walker
  Milton Court, London
  The world in a grain of sand: as part of today’s Total Immersion in the music of George Walker, Guildhall Musicians perform his songs and chamber music.
  The world in a grain of sand: as part of today’s Total Immersion in the music of George Walker, Guildhall Musicians perform his songs and chamber music.
  Programme
  George Walker
  Music for Three
  Spektra
  Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1and songs to poems by A. E. Housman, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and others.
  Performers
  Guildhall School Musicians
  Composers
  George Walker
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: George Walker
- 19:45
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra Performs George Walker
  Barbican, London
  Alpesh Chauhan conducts four of George Walker’s most potent orchestral works: the climax of a day of Total Immersion in the imagination of this Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
  Alpesh Chauhan conducts four of George Walker’s most potent orchestral works: the climax of a day of Total Immersion in the imagination of this Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
  Programme
  George Walker
  Sinfonia no. 2UK premiere
  Lyric for Strings
  Movements for Cello and OrchestraUK premiere
  Sinfonia No. 5, ‘Visions’
  Mass for Soloists, Chorus, and OrchestraUK premiere
  Performers
  Alpesh Chauhan
  conductor
  conductor
  Laura van der Heijden
  cellist
  cellist
  April Koyejo-Audiger
  soprano
  soprano
  Zoe Drummond
  soprano
  soprano
  Georgia Mae Bishop
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Jessica Gillingwater
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Joshua Stewart
  tenor
  tenor
  Florian Panzieri
  tenor
  tenor
  Henry Waddington
  bass
  bass
  Frazer Scott
  bass
  bass
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sarah Playfair
  casting consultant
  casting consultant
  Composers
  George Walker
  Also part of
  Total Immersion: George Walker
Fri 9 Dec 2022
- 19:30
  The Lark Ascending
  Barbican, London
  Life, death and transcendence: Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending finds a 21st century counterpart in a new work from Deborah Pritchard.
  Life, death and transcendence: Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending finds a 21st century counterpart in a new work from Deborah Pritchard.
  Programme
  Benjamin Britten
  Sinfonia da Requiem
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  The Lark Ascending
  Deborah Pritchard
  CalandraBBC commission: world premiere
  Richard Strauss
  Death and Transfiguration
  Performers
  Jennifer Pike
  violin
  violin
  Clemens Schuldt
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Benjamin Britten
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Deborah Pritchard
  Richard Strauss
Wed 14 Dec 2022
- 14:50
  Studio Concert: Dvořák, Wennäkoski and Enescu
  Maida Vale Studios
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra is delighted to welcome audiences back to Maida Vale Studios for a free concert as Ruth Reinhardt conducts music from across three centuries.
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra is delighted to welcome audiences back to Maida Vale Studios for a free concert as Ruth Reinhardt conducts music from across three centuries.
  Programme
  Antonín Dvořák
  Symphony No 5 in F major
  Lotta Wennäkoski
  Footprints of LightUK premiere
  George Enescu
  Sinfonia Concertante
  Performers
  Andrei Ionita
  cello
  cello
  Ruth Reinhardt
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Antonín Dvořák
  Lotta Wennäkoski
  George Enescu
Tue 20 Dec 2022
- 19:30
  The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Barbican, London
  Sherlock Holmes at Christmas: a powerful new adaptation by Neil Brand of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles for a cast of eight actors and music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
  Sherlock Holmes at Christmas: a powerful new adaptation by Neil Brand of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles for a cast of eight actors and music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
  Programme
  Neil Brand
  The Hound of the BaskervillesBBC co-commission and world premiere
  Performers
  Mark Gatiss
  Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes
  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  Dr Watson
  Dr Watson
  Sam Dale
  Dr. Mortimer / Frankland / Narrator
  Dr. Mortimer / Frankland / Narrator
  Ewan Bailey
  Barrymore / Mycroft / Narrator
  Barrymore / Mycroft / Narrator
  Clare Corbett
  Mrs. Barrymore / Beryl Stapleton / Billy / Narrator
  Mrs. Barrymore / Beryl Stapleton / Billy / Narrator
  Carl Prekopp
  Stapleton / Selden / Narrator
  Stapleton / Selden / Narrator
  Ryan Early
  Henry Baskerville / Narrator
  Henry Baskerville / Narrator
  Timothy Brock
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Neil Brand