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Start your musical journey this January with Janáček’s immensely popular tragicomedy The Cunning Little Vixen.
From Elgar’s green and pleasant lands with the famous Cello Concerto to depths of Russia, culminating in Stravinsky’s ballet ‘The Firebird’.
Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic.
Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic
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.
From The Bare Necessities... to Let it Go – perhaps their biggest ever hit, Disney has always been powered by music. Celebrate 100 years of Disney with The King's Singers and the BBC Concert Orchestra. There is a child within us all!
Italy. Land of sun, sea and serious culture – look no further than its great operatic ‘Hall of Fame’ led by Verdi with a cameo from Puccini and ending with Pulcinella – Italy’s take on Punch and Judy.
Welsh Euphonium sensation David Childs steps into the solo spot for the world premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s new concerto Where the Lugar meets the Glaisnock, and the folk music of England provides the scene for Vaughan Williams’ In the Fen Country.
Welsh Euphonium sensation David Childs steps into the solo spot for the world premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s new concerto Where the Lugar meets the Glaisnock.
If historically serenades were intended as music for entertainment, then Brahms has most definitely excelled in his Serenade No. 2.
Karina Canellakis conducts the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and BBC SSO in a programme featuring Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliées, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Hugh Cutting, and Stravinsky's reorchestrated Petrushka.
Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.
A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican.
We continue our thrillingly up-close series at the RNCM with a heavyweight artistic collaboration – our Chief Conductor John Storgårds s the acclaimed pianist Tamara Stefanovich in this exploration of the pure power of the piano.