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Fri 11 Jul 2025
- 14:00
  TECHNO-UTOPIA – AI and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  MediaCityUK Salford
  Hear the world premiere of Robert Laidlow’s new work TECHNO-UTOPIA, a genre defining piece for piano, orchestra and new AI live-processed instruments.
  Hear the world premiere of Robert Laidlow’s new work TECHNO-UTOPIA, a genre defining piece for piano, orchestra and new AI live-processed instruments.
  Programme
  Robert Laidlow
  TECHNO-UTOPIA
  Performers
  BBC Philharmonic
  Zubin Kanga
  piano
  piano
  Jack Sheen
  Conductor
  Conductor
  Composers
  Robert Laidlow
  Part of
  BBC Philharmonic 2024-25 Season
Mon 21 Jul 2025
- 19:30
  Mahler’s Seventh
  Royal Albert Hall
  Tenor Allan Clayton gives the world premiere of Tom Coult’s Monologues for the Curious, while John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra stalk the shifting musical landscapes of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
  Tenor Allan Clayton gives the world premiere of Tom Coult’s Monologues for the Curious, while John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra stalk the shifting musical landscapes of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
  Programme
  Tom Coult
  Monologues for the Curious(24 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  interval
  Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No. 7(77 mins)
  Performers
  Allan Clayton
  tenor
  tenor
  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  John Storgårds
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Tom Coult
  Gustav Mahler
  Part of
  Proms 2025
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  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
Tue 22 Jul 2025
- 19:30
  Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’
  Royal Albert Hall
  Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA between performances of two iconic 19th-century tone-poems: Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
  Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA between performances of two iconic 19th-century tone-poems: Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
  Programme
  Richard Strauss
  Death and Transfiguration(23 mins)
  Mark Simpson
  ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick)(20 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  interval
  Hector Berlioz
  Symphonie fantastique(49 mins)
  Performers
  Sean Shibe
  electric guitar
  electric guitar
  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  Anja Bihlmaier
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Richard Strauss
  Mark Simpson
  Hector Berlioz
  Part of
  Proms 2025
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  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
Thu 31 Jul 2025
- 18:30
  Rachmaninov and Copland
  Royal Albert Hall
  Joshua Weilerstein and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Rachmaninov’s enigmatic final masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances, alongside Copland’s jazz-inspired Clarinet Concerto
  Joshua Weilerstein and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Rachmaninov’s enigmatic final masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances, alongside Copland’s jazz-inspired Clarinet Concerto
  Programme
  Elsa Barraine
  Symphony No. 2(17 mins)
  Aaron Copland
  Clarinet Concerto(18 mins)
  Artie Shaw
  Clarinet Concerto(8 mins)
  interval
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Symphonic Dances(35 mins)
  Performers
  Martin Fröst
  clarinet
  clarinet
  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  Joshua Weilerstein
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Elsa Barraine
  Aaron Copland
  Artie Shaw
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Part of
  Proms 2025
  Book now
  Seats from £10 to £46 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £10 to £46 (plus booking fee)