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BBC Symphony Orchestra Calendar

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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
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season
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.
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season 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.
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season 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
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season 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
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season Total Immersion: George Walker