News Sport Weather iPlayer Sounds Bitesize CBeebies CBBC Food

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra Calendar

By Month

Thu 3 Jul 2025
- 14:30
  Jonathon Heyward conducts Jost and Weinberg
  Maida Vale Studios
  Jonathon Heyward returns to the studio conducting works by Christian Jost and Mieczysław Weinberg.
  Jonathon Heyward returns to the studio conducting works by Christian Jost and Mieczysław Weinberg.
  Programme
  Christian Jost
  The Woman in the Gardens of Suzhou
  Mieczysław Weinberg
  Symphony No. 3
  Performers
  Jonathon Heyward
  conductorOrchestra
  conductorOrchestra
  Composers
  Christian Jost
  Mieczysław Weinberg
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra 2024/25
  Tickets available soon
Fri 18 Jul 2025
- 18:45
  First Night of the Proms 2025
  Royal Albert Hall
  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
  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
  Programme
  Arthur Bliss
  Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood(2 mins)
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)(10 mins)
  Jean Sibelius
  Violin Concerto in D minor(35 mins)
  interval
  Errollyn Wallen
  The Elements(10 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Sancta civitas(30 mins)
  Performers
  Lisa Batiashvili
  violin
  violin
  Caspar Singh
  tenor
  tenor
  Gerald Finley
  bass-baritone
  bass-baritone
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  London Youth Choirs
  ( from)
  ( from)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Arthur Bliss
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jean Sibelius
  Errollyn Wallen
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Proms on TV
  Book now
  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
Thu 24 Jul 2025
- 19:30
  Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
  Royal Albert Hall
  Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra 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
  Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra 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
  Programme
  Igor Stravinsky
  Song of the Nightingale(21 mins)
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Violin Concerto in E minor(26 mins)
  interval
  Anthony Davis
  Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey(15 mins)UK premiere
  Richard Strauss
  Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks(15 mins)
  Performers
  Augustin Hadelich
  violin
  violin
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Igor Stravinsky
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Anthony Davis
  Richard Strauss
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Classical for starters
  Book now
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
Tue 29 Jul 2025
- 19:30
  Arooj Aftab and Ibrahim Maalouf
  Royal Albert Hall
  A chance to encounter two leading contemporary artists in collaboration with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Part of
  Proms 2025
  Book now
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)