BBC Symphony Orchestra
Associate Orchestra
The backbone of the BBC Proms and one of the UK's finest orchestras, the BBC SO performs a thrilling, distinctive range of music, from works at the heart of classical music to contemporary premieres.
Events
BBC SO/Bychkov: Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch
All the radioactive excitability and wicked irreverence of German composer Detlev Glanert in his latest major work, a spectacle for solo singers, choir and orchestra.
BBC SO Total Immersion: Detlev Glanert - Guildhall Musicians
A performance of chamber music by Detlev Glanert and his teacher, Henze.
Family Total Immersion: Lift Off! - BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jump on board our symphonic space ship for a magical musical adventure.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo
The incomparable virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger shimmies, flirts, jaunts and blasts his way through a lively concert of works for trumpet and orchestra.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Brabbins
Experience Vaughan Williams at his best, from the airborne rapture of The Lark Ascending to the earthbound passions of his spellbinding symphonic masterpiece.
Singers at Six: BBC Singers/Spicer
From the urgent to the idyllic, the BBC Singers present visionary choral music from one of the masters of the twentieth century.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Stasevska
Composed in the shadow of the Second World War, Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem opens Dalia Stasevska’s first concert at the Barbican as the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor.
BBC Singers/Jeannin
A journey from the foothills of Peru to the open skies of Estonia with evocative songs of love and longing from the 18 voices of the BBC Singers.
BBC Symphony Orchestra: Miss Julie
One of the most red-blooded operatic tragedies the UK has ever produced – William Alwyn’s tense and dramatic take on Strindberg’s Miss Julie is revived with a brilliant cast.
BBC SO/Bringuier
BBC Symphony Orchestra explore the works of composers who have been inspired by dance, from Prokofiev’s riotous ballet symphony to Poulenc’s toe-tapping concerto shaped by jazz.
BBC SO/Oramo
Schumann’s symphonic love letter to his beloved wife meets Magnus Lindberg’s powerful protest against totalitarianism.
BBC SO/Oramo
Mesmeric ballet music commissioned by the extraordinary Ida Rubinstein meets an exquisite piano concerto with a special place in BBC Symphony Orchestra history.
BBC SO/Oramo
Sakari Oramo conducts the full choral-orchestral version of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, one of the most overwhelmingly beautiful ballet score ever written.
BBC SO/New
Gemma New and the BBC SO explore the music of American composers and their students in this concert of groovy, glitzy and gregarious scores, from Copland and Bernstein to Adams and Kernis.
Singers at Six: Poems of Ecstasy
Purity and profundity from the BBC Singers is found in choral works mourning loss separated by two continents and five and a half centuries.
Singers at Six: Goethe in Song
BBC Singers celebrate the unparalleled musical legacy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – the poet whose words inspired some of the world’s most profound and beautiful songs.
Discover
Composer Focus – Episode 5: Jean Sibelius with Sakari Oramo
In the final episode, host Edward Seckerson is joined by BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sakari Oramo to discuss his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, and the themes of nature and Finnish national identity woven throughout his music.
