BBC Symphony Orchestra

Fri 1 Nov 2019, 19:30

Experience Vaughan Williams at his best, from the airborne rapture of The Lark Ascending to the earthbound passions of his spellbinding symphonic masterpiece.

Fri 1 Nov 2019, 18:00

From the urgent to the idyllic, the BBC Singers present visionary choral music from one of the masters of the twentieth century.

Sat 26 Oct 2019, 19:30

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.

Fri 18 Oct 2019, 19:30

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.

Thu 3 Oct 2019, 19:30

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 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. 

Songs and piano music from Tanglewood, America's home for contemporary orchestral music.

Mahler’s compelling and exhilarating tussle with fate opens the orchestra’s ninetieth anniversary season under Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.

Join us as we celebrate ninety years of the BBC’s flagship orchestra with music that dazzles, frolics and marks its pivotal role in broadcasting and music history. 

Fifty years since his first concert with the BBC SO, former Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis conducts Mahler’s journey to catharsis after James Ehnes plays Berg’s touching violin concerto. 

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his own symphonic shortcut through the culmination to Wagner’s Ring and Schoenberg’s seminal monodrama Erwartung.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC SO season finale with Kodály’s intense and outspoken Psalmus Hungaricus for choir and orchestra.

This concert displays both beauty and novelty as new choral music from America meets a classic by Samuel Barber, all conducted by rising star Owain Park.

Singers and dancers unite for choreographed performances of spirited and spiritual choral works culminating in Brahms’s consoling A German Requiem.

An intimate stop on the BBC SO’s journey through everything Tanglewood, featuring string quartets by American pioneers and Augusta Read Thomas’s percussive celebration of the Center’s spirit.

Outlandish musicianship and high jinks from the internet sensations who are transforming the classical repertoire, one deep breath at a time. 

Orchestra and chorus are united for Brahms at his most hushed and Strauss at his most extravagant as Nathalie Stutzmann makes her BBC Symphony Orchestra conducting debut.

From the foreboding to the consoling, music shaped by the culmination of World War II including the UK premiere of Dai Fujikura’s concerto after Hiroshima.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s love-fuelled Ninth Symphony – the most profound and contradictory symphony he would write.

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s boldest and most revealing symphony alongside his charming Humoresques, beginning with a masterpiece of orchestral virtuosity from Britain.