Performances of BBC National Orchestra of Wales at BBC National Orchestra of Wales

‘Seasonal’ events in December usually mean Christmas – with all the bells and whistles. This ‘Winter Afternoon’ is more directly seasonal, taking us to the chilly snowscapes of Russia.

Start your festive countdown with our ever-popular Christmas Celebrations concerts, full of sparkle and seasonal cheer.

BBC Wales’ annual festive concert returns with a selection of popular carols, readings by BBC Wales presenters and a massed choir of primary school pupils. Tickets will go on sale on Monday 4th November.

Start your festive countdown with our ever-popular Christmas Celebrations concerts, full of sparkle and seasonal cheer.

This unmissable performance will reconstruct the historic Beethoven Benefit Concert given in Vienna in December 1808.

The worlds of fairy-tale and dream mingle in music seen through the eyes of a child.

The worlds of fairy-tale and dream mingle in music seen through the eyes of a child.

Come and hear the latest in composition in Wales, as composers worthy of wider exposure have the opportunity to hear their works performed by the Orchestra.

Walton’s First Symphony

Works that combine deep romantic lyricism with thrilling rhythmic charge.

Sibelius’ new symphonic sound

Hope vies with tragedy in the works of Dvořák and Sibelius.

Sibelius’ new symphonic sound

Hope vies with tragedy in the works of Dvořák and Sibelius.

Welsh folk group Calan join BBC NOW to mark St David’s Day

Come and hear the latest in composition in Wales, as composers worthy of wider exposure have the opportunity to hear their works performed by the Orchestra.

Come and hear the latest in composition in Wales, as composers worthy of wider exposure have the opportunity to hear their works performed by the Orchestra.

Finding the route through Strauss’ ‘Metamorphosen’

Heroes, ruins and renewal: works of raw intensity by Beethoven and Strauss

Heroes, ruins and renewal: works of raw intensity by Beethoven and Strauss

BBC NOW’s leader Lesley Hatfield directs this programme of delightful works that include one of Mozart’s most celebrated concertos and Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece for string orchestra.

BBC NOW’s leader Lesley Hatfield directs this programme of delightful works that include one of Mozart’s most celebrated concertos and Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece for string orchestra.

Take a journey into classical music with BBC National Orchestra of Wales’ ever popular family concert.

It was London that brought Grace Williams together with Ralph Vaughan Williams, her teacher at the Royal College of Music, and with Benjamin Britten, her fellow student there.

Synthesizers, selfies and symphonies: this is a classical music concert that breaks all the rules!

The symbolism of Bach’s St Matthew Passion

Bach channels the tragedy and transcendence of the Passion into one heart-rending masterpiece.

The symbolism of Bach’s St Matthew Passion

Bach channels the tragedy and transcendence of the Passion into one heart-rending masterpiece.

CoLaboratory is a brand new series of events at BBC Hoddinott Hall presenting unique concert experiences for music lovers, as BBC NOW invite partners from across the artistic spectrum to collaborate with them, fusing two musical worlds.

Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us to talk about his past as a dancer and his connection to the music of his homeland, America.

A programme that delights in dance and young romance, with a new work by Sir Karl Jenkins for the brilliant saxophonist and musical evangelist, Jess Gillam.

Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us to talk about his past as a dancer and his connection to the music of his homeland, America.

A programme that delights in dance and young romance, with a new work by Sir Karl Jenkins for the brilliant saxophonist and musical evangelist, Jess Gillam.

The festival concludes with John Luther Adams’ epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean, with the Welsh symphonic premiere of a Huw Watkins piece and a festival commission by David Roche.

Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka leads the orchestra and chorus in Beethoven’s masterful Missa Solemnis

Korngold was an Austrian wunderkind who took his considerable talents to Hollywood just as war broke. There he wrote film scores of new scope and invention, ‘wordless operas’ as he called them.

The season closes with the lush colours of Korngold and the bristling intensity of Mahler’s fifth symphony.

Korngold was an Austrian wunderkind who took his considerable talents to Hollywood just as war broke. There he wrote film scores of new scope and invention, ‘wordless operas’ as he called them.

The season closes with the lush colours of Korngold and the bristling intensity of Mahler’s fifth symphony.