BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Markus Stenz conducts BBC NOW in a programme celebrating the dramatic power of the orchestra. Strauss’s exuberant tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel and Brahms’s turbulent First Symphony are joined by a thrilling new double concerto by Tobias Broström.

Woodstock, the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, The Beatles’ final album (Abbey Road) – 1969 was a key year, and here the BBC Concert Orchestra turns the clock back to explore the film and popular music of 1969 and revive the soundtrack of a special summer.

From its opening Representation of Chaos through the making of stars, seas and storms, The Creation is one of the great musical dramas. Haydn’s colourful oratorio returns to the Proms for the first time in a decade, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.

BBC NOW is delighted to perform in the Three Choirs Festival 2019 with soloists April Frederick, Neal Davies and Natalie Clein.

From the glow of Strauss’s sunrise to the blaze of a torturer’s fire in Sir James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, the BBC SSO explores the gamut of the human experience. Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in Schumann’s bravura Piano Concerto.

Schumann’s mould-breaking Fourth Symphony, moving from darkness to blazing light, is paired with Schoenberg’s revolutionary Five Orchestral Pieces. South-Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major.

BBC NOW are delighted to open the 2019 Welsh Proms in stellar fashion. Presented by Huw Edwards, “One Small Step...” is a musical celebration of the 1969 lunar landings, exactly 50 years to the day since man first set foot on the surface of the moon.

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Richard Balcombe and star vocal soloists Graham Bickley and Louise Dearman for ‘Songs for a swingin’ orchestra’ at King’s Lynn Festival.

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and Shiva Feshareki as part of this year’s New Music Biennial.

BBCNOW are joined by conductor Ainars Rubikis, cellist Andrei Ionita (BBC New Generation Artist) and 2019 Artist in residence, Polly Leech (mezzo-soprano).