BBC Orchestras and Choirs Events
Thu 15 Nov 2018
- 19:30Barbican, London
The BBC Symphony Chorus launches its 90th birthday season with a concert featuring Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D and Tchaikovsky’s heartfelt First Piano Concerto.
The BBC Symphony Chorus launches its 90th birthday season with a concert featuring Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D and Tchaikovsky’s heartfelt First Piano Concerto.
Programme
- Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23
- Mass in D major
Composers
Fri 16 Nov 2018
- 14:00St Paul's Knightsbridge, London
World-renowned organist and conductor Wayne Marshall makes his conducting debut with the BBC Singers. The programme for this concert features the Missa Brevis by the Lebanese-French composer Naji Hakim.
Part ofBBC Singers 2018-19 - 19:30The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Programme
- Music for Orchestra (1912)(19 mins)
- Viola Concerto(26 mins)
- Elegy, Op 15(9 mins)
- Symphony No 9 in E flat major(25 mins)
Part ofBBC Philharmonic 2018-19 Season
Sat 17 Nov 2018
- 19:30Leeds Town Hall
Simon Wright, Benjamin Appl, Andrew Staples and Evelina Dobračeva join the BBC Philharmonic to perform Britten's War Requiem at Leeds Town Hall
Simon Wright, Benjamin Appl, Andrew Staples and Evelina Dobračeva join the BBC Philharmonic to perform Britten's War Requiem at Leeds Town Hall
Programme
- War Requiem(93 mins)
Composers
Sun 11 Nov 2018
- 15:00Milton Court Concert Hall
As part of the Remembrance Day weekend celebrations, Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers performing works responding to WW1.
As part of the Remembrance Day weekend celebrations, Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers performing works responding to WW1.
Programme
- Move him into the sun
- New workUK premiere; co-commissioned by the Barbican and RIAS Kammercher
Composers
- 18:30St David's Hall, Cardiff
Britten travels through time
- 19:30St David's Hall, Cardiff
A powerful expression of both loss and hope, Britten’s War Requiem was a defining work not just for him but for twentieth century music, a true landmark in the choral repertoire.
A powerful expression of both loss and hope, Britten’s War Requiem was a defining work not just for him but for twentieth century music, a true landmark in the choral repertoire.
Programme
- War Requiem
Composers
Sat 10 Nov 2018
- 10 – 11 Nov 2018Barbican, London
An award-winning Virtual Reality experience by Anna Meredith and 59 Productions, presented by the BBC VR Hub.
- 18:10Barbican, London
The culmination of a BBC Symphony Orchestra Learning project.
The culmination of a BBC Symphony Orchestra Learning project.
Programme
- Memorial Ground
Composers
