BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Elizabeth Alker presents this afternoon's live BBC Radio 3 broadcast. PLEASE NOTE - Alpesh Chauhan replaces Clemens Schuldt as conductor and we hear Brahms's Tragic Overture in place of Glazunov's Spring and Summer.

To mark International Women’s Day 2020, BBC Radio 3 has commissioned seven very different composers to each write a movement of an a cappella choral work entitled Seven Ages of Woman. Each composer represents her own decade.

Donald Runnicles, the BBC SSO's Conductor Emeritus, returns to conduct Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony.

The orchestra bring Beethoven to Stoke on Trent Festival, where Clemens Schuldt conducts, joined by Martin Roscoe with Beethoven's most serene piano concerto

The soulful music of vocal sensation Lianne La Havas is given the symphonic treatment in a live orchestral performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted and arranged by the BBC SO’s new Creative Artist in Association, Jules Buckley.

Camilla Lundberg’s documentary examining the life and work of Anders Hillborg – the perfect introduction to our 2020 Total Immersion composer.

Chamber music by Anders Hillborg introduced by the composer himself.

BBC SSO Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO perform two Beethoven symphonies.

In the spiritual surroundings of St Giles’ Cripplegate, the voices of the BBC Singers offer immersive and embracing choral works including spine-tingling music by our 2020 Total Immersion composer Anders Hillborg.

Anders Hillborg in conversation about his life and music.