BBC Symphony Orchestra

Joana Carneiro leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme inspired by Beethoven.

Experience Shostakovich’s masterpiece of despair, grotesquery and anger from height of World War II and a brand new work from a compelling new voice from Finland.

Ritual, lament and incantation lie at the heart of this varied concert, moving from the purity of Arvo Pärt to the rich weave of Rachmaninov’s most epic, passionate and virtuosic concerto.

Soloists from both sides of the North Sea join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for Mendelssohn’s great choral masterpiece of grandeur and soulfulness, his musical telling of the story of the prophet Elijah.

Anders Hillborg in conversation about his life and music.

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra as they perform pieces for BBC Radio 3's The New Music Show.

Reflecting on two and a half centuries since Beethoven’s birth, the European premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s heartening take on Fidelio – a vocal rhapsody on freedom and love.

A heartwarming musical trip to cold Russia ending with Rachmaninov’s most infamous and intoxicating dance with love and death, the unstoppable Paganini Rhapsody.

From personal crisis to blazing triumph via music that sets out to seduce and to dazzle – the rollercoaster ride that is Mahler’s First Symphony under the charismatic Venezuelan Rafael Payare.

All the radioactive excitability and wicked irreverence of German composer Detlev Glanert in his latest major work, a spectacle for solo singers, choir and orchestra.