BBC Symphony Orchestra

POSTPONED: Paul Weller stars in a special performance curated by Creative Artist in Association Jules Buckley with the BBC SO.

POSTPONED: Venture to the beautiful Scottish Highlands with the BBC SO and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo as the craggy landscapes are brought vividly to life through music

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s boldest and most revealing symphony alongside his charming Humoresques, beginning with a masterpiece of orchestral virtuosity from Britain.

Gemma New conducts groovy, glitzy and gregarious scores by American composers who were teachers and pupils, from Copland and Bernstein to Adams and Kernis.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC SO season finale, culminating in Kodály’s intense and outspoken Psalmus Hungaricus for choir and orchestra.

A chance to hear some recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Another chance to listen to the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska with South African soprano Golda Schultz and violinist Nicola Benedetti. A musical feast of old favourites and new delights to bring in the New Year.

For BBC Radio 3's Afternoon Concert on Christmas Eve, we hear Berlioz's The Childhood of Christ recorded at the Barbican in December 2018.

Professor Brian Cox and the BBC Symphony Orchestra carry us across the Cosmos: music by Sibelius, Ives and Mahler with the BBC SO's Principal Guest Conductor, Dalia Stasevska.

For BBC Radio 3's Afternoon Concert, listen to highlights from the BBC Proms including Strauss's Alpine Symphony conducted by Semyon Bychkov.