BBC Philharmonic - Concerts
BBC Philharmonic
Concerts
BBC Philharmonic & RNCM Students
BBC Philharmonic Studios, Salford
Wednesday 18 - Friday 20 June 2025
The BBC Philharmonic joins RNCM student conductors and International Artist Diploma musicians for an afternoon of extraordinary music making. This unique collaboration offers student conductors the rare opportunity to lead a world-class pro...BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Gershwin Bernstein and Strauss
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 28 June 2025
This concert is included in the Manchester Classical festival pass. For more information regarding day/weekend passes and the festival as a whole, please visit the Manchester Classical website.?...BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 29 June 2025
Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures bursts open with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as they play live accompaniment to two wonderfully animated adventures. Imagine the glorious, multicoloured world of Quentin Blake spring to life as 80 amazi...BBC Philharmonic - Fountain of Youth
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 20 September 2025
We end with Tchaikovsky?s Fifth Symphony, orchestral music?s ultimate embrace of fate. This is maximalist music ? huge emotions and passionate melodies, painted on an epic musical canvas....Rufus Wainwright & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 26 - Saturday 27 September 2025
Performed over two nights, the King of baroque pop returns with an epic reimagining of his Want One and Want Two albums, following a premiere performance at the BBC Proms, and tours across Europe and the US. Brand new arrangements, performe...BBC Philharmonic - Lost Coast
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 11 October 2025
Written during the German occupation of Poland, Gra?yna Bacewicz?s early, energetic Overture is a piece of blazing beauty. It sits one side of Smith?s cello concerto; on the other, Sibelius?s Second Symphony, an organic unfurling of symphon...BBC Philharmonic - Moving Pictures
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 25 October 2025
Some of these audio cues have transcended the films they come from. Cornfield Chase from Interstellar. Dawn from Pride and Prejudice. Bathroom Dance from Joker. Join us, and experience the best ? the very best ? of the 21st century....BBC Philharmonic - Mahler's ‘Titan'
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 8 November 2025
Trombone concertos are a rare fixture, but Howard?s virtuosic and ravishing work is appointment listening. Between her lush and minimalist-inflected music, and Moore?s extraordinary artistry (BBC Music Magazine described Peter?s playing as ...BBC Philharmonic - Storgårds conducts Shostakovich
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 15 November 2025
In the first half, cellist Anastasia Kobekina performs Dvo??k?s Cello Concerto ? a heroic, intensely virtuosic work she has made her own....BBC Philharmonic - Steve Reich: The Four Sections
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
Laura Bowler?s new work is a BBC Philharmonic Orchestra commission....BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
RNCM, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025 - Friday 1 May 2026
ProgrammeB?la Bart?k DivertimentoPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Serenade for StringsPerformersZo? Beyers directorBBC Philharmonic OrchestraAboutTonight, the string section takes centre stage. Written in 1939 as Europe teetered on the brink of war...BBC Philharmonic - The BBC Philharmonic Christmas Special
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Friday 19 December 2025
Experience the wonder of a symphony orchestra in full swing ? because Christmas would not be the same without it!...BBC Philharmonic - City Noir
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 17 January 2026
In the first half, we are joined by Paul Lewis, who, in his performance of Beethoven?s crystalline Piano Concerto No. 4, might just provide us with an answer to Charles Ives? opening Unanswered Question....BBC Philharmonic - Bluebeard's Castle
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 24 January 2026
Before the drawbridge lowers, a foreshadowing. Lili Boulanger?s D?un soir triste was one of her last completed works before she died at the age of just 24....BBC Philharmonic - Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 7 February 2026
Adam Hickox makes his Bridgewater Hall debut in this sparkling and generous programme of technicolour musical delights....
BBC Philharmonic - Romeo & Juliet
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 21 February 2026
Sergei Prokofiev would find a personal fragility through love, as the promise of a new ballet ? what eventually turned out to be the tale of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet ? drew him back to a tumultuous Soviet Russia. In doing s...BBC Philharmonic - Four Last Songs
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 14 March 2026
The Landscape Wakes is a BBC Philharmonic Orchestra commission, in partnership with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra....BBC Philharmonic - Anthracite Fields
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 21 March 2026
This symphonic arrangement of Anthracite Fields is a BBC Philharmonic Orchestra commission, in partnership with the Louisville Orchestra....BBC Philharmonic - New World Symphony
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 18 April 2026
Firebrand pianist Frank Dupree makes his BBC Philharmonic Orchestra debut in Kapustin?s breakneck Piano Concerto No. 4 ? a dazzling whirlwind of a piece that marries jazz improvisation with relentless classical virtuosity. To open: Duke Ell...BBC Philharmonic - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Personal suffering is distant in Tchaikovsky?s concerto, but front-and-centre of Hector Berlioz?s Symphonie fantastique. Originally titled ?Episodes in the Life of an Artist?, this ?fantastic symphony in five parts? follows the tribulations...BBC Philharmonic - Northern Lights
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 16 May 2026
Nielsen?s Symphony No. 5 is a gripping musical battle between chaos and order. Pulsing rhythms, fierce percussion, and surging orchestral lines create an intense drama, with a defiant energy that combines beauty, struggle, and exhilarating ...BBC Philharmonic - Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection'
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 13 June 2026
130 years after its first performance, Mahler?s Resurrection remains one of the most profound and life-affirming works of art ever created....
