BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Concerts
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerts
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius Symphony No 5
Saturday 19 September 2026
The music of American composer Gabriella Smith is indelibly linked to nature, marvelling at its beauty, terror and joy. In Breathing Forests, her exquisite new organ concerto, Smith draws on those same feelings of awe and angst to descr...
BBC Philharmonic - Brahms Requiem
Friday 25 September 2026
Boulanger was a fervent, if open-minded, Catholic. Johannes Brahms, while raised a Protestant, used his German Requiem to explore humanist thoughts around mourning. His requiem is a monument to the living who mourn the dead, with themes tha...
BBC Philharmonic - Tchaikovsky's Pathétique
Saturday 10 October 2026
To begin, it?s all the fun of the fair in Bernstein?s dashing Candide overture, a spirited mix of off-kilter rhythms, helter-skelter orchestration and sophisticated hat-tips to the overture masters....
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 16 October 2026 - Friday 7 May 2027
ProgrammeWilliam Byrd Christe qui lux es et diesErrollyn Wallen PhotographyBenjamin Britten Les IlluminationsEdmund Finnis Hymn (after Byrd)Tom Coult Black Shuck LamentMichael Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme of CorelliPerformersBBC ...
BBC Philharmonic - Mahler Symphony No. 4
Saturday 24 October 2026
In 1838, Felix Mendelssohn wrote to violinist Ferdinand David, describing ?an E-minor theme that keeps running through my head, preventing me from thinking about anything else.? From Mendelssohn?s dream came one of the great violin concerto...
BBC Philharmonic - Rhapsody in Blue
Saturday 28 November 2026
At the heart of this jazz-inflected programme is George Gershwin?s Rhapsody in Blue ? a piano concerto threaded through with jazz freedom ? followed by selected Gershwin songs reframed through Hazama?s luminous instrumental arrangements. He...
BBC Philharmonic - Alpine Symphony
Friday 4 December 2026
Before the break, C?dric Tiberghien joins the Philharmonic for two sharply contrasted works by Robert Schumann: the sweeping Introduction and Concert Allegro and the mercurial Konzertst?ck....
BBC Philharmonic - Age of Anxiety
Saturday 16 January 2027
We conclude with Prokofiev?s Symphony No. 5. Premiered in January 1945, it could have so easily been another musical expression of wartime suffering. Instead, his music is full of warmth, heaviness, and hope....
BBC Philharmonic - Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Saturday 13 February 2027
Following Haydn?s object lesson in concerto form, Beethoven unfurls a classical masterclass of his own, beginning with that unmistakable four note motif....
BBC Philharmonic - Walton Symphony No. 1
Saturday 6 March 2027
Around it are two of the finest orchestral works of the last century. Vaughan Williams?s Fantasia, scored for the unusual combination of double string orchestra with string quartet, and William Walton?s First Symphony. In 1935, Walton dedic...
BBC Philharmonic - Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Saturday 13 March 2027
In between are two works which play with fragments from musical history. After hearing a performance of Stravinsky?s Pulcinella, John Adams was inspired by the composer?s magpie?ish acquisition of older works. Adams?s source is Beethoven?s ...
BBC Philharmonic - Mendelssohn's ‘Reformation'
Saturday 10 April 2027
Mozart?s Horn Concerto No. 4, with its famous Rondo, is the composer at his jovial best, but what sounds easy today was fiendishly difficult in Mozart?s time. Virtuoso Joseph Leutgeb was one of the first practitioners to be able to produce ...
English National Opera - Einstein on the Beach
Tuesday 1 June 2027
Einstein on the Beach is a new experiential production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's iconic 1976 opera, created by English National Opera, Factory International, Park Avenue Armory and Improbable. It will premiere in June 2027 at...
