Programme to include music by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and William L. Dawson

Music for wellbeing in conversation

Words and Music live: a sonic journey towards the place where music and words flow together to comfort the spirit.

Music and Meditation live: for the first time in London, Izzy Judd and the BBC Singers present a live edition of Radio 3 Unwind's hugely popular podcast.

Music for wellbeing in conversation.

Hayato Sumino returns to the Philharmonic to perform Bernstein’s epic work for piano and orchestra, his Symphony No. 2, ‘Age of Anxiety’, alongside Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.

Night Tracks, live in concert: the BBC Symphony Orchestra performs a sequence of classics for adventurous minds, inspired by the popular late-night Radio 3 show.

The most influential sci-fi film of all time, powered by a soundtrack as bold as its vision.

Just a few days before Burns Night, join us for a celebration of Scotland’s dramatic landscapes and rich musical heritage! The world's longest-running orchestral radio programme broadcasts live from City Halls.

Kirill Karabits conducts Jasdeep Singh Degun's new Sitar Concerto and Sergei Prokofiev's seventh symphony in a programme that bridges cultures, contexts and continents.

To hell and back: Berlioz’s huge, flamboyant take on the Faust legend simply has to be heard to be believed.

Join us for an afternoon of Joceyln Morlock’s Golden, Helen Grime's, Bright Travellers and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration.

NOSTALGIA. ROMANCE. ADVENTURE! Delyana Lazarova conducts a richly expressive programme of Rachmaninov, Debussy and Korngold featuring Bulgarian star Liya Petrova

Polish fireworks and a long-awaited rediscovery as Marta Gardolińska and violinist Bomsori Kim perform music by Szymanowski and Grazyna Bacewicz.

John Storgärds leads the next chapter of his exploration of Shostakovich symphonies – this time with the triumphant Symphony No. 7, ‘Leningrad’. Before this, Shostakovich up close with his Quartet No. 8 performed by the NOVO Quartet.

Delyana Lazarova makes her Usher Hall debut alongside Bulgarian star Liya Petrova, conducting a richly expressive programme of Rachmaninov, Debussy and Korngold

RELENTLESS RHYTHMS, SOARING FLIGHT: Ilan Volkov pairs Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony with mesmerising music by Japanese visionaries, featuring violinist Akiko Suwanai and flautist Adam Walker.

Ilan Volkov pairs Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony with mesmerising music by Japanese visionaries, featuring violinist Akiko Suwanai and flautist Adam Walker.

Song, dance and a tale as old as time: the BBC Symphony Orchestra summons the spirit of Orpheus, in music by Gluck, Stravinsky and Missy Mazzoli.

Beethoven’s era-defining Symphony No. 5, meets Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and Haydn’s Cello Concerto with soloist Daniel Müller-Schott.

Ephemeral forms open out into a lyrical spring morning in Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps.

Dark fantasies and bewitching melodies: Adam Hickox conjures a collection of the 20th century’s most haunting tales, in music by Liadov, Gubaidulina and Bartók.

Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth waltzes us into the silken, seductive Vienna of Strauss’s 'Der Rosenkavalier', with added enchantment from the “pure and very expressive” voice of soprano Erika Baikoff.

The raw power of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony meets the anguished humanity of John Adams and Walt Whitman: Jukka-Pekka Saraste explores the terror and compassion of 20th century music at its most powerful.

Guitarist Sean Shibe collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to present an intimate programme at the RNCM examining the pageantry, rites and emotions of funeral music, ancient and modern.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

OUT OF THIS WORLD: Embark on a cosmic adventure as Ryan Wigglesworth conducts one of Britain’s most beloved classics. Another star, BBC Young Musician winner Laura van der Heijden, shines in Walton’s luminous Cello Concerto.

Swirling ball scene, grotesque witches dance, brutal execution and fatal attraction. Sakari Oramo pairs Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the equally decadent hedonism of Alban Berg.

Walton’s frenzied Symphony No. 1 sits alongside the contrasting landscape of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, before the world premiere from Composer in Residence, Cassandra Miller.

OUT OF THIS WORLD: Embark on a cosmic adventure as Ryan Wigglesworth conducts one of Britain’s most beloved classics. Another star, BBC Young Musician winner Laura van der Heijden, shines in Walton’s luminous Cello Concerto.

Cellist Raphaela Gromes is one of the defining voices of her generation, an exclusive artist with Sony Classical since 2016. She performs Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto with popular guest conductor Michael Sanderling.

Cellist Raphaela Gromes takes centre stage with Elgar's stunning Cello Concerto with conductor Michael Sanderling on the podium.

Beethoven’s epic, uplifting ‘Choral’ Symphony No. 9 sits alongside Roderick Williams’s Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined, Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation and John Adams’s Absolute Jest.

Kazuki Yamada conducts great musical love stories by Maurice Ravel and Lili Boulanger. Prepare to be seduced…

The BBC Concert Orchestra joins two of Nottingham’s finest university choirs for a choral celebration on a truly cosmic scale.

GRACE & GRANDEUR: Expect poetry and enchantment from Elisabeth Brauss in Mozart’s exquisite concerto. Plus, one of Romantic music’s most overwhelming experiences - Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony.

Francesco Piemontesi plays Brahms’s mighty First Piano Concerto, and conductor Tabita Berglund retells the colourful tale of Grieg’s 'Peer Gynt'.

Sakari Oramo conducts Malcolm Arnold: his Seventh Symphony stands alongside British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams and Helen Grime.

Mozart’s sparkling Horn Concerto No. 4 meets the majesty of Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave and sunshine-drenched world of his ‘Reformation’ Symphony.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the RNCM for a programme of Mozart, Britten and John Adams.

The BBC SSO presents a rare revival of Harrison Birtwistle’s opera 'The Second Mrs Kong', conducted by Martyn Brabbins and featuring an all-star cast alongside the BBC Singers

“Even in a day when keyboard virtuosos are thick on the ground, Kozhukhin is special.” Denis Kozhukhin returns to the BBC SSO in a programme pairing a Romantic masterpiece with Beethoven’s playful Eighth Symphony.

“Even in a day when keyboard virtuosos are thick on the ground, Kozhukhin is special.” Denis Kozhukhin returns to the BBC SSO in a programme pairing a Romantic masterpiece with Beethoven’s playful Eighth Symphony.

An introduction to the music of Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders’s chamber music might be small in size, but the ideas it conveys are vast. Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama explore a selection of her chamber works this afternoon.

An introduction to Rebecca Saunder's opera, 'Lash'.

'Lash – Acts of Love': the UK premiere, in a concert staging, of Rebecca Saunders’s extraordinary new opera.

The BBC Singers present a concert of repertoire based on musical settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Alongside Thomas Tallis’s famous setting are new works using the lamentations as their inspiration, by Cassandra Miller and Nico Muhly.

A special live version of the Essential Classics Playlister, presented by the host of BBC Radio 3’s daily weekday show, Georgia Mann.

Yeol Eum Son plays Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto - the opening chapter in a musical journey through the dark heart of the 20th century.

Johanna Soller directs from the harpsichord this collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the RNCM, featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto’s Nos. 1 and 2, alongside music from Zelenka, Heinichen and W.F. Bach.

International phenomenon and Grammy Award‑winning composer Eric Whitacre leads an evening of choral splendour with the world-class BBC Singers and BBC SSO, conducting his own radiant music before Mozart’s powerful Requiem.

International phenomenon and Grammy Award‑winning composer Eric Whitacre leads a Sunday afternoon of choral splendour with the world-class BBC Singers and BBC SSO, conducting his own radiant music before Mozart’s powerful Requiem.

Tales from a dark century: Isabelle Faust plays Berg’s Violin Concerto, in a concert that embraces nature myths, songs of loss, and the splitting of the atom.

Music by Janáček and Mozart to thrill and delights, and Ben Goldscheider premieres a brand-new horn concerto from one of Sweden’s most enchanting musical minds.

Guest conductor Emilia Hoving joins the “warm, bright” British baritone (and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist) Andrew Hamilton on a guided tour for the ears: from Respighi’s glittering panoramas of Rome, to Grace Williams’s bracing Sea Sketches.

A SEASON CLOSES... A WORLD OPENS: Illicit passion meets cosmic consequence as three of the 21st century’s finest Wagnerian singers join forces with the BBC SSO.

Lelia Josefowicz and Sakari Oramo premiere a new violin concerto by Charlotte Bray; a wonderful upbeat to Liszt’s heaven-storming 'Faust Symphony'.

Back by popular demand! Under the softly glowing lights of the Old Fruitmarket, take a seat (or stretch out on the floor!) and enjoy peaceful melodies, gentle breathwork and a soothing guided meditation.

A BBC documentary tracing the extraordinary life of Tove Jansson.

A talk exploring the importance of place in Tove Jansson’s creative work, with a special focus on The Summer Book.

An afternoon set of free, live jazz celebrating one of Tove Jansson’s most beloved genres.

Seasons in Moominvalley: a new film adventure for Moomintroll and his family, with live music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

A talk examining Tove Jansson’s lifelong relationship with music and its influence on her creative world.

An afternoon set of free, live jazz celebrating one of Tove Jansson’s most beloved genres.

In the words of Moominpapa, “The world is full of great and wonderful things for those who are ready for them”. An evening of words, images and music inspired by the life and works of Tove Jansson.