Taibhithe de Dobrinka Tabakova ag BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Under the glow of Luke Jerram’s replica of our planet, hear a concert of heavenly works for strings, from Vaughan Williams to Hildur Guðnadóttir.

The BBC Concert Orchestra and its Associate Conductor Jérôme Kuhn bring David Buckley’s powerful new opera, Oracle, to the UK for the first time, and mythologically-inspired curtain-raisers by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Dobrinka Tabakova.

Folk roots and symphonic drama meet under Delyana Lazarova. Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances open the concert, followed by Dobrinka Tabakova’s Viola Concerto with Maxim Rysanov, and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony charting a journey from fate to triumph.

Folk roots and symphonic drama meet under Delyana Lazarova. Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances open the concert, followed by Dobrinka Tabakova’s Viola Concerto with Maxim Rysanov, and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony charting a journey from fate to triumph.

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.