Performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams at BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Eamonn Dougan leads students of the Royal Academy of Music in this open conducting masterclass with the BBC Singers.

Top young UK & international conductors showcase talent with the BBC SSO a in the finale of a 5-day course with Martyn Brabbins. Jointly presented by BBC SSO & RCS.

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Radio 3 for an evening of orchestral favourites and unforgettable classical tunes, celebrating the stunning Brighton Dome and the vibrant cultural role it has played in the city since it opened over 200 years ago.

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers for a feast of music-making as they give their very last concert at Maida Vale Studios ahead of the move to their new home at East Bank on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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.

From the serenity of Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, the programme moves to Cameron Biles-Liddell’s gritty new Harp Concerto, before closing with Beethoven’s joyful Pastoral Symphony, a richly illustrative celebration of nature and landscape.

Following a sold-out concert in 2024, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra returns to the Corran Halls for a programme rooted in folk tradition that crackles with colour and energy.

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.

Marking 60 years since Aberfan, this concert centres on Paul Mealor’s new requiem From Darkness into Light, joining massed Welsh forces in remembrance, framed by music moving from urgency to hope by Clyne, Haydn, Mozart and Vaughan Williams.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

Rooted in folk traditions, this vibrant programme features Ligeti’s dazzling reimagining of Eastern European melodies, Vaughan Williams’ folk-inspired beauty, Mozart’s sparkling Horn Concerto with Chris Gough, and Beethoven’s energetic Fourth Symphony.

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.

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

Ceremony, mystery and vision meet under Martin Yeates. Parry’s I Was Glad opens in jubilant splendour, Elgar’s Enigma Variations explore affection and introspection, and Vaughan Williams’s The Future crowns the evening with Lucy Crowe as soloist.