BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Friday Night is Music Night comes to Portsmouth. Expect sea songs, swashbucklers and silver screen magic, as the BBC Concert Orchestra drops anchor in Pompey to celebrate 100 years of Portsmouth becoming a city.

Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft takes to the podium for his final concert in the title role as we draw our 2025-26 Season to a close, starting with Stravinsky’s symphonic poem Song of the Nightingale.

A landmark live concert celebrating two decades of BAFTA-nominated and award-winning games music.

A landmark live concert celebrating two decades of BAFTA-nominated and award-winning games music.

Musicians of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform a live musical re-telling of Three Billy Goats Gruff, as seen on CBeebies.

Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft takes to the podium for his final concert in the title role as we draw our 2025-26 Season to a close, starting with Stravinsky’s symphonic poem Song of the Nightingale.

The BBC Singers join the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris for a concert of in the Notre-Dame Cathedral.

The BBC Concert Orchestra transport us to Ambridge to celebrate 75 years of The Archers in a special edition of BBC Radio 3’s Friday Night is Music Night.

Moonrise, sunset and the very brightest of stars: BBC Radio 3’s Friday Night is Music Night whirls you into the heavens, in the company of saxophone phenomenon Amy Dickson, conductor Owain Park and presenter Petroc Trelawny.

Although less frequently performed that some of his other symphonies, Beethoven’s Second Symphony is a snapshot of Beethoven at his most humorous. Unpredictability and playfulness tally with a bold explosion of joy in this vividly contrasting symphony.