Taibhithe de Richard Strauss ag BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

The RNCM Strings Festival celebrates the versatility, beauty, and brilliance of string music through a weekend of inspiring performances and collaborations.

Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen is a lament for strings, mourning the destruction of Europe in the World War II and the collapse of the musical civilisation that shaped and inspired him.

Rhapsodies on love, death, and lust

Puccini first showcased his operatic voice through the orchestra alone with his Capriccio Sinfonico. Marking the start of his signature musical style, it blends the lyrical and dramatic qualities that later came to define his iconic operas.

John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Strauss’s monumental tone-poem alongside Betsy Jolas’s evocative Tales of a Summer Sea. Sueye Park joins them for Sibelius’s Nordic-tinged Violin Concerto

Experience Strauss’s Alpine Symphony – a 50-minute, twenty-two-scene depiction of an eleven-hour climb over an Alpine mountain, alongside two contrasting scenes from Robert Schumann with soloist Cédric Tiberghien.

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