Taibhithe de Sakari Oramo ag BBC Symphony Orchestra

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

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.

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

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.

Rites of spring: Stravinsky, Hillborg and a spectacular Mendelssohn rediscovery from Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sakari Oramo conducts Brahms’s epic First Symphony, and joins Korean violin phenomenon Inmo Yang in Bartók’s impassioned First Violin Concerto.

Debussy’s 'La mer' crowns a concert that surges with elemental power; whether Britten’s East Anglian seascapes or Shostakovich at his punchiest.

Classical music’s greatest international party draws the 2026 Proms to a close. Superstar pianist Yuja Wang is joined by Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and massed BBC forces, all marshalled by Sakari Oramo

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo perform Dvořák’s famous ‘New World’ Symphony alongside a new Triple Concerto by Gwilym Simcock featuring three former BBC Young Musician finalists: Jess Gillam, Ben Goldscheider and Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Guy Johnston is the soloist in Benjamin Britten’s Cello Symphony. He joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, who also perform Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 and the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen Suite

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler’s brooding Sixth Symphony, and celebrate the centenary of Hungary’s greatest living composer, György Kurtág, with a rare performance of his powerful orchestral elegy Stele

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.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform at Kissinger Sommer in Bad Kissingen, Germany.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs at Kissinger Sommer in Bad Kissingen, Germany.

Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican.

Sakari Oramo pairs flair with idyllic cheer in this dual outing of Romantic masterpieces: Saint-Saëns’ fifth piano concerto and Brahms’s Second Symphony.

Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.

Music that glitters, sings and dances for joy, as Sakari Oramo pairs two newly minted classics with Beethoven’s brightest symphony.

Hana Chang joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo as part of the Anvil Arts International Concert Series.