BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Travel back in time to experience the elation of Northern Soul with the BBC Concert Orchestra, composer and conductor Joe Duddell, and BBC 6 Music broadcaster Stuart Maconie.

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for an evening of words and music with award-winning author, Kate Atkinson.

John Storgårds leads us through the gate into one of Bruckner’s ‘cathedrals of sound’, his Fifth Symphony.  Sibelius invites us into his world of Nordic impressionism with En Saga, whilst Lotta Wennäkoski honours this in her own work Verdigris.

Music that won’t stay in its box: Elizabeth Alker presents Moor Mother, Modern Nature and This Is The Kit with the BBC Concert Orchestra in the latest instalment of BBC Radio 3's genre-defying Unclassified Live.

Join us for a celebration of American classical music with our LA born Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft this May!

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is one of the most performed living composers in the world. Today we hear a selection of his works conducted by John Storgårds

UK conductor-composer Jack Sheen makes his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a free evening concert at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios, with new works from younger composers concerned with the environment.

Travel back in time to experience the elation of Northern Soul with the BBC Concert Orchestra, composer and conductor Joe Duddell, and BBC 6 Music broadcaster Stuart Maconie.

A theatrical work by Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ (L'Histoire du soldat) is the composer’s greatest work for narrator and orchestra.

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony conducted tonight by Anja Bihlmaier is a feast of rhythm and dance, whilst Berg’s Violin Concerto tonight with Josef Špaček is by turn angelic and angst-ridden.