BBC Symphony Orchestra
Associate Orchestra
The backbone of the BBC Proms and one of the UK's finest orchestras, the BBC SO performs a thrilling, distinctive range of music, from works at the heart of classical music to contemporary premieres.
Events
BBC SO/Adams: Girls of the Golden West
John Adams conducts the UK premiere of his acclaimed new opera on the downtrodden victims and inspiring dreamers of the Californian gold rush.
Christmas with Bob Chilcott and John Rutter
Kings of Christmas John Rutter and Bob Chilcott join the BBC Singers for a perfect concert for singing-in the festive season.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo
Magic and atmosphere, poignancy and purpose as Sakari Oramo conducts an evening of twentieth-century orchestral and choral works by Stravinsky, Sibelius and Elgar.
Singers at Six: BBC Singers/Pedersen
Explorations of love and linguistics from the BBC Singers, performing lustrous and dramatic works from the Nordic region under a miraculous conductor.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo
A landmark concert as the Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo resurrect an explosive, elegiac and rhapsodic symphony once buried by history and prejudice.
David Walliams and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Best-selling author David Walliams invites you into his delightful, topsy-turvy world with a concert of words and music as he reads from his brilliant children’s books.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Stasevska
Before the fire and ice of Sibelius’s striking First Symphony, Lelia Josefowicz and Dalia Stasevska bring us the UK premiere of Helen Grime’s virtuosic and dreamlike Violin Concert.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo
Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo conducts the world premiere of a new concerto by a composer of boundless imagination and Shostakovich’s symphonic cocktail of fantasy and mystery.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Chauhan
In his Barbican debut with the Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan brings us the intense power, cataclysmic terror and exquisite tenderness of Bruckner’s unfinished final symphony.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Gardner
Edward Gardner and the Orchestra revisit 1890s Vienna, bringing us all the searing power and extreme emotions of musical Romanticism’s last stand.
BBC Symphony Orchestra: Missa Solemnis
A cornerstone of the Barbican’s celebrations of 250 years since Beethoven’s birth: his musical vision of the divine is unleashed by the forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and vocal soloists.
Singers at Six: BBC Singers/Palmer
Step into the strange, wonderful, bizarre and utterly individual world of Gerald Barry as the BBC Singers present recent works from the cult composer.
BBC SO Total Immersion: Anders Hillborg – Swedish Maverick
Step into the unique and emotive sound-world of our Total Immersion composer Anders Hillborg and his unparalleled handling of the modern symphony orchestra.
BBC SO Total Immersion: Anders Hillborg - BBC Singers
In the surroundings of St Giles’s Cripplegate, the voices of the BBC Singers offer immersive and embracing choral works including spine-tingling music by 2020 Total Immersion composer Anders Hillborg.
BBC Singers Family Concert
Voices can be fast, dazzling, and furious! They can be spooky, magical and curious! They can whisper like falling snow, roar like a train, and blaze like fireworks!
BBC Symphony Orchestra: Mendelssohn's Elijah
A superb cast of soloists joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for Mendelssohn’s great choral masterpiece of grandeur and soulfulness, his musical telling of the story of the prophet Elijah.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Spano
Ritual, lament and incantation lie at the heart of this varied concert, moving from the purity of Arvo Pärt to the rich weave of Rachmaninov’s most epic, passionate and virtuosic concerto.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Saraste
Experience Shostakovich’s masterpiece of despair, grotesquery and anger from height of World War II and a brand new work from a compelling new voice from Finland.
BBC Symphony Orchestra: David Lang’s prisoner of the state
Follow one woman’s personal struggle against political oppression in this dark, seething and engrossing new minimalist opera from the co-founder of pioneering new music collective Bang on a Can.
Discover
Composer Focus – Episode 5: Jean Sibelius with Sakari Oramo
In the final episode, host Edward Seckerson is joined by BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sakari Oramo to discuss his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, and the themes of nature and Finnish national identity woven throughout his music.