BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Following a sold-out concert in 2024, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra returns to the Corran Halls for a programme rooted in folk tradition that crackles with colour and energy.

Join us in Linz with our Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier for an evening of Brahms and Boulanger.

Join us in Dortmund with our Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier for an evening of Ligeti, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven.

"One of Britain’s most virtuosic instrumentalists” (The Times), performs Sir James MacMillan's Saxophone Concerto. And there's a sonorous, song-like love letter to the composer's Ayrshire hometown, written for euphonium and strings.

The BBC Concert Orchestra and its Associate Conductor Jérôme Kuhn bring David Buckley’s powerful new opera, Oracle, to the UK for the first time, and mythologically-inspired curtain-raisers by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Dobrinka Tabakova.

Protest, Power, Revolution, Resistance is a concert with something urgent to say. Conducted by Johanna Malangré, Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie in France, the programme showcases her electrifying musicality and imaginative leadership.

Jazz sensation and entertainer extraordinaire, Joe Stilgoe joins Fiona Monbet and the BBC Concert Orchestra at Alexandra Palace Theatre for an all-swinging, all-singing edition of Friday Night is Music Night.

Music of death and the divine – Brahms’s German Requiem and Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 24.

Owain Park begins his tenure as Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers with the UK premiere of a BBC co-commission by Joby Talbot, Piedra de sol, a setting of the poetic epic masterpiece by the Mexican poet and philosopher Octavio Paz.

MUSIC THAT SPEAKS TO THE HEART: Bomsori plays Beethoven's masterful Violin Concerto and two world-class vocalists shine in Zemlinsky's sumptuous Lyric Symphony