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“With desire and passion,” wrote Tchaikovsky on the score of his Fifth Symphony... and you’re about to hear why! Soprano Sophie Bevan also stars in this vibrant all-Russian programme launching the Afternoon Performance series.

Love in all its colours shapes this programme with Martyn Brabbins. Debussy’s Faune shimmers between dream and desire; David Childs voices lost love in Mealor’s Euphonium Concerto; Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet brings elation and fate.

“With desire and passion,” wrote Tchaikovsky on the score of his Fifth Symphony... and you’re about to hear why! Soprano Sophie Bevan also features in this vibrant all-Russian programme launching the Usher Hall Series.

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

A landmark collaboration with the V&A East Museum and Friday Night is Music Night, celebrating the impact of Black British music on British culture.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

The BBC Singers, led by conductor Krista Audere, perform Parry’s Songs of Farewell, his profoundly moving cycle of wartime laments for a lost age.

Hold the date for a spectacular evening with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Radio Cymru in Pontio this mark. Artists to be announced.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Spanish spectacular and the warm melodies of Mozart’s evergreen Clarinet Concerto bring sunshine to a likely chilly November in Glasgow, with Bartók adding a burst of colour!

Rooted in folk traditions, this vibrant programme features Ligeti’s dazzling reimagining of Eastern European melodies, Vaughan Williams’ folk-inspired beauty, Mozart’s sparkling Horn Concerto with Chris Gough, and Beethoven’s energetic Fourth Symphony.

Called a ‘jazz artist of rare gifts’ by The Guardian, the Grammy-winning singer performs arrangements of her music with her band and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

A boldly imaginative programme led by Simon Crawford‑Phillips, featuring two UK premieres and a world premiere. HK Gruber opens with Short Stories, Erika Fox’s new Viola Concerto stars Lawrence Power, and Steven Mackey’s Concerto for Curved Space...

Violinist Freya Goldmark is soloist in a musical tribute to the natural world, inspired by Sir David Attenborough’s extraordinary legacy in his 100th birthday year.

Semyon Bychkov enters the wild, wonderful dreamworld of the mighty Seventh Symphony.

A jazz-inflected programme from Grammy-nominated Miho Hazama, chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with soloist Makoto Ozone.