Performances of John Adams at BBC Orchestras and Choirs

In Steve Reich’s endlessly tessellating music, shapes emerge, solidify, uncouple, drift away, and begin to emerge anew.

City Noir is John Adams’s musical tribute to half-lit rooms, venetian blinds, desperate men, dangerous women, secrets, lies, and the City of Angels.

“Goosebumps Galactica!” in the words of a BBC SSO audience member

“Goosebumps Galactica!” in the words of a BBC SSO audience member

The BBC Singers join forces with Aurora Orchestra and Britten Pears Chamber Choir for a glittering performance of Fauré’s Requiem.

We continue our thrillingly up-close series at the RNCM with a heavyweight artistic collaboration – our Chief Conductor John Storgårds joins the acclaimed pianist Tamara Stefanovich in this exploration of the pure power of the piano.

Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.

We return to Blackpool for the first time in 8 years with an ambitious programme in Blackpool’s historic Opera House.

The raw power of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony meets the anguished humanity of John Adams and Walt Whitman: Jukka-Pekka Saraste explores the terror and compassion of 20th century music at its most powerful.

Tales from a dark century: Isabelle Faust plays Berg’s Violin Concerto, in a concert that embraces nature myths, songs of loss, and the splitting of the atom.