Performances of John Adams at BBC Symphony Orchestra

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.

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.

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.