BBC Symphony Orchestra

A festive treat with a ghostly difference: a night of classic stories and haunting melodies from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sir James MacMillan conducts a starry performance of his huge, life-affirming Christmas Oratorio – music that speaks to listeners of all faiths and none.

Visions of Spain and songs of freedom from the BBC Symphony Orchestra – plus a musical stroll with a haunting difference, as baritone Andrew Hamilton becomes Mahler’s wayfaring lad.

Winter Daydreams: Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra share the seasonal freshness of Tchaikovsky’s magical First Symphony.

Clemens Schuldt and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Shakespearean classics, Strauss at his most sumptuous, and a new British concerto for cellist Guy Johnston.

Ermonela Jaho stars in Puccini’s bittersweet romance, his opera La rondine, incorporating music that has not been heard this century.

Grand passions and impossible dreams, as Elena Schwarz and Erika Baikoff join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a concert of Ravel, Franck and the extraordinary Elzbieta Sikora.

Music from the abyss: Kirill Karabits and the BBC Symphony Orchestra embrace Tchaikovsky at his wildest, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann at his most vital.

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.

Dark fire and glittering ice: Mozart’s Requiem crowns an evening of deep emotions and natural wonders from Sakari Oramo and pianist Martin Helmchen.