BBC Philharmonic Orchestra 2026/27 Season

Words and music, presented at the Philharmonic Studio as part of the BBC’s much-loved festival of music and speech.

Join us for the opening concert of our 2026/27 season at the Bridgewater Hall – featuring Sibelius Symphony No. 5, Wagner’s Overture to Lohengrin and Gabriella Smith’s organ concerto, Breathing Forests.

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

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ sits alongside Korngold’s cinematically inspired Violin Concerto.

Leader Zoë Beyers leads the latest instalment in our series at the RNCM – music from William Byrd, Benjamin Britten, Errollyn Wallen, Edmund Finnis, Tom Coult and Michael Tippett.