Johanna Soller directs from the harpsichord this collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the RNCM, featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto’s Nos. 1 and 2, alongside music from Zelenka, Heinichen and W.F. Bach.

A special live version of the Essential Classics Playlister, presented by the host of BBC Radio 3’s daily weekday show, Georgia Mann.

Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the RNCM for a programme of Mozart, Britten and John Adams.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

Mozart’s sparkling Horn Concerto No. 4 meets the majesty of Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave and sunshine-drenched world of his ‘Reformation’ Symphony.

Beethoven’s epic, uplifting ‘Choral’ Symphony No. 9 sits alongside Roderick Williams’s Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined, Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation and John Adams’s Absolute Jest.

Walton’s frenzied Symphony No. 1 sits alongside the contrasting landscape of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, before the world premiere from Composer in Residence, Cassandra Miller.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

Guitarist Sean Shibe collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to present an intimate programme at the RNCM examining the pageantry, rites and emotions of funeral music, ancient and modern.

Ephemeral forms open out into a lyrical spring morning in Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps.

Beethoven’s era-defining Symphony No. 5, meets Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and Haydn’s Cello Concerto with soloist Daniel Müller-Schott.

John Storgärds leads the next chapter of his exploration of Shostakovich symphonies – this time with the triumphant Symphony No. 7, ‘Leningrad’. Before this, Shostakovich up close with his Quartet No. 8 performed by the NOVO Quartet.

Join us for an afternoon of Joceyln Morlock’s Golden, Helen Grime's, Bright Travellers and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration.

Hayato Sumino returns to the Philharmonic to perform Bernstein’s epic work for piano and orchestra, his Symphony No. 2, ‘Age of Anxiety’, alongside Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.

Programme to include music by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and William L. Dawson

Experience Strauss’s Alpine Symphony – a 50-minute, twenty-two-scene depiction of an eleven-hour climb over an Alpine mountain, alongside two contrasting scenes from Robert Schumann with soloist Cédric Tiberghien.

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.

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.

Alina Ibragimova is soloist for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, alongside Mahler’s heaven-sent Symphony No. 4 and Cassandra Miller’s Swim.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

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.

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

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

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.

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