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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.