Calendar

Ailo's Journey is a wonderful film adventure for the whole family. It takes place in the astonishing unspoilt nature of an Arctic Lapland never seen before.

Celebration of the French horn, with classic works made glorious by one of the most distinctive and versatile orchestral instruments, alongside a major world premiere.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts three masterworks composed for a world emerging from the destruction of the Second World War.

Lecture by Professor Emily Jeremiah

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Shostakovich’s denunciation of the futility of war alongside the lustrous songs by Alma Mahler with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. A UK premiere by Sebastian Fagerlund – a co...

Plenty to look forward to in 202 Celtic Connections as Finland is the showcase country

Oramo gathers a stellar quarter of soloists – including a baritone at the peak of his powers in the title role, Johan Reuter – for this collaboration between the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chorus.

Enjoy a dramatic all-Russian programme with Phiharmonia Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

It is easy to immerse yourself in music as seductive as Anders Hillborg’s. The climax of our Total Immersion weekend is this concert in which Sakari Oramo underlines his own belief that the Swedish com...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a new production recreating one of the most famous concerts in the history of classical music: Beethoven’s epic Vienna concert of December 1808.

Lise Davidsen joins Esa-Pekka Salonen for Mahler’s Humoresken, a collection of settings of poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Sakari Oramo conducts the piece here alongside one of those works from history it seems obsessed with, Rossini’s William Tell overture.

Before the fire and ice of Sibelius’s striking First Symphony, Lelia Josefowicz and Dalia Stasevska bring us the UK premiere of Helen Grime’s virtuosic and dreamlike Violin Concerto.

Sakari Oramo conducts it here alongside works by Beethoven that speak of light and love brought to a world of darkness and fear, including his Fourth Piano Concerto with stunning soloist, Paul Lewis.

Take a musical journey with “the hottest conductor in Finland” (The Times), from earthy soldiers’ tales to the ecstatic heights of Sibelius.

Surrounding the zest and brilliance of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto performed by star violinist Vilde Frang, we hear some of the most atmospheric music Sibelius ever wrote, including his blistering, ma...

Extraordinary operatic masterworks by Mozart and Mahler close our season in an evening of high stakes and drama conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.