BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2025-26 Barbican Season

Rachmaninov, Bernstein and Davóne Tines – a fresh perspective on America’s past, present and future from Daniele Rustioni and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

A screening of the BBC’s classic 2015 nature documentary Iceland: Land of Ice and Fire.

BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to Andrew Mellor about the music and composers featured in today’s first concert.

Sounds of wild beauty and quiet, luminous power.

BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service hosts and talks to composers Bara G, Valgeir S and Icelandic music expert Andrew Mellor.

Love, death and pomegranates: Sakari Oramo rediscovers Stravinsky’s epic retelling of the myth of Persephone.

Music that glitters, sings and dances for joy, as Sakari Oramo pairs two newly minted classics with Beethoven’s brightest symphony.

US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

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

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