Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts three works that respond in different ways to the pandemic, to a personal loss and to the devastation of war.

The composer who brought us gentle, pastoral music like The Lark Ascending processes the aftermath of war, in a concert whose gaze across the English Channel includes the modern premiere of a lost work by César Franck

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Newbury Spring Festival.

Nathalie Stutzmann makes her BBC Symphony Orchestra podium debut in Tchaikovsky’s most emotional symphony, while orchestra and chorus are united for Brahms at his most hushed

Star pianist Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini while Alphesh Chauhan conducts Bruckner’s unfinished final symphony.