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Sakari Oramo pairs flair with idyllic cheer in this dual outing of Romantic masterpieces: Saint-Saëns’ fifth piano concerto and Brahms’s Second Symphony.

Rhapsodies on love, death, and lust

Puccini first showcased his operatic voice through the orchestra alone with his Capriccio Sinfonico. Marking the start of his signature musical style, it blends the lyrical and dramatic qualities that later came to define his iconic operas.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo on tour to China and South Korea with piano soloists Bertrand Chamayou (China) and Yeol Eum Son (South Korea).

Earthly travail lead to heavenly bliss in Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration. To conduct we welcome back award-winning French conductor Alexandre Bloch.

Earthly travail lead to heavenly bliss in Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration. To conduct we welcome back award-winning French conductor Alexandre Bloch.

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers for a feast of music-making as they give their very last concert at Maida Vale Studios ahead of the move to their new home at East Bank on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Strauss’s monumental tone-poem alongside Betsy Jolas’s evocative Tales of a Summer Sea. Sueye Park joins them for Sibelius’s Nordic-tinged Violin Concerto

For their first Prom of the 2026 season, Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform spiritually charged works by Lili Boulanger, Szymanowski, Messiaen and Strauss, each reflecting on death and the afterlife

Step into the great outdoors with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as they perform nature-inspired works by Kristine Tjøgersen and Joseph Canteloube before Richard Strauss’s epic An Alpine Symphony

Fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival, the Proms presents Strauss’s opera-within-an-opera Ariadne auf Naxos, performed complete at the festival for the first time in nearly half a century

Greek tragedy meets modern psychology in Richard Strauss’s audacious opera, conducted by Karina Canellakis.

The Metropolitan Opera’s Met Orchestra and Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin present a sumptuous all-Strauss programme that includes the final scene of the composer’s Salome, performed with celebrated South African soprano Elza van den Heever

Paweł Kapuła conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for its final Prom of the season. They perform works by Hans Werner Henze, Schubert and Mahler before soprano Natalya Romaniw takes to the stage for Richard Strauss’s famous musical farewell

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.

Strauss and Wagner meet at the height of their expressive powers. Strauss’s Four Last Songs offer a radiant farewell, while Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde: An Orchestral Passion unfolds a magnificent, revolutionary sound world, conducted by Anthony Hermus.

Strauss and Wagner meet at the height of their expressive powers. Strauss’s Four Last Songs offer a radiant farewell, while Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde: An Orchestral Passion unfolds a magnificent, revolutionary sound world, conducted by Anthony Hermus.

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

Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth waltzes us into the silken, seductive Vienna of Strauss’s 'Der Rosenkavalier', with added enchantment from the “pure and very expressive” voice of soprano Erika Baikoff.

From hushed contemplation to radiant choral power, this programme unfolds under Alpesh Chauhan. Music by María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and Strauss leads to Bruckner’s monumental Mass No. 2, performed with the BBC National Chorus of Wales.

Fate and fantasy unfold under Otto Tausk. Anna Clyne’s Masquerade sparkles with colour, Stephen Hough tackles Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3, and Janáček’s Taras Bulba leads to Strauss’s dazzling Don Juan.

Fate and fantasy unfold under Otto Tausk. Anna Clyne’s Masquerade sparkles with colour, Stephen Hough tackles Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3, and Janáček’s Taras Bulba leads to Strauss’s dazzling Don Juan.