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Left handed piano sensation Nicholas McCarthy makes his debut with BBC NOW in Ravel’s emotionally powerfully and highly virtuoso Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

The BBC Singers join forces with Aurora Orchestra and Britten Pears Chamber Choir for a glittering performance of Fauré’s Requiem.

An orchestral journey of bold originality: Ogonek’s joyful, light-filled dances, Ravel’s jazz-inspired brilliance, and Wigglesworth’s time-bending concerto. Steven Osborne shines across playful Ravel and introspective Wigglesworth.

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.

Piano superstar Yunchan Lim joins Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Ravel’s bluesy Concerto in G major. We also hear music by Copland, Gershwin and Finzi, alongside a world premiere from French-British composer Josephine Stephenson

The Spanish National Orchestra makes its Proms debut with a set of heat-soaked musical postcards that includes Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro and Rodrigo’s much-loved Concierto de Aranjuez with guitar phenomenon Rafael Aguirre as soloist

Manchester’s Hallé orchestra and its Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong return to the Proms for Rachmaninov’s lush, expansive Symphony No. 2. We also hear French masterpieces by Nadia Boulanger and Ravel

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

Polish fireworks and a long-awaited rediscovery as Marta Gardolińska and violinist Bomsori Kim perform music by Szymanowski and Grazyna Bacewicz.

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

Kazuki Yamada conducts great musical love stories by Maurice Ravel and Lili Boulanger. Prepare to be seduced…

Under Ludovic Morlot, three imaginative voices take centre stage. Stravinsky’s Jeu des cartes sparkles with wit, Britten’s youthful Double Concerto features Ben Baker and Tim Ridout, and Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite closes in glowing fairy‑tale colour.

Under Ludovic Morlot, three imaginative voices take centre stage. Stravinsky’s Jeu des cartes sparkles with wit, Britten’s youthful Double Concerto features Ben Baker and Tim Ridout, and Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite closes in glowing fairy‑tale colour.

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.

Yeol Eum Son plays Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto - the opening chapter in a musical journey through the dark heart of the 20th century.

Elegance and rhythmic energy shape this programme under Samuel Lee. Ravel’s Pavane opens in poised reflection, followed by the world premiere of Salina Fisher’s Violin Concerto with Geneva Lewis, before Poulenc and Bernstein’s West Side Story bring exuber