BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

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[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Feel every note, every emotion. Discover the power of the BBC Symphony Orchestra live in concert @BarbicanCentre.

Mahler to Saariaho, Beethoven to Shostakovich – explore a season of classics and modern masterpieces. Book now: https://t.co/r7iBxN4SFv

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

The BBC Symphony Chorus was on magnificent form and we were joined by an outstanding cast of Dame Sarah Connolly, @DavidButtPhilip and Roderick Williams

You can read more about Sir Andrew, including memories from our musicians, in our online programme:
https://t.co/6UkDLVCUGB

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Thanks to all who joined us last night @BarbicanCentre for a very special concert remembering Sir Andrew Davis. Sakari Oramo conducted Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, a work close to Sir Andrew’s heart.

🎧 Listen @BBCRadio3 on 9 Jan, then @BBCSounds

📷 Mark Allan

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

🎧 You can hear this concert tonight @BBCRadio3 from 7.30pm and @BBCSounds for 30 days 🎶

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Rehearsals are well underway for tomorrow’s concert at @BarbicanCentre with conductor Hannu Lintu 🤩🎶

We’ve got four starry soloists for Haydn’s Nelson Mass, a vision of paradise from Canadian composer Samy Moussa, and in this clip you can hear a snippet of Ein Heldenleben featuring our leader @IgorYuzefovich 🎻

More info and tickets: https://t.co/1moAazFklt 🎟️✨

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Rehearsals are well underway for tomorrow’s concert at @BarbicanCentre with conductor Hannu Lintu 🤩🎶

We’ve got four starry soloists for Haydn’s Nelson Mass, a vision of paradise from Canadian composer Samy Moussa, and in this clip you can hear a snippet of Ein Heldenleben featuring our leader @IgorYuzefovich 🎻

More info and tickets: https://t.co/1moAazFklt 🎟️✨

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Featuring a stellar cast @kangminjkim, Mark Stone, @BarronFleur , @CharneRochford, Kevin Burdette & @BBCSingers, stage direction by Kimberley Prescott and conducted by @carolynkuan.conductor 🙌

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Love, betrayal, self-deception. You can hear our performance of @huang.ruo’s opera M Butterfly on @BBCRadio3 from 6pm this evening & @BBCSounds for the next 30 days 🦋

📷 Mark Allan

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Rehearsals for Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with @IGringolts and @oramsa are in full swing and sounding wonderful 🎻

Join us tomorrow @BarbicanCentre for this & music by Wagner, Strauss and Pejačević

🎟️ https://t.co/0Xzv5H7aWF

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Join us @BarbicanCentre on Friday with @oramsa and @IGringolts for
Szymanowski’s gorgeous Violin Concerto No. 1 plus Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Pejačević’s Overture in D minor 🎻 🙌

🗓️Friday 8 November
🎟️ https://t.co/0Xzv5H7aWF

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

We’re reeling from this evening’s concert with the marvellous @kirillgerstein and @oramsa 🤩

Tonight’s performance featured the music of two fierce non-conformists in two very different ways, Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz and Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni 🎶

Listen on @bbcsounds at 7.30 on 25 November 🎧

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

The second symphony of Grażyna Bacewicz rings out during rehearsals for tonight’s concert at @BarbicanCentre 🤩

We can’t wait to share the stage with @oramsa and @kirillgerstein this evening for a feast of Busoni and Bacewicz 🎶

There are still a few tickets available! 🎟️✨

https://t.co/GocBAZDEio

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Rehearsals for tomorrow’s performance @BarbicanCentre of Busoni’s epic Piano Concerto are in full swing with the brilliant @kirillgerstein and our wonderful Chief Conductor @oramsa, and giving everyone a work-out! 🎹💪

Tickets from £12.50 + bkg fee
🎟️ https://t.co/8teahEfSJ8

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

We’re thrilled to have @kirillgerstein with us this week to perform Busoni’s extraordinary Piano Concerto @BarbicanCentre on Friday.

Our Chief Conductor @oramsa conducts this epic work along with Grazyna Bacewicz’s Symphony No. 2 🙌

Join us if you can!
🎟️ https://t.co/IkhlySJp65

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Final rehearsals in progress for @ruohuang’s M. Butterfly @BarbicanCentre and it’s going to be an evening to remember🦋

Here with @BarronFleur, Mark Stone, Carolyn Kuan & @BBCSingers

Tix from £15 + bkg fee
🗓️Fri 25 Oct 7.30pm
🎟️ https://t.co/cet8YjQj9A

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Just two days to go to the UK premiere of @ruohuang’s opera M. Butterfly @BarbicanCentre

We’ll be joined by conductor Carolyn Kuan, a superb cast and the @bbcsingers, so join us if you can!

Fri 25 Oct 7.30pm
Tix from £15 + bkg fee
🎟️https://t.co/cet8YjQj9A

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

World premieres by Pete Letanka & @JoYaNdEaRs recorded recently at Maida Vale Studios and conducted by @mlynch.conductor are available now @BBCSounds 🎉

Commissioned by @TrinityC_L & @ABRSM & with @BLKLivesinMusic
#BlackHistoryMonth
🎧 https://t.co/OCsBK8xExn

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Part of @bbccslfest

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

What a night! An unforgettable evening @HackneyEmpire with Contains Strong Language.

Congratulations and thanks to all involved - remarkable poets, brilliant conductor, presenters and composers!
💐💐💐

🎧 @BBCRadio3 & @BBCRadio4 in due course. Well let you know!

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Rehearsals sounding amazing for Contains Strong Language tonight at @HackneyEmpire. Keith Jarrett performing his and composer Ian Farrington’s E Note.

🎧 We’ll let you know when you can hear tonight’s performance on @BBCRadio3 & on @BBCRadio4’s The Verb.

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

Our Feb-May Barbican concerts are now on general sale! 🎉

So much to look forward to incl. concerts with @oramsa & @DaliaStasevska & Total Immersion days on Pierre Boulez and Symphonic Electronics 🎶

Full season & to book:
https://t.co/nJYxpYE2M3

[BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus @BBCSO]

It’s going to be a great evening! Join us @HackneyEmpire if you can.
🎟️ https://t.co/lKc8R7aphs

[Iain Farrington @IainFarrington]

Had a great time collaborating with the poet Keith Jarrett, composing an orchestral score to accompany his new poem. Concert tomorrow at @HackneyEmpire with @BBCSO.