Sakari Oramo conducts Malcolm Arnold: his Seventh Symphony stands alongside British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams and Helen Grime.

The BBC SSO presents a rare revival of Harrison Birtwistle’s opera 'The Second Mrs Kong', conducted by Martyn Brabbins and featuring an all-star cast alongside the BBC Singers

“Even in a day when keyboard virtuosos are thick on the ground, Kozhukhin is special.” Denis Kozhukhin returns to the BBC SSO in a programme pairing a Romantic masterpiece with Beethoven’s playful Eighth Symphony.

“Even in a day when keyboard virtuosos are thick on the ground, Kozhukhin is special.” Denis Kozhukhin returns to the BBC SSO in a programme pairing a Romantic masterpiece with Beethoven’s playful Eighth Symphony.

An introduction to the music of Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders’s chamber music might be small in size, but the ideas it conveys are vast. Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama explore a selection of her chamber works this afternoon.

An introduction to Rebecca Saunder's opera, 'Lash'.

'Lash – Acts of Love': the UK premiere, in a concert staging, of Rebecca Saunders’s extraordinary new opera.

The BBC Singers present a concert of repertoire based on musical settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Alongside Thomas Tallis’s famous setting are new works using the lamentations as their inspiration, by Cassandra Miller and Nico Muhly.