BBC Philharmonic - Concerts
BBC Philharmonic
Concerts
BBC Philharmonic & Betrand Chamayou - Pictures at an Exhibition
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 22 February 2025
Fantasy and folklore lead the way in the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra's continuing birthday celebrations of French musical royalty, Maurice Ravel and Pierre Boulez. Notations finds Boulez at his most bold and brilliant, reimagining a series o...BBC Philharmonic - A Celebration of International Women's Day
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 8 March 2025
To finish, the Fifth Symphony of Emilie Mayer. A trailblazer during her lifetime, Mayer?s music earns her a place amongst the greatest composers of the 19th century....BBC Philharmonic - Grieg's Piano Concerto
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 22 March 2025
Finally, Sibelius?s Third Symphony. John Storga?rds has been called a ?master architect? of this great symphonist. The synergy between these two Finns is, quite simply unmissable....BBC Philharmonic - John Wilson conducts Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 29 March 2025
John Wilson conducts this French programme in all its finery. Before that, we?ll hear music by Ernest Chausson, one of the 19th century?s great melodists: Poe?me de l?amour et de la mer, his masterpiece for singer and orchestra. But we star...BBC Philharmonic - Roman Holiday
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Thursday 3 April 2025
It?s not all serioso though and the proof is in tonight?s sparkling opener: Rossini?s overture to The Thieving Magpie. There are more bubbles here than in a Bellini! To finish, Pulcinella?gives us Italy?s answer to Punch and Judy. Our final...BBC Philharmonic - Mahler Symphony No. 9
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 12 April 2025
As Gustav Mahler began his Ninth Symphony, he was fully aware of its portent. Like Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner before him, his Ninth was to be the last he finished Mahler knew about his heart defect which would prove fatal. This most e...BBC Philharmonic - Let me tell you
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 17 May 2025
Beethoven?s symphonic canon is to the concert platform what Shakespeare?s plays are to the stage. We join the man taking Vienna by storm at the start of his journey with the ebullient First Symphony. (Exit, pursued by a bear)....BBC Philharmonic - The Voice of Nature
