BBC SO Classical for Starters

An all-Russian concert of firsts introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s new joint leader with a major concerto performance and sees the orchestra perform a long-lost work by Stravinsky.

Two great Romantic works, each with a very personal significance for their composer, are paired here in a concert of music that celebrates friendship and mourns loss.

Two great Romantic works – Schumann’s heart-on-sleeve Cello Concerto and Brahms’ Third Symphony – celebrate the friendship and musical kinship between the two composers.

A concert of musical darkness and light pairs Beethoven’s sunny Violin Concerto with the atmospheric shadows of Schoenberg’s *Pelleas und Melisande*.

Love and death collide with wit and irreverence in a programme of contemporary classics, which has one of the century’s most powerful symphonies at its heart.