Piano passion, Hungarian style: Emilia Hoving conducts Bartók, Kodály and Liszt.
Swirling ball scene, grotesque witches dance, brutal execution and fatal attraction. Sakari Oramo pairs Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the equally fervid imagination of Alban Berg.
A programme of dance-inspired music including one of Mozart’s most elegant and joyful piano concertos, No. 21 in C, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. In between, Manu Martin’s Fantasy of Companionship and Ukrainian composer Ivan Nebesnyy’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Suite, with a Brahms Hungarian Dance to open the evening.
Renée Fleming returns. Don’t miss the chance to hear one of the great voices of our time.
Kazuki Yamada conducts great musical love stories by Maurice Ravel and Lili Boulanger. Prepare to be seduced…
Experience the sounds of Spain alongside the myths and magic of Mexico.
Francesco Piemontesi plays Brahms’s mighty First Piano Concerto, and conductor Tabita Berglund retells the colourful tale of Grieg’s Peer Gynt.
From stamping rhythms to knockout solos, experience the LPO at full force.
Witness the star power of Mitsuko Uchida.
A cosmic journey from Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine to Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra, with Holst’s Mars and Jupiter and John Williams’ Star Wars Suite – a thrilling blend of orchestral spectacle, sci‑fi soundworlds, and iconic themes.
Debussy’s Suite bergamasque opens a vibrant programme alongside Bruch’s much-loved Violin Concerto No. 1, with violinist Paul Huang, Yuan Chen Li’s mesmeric Tao of Meinong, and excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet.
An evocative Easter programme centred on James MacMillan’s powerful Stabat Mater, exploring grief, hope and consolation. Paired with Palestrina’s luminous double-choir setting and Shostakovich’s deeply moving Chamber Symphony, it is music of sorrow, resilience and renewal.
Music’s supreme storyteller meets the greatest composer of all time.
Once upon a time in Vienna, music and desire became inseparable.
Mahler’s colossal symphony of life, death and resurrection, performed live in the Royal Albert Hall
Trailblazing soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan guides us through the musical landscape of America at a defining point in its history, from concert hall to musical theatre.
Sakari Oramo conducts Malcolm Arnold: his Seventh Symphony stands alongside British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams and Helen Grime.
A wounded spirit seeks redemption in Schumann’s heartfelt and wildly Romantic music.
The Romantic century encapsulated in three works: Beethoven's dramatic Coriolan Overture, the expansive vistas of Dvořák's wonderful Cello Concerto, played by Johannes Moser, and Mendelssohn's windswept, high-spirited 'Scottish' Third Symphony.