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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: bbc.in/3XdcZRE
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A very special @bbcproms concert of music by Stravinsky, Reich, Tippett and Elgar, remembering Sir Andrew Davis. Thank you to conductor Martyn Brabbins and @SynergyVocals 💐💐
🎧 Listen @BBCSounds
bit.ly/4cTLkL7
📷 Andy Paradise
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We were thrilled to perform alongside @neilhimself @amandapalmer Simon Butteriss & special guest David Tennant for 'Playing in the Dark' at @BarbicanCentre 🤩 Tonight's concert will be broadcast on @BBCRadio3 on 23 Dec and @BBCRadio4 on 25 Dec! 🎶
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We've got some special Christmas presents for you! 🎁 Our concert Playing in the Dark with special guests @neilhimself @amandapalmer and David Tennant will be broadcast on @BBCRadio3 @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds on 23, 25 Dec and 1 Jan! Here's a little something to get you excited...
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Something very musically special is happening at #eurovision tonight. Eden Alene of Israel sings a B6 whistle tone – the highest note ever recorded in the competition 🍷
Let us put that into context for you...
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Four cellists from different organisations virtually come together to play the gorgeous Cantique de Jean Racine by Fauré on @BBCRadio3 @BBCInTune 😍
With thanks to BBCSO's @morwennadelmar Hetty Snell from @TheRoyalOpera plus @bexherman @JudithAFleet & editor @appleandbiscuit
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We are deeply saddened to hear that Sir Andrew Davis has died. Past Chief Conductor and Conductor Laureate of the BBC SO, and President of the BBC Symphony Chorus. A vital force in British music for many decades and a friend to us all. He will be greatly missed.
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The moment when @neilhimself welcomes special star guest David Tennant onto the @BarbicanCentre stage to read from Good Omens! 🙌🤩🙌 #NeilGaiman #DavidTennant #GoodOmens
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Which Doctor joined us and @neilhimself on stage for a surprise guest performance at @BarbicanCentre ? Playing In The Dark is coming to @BBCRadio3 on 23 December and @BBCRadio4 on Christmas Day, catch up on @BBCSounds over the festive season. More here: bbc.in/34eLDxI
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Warming up, with bells on🔔
We're getting ready for Mahler 3 at the @bbcproms tomorrow, which will be the first ever Proms performance of this piece with real church bells! The largest bell here weighs 170kg.
@TheForeverBells #BBCProms
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Tonight we get to relive the magic of our collaboration with the phenomenal @liannelahavas and our Creative Artist in Association @julesbuckley.
📻 Listen to the full gig at 7.30 on @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds.
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Our previous collaboration concert with @ProfBrianCox is on @BBCiPlayer 🙌
Explore the solar system with the perfect soundtrack of Holst's The Planets 🪐
Watch now: bbc.in/3q3aRK4
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Thank you @bbcproms and our Principal Guest Conductor @DaliaStasevska 👏👏 What a great start to the season! #bbcproms
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This is definitely going to put a smile on your face this morning!
Here's The Flintstones theme tune recorded by our ever-versatile and good-humoured BBC SO musicians 🤣
#CultureinQuarantine #lockdownlistening
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The Mushroom Hunters: @neilhimself's poem about science, read by @amandapalmer. Listen back to the full concert recording of 'Playing in the Dark' featuring David Tennant on @BBCSounds, available for 15 days.
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Tonight at 9pm you can watch our performance of #Holst's masterpiece 'The Planets' on @BBCTwo, presented by @ProfBrianCox or catch up on @BBCiPlayer bbc.in/2JFRRjs
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Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas from #BBCSO 🎄 For those already up, tune in to @BBCRadio4 from 6am to hear Part 1 our concert with @neilhimself @amandapalmer and David Tennant! For those of you enjoying a Christmas lie in, you can catch up on @BBCSounds 🎶
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Join @ProfBrianCox and the @BBCSO for a mind-bending musical voyage through space and time.
Recorded at @BarbicanCentre, conducted by @DaliaStasevska.
Buy streaming tickets online bit.ly/3b9gXCI
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We’re delighted that Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo's contract has been extended to 2030, our centenary year, and look forward to continuing this outstanding relationship in the years ahead which will include the move to our new home in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford.
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Wishing you a very Happy New Year from #BBCSO 🎉 A highlight of last year for us was performing with @neilhimself @amandapalmer and David Tennant! You can hear Part 2 of Playing in the Dark at 3pm on @BBCRadio4 or catch up on @BBCSounds bbc.in/2EEOWTW
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🕵️♂️ The Hound of the Baskervilles is available to listen to now for 30 days on @bbcsounds. Don't miss this chilling, gripping and hair-raising performance!
Listen here: bbc.in/3XKhgKK
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🤩 We are almost ready for the First Night of the @bbc_proms this Friday with the truly spectacular Verdi’s Requiem! Conducted by @oramsa.
Find out what other treats we have in store for you throughout the Proms: bbc.in/3P07gsV
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What does it mean to live small, finite lives in an infinite Universe? 🤔
@ProfBrianCox joins us and @DaliaStasevska for an incredible and musical exploration of The Cosmos 🤩
Live from the @BarbicanCentre hall to your home | Sun 13 Dec 8pm | bbc.in/2JC0TQb
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Looking for some out of this world TV tonight? Our concert of Holst's The Planets with @ProfBrianCox is still available to watch on @BBCiPlayer 🪐 bbc.in/3cJNHlZ
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We're thrilled to announce that our Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo @oramsa has extended his contract with us until 2022 🎉🎶
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Looking for some Friday night viewing on #InternationalSpaceDay 🚀 Our performance of Holst's The Planets with @ProfBrianCox is available on @BBCiPlayer for 30 days: bbc.in/3d7bKuq 🌎
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How wonderful it is to see and hear the orchestra playing together again, with our Chief Conductor @oramsa!
Yesterday we rehearsed some (socially distanced) Beethoven ahead of Friday's first live performance of the @bbcproms at @RoyalAlbertHall 🎶
#BBCProms #BBCSO
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"Our Strauss, in the middle of our street..." 😂#AddAComposerToAPopSong
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We're performing with @ProfBrianCox on Sun 13 Dec at @BarbicanCentre 🤩
We confront some of the biggest questions of them all, of life, death and the very meaning of our existence, with the help of music by Sibelius, Mahler and Ives 🎶
Book tickets: bbc.in/2V3Ixtm
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Anyone for some socially-distanced Mozart?
The BBCSO strings were reunited for the first time since lockdown yesterday, and the full (reduced) orchestra will rehearse on Monday! 🙌
Thanks to our Orchestra Manager @singingnin for the video 🎶
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Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 was given a wonderful performance by @LiseDavidsen and @ShekuKM, with the cellos of @bbcso #LNotP
BBC Proms
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Looking for something to watch on a Saturday night to take you out of this world? Our performance of Holst's The Planets presented by @ProfBrianCox is available on @BBCiPlayer here: bbc.in/2lCUOqt
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The organist may only appear in fewer than 50 bars throughout #Holst's 'The Planets' but they are very important 50 bars! Here's 7 things for them to do whist counting bars: bbc.in/2xXfWu1
Hear us perform it live on @BBCRadio3 w/@ProfBrianCox
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We are thrilled to announce that Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska @DaliaStasevska is joining our team as Principal Guest Conductor Designate. Together with Sakari Oramo @oramsa, Semyon Bychkov and Sir Andrew Davis, she will bring an extraordinary musicianship to the orchestra.
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We are deeply sorry to hear of the death of Kaija Saariaho. An extraordinary composer with whom we have been fortunate to work over many years, including our recent day-long celebration of her music. She will be very sadly missed.
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Glimpse of dress rehearsals for Holst’s The Planets with @ProfBrianCox @BarbicanCentre. Listen to the live performance @BBCRadio3 at 7:30pm tonight! 🎶
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This Saturday we are performing Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2, Silvestri's Three Pieces for strings & Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with @SeongJinCho & Conductor @CristiMacelaru!
Join us @RoyalAlbertHall or Listen live @BBCRadio3 bbc.in/2ZaI0un
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🤯 The incredible sound of over 250 voices with the full force of the orchestra filling the @RoyalAlbertHall.
We’re all set for the @bbcproms First Night! Watch on @bbctwo @bbciplayer or listen on @bbcradio3 @bbcsounds. 🎶
#BBCProms
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We’re back at @bbcproms for a special concert in tribute to Sir Andrew Davis, our much-missed Conductor Laureate who died earlier this year. Martyn Brabbins conducts music reflecting Sir Andrew’s love of British repertoire & contemporary music.
🎧 Listen @BBCRadio3 from 7.30pm
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🎶Rehearsing Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the wonderful @NickyBenedetti and @oramsa ahead of our concert @BarbicanCentre tomorrow. Tickets still available! 😍
bbc.co.uk/events/exwz3d
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We’re in rehearsals for tonight’s concert ‘Playing in the Dark’ with @neilhimself and delighted to announce that singer @amandapalmer & baritone Simon Butteriss will be joining us, plus a very special surprise guest 🤩 Returns only at @BarbicanCentre 7.30pm tonight 🎶
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A huge thank you to the wonderful audience who joined us @bbcproms last night, in person or on @bbcradio3, to pianist @yunchanlim_, who made his #BBCProms debut performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, and conductor @paavo_jarvi who ensured audiences were treated to a spellbinding evening of music.
Listen @bbcsounds
📸 Chris Christodoulou
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We can’t wait for tomorrow’s concert @bbcproms! @klausmakela conducts Rachmaninov with the incredible @YujaWang, @jlopezbellido’s Perú negro & Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with @thomashampson and the BBC Symphony Chorus. 🫶
Here’s a sneak peek of Walton in rehearsal 🎶
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Interested to find out in more depth what @ProfBrianCox is going to be exploring tomorrow night as part of our live stream from @BarbicanCentre?
Read what he has to say here: bbc.in/3gEDf1v
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Escape this planet and let your mind wander to another 🌎
It's your last chance to watch our performance of Holst's The Planets with @ProfBrianCox - available on @BBCiPlayer until Sunday 10.30pm! bbc.in/2BeH1OA
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Rachmaninov’s The Bells in rehearsal today with @the_halle and the BBC Symphony Chorus, in a @royalalberthall soon to be full of Prommers!🔔
Listen live from 7.30pm on @bbcsounds #BBCProms @bbcproms
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Sibelius’s magnificent Finlandia 🎶 Rehearsing for tomorrow’s First Night of @bbcproms with @DaliaStasevska & the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Chorus & @BBCSingers 👏
🎟️ bit.ly/46MIaqQ
📺📻Watch and listen @BBCTwo & @BBCRadio3 from 7pm tomorrow.
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Today we celebrated the phenomenon that was Frank Zappa, culminating in exhilarating performances of his large-scale orchestral works, conducted by Brad Lubman 🎶
Huge thank you to everyone who joined us at @BarbicanCentre for a very special day of music.
#FrankZappa @zappa
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This Saturday! Tune in to @BBCTwo at 9pm to watch the very special performance we gave of #Holst's 'The Planets', presented by @ProfBrianCox 🎶👍bbc.in/2JFRRjs
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🎶 Sibelius’s magnificent Finlandia in rehearsals for the closing concert in #BBCProms Japan. Enjoy!
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Tonight we say a fond farewell to Paul Hughes, Director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for the past 23 years, during which time he has taken the orchestra from strength to strength. Thank you for everything, Paul, and our very best wishes for the future!
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.@ProfBrianCox talked very animatedly about Mars on @BBCr4today this morning. We can't wait to open our season with him and Holst's 'The Planets' @BarbicanCentre bbc.in/2KeqqZT
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Flute Cam! 🪈📹 Close-up on Principal Flute Michael Cox (here on alto flute) in rehearsal for Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring for our @BarbicanCentre concert on Sunday.
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Korngold’s richly melodic Violin Concerto with Vadim Gluzman and conductor Gustavo Gimeno, in rehearsal for our @bbcproms performance tonight! 🎻✨
Listen on @bbcradio3 @bbcsounds
#BBCProms
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Last night we bid a very fond farewell to @dmeyer142 and Audrey Henning, members of @bbcso since 1986 & 1992 respectively. We are so grateful for their remarkable dedication and will miss them, but wish them all the very best for the future! 💐💐💐
ALT Audrey Henning and Daniel Meyer standing smiling on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall with the auditorium behind them. Audrey is on the left wearing a long turquoise dress and holding a viola and Danny is wearing white tie and tails and holding a violin.
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🗣 Listen back to our special concert of readings and music from Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, David Tennant and conducted by Mihhail Gerts, now on @BBCSounds: bbc.in/3GU0hjQ
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A big welcome to our new Principal Trumpet, Phil Cobb! 🎺🎶🙌
Phil says: ‘I’m delighted to have been appointed to the BBC SO. I can’t wait to get back to making music with the members of the orchestra and begin preparations for a wide range of future performances and projects.’
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A warm welcome to three wonderful new musicians who joined the orchestra today; principal oboe Tom Blomfield, 2nd clarinet Jonathan Parkin and 2nd bassoon Graham Hobbs 🎶
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This afternoon you can listen to our incredible performance with @ProfBrianCox and our Principal Guest Conductor @DaliaStasevska at @BarbicanCentre 🤩
Tune in to @BBCRadio3 this afternoon at 2pm or catch up on @BBCSounds: bbc.in/381kZf0
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We open our new season this Saturday @BarbicanCentre 🎉🎶 Holst's 'The Planets' with @ProfBrianCox - these images look incredible! We'll be live on @BBCRadio3 📻 bbc.in/2KeqqZT
I'm working on an event with the BBC Symphony Orchestra - a performance of Holst's Planets. It will be live on Radio 3 next Saturday evening - going through pictures now and they are stunning. From Cassini - Saturn's moons Janus, Mimas and Tethys.
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Today's the 46th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death. He wrote 15 symphonies, 10 operas, 15 string quartets and much more besides, but what are your favourite three pieces?
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Rehearsing Mahler's epic Symphony No. 3 at the @RoyalAlbertHall ahead of tonight's @bbcproms!
Who can spot the offstage snare? 🥁
Listen on @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds Sounds at 7pm tonight 📻
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Our magnificent horn section take centre stage in the third movement of Sibelius’s 5th Symphony in rehearsal in Murcia, Spain today. Tonight will be a special concert, as our third horn Andy Antcliff plays his last concert with us, after an impressive 30 years 💐
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What to expect from tonight’s show...@neilhimself It’s almost show time! 🎶 @BarbicanCentre #PlayingInTheDark #BBCSO
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‘The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.’✨
Nowhere is Mahler’s philosophy more magnificently fulfilled than in his Symphony No. 3, here in rehearsal with Chief Conductor @oramsa.
Join us at the @bbcproms tomorrow 🎟️ bbc.co.uk/events/e3vrn3
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The superb @jbartonmezzo rehearsing Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder for tonight’s concert @bbcproms. Plus Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 and the UK premiere of Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2, with @DaliaStasevska
🎟️ bbc.co.uk/events/e5qxp6
🎧Listen live from 7.30pm @BBCRadio3
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It was great to be back at Maida Vale Studios rehearsing as an orchestra again and adjusting to playing in a socially distanced way!
Next stop: @RoyalAlbertHall ahead of the first live concert of the @bbcproms on Friday 🎶
📸 @NikosTheTwit
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The @bbcproms First Night is about to begin! ✨
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On our 90th birthday, we are delighted to announce that @oramsa has extended his contract as Chief Conductor until the end of the @bbcproms in 2023 🙌
"I can’t wait to explore more exciting repertoire together and perform many more times with this extraordinary orchestra."
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The phenomenal @YujaWang rehearsing with @klausmakela for tonight’s concert @bbcproms. Music by @jlopezbellido, Rachmaninov and Walton, with the BBC Symphony Chorus. It’s going to be a night to remember! 🤩
📻 Listen live from 7.30pm @BBCRadio3 🎶
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What is your favourite Brahms symphony?
We’re rehearsing Symphony No.4 with the great @SemyonBychkov1, ahead of our concert @BarbicanCentre tomorrow.
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Rehearsing Strauss’s Don Juan with @marinalsop ahead of tomorrow’s Last Night of the @bbcproms 🎶
We’ll be performing with superb soloists soprano @LiseDavidsen & cellist @ShekuKM plus the @BBCSingers & the BBC Symphony Chorus and we can’t wait! 😍
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Final rehearsal for tonight’s concert @BarbicanCentre is off to a sinister start with The Rite of Spring. Music spanning 100 years from Igor Stravinsky, @AnnaHMeredith, Arvo Pärt & Stefan Niculescu, with @erikbosgraaf & Ryan Wigglesworth.
Join us!
🎟️ bbc.co.uk/events/ep59hn
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🇯🇵 We are rehearsing for @bbcproms Japan at Osaka Philharmonic Hall today!
🎶 Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 with @DaliaStasevska
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🎵 Spotlight on Principal Trombone Helen Vollam, rehearsing Sibelius’s Symphony No.7 ahead of our concert @BarbicanCentre tomorrow.
Join us if you can!
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Tchaikovsky's beautiful Violin Concerto with BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Geneva Lewis 🎻
Conductor Kristian Sallinen makes his debut with us at Maida Vale Studios today. Look out for when you can hear it on @BBCRadio3 📻
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The bassoon doesn’t always get its fair share of the spotlight: this Friday, that’s about to change!
Join us @BarbicanCentre for a thrilling concert showcasing our very own Principal Bassoon, Julie Price, with Chief Conductor @oramsa. Book now: bbc.in/3HGtuyR
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Wonderful to be back @bbcproms! Berg’s Violin Concerto with the brilliant Leila Josefowicz and Mahler Symphony No. 7. With our wonderful Chief Conductor @oramsa 🤩
📻 Listen live from 7.30pm @BBCRadio3 & @BBCSounds
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Paul Weller: Live at the Barbican
A unique collaboration with @julesbuckley and @paulwellerHQ, featuring special guests @BoyGeorge.
@celeste and @JamesMorrisonOK.
You can watch it this Saturday at 8.30pm on @BBCTwo and catch up on @BBCiPlayer bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000x9r…
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A thrilling emotional journey @bbcproms this evening with Bruckner’s 8th Symphony, whose finale the composer considered ‘the most significant movement of my life.’ Thanks to Semyon Bychkov for taking us on the journey, and to all who joined us this evening.
📻 @BBCSounds
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The shattering power of Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony💥 We’re in rehearsals with conductor David Afkham, who is making his debut with us tomorrow night at the @BarbicanCentre.
🎟️ You can still get tickets to join us: bbc.co.uk/events/exb84f
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What an evening! So wonderful to be back in full force @bbcproms with superb soloists @MasabaneCecilia, Jennifer Johnston, David Junghoon Kim & @KihwanSim, @oramsa and the magnificent massed singers of the BBC Symphony Chorus & @thechoir. 👏👏👏
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Tonight we wish our Principal Oboe Richard Simpson a fond farewell after 27 years of wonderful music making with #BBCSO
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The BBC Symphony Chorus joined forces with the @BBCNOW & Chorus for tonight’s @bbcproms performance of Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony. Listen back on @bbcsounds & @bbciplayer! #BBCProms
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On Monday we are performing Beethoven's gargantuan Ninth Symphony & an exciting new choral work by Jonathan Dove @bbcproms! Here is our #BBCSC Chorus Director @neilcpferris
with an insight into our programme 🎶
Listen live on @BBCRadio3 at
7:30pm #bbcproms
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Rehearsing Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the brilliant @senjarummukainen & @oramsa for @bbcproms tomorrow 👏
Plus music by Jonathan Harvey, and Gustav Holst with @DandyJessica & the BBC Symphony Chorus 🎶
bbc.co.uk/events/e3qxp6
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Wait for it…The magnificent horn theme from Sibelius’s 5th symphony. See us perform it live tomorrow @bbcproms as well as music by Julius Eastman & Gustav Mahler.
With @DaliaStasevska and @jbartonmezzo 🤩🤩🤩
🎟️ bbc.co.uk/events/e5qxp6
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.@liannelahavas releases new music TODAY! 'Bittersweet' will be played for the first time tonight on @BBCR1 by @AnnieMac ✨🎶
🤩 This Friday she'll be performing with us for our sold out gig at the @BarbicanCentre with Creative Artist in Association @julesbuckley 🤩
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Mezzo-soprano @jbartonmezzo at the @bbcproms yesterday gearing up for her performance with us at #LNOP on Saturday! 🤩 Watch and listen to her sing stunning operatic arias plus favourites 'Over the Rainbow' and 'I Got Rhythm' live on @BBCTwo & @BBCRadio3 from 7.15pm! 🎶
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📢 Exciting news! @julesbuckley announced as BBC SO's new Creative Artist in Association.
“It’s a huge honour for me to join the prestigious BBC Symphony Orchestra”. bbc.in/2HonHhY
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A day in the life of cellist @morwennadelmar at the #BBCProms 🎻
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Our #bbcproms Japan tour continues! 🇯🇵
We’re back at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo today and performing with pianist Yu Kosuge 🎹 Rehearsals for Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor are sounding beautiful! @DaliaStasevska
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There's something about @annedudleymusic's theme tune for Jeeves and Wooster which never fails to raise a smile!
Featuring our BBC SO musicians and recorded at home 🎶
#CultureInQuarantine
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First day back at work? Here's something to lift your spirits!
Listen to our incredible performance with @ProfBrianCox and our Principal Guest Conductor @DaliaStasevska at @BarbicanCentre 🤩
Available now on @BBCSounds bbc.in/381kZf0
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