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In his most famous work, Sergei Rachmaninov pits piano against orchestra in a witty, bolshie and wickedly entertaining dual. Who wins? Find out as Stephen Hough takes on this remarkable piece.

Anton Bruckner’s last, unfinished symphony was intended as his great spiritual autobiography. Even from the three movements the composer did finish, we experience intense power, cataclysmic terror and exquisite tenderness. Fate decreed that the symphony would end with music apparently slow enough to stop time itself – a great, transfiguring Adagio that forms Bruckner’s epitaph.

To begin Alphesh Chauhan’s Barbican debut, we premiere Richard Baker’s orchestral reimagining of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much.