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The worlds of fairy-tale and dream mingle in music seen through the eyes of a child.

Sibelius’ new symphonic sound

Hope vies with tragedy in the works of Dvořák and Sibelius.

Finding the route through Strauss’ ‘Metamorphosen’

Heroes, ruins and renewal: works of raw intensity by Beethoven and Strauss

The symbolism of Bach’s St Matthew Passion

Bach channels the tragedy and transcendence of the Passion into one heart-rending masterpiece.

Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us to talk about his past as a dancer and his connection to the music of his homeland, America.

A programme that delights in dance and young romance, with a new work by Sir Karl Jenkins for the brilliant saxophonist and musical evangelist, Jess Gillam.

Korngold was an Austrian wunderkind who took his considerable talents to Hollywood just as war broke. There he wrote film scores of new scope and invention, ‘wordless operas’ as he called them.

The season closes with the lush colours of Korngold and the bristling intensity of Mahler’s fifth symphony.