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| | Romantics in Exile
Friday 8 April
Sakari Oramo conducts a forgotten symphony overflowing with passion and Nicola Benedetti plays the violin concerto that stole the movies’ greatest tunes.
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| | Zadie Smith and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Friday 22 April
Zadie Smith, one of the most influential cultural figures in Britain, joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to read from some of her best-known works in an evening of words and music.
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| | Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Medtner, Kidane and Nielsen
Friday 6 May
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts music of inner peace and outer turmoil from composers enduring war, illness, disease – and the 2020 lockdown.
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| | The Other Vaughan Williams
Friday 13 May, Hall
The composer who brought us gentle, pastoral music like The Lark Ascending processes the aftermath of war, in a concert featuring the modern premiere of a lost work by César Franck.
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| | Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6
Sunday 22 May
Nathalie Stutzmann makes her BBC Symphony Orchestra podium debut in Tchaikovsky’s most emotional symphony, while orchestra and chorus are united for Brahms at his most hushed.
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| | Stephen Hough Plays Rachmaninov
Friday 27 May
Star pianist Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini while Alphesh Chauhan conducts Bruckner’s unfinished final symphony.
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