Welcome to our 2026/27 season of BSO Digital Concerts.
Experience the power of the BSO from the comfort of your own home. 18 Wednesday concerts will be streamed live from our home at Lighthouse, Poole and you can watch again or settle down to enjoy the concert whenever you wish as each concert is then available to view on demand for 30 days. A free pdf concert programme will be downloadable for each concert.
2026/27 Digital Concerts:
Wednesday 30 September 7.30pm
ADVENTUROUS JOURNEYS
Beethoven Symphony No.1
Wagner The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure
Mark Wigglesworth
Wednesday 7 October 7.30pm
YOUTHFUL RACHMANINOV
Rimsky-Korsakov The Tsar’s Bride Overture
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Egyptian’
Rachmaninov Symphony No.1
Chloé Van Soeterstède, Javier Perianes
Wednesday 14 October 7.30pm
ROMANTIC TRANSITIONS
JC Bach Symphony in G minor Op.6 No.6
Mozart Concerto for Bassoon
CPE Bach Sinfonia in B minor Wg.182/5
Haydn Symphony No.104 ‘London’
Peter Whelan, Tammy Thorn
Wednesday 28 October 7.30pm
EASTERN ODYSSEY
Mozart Don Giovanni Overture
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Charlotte Corderoy, Junyan Chen
Wednesday 4 November 7.30pm
SUNSHINE SYMPHONIES
Prokofiev Symphony No.1 ‘Classical’
Schumann Piano Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.2
Mark Wigglesworth, Boris Giltburg
Wednesday 18 November 7.30pm
IMPERIAL MAJESTY
Walton Crown Imperial March
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’
Tchaikovsky Suite No.3
Andrew Litton, Jonathan Biss
Wednesday 2 December 7.30pm
ETERNAL HEAVEN
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
Mahler Symphony No.4
Mark Wigglesworth, Olivia Boen
Wednesday 9 December 7.30pm
WINTER WARMERS
Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor ‘Christmas Concerto’
Vivaldi Autumn & Winter from The Four Seasons
Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite
Michal Oren, Maria Włoszczowska
Wednesday 20 January 7.30pm
KISSED BY A ROSE
Bizet Carmen Suite No.1
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
R Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Mark Wigglesworth, Boris Giltburg
Wednesday 27 January 7.30pm
MOZART’S MASTERPIECE
Duparc Lénore – Symphonic Poem
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Franck Symphony in D minor
Jac van Steen, Carlos Ferreira
Wednesday 3 February 7.30pm
LET THERE BE LIGHT
Nielsen Helios Overture
Grieg Piano Concerto
Adès Dawn – Chacony for orchestra at any distance
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
Chloé Van Soeterstède, Eva Gevorgyan
Wednesday 24 February 7.30pm
SOULFUL EPITAPH
Butterworth A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody for Orchestra
Bridge Oration – Concerto Elegiaco
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
Mark Wigglesworth, Jesper Svedberg
Wednesday 3 March 7.30pm
ROMAN SNAPSHOTS
Khachaturian Spartacus Suite
Berio Folk Songs
Respighi Pines of Rome
Kirill Karabits, Rihab Chaieb
Wednesday 10 March 7.30pm
BORIS GILTBURG RECITAL
Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op.22
Schumann Carnaval Op.9
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Boris Giltburg
Wednesday 17 March 7.30pm
BEETHOVEN ASCENDING
Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Beethoven Cantata on the Death of Emperor Josef II
Beethoven Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’
Mark Wigglesworth, Nardus Williams, Kitty Whately
Anthony Gregory, Andrew Foster-Williams
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
Wednesday 14 April 7.30pm
COMING TO AMERICA
L Boulanger D’un soir triste
Barber Violin Concerto
Dvořák Symphony No.9 ‘From the New World’
Chloé Van Soeterstède, Stella Chen
Wednesday 28 April 7.30pm
LYRICISM AND DRAMA
Brahms Piano Concerto No.2
Adès Three-piece Suite from Powder Her Face
Beethoven Symphony No.4
Mark Wigglesworth, Sunwook Kim
Wednesday 12 May 7.30pm
ELGAR’S DREAM
Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
Mark Wigglesworth, Nicky Spence, Katie Bray
Marcus Farnsworth, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
A digital subscription is great value. It allows us to enjoy more than twice the number of concerts than if we attended the Great Hall for live performances. Being able to access each concert for a month has allowed us never to miss a concert; catching up can be done whenever is convenient."