We are delighted to announce our 2024/25 season of BSO Digital Concerts.
Experience the power of the BSO from the comfort of your own home. 17 concerts will be streamed live from our home at Lighthouse in 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.
CLICK HERE to download a pdf of the full BSO Digital Concert series
Wednesday 2 October
The Planets
Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3
Holst The Planets
Karl-Heinz Steffens, Paul Lewis
Wednesday 16 October
Tchaikovsky Six
Liadov The Enchanted Lake
Dvořák Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’
Jac van Steen, Edgar Moreau
Wednesday 30 October
Beethoven’s Emperor
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’
Prokofiev Symphony No.5
Kevin John Edusei, Nelson Goerner
Wednesday 13 November
Clarinet Bliss
Rossini String Sonata No.6
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’
Enyi Okpara, Julian Bliss
Wednesday 20 November
Wigglesworth Conducts Walton
Wagner The Mastersingers of Nuremburg Overture
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Walton Symphony No.1
Mark Wigglesworth, Nicholas McCarthy
Wednesday 27 November
Mad Over Mendelssohn
Schumann Overture, Scherzo & Finale
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.1
Chloé van Soeterstède, Alena Baeva
Wednesday 4 December
Nutcracker Magic
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Act II)
Mark Wigglesworth, Boris Giltburg
Wednesday 15 January
Tales of Passion
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Valentina Peleggi, Simone Lamsma
Wednesday 22 January
Viennese Whirls
J Strauss The Blue Danube
Berg Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.2
Mark Wigglesworth, Alena Baeva
Wednesday 12 February
Cello Elegy
Beethoven Symphony No.1
Elgar Cello Concerto
R Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Alexander Soddy, Laura van der Heijden
Wednesday 26 February
Notes of Nostalgia
Brahms Symphony No.3
Hough Piano Concerto (The World of Yesterday)
Elgar Enigma Variations
Mark Wigglesworth, Sir Stephen Hough
Wednesday 12 March
Looking Forward and Back
Brahms Tragic Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4
Schumann Symphony No.2
Chloé van Soeterstède, Pavel Kolesnikov
Wednesday 26 March
Fairy Tales and Folklore
Mozart The Magic Flute Overture
de Hartmann Fairy Tales
Trojan Fairy Tales, a Concerto for Accordion
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini
Kirill Karabits, Ksenija Sidorova
Wednesday 2 April
Romantic Rhapsody
R Strauss Don Juan
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Beethoven Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’
Kerem Hasan, Alexei Volodin
Wednesday 9 April
Orchestral Pictures
Debussy Prélude a l’après-midi d’un faune
Berlioz Harold In Italy
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Alexandre Bloch, Lise Berthaud
Wednesday 30 April
Alena Baeva Recital
Schumann Märchenbilder Op.113
Brahms Violin Sonata No.2 Op.100
R Strauss Violin Sonata Op.18
Stravinsky The Fairy’s Kiss (extracts)
Alena Baeva, Vadym Kholodenko
Wednesday 7 May
The Essence of Brahms
Wagner Lohengrin Prelude
Britten Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.4
Mark Wigglesworth, Clara-Jumi Kang
Recorded pre-concert talks for the main works for each of the concerts are available to watch online too. They are an interesting and insightful way to help understand the music before you enjoy the concert itself. You will also be able to download a free pdf concert programme.
Sharing music even though I was watching alone at home. I felt a part of it