Join our wonderful crew of presenters and colleagues as they guide you through the music for this season of BSO's fantastic concerts. Glean some interesting info and find out what makes the music tick for them.

Wednesday 30 October – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 31 October – Great Hall, Exeter

Beethoven’s Emperor
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’
Prokofiev Symphony No.5
Kevin John Edusei, Nelson Goerner

Wednesday 13 November – Lighthouse, Poole

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 – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 21 November – Bristol Beacon

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 – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 28 November – Great Hall, Exeter

Mad Over Mendelssohn
Schumann Overture, Scherzo & Finale
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.1
Chloé Van Soeterstède, Alena Baeva

Wednesday 4 December – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 5 December – Portsmouth Guildhall

Nutcracker Magic
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Act II)
Mark Wigglesworth, Boris Giltburg

Wednesday 15 January – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 16 January – Bristol Beacon

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 – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 23 January – Portsmouth Guildhall
Saturday 25 January – The Anvil, Basingstoke

Viennese Whirls
J Strauss The Blue Danube
Berg Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.2
Mark Wigglesworth, Alena Baeva

Wednesday 29 January – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 30 January – Great Hall, Exeter

Petrushka
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Op.110a
Mozart Piano Concerto No.9
Stravinsky Petrushka (1947)
Tianyi Lu, Elisabeth Brauss

Wednesday 12 February – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 13 February – Great Hall, Exeter

Cello Elegy
Beethoven Symphony No.1
Elgar Cello Concerto
R Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Alexander Soddy, Laura van der Heijden

Wednesday 19 February – Lighthouse, Poole
Saturday 22 February – Hall For COrnwall, Truro

Northern Lights
Vasks Musica Serena
Grieg Piano Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No.1
Gergely Madaras, Louis Schwizgebel

Wednesday 26 February – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 27 February – Bristol Beacon
Notes of Nostalgia
Brahms Symphony No.3
Hough Piano Concerto (The World of Yesterday)
Elgar Enigma Variations (with narration)
Mark Wigglesworth, Sir Stephen Hough,
Walter van Dyk

Wednesday 5 March – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 6 March – Portsmouth Guildhall
Symphonic Dances
Sibelius Valse Triste
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
Adam Hickox, Rosanne Philippens

Wednesday 12 March – Lighthouse, Poole

Looking Forward and Back
Brahms Tragic Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4
Schumann Symphony No.2
Chloé Van Soeterstède, Pavel Kolesnikov

Wednesday 26 March – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 27 March – Great Hall, Exeter
Friday 28 March – Bristol Beacon
Fairytales 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 – Lighthouse, Poole

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 – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 10 April – Great Hall, Exeter

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 – Lighthouse, Poole
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 – Lighthouse, Poole
Thursday 8 May – Portsmouth Guildhall

The Essence of Brahms
Wagner Lohengrin Prelude
Britten Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.4
Mark Wigglesworth, Clara-Jumi Kang

Wednesday 14 May – Lighthouse, Poole

Belshazzar’s Feast
Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
David Hill, Steven Osborne, Andrew Hamilton
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus