Whether you're spoilt for choice, intrigued by something unfamiliar, or want to look for music to suit a particular mood, why not listen to some of the music in our season? We've compiled some pieces and movements into 'playlists' to help you find your way around, which you can listen to using spotify - it's FREE and easy (click here for a 4-step guide).
We'll also be helping you find out more throughout the season with our podcasts - like short radio programmes which you can listen to on your computer or an mp3 player. Keep checking here for new items.
Click here to view and listen to an archive of our monthly podcasts.
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Use the buttons below to select different groups of tracks to listen to, and click on the links to see the concerts which the pieces feature in.
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Rachmaninov: Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini - Thursday 20 & Saturday 22 October
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, The
Great Gate of Kiev and Promenade
- Thursday 27 October
Dukas: The
Sorcerer's Apprentice - Sunday 20, Thursday 24 & Saturday 26 November
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Adagio
- Thursday 24 & Saturday 26 November
Strauss: Also
sprach Zarathustra - Friday 28 October, Thursday 12 & Saturday 14 January
Holst: The Planets, Mars
and Jupiter
- Wednesday 15 & Saturday
18 February
Ravel: Mother
Goose - Wednesday
9 & Thursday
10 May
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade
- Wednesday 9 &
Thursday 10 May
Barber: Adagio
for Strings - Thursday
28 June
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Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, Finale
- Thursday 1 December
Dvorák: Silent
Woods
for cello and orchestra - Wednesday 18 & Thursday 19 January
Kodaly: Dances of Galánta, No.
4 - Saturday 4 February
Szymanowski: Stabat
Mater - Wednesday 15 & Saturday
18 February
Berg: Seven Early Songs, 3.
Die Nachtigall - Sunday
19 February
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, Prelude
and Liebestod - Saturday
3 & Friday 30
March
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, first
movement - Wednesday
25 April
Britten: Our Hunting Fathers, Prologue
- Saturday 19 May
Ives: Three Places in New England, 2.
Putnam's Camp - Thursday
24 May
Gubaidulina: Violin
Concerto (Offertorium) - Thursday
7 June
Bartók: Viola Concerto, second
movement - Saturday
9 June
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Verdi: Requiem, Dies
Irae - Thursday 22 & Saturday 24 September
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad), fourth
movement - Thursday 10 & Saturday 12 November
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, March
to the Scaffold - Thursday 24 & Saturday 26 November
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, The
Great Gate of Kiev - Thursday 27 October
Strauss: Also
sprach Zarathustra - Friday 28 October, Thursday 12 & Saturday 14 January
Holst: The Planets, Mars
- Wednesday 15 & Saturday
18 February
Szymanowski: Stabat
Mater - Wednesday 15 & Saturday
18 February
Britten: War Requiem, Requiem
aeternam and Libera
me - Wednesday
30 May
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Storm
- Wednesday 7 March
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Adagio
- Thursday 24 & Saturday 26 November
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, second
movement - Thursday 2 & Saturday 4 February
Szymanowski: Stabat
Mater - Wednesday 15 & Saturday
18 February
Duruflé: Requiem, Pie
Jesu and In
Paradisum - Wednesday
22 February
Franck: Panis
Angelicus - Wednesday
22 February
Barber: Adagio
for Strings - Thursday
28 June