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For our season opener, an assembly of composers who, by embracing pain, find solace, redemption, and clarity.

Music from the abyss: Kirill Karabits and the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra embrace Tchaikovsky at his wildest, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann at his most vital.

Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear (best known from his role in James Bond films) narrates Prokofiev’s playful 'Peter and the Wolf' and the phenomenal Sterling Elliott dazzles in Tchaikovsky's showpiece for cello and orchestra.

Tonight, our string section takes centre stage. Written in 1939 as Europe teetered on the brink of war, Bartók’s Divertimento fuses Hungarian folk-rhythms with his signature spiky harmonies and driving momentum.

Fairytale meets humour and heartbreak in this magical concert conducted by Â鶹Éç NOW’s Principal Guest Conductor Jaime Martín.

Step into a winter wonderland as we bring the magic of Christmas to life with a dazzling evening of festive music.

Winter Daydreams: Martyn Brabbins and the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra share the seasonal freshness of Tchaikovsky’s magical First Symphony.

Clemens Schuldt and the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra perform Shakespearean classics, Strauss at his most sumptuous, and a new British concerto for cellist Guy Johnston.

Conductor Gemma New returns to Â鶹Éç NOW this January with a programme of Russian masterpieces, starting with a work which needs little introduction, Prokofiev’s exhilarating Classical Symphony.

Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and a UK premiere from Julia Adolphe. Big emotions and natural wonders from Kristiina Poska and the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra.

Pulse-raising passion and a teenage prodigy’s firecracker piano concerto

Dazzling woodwinds tarry with bustling strings, folk-like melodies weave with vibrant dance and climactic rushes make way to stately grandeur in Tchaikovsky’s charmingly wintery First Symphony, oozing his trademark symphonic craftsmanship from the off.

Tchaikovsky's pulse-raising passion and Mozart's 'Turkish' Violin Concerto

Dazzling woodwinds tarry with bustling strings, folk-like melodies weave with vibrant dance and climactic rushes make way to stately grandeur in Tchaikovsky’s charmingly wintery First Symphony, oozing his trademark symphonic craftsmanship from the off.

Wolfe was two blocks from the Twin Towers when the planes hit on September 11, 2001. *Big Beautiful Dark and Scary* is the sound of that aftermath: an ominous, awesome wall of sound.