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There’s been a long history of composers writing musical gifts for the women they loved, and tonight’s Season Closing Concert features two of the finest.

There’s been a long history of composers writing musical gifts for the women they loved, and tonight’s Season Closing Concert features two of the finest.

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra bring Hungary’s greatest opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, to the Royal Albert Hall, heard alongside Beethoven’s ebullient Symphony No. 7

Josep Pons conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s ‘grotesque pantomime’ The Miraculous Mandarin, and Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Klaus Mäkela and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are joined by celebrated violinist Janine Jansen for Prokofiev’s effervescent Violin Concerto No. 1. Mozart’s ‘Paris’ Symphony and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra bookend the evening

Join us for a special concert where talented young musicians from the National Youth Orchestra of Wales (NYOW) perform side by side with world-class players from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales.

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.

Join us in Nottingham for Bartók’s gripping one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle.

Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók sits somewhere between a gothic tale of horror and a psychological dissection of a twisted relationship.

A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican.

Guest Conductor Elim Chan reveals the deadly secrets of Bartók’s thrilling work 'Bluebeard’s Castle' with the help of two world-class soloists.

Alice Coote & Gábor Bretz join conductor Elim Chan for Bartók’s thrilling work 'Bluebeard’s Castle' revealing deadly secrets. Plus pieces by Britten & Shostakovich in this dramatic concert!

Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.