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Strauss鈥檚 Ein Heldenleben (A Hero鈥檚 Life), Haydn鈥檚 Nelson Mass and pure sonic wonder from Samy Moussa. Hannu Lintu conducts a concert of outsize emotions and truly spectacular sounds.

Celebrate the beginning of a new year with a journey through classical masterpieces.

Join the 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic Orchestra at our MediaCityUK studio for a live broadcast concert on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3 featuring three extraordinary works.

麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3 New Generation Artist soprano Johanna Wallroth turns the leaves of the Richard Strauss songbook: miniature worlds of tenderness, melody and romance, perfectly suited to what one critic called the 鈥減ure magic鈥� of her voice.

Imagine...in 240 years, what music will be performed the world over? A world-renowned pianist demonstrates the timeless beauty of Mozart.

Music for beginnings and endings. It鈥檚 hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant, first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin鈥檚 Rhapsody in Blue.

Clemens Schuldt and the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra perform Shakespearean classics, Strauss at his most sumptuous, and a new British concerto for cellist Guy Johnston.