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As part of the Fête de la Musique, enjoy a free concert offering a preview of the 26/27 season.

Celebrate Belgium’s National Day with music as violinist Elli Choi joins the BNO for a festive programme featuring Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1.

The BNO on tour in Amsterdam with Saskia Giorgini in Tchaikovsky's challenging First Piano Concerto. Also on the programme: Rachmaninoff's enchanting Symphonic Dances, conducted by British conductor Alpesh Chauhan.

Floating soundscapes, lyrical dialogue and a symphonic awakening. A brilliant season opening with Anna Thorvaldsdottir (composer-in-residence), Schumann and Mahler’s Titan.

Fragile light and raw confrontation: Vasks’ Distant Light with audience favourite Lorenzo Gatto, and Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, brought to life by William Kentridge’s film, Oh To Believe In Another World.

Dive into Sheherazade, an unparalleled musical adventure with Thomas Vanderveken as its ideal narrator and the orchestra as its vividly coloured cast of characters.

Dvořák with an open heart. Rachmaninov reborn. Kobekina and Petrenko: pure emotion.

Sound, time and fragility. Music and film in dialogue around the question of nuclear legacy.

Brahms’ monumental Second Piano Concerto and Dvořák's epic New World Symphony: Romanticism with a capital R — bold, sweeping and majestic.

Brahms’ monumental Second Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s tumultuous Fifth Symphony: Romanticism with a capital R — bold, sweeping and majestic.

Jazz, of course. But also vaudeville, Baroque music and Haitian Creole. A single voice connecting all these worlds.

Mozart’s imagination, Beethoven’s breakthrough and Berlioz’s poetry. Three great composers with their heads in the clouds and their eyes on tomorrow.

Silence, sound and imagination with four Nordic voices of today and four Belgian premieres waiting to be experienced.

Schoenberg, Wagner, and Mahler at the edge of the unspeakable.

Step into the magic of winter with The Snowman, a magical cine-concert for all ages, where the beloved animated film comes to life with live music performed by the BNO.

A vibrant surprise programme for a sparkling New Year’s concert sparkling with glamour and panache, with the brilliant trumpet player Tine Thing Helseth. The perfect opportunity to wish each other a happy new year with music!

Beethoven’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3 and Bruckner’s rarely heard Sixth Symphony, with Antony Hermus and Nikola Meeuwsen.

Stravinsky, playwright of sound. A programme entirely dedicated to the famous composer, drawing inspiration from theatricality, dance and primitive pulse, with The Rite of Spring being the perfect example.

Step into the singular world of Igor Stravinsky through a chamber music concert that highlights the richness and diversity of his musical language.

Stravinsky between mourning, faith and ecstatic dance.

Music knows no borders. Mozart and Shostakovich come together in an evening filled with hope and emotion, performed by the Orchestre National de Lyon.

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique leads you on a gripping orchestral journey between dream and nightmare.

From virtuosic brilliance to hallucinatory obsession: Saint-Saëns and Berlioz push Romanticism to its limits.

Prokofiev’s best-known and most beloved Third Piano Concerto alongside Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Manfred Symphony: sparkling virtuosity meets romantic melodrama.

When the journey itself becomes home: Diaspora and the New World Symphony trace a shared horizon of memory and belonging.

Beethoven’s timeless Violin Concerto and Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony: from heroism to mist and memory.

Górecki and Previn in an evening of ethereal sound and hushed intensity.

From Ives’ open question to Berg’s angelic farewell, with Schumann searching for inexhaustible light.

City of Floating Sounds invites you to rediscover the city through an immersive sonic journey. Guided by a mobile app created especially for the project, you wander through the streets accompanied by fragments of Huang Ruo’s new symphony, before hearing the complete work performed live by the BNO.

An unusually dark and dramatic Mozart meets Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, a  monument of survival, legacy and truth.

Dancing energy, raw vitality, and fire in Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

From Berlioz’s carnival flair to Bartók’s raw energy, with Thorvaldsdottir putting the orchestra on edge and cellist Julian Steckel in the spotlight.

Jazzy elegance, stillness, and ecstasy bring colour to a summer evening with Strauss, Ravel, and Sibelius.

Have you ever experienced a concert from the inside? As part of the Fête de la Musique, discover the BNO in a whole new way at the Ravenstein Gallery, with a free concert and an extraordinary musical experience.