Performances of Hector Berlioz at BBC Music

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.

Berlioz’ Roman Carnival carries us to beautiful Italy where Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony dances a wild tarantella under the sun!

Yorkshire’s esteemed Black Dyke Band shows off its virtuosity and versatility in a programme of contemporary pieces, arrangements of popular classics and excerpts from soundtracks by John Williams and Hans Zimmer

Thomas Adès conducts the National Youth Orchestra in a thrilling musical journey to Hell and back, featuring Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Purgatorio, the central panel of Adès’s own Dante-inspired ballet

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in one of the repertoire’s most monumental musical statements: Berlioz’s Requiem, a sonic portrait of ‘mankind gathered together on the last day’

Jakob Lehmann and period-instrument group Les Siècles bring to life Berlioz’s ‘Dramatic Legend’ in a concert performance with an international cast of soloists, including American tenor John Osborn, Gerald Finley and Véronique Gens

To hell and back: Berlioz’s huge, flamboyant take on the Faust legend simply has to be heard to be believed.

Swirling ball scene, grotesque witches dance, brutal execution and fatal attraction. Sakari Oramo pairs Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the equally decadent hedonism of Alban Berg.