Thursday 24 July 2025 at 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto

Royal Albert Hall

BBC Proms presents: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

Mischievous tricksters and magical fairy tales meet in a fantastical programme from Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Incorrigible troublemaker Till Eulenspiegel is up to no good in the witty, light-footed antics of Strauss’s tone-poem.

A clever monkey faces off against a lion in the UK premiere of American composer Anthony Davis’s Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey and a nightingale must charm Death to spare the Emperor of China in Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale.

At the heart of the programme is one of the great Romantic violin concertos: Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled masterpiece. 

Programme

Stravinsky The Song of the Nightingale 21’

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor 26’

Interval

Anthony Davis Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey 15’ 

UK Premiere

R. Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks 15’

Augustin Hadelich violin 

BBC Symphony Orchestra 

Sakari Oramo conductor