Thursday 11 September 2025 at 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Brahms 2nd Symphony

Royal Albert Hall

Solemn ritual and holiday sunshine collide in a concert by Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The incense-scented processional splendour of Gabrieli’s In ecclesiis and Canzone a tre core, transcribed with contemporary clarity by Bruno Maderna, frame Stravinsky’s last major work – the ‘pocket- requiem’ he knew he was ‘writing for himself’.

Step out of church and into the pastoral warmth of Brahms’s happiest symphony, written on the slopes of the Austrian Alps: ‘all blue sky, babbling streams, sunshine and cool green shade'. 

Programme

Gabrieli, ed. Maderna In ecclesiis 10’
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles 15’

Gabrieli, ed. Maderna Canzone a tre core 5’
Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major 45’

Jess Dandy contralto
Ashley Riches bass-baritone

National Youth Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor