BBC SSO 2025/26: Afternoon Performance - Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 1
Sunday
15.02.2026
2.00pm
Rachmaninov's symphony no.1
Afternoon Performances on sale from 15 May 2025
£17.50 (includes restoration fund) - Early Bird Rate
£20.50 (includes restoration fund) - if bought less than 2 weeks before the concert
DEBUSSY- Prélude á l'aprés-midi d'un faune
PROKOFIEV - Violin Concerto No.2
_Interval_
RACHMANINOV Symphony No.1
HANA CHANG violin
CHLOÉ VAN SOETERSTÈDE conductor
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, sayeth the Lord”. And taking his cue from those thunderous words, the young Rachmaninov hurled himself into a First Symphony on a formidable scale. Dark, turbulent and burning with unrequited passion, this is music as gothic melodrama - lost (but later recovered) when its composer fled the Russian Revolution for a life of exile.
It’s a gripping climax to this concert from guest conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède: an afternoon that begins in the dream-world of Debussy’s mythical Faun, and ends at the gates of the inferno. But there’s time to sing, and to dance too - and when you hear BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist Hana Chang play Prokofiev’s zingy Second Violin Concerto, you’ll believe that a violin can do both.
_Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_
15.02.2026
2.00pm
Rachmaninov's symphony no.1
Afternoon Performances on sale from 15 May 2025
£17.50 (includes restoration fund) - Early Bird Rate
£20.50 (includes restoration fund) - if bought less than 2 weeks before the concert
DEBUSSY- Prélude á l'aprés-midi d'un faune
PROKOFIEV - Violin Concerto No.2
_Interval_
RACHMANINOV Symphony No.1
HANA CHANG violin
CHLOÉ VAN SOETERSTÈDE conductor
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, sayeth the Lord”. And taking his cue from those thunderous words, the young Rachmaninov hurled himself into a First Symphony on a formidable scale. Dark, turbulent and burning with unrequited passion, this is music as gothic melodrama - lost (but later recovered) when its composer fled the Russian Revolution for a life of exile.
It’s a gripping climax to this concert from guest conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède: an afternoon that begins in the dream-world of Debussy’s mythical Faun, and ends at the gates of the inferno. But there’s time to sing, and to dance too - and when you hear BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist Hana Chang play Prokofiev’s zingy Second Violin Concerto, you’ll believe that a violin can do both.
_Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_
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