Catch this chance to see viral sensations The Vintage Explosion. You will be transported back in time for a night of authentic rock n roll, swing and rhythm and blues.

Irish country sensation Derek Ryan’s road to stardom is set to continue with his biggest concert tour yet. Following on from the phenomenal success of his recent TEN tour, Derek Ryan returns to Scotland with a brand new concert tour, playing the hits that has cemented Derek as Ireland’s biggest country singer-songwriter. Derek and his fantastic band (now rated as Ireland’s leading country band) are back on the road to perform many of Derek’s classic hits such as ‘Hold On To Your Hat’ ‘It’s Friday’ and ‘God’s Plan’. The Irish man is a multi-recipient of awards for his performances and songwriting including the Sunday World accolade for ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Songwriter of the Year’. But Derek, being at the forefront of this new wave of young Irish country stars, continues to remain ever loyal to his worldwide army of fans.

Lera Auerbach Icarus (c.12 mins) Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 (c.38 mins) Interval Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 (c.46 mins) Rosanne Philippens violin Gemma New conductor Imagine this. A journey from darkness to light. Struggles between love and despair result in a pulse-raising masterpiece that stirs the soul. Sometimes art imitates life so closely that you can almost feel its breath. “With passion and desire” wrote Tchaikovsky on the slow movement of his Fifth Symphony, and the whole piece is a struggle between love and despair, told in elegant waltzes, bittersweet songs and melody after sweeping melody. Gemma New is always a popular guest conductor here in Scotland, and she knows exactly how to get to the heart of a masterpiece – whether Lera Auerbach’s fiery retelling of the myth of Icarus, or the shadows, secrets and burning truths of Shostakovich’s powerful First Violin Concerto. Rosanne Philippens is the soloist today: a violinist who believes that every note should convey emotion, and forge a connection. Book all five BBC SSO 24/25 season concerts and get 20% off Offer open until Friday 27 September 2024. Offer only applies to full price tickets

Book between 4 and 13 concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series and save up to 30%. Seniors are entitled to an extra 5% off. Your discount will be automatically applied at the online checkout. Imagine this. A journey from darkness to light. Struggles between love and despair inspire a pulse-raising masterpiece that stirs the soul. Lera Auerbach - Icarus (c.12 mins) Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No.1 (c.38 mins) Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5 (c.46 mins) Rosanne Philippens violin Gemma New conductor Sometimes art imitates life so closely that you can almost feel its breath. “With passion and desire” wrote Tchaikovsky on the slow movement of his Fifth Symphony, and the whole piece is a struggle between love and despair, told in elegant waltzes, bittersweet songs and melody after sweeping melody. Gemma New is a popular guest conductor here in Scotland, and she knows exactly how to get to the heart of a masterpiece – whether Lera Auerbach’s fiery retelling of the myth of Icarus, or the shadows, secrets and burning truths of Shostakovich’s powerful First Violin Concerto. Rosanne Philippens is the soloist today: a violinist who believes that every note should convey emotion, and forge a connection. Tickets: £31, £26, £21, £16, £14 Concessions: £6.00 - Under 26s, Students, Registered Unemployed (proof of status) 50% Discount - Registered Disabled.

Book between 4 and 13 concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series and save up to 30%. Seniors are entitled to an extra 5% off. Your discount will be automatically applied at the online checkout. Imagine this. Majestic swans take flight and Finland’s greatest composer unleashes a spine-tingling melody that fills your heart with hope. Beethoven - Symphony No.1 (c.28 mins) Hans Abrahamsen - Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (c.21 mins) Beethoven - Namensfeier Overture, Op. 115 (c.7 mins) Sibelius - Symphony No.5 (c.33 mins) Stefan Dohr horn Ryan Wigglesworth conductor “God, what beauty!”. Once upon a time in Finland, Sibelius saw a flight of swans and felt his imagination take wing. That’s the story behind the unforgettable horn theme that crowns his Fifth Symphony: music as astonishing, and as inevitable, as nature itself. Those vaulting horns are a spine-tingling way to end the season. So what could be more natural than Ryan Wigglesworth inviting Stefan Dohr, a legend among living horn players, to perform another Scandinavian masterpiece: the playful, utterly original concerto that our Composer in Association (and master-storyteller) Hans Abrahamsen wrote especially for him. Ludwig van Beethoven ties it all together, with wit, splendour and irrepressible life-force. You’d expect no less. Tickets: £31, £26, £21, £16, £14 Concessions: £6.00 - Under 26s, Students, Registered Unemployed (proof of status) 50% Discount - Registered Disabled.

Tickets On Sale: 10am, Thursday 9 May 2024 BBC SSO 2024/25: Afternoon Performance - Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 Gabriella Smith Tumblebird Contrails (c.12 mins) Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 (c.38 mins) Mahler Symphony No.1 (c.56 mins) Alim Beisembayev piano Tito Muñoz conductor The orchestra throws down a challenge, and the piano strides forward with one of the grandest tunes Tchaikovsky ever wrote. Seabirds wheel and soar, and jet-streams trace fabulous patterns across the blue Pacific sky. And in the silence of dawn, a young artist walks out on a lifelong voyage: a tale of struggle and joy, turmoil and triumph. Three very different composers, and three different openings – but each one is just the start of an adventure, told today by the BBC SSO and conductor Tito Muñoz, who created such a buzz at City Halls in 2022. Pianist Alim Beisembayev is the soloist; this 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition winner has been described as “positively luminous”.

Admired for her peerless keyboard prowess as well as her profound musical insights, South Korean Yeol Eum Son has quickly taken a rightful place among the world’s most respected pianists. Following exquisite Mozart in 2022, she returns to the SCO with something far stormier and more dramatic: Beethoven’s powerful Third Piano Concerto. Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev opens with Brahms’ gloriously lyrical tribute to Haydn, and the concert comes to a climax with the choral grandeur of Haydn’s own ‘Nelson’ Mass. Written during a time of war, the piece moves from menacing drama to triumphant victory in what’s generally considered the composer’s most expressive music. BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St Anthony Chorale) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3 HAYDN Nelson Mass in D minor Maxim Emelyanychev: Conductor Yeol Eum Son: Piano Anna Dennis: Soprano Katie Bray: Mezzo Soprano Anthony Gregory: Tenor Neal Davies: Bass Baritone SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer: Chorus Director

Scotland’s most esteemed violinist – the peerless Nicola Benedetti – joins SCO Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev for an end-of-Season celebration full of romance and adventure. Conceived on a grand scale, Brahms’ mighty Violin Concerto deals in profound emotions and surging drama, but it’s also a captivating dialogue between violin and orchestra – just the thing to showcase Benedetti and Emelyanychev’s illuminating musical partnership. To close the Season, classical music’s greatest tribute to our nation: Mendelssohn takes us from the atmospheric ruins of Holyrood Chapel to the clashing clans of Highland battlefields in his swashbuckling ‘Scottish’ Symphony. Part of the Quilter Cheviot Benedetti Series BRAHMS Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 ‘Scottish’ Maxim Emelyanychev: Conductor Nicola Benedetti: Violin

Join the celebration of Mugenkyo’s landmark 30th anniversary with a very special show of big beats, visual treats and vital energy. Taking the audience on a journey “in time”, a thrilling ride through their 30 years, the concert is a full theatrical experience, with dynamic choreography and heart-pounding rhythms contrasting with atmospheric soundscapes. As Europe’s longest-established taiko group, Mugenkyo are widely recognised as the ground-breaking pioneers of this exciting art form, thrilling audiences at thousands of performances worldwide, now returning with their first major UK tour in almost five years. In the meantime, Mugenkyo have been busy on projects such as collaborating on the ambitious World of Gods with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, filming for the Hollywood film Tin Soldier in Greece with Jamie Foxx and Robert DeNiro, a two-week run at the World Expo in Dubai, the BBC TV Tokyo Olympics, a 26-date run at the Adelaide Fringe, the Fire & Light site-specific project, regular online workshops and performances, along with rebuilding their purpose-built residential studio. In 2024 they return to the road with an electrifying and uplifting performance of skill, stamina and soul, just “in time” for their 30th special Birthday Bash! Don’t miss it!

The dishevelled prince of £10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair. It’s gonna be a big one. Star of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at The Apollo, The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2024 and Along For the Ride with David O’Doherty.

After a phenomenal debut tour, award-winning comedian Sophie McCartney is back! A new decade beckons and she DOES NOT BELIEVE IT! What does life look like when you’re too old to be young, but too young to be old? Grab your glow sticks and join Sophie as she embarks on life’s next chapter with sequins, sporty laughs and a pair of killer orthopaedic heels.

Hayden Thorpe is best known as the former frontman and chief songwriter for the much-loved band Wild Beasts. He returns to the stage with his beautifully singular third album Ness, made in collaboration with best-selling nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Hayden will perform Ness alongside members of Propellor Ensemble, promising to be a sonically spectacular and transformational live show. AGE RESTRICTION: This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

The Oxted Sessions is delighted to welcome legendary 70s folk-rock pioneers Lindisfarne. With a classic five-piece line-up of long-time members, fronted by founder-member Rod Clements on vocals, mandolin, fiddle and slide guitar. With a repertoire of unforgettable songs like Meet Me On The Corner, Fog On The Tyne, Lady Eleanor and Run For Home, and a reputation for live performance second-to-none, Lindisfarne’s power to galvanize audiences and get them on their feet remains undimmed.

Indie-pop and pop-rock by the four-piece from Hanwell, comprised of two pairs of brothers and sisters.

As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering and inspired guitar solos. Ottewell released his first solo album Shapes & Shadows (ATO) in 2011, featuring such beautiful acoustic tunes as 'Blackbird', 'Shapes and Shadows' and 'Take This Beach', which appeared on FX’s Sons of Anarchy. Since then, Ottewell has been pleasing audiences with a series of successful solo tours across the UK, US and Australia.

Mark Jacob Lenderman, also known as Jake Lenderman and MJ Lenderman, is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has released three solo albums, and also plays with the alternative rock band Wednesday. He also has played drums for Indigo De Souza.

Tom and Michael are virtuoso musicians who play piano and fiddle, accompanied by great singing. They are amongst the very best traditional musicians around today. They play and sing with great skill and passion and have a rare sense of on stage connection. Their sell out concerts are highly entertaining and always a great event - they love their audience!

DHP Presents: Butler, Blake And Grant \+ support Presented by DHP FAMILY. This is a 16+ event (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)

Tickets On Sale: 10am, Friday 31 January 2025 The D.A.M Trilogy A Tour Honouring David Bowie & Dennis Davis David Bowie’s right-hand-musicians during his late-1970’s Berlin period reunite to celebrate the legacy of the albums they made together as Carlos Alomar presents The D.A.M. Trilogy - touring over 16 European dates in late 2025. Honouring their work together, as well as Bowie’s enduring legacy, legendary guitarist, Alomar, who recorded with Bowie across 11 albums, and bass guitarist George Murray pledge to faithfully perform arrangements from the three albums recorded in Berlin – Low, Heroes and Lodger. Having lost drummer, Dennis Davies, to cancer in 2016 the D.A.M Trilogy band includes four additional musicians, including Tin Machine and Bowie’s Live Aid guitarist, Kevin Armstrong, to bring the intricacies of rarely, if ever performed songs vividly to life. A VIP uplift is available at £57.50 (includes booking fee & restoration fund) on top of the standard ticket price of £40.70 (includes booking fee & restoration fund).

Multi-award-winning South African-New Zealander Urzila Carlson is one of Australian and New Zealand's biggest comedy stars, and she's bringing her trademark cheeky wit back to UK stages. An undeniable tour de force of the comedy world, Urzila hasn't stopped since first taking to the comedy stage in 2008.

Georgie Carroll is back with her brand-new show, Infectious. An undeniable live comedy powerhouse and a natural storyteller, she’s razor sharp and riotous. Nurse turned comedian, Georgie Carroll is not only brilliantly funny, she is unstoppable on the comedy circuit having performed her smash hit award winning show Sista Flo 2.0 for three solid years of sold out seasons. Don’t miss her brand-new show!

Passionate and poetic singer-songwriter with a funky, soulful voice Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, Macy Gray – real name Natalie Renée McIntyre – moved to Southern California in the '80s to attend university. She studied scriptwriting and was even in film classes with Ally Sheedy and Rob Lowe. Her own debut album album On How Life Is arrived in 1999 and was a massive success thanks to the single I Try, which peaked at No.6 on the UK albums chart and went on to score her a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

With her passion for compassion and flair for giving care, the bust a gut funny (Graham Norton) Myra DuBois calls out to the disadvantaged, downtrodden and tyrannised of the world with her manifesto for mental health: Ad Myrism! But are you ready to receive the call?

Bearsden Choir Mendelssohn’s Elijah Tickets: £28, £22.40 (includes booking fee) Under 26 Years: £11.20 (includes booking fee) A story of epic proportions! Experience this popular and dramatic oratorio which portrays a miraculous rising from the dead, a man fed by ravens, a fire-lighting competition between rival gods, a hero who can instruct the Almighty in His timing of weather events and who is finally swept up into heaven in a chariot of fire. Perhaps it asks a lot from a 21st century audience, but of course Elijah is much more than a dramatic story. It’s part of a people’s history of themselves, it’s about faith and our struggle to work out how we should live our lives, all filtered through the great drama that is Hebrew literature, brought alive by Mendelssohn’s wonderful music. Bearsden Choir is joined by a stellar cast and the fabulous McOpera Ensemble for an evening of joyful and exciting music which we hope you will enjoy. Conducted by Andrew Nunn Soprano Rowan Pierce Mezzo Beth Taylor Tenor Ryan Vaughan Davies Baritone Michael Mofidian McOpera Ensemble led by Katie Hull Organ Chris Nickol “The choir, hushed, evocative, pin-perfect on their entry, magically sustaining the atmosphere.” - The Herald

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 From Darkness to Light 2025/26 Season Opener STRAUSS Metamorphosen MACMILLAN Veni, Veni Emmanuel BEETHOVEN Symphony No.5 Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Colin Currie percussion To launch our vibrant new Season, join the SCO players and our electrifying Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev on an unforgettable journey from darkness to light. Few can be left unmoved by the pity of Richard Strauss’ deeply cathartic Metamorphosen, a profoundly poignant reflection on the destruction of World War Two. From its famously gripping opening, however, Beethoven’s best-loved Symphony - the Fifth - forges a path from compelling conflict to the blazing radiance of triumph. In between, superstar Scottish percussionist Colin Currie makes the first of his appearances this Season as central protagonist in Sir James MacMillan’s joyful, theatrical, visionary percussion concerto Veni, Veni Emmanuel – a dazzling celebration of new life and new hope. Kindly supported by Donald and Louise MacDonald in memory of Euan MacDonald

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Gloria! POULENC Sinfonietta POULENC Gloria VIVALDI Gloria Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Anna Dennis soprano Tim Mead counter tenor SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director Exhilarating choral splendours from across two centuries, with the magnificent SCO Chorus and an exceptional line-up of vocal soloists under the vibrant direction of Maxim Emelyanychev. A hymn of praise to the creator, the Gloria brings you joy and life-affirming optimism whatever your beliefs. Vivaldi’s Gloria is one of the dazzling jewels of Baroque music – sunny, exuberant, and an all-embracing celebration of light and life. Poulenc’s Gloria blends Gallic wit and sophistication with its profound spiritual expression and is a captivating mix of the sacred and the playful. To begin though, Poulenc unleashes zesty energy and musical mischief to celebrate French liberation after World War Two – his Sinfonietta is an outpouring of happiness, and the closest he came to writing a symphony. Sponsored by Institut Français d'Écosse

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Haydn’s Drum Roll STRAUSS Suite in B-flat Op.4 HARTMANN Concerto funèbre HAYDN Symphony No.103 in E-flat ‘Drum Roll’ Alina Ibragimova violin/director Violinist Alina Ibragimova leads us from grief and fear to radiant joy in her deeply emotional concert with the SCO. Ibragimova is among today’s most compelling, perceptive soloists, combining a penetrating musical intellect with gripping, passionate playing – qualities very much on display in her intensely expressive programme. Haydn composed his ‘Drum Roll’ Symphony expressly to impress, inspire and delight – and more than two centuries later, it still does all three. The sunny, colourful B flat Suite was the piece that kick-started the 20-year-old Richard Strauss’ musical career, and its music feels just as fresh and appealing today. Ibragimova’s concert centrepiece is a Concerto she has long championed. Written during the dark first days of the Second World War, Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Concerto funèbre draws on influences from Bruckner and Mahler in music of deep compassion, sadness and visionary hope.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart MOZART Piano Concerto No.21 in C K467 WEBERN Symphony MOZART Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor K491 Andrew Manze conductor Yeol Eum Son piano Exceptional South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son has dazzled and delighted SCO audiences over the past couple of years with her exquisitely poetic playing and her exuberant enthusiasm. She is famed for her particularly profound insights in Mozart’s music, and she returns with two of the great composer’s most compelling concertos: the profoundly expressive No.21 and deeply dramatic No.24. In between, SCO Principal Guest Conductor Andrew Manze guides you through one of music’s most fascinating creations. Every note tells a story in Anton Webern’s jewel-like 1928 Symphony, which distills all the expression and emotion of a larger work down to just a few, brief minutes.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Steve Reich+ Part of New Dimensions Series JOE DUDDELL Snowblind HELEN GRIME River (UK Premiere) STEVE REICH Runner STEVE REICH Double Sextet Colin Currie director/percussion Minimalist masterpieces from the visionary US maverick composer – in performances directed by his close friend and trusted collaborator, Edinburgh-born Colin Currie. Mesmerising power, galvanising rhythm, bewitching harmony: Reich’s Runner is a rich and brightly coloured tribute to raw energy, while the mesmerising Double Sextet won Reich the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, new music’s greatest accolade. To begin, Currie is the soloist in the propulsive and beautifully reflective percussion concerto Snowblind, written for him by Manchester-born Joe Duddell, a collaborator with Elbow and James. And Scottish composer Helen Grime charts an evocative fluvial journey from source to sea.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Schumann & Mozart Matinee with Anthony Marwood SCHUMANN Overture, Scherzo and Finale MOZART Violin Concerto No.1 in B-flat HANDEL Agrippina: Sinfonia HWV 6 SCHUMANN Violin Concerto in D minor Anthony Marwood director/violin Accomplished soloist, perceptive director and close collaborator with the SCO, British violinist Anthony Marwood makes a welcome return for music to captivate you and – perhaps – surprise you in this exciting matinee programme. The heartfelt and hauntingly beautiful Violin Concerto was one of the very last pieces Schumann created in his tragically short life. Though rarely performed, it’s a work of great intimacy and Romantic richness – qualities that also shine through in the vibrant, thoroughly entertaining Overture, Scherzo and Finale. In between, Marwood showcases his exceptional skills in the witty First Violin Concerto by the teenage Mozart, and surveys the grandeur and brilliance of the overture to Handel’s dramatic 1709 opera, Agrippina.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 L'Enfance du Christ BERLIOZ L’Enfance du Christ Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Paula Murrihy Mary Andrew Staples Narrator, Centurion Roderick Williams Joseph, Polydorus Callum Thorpe Herod, Ishmaelite Father SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director Welcome the coming festive season with one of the tenderest, most captivating Christmas pieces ever created. L’Enfance du Christ is a lavish operatic oratorio that tells of Herod’s Massacre of the innocents, and the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt, blending surging drama and ethereal wonder, mighty choral set pieces with sublime solos of exquisite beauty. Berlioz conjures music of deep passion and belief, but it’s also a moving story of new life and family love that brings you up close to Mary, Joseph and Jesus as they flee their home and run for their lives. Maxim Emelyanychev directs Berlioz’s visionary masterpiece with an exceptional cast of international vocal soloists, and the richness of the SCO Chorus.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Introduced by Jay Capperauld From the delicate ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ to the elegant ‘Waltz of the Flowers’, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker conjures all the magic and wonder of Christmas – and it’s as much of a seasonal treat for classical newcomers as it is for aficionados. Maxim Emelyanychev invites you to immerse yourself in all the sugar, snow and sparkle of the composer’s full ballet score, as young Clara sees her beloved Nutcracker transformed into a handsome Prince, who whisks her away to the Land of Sweets. With its heart-melting melodies and foot-tapping dances – and with singers joining the Orchestra to bring his timeless classic to colourful life – this is a Christmas feast for the senses.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Gnarly Buttons Part of New Dimensions Series ADAMS Shaker Loops ADAMS Gnarly Buttons ADAMS Fearful Symmetries Andrew Manze conductor Maximiliano Martín clarinet Once a self-identifying minimalist, radical US composer John Adams quickly jumped from cool, hypnotic pulsations to red-hot emotion and vast cinematic soundscapes in his colourful, witty music. Experience that thrilling journey in three iconic pieces by this pioneering musician. Minimalist classic Shaker Loops is a rippling soundscape of quivering energy – sometimes frenetic, sometimes meditative, but never less than mesmerisingly beautiful. Mooing cows and ancient Amercian hymns are among the inspirations behind Adams’s zany clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons – played by charismatic SCO Principal Clarinet Maximiliano Martín – which blends humour and heart in music that spans jazz, pop, folk and the surging repetitions of minimalism. Fearful Symmetries is one of Adams’ boldest and brightest pieces, a high-energy workout of driving rhythms and larger-than-life orchestral sound.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Mozart Matinee with Peter Whelan MOZART Serenade KV 320 'Posthorn', interspersed with arias from Mitridate, La clemenza di Tito, Così fan tutte and The marriage of Figaro MOZART Overture, Der Schauspieldirektor Peter Whelan conductor/fortepiano Tara Erraught mezzo soprano Maximiliano Martín clarinet Peter Franks posthorn From a big-hearted Serenade to uplifting opera arias – celebrate the full breadth of Mozart’s musical glories at this sumptuous concert in the company of some passionate Mozartians. Peter Whelan is one of Europe’s most exciting interpreters of Baroque and Classical repertoire – formerly the SCO’s Principal Bassoon, he’s now Artistic Director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra. He intersperses the movements of Mozart’s festive ‘Posthorn’ Serenade – which wittily incorporates the distinctive sounds of the mail-coach trumpet – and intersperses them with vibrant arias from some of the composer’s most adored operas, sung by acclaimed Irish mezzo soprano Tara Erraught. From strong emotions to effervescent fun, experience all the musical mastery of Mozart.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Haydn & Schubert Matinee with Lorenza Borrani HAYDN Symphony No.56 in C SCHNITTKE Concerto Grosso No.1 SCHUBERT Symphony No.8 ‘Unfinished’ Lorenza Borrani director/violin Smouldering drama collides with daring humour in this vibrant matinee concert directed by inspirational Italian violinist Lorenza Borrani. As energetic as she is charismatic – and Leader of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe since 2008 – Borrani brought an intimate chamber sensibility to her SCO debut in spring 2024. She returns to delve deep into one of classical music’s greatest enigmas. Nobody knows why Franz Schubert abandoned his ‘Unfinished’ Symphony after just two movements – but with their haunting beauty and dramatic intensity, they come together in one of the repertoire’s most compelling creations. Soviet pioneer Alfred Schnittke hurls together Baroque parodies, avant-garde extremism, tangos, waltzes and more in the madcap musical funhouse of his Concerto Grosso No.1, while Haydn offers wit, sophistication and elegance in his joyful Symphony No.56.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Mozart’s Last Three Symphonies MOZART Symphony No.39 Symphony No.40 Symphony No.41 Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Mozart’s final trilogy of symphonies are visionary, pioneering works, as powerful as they are passionate, and represent a lifetime of emotion and experience from a composer at the height of his musical creativity. They’re also a mystery, written together in a blaze of white-hot creativity, though it’s not known why – some even suggest Mozart may have conceived them as a single, monumental mega-symphony. Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and the SCO drew adulation from critics and audiences alike for their fresh, incisive performances of these symphonies at the 2021 BBC Proms. Discover – or rediscover – the pieces’ compelling power as Maxim brings his vibrant visions to Scotland, from the elegance and warmth of No.39 to the deep passions and drama of No.40, and the triumphant glories of No.41, the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony. Kindly supported by Anne, Tom and Natalie Usher.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 THE GREAT GRUMPY GABOON CAPPERAULD The Great Grumpy Gaboon CORINA CAMPBELL Story and illustrations Gordon Bragg conductor After sell-out performances in 2024 and traveling the country in 2025, _The Great Grumpy Gaboon_ returns to Glasgow in 2026 for a relaxed, fun-packed matinee performance at City Halls. While the Gaboon’s friends: Long-legged Lin, Fluey-Lu, Woolly Wello and Hoppity Boppit, try everything to cheer the Gaboon up, none of them realise that the musical mischief maker, Screature, is lurking in the shadows of the orchestra. Screature holds the key to the Gaboon’s mood and only with the help of the All-Knowing Umpet, a wise and kindly creature, can the friends solve the mystery of the Gaboon’s grumps. Join the Grumpy Gaboon and friends on this fun, musical adventure as together they discover the importance of friendship and forgiveness. Relaxed performance suitable for 4-8 yrs - BSL interpreted. Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Baroque Inspirations BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.3 SCARLATTI arr CAPPERAULD Stylus Scarlatti (World Premiere) HANDEL Water Music Suite in F BRITTEN Simple Symphony SCHNITTKE Gogol Suite Maxim Emelyanychev conductor/harpsichord Old and new, ancient and modern: Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev returns with an annual highlight of the SCO Season, rediscovering the musical splendours of the Baroque alongside more recent composers who have drawn inspiration from it. Bach’s Third Brandenburg Concerto dazzles with brilliant invention and rhythmic drive, while Handel set out to impress no less a figure than King George I with the joyful fanfares and elegant dances of his lavish Water Music. Closer to our own times, Britten reworked childhood tunes and Baroque dances in his charming miniature Symphony, while SCO Associate Composer Jay Capperauld unveils a brand-new piece that reimagines Scarlatti keyboard sonatas for the bright colours of an orchestra. To close, Alfred Schnittke’s wild, outrageous Gogol Suite half-quotes Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and more to outrageous effect – it simply has to be heard to be believed. Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Benedetti plays Mendelssohn BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No.4 Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Nicola Benedetti violin Nicola Benedetti has performed Mendelssohn’s exhilarating Violin Concerto for many years. Bringing together sublime lyrical beauty and fizzing violin fireworks, the Concerto is the ideal showcase for the world-renowned Scottish violin virtuoso’s consummate talents. Discover Benedetti’s compelling, profoundly beautiful vision of the piece in the company of her long-time musical collaborators: the SCO’s exceptional musicians and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev. With boundless fun and its catchy tunes, Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture transports you to the heart of boisterous, joyful student life. Maxim closes this concert of Romantic riches with Brahms’ final symphony: its sonic grandeur and emotional depth can’t fail to inspire and move all who hear it. The Quilter Cheviot Benedetti Series

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Borrani & Beethoven ROSSINI Overture, The Barber of Seville BEETHOVEN Concert Aria: Ah, perfido! BRITTEN Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge BEETHOVEN Symphony No.8 Lorenza Borrani director/violin Robin Johannsen soprano Italian-born Lorenza Borrani is fast becoming one of the SCO’s closest friends and collaborators. She returns for her second concert this Season with an evening of wit, humour and magical evocations. With its dashing melodies and its musical pranks, the Eighth is Beethoven’s sunniest, happiest Symphony – and the ideal match for Borrani’s vivacious style. She contrasts it with the high emotions and deep drama of the composer’s miniature opera scene ‘Ah, perfido!’. There’s more humour in Rossini’s boisterous Barber of Seville Overture, and Britten conjures exquisite musical visions in his enchanting tribute to his beloved teacher.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam Part of New Dimensions Series ANNA CLYNE Sound and FuryϮ DANI HOWARD Saxophone Concerto GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte DAVE HEATH The Celtic JOHN HARLE Rant! Ben Glassberg conductor Jess Gillam saxophones An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts. Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto _The Celtic_. Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating _Sound and Fury_, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial _Entr’acte_. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his deeply moving _Lyric for Strings_. Ϯ Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Beethoven, Pekka & the Dreamers’ Circus BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7 interspersed with folk tunes played by Dreamers’ Circus and Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto director/violin Dreamers’ Circus: Ale Carr cittern Nikolaj Busk piano and accordion Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen violin Classical and folk join forces for a thrilling celebration of dance, in this joyfully unconventional programme masterminded and conducted by much-loved Finnish violin pioneer Pekka Kuusisto. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony dances its way from start to blazing finish, propelled along by driving rhythms, and brimming over with energy, passion and bounding positivity. Kuusisto intersperses the Symphony’s four movements with a specially curated collection of folk tunes that he plays with his friends and colleagues in Danish/Swedish trio Dreamers’ Circus, injecting a distinctively 21st-century freshness into trad music from across Europe. Discover unexpected connections and thrilling contrasts as Beethoven meets folk in this free-spirited collaboration. Pekka Kuusisto Visiting Artist Chair kindly supported by The Honorary Consulate of Finland, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 The Language of Eden VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Serenade to Music ELGAR Serenade BUTTERWORTH arr WILLIAMS Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' HAYDN ‘The Representation of Chaos’ from The Creation CAPPERAULD The Language of Eden (World Premiere) Andrew Manze conductor Roderick Williams baritone SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer chorus director From poignant pastoral visions to stirring choral majesty: SCO Principal Guest Conductor Andrew Manze conducts an evening of rapturous English music and striking new sounds, in the company of exceptional British baritone and composer Roderick Williams and the fine voices of the SCO Chorus. Williams sings in his own orchestral arrangements of Butterworth’s bittersweet A Shropshire Lad, in which nostalgia for the English countryside mingles heartbreakingly with premonitions of coming war. Vaughan Williams, meanwhile, summons visionary wonder to celebrate the power of music itself in his radiant Serenade while the young Elgar unleashes passion and lyricism in his playful Serenade for Strings. After Haydn’s startling ‘Representation of Chaos’, Roderick Williams is also the soloist in a brand-new choral work by Jay Capperauld, with libretto by Niall Campbell, that reimagines the birth of language itself, The Language of Eden.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Bohemian Rhapsodies A Celebration of Czech Music KAPRALOVA Suite en Miniature Op.1 MARTINŮ Violin Concerto No.2 MARTINŮ La revue de cuisine DVOŘÁK Czech Suite Jonian Ilias-Kadesha director/violin No thunderbolts and lightning, maybe, but plenty of kaleidoscopic colour, whirling rhythms and strong flavours as flamboyant Greek-Albanian violinist Jonian Ilias-Kadesha directs a concert dedicated to the gutsy glories of Czech music. Dvořák takes your hand for a set of exhilarating dances from his Bohemian homeland, while Martinů whisks you away for exotic travels in his ravishingly beautiful, deeply romantic Second Violin Concerto. Sample absurdist comedy in Martinů’s surrealist La revue de cuisine – a jazz-flavoured love story for everyday kitchen utensils. To begin, an exquisite, evocative Suite from lost Czech voice Vítezslava Kaprálová, who died aged just 25.

MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 12+ BOOKERS: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 _(12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season)_. MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 4-11 BOOKERS: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 MULTIBUY OPENS FOR NEW BOOKERS: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 SINGLE CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Baroque Threads, Contemporary Colours COUPERIN arr ADÈS Les barricades mystérieuses VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra (Selection) TIPPETT Fantasia on a Theme of Corelli RAMEAU Les Sauvages LINDBERG Viola Concerto (Scottish Premiere) Lawrence Power director/viola Kaleidoscopic hues and big emotions sit side by side in this vibrant concert weaving together the Baroque era and the present day, directed by outstanding British viola player Lawrence Power. After catchy tunes by two French Baroque masters – the first in a witty arrangement by contemporary British composer Thomas Adès – Tippett spins visionary tendrils of sound in his rapturous Corelli-inspired Fantasia, while Vaughan Williams saved some of his most memorably melodic music for his rarely-heard Suite. Power himself is the dedicatee of the Viola Concerto by Finnish powerhouse composer Magnus Lindberg: expect scintillating soundscapes and perfumed harmonies in this deeply charismatic music.

MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 12+ BOOKERS: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 _(12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season)_. MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 4-11 BOOKERS: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 MULTIBUY OPENS FOR NEW BOOKERS: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 SINGLE CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Mozart Requiem HAYDN Paukenmesse (Mass in Time of War) MOZART Requiem Riccardo Minasi conductor Louise Alder soprano Hanna Hipp mezzo soprano Julien Henric tenor Daniel Okulitch bass baritone SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer chorus director From its request by a dark stranger to its gruelling creation on the composer’s deathbed, Mozart’s Requiem is a piece haunted by mysteries. It’s also an awe-inspiring contemplation of life’s profoundest questions, conveyed through music of enormous courage and compassion, beauty and power. Charismatic interpreter of 18th century music, Riccardo Minasi is joined by the excellent SCO Chorus and a brilliant roster of vocal soloists. Another ambitious piece launches this concert of choral splendours. Haydn’s ‘Mass in a Time of War’ is a joyful and deeply expressive celebration of peace, first heard when Austria feared invasion by Napoleon’s armies.

MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 12+ BOOKERS: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 _(12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season)_. MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 4-11 BOOKERS: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 MULTIBUY OPENS FOR NEW BOOKERS: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 SINGLE CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 MENDELSSOHN Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage SCHUMANN Cello Concerto WIDMANN Albumblätter (UK Premiere) DEBUSSY Petite Suite Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Philip Higham cello From a daring maritime adventure to a captivating showcase for the soulful cello – in the company of vibrant Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and exceptional SCO Principal Cello Philip Higham. An international soloist as well as a pivotal SCO musician, Philip Higham takes centre-stage’for the poetry and passion of Schumann’s entrancing Cello Concerto, written in a two-week burst of inspiration. German composer Jörg Widmann pays affectionate homage to Schumann in his witty _Albumblätter_, receiving its first UK performances, while Debussy takes us dancing and sailing in his charming Petite Suite. Mendelssohn weighs the anchor for more distant shores, however, in his thrilling celebration of seafaring heroism.

MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 12+ BOOKERS: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 _(12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season)_. MULTIBUY OPENS FOR CURRENT 4-11 BOOKERS: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 MULTIBUY OPENS FOR NEW BOOKERS: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 SINGLE CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.9 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No.1 DVOŘÁK Symphony No.9 Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Steven Osborne piano Aaron Akugbo trumpet Join Maxim and the SCO musicians for an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the Season – with one of the most cherished symphonies of them all. While teaching in New York, Antonín Dvořák was influenced by traditional American tunes to conjure the grandeur and epic vision of his ‘New World’ Symphony, an inspiring celebration of new discoveries and new possibilities. Just as joyfully, Maxim is joined by exceptional Scottish musicians Steven Osborne and Aaron Akugbo for the wild switchback ride of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1, a dazzling mix of virtuoso keyboard fireworks and boisterous trumpet tunes blending razor-sharp humour and moving pathos. We start, though, with Shostakovich’s brightest, happiest, and most optimistic Symphony. Kindly supported by Claire and Mark Urquhart

Join the City of Glasgow Chorus for their end of season performance of Haydn's The Creation, accompanied by The City of Glasgow Concert Orchestra. The Chorus will be joined by soloists Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano), Robert Macfarlane (tenor) and Phil Gault (bass). The Creation was written in 1797 and 1798 and is considered by many to be one of Haydn's masterpieces. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as narrated in the Book of Genesis. The work is structured in three parts and scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and a symphonic orchestra. In parts I and II, depicting the creation, the soloists represent the archangels Raphael (bass), Uriel (tenor) and Gabriel (soprano). In part III, the bass and soprano represent Adam and Eve. The first public performance was held in Vienna at the old Burgtheater on 19 March 1799. The oratorio was published with the text in German and English in 1800.

WSSO Trust Senior Showcase Concert Featuring the West of Scotland Schools Concert Band & Symphony Orchestra Directed by Chris Mitchell and James Lowe Celebrate WSSO Trust's 30th anniversary with a thrilling concert showcasing the brilliance of Scotland's finest young musicians. This special event features a dynamic program of orchestral and wind band repertoire, including the evocative "Symphony No. 1 - A Ghost Story" by Randall Standridge and the electrifying "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story" by Bernstein. Join us and witness the extraordinary talent of our young performers.

Since the release of Kingfish, his Grammy-nominated 2019 Alligator Records debut, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has quickly become the defining blues voice of his generation. From his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi to stages around the world, the now 22-year-old has already headlined two national tours and performed with friends including Vampire Weekend, Jason Isbell and Buddy Guy.

The Songs of Joni Mitchell Jesca Hoop, Lail Arad, Olivia Chaney perform the songs of Joni Mitchell. Plus special guests Rachel Sermanni & Gigi Williams Following a revered debut at The Roundhouse’s ‘In The Round’ Festival in April, The Songs of Joni Mitchell is coming to Glasgow in September. The show was conceived and curated by Lail Arad in celebration of Joni Mitchell’s 80th birthday. Described as “a perfect celebration of Joni Mitchell” and a collection of “heartfelt and intricate performances” by Get In Her Ears, the show offers “a truly heartwarming ode to the music of one of the world’s most inspirational artists.” The female-dominated line-up, all celebrated singer-songwriters in their own right, will perform intimate, stripped back interpretations of their favourite Joni Mitchell songs in a loving tribute to one of the greatest songwriters and musicians of all time. With vocals and lyrics boldly at the forefront, ‘The Songs of Joni Mitchell’ showcases the magnitude of Joni's repertoire through the new generation of artists she continues to inspire.

Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday 08 April Join the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra for this special performance as we celebrate Arvo Pärt’s 90th Birthday with some of his most crucial works. Arvo Pärt's music carries a message that is both current and timeless, his works are not related to transient trends, but touch something universal and lasting. “There is a great power in their simplicity that allows his works to stand the test of time, remaining both timeless and very modern.” Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra Soloists Maria Listra, Harry Traksmann Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste Programme I Pärt - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (5´) Pärt - L’abbé Agathon (14´) Pärt - Adam’s Lament (24´) II Ester Mägi - Vesper (6') (strings) Pärt - Fratres (10’) Pärt - Te Deum (30’) About the performers: The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) is one of the best-known Estonian music ensembles in the world. The choir was founded in 1981 by Tõnu Kaljuste, who was its artistic director and chief conductor for twenty years. In the years 2001–2007, the English musician Paul Hillier took over. Daniel Reuss collaborated with the choir as its chief conductor in 2008–2013 and Kaspars Putniņš in 2014–2021. Since the season 2021/2022 the artistic director and chief conductor is Tõnu Kaljuste. The repertoire of the choir extends from Gregorian chant and baroque to the music of the 21st century, with a special focus on the work of Estonian composers, such as Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Tõnu Kõrvits and introducing their output to the world. Each season the choir gives about 60–70 concerts both in Estonia and abroad. In 2020, BBC Music Magazine Classical Music named the EPCC among the top ten choirs in the world, and in 2024, the it was ranked among the top ten choirs by the classical music radio station Classic FM based in the UK. Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (TCO) was founded in 1993 by conductor Tõnu Kaljuste. During the past three decades it has become one of Estonia’s signature orchestras and a welcome guest performer on numerous stages in Europe and all over the world. TCO has gained recognition for its artistically integral programmes, style-sensitive play and mastery of interpretation. The diverse repertoire of the orchestra includes music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic era; an important part is also held by the musical works of the composers of 20th and 21st century, including less known pieces and premieres. TCO’s musicians are highly rated string players, who also regularly perform as soloists and chamber musicians. Tallinn Chamber Orchestra has a long-standing cooperation with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir – joint performances and recordings have gained international fame and recognition for both parties.

Free but ticketed. Limited to 4 tickets per application. This performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland and available on BBC Sounds. Join us for the Grand Final of BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Classical Musician 2025 and prepare to be inspired as three of Scotland’s most talented young instrumentalists perform alongside the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with conductor Andrew Gourlay! Following the semi-final held at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in March 2025, the Grand Final performances will be broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland on 14 June 2025 at 7pm, hosted by Jamie MacDougall and performed in front of an eminent panel of judges: Alice Farnham (head judge - conductor, founder and director of Women Conductors, author), Nick Zekulin (Head of music programme, Edinburgh International Festival) and Jennifer Martin (composer and music consultant). Emma Baird takes on Shostakovich’s powerful First Violin Concerto (3rd & 4th Movement), Ziheng Huang performs Glazunov’s lyrical ‘Concerto for Alto Saxophone’, and Sofia Ros channels the soul-stirring magic of Piazzolla’s Bandoneón concerto ‘Aconcagua’. Plus, before the judges announce the winner, let the BBC SSO sweep you away with the lush sounds of Tchaikovsky’s Shakespearean fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet. Concert Repertoire Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1, movements 3&4 Glazunov: Concerto for Alto Saxophone Piazzolla: Aconcagua, Bandoneon Concerto INTERVAL (adjudication) Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Following a string of sold-out events in the US, UK and Australia, Amazing Silent Disco is bringing its surreal retro dance party to Glasgow for an amazing club night experience — and it’s all happening in the historic setting of The Old Fruitmarket. With stunning cast-iron balconies, lofty vaulted ceilings, and original signage from market traders of days gone by, get ready to be transported back in time for an unforgettable night. Get ready to dance, sing, and snap selfies with your besties as this unique space transforms into a massive, high-energy dancefloor. With nightclub-quality lights, dazzling visual effects, and a fully stocked bar, it’s the perfect setting for a retro night to remember. You’ll have three incredible DJs simultaneously spinning non-stop retro hits across three distinct channels. 80s, 90s, and Classic Dance Anthems — you choose the vibe, and the hits keep coming. Already a global sensation, this is a retro silent disco experience you do not want to miss! WHAT TO EXPECT On arrival you will be supplied with a set of wireless, light up headphones. We've streamlined the distribution so everyone can get on the dancefloor quicker. Each pair of headphones has a switch allowing you to toggle back and forth between our three live DJs. Hit the dancefloor and experience the magic as everyone grooves and sings along, and take off your headphones for a snippet of the wildest jumble of mass karaoke you've ever heard. MUSIC The three DJs will be performing side by side from a stage within the main exhibition space, and each will be playing a carefully curated setlist dedicated to a specific genre of eighties classics. DJ 1: 80s Top Of The Pops Get ready for pure pop perfection! Big beats, bright vibes and feel-good energy from 80s icons like Madonna, George Michael, Cyndi Lauper, and Kylie Minogue. For the girls (and boys) that just wanna have fun! DJ 2: Everything 90s Step into a 90s time machine packed with pure pop perfection and iconic rock anthems. Think Britney, Backstreet Boys, and Spice Girls, plus guitar-driven bangers from Nirvana to Blur, Oasis to Alanis. From bubblegum pop to Britpop swagger, it’s all killer, no filler. DJ3: Classic Dance Anthems Get ready to lose yourself in a high-energy mix of euphoric house, trance, and dance-pop bangers. From Faithless to Fatboy Slim, Darude to Daft Punk – it’s wall-to-wall hands-in-the-air anthems that lit up dancefloors and sticky club carpets everywhere.

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Ryan Wigglesworth - for Laura, after Bach (BBC commission) Schumann - Violin Concerto interval Rachmaninov - Symphony No.3 Daniel Lozakovich violin Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Join the BBC SSO for the Opening Night of the 90th Anniversary Season! Sergei Rachmaninov’s career took him from the twilight of Imperial Russia to the cocktails and swimming pools of Beverly Hills. Yet something timeless echoes throughout everything that he composed: a questioning, passionate spirit that encompassed every aspect of his life and times, expressed in melodies that have spoken to millions. In this, the BBC SSO’s 90th anniversary season, we’ll be playing all three of his symphonies, and more. Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth begins with the soaring, jazz-influenced Third, and pairs it with two very different journeys of the soul – the dark poetry of Schumann’s Violin Concerto, played by the “stunning” (Bachtrack) 24-year-old Daniel Lozakovich, and Wigglesworth’s own tribute to the orchestra’s former Leader Laura Samuel, a much-missed member of the BBC SSO family. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Mozart - Incidental music for Thamos, King of Egypt K345 Mozart - Piano Concerto No.24 K491 interval Sibelius - Symphony No.2 Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Ludovic Morlot conductor Mozart sets the stage with energy, elegance, and drama—an ideal prelude to an evening of compelling musical storytelling. Guest conductor Ludovic Morlot—who captivated audiences when he stepped in at short notice with the BBC SSO in 2024—leads a journey that culminates in the soaring melodies of Sibelius’s epic Second Symphony. At its heart, Elizabeth Leonskaja brings profound artistry to Mozart’s darkly expressive 24th Piano Concerto—one of his most personal works, rich in light and shade. If anyone can uncover its secrets, it’s the legendary Leonskaja. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

Thursday 30.10.2025 2.00pm FANTASIA: FROM JAPAN TO PARIS 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 Tōru Takemitsu - Green OLIVER KNUSSEN - O Hototogisu! - fragment of a Japonisme RAVEL - Shéhérazade _interval_ MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE - On Opened Ground† RAVEL - La Valse LAWRENCE POWER viola† CLAIRE BOOTH soprano MATTHEW HIGHAM flute RYAN WIGGLESWORTH conductor Inspiration comes in many colours. Oliver Knussen heard a messenger from another world in the song of a Japanese cuckoo. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s viola concerto turns rough magic into poetry, and Tōru Takemitsu heard, as well as saw, the colours of his garden. A fascination with nature, a love of the East and a shared passion for the endlessly subtle hues of French music: delicate and beautiful threads link the different pieces in this programme from Ryan Wigglesworth, soprano Claire Booth and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power. But Ravel’s luscious oriental songs – and his whirling, dizzying vision of a world waltzing on the brink – tie them all together, in a concert to touch the heart and ravish the ear. _Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_

Thursday 06.11.2025 7.30pm BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA THE 1935 CLASSIC FILM WITH THE BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON SALE FROM: Thursday 15 May 2025 To a new world of gods and monsters! When Bride of Frankenstein opened in April 1935, cinema audiences were promised a heroine “more fearful than the Monster himself” — and Director James Whale’s gothic shocker is now regarded as a landmark of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Boris Karloff is the Monster, and composer Franz Waxman — newly escaped from the real-world terror of Nazi Germany — created a score that defined the sound of horror, as sensuous as it is savage. Now, in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s 90th anniversary season, it lives again, performed in synch with the movie by conductor Ben Palmer. It’s as chilling as ever, and it’s never sounded more beautiful. A spine-tingling treat: let the Bride seduce you tonight… BBFC rating: PG, contains mild horror

Sunday 16.11.2025 2.00pm PROKOFIEV’S ‘PETER AND THE WOLF’ 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 COPLAND - Short Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY - Variations on a Rococo Theme _interval_ COPLAND - Lincoln Portrait PROKOFIEV - Peter and the Wolf STERLING ELLIOTT cello TO BE ANNOUNCED narrator RYAN WIGGLESWORTH conductor Early one morning, Peter opened the gate and went out into the big green meadow… and if you know Prokofiev’s “symphonic tale for children”, you’ll already be humming that tune. Age doesn’t matter with music as enjoyable as this! With Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and a charismatic narrator, it’s a perfect finale to a whole concert of music at its most playful, witty and wise. Aaron Copland salutes a great American statesman, and crams a whole symphony into 15 primary-coloured minutes: a mini-masterpiece from the decade that saw the birth of the BBC SSO. In between, BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist Sterling Elliott sings and sparkles his way through Tchaikovsky’s delightful showpiece for cello and orchestra. _Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 James MacMillan - The Confession of Isobel Gowdie Ian Whyte - Violin Concerto interval Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2 Stephanie Gonley violin Martyn Brabbins conductor Passion beyond reason. No-one who was present when the BBC SSO premiered Sir James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the Proms in 1990 will forget the impact it made – a new voice in Scottish music, speaking with uncompromising emotional power. A landmark both in British music and the orchestra’s own history, we couldn’t celebrate our 90th season without Isobel Gowdie. Tonight she takes her rightful place alongside the Violin Concerto by the orchestra’s founder-conductor Ian Whyte, and one of the most popular (and moving!) of 20th century symphonies, Rachmaninov’s Second. Is this the ultimate romantic symphony? We just know that you love to hear it, and Martyn Brabbins – a long-time friend of the orchestra – loves to conduct it, too. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Jessie Montgomery - Strum Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.3 interval Barber - Medea's Dance of Vengeance Debussy - La Mer Isata Kanneh-Mason piano Delyana Lazarova conductor A quiet pulse, and a long, chant-like melody that seems to breathe the air of old Russia – it’s an unlikely way to begin one of the most difficult and brilliant piano concertos ever created. Rachmaninov’s Third has been called the “Everest of piano concertos” but if anyone’s equipped to scale it, it’s the superb young British virtuoso Isata Kanneh-Mason and the BBC SSO’s newly-appointed Principal Guest Conductor Delyana Lazarova. She’s placed it at the centre of a concert designed to showcase her own musical passions, whether Jessie Montgomery’s playful letter from America, Samuel Barber at his most explosive, or Claude Debussy’s impressionist seascape – music driven by the swell of waves and the sparkle of sunlight. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

BBC SSO 2025/26: SIR STEPHEN HOUGH PLAYS GRIEG: 90th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 THE BBC SSO’S 90th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Ayanna Witter-Johnson - New Work (World Premiere, BBC Commission) Grieg - Piano Concerto interval Tippett - A Child of Our Time soprano (to be announced) Beth Taylor - alto John Findon - tenor Ashley Riches - bass National Youth Choir of Scotland Stephen Hough - piano Ryan Wigglesworth - conductor “The world turns on its dark side. It is winter…” Music speaks to us most directly when it engages with its times – and 90 years ago, few young composers understood that better than Michael Tippett. Composed during the Second World War but provoked by decades of intolerance, A Child of Our Time feels as urgent now as it did then, and with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the National Youth Choir of Scotland, it’ll make an unforgettable climax to the BBC SSO’s 90th Anniversary Concert. First, though, something entirely new from the irrepressible imagination of Ayanna Witter-Johnson – and pianist extraordinaire Sir Stephen Hough brings all his heart and soul to a piano concerto that never grows old. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Elsa Barraine - Symphony No.2 Maurice Ohana - Piano Concerto interval Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales Debussy - Nocturnes, for women’s chorus and orchestra Nicolas Hodges piano Upper Voices of the RCS Chamber Choir Ilan Volkov conductor He’s been called a “musical omnivore” but anyone who’s experienced the BBC SSO’s former Chief Conductor (and current Creative Partner) Ilan Volkov knows that he’s an artist who sees music differently – and turns every concert into a voyage of discovery. Today, he conducts a programme with a French flavour, and with Volkov’s insights the bittersweet beauty of Ravel’s waltzes – like the luminous colours of Debussy’s ravishing Nocturnes – will sound fresher than ever. But we open with a different (and eye-opening) angle on French music: a delightful, rarely-heard symphony from the decade that the BBC SSO was founded. And pianist Nicolas Hodges dives deep into the visionary sonic world of Maurice Ohana, the Casablanca-born composer with a voice that was entirely his own. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

THURSDAY 18.12.2O25 7.30PM ‘CHRISTMAS CLASSICS’ ON SALE FROM: Thursday 15 May 2025 This year, the BBC SSO presents not one but two Christmas concerts at City Halls! Like a soothing mug of hot chocolate on a chilly night, _Christmas Classics_ is a heartwarming evening filled with yuletide carols, timeless orchestral pieces and festive classics as exhilarating as a midnight sleigh ride. Singer JAMIEMACDOUGALL never fails to bring a sparkle to the orchestra’s festive celebrations.

ON SALE FROM: Thursday 15 May 2025 It’s the most wonderful time of the year... and what better way to start your festive celebrations than with a night of epic movie music. Whether it’s a heartwarming dose of nostalgia courtesy of John Williams, the thrill of a Disney classic, or a toe-tapping tune from Hollywood’s Golden Age, let the BBC SSO and host Jamie MacDougall bring the magic of the big screen to life. This Glasgow family favourite is always a sell-out, so book early! Please note that the BBC SSO presents not one but two Christmas concerts at City Halls this year – Christmas Classics, and Christmas at the Movies.

Sunday 11.01.2026 5.00pm THE MUSIC & MEDITATION PODCAST: LIVE _The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow City Halls_ ON SALE FROM: Thursday 15 May 2025 Step away from the noise of everyday life and immerse yourself in an evening of live classical music, gentle breathwork and meditation with presenter Izzy Judd and _Sunday Times _bestselling Scottish poet and meditation guide Donna Ashworth. For the first time ever, the BBC’s breakthrough podcast will be recorded in front of a live audience at the Old Fruitmarket, blending expert-led meditation techniques with its soothing orchestral soundscapes, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. From popular classics such as Debussy’s _Clair de Lune _to the exclusive premiere of a BBC commission, let the magic of a live orchestra envelop you in a wave of tranquillity, leaving you refreshed, inspired and ready to take on the world. This event will last approximately 75 minutes and there will be relaxed seating options in the Old Fruitmarket… whatever makes you most comfortable!

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine Barber - Symphony No.1 interval Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.2 Gemma New conductor Alessio Bax piano A piano climbing from darkness to light. A pulsing rhythm, bright with energy and colour. And a passionate melody, soaring against a storm-swept sky. The opening of any piece of music draws you into a new emotional world, and however familiar the melodies that follow, a great live performance makes you feel like you’re experiencing it for the first time. That’s certainly the case when guest conductor Gemma New conducts the BBC SSO, described by The Scotsman as “one to watch”. Together with pianist Alessio Bax, she’ll bring something wholly new to Rachmaninov’s most popular piano concerto. To open, two postcards from America: Barber’s symphonic testament to an age of anxiety, and John Adams’ supercharged fanfare. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

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_

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Philip Dutton - New Work (World Premiere, BBC commission) Mozart - Piano Concerto No.27 K595 interval Dvorak - Symphony No.8 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Imogen Cooper piano Out of silence comes a quiet hymn. Suddenly the sun breaks through, the birds sing – and to a dancing rhythm and a flurry of drums, Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony is on its way. Sounds fun? This is music with a huge heart and a limitless supply of melodies, but it’s brimming over with poetry too, and Ryan Wigglesworth will savour every moment of this most life-affirming of Romantic symphonies. The evening opens with a new commission from a young British composer of Czech heritage, and Mozart’s poetic final piano concerto, played by Imogen Cooper – a pianist for whom Mozart’s music has been a lifelong love story. “He has a special place in my heart”, she says, and when she plays, you can hear it. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

Thursday 12.03.2026 2.00pm ALBAN GERHARDT PLAYS BRITTEN’S CELLO SYMPHONY 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 THEA MUSGRAVE - Aurora BRITTEN - Cello Symphony _interval_ ELGAR - Falstaff BRITTEN - The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra ALBAN GERHARDT cello Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Commissioned in 1945 by the Ministry of Education for a children’s film titled “Instruments of the Orchestra”, Britten’s cheery _tour de force _is the perfect excuse to show off the considerable talents of the BBC SSO’s individual players. You’ll also be stunned by the “consummate artistry” (The Guardian) of Alban Gerhardt as he performs Britten’s deeply expressive Cello Symphony, originally written for the great Russian virtuoso Mstislav Rostropovich. This BBC SSO has a long history with the music of Thea Musgrave—performing a remarkable 36 works by the Scottish composer since 1955. Like Elgar’s work which depicts the larger-than-life fictional character of Sir John Falstaff, Musgrave’s _Aurora _is inspired by the enchanting imagination of William Shakespeare. _Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Lutosławski - Little Suite Mendelssohn - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra interval Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’ Duo Jatekok pianos Delyana Lazarova conductor With its sweeping melodies and raw emotion, Tchaikovsky’s famous Pathétique is a powerful exploration of love, loss and fate. It’s music that speaks from the heart, and under Principal Guest Conductor Delyana Lazarova’s baton, every note tells a story. In communist Poland, Witold Lutosławski takes a handful of folksongs and crafts them into a mini-masterpiece of wild rhythms and subversive beauty. And Duo Jatekok – a “vivacious” (The Scotsman) French piano duo with a name inspired by playfulness – lights the touchpaper on a firecracker of a double concerto, composed by a teenage genius on a mission to astonish the world. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande (concert performance; sung in French with English surtitles) (c.3hr 15 mins – with interval) Huw Montague Rendall - Pelléas - tenor Sophie Bevan - Mélisande - soprano David Stout - Golaud - baritone Karen Cargill - Geneviève – mezzo-soprano Alastair Miles Arkel – bass RCS Chamber Choir Ryan Wigglesworth conductor “She was such a quiet creature, wrapped in mystery as we all are…” In an ancient castle by a darkening sea, the princess Mélisande falls in love – and unlocks passions as deadly as they are beautiful. Moving, mysterious and heartbreakingly gorgeous, Debussy’s opera is woven from delicate emotions and violent rage; from sorrow entwined with wonder, and sounds so lovely that they can tear open your soul. If you’ve only heard it in the theatre, you haven’t heard it all, and this concert performance will bring out every shimmer and sigh of Debussy’s astonishing score. Sophie Bevan and Huw Montague Rendall play the tragic lovers, heading a cast of singers who know and love this music from the inside out. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

Thursday 16.04.2026 2.00pm BARTÓK, SHOSTAKOVICH & BRITTEN 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 BRITTEN - Four Sea Interludes from _Peter Grimes_ SHOSTAKOVICH - Suite from 'Hamlet' _interval_ BARTÓK - Bluebeard's Castle (one-act opera) ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano GÁBOR BRETZ baritone ELIM CHAN conductor “In wars outside the blood runs red / Here is something far more deadly, ladies and gentlemen”. Duke Bluebeard’s castle has seven doors, and his new wife Judith is determined to open them all. But some questions are best left unanswered, and in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller even the darkest secrets possess a terrible beauty. Today, soprano Alice Coote and baritone Gábor Bretz are the heroine and hero of this sinister fairytale – two world-class singers with an unrivalled sense of theatre, supported by guest conductor Elim Chan and all the glittering colours of the full BBC SSO. Add Britten’s storm-swept portrait of the North Sea, and Shostakovich’s delightfully irreverent encounter with Shakespeare, and this is a pulse-raising concert packed with drama. _Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_

Sunday 17.05.2026 2.00pm PROKOFIEV’S ROMEO AND JULIET 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 OUTI TARKIAINEN - The Rapids of Life _(UK Premiere)_ JAY CAPPERAULD - Accordion Concerto ‘Galvanic Dances’ _interval_ PROKOFIEV - Romeo and Juliet (Selection from the ballet) RYAN CORBETT accordion EMILIA HOVING conductor Described by composer Sir James MacMillan as “one of the most astonishing and surprising young newcomers in Scottish music,” Glasgow-born accordionist and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist (2022-24) Ryan Corbett is redefining expectations of his instrument. And in a concerto written especially for him, fellow Scot Jay Capperauld—praised for his “unbridled sonic imagination” (The Scotsman)—channels the crackling energy of electricity into music that dazzles. On the podium is the dynamic Finnish conductor Emilia Hoving, who conducts music full of hope by fellow Finn Outi Tarkainen, and Prokofiev’s emotionally charged _Romeo and Juliet_—a score that grips the heart and never lets go. _Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025 Bruckner Ave Maria Ryan Wigglesworth Magnificat (revised version, world premiere) Bruckner Symphony No.4 ‘Romantic’ BBC Singers Sophie Bevan soprano Ryan Wigglesworth conductor The air shimmers, and a horn calls softly in the distance. Is there a more magical beginning to any symphony than the vista that opens Bruckner’s Fourth? No wonder he called it “Romantic”. Bruckner imagined a story of knights, forests and castles, but he preferred to let the music speak for itself, and in this closing concert to the BBC SSO’s 2025/26 season Ryan Wigglesworth will let it do exactly that. It’s a world away from the spiritual intimacy of Bruckner’s sacred music – sung tonight by the BBC Singers – and the bridge is a new version of Wigglesworth’s own powerful Magnificat, sung by its dedicatee Sophie Bevan. Bachtrack admired its “Heaven-meets-earth choral harmonies” – but hear for yourself today. SAVE UP TO 35% WITH MULTIBUY: Add four or more Thursday Night concerts to your basket and discounts will automatically applied at the checkout. You can save up to 35% when booking up to 11 concerts. Seniors get an extra 5% off! (Selected seats must be in the same Price Band) STUDENTS, UNDER 26s & REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED £6 tickets (Areas II-V only, proof of status required) DISABLED/COMPANION People with a disability and a companion: 50% discount on any single full price ticket

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