Current Subscriber Priority Booking from Thursday 16 April, 10am General Subscription Booking only : Tuesday 21 April 2026, 10am General Booking, including for all non-Thursday Night events : Thursday 14 May 2026, 10am BRAHMS’ SECOND SYMPHONY THURSDAY 10.12.2026 7.30pm Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale Op.52 (c.19 mins) Matthew Kaner Violin Concerto (World Premiere, BBC Commission) Interval Brahms Symphony No.2 (c.40 mins) Benjamin Baker violin Ryan Wigglesworth conductor “Composing is a never-ending voyage of discovery” says Matthew Kaner, “The key is to keep challenging yourself”, and his new Violin Concerto — specially written for the magnificent sound and adventurous spirit of our soloist Benjamin Baker — is keenly awaited. As a composer himself, BBC SSO Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth is ideally placed to help bring new music to life, and he’s framed the violin concerto with two masterpieces in which the Romantic spirit runs deep and true. Brahms composed his Second Symphony while on holiday in the Austrian Alps, and that sense of sunshine and soaring vistas glows in every note. And Schumann thought his Overture, Scherzo and Finale was simply too joyful to be called a symphony. In short, it’s wonderful.

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