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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 70: Brahms’s Second Symphony
Performance Date11 September 2025
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJess Dandy,
Ashley Riches - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsNational Youth Choir
ConductorsIlan Volkov
Set List'In ecclesiis', Gabrieli, ed. Maderna
'Requiem Canticles', Stravinsky

INTERVAL

'Canzone a tre core', Gabrieli, ed. Maderna ,
'Symphony No. 2 in D major', Brahms
Performance NotesSolemn 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'.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2025/97BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 70: Brahms’s Second Symphony11 September 2025
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/23484Dandy; Jess; English alto opera singer
DS/UK/6275Riches; Ashley (fl 2013); English bass-baritone
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/8945National Youth Choirs of Great Britain; National Youth Chamber Choir; 1983-; British youth choir
DS/UK/1139Volkov; Ilan (1976-); Israeli orchestral conductor
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