BBC SSO 2025/26: Afternoon Performance - Alban Gerhardt Plays Britten's Cello Symphony
- Tickets
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£17.50 (includes restoration fund) - advance booking, £20.50 (includes restoration fund) - when booked less
- Box office telephone
- Dates and times
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Thursday 12th Mar 2026
2:00pm
- Age
- Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
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
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