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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
28 Sep 2025, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
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BBC SSO 2025-26 Season Opening Concert: Schumann's Violin Concerto in Edinburgh

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Opening Concert: Schumann's Violin Concerto in Edinburgh
15:00 Sun 28 Sep 2025 Usher Hall, Edinburgh
The "stunning" (Bachtrack) 24-year-old violin virtuoso Daniel Lozakovich performs a soulful masterpiece before Romantic Rachmaninov. Plus, there's a special tribute to a much-missed member of the BBC SSO family, former Leader Laura Samuel.
The "stunning" (Bachtrack) 24-year-old violin virtuoso Daniel Lozakovich performs a soulful masterpiece before Romantic Rachmaninov. Plus, there's a special tribute to a much-missed member of the BBC SSO family, former Leader Laura Samuel.

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About this Concert

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.

Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth begins the BBC SSO’s 90th anniversary season with Rachmaninov’s soaring, jazz-influenced Third Symphony, 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.

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BBC SSO 2025-26 SeasonBBC SSO Schumann's Violin ConcertoBBC SSO Edinburgh Series 2025/26

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