Performances of Christian Reif at BBC Music

Sun 16 Nov 2025

• 14:00

  Afternoon Performance: Rory Kinnear narrates Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf

  City Halls

  Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear (best known from his role in James Bond films) narrates Prokofiev’s playful 'Peter and the Wolf' and the phenomenal Sterling Elliott dazzles in Tchaikovsky's showpiece for cello and orchestra.

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  Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear (best known from his role in James Bond films) narrates Prokofiev’s playful 'Peter and the Wolf' and the phenomenal Sterling Elliott dazzles in Tchaikovsky's showpiece for cello and orchestra.

  Programme

  • • • Samuel Barber
      • Second Essay
    • • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      • Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra(20 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Aaron Copland
      • Lincoln Portrait(14 mins)
    • • Sergey Prokofiev
      • Peter and the Wolf, Op 67(30 mins)

  Performers

  • Rory Kinnear

    narrator
    narrator
  • Sterling Elliott

    cello
    cello
  • Christian Reif

    Conductor
    Conductor
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

  Composers

  • Samuel Barber
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Aaron Copland
  • Sergey Prokofiev

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  Part of

  BBC SSO 2025-26 Season BBC SSO Afternoon Performances 2025/26 BBC SSO Glasgow Series 2025/26