Performances of Johannes Brahms at BBC Proms

Thu 11 Sep 2025

• 19:30

  Brahms’s Second Symphony

  Royal Albert Hall

  Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by Gabrieli alongside Stravinsky’s last major work, the Requiem Canticles. Brahms’s happiest symphony, the Second, makes up the second half

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  Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by Gabrieli alongside Stravinsky’s last major work, the Requiem Canticles. Brahms’s happiest symphony, the Second, makes up the second half

  Programme

  • • • Giovanni Gabrieli
      • In ecclesiis (ed. Maderna)(10 mins)
    • • Igor Stravinsky
      • Requiem Canticles(15 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Giovanni Gabrieli
      • Canzone a tre core (ed. Maderna)(5 mins)
    • • Johannes Brahms
      • Symphony No. 2 in D major(45 mins)

  Performers

  • Jess Dandy

    contralto
    contralto
  • Ashley Riches

    bass-baritone
    bass-baritone
  • National Youth Choir
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  • Ilan Volkov

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Giovanni Gabrieli
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Johannes Brahms

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  Part of

  Proms 2025