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Tickets:

£45, £40, £34, £25, £17. Under 25s and f/t students £12 (includes £4 booking fee)

Group bookings

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Schools tickets

£12 per student, one free teacher per 10 pupils (includes £4 booking fee)

Talk

Join us for a free pre-concert talk to discover more about the pieces being performed

Programme

Johann Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Berg: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony no. 2

Performers and Cast

Alena Baeva: violin
Mark Wigglesworth

We are delighted to welcome the new Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth, in a programme which highlights connections in Viennese music across generations.

Brahms was an enormous admirer of Johann Strauss II, and himself inspired the Second Viennese school of Berg and Schoenberg.

Berg's last completed work is an emotion-packed farewell to the daughter of a friend, who died young. From the opening folksong depicting the innocent girl, to the final pages, where an angelic violin soars above a consoling Bach melody in the orchestra, it is an unforgettable piece.

Brahms' radiant Second Symphony was written while on holiday in the summer of 1877, and is predominantly warm, lyrical, and tender, building to an explosion of joy in the finale.