BBC SSO 2025/26: SIR STEPHEN HOUGH PLAYS GRIEG: 90th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

BBC SSO 2025/26: SIR STEPHEN HOUGH PLAYS GRIEG: 90th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Save money when booking 4+ concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series! See below for multibuy discounts. General subscription booking opens from Tuesday 22 April

Tickets on general sale Thursday 15th May 2025

THE BBC SSO’S 90th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Ayanna Witter-Johnson - New Work (World Premiere, BBC Commission)

Grieg - Piano Concerto

interval

Tippett - A Child of Our Time



soprano (to be announced)

Beth Taylor - alto

John Findon - tenor

Ashley Riches - bass

National Youth Choir of Scotland

Stephen Hough - piano

Ryan Wigglesworth - conductor

“The world turns on its dark side. It is winter…” Music speaks to us most directly when it engages with its times – and 90 years ago, few young composers understood that better than Michael Tippett. Composed during the Second World War but provoked by decades of intolerance, A Child of Our Time feels as urgent now as it did then, and with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the National Youth Choir of Scotland, it’ll make an unforgettable climax to the BBC SSO’s 90th Anniversary Concert.

First, though, something entirely new from the irrepressible imagination of Ayanna Witter-Johnson – and pianist extraordinaire Sir Stephen Hough brings all his heart and soul to a piano concerto that never grows old.

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