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BBC SSO · Season 2026/27

Dvořák’s New World Symphony

Alpesh Chauhan conducts

When
Sat 17 Oct19:30
Where
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Tickets
From £24
The evening

A whole new world, remembered in music.

A warm-hearted journey from restless night skies to Dvořák’s open-road symphony—music filled with homesickness, hope, and one of the most recognisable melodies ever written.

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Programme notesApproximately 95 minutes · one interval
The paper inside

Open roads,
distant homes.

This programme moves from a flash of light, through Barber’s private lyricism, to a symphony whose idea of home grew clearer from thousands of miles away.

  1. 01
    Jessie MontgomeryStarburstBright, quicksilver energy
  2. 02
    Samuel BarberViolin ConcertoTenderness, then pure velocity
  3. 03
    Antonín DvořákSymphony No. 9 “From the New World”Longing on an orchestral scale
Listen for
The quiet cor anglais melody in Dvořák’s second movement: less a tune than the sound of remembering somewhere far away.
On stage

The people making
the evening.

One orchestra, a conductor drawn to vivid colour, and a violinist whose playing can make a large hall feel suddenly close.

Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Resident at City Halls since 2006, and the busiest broadcasting orchestra in Scotland.

Conductor

Alpesh Chauhan

Birmingham-born, drawn to vivid orchestral colour and unhurried slow movements.

Violin

Elena Urioste

Plays a 1706 Alessandro Gagliano, and can make a large hall feel suddenly close.

Access & comfort

Plan the room around you.

Step-free access is available from Killermont Street. Wheelchair spaces, companion seats, and hearing enhancement can be requested during booking.

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