“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.

90th Anniversary Concert: Sir Stephen Hough Plays Grieg's Piano Concerto

City Halls

ATTACCA Concert: Great Romanticism

Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding

Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, with its heart-on-sleeve melodies and intimate lyricism. The piece is framed by two musical products of war: a haunting elegy by Vaughan Williams’s pupil Ruth Gipps, inspired by a William Blake illustration of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and anniversary-composer Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, a cantata composed for the reopening in 1962 of Coventry Cathedral – part Passion, part howl of human loss, part musical prayer for a ‘troubled world’.

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Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Royal Albert Hall

High Festival Level

Imperial Baths

Highlighting dramatic works rightfully enshrined in their popularity, music director finalist Jacob Joyce describes this concert as “exploring three different country-specific approaches to Romanticism.”

Edvard Greig

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Jan 30, 2027

MasterWorks V: Brahms' Fourth Symphony · Canton Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Dec 4, 2025

90th Anniversary Concert: Sir Stephen Hough Plays Grieg's Piano Concerto · BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Nov 26, 2025

ATTACCA Concert: Great Romanticism · Bayerisches Staatsorchester

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