Proms 2025 Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto - BBC Proms

24 Jul 2025, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Thu 24 Jul 2025 Next Event

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

19:30 Thu 24 Jul 2025 Royal Albert Hall

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel

Programme

- - Igor Stravinsky
  - Song of the Nightingale(21 mins)
- - Felix Mendelssohn
  - Violin Concerto in E minor(26 mins)
- - interval
- - Anthony Davis
  - Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey(15 mins)European premiere
- - Richard Strauss
  - Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks(15 mins)

Performers

Augustin Hadelich
violin
violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Mischievous tricksters and magical fairy tales meet in a fantastical programme from Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Incorrigible troublemaker Till Eulenspiegel is up to no good in the witty, light-footed antics of Strauss’s tone-poem. A clever monkey faces off against a lion in the European premiere of American composer Anthony Davis’s Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey and a nightingale must charm Death to spare the Emperor of China in Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale. At the heart of the programme is one of the great Romantic violin concertos: Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled masterpiece.

Sakari Oramo © Benjamin Ealovega