SCO 2025/26: Haydn's Drum Roll

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season).

Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025

Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025

Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025

Haydn’s Drum Roll

STRAUSS Suite in B-flat Op.4

HARTMANN Concerto funèbre

HAYDN Symphony No.103 in E-flat ‘Drum Roll’

Alina Ibragimova violin/director

Violinist Alina Ibragimova leads us from grief and fear to radiant joy in her deeply emotional concert with the SCO. Ibragimova is among today’s most compelling, perceptive soloists, combining a penetrating musical intellect with gripping, passionate playing – qualities very much on display in her intensely expressive programme.

Haydn composed his ‘Drum Roll’ Symphony expressly to impress, inspire and delight – and more than two centuries later, it still does all three. The sunny, colourful B flat Suite was the piece that kick-started the 20-year-old Richard Strauss’ musical career, and its music feels just as fresh and appealing today.

Ibragimova’s concert centrepiece is a Concerto she has long championed. Written during the dark first days of the Second World War, Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Concerto funèbre draws on influences from Bruckner and Mahler in music of deep compassion, sadness and visionary hope.