SCO 2025/6: Schumann Cello Concerto

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

MENDELSSOHN Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage SCHUMANN Cello Concerto WIDMANN Albumblätter (UK Premiere) DEBUSSY Petite Suite

Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Philip Higham cello

From a daring maritime adventure to a captivating showcase for the soulful cello – in the company of vibrant Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and exceptional SCO Principal Cello Philip Higham.

An international soloist as well as a pivotal SCO musician, Philip Higham takes centre-stage’for the poetry and passion of Schumann’s entrancing Cello Concerto, written in a two-week burst of inspiration.

German composer Jörg Widmann pays affectionate homage to Schumann in his witty Albumblätter, receiving its first UK performances, while Debussy takes us dancing and sailing in his charming Petite Suite. Mendelssohn weighs the anchor for more distant shores, however, in his thrilling celebration of seafaring heroism.