BBC SSO · Season 2026/27
Dvořák’s New World Symphony
Alpesh Chauhan conducts
A whole new world, remembered in music.
17Oct ·19:30
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.
Programme notesApproximately 95 minutes · one interval
The paper insideOpen roads,
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.
- 01Jessie MontgomeryStarburstBright, quicksilver energy
- 02Samuel BarberViolin ConcertoTenderness, then pure velocity
- 03Antonín 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 stageThe people making
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.
Alpesh Chauhan
Elena Urioste
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY
- Doors
- 18:45
- Starts
- 19:30
- Ends
- c. 21:25
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