BBC SSO 2025/26: Closing Night: BBC Singers, Bruckner, Wigglesworth
Join the BBC SSO at City Halls for a glorious finale to their 90th season, where voices and orchestra soar as one!
About BBC SSO 2025/26: Closing Night: BBC Singers, Bruckner, Wigglesworth
| 21st May 2026 | |
| 7.30pm | |
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City Halls City Halls Candleriggs, Glasgow City Centre G1 1NQ |
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| £15.50 - £33.50 | |
| Visit the event website here |
The air shimmers, and a horn calls softly in the distance. Is there a more magical beginning to any symphony than the vista that opens Bruckner’s Fourth? No wonder he called it “Romantic”. Bruckner imagined a story of knights, forests and castles, but he preferred to let the music speak for itself, and in this closing concert to the BBC SSO’s 2025/26 season Ryan Wigglesworth will let it do exactly that. It’s a world away from the spiritual intimacy of Bruckner’s sacred music – sung tonight by the BBC Singers – and the bridge is a new version of Wigglesworth’s own powerful Magnificat, sung by its dedicatee Sophie Bevan. Bachtrack admired its “Heaven-meets-earth choral harmonies” – but hear for yourself today.
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