Afternoon Performance: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.5
14:00
Thu 5 Nov 2026
Glasgow City Halls
Programme
- Baba Yaga and The Enchanted Lake(10 mins)
- Songs and Dances of Death(22 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 5 in E minor(47 mins)
Performers
- Sophie Bevansoprano
- Ryan WigglesworthConductor
About this concert
Once upon a time鈥� Russia was always a land of storytellers. Why would its composers be any different? Today Ryan Wigglesworth opens that storybook and shares what comes out. There鈥檚 a witch in a hut with hen鈥檚 legs, and a lake that might harbour supernatural beings, or a whole lost city (anything鈥檚 possible in the magical sound-world of Prokofiev鈥檚 teacher Anatoly Lyadov).
Things take a turn for the macabre and Death rides a general鈥檚 horse, as soprano Sophie Bevan sings Mussorgsky鈥檚 blackly comic songs. And then it鈥檚 over to Tchaikovsky, and a symphony of sorrow, joy and simply glorious melodies. 鈥淲ith desire and passion鈥� wrote Tchaikovsky on the score of his Fifth Symphony, and you鈥檙e about to hear why.
TICKETS: 拢16 Early Bird Rate; 拢19 within two weeks of the concert
(拢6 for Students & Under 26s)
Seating is unreserved.