Proms 2025 Sibelius’s Second

The prestigious Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – the world’s longest-established symphony orchestra, famous for the glossy richness of its ‘Leipzig sound’ – returns to the Proms under Music Director Andris Nelsons. Joining them, back at the Proms for the first time since 2010, is American violinist Hilary Hahn, soloist in Dvořák’s colourful, folk-inspired Violin Concerto. The elemental power of Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, with its heroic final movement, has become indelibly associated with Finland’s fight for freedom, no less personal a statement than the fragile, hypnotic beauty of Arvo Pärt’s tribute to Benjamin Britten.

Andris Nelsons © Marco Borggreve