Stockport Symphony Orchestra - Brahms'Second

Borodin - Prince Igor

Strauss - Suite, in B-flat major

Brahms - Symphony No 2

Conductors - Connor Lyster, Alec Frank-Gemmill

It took Brahms years to complete his first symphony. The second was written in a single summer in the Austrian Alps. Of it, his friend Theodor Billroth wrote: "How beautiful it must be in Pörtschach. It is all rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine and cool green shadows". It’s a joyful second foray into the symphonic form.