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Glasgow Season 10/11 bbc.co.uk/bbcsso BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Season 2010/11
75 years ago, on 3 December 1935, the BBC The rich variety on offer, which includes timeless Scottish Symphony Orchestra switched on classics alongside new BBC Commissions, is the red light for its inaugural broadcast and presented through four distinctive themes: so began the history of one of Europe’s finest Romantics Unbound; This Sceptred Isle; Sacred and orchestras. We welcome you to join our Profane and Flights of Inspiration. Such a choice birthday celebrations in what promises to be assortment makes it hard to single out any one a stunning concert season that any orchestra concert, but surely no-one will want to miss in the world would be proud to present. Our Donald Runnicles conducting the First Act of illustrious Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles, Wagner’s Die Walküre, the Brahms Deutsches in his second season with the BBC SSO, is Requiem, or music by Ravel and Debussy. joined by Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Symphonies by Elgar and Walton, conducted Volkov, recently appointed Associate Guest by Ilan Volkov and Martyn Brabbins, form the Conductor Andrew Manze and newest family backbone of our British music series. And with member Matthias Pintscher, to lead what is sure soloists including Janine Jansen, Nicola Benedetti, to be some wonderfully insightful and exciting Steven Osborne and Nelson Freire, each and performances in the acclaimed acoustics of every concert offers something special to look Glasgow’s City Halls. forward to. “...a stunning concert season that We very much hope you can join us! any orchestra in the world would be proud to present.”
Gavin Reid Director
Donald Runnicles Ilan Volkov Andrew Manze Matthias Pintscher Elizabeth Layton Chief Conductor Principal Guest Associate Guest Artist-in- Leader Conductor Conductor Association Romantics Unbound Preludes and Codas Explores the unbridled passion of the great Take advantage of these popular pre- and 19th century composers, headed by Wagner, post-concert events which are completely Brahms and Beethoven, with the added spice of FREE OF CHARGE to ticket-holders. A great a pair of new pieces from Scottish composers opportunity to learn something about the that pay homage to Brahms. music and musicians, or to enjoy a little extra music from some of our soloists after the This Sceptred Isle main programme. All are entirely optional, but Four superb programmes of British music a great way to make the most of your evening featuring both of Walton’s brilliant symphonies, at City Halls. Elgar’s magnificent Second, and Britten’s Pre-Concert Prelude: Prelude events run Piano Concerto in the hands of its finest living between 6.45pm and approximately 7.10pm, exponent, Steven Osborne. Nicola Benedetti except for This Sceptred Isle concerts when plays the Beethoven Violin Concerto for the first Preludes will start at 6.15pm. They are held in time in Scotland in our special 75th Birthday the Recital Room. Concert, and the exceptionally talented young Scots composer Helen Grime contributes a Post-Concert Coda: Coda events begin birthday commission. approximately 10 minutes after the end of the main concert and are held in the Grand Hall. Sacred and Profane Please note there will be no Coda event after For several centuries, composers have the concerts on Thursdays: 30 September, 18 expressed some of their most profoundly November, 27 January and 10 February. spiritual thoughts through purely orchestral works. This series explores that concept DISCOVERING MUSIC through pieces like Elgar’s elegiac Cello In addition to the Thursday Night Series, we Concerto and Bruckner’s powerful Fifth have programmed four afternoon concerts Symphony - a monumental testimony both to to complement this season’s main themes. his deep faith and his personal life’s struggle. Discovering Music explores pieces of music in detail and, this season, provides a wonderful Flights of Inspiration opportunity to sample works by Brahms, Elgar Great artists have always found inspiration in and Messiaen. These events are all free of many different ways - from religious faith or charge. Please see inside back cover for more literature to the financial support of a patron. information. This series includes music by composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky, Bartók, Debussy and Harrison Birtwistle, together with contributions from marvellous soloists like Håkan Hardenberger, Karen Cargill and Lynn Harrell.
All concerts will be recorded for future transmission, or Denotes that concert will be bbc.co.uk/radio3 broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. broadcast live at 7.00pm. Elizabeth Layton - leader “I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.” Richard Wagner
Concert 1 Concert 2 Thursday, 30 September, 7.30pm Thursday, 7 October, 7.30pm Romantics Unbound Romantics Unbound
Sibelius Violin Concerto Berlioz Overture: Wagner Act I: ‘Die Walküre’ Béatrice et Bénédict (concert performance, sung in German) Brahms Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ Janine Jansen violin Heidi Melton soprano (Sieglinde) Janine Jansen violin Stuart Skelton tenor (Siegmund) Donald Runnicles conductor Reinhard Hagen bass (Hunding) Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony was conceived Donald Runnicles conductor on a truly ‘heroic’ scale - it’s by far the biggest The epic drama of love and power in Wagner’s symphony ever composed up to that time. Ring cycle is perhaps at its most movingly human Originally meant as a tribute to Napoleon, in the second instalment, The Valkyrie. The stormy Beethoven famously retracted the dedication, passion of Sieglinde and Siegmund’s love affair disillusioned by Napoleon’s megalomania. dominates Act 1 and here makes a wonderful start However the music endures as a universal to the BBC SSO’s season. In Donald Runnicles, the homage to the noblest aspirations of man, with orchestra is fortunate to have a world renowned the power to overawe the listener through the Wagnerian as its Chief Conductor and, aided by intensity of its drama. Donald Runnicles opens three fine singers, he will bring all his experience the concert with Berlioz’s sparkling overture and mastery to bear on this great work. As if to his opera Béatrice et Bénédict, based on that wasn’t enough, outstanding young violinist Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. And, Janine Jansen joins him for another tempestuous recently described as ‘sensationally good’ by The Romantic masterwork, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. Sunday Times, the young Dutch violinist Janine Jansen joins the orchestra for Brahms’ great Violin 6.45pm in the Recital Room Concerto. James Naughtie, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme since 1994, and passionate opera- 6.45pm in the Recital Room lover, in conversation with Donald Runnicles, Professor Barry Cooper of the University of Chief Conductor BBC SSO. Manchester, and one of the world’s leading experts on the music of Beethoven, explores NB there will be no Coda after this concert the ‘Eroica’ Symphony. approx. 10 minutes after main concert Pianist Scott Mitchell plays the Fantasien, Op.116 by Brahms.
04&05 Yann Ghiro - principal clarinet “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” Johannes Brahms
Concert 3 Concert 4 Thursday, 4 November, 7.30pm Thursday, 18 November, 7.00pm* Romantics Unbound This Sceptred Isle
Sally Beamish Homage à Brahms Walton Symphony No.2 (World Premiere) Britten Les illuminations Mozart Piano Concerto No.17, K.453 Elgar In the South (Alassio) Brahms Symphony No.4 Britten/Matthews THREE SONGS FROM Les illuminations Ronald Brautigam piano Andrew Manze conductor Susan Gritton soprano Martyn Brabbins conductor Ronald Brautigam’s deserved reputation as an insightful, stylish interpreter of Mozart and Martyn Brabbins kicks off the BBC SSO’s British Beethoven promises an outstanding performance music series with a fine symphony that has been of Mozart’s beautiful G major Piano Concerto. Of unfairly neglected since its unsuccessful 1960 course he will be ably partnered by the BBC SSO’s premiere. However, Walton’s Second Symphony new Associate Guest Conductor Andrew Manze. has been making a comeback in recent years as His first concert in his new position climaxes an eloquent late flowering of the composer’s with a late-Romantic masterpiece in Brahms’ inspiration. Britten’s Les illuminations, settings of Fourth Symphony. To open it: a new piece by poems by Rimbaud, encompasses an enormous one of Scotland’s leading composers, which both dramatic range, from biting wit to deep pathos. celebrates the orchestra’s 75th Birthday and pays Elgar’s ‘concert overture’ In the South is actually tribute to Brahms. a big, dynamic symphonic movement, a fitting climax to the second part of this three-part programme. Susan Gritton ends with the first
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 concert performance of three extra songs 6.45pm in the Recital Room that Britten left out of the published score Andrew Manze and Sally Beamish of Les illuminations, which have recently been discuss tonight’s programme, as well as its orchestrated by Colin Matthews. new commission, with Gavin Reid, Director Please note early start time* BBC SSO. approx. 10 minutes after main concert 6.15pm in the Recital Room Ronald Brautigam gives a short solo recital. Composer Colin Matthews talks to Martyn Brabbins about his work on Benjamin Britten’s newly-orchestrated songs. NB there will be no Coda after this concert
06&07 Stella McCracken - principal oboe “IN THE NEXT WORLD I SHAN’T BE DOING MUSIC, WITH ALL THE STRIVINGS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS, I SHALL BE BEING IT.” VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Concert 5 Concert 6 Thursday, 25 November, 7.00pm* Thursday, 2 December, 7.00pm* This Sceptred Isle This Sceptred Isle Holst 75th Birthday Concert The Perfect Fool: ballet music Britten Piano Concerto Helen Grime new work Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 (World Premiere) Beethoven Violin Concerto Steven Osborne piano Walton Symphony No.1 Vassily Sinaisky conductor Nicola Benedetti violin Russian conductor Vassily Sinaisky, always a Martyn Brabbins conductor popular guest of the orchestra, has made some fascinating forays into British music in recent years. Driving rhythms and passionate lyricism combine Having shown his versatility with some outstanding to make Walton’s First Symphony one of the Elgar in the past, here he tackles the most lyrical greatest of British symphonic works. It’s a piece of Vaughan Williams’ symphonies, the beautiful, that Martyn Brabbins and the BBC SSO have mystical Fifth. Holst’s ebullient Perfect Fool ballet performed many times and on this special occasion music makes the perfect prelude to Britten’s they will surely give a performance to remember. scintillatingly virtuosic Piano Concerto. This is barn- Nicola Benedetti’s association with the orchestra storming young man’s music, written for the young goes back to her triumph in 2004’s BBC Young composer himself to play at the BBC Proms, and Musician of the Year, and she is a welcome birthday as the Gramophone Award-winning recording with guest in the greatest of all violin concertos. No the BBC SSO will attest, it has the ideal interpreter celebration of the orchestra’s first 75 years would in Steven Osborne. be complete without some music that’s hot off Please note early start time* the press. It comes from the pen of Helen Grime, one of the most brilliantly talented of the latest 6.15pm in the Recital Room generation of Scottish composers. Steven Osborne talks to BBC Radio Scotland Please note early start time* presenter, Stephen Duffy, about Britten’sPiano
Concerto and about life as an international Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 soloist. 6.15pm in the Recital Room Cellist Anthony Sayer reflects on over 40 years approx. 10 minutes after main concert with the orchestra, since joining in 1969. Steven Osborne plays Tippett’s Sonata for Piano No.2, composed in 1962 and premiered at that approx. 10 minutes after main concert year’s Edinburgh International Festival. String players from the BBC SSO play several short works by Ian Whyte, who founded the BBC Scottish Orchestra in 1935.
08&09 Simon Johnson - principal trombone “Music is in the air all around you. You just take as much of it as you want.” Edward Elgar
Concert 7 Thursday, 9 December, 7.00pm*
This Sceptred Isle A Time there was...
BENEDICT MASON As a counterpart to This Sceptred Isle, this series Lighthouses of England AND Wales of four afternoon chamber music recitals at Britten Double concerto City Halls explores a wide range of music from for violin and viola Britain, with a particular focus on the golden Elgar Symphony No.2 period of creativity before and between the Two Anthony Marwood violin World Wars. Elegiac and nostalgic repertoire Lawrence Power viola from the worlds of Elgar, Howells, Bax and Finzi Ilan Volkov conductor are performed by some of the UK’s leading musicians: Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov returns to the City Halls’ podium for the first time this Sunday 3 October, 3.00pm season with a fascinating programme that includes Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe (piano duo) a rare performance of Britten’s early concerto for violin and viola, which he completed in sketch Sunday 17 October, 3.00pm form but never finalised for performance. Volkov’s Michael Collins (clarinet) subtle understanding of the music of Elgar led to Michael McHale (piano) a fine interpretation of the First Symphony with Sunday 24 October, 3.00pm the BBC SSO some years ago. Now, to close This Tasmin Little (violin) Sceptred Isle, he brings his consummate intellect Piers Lane (piano) and ardent musicianship to the big, romantic canvas of the Second Symphony. Sunday 31 October, 3.00pm Andrew Kennedy (tenor) and the Please note early start time* Aronowitz Ensemble 6.15pm in the Recital Room For more information visit: Elizabeth Layton (leader), Greg Lawson glasgowconcerthalls.com/a-time-there-was (principal second violin), Scott Dickinson These concerts are a collaboration with BBC (principal viola) and Martin Storey (principal Radio 3 and Glasgow’s Concert Halls and will be cello) discuss the highs and lows of playing in a recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3. broadcasting symphony orchestra. All Thursday Night Series concerts from This approx.10 minutes after main concert Sceptred Isle will be broadcast live at 7pm in Lawrence Power plays Britten’s Lachrymae for Performance on 3. There will be a companion solo viola. Discovering Music event on 29 November, featuring Elgar’s Falstaff.
10&11 Stephanie Jones - horn “They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not.” Anton Bruckner
Concert 8 Concert 9 Thursday, 27 January, 7.30pm Thursday, 10 February, 7.30pm Sacred and Profane Sacred and Profane
JS Bach Haydn Symphony No.44 ‘Trauer’ Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041 Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Bruckner Symphony No.5 Helena Juntunen soprano Daniel Hope director/violin Matthew Worth baritone Ilan Volkov conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus Donald Runnicles conductor The devotional quality of Bruckner’s symphonies has led some to see them as ‘cathedrals in sound’. Two great works united in their contemplation But that’s only half the story. At least as important of mortality form this beautifully balanced as their unique atmosphere of spiritual exaltation programme. Haydn’s ‘Mourning’ Symphony is one is their sense of a dramatic struggle to overcome of his finest, and although the story that he asked the pain and frustration of life. Bruckner’s Fifth for its slow movement to be played at his funeral Symphony is his longest and in some ways most is probably apocryphal, there’s no doubt that the complex work - a huge edifice that poses a real movement is one of his most profound creations. challenge to both orchestra and conductor. Ilan Brahms composed his German Requiem while Volkov has already proved himself a wonderful mourning the passing of his beloved mother exponent of Bruckner’s inspiring music with the and still grieving for his friend Robert Schumann. BBC SSO in the warm and detailed acoustic of The sincerity and serenity of its setting of texts City Halls, and this performance is surely one to from the German Bible has ensured its place as look forward to. Violinist Daniel Hope, one of one of the best loved masterpieces in the choral today’s most extraordinary, multi-faceted classical repertoire. Yet another chance to experience the music artists, prefaces this monumental symphony inspiring partnership of Donald Runnicles and the with the intimacy of a concerto by JS Bach. BBC SSO with Scotland’s internationally acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Chorus. 6.45pm in the Recital Room Richard Holloway, writer, broadcaster, and 6.45pm in the Recital Room former Bishop of Edinburgh, discusses music Writer and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Stephen and religion. Johnson considers Brahms’ ‘human requiem’. NB there will be no Coda after this concert NB there will be no Coda after this concert
12&13 Nicholas Bayley - principal double bass “Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things.” Igor Stravinsky
Concert 10 Concert 11 Thursday, 24 February, 7.30pm Thursday, 10 March, 7.30pm Sacred and Profane Sacred and Profane
Messiaen Un Sourire (1989) Wagner Prelude to ‘Parsifal’ Mozart Symphony No.38 ‘Prague’ Elgar Cello Concerto Stravinsky Pulcinella Sibelius Symphony No.1 INGILA BOHLIN soprano Johannes Moser cello THOMAS WALKER tenor Andrew Litton conductor ANDREW FOSTER-WILLIAMS bass American conductor Andrew Litton’s guest Matthias Pintscher conductor appearances with the BBC SSO are always a Distinguished composer Matthias Pintscher is highlight of the season, and this time he brings the BBC SSO’s new Artist-in-Association. He is a work that the orchestra has in its bones, also a fine conductor, and for this programme he Sibelius’s First Symphony. Wagner’s last opera, has chosen an intriguing selection of pieces, all of Parsifal, is rich in Christian imagery and the which have connections with the 18th century. beautiful Prelude to Act 1 sets the scene in the Composed to celebrate Mozart’s bicentenary, forest near Monsalvat, home of the Knights of Messiaen’s short piece A Smile is a little tribute to the Holy Grail. Elgar’s Cello Concerto, very much a Mozart’s sense of humour and his love of musical product of the composer’s despair at the end of jokes. It makes a perfect companion for Mozart’s the Great War, has its own inner spirituality, and masterly ‘Prague’ Symphony. The concert ends an elegiac sense of loss that never ceases to move with the riotous ballet-with-singers Pulcinella, the listener. It’s played here by the outstanding based on an 18th century play, with music once young German cellist Johannes Moser. attributed to Pergolesi given a scintillating makeover by Stravinsky. 6.45pm in the Recital Room Members of the orchestra’s cello section discuss, 6.45pm in the Recital Room amongst other things, the enduring popularity of Matthias Pintscher gives an introduction to Elgar’s Cello Concerto. tonight’s programme. approx. 10 minutes after main concert approx. 10 minutes after main concert Johannes Moser plays pieces for unaccompanied Andrew Foster-Williams gives a short vocal cello by JS Bach, Britten and Lutosławski. recital.
14&15 Alice Rickards - violin “I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.” Bela Bartók
Concert 12 Concert 13 Thursday, 24 March, 7.30pm Thursday, 7 April, 7.30pm Flights of Inspiration Flights of Inspiration
Sibelius The Wood Nymph Stuart MacRae Homage à Brahms Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat (World Premiere) Harrison Birtwistle Endless Parade Mahler Rückertlieder Bartók Music for strings, Brahms Symphony No.2 percussion and celesta Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Donald Runnicles conductor John Storgårds conductor The second fresh-minted BBC Commission A fascinating programme that features two inspired by the music of Brahms comes from works inspired by one of the 20th century’s most Stuart MacRae, former BBC SSO Composer- astute commissioners of new work, Paul Sacher. in-Association and one of the most strikingly One of his earliest commissions was Bartók’s individual talents to emerge in British music in extraordinary Music for strings, percussion and recent years. Brahms’ Second is often thought celesta, a virtuoso essay in orchestral colour. And of as the ‘sunniest’ of his symphonies, but while Håkan Hardenberger, arguably the world’s leading the last two movements are certainly among his trumpet player, performs one of Sacher’s last most carefree creations, there’s a gentler, more commissions, specially written for him - Birtwistle’s thoughtful mood in the first half of the piece portrait of a festive procession moving through that slightly contradicts that light-hearted image. the Italian town of Lucca. Finnish conductor John Scottish star mezzo Karen Cargill proved herself Storgårds returns with a visiting card from his a fine Mahler interpreter with Donald Runnicles native country in the shape of Sibelius’s colourful and the BBC SSO at City Halls a few years ago, early symphonic poem, The Wood Nymph. and here she sings Mahler’s five beautiful songs of love, loneliness and longing. 6.45pm in the Recital Room Mark O’Keeffe (principal trumpet) in conversation with Håkan Hardenberger, who 6.45pm in the Recital Room Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 celebrates his 50th birthday this year. Stuart MacRae talks to Simon Lord, Music Producer BBC SSO, about his new work, and approx. 10 minutes after main concert about the inspiration he has found in the music Mark O’Keeffe and BBC SSO colleague Hedley of Brahms. Benson play works for two trumpets, including an arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Vocalise. approx. 10 minutes after main concert Karen Cargill sings short solo works by Brahms, accompanied by Donald Runnicles, piano.
16&17 David Chadwick - violin “I am Russian in the completest possible sense of that word.” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concert 14 Concert 15 Thursday, 14 April, 7.30pm Thursday, 12 May, 7.30pm Flights of Inspiration Flights of Inspiration
Ravel Ma mère l’oye (Suite) MARTIN SUCKLING Dutilleux Cello Concerto: THE MOON, THE MOON! Tout un monde loIntain Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 Debussy Images (Gigues and Ibéria) ‘Emperor’ Ravel Bolero Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Lynn Harrell cello Nelson Freire piano Donald Runnicles conductor Ilan Volkov conductor Distinguished American cellist Lynn Harrell joins Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary relationship with the Donald Runnicles and the orchestra in this rich millionairess Nadezhda von Meck, whom he never mix of music by French composers. The inspiration properly met but who supported him financially for Dutilleux’s elusive, nocturnal Cello Concerto over many years, was undoubtedly a source of came from the poetry of Baudelaire, especially inspiration to him. It was her understanding and a line that gave it its title: A whole distant world… comforting words that encouraged him to carry dwells in your depths, oh scented forest. Also inspired on after the unsuccessful premiere of his Fifth by literature was Ravel’s wonderful ballet score Symphony. Now, of course, the symphony is one for Mother Goose. And Spain, often such a great of his most popular works, and one that makes a source of inspiration for French composers, forms glorious end to the season. In Beethoven’s Emperor the exotic backdrop to both Debussy’s Ibéria and Concerto Ilan Volkov and the orchestra renew Ravel’s ever-popular showpiece, Bolero. their collaboration with Brazilian-born Nelson Freire, who is increasingly recognised as one of the 6.45pm in the Recital Room most outstanding pianists in the world today. Stephen Johnson talks about tonight’s magical all-French programme. 6.45pm in the Recital Room Andrew Trinick, Outreach Producer BBC SSO, approx. 10 minutes after main concert in conversation with Ilan Volkov, Principal Guest Lynn Harrell plays Debussy’s Sonata for cello and Conductor, about his distinctive approach to piano of 1915. programming and his life as a conductor. approx. 10 minutes after main concert Nelson Freire plays Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No.2 ‘Moonlight’.
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CONCERTS Parking All concerts in the Thursday Night Series begin Convenient car parking, including at 7.30pm, except those on 18 November, disabled parking, is available at multi- 25 November, 2 December and 9 December storey facilities at Q-Park on Candleriggs which begin at the earlier time of 7.00pm. and Albion Street for just £1.20 on concert evenings. NB You will need to have your ONLINE ticket validated in the City Halls foyer on Website Keep up-to-date with the latest concert concert nights when you arrive at the information and biographies on the musicians venue. Other car parking facilities close to and conductors featured in the 2010/11 season City Halls include the NCP Glasshouse on at bbc.co.uk/bbcsso. You can also read detailed Glassford Street and car parks on the east notes for some of the concerts and enjoy access side of High Street in addition to metered to exclusive audio and video content. on-street parking throughout the area. Blog Why not get involved by becoming a EATING & DRINKING regular blogger and contribute your thoughts and One of the oldest quarters of Glasgow and opinions on what you have seen and heard. the cultural heart of the city, the Merchant Facebook Become a fan of the BBC SSO and City area is characterised by buzzing bars and keep up-to-date with all the latest info and award-winning restaurants to complement the comment, plus the chance to post your own design shops and thriving arts venues. In City reviews. Halls itself, the Candleriggs and Bazaar Bars are open on concert evenings and allow you Twitter Get the lowdown on the latest behind- to relax with a drink and enjoy the wonderful the-scenes gossip. atmosphere of the venue. Other BBC SSO Events
In addition to the Thursday Night Series, the Friday, 24 September, 5.00pm BBC SSO regularly presents a number of In Tune special concerts and events that take place FRIDAY, 5 NOVEMBER, 2.00pm at City Halls throughout the season. Discovering Music Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 Afternoon Performance (Part of the Romantics Unbound series) An ever-popular selection of classical favourites and lesser-known works from the symphonic SUNday, 14 November repertoire, with the orchestra ably assisted Hear and Now by outstanding conductors and soloists. James Dillon Nine Rivers (World Premiere) Discovering Music Monday, 29 November, 2.00pm Each event features a guest presenter and Discovering Music conductor who dissect a core work using Elgar Falstaff, Op.68: symphonic study specially selected musical extracts and (Part of the This Sceptred Isle series) historical anecdotes, which are followed by a complete performance of the work. Sunday, 19 December, 3.00pm Christmas at the Movies Hear and Now Thursday, 20 January, 2.00pm BBC Radio 3’s platform for new music in Afternoon Performance which we present the best and most exciting modern music by some of the world’s leading Monday, 31 January, 2.00pm composers. Discovering Music Messiaen In Tune (Part of the Sacred and Profane series) Broadcast live from City Halls, BBC Radio 3’s Saturday, 5 February, 7.30pm drive-time programme is a light-hearted mix Hear and Now of arts news and views reinforced by an eclectic choice of music featuring the BBC SSO Thursday, 17 February, 2.00pm and guests. Afternoon Performance Thursday, 17 March, 2.00pm Tickets: Availability and full programme Afternoon Performance details for the majority of events on this page will be announced at the beginning of Monday, 28 March, 2.00pm September 2010. Discovering Music Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 (Part of the Flights of Inspiration series) Thursday, 28 April, 2.00pm Afternoon Performance Saturday, 7 May, 7.30pm Hear and Now For information on BBC Radio 3 broadcasts Thursday, 19 May, 2.00pm Tel: 03700 100 300 Afternoon Performance BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Halls, Candleriggs Glasgow G1 1NQ Tel: 0141-552 0909 E-mail: [email protected] bbc.co.uk/bbcsso
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