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Welcome to our 2018/19 Season
It is a great joy to welcome you to a new season with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. I am excited about three centenaries we will be celebrating in our concerts: 100 years of one of the most inspiring musicians of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein, the (too early) death of the great French mystic and Iberophile Debussy, and the composition of one of the most deeply original and spiritual works by the Danish composer Rued Langgaard. I was lucky to be in a mind-blowing two-week masterclass with Bernstein in 1988, where he also conducted Songfest – one of his key works combining two of his greatest talents: music and words, and I’m thrilled to launch our Season with it. Debussy opened up unknown doors to what an orchestra can sound like, and we devote one concert to each of his loves: France and Spain. In his apocalyptical vision, Music of the Spheres, Langgaard wrote collage-music and minimalism long before we had words for it. Its spatial qualities will be felt when we spread out the orchestra and chorus in most of Glasgow Cathedral. Don’t miss it! In our continuing series of Composer Roots concerts, I am particularly looking forward to our meeting between a klezmer band and Mahler, Bloch and Bernstein – and we end the Season with Bartók and Brahms, in the company of the wonderful Elisabeth Leonskaja. She is just one member of an irresistible line-up of soloists and conductors who will join us this Season – and we’re sure that every concert will be something very special. Welcome! Thomas Dausgaard Chief Conductor
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Opening Night Thursday 20.09.2018 7.30pm
Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Drums sound, trumpets stand plain and proud: Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man has become a symbol of all that’s noble in the American Dream, and as Thomas Dausgaard launches our new Season, we celebrate American music at its most life-affirming. Augusta Read Thomas’s brand new work Brio lives up to its name and bursts with vim and vigour, while George Gershwin offers a swinging salute to the city that never sleeps – delivered by a pianist who’s a byword for brilliance. And then six world-class singers lift up their voices in Songfest, Leonard Bernstein’s big-hearted celebration of America in all its tolerance, diversity, tenderness and optimism. Originally written for the US Bicentennial celebrations, it’s more relevant than ever in its composer’s 100th anniversary year.
Augusta Read Thomas Brio (European Premiere) Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Bernstein Songfest Nadine Sierra soprano Kelley O’Connor mezzo-soprano Michèle Losier mezzo-soprano Paul Appleby tenor Nmon Ford baritone Musa Ngqungwana bass Marc-André Hamelin piano Thomas Dausgaard conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.15pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Thomas Dausgaard, BBC SSO Chief Conductor, introduces the 2018/19 Season and tonight’s concert.
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Thursday 27.09.2018 7.30pm
‘Music of the Spheres’ at Glasgow Cathedral
Haydn Symphony No.99
While the Great War raged across Europe, the Danish composer Rued Langgaard gazed into the infinite. Music of the Spheres was the result: a vast, luminous musical starscape that uses huge orchestral and choral forces to literally surround the audience with sound. Thomas Dausgaard is passionate about it, and when he conducted it at the 2010 BBC Proms it caused a sensation. This performance in the atmospheric acoustic of Glasgow Cathedral is a rare chance for Scotland to hear a true lost masterpiece. First, though, the award-winning young British soprano Rowan Pierce presents a bouquet of Strauss songs, and Dausgaard conducts Haydn’s exuberant Symphony No.99 – a universe in a grain of sand.
Richard Strauss Ich wollt’ ein Sträusslein binden Säusle, liebe Myrte! Amor Morgen Langgaard Sfærernes Musik (Music of the Spheres)* Rowan Pierce soprano Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices* Thomas Dausgaard conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.15pm
Please note this concert has limited capacity and unreserved seating, which changes for each half. Due to the nature of the venue, there are limited facilities, and restricted views in some areas. This event is not available as part of the Season Ticket package, but advance booking is available during the exclusive Season Ticket booking period.
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Meet our players: Charlotte Ashton joined the orchestra as Section Principal Flute in March 2017.
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When did you start playing and why did you choose your instrument? Charli: I started learning the flute aged nine. I had been learning the piano and playing in a recorder ensemble but I really wanted to learn another instrument. I had the choice between the flute and clarinet and I only managed to make a sound on the flute, so that was that really. If I’m completely honest, I was also drawn by how shiny it was…I still am! Did you always want to be a musician? I don’t really remember when I decided I wanted to become a musician. At one point I had to make a series of choices about my priorities and music always seemed to come out on top. That said, I think the desire to perform has always been there. I recently came across some programmes from concerts that my brother and I (aged around five and nine) presented to our parents – I’ve kept the programmes in case the BBC is looking for inspiration for next season! Who or what is your inspiration? As with probably most flute players, James Galway was such a huge inspiration to me when I was starting out. I used to sit for hours in front of my CD player, trying to work out all the right notes and playing along; the quality of his sound and musicianship makes his playing so accessible to everyone. And my parents have always been fantastic at guiding, encouraging and providing opportunities for me.
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How do you relax after a concert or when you’re not working? Moving to Glasgow has enabled me to buy my own flat, so I am enjoying the DIY aspects of doing up the flat bit by bit. My most recent undertaking is to make a coffee table for my living room, although I am starting to wonder if I’ve bitten off more than I can chew with that project! What’s been your highlight of playing with the orchestra so far and why? There have been so many… I really enjoyed our visits to London for the BBC Proms last year. I also felt the tour of Europe back in November was a real bonding experience with my colleagues. Being relatively new to the orchestra, this was a good chance to get to know everyone, and playing in the Musikverein in Vienna was so special.
Debussy wrote such gorgeous flute parts and they are so much fun to play. What are you looking forward to playing in the forthcoming season? As a flute player, I’d have to say it would, of course, be the all-French programme with Debussy’s La Mer and his Prélude. Debussy wrote such gorgeous flute parts and, although I have played these pieces before, they are so much fun to play and really encourage you to be as artistic and free as possible.
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Thursday 11.10.2018 7.30pm
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Dohnányi Violin Concerto No.1
Amidst the creative ferment of turn-of-the-century Europe, the young composers of Hungary searched for their sound. And when they found it, there was an unmistakable tang of paprika. Dohnányi’s First Violin Concerto is a twilit fin-de-siècle romance from the world of Sándor Márai’s Embers, and it’s played by probably its greatest living champion. Zoltán Kodály, meanwhile, evokes the flying fiddles and Roma rhythms of his childhood village band with infectious glee. The young Hungarian conductor Gergely Madaras has a way of making this music catch fire – and then he looks east to Russia, and Alexander Borodin’s gloriously tuneful, miniswashbuckler of a Second Symphony. Music to warm the blood and quicken the pulse.
Kodály Dances of Galánta Borodin Symphony No.2 Barnabás Kelemen violin Gergely Madaras conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.20pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Hungarian-born conductor Gergely Madaras introduces the works in tonight’s concert.
I am a composer in search of oblivion. Alexander Borodin
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Thursday 25.10.2018 7.30pm
Zappa, Anderson and Ives
Zappa The Perfect Stranger
“You’ll not get a wild heroic ride to heaven on pretty little sounds”. That’s what Charles Ives’s father told him, and there isn’t a piece in this concert that makes the smallest compromise in its determination to peel back your preconceptions and redefine your ideas about how an orchestra can sound. Frank Zappa meets Pierre Boulez on the 1980s New York underground, and Julian Anderson opens his “imaginary museum”, as pianist Steven Osborne brings a dazzling new piano concerto to Scotland. And then Ives throws everything he has at an anarchic, ecstatic celebration of his New England boyhood – motto: “All the wrong notes are right”. It could have been written for Ilan Volkov.
Julian Anderson The Imaginary Museum – concerto for piano and orchestra Ives A Symphony: New England Holidays Steven Osborne piano Ilan Volkov conductor There will be two intervals of approximately 15 minutes each. Concert ends at approx. 9.35pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Professor Peter Nelson, from the University of Edinburgh, introduces the concert.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. Frank Zappa
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Thursday 08.11.2018 7.30pm
Pintscher Conducts Pintscher
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin
An old man stands at the window, and looks out on falling snow. That haunting image was the imaginative starting point for Un despertar, the beautiful new cello concerto by the BBC SSO’s Artist-in-Association, Matthias Pintscher, and it’s taken from a poem by Octavio Paz. But its theme – of remembrance – is universal, just as the graceful Baroque-inspired dances of Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin celebrate the lives (rather than the tragically early deaths) of friends lost in the Great War. Bruno Delepelaire, First Principal Cello of the Berlin Philharmonic, is the soloist, and Pintscher himself conducts – before crowning the concert with the majesty, mystery and irrepressibly human warmth of Mozart’s Symphony No.39.
Matthias Pintscher Un despertar (An awakening) (Second Cello Concerto) Mozart Symphony No.39, K.543 Bruno Delepelaire cello Matthias Pintscher conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.20pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Matthias Pintscher introduces Un despertar.
Hallucinations are vivid, bizarre sensory experiences that can arise on the edge of sleep. They can immerse us into weird worlds, stretching a few moments of real time into what may feel like hours. Matthias Pintscher
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Thursday 22.11.2018 7.30pm
Debussy’s ‘La Mer’
Debussy Nocturnes*
“I have slandered the sea” wrote Claude Debussy. “Today it is beautiful enough to defy all comparisons”. Yet 100 years after his death in 1918, Debussy’s La Mer is surely the most poetic seascape ever painted for an orchestra, the work of a composer whose quiet genius turned music into an art of limitless expressive subtlety. This centenary celebration opens with Nocturnes – Impressionist paintings, transformed into ravishing sound – and includes the Prélude whose unprecedented sensuality scandalised Belle Époque Paris. But there’s darkness as well as light: Thomas Dausgaard joins Joaquín Achúcarro in the brooding concerto that Debussy’s compatriot Ravel created for a pianist who’d lost an arm in the Great War.
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Debussy La Mer Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices* Joaquín Achúcarro piano Thomas Dausgaard conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.30pm
Prelude: 6.30pm in the Old Fruitmarket A performance of the music for Javanese gamelan that partly inspired Debussy in 1889 to write the Nocturnes. Performed by Gamelan Naga Mas in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Music is the silence between the notes. Claude Debussy
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Meet our players: Alberto MenĂŠndez Escribano joined the orchestra as Section Principal Horn in October 2016.
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Where are you from, and how would you describe your home town? Alberto: I’m from Burgos in Spain, which is a small, old town with an amazing Gothic cathedral: great food, great people, and of course great weather! You have to visit… When did you start playing and why did you choose your instrument? I started when I was 7 years-old in Burgos and chose the horn for the beautiful colour of its sound. I was also really inspired by many horn solos in film soundtracks, especially those by composers like John Williams or James Horner. Did you always want to be a musician? Yes. When I was 12 I went to my first summer music course, and met some great musicians and teachers there. It was at that point that I decided to dedicate my life to making music.
Being in this orchestra is challenging, as you perform so many styles and varieties of music. Who or what is your inspiration? Well, that’s difficult to answer as I get inspiration not only from other horn players but also from many musicians, including my colleagues of the BBC SSO. A person who did change my musical point of view was my teacher Radovan Vlatković. And another chapter of my musical life opened when I met Claudio Abbado.
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How do you relax after a concert or when you’re not working? I actually relax when cooking a nice meal. If I had to change to another profession I wouldn’t mind trying to be a chef in a restaurant – Spanish of course! What’s it like being a member of the BBC SSO? Being in this orchestra is challenging, as you perform so many varieties of music. From traditional classical music to modern age music, and premiering new pieces like in our exciting Tectonics Festival – a real treat! What’s been your highlight of playing with the orchestra so far and why? I would say my solo performance of Mozart’s Horn Concerto No.4 last season, but I have really great memories of Mahler 10 with Donald Runnicles – it was quite a special performance and it was my very first gig with the orchestra. What are you looking forward to playing in the forthcoming season? The Viva España! concert. Why not? I am quite curious to see how the orchestra will play Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat. But I am also really looking forward to playing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, as it’s one of my favourite-ever pieces. Finally… you get dragged to a karaoke bar. What song do you sing? No way… Maybe La cucaracha? Hahaha…
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Thursday 29.11.2018 7.30pm
John Wilson’s Roman Festival
Donizetti Overture: Don Pasquale
Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna, but Rome was the love of his musical life. His tone poem Pines of Rome has always been popular, and rightly so: this symphonic panorama of Rome’s haunted ruins and shaded gardens is one of the 20th century’s most joyous orchestral showpieces. But to hear it performed alongside its less familiar companion pieces – the glittering Fountains of Rome, and the wild, sensual Roman Festivals – is to see the very life and soul of the Eternal City laid out before you, in full orchestral widescreen. BBC SSO Associate Guest Conductor John Wilson is a master of orchestral sound; and he’s paired Respighi’s Roman triptych with exquisite works by Donizetti and Puccini.
Puccini Capriccio Sinfonico Respighi Roman Festivals Respighi Fountains of Rome Respighi Pines of Rome John Wilson conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.30pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Dr Harriet Boyd-Bennett, from the University of Nottingham, discusses Respighi’s Roman music in the cultural and political context of its time.
Powerful, moving, and cinematically compelling throughout. Twitter comment
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Thursday 06.12.2018 7.30pm
Holst’s ‘The Planets’
Barber Second Essay for Orchestra
In the summer of 1914, Gustav Holst heard the ominous rhythms of approaching war – just as, in 1939, Benjamin Britten sensed storm clouds gathering over the Age of Anxiety. But there’s more to Holst’s The Planets than the thunder of Mars, and there’s more to Britten’s Violin Concerto than a glittering act of defiance written under the shadow of conflict. The Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes has both the skill and the emotional insight to explore every facet of this great British concerto, while guest conductor James Feddeck offers a compellingly fresh angle on Holst’s musical journey into the infinite. Barber’s wartime Second Essay, meanwhile, sets the terms of engagement with an eloquence that can’t be ignored.
Britten Violin Concerto Holst The Planets* James Ehnes violin Les Sirènes* James Feddeck conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.30pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Dr Kate Kennedy, author of Literary Britten, introduces the composer’s Violin Concerto.
Wonderful concert, played with such energy… Loved it! Twitter comment
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Thursday 17.01.2019 7.30pm
MacMillan Trombone Concerto
Dvořák Slavonic Dances (a selection)
On a snow-covered road, a flute plays a Russian folksong. Tchaikovsky’s six symphonies add up to a truly epic emotional journey, but that’s how it all begins, and there’s an innocence, an energy and a sense of youthful fantasy to his First Symphony that’s wholly captivating. Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances share the same freshness, and in the hands of conductor Martyn Brabbins they should make a delightful complement to a major Scottish Premiere: Sir James MacMillan’s powerful new Trombone Concerto, performed here by Jörgen van Rijen, the Dutch virtuoso who gave its World Premiere in Amsterdam in 2017. “Vintage MacMillan” said one critic. “The trombone sang, sang, sang” reported another: come and judge for yourself.
James MacMillan Trombone Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No.1 (‘Winter Daydreams’) Jörgen van Rijen trombone Martyn Brabbins conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.20pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Sir James MacMillan and Jörgen van Rijen discuss the concerto, writing for the trombone, and their musical collaboration.
Still buzzing after last night’s @BBCSSO concert! Twitter comment
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Thursday 07.02.2019 7.30pm
Composer Roots: Mahler 1
Bernstein Overture: Candide
If you could hear silence, how would it sound? Maybe something like the massive stillness that opens Mahler’s First Symphony: the starting point for a young artist’s journey to the heart of absolute tragedy and glorious triumph. It’s one of those pieces that simply has to be experienced live, and as part of our ongoing Composer Roots project, we’ll uncover its origins in Jewish folk music with the klezmer band She’Koyokh. To open, an effervescent Broadway overture by Mahler’s great champion Leonard Bernstein and a magnificent rarity by a late-romantic master who shared Bernstein and Mahler’s Jewish heritage. In Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo, the solo cello is King Solomon, and its voice is his Song – by turns passionate, forthright, and uninhibitedly sensuous.
Bloch Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque* Mahler Symphony No.1 She’Koyokh Jian Wang cello* Thomas Dausgaard conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.30pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Writer and broadcaster Gavin Plumley talks about Mahler’s complex musical roots, and how they influenced the First Symphony.
Another fabulous concert, with dazzling playing from all! Twitter comment
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Meet our players: Ben Norris joined the orchestra’s Second Violins in April 2015.
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Where are you from, and how would you describe your home town? Ben: I’m from a village near Perth, though I’ve lived around Scotland and spent a few years in London studying. Going back to Perthshire is always lovely, that warm home feeling, such a special place. I never really appreciated it until I moved away! When did you start playing and why did you choose your instrument? I started playing violin aged 5, after having had piano lessons from my mum before that. The “student/teacher relationship” never really worked, so one day my parents asked if I wanted to play the violin instead. I didn’t even know what a violin was but anything was better than more piano lessons! Did you always want to be a musician? If not, what would have been your dream job? I toyed with science and medicine as options – I was really inspired by my chemistry teacher at school as he really had the “mad scientist” vibe down to a tee. (His name was also Norman Conquest – no joke!) He asked me once “Ben, do you want to be a musical chemist or a chemical musician?” In the end I realised I would always pine for music if I didn’t pursue it as a career so left school at 16 to focus on getting into music college. Who or what is your inspiration? Lots of people inspire me in different ways. Most recently François Leleux who conducted the orchestra last year: what a lovely, brilliant man, incredible musician and true inspiration.
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How do you relax after a concert or when you’re not working? I love the hills. I used to get out walking a lot but these days I’ve turned to rock climbing, and have about 3 or 4 trips a year abroad to climb. Whilst here in Scotland I get out whenever the weather allows, even just for a couple of hours down the local crag, or multi-day trips up north or down to the Lake District.
The BBC SSO is such a special place to work. What’s it like being a member of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra? The BBC SSO is such a special place to work. So many facets and such different personalities all come together to make it a rich musical environment. The variation of repertoire and concert settings also keep things exciting. What are you looking forward to playing in the forthcoming season? There’s some good stuff, Mahler, Respighi (a totally underrated composer in my opinion), but strangely enough Borodin 2 stands out. It’s a piece I last played leading Perth Youth Orchestra on a tour to Estonia in 2004, so I’m looking forward to rediscovering it. Finally… you get dragged to a karaoke bar. What song do you sing? Either Doctor Jones by Aqua or Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Or the Fairytale of New York with my girlfriend if it’s Christmas time. Doctor Jones is surprisingly hard in the middle section!
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Sunday 17.02.2019 3.00pm
Berlioz’s ‘Lélio’
Berlioz Overture: Waverley
“Oh! How can I find her – the Ophelia, the Juliet for whom my heart cries! To intoxicate myself with the anguish and joy that is true love!” Lélio is a lover, a dreamer - and a composer. And if you think his name sounds a bit like Berlioz: well, we don’t want to give too much away about Lélio or The Return to Life – the extraordinary autobiographical musical drama that Berlioz composed in 1831 at the height of an unrequited love affair. But it’s utterly unique: a delirious odyssey through the Romantic imagination, told in some of Berlioz’s most flamboyantly original music. Conductor Joana Carneiro brings all her sense of theatre to this rare full performance, preceded by the composer’s Walter Scott-inspired Waverley overture, and Karen Cargill in the sensuous and dramatic solo cantata, The Death of Cleopatra.
Berlioz La mort de Cléopâtre* Berlioz Lélio or The Return to Life, Op.14b Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano* Actor to be announced Andrew Tortise tenor Sam Furness tenor Neal Davies bass Edinburgh Festival Chorus Joana Carneiro conductor Concert ends at approx. 5.00pm
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Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. Hector Berlioz
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Thursday 21.02.2019 7.30pm
Bruckner Symphony No.7
CPE Bach Symphony in E flat major, Wq.179 (H.654)
The first thing you sense is a quiet shimmer in the air. And then, like some vast mountain rising from the clouds, the opening melody of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony soars majestically towards the heavens. Bruckner said it came to him in a dream, played by an angel – but when Ilan Volkov brings his searching musical intelligence and emotional insight to bear on this monumental “cathedral in sound”, the results might well be revelatory. Two contrasting – but equally inventive – masterpieces set the scene: an ebullient little symphony from JS Bach’s son Carl Phillip Emmanuel, and the witty, electricallycharged Violin Concerto that Stravinsky intended to be unplayable. No fear on that score from our soloist Carolin Widmann.
Stravinsky Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No.7 Carolin Widmann violin Ilan Volkov conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.35pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Ilan Volkov introduces the concert.
They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. Anton Bruckner
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Thursday 14.03.2019 7.30pm
Viva España!
Debussy Images
It’s been said that all the best Spanish music came from France. That’s not strictly true – nothing captures the fragrance of an Andalusian evening quite like Manuel de Falla’s enchanted Nights in the Gardens of Spain, especially when performed by the superb young Spanish virtuoso Javier Perianes. And there’s nothing polite about the flamenco rhythms and simmering passions of his ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, either. But that didn’t stop Ravel and Debussy falling in love with the sounds, scents and images of Spain, and from the moonlit warmth of Debussy’s Images to the heady perfumes of Ravel’s sun-drenched Rapsodie espagnole, this is a programme to fire the imagination and caress the ears.
Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite No.1 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain* Ravel Alborada del gracioso Ravel Rapsodie espagnole Javier Perianes piano* Thomas Dausgaard conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.40pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Dr Caroline Potter, from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, talks about French composers’ fascination with Spain.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. Maurice Ravel
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Thursday 04.04.2019 7.30pm
Mahler’s ‘Song of the Earth’
Takemitsu A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
As Gustav Mahler contemplated his own mortality, he drew consolation and strength from the poetry of ancient China. Das Lied von der Erde is the result: a symphony in all but name that distils every last drop of life’s sorrow and sweetness into six heartrending songs. Toru Takemitsu, meanwhile, looked west: charting a very personal musical path between western classical music and the philosophy and art of his native Japan to create soundscapes of unique, and haunting, beauty. Glowing autumn colours mingle with cries of longing in this wonderfullyconceived programme from the BBC SSO’s hugely respected Conductor Emeritus Donald Runnicles, plus two singers whose unflinching emotional commitment has won international acclaim.
Takemitsu Requiem for Strings Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) Kelley O’Connor mezzo-soprano Paul Groves tenor Donald Runnicles conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.25pm
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Dr Sabine Wieber, from the University of Glasgow, explores the cultural context around Das Lied von der Erde, with reference to the fashion for Chinese culture in Mahler’s time.
Last night’s concert was spellbinding. Twitter comment
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Thursday 25.04.2019 7.30pm
Shostakovich Symphony No.10
Stravinsky Symphonies of wind instruments
The Soviet authorities called Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony an “optimistic tragedy”, and if that sounds confusing, it’s probably because they were Mark-Anthony Turnage as astonished – and conflicted – as the rest of us Percussion Concerto by this most troubled of modern masterpieces. Shostakovich A massive, defiant act of self-assertion in the face Symphony No.10 of official tyranny, it’s a monumental climax to a concert that begins with the primary-coloured Colin Currie percussion sonorities and timeless Russian rituals of Stravinsky’s Martyn Brabbins conductor Symphonies of wind instruments and which also Concert ends at approx. 9.15pm features Colin Currie, one of Scotland’s (and the world’s) finest percussionists in the Scottish Premiere of an arresting new concerto by Mark-Anthony Turnage: a heartfelt, typically uncompromising memorial to a musical friend whom Turnage describes as “quirky and volatile, with strong beliefs”. Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Mark-Anthony Turnage in conversation with BBC Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson.
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Thursday 09.05.2019 7.30pm
Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’
Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow
In the midst of darkness so dense that you can almost touch it, there’s a flash of light, a shower of sparks – and Stravinsky’s The Firebird explodes Vaughan Williams brilliantly into life, giving a musical voice to a On Wenlock Edge* revolutionary generation. This was an era of strong Stravinsky emotions, so if you thought Vaughan Williams’s music The Firebird (complete ballet) was merely pastoral, think again, as tenor David Webb sings the orchestral version of On Wenlock Edge: David Webb tenor* music of shimmering colour, swept by a desperate Ben Gernon conductor passion. For our charismatic young guest conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.15pm Ben Gernon, it’s a natural complement to Stravinsky’s dark fairytale, while a poignant miniature from 1913 by Vaughan Williams’s great friend George Butterworth hints at a world that might have been. Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Writer and broadcaster Dr Kate Kennedy explores the impact of AE Housman (author of On Wenlock Edge) and wartime music.
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Photo/Elisabeth Leonskaja by Marco Borggreve
Closing Night Friday 17.05.2019 7.30pm
Leonskaja Plays Brahms
Brahms Piano Concerto No.1
“Life-assertion” was how Béla Bartók described the dazzling finish of his Concerto for Orchestra – even though he might already have known that he wouldn’t live to complete it. Yes: it’s one of the 20th century’s most brilliant orchestral showpieces, drenched in the rhythms and colours of Bartók’s native Hungary. It’s also a stirring testimony to the human spirit, every bit as passionate – and as moving – as Brahms’s mighty First Piano Concerto. This is Brahms without the famous beard, the heartfelt music of a young genius who’d known personal tragedy and impossible love. And few living pianists can approach the great Elisabeth Leonskaja for power, poetry or simple humanity.
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Thomas Dausgaard conductor Concert ends at approx. 9.20pm Please note this is a Friday night concert.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room Thomas Dausgaard looks back at the BBC SSO’s 2018/19 Season and introduces the final concert.
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Leonardo’s Balance of Nature, 1983 (detail) by Gloria Coates
Hear and Now Saturday 17.11.2018 8.00pm Gloria Coates Symphony No.1 Gloria Coates Symphony No.7 Gloria Coates Symphony No.11 Ilan Volkov conductor Tickets for this concert are available from Monday 8 October 2018.
Gloria Coates Born in Wisconsin, but resident in Europe since the late 1960s, Gloria Coates has been a leading figure in American composition since her work, Music for Open Strings (since retitled Symphony No.1), caused a sensation at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in the 1970s. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, her works are characterised by her use of tone clusters, glissandos and chorales. As well as being a composer, she is an abstract-expressionist painter and her oeuvre includes symphonies, chamber works and song. In this concert, the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov, directs three of her symphonies, which serve as both a musical portrait of an outstanding artist and, for some, an introduction to a unique musical voice. Hear and Now Concerts are FREE but limited to two tickets per application. Venue booking fees may apply (see back page). Seating is unreserved.
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Still image from the Piano Concerto video – Simon Steen-Andersen
Hear and Now Saturday 12.01.2019 8.00pm David Fennessy The Ground (BBC Commission, World Premiere) Per Nørgård Symphony No.7 Simon Steen-Andersen Piano Concerto (for piano, sampler, video and symphony orchestra) (UK Premiere)
Nicolas Hodges piano Thomas Dausgaard conductor Tickets for this concert are available from Monday 3 December 2018.
Fennessy/ Nørgård/ Steen-Andersen BBC SSO Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard brings two voices from his native Denmark to City Halls for this Hear and Now, including Nørgård’s Seventh Symphony of which he gave the world premiere. The composer’s no-holds-barred approach is still evident in this work from 2006, scored in part for 14 tom-toms, and it’s presented here with an equally intense and innovative work by Simon Steen-Andersen. This piano concerto, which uses pre-recorded audio-visual material, takes as its starting point the sound and video recording of a grand piano falling onto a concrete floor from a height of 8 metres. The result is a spectacular, genre-bending multimedia experience. Nicolas Hodges is the soloist. And the concert opens with a new work by Glasgow-based composer David Fennessy, the latest in the orchestra’s Scottish Inspirations commissions that reflect and are inspired by Scottish culture. Hear and Now Concerts are FREE but limited to two tickets per application. Venue booking fees may apply (see back page). Seating is unreserved.
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Afternoon Performance Concerts Tickets: £12.00 if bought in advance. £14.00 if bought on the day of performance. Under 26s, Students and Registered Unemployed: £6 (proof of status required). Venue booking fees may apply (please see back page). All seating at Afternoon Performance Concerts is unreserved.
Thursday 01.11.2018 2.00pm Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie Rossini ‘Una Voce poco fa’ – from The Barber of Seville ‘La pace mia smarrita’ – from Moses in Egypt ‘Non piu Mesta’ – from Cinderella Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
Tchaikovsky and Rossini “Pathétique” translates as “full of emotion” and even Tchaikovsky never wrote anything more powerful, more melodious or more heartbreakingly sincere than the Sixth, an uninhibited musical autobiography. Equally grand in passion are a series of operatic showstoppers from the operas of Rossini, who died 150 years ago, especially when performed by Christine Rice – hailed by critics for her “flashes of vocal fire”. It’s prosecco for the ears.
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’ Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Richard Farnes conductor
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Thursday 13.12.2018 2.00pm Anna Clyne Masquerade Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor Sibelius Symphony No.2 Pablo Ferrández cello Alpesh Chauhan conductor This concert is scheduled to be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Thursday 31.01.2019 2.00pm Bartók Suite No.2 Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 Bartók Suite No.1 Stephen Hough piano Thomas Dausgaard conductor
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Dvořák Cello Concerto “I am just an ordinary Czech musician” said Antonín Dvořák: but great artists see whole worlds in everyday things, and the birdsong, horncalls and tender memories that he poured into his Cello Concerto only heighten its power. Sibelius, too, begins with rural simplicity: just a few chords and a playful tune. But his mighty Second Symphony swells, gathers and broadens into a musical floodtide that sweeps all before it. The young British conductor Alpesh Chauhan never stints on drama; add the “overwhelming charisma” of cellist Pablo Ferrández and we can expect emotions on the grandest possible scale, launched on their way by the rollicking dance rhythms of Masquerade – Anna Clyne’s riotous evocation of a medieval carnival.
Stephen Hough Plays Liszt They called it “Lisztmania”: audiences would scream, cheer and even faint with sheer excitement when they heard Franz Liszt playing the piano. He’s no longer available in person, but to hear the phenomenal Stephen Hough unleashing all his powers on Liszt’s demonic First Piano Concerto, is one of 21st century music’s most exhilarating experiences. You can’t really top that, so Thomas Dausgaard has placed it in a wonderfully appropriate context: the two youthful, richly coloured Orchestral Suites by Liszt’s fellow Hungarian, Béla Bartók.
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Thursday 07.03.2019 2.00pm Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
John Wilson Conducts Rachmaninov
Elizabeth Reiter soprano* John Wilson conductor
“It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches, rocking gently and talking gently and watching the street…” Nostalgia can sometimes be the strongest emotion of all. Samuel Barber knew that when he created a long, blissful musical daydream of a Midwestern childhood. Leonard Bernstein knew it too: there’s solitude as well as thrills when he takes Manhattan in On the Town. And Sergei Rachmaninov, exiled forever from Russia, explored new worlds in a glittering, Art Deco streamliner of a Third Symphony that never quite shakes off its sense of loss. No-one knows how to make this music soar and glow quite like our Associate Guest Conductor, John Wilson.
Thursday 21.03.2019 2.00pm
Beethoven’s Fourth
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915* Rachmaninov Symphony No.3
Toshio Hosokawa Meditation to the victims of the Tsunami, March 2011 Dai Fujikura Impulse - Piano Concerto No.3 (UK Premiere)
Beethoven Symphony No.4 Yu Kosuge piano Alexander Liebreich conductor
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“Composing is all about creating a utopia that I would like to live in” says Dai Fujikura - “a whole world, not just colour, or scenery, but I hope to stimulate every sense you can imagine”. He’d have got along well with Beethoven, who said that he wanted to “press out a glorious wine to intoxicate all humanity” – and in his joyous, headstrong Fourth Symphony he comes thrillingly close. It’ll feel like a celebration, coming after the exquisitely-imagined soundworld of Fujikura’s new piano concerto (played by the pianist who inspired it), and the haunting, powerfully evocative Meditation by Toshio Hosokawa, directed by the conductor who gave its premiere just twelve months after the tragedy it commemorates.
Thursday 18.04.2019 2.00pm Haydn Symphony No.42 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Brahms Symphony No.3 Vadym Kholodenko piano Nicholas Carter conductor
Thursday 16.05.2019 2.00pm Bartók Hungarian Sketches
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini “Free but happy” is the motto that Brahms gave to his Third Symphony, and it begins with all the exhilaration of a summer downpour. What comes next is a musical exploration of German Romanticism at its most poetic, a world of rolling clouds, tender lullabies, and – at the end – radiant sunsets. It’s a magnificent finish to a concert that‘s all about colour: and make no mistake, Vadym Kholodenko will bring out every glittering facet of Rachmaninov’s hugely popular Rhapsody. Just as conductor Nicholas Carter will find every scintilla of wit in a brilliant but rarely-heard symphony by the composer Brahms loved above all others: Joseph Haydn.
Elgar Symphony No.1
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Thomas Dausgaard conductor
Elgar wouldn’t say if his First Symphony told a story – merely that “it expressed a wide experience of human life with a great charity (love) and a massive hope in the future”. But the British public knew a masterpiece when they heard one, and when it was premiered in 1908, the audience leapt to its feet and cheered. Thomas Dausgaard brings a uniquely fresh approach to a late-Romantic epic like no other, paired here today with Bartók’s vivid musical postcards from Transylvania, and the poetry, tenderness and heart-on-sleeve romance of the Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann. There’s a good reason why pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja is revered by her fellowmusicians: and you’re about to hear it.
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Schumann Piano Concerto Elgar Symphony No.1
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Friday 21.12.2018 7.30pm
Clare Teal’s Swingin’ Christmas
Clare Teal singer and presenter Gavin Sutherland conductor
Get into the seasonal spirit as jazz singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal joins the orchestra for a festive Friday night of classic Christmas songs, all performed with her inimitable panache and humour. Expect a sparkling mix of old chestnuts, unearthed treasures and Yuletide originals in some finger-snapping, toe-tapping arrangements, with the sound of the BBC SSO radiating a musical warmth that’s guaranteed to melt the frostiest of hearts.
Tickets: £30, £25, £20, £15. Under 16s: Half Price. Venue Booking fees may apply
Sunday 23.12.2018 3.00pm
Christmas at the Movies
Jamie MacDougall singer and presenter
Like getting socks for Christmas and Auntie May having one sherry too many before lunch, attending the BBC SSO’s concert of music from the Big Screen is now an annual part of many families’ seasonal celebrations. And it’s easy to see why. From the sweeping melodies of Hollywood’s Golden Age, to selections from recent multiplex blockbusters, via Disney favourites and John Williams classics, there’s something for every generation. Singer and presenter Jamie MacDougall is your host, as the BBC SSO once again brings movie magic to City Halls. Better book now!
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Sunday 28.10.2018 2.00pm
Come and Create 1: Frank Zappa Sunday 02.12.2018 2.00pm
Come and Create 2: Holst’s ‘The Planets’ Sunday 17.02.2019 11.00am
Come and Create at City Halls Here’s your chance to explore music from across the Season, join-in with professionals from the BBC SSO and take part in relaxed sessions that explore music and creativity. They’re recommended for everyone aged 7+ and use works from the Season as a source of inspiration. Almost any instrument can take part; from accordion to trumpet, violin to clarsach, bassoon to bagpipes. You don’t need to read music, and if you don’t have an instrument anyone can join the choir, or play percussion.
Come and Create 3: Exploring Berlioz
Places are FREE but limited and you need to sign up in advance. For application details please visit our website bbc.co.uk/bbcsso or email ssooutreach@bbc.co.uk. Come and Create sessions last approximately 3 hours.
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Book your Season Ticket for 2018/2019 1. Decide how many concerts you want to attend (checking if you are entitled to a free one!) and where you would like to sit. 2. Calculate your discount from the grid and then fill in the form on pages 57 and 58.
3. Cut off and return to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Box Office using the address provided. Please note that there is a Box Office charge of £2.00 per subscription transaction. Subscription booking is by post only.
Exclusive Season Ticket booking opens on Thursday 22 March 2018
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Hungarian Rhapsodies
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Debussy’s ‘La Mer’
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John Wilson’s Roman Festival
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MacMillan Trombone Concerto
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Composer Roots: Mahler 1
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Berlioz’s ‘Lélio’
Thursday 21 Feb
Bruckner 7
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Viva España! Mahler’s ‘Song of the Earth’
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How to find us Getting to City Halls and the Old Fruitmarket City Halls and the Old Fruitmarket are situated at the heart of the Merchant City at the north end of Candleriggs between Trongate and Ingram Street. They are within easy walking distance of Argyle Street, Queen Street, High Street and Central railway stations as well as St. Enoch and Buchanan Street subway stations. Buchanan Bus Station is a 15 minute walk away. All entrances at City Halls and the Old Fruitmarket are fully accessible with lifts to every level of the auditorium. Wheelchairs are available on request and can be pre-booked via the box office. Guide dogs are welcome at City Halls.
Access The Grand Hall at City Halls is accessible to those with mobility difficulties. A lift from the Candleriggs entrance gives access to all levels. The auditorium is equipped with an induction loop and an infra-red assisted hearing facility. Please notify the Box Office when booking. There is wheelchair access to both parts of Music of the Spheres at Glasgow Cathedral, but wheelchair spaces may be limited, with restricted views. Please notify the box office if you require a wheelchair space for this concert.
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Glasgow Series Ticket Prices £28.00, £23.50, £19.50, £14.00
Box Office Charges
£6 tickets for Under 26s, Students, and Unemployed Patrons under 26, students (those in full time education), and Registered Unemployed are entitled to a £6 ticket for themselves (subject to availability). Proof of status is required. Ticket must be collected in person. Excludes Christmas concerts. 50% Discount for Registered Disabled Disabled patrons, and a carer where required, will receive a 50% discount on any single full price ticket.
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