BBC SSO: Aberdeen Spring Season 2022

Music Hall Aberdeen 2022

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Friday 04.02.2022 7.30pm

Korngold Violin Concerto

Korngold Violin Concerto (c.25 mins)

Korngold’s glamorous, glittering Violin Concerto is an extraordinary fusion of Hollywood and Old Vienna.

Quoting themes from his movie scores of the 1930s, it was a late success for a composer who’d discovered his richly romantic music was perfect for the big screen.

Here it will take flight in the hands of our wonderful soloist, Benjamin Beilman. Wagner’s The Mastersingers of Nuremberg was once described as ‘the longest smile in the German language’. After his thrilling interpretation of music from The Ring in 2019, conductor Antony Hermus returns to Aberdeen with the BBC SSO with Henk de Vlieger’s distillation of the composer’s sunniest opera, a non-stop outpouring of warmth and melody, guaranteed to melt the hardest of hearts.

Wagner (arr. Henk de Vlieger) Meistersinger, an orchestral tribute (c.48 mins) Benjamin Beilman violin Antony Hermus conductor

Benjamin Beilman by Stephan Ruiz, Antony Hermus by Marco Borggreve, Rosanne Philippens by Sarah Wijzenbeek, Mark Wigglesworth by Benjamin Ealovega, Adam Walker by Christa Holka, Marin Alsop by Adriane White

Friday 11.03.2022 7.30pm

The Lark Ascending

Wagner Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (c.20 mins)

If full-blown emotion’s your thing, then look no further. Sibelius’s First is unquestionably the composer’s most Romantic symphony and often recalls Tchaikovsky at full tilt. Richard Wagner, too, gave everything when writing his epic opera of starcrossed lovers, so expect 100 percent passion and commitment from the orchestra under tonight’s conductor, Mark Wigglesworth. At the eye of the storm, however, all is calm. A lark, free from human angst, sings and soars above a pastoral landscape and time stands still. Every performance of Vaughan Williams’s most popular work is a special occasion and here the sensational Rosanne Philippens gives voice to the bird.

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (c.15 mins) Sibelius Symphony No.1 (c.40 mins) Rosanne Philippens violin Mark Wigglesworth conductor

Friday 22.04.2022 7.30pm

Marin Alsop Conducts Dvořák

James MacMillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

Following her acclaimed appearances with the BBC SSO at the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival, Marin Alsop returns with a programme steeped in folk traditions. Sir James MacMillan’s depiction of persecution and redemption in 17th century Scotland has become a modern classic since the BBC SSO gave the premiere in 1990. When Czech listeners first experienced Dvořák’s Seventh they recognised the music of their homeland and heard it as a drama of national reawakening – but you don’t need Bohemian blood to be swept along by its passion and glorious melodies. And as a contrast to these tumultuous orchestral visions, Mozart’s first Flute Concerto, an elegant, under-appreciated gem, performed here by the outstanding Adam Walker.

(c.26 mins)

Mozart Flute Concerto No.1 in G Major, K.313 (c.24 mins) Dvořák Symphony No.7 (c.40 mins) Adam Walker flute Marin Alsop conductor

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Single Tickets Area I: £26.00 Book all 3 concerts for £62.40 Area II: £21.00 Book all 3 concerts for £50.40 Area III: £18.00 Book all 3 concerts for £43.20 Area IV: £14.00 Book all 3 concerts for £33.60 Single Ticket Discounts £6 tickets for Under 26s, Students and Unemployed: Under 26s, Students (those in full-time education) and Registered Unemployed are entitled to a £6 ticket for themselves in areas III-IV (subject to availability). Proof of status is required.

Balcony 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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