Glasgow City Halls Concert Season 10/11
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to the 2010/11 Season with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra!
scottish chamber orchestra patron hrh The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay principal conductor Robin Ticciati conductor laureate Sir Charles Mackerras conductor emeritus Joseph Swensen composer laureate Sir Peter Maxwell Davies chairman Donald MacDonald cbe managing director Roy McEwan
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When I am asked what it is that makes the SCO such a special orchestra, one distinct thought comes to mind: the remarkable flexibility and commitment in transmitting the different emotional worlds of every composer that they, as a group of musicians, face. We are servants to the composers and their scores. With that comes a huge responsibility to find, as much as we can, how the composer wanted his or her music to be played. It is this chameleon-like quality the Orchestra brings to performance practice that allows us to explore, in a single season, the music of Purcell through to the most recently penned notes of John Adams. I am thrilled that Sir Charles Mackerras returns to conduct the SCO Chorus in two of the greatest choral works ever written: Mozart’s dark, deeply enigmatic Requiem and Handel’s uplifting Messiah. Among other familiar faces are Oliver Knussen, Louis Langrée, Andrew Manze and Joseph Swensen. Robert Levin brings his encyclopaedic knowledge to bear whilst directing and playing in a programme of Mozart and Haydn – a classical feast not to be missed.
Hidden in many of the programmes you will find a thread of exoticism, whether it be in Schreker’s intensely expressionistic Chamber Symphony for 22 solo players or Colin Matthews’ arrangement of Fauré Melodies for the SCO and Sally Matthews. Renaud Capuçon will perform the Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2: a first for the SCO! There is a mini Stravinsky series as the Orchestra explores his neoclassical chamber ballets alongside some of Haydn’s most celebrated symphonies – bringing these composers together will ignite an explosion of textures, wit, energy and orchestral virtuosity. Do come and celebrate the opening of our Season with a concert performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, an opera that challenges the very ideals of humanity. “Every bar is loaded with meaning. The composer cannot help himself, he himself is possessed. He is like his Hero, driven by a force he is powerless to arrest” (David Cairns). Make your own judgement as to how we are to feel at the end of this tale. With warm wishes,
Robin Ticciati
principal conductor scottish chamber orchestra
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Don Giovanni The first concert of the Season is, quite simply, one of the greatest operas ever written. Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati conducts a concert performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, described by Charles Gounod as “that unequalled and immortal masterpiece… a work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection”. Join a world-class line-up of international soloists in relishing its irresistible mix of comedy, drama and the supernatural.
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Stravinsky: The Chamber Ballets
Mackerras, Mozart and The Messiah
From January to March 2011, Robin Ticciati celebrates the ballet music of Igor Stravinsky in a series of three concerts. The composer’s association with dance came early in his career when he caught the attention of Sergei Diaghilev, the director of the ground-breaking Ballets Russes in Paris. Parisian audiences loved to be scandalised by him, but his ballet scores are indisputable masterpieces of the genre and he is one of only a handful of composers whose work can be said to have transformed music in his time.
The Orchestra’s venerable Conductor Laureate conducts two blockbuster concerts in the 10/11 Season – Handel’s Messiah in November and, closing the Season in May, Mozart’s Requiem and ‘Jupiter’ Symphony.
SCO Chorus The SCO Chorus, under the leadership of new Chorusmaster Gregory Batsleer, has an exciting Season in store. Its appearance in Don Giovanni is followed by a performance of Handel’s Messiah with Sir Charles Mackerras; a Baroque programme including the spine-tingling Zadok the Priest; and performances of both the Fauré and Mozart Requiems.
New Romantics A new spirit has risen in music in the past 50 years. There was a time when ‘new’ mostly meant alienating or difficult. Reacting against that, a new ‘Romanticism’ emerged which re-established a direct line of communication between composers and audiences through accessible ideas, softer harmonies, the inspiration of folk music and the rediscovery of the spiritual and emotional legacy of such late Romantics as Sibelius, Bruckner and Mahler. Throughout this Season, the SCO explores aspects of this new spirit as reflected in the music of major figures such as John Adams, cultish mavericks like Ingram Marshall or Giorgio Battistelli, and bold newcomers such as Albert Schnelzer. 5
Ticciati conducts Don Giovanni
Friday 8 October 7pm
Supported by Dunard Fund and The Don Giovanni Circle. mozart
Don Giovanni (concert performance) (180’)
robin ticciati Conductor florian boesch Don Giovanni maximilian schmitt Don Ottavio kate royal Donna Elvira susan gritton Donna Anna malin christensson Zerlina vito priante Leporello david soar Masetto sco chorus
A landmark occasion to open the Season: Don Giovanni has been performed by no finer cast in Scotland since Mackerras conducted it at the Edinburgh International Festival in the 1990s. Ticciati brings all his Glyndebourne and Salzburg opera house experience to bear on this enthralling comedy of seduction, murder and damnation. Mozart’s score includes some of his most gripping music alongside sparkling tunes that have become universal favourites: the duet ‘Là ci darem la mano’, the serenade ‘Deh, vieni alla finestra’ and the love song, ‘Dalla sua pace’ – not to mention that ‘Catalogue Aria’ listing some of the hundreds of women seduced and abandoned by Don Giovanni. Please note start time.
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New Romantics I
Friday 15 October 7.30pm
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Three Places in New England (18’) The Wound-Dresser (20’) Son of Chamber Symphony (23’) Scottish premiere Orphic Memories (20’) European premiere
baldur brönnimann Conductor christopher maltman Baritone
Minimalism gave back classical music its groove in the 1960s by rediscovering the joy of catchy dancing rhythms, hypnotic patterns and harmonies that speak straight to the heart. It reconnected with popular music – jazz, rock and world traditions – and fused them with inspirations from the age of Bach and beyond. Over five decades it has matured into, arguably, the most significant new direction for music of our time. Adams and Marshall – key figures both – share a deeply seated Romanticism, drawing on the tradition of Copland, Sibelius and Ives; you hear them here in predominantly mellow, soulful mood. pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) ingram marshall, composer of orphic memories, talks to svend brown, artistic director of glasgow’s concert halls, about the piece, his music and minimalism.
Mozart at the Piano I
Friday 22 October 7.30pm
Scenes from Prometheus (20’) Piano Concerto No 27 in B-flat K595 (28’)* mendelssohn Overture, The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) (10’) mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 (30’)* beethoven mozart
piotr anderszewski Piano/Director* alexander janiczek Violin/Director
There are two chances this Season to measure the sheer richness of Mozart’s musical imagination by hearing two utterly different piano concertos side by side during the same evening (see also the concert on 8 April). Anderszewski juxtaposes the stormy, operatic drama of K466 and the near Beethovenian breadth of K595 – Mozart’s last piano concerto.
“Witnessing a partnership such as Piotr Anderszewski and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra makes one wonder why a conductor should ever be considered necessary for performing Mozart’s piano concertos…” – the guardian
presented as part of minimal, a long weekend of minimalist music at glasgow’s concert halls. find out more at www.glasgowconcerthalls.com/minimal
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New Romantics II
Friday 19 November 7.30pm
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schnelzer
beethoven
Symphony No 5 (Symphony for Strings) (17’) Oboe Concerto ‘The Enchanter’ (23’) UK premiere sco co-commission with Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Symphony No 7 (36’)
john storgårds Conductor françois leleux Oboe
Within weeks, the SCO performs the two most contrasting of all Beethoven’s symphonies (don’t miss Beethoven’s Fourth on 3 December). Delirious, driving rhythms make his Seventh Symphony an ideal finale to this concert with its barely concealed theme of ‘dance’. William Schuman’s sprung and spry writing for strings is a pleasure to the ear – and there’s a chance to sample the work of a young man from Sweden who is making waves internationally. For Albert Schnelzer, the essence of music boils down to two things: singing and dancing. He is in perfect company here. pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) albert schnelzer talks to svend brown about his new oboe concerto ‘the enchanter’.
Comparing Notes discussion group meets before this concert – see right for details.
Comparing Notes Do you enjoy a good chat about music? Many people are enjoying the growing trend for reading groups to share their love of books, and we think that there are just as many who would enjoy the opportunity to talk about music and share their views with others. A Glasgow discussion group will meet four times before SCO concerts to chat about the music featured in that evening’s performance: Friday 19 November New Romantics II Friday 26 November Mackerras conducts Messiah Friday 3 December Collard plays Ravel Friday 10 December Vienna Centuries Reserve your place now by calling SCO Connect on 0131 478 8353.
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Mackerras conducts Messiah
This Season is dotted with unmissable performances of popular choral classics interpreted by outstanding casts and conductors. Mackerras’ Handel credentials Friday 26 November hardly need to be stressed: here is a great conductor of our time whose musical and – 7.30pm most importantly in Handel – dramatic instincts take him deep into the heart handel Messiah (120’) of the music. The line-up of soloists is as delectable as anyone could wish for in sir charles mackerras Conductor Handel’s seasonal masterpiece. Hallelujah! sophie bevan Soprano christine rice Mezzo Soprano Comparing Notes discussion group allan clayton Tenor meets before this concert – matthew rose Bass see left for details. sco chorus 9
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Christmas in Paris
Collard plays Ravel
Friday 3 December 7.30pm
takemitsu ravel
beethoven
How Slow the Wind (11’) Piano Concerto in G major (23’) Symphony No 4 (34’)
robin ticciati Conductor jean-phillipe collard Piano
Taken together, this and next week’s concerts make an intriguing pair. Mozart was always on Ravel’s mind, to the point of adulation; Beethoven had a more complicated effect on Brahms who was both fired up and inhibited by him when it came to writing symphonies. Beethoven’s Fourth sings with all the ardour and lyricism of the first Romantics (while Brahms’ Fourth is among the mellow fruits of late Romanticism), and Ravel’s brilliance contrasts beautifully with the elegiac simplicity of Takemitsu’s miniature masterpiece – one of the SCO’s most widely performed commissions.
Vienna Centuries
Friday 10 December 7.30pm
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mozart brahms
Concerto for Nine Instruments Op 24 (8’) Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 (29’) Symphony No 4 (39’)
robin ticciati Conductor lars vogt Piano
jean-phillipe collard:
A spring/autumn programme pairing perhaps the most youthful, joyful and uplifting of all Mozart’s piano concertos (a fine showpiece for the superb pianism of Lars Vogt) with Brahms’ deeply felt and richly hued symphony. His music speaks of the regrets and sorrows of old age, but also exudes an all-embracing warmth and consolation. Brahms was one of Webern’s essential inspirations, and if this short piece of his seems to represent everything Brahms is not… how fascinating is that? Especially as the two men lived in the same milieu a matter of years apart.
“This was stupendous playing, of a wholly French character.”
Comparing Notes discussion group meets before this concert – see page 8 for details.
Comparing Notes discussion group meets before this concert – see page 8 for details.
– the herald
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Friday 17 December 7.30pm
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saint-saëns fauré ravel
Symphony No 86 in D ‘Paris’ (26’) Cello Concerto No 1 (19’) Élégie (8’) Ma Mère L’Oye (Mother Goose) (29’)
louis langrée Conductor jian wang Cello
Ravel never lost touch with his inner child, and his music brings an appropriately magical and fantastical flavour to this last concert before Christmas. Mother Goose, inspired by timeless fairy tales and originally written for some young friends to play at the piano, is recreated here in miraculous orchestral colour. Langrée offers it in the company of the Grand Old Men of Ravel’s Paris: Saint-Saëns and Fauré in a lovely mixed programme that looks back as far as the 1780s when Haydn was all the rage in the French capital.
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Ticciati’s Schumann
Friday 14 January 7.30pm
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Overture, Beatrice and Benedict (8’) Nocturne (25’) Symphony No 4 (original version) (28’)
robin ticciati Conductor john mark ainsley Tenor
Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge and Wilfred Owen were among Britten’s inspirations in Nocturne, his dramatic evocation of night. Here are seduction, repose, threat and menace in a phenomenal tour-de-force both for tenor soloist and the players who duet or spar with him in fleeting solos. Ticciati frames Britten with two composers he loves and who were themselves regular correspondents. Schumann’s symphony blazes like day after Britten’s night: this is undiluted Romanticism at its most exhilarating – Schumann himself once used the word ‘Phantasie’ to describe it.
Stravinsky: The Chamber Ballets Stravinsky: The Chamber Ballets I
Friday 21 January 7.30pm
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tchaikovsky
Jeu de Cartes (23’) Symphony No 83 ‘La Poule’ (24’) Scenes from ‘The Nutcracker’ (30’)
robin ticciati Conductor
Brilliant, witty, playful, surprising and suave: words that well describe both Haydn and Stravinsky who are paired in three concerts this spring. A sparkling joie de vivre pervades all three, but expect more: Ticciati has already demonstrated his power to mine deep below the surface and draw his audience into the passion and complexity that lies at the music’s heart. Adding a seasonal icing to the cake, some of Ticciati’s own favourite dances from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker round off the evening.
No-one towers over the music of the 20th century more impressively than Igor Stravinsky. His passion for dance shines through in his legacy of superb ballet scores, and he collaborated with some of the greats of the century: Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the choreographer George Balanchine, and such artists as Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. He was a man of many parts. A profound intellect, a great entertainer but also a brilliant maverick who refused to be tamed by expectations and constantly reinvented himself. In a series of three concerts, Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati celebrates three very different incarnations of the composer’s fiery spirit.
“I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.”
– igor stravinsky
pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) ashley page, artistic director of scottish ballet, in conversation with svend brown about stravinsky and ballet.
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Prokofiev ‘Classical’ Symphony
New Romantics III
delius
walton adams copland
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (8’) Viola Concerto (27’) Shaker Loops (28’) Appalachian Spring (23’)
joseph swensen Conductor isabelle van keulen Viola
Swensen takes a journey through four very different sorts of sonorous sensuality: Copland’s dew-fresh New England landscape plays against Delius’ lush, twilit poetry. Adams’ energetic, driving rhythms contrast beautifully with Walton’s passionate, dramatic writing for the viola.
“...Swensen and the orchestra were practically airborne and looked as if they were having the ride of their lives...” – The Scotsman
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Friday 28 January 7.30pm
Stravinsky: The Chamber Ballets II
Friday 11 February 7.30pm
haydn stravinsky fauré (orch. c. matthews) haydn
Scena di Berenice (12’) Apollon Musagète (29’) Melodies (16’) world premiere SCO commission
Symphony No 96 ‘Miracle’ (20’)
robin ticciati Conductor sally matthews Soprano
A heart-warming richness gives Sally Matthews’ voice the special star quality that makes her the soprano of choice for maestros the world over. With Ticciati, she brings Haydn’s scena – a touch of operatic high drama to match Stravinsky’s dance – then follows it with Fauré’s heartbreaking, melancholy songs in new orchestrations from Colin Matthews commissioned by the SCO. As for the Haydn… the name says it all: truly, this symphony is a miracle – one of his very finest. pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) robin ticciati in conversation with roy mcewan about stravinsky’s ballet music.
Friday 25 February 7.30pm
prokofiev mozart
Symphony No 1 ‘Classical’ (15’) Piano Concerto No 25 in C K503 (30’) Crucifixus (5’)
lotti (arr. manze) shostakovich Chamber Symphony (arr. barshai) in C minor Op 110a
(arrangement of Quartet No 8) (21’)
andrew manze Conductor francesco piemontesi Piano
Few programmes this Season embrace greater emotional extremes than this. Opening with the extrovert showmanship of a youthful Prokofiev, it closes with the darkest night of the older Shostakovich’s soul. Strong stuff – sure to offer a stirring experience. Mozart’s concerto is among his grandest, and it is played here by a brilliant young Italian making his SCO debut. To complete the programme, Andrew Manze’s own arrangement of a timeless lament: Lotti’s Crucifixus is one of the most beautiful pieces in all music.
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Stravinsky: The Chamber Ballets III
Friday 11 March 7.30pm
Symphony No 94 ‘Surprise’ (23’) szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2 (20’) stravinsky Orpheus (30’) haydn
robin ticciati Conductor renaud capuçon Violin
Zadok the Priest
Friday 4 March 7.30pm purcell Suite from The Fairy Queen (20’) bach Contrapunctus XIV
from Art of Fugue (9’)
purcell Hear my Prayer (2’) purcell Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem (8’) handel Coronation Anthem:
My Heart is Inditing (11’)
bach Suite No 3 (19’) handel Coronation Anthem: Zadok
the Priest (7’)
richard egarr Conductor/Harpsichord/Organ sco chorus
Handel – ever the master dramatist – created one of the iconic moments in all music when he allowed a long slow build-up of chords to grow and grow over a pulsing bass line until it bursts into the radiant shout of Zadok the Priest. That’s the climax of this sumptuous concert of Baroque masters bringing together some of the greatest musical minds of the age into a rich sequence of delights. 16
The story of Haydn lulling an unsuspecting audience to sleep with his gentle slow movement then jolting them awake with a loud ‘SURPRISE’ chord is probably too good to be true, but that does not diminish the piece’s charms. In Orpheus Stravinsky looks back to the earliest days of opera for inspiration, and draws on the brilliance of Monteverdi’s world to tell his own version of the myth. pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) professor jonathan cross, author of the stravinsky legacy, talks about the composer.
“It reminded the listener just how finely integrated the SCO is... and highlighted the players’ commitment to the music and their sparky new conductor.” – the independent
New Romantics IV
Friday 18 March 7.30pm
battistelli berio harper (ed./arr. cresswell) britten
Fair is foul, foul is fair (20’) Folk Songs (23’) Pastoral (12’) world premiere SCO commission
Suite on English Folk Tunes (A time there was) (15’)
garry walker Conductor karen cargill Mezzo Soprano
A literary theme links this programme. One of the hits of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival, Battistelli’s is a corker of a piece vividly evoking the storm and supernatural terror of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Sorrow touches the premiere of Edward Harper’s Pastoral, which is a setting of Burns’ poetry. When he died in 2009, Harper was working on a new symphony for the SCO and his friend Lyell Cresswell has completed this single movement from his manuscript in tribute. Mezzo Karen Cargill, one of Scotland’s brightest stars, also sings traditional folk songs arranged by Berio. pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) lyell cresswell in conversation with dr michael downes, director of music at the university of st andrews.
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Fauré Requiem
Friday 1 April 7.30pm
wagner schreker fauré
Siegfried Idyll (18’) Chamber Symphony (25’) Requiem (39’)
robin ticciati Conductor carolyn sampson Soprano neal davies Bass Baritone sco chorus
“…A very human feeling of faith in eternal rest”, was what Fauré hoped to capture in his Requiem. He hated the fire and brimstone settings, and in movements such as the famous ‘Pie Jesu’ he communicates a precious air of peace and consolation instead. Ticciati brings it together with Wagner’s touching love token and a beautiful rarity from the time of World War I. Schreker belonged to the world of Mahler, Strauss and Korngold. He mostly wrote opera, and this chamber symphony has a theatrical, lyrical sweep to it. If his name is unfamiliar that could be because, like so many musicians, he was persecuted by the Nazis and fell into obscurity.
Mozart at the Piano II
Friday 8 April 7.30pm
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Symphony No 97 in C: Movements 1,2,3 (18’) Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor K491 (31’) Piano Concerto No 17 in G major K453 (30’) Symphony No 97 in C: Finale (7’)
robert levin Conductor/Piano
Levin is rare among star soloists: he brings not only his excellent musicianship to all he does, but also his fascination with how Mozart and Haydn themselves would have performed their music. Here he splits up Haydn’s symphony so that it both opens and closes the evening – something Haydn would have taken for granted. He also performs not one but two of Mozart’s great concertos from the mid-1780s, offering a rich contrast between the dramatic weight of the C minor against the lyrical brilliance of the G major.
robin ticciati:
“...everything he touched turned to pure gold...” – the herald
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Musical Toybox
Friday 15 April 7.30pm
mussorgsky (arr. knussen) schumann debussy
Symphonic Opera
La Couturière (7’)
Cello Concerto (25’) La Boîte à Joujoux (32’)
mozart mozart
oliver knussen Conductor anssi kartunen Cello
Every time Knussen comes to the SCO a special magic happens: a great composer and orchestrator as well as conductor, he makes orchestral colour glow as few others can. It is a joy to the ear, and Debussy’s box of toys offers a perfect opportunity to revel in it. Unusually, he has paired Debussy with Schumann’s cello concerto – a late piece, autumnal in every sense, with its lovely melodic fantasy. To open, Knussen’s own take on one of Debussy’s favourite Russian composers.
Friday 29 April 7.30pm
mozart mozart rossini rossini rossini
haydn
Overture, Così fan tutte (5’) Voi che sapete (Le nozze di Figaro) (3’) Recit & Smanie implacabili (Così fan tutte) (3’) Symphony No 35 ‘Haffner’ (18’) Overture, Il barbiere di Siviglia (8’) Cruda sorte (L’italiana in Algeri) (5’) Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia) (6’) Symphony No 82 ‘The Bear’ (27’)
jean-christophe spinosi Conductor renata pokupic Mezzo Soprano
Italian Serenade
Friday 6 May 7.30pm
brahms
Variations on a theme of Haydn (17’) Cello Concerto in C major (24’) Italian Serenade (8’) mendelssohn Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’ (27’) haydn wolf
olari elts Conductor jean-guihen queyras Cello jane atkins Viola
Many concerts this season take a pair of ideas and play them off against each other to achieve as satisfying a musical menu as you could wish for. Here, Brahms plays Haydn – the grand master of variation form – at his own game before we hear Haydn’s long lost cello concerto. Then two great German composers travel south for a taste of Italian song and dance.
Favourite arias by two of the greatest operatic composers of their respective ages sung by an acclaimed young mezzo of the moment. This concert is a must for any opera lover – and it comes with the symphonic bonus of Haydn’s hugely entertaining ‘Bear’ symphony, full of rustic influences. Mozart’s ‘Haffner’ symphony, on the other hand, is a suitably grand work written for one of the grandest “...what poured out from the SCO of the great Salzburg families. all evening was some of the most
utterly exhilarating orchestral playing you will hear anywhere, from anyone…” – the herald
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Mackerras conducts Mozart
Friday 13 May 7.30pm
mozart mozart
Overture, The Magic Flute (7’) Symphony No 41 ‘Jupiter’ (29’) Requiem (55’)
sir charles mackerras Conductor susan gritton Soprano karen cargill Mezzo Soprano steve davislim Tenor jan martinik Bass sco chorus
Mozart. Mackerras. SCO. Need we say more? In their decades together this Orchestra and conductor have performed Mozart’s work in the great halls of the world to standing ovations and critical acclaim. They offer a feast of ‘late’ masterworks: as grand and moving an experience as one could hope for to close the Season.
“The combination of Sir Charles Mackerras and the SCO means only one thing – power-packed Mozart that has you sitting on the edge of your seat craving for more.” – the scotsman 22
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Important – Please Complete! We would like to send you, from time to time, information about the SCO, its events and other developments.
Please tick here if you would like to join the SCO’s e-news list to receive updates about concerts, events, offers and news by email. We will not give your details to any third parties. Please tick here to indicate your permission for us to add your details to our postal mailing list.
Please tick boxes below to indicate your choice of concerts: Fri 8 Oct Fri 15 Oct Fri 22 Oct Fri 19 Nov Fri 26 Nov Fri 3 Dec
• Send the Booking Form to: SCO Subscription, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Box Office, FREEPOST SCO 6477, Glasgow G2 3BR (no stamp required).
Number of concerts
By Phone Call 0141 353 8000 with your selected concerts and credit or debit card details, or if you have any queries about your subscription booking.
Fri 10 Dec Fri 17 Dec Fri 14 Jan Fri 21 Jan Fri 28 Jan Fri 11 Feb Number of people at standard price
Fri 25 Feb Fri 4 Mar Fri 11 Mar Fri 18 Mar Fri 1 Apr
Number of Price Band people at senior price
Fri 8 Apr Fri 15 Apr Fri 29 Apr Fri 6 May Fri 13 May
Total Price
Seating Area (e.g. stalls, balcony)
Box Office transaction and postage fee
£1.75
TOTAL
How do you wish to pay?
£
I enclose a cheque, payable to ‘Culture and Sport Glasgow’. Please debit my Mastercard/Visa/debit card (delete as appropriate). Card Number Issue Number (debit card only)
Expiry Date
Start Date
Security Code (last three digits on signature strip)
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I wish to spread the cost of subscription over four months using a Standing Order. Please send me a Standing Order form.
Please return this form to: SCO Subscription, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Box Office, FREEPOST SCO 6477, Glasgow G2 3BR (no stamp required).
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Subscription Prices Number of concerts
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I Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior Standard Senior
£85.00 £75.00 £106.25 £93.75 £127.50 £112.50 £148.75 £131.25 £160.00 £140.00 £180.00 £157.50 £200.00 £175.00 £220.00 £192.50 £225.00 £195.00 £243.75 £211.25 £262.50 £227.50 £281.25 £243.75 £280.00 £240.00 £297.50 £255.00 £315.00 £270.00 £332.50 £285.00 £325.00 £275.00 £341.25 £288.75 £330.00 £275.00
II £71.40 £63.00 £89.25 £78.75 £107.10 £94.50 £124.95 £110.25 £134.40 £117.60 £151.20 £132.30 £168.00 £147.00 £184.80 £161.70 £189.00 £163.80 £204.75 £177.45 £220.50 £191.10 £236.25 £204.75 £235.20 £201.60 £249.90 £214.20 £264.60 £226.80 £279.30 £239.40 £273.00 £231.00 £286.65 £242.55 £277.20 £231.00
III £56.10 £49.50 £70.13 £61.88 £84.15 £74.25 £98.18 £86.63 £105.60 £92.40 £118.80 £103.95 £132.00 £115.50 £145.20 £127.05 £148.50 £128.70 £160.88 £139.43 £173.25 £150.15 £185.63 £160.88 £184.80 £158.40 £196.35 £168.30 £207.90 £178.20 £219.45 £188.10 £214.50 £181.50 £225.23 £190.58 £217.80 £181.50
Large-print, Braille and Talking Notes versions of this brochure are available. Call 0845 270 1812*.
IV £39.10 £34.50 £48.88 £43.13 £58.65 £51.75 £68.43 £60.38 £73.60 £64.40 £82.80 £72.45 £92.00 £80.50 £101.20 £88.55 £103.50 £89.70 £112.13 £97.18 £120.75 £104.65 £129.38 £112.13 £128.80 £110.40 £136.85 £117.30 £144.90 £124.20 £152.95 £131.10 £149.50 £126.50 £156.98 £132.83 £151.80 £126.50
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The SCO gratefully acknowledges the support of the Scottish Government, local authorities, corporate sponsors, patrons, 250 Society members and the many trusts and foundations that help to fund its extensive education and touring programmes. Principal Sponsor Bank of Scotland Benefactor Dunard Fund Sponsors Chatham Honda Clyde & Forth Press Lumison State Street Corporate Members Aberdeen Asset Management Chivas Brothers Standard Life Royal Bank of Scotland MacDonald Roxburghe Hotel Newton Private Investment Management In-Kind Supporters Caledonian Brewing Company Capital Solutions City Inn Contemporary Hotels Edinburgh University Settlement Homeopathy John Lewis Partnership Miller Radio Forth SATV Television Production Scottish Council for Development and Industry Thom Micro Systems
Play your part‌ There are many ways in which you can support the work of the SCO and help us bring live classical music to people of all ages throughout Scotland. We invite individuals to become members of the SCO Patrons scheme, to join the SCO 250 Society, or to consider leaving a legacy to the Orchestra in their will. We offer companies a range of sponsorship and in-kind support opportunities and a flexible Corporate Membership scheme with regular hospitality and dedicated account management. For further information on how you can support the SCO, visit www.sco.org.uk or contact the Sponsorship & Fundraising Department on 0131 478 8344 or sponsorship@sco.org.uk.
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