A very warm welcome to our
2O18/19 ST ANDREVVS 2O18/19 CONCERT ST ANDREVVS SEASON CONCERT SEASON
Visiting artists and musical stories weave their way through our concerts this Season as we welcome a host of exceptional international conductors and soloists – friends both old and new – to make music with our wonderful Orchestra.
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Our concerts span four centuries from the 18th Century world of Mozart and Beethoven, to Nordic music from Nielsen and Stenhammar; and a taste of France including a concert marking the 150th anniversary of the death of the great Hector Berlioz. There is also brand new music from our Associate Composer Martin Suckling in a special concert marking 100 years of the Armistice. We are delighted to welcome back conductor Andrew Manze and pianist Francesco Piemontesi, who continue their exploration of Mozart Piano Concertos. The remarkable French pianist Bertrand Chamayou joins us in April to perform Ravel’s lush Concerto in G. We are particularly excited to welcome the enormously talented cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and the extraordinary oboist François Leleux – they take to the stage as both soloist and conductor. François Leleux will play and conduct a performance of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Eté with the captivating soprano Carolyn Sampson. Artists making their debuts with the SCO include the remarkable British clarinettist Mark Simpson, performing Nielsen’s concerto. This is the concerto he played when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006 title when he was just 17. I do hope that you enjoy discovering our new Season and I very much look forward to seeing you at our concerts. Gavin Reid Chief Executive Scottish Chamber Orchestra
FRANÇOIS
LELEUX BERTRAND
CHAMAYOU CAROLYN
SAMPSON NICOLAS
ALTSTAEDT ANDREW
MANZE FRANCESCO
PIEMONTESI MARK
SIMPSON
A very warm welcome to our
2O18/19 ST ANDREVVS CONCERT SEASON Visiting artists and musical stories weave their way through our concerts this Season as we welcome a host of exceptional international conductors and soloists – friends both old and new – to make music with our wonderful Orchestra. Our concerts span four centuries from the 18th Century world of Mozart and Beethoven, to Nordic music from Nielsen and Stenhammar; and a taste of France including a concert marking the 150th anniversary of the death of the great Hector Berlioz. There is also brand new music from our Associate Composer Martin Suckling in a special concert marking 100 years of the Armistice. We are delighted to welcome back conductor Andrew Manze and pianist Francesco Piemontesi, who continue their exploration of Mozart Piano Concertos. The remarkable French pianist Bertrand Chamayou joins us in April to perform Ravel’s lush Concerto in G. We are particularly excited to welcome the enormously talented cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and the extraordinary oboist François Leleux – they take to the stage as both soloist and conductor. François Leleux will play and conduct a performance of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Eté with the captivating soprano Carolyn Sampson. Artists making their debuts with the SCO include the remarkable British clarinettist Mark Simpson, performing Nielsen’s concerto. This is the concerto he played when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006 title when he was just 17. I do hope that you enjoy discovering our new Season and I very much look forward to seeing you at our concerts. Gavin Reid Chief Executive Scottish Chamber Orchestra
NIELSEN CLARINET CONCERTO
Mark Simpson –
PLAYED BY MARK SIMPSON – CONDUCTED BY CRISTIAN MACELARU ––––– Thursday 13 September 2018 Younger Hall – 7.30pm MOZART Symphony No 35 in D, K385 ‘Haffner’ (18’) NIELSEN Clarinet Concerto (24’) PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 ‘Classical’ (15’) BEETHOVEN Symphony No 1 (26’) ––––– CRISTIAN MACELARU – Conductor MARK SIMPSON – Clarinet Mozart’s ‘Haffner’ Symphony makes a rousing opening to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s new Season in St Andrews. Nielsen’s brilliant and sparky concerto follows, which the highly talented, young clarinettist Mark Simpson plays to perfection, as he did when he received the title of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006. The concert concludes with a couple of ‘firsts’: the shenanigans and wit of Prokofiev’s ‘Classical’, and Beethoven’s fascinating homage to Haydn in his Symphony No 1.
SIMPSON HAS ALL THE TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT TO DEAL WITH EVERYTHING NIELSEN THROWS AT THE SOLOIST.
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Cristian Măcelaru – A rising star who won the 2014 Solti Conducting Award.
THE CENTREPIECE OF THE CONCERT PROVED TO BE THE PERFORMANCE OF NIELSEN’S CLARINET CONCERTO, BY THE ÜBERTALENTED MARK SIMPSON. [IT IS] A WORK THAT SHOWS OFF THE FULLEST RANGE OF THE INSTRUMENT’S CAPABILITIES. Bachtrack
Wednesday 7 November 2018 Younger Hall – 7.30pm ––––– Proudly sponsored and match funded by
SCHUMANN
CELLO CONCERTO PLAYED AND CONDUCTED BY NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT I AM INVOLVED IN MANKIND, AND THEREFORE NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; IT TOLLS FOR THEE. John Donne Meditation XVII (1624)
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll (18’) SCHUMANN Cello Concerto (25’) SUCKLING Meditation (after Donne) World Premiere (10’) BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8 (26’) ––––– NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT – Conductor / Cello Marking the centenary of the Armistice, this special event represents a musical response to the legacy of war and the feelings of commemoration, love, loss, joy and peace it brings. Suckling’s Meditation is bound to be intriguing, with the inclusion of bells pealing from across Scotland. With the added luxury of one of the Season’s headline artists, Nicolas Altstaedt, a highly creative director and cellist in Schumann’s hugely expressive Concerto, the programme opens with Wagner’s beautiful lullaby and is completed with a work of brightness, optimism and good humour – Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony.
Under 18s – Free
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Martin Suckling explores his new work Meditation (after Donne).
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Wednesday 30 January 2019 Younger Hall – 7.30pm ––––– Proudly sponsored by
FRANÇOIS LELEUX CONDUCTS –––––
BERLIOZ
LES NUITS D’ÉTÉ SUNG BY CAROLYN SAMPSON LELEUX TAKES IN THE ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY AND SENSUALITY OF DEBUSSY’S EXQUISITE DANSES, THE INFECTIOUS NONCHALANCE OF GOUNOD’S EXUBERANT PETITE SYMPHONIE, AND THE BRACING DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER ERIC TANGUY’S EFFUSIVE INCANTO.
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GOUNOD Petite Symphonie (21’) DEBUSSY (arr HENRI BÜSSER) Petite Suite (13’) Danses sacrée et profane (10’) TANGUY Incanto (06’) BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’Eté (31’) ––––– FRANÇOIS LELEUX – Conductor / Oboe CAROLYN SAMPSON – Soprano Immerse yourself in the heady perfumes and scintillating colours of France, as François Leleux leads you through a rich collection of music from his native country, past and present. Dazzling British soprano Carolyn Sampson is the soloist in Berlioz’s sensuous Les Nuits d’Eté, six heavily scented songs of love, loss and longing, with all the sumptuousness of a summer evening.
MOZART PIANO CONCERTO No 27 CONDUCTED BY ANDREW MANZE – PLAYED BY FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI ––––– Wednesday 27 February 2019 Younger Hall – 7.30pm STRAVINSKY Concerto in D (12’) MOZART Piano Concerto No 27 in B-flat, K595 (32’) STENHAMMAR Serenade in F (36’) ––––– ANDREW MANZE – Conductor FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI – Piano Piemontesi and Manze first came together in 2011 and reunited two years ago for memorable Mozart concerts that led to a bestselling CD. Mozart is their focus once more here – his last, mellow and magnificent piano concerto. The SCO is one of the world’s greatest Mozart orchestras and it finds an ideal foil in the freshness and spontaneity of Piemontesi’s playing.
Andrew Manze – The perceptive conductor Andrew Manze is one of the most versatile musicians around.
ONE OF THE WORLD’S FRESHEST, MOST EXCITING MOZART PIANISTS, FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI HAS TAKEN THE CLASSICAL MUSIC WORLD BY STORM SINCE COMING TO PROMINENCE ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO. Seen and Heard International
Francesco Piemontesi –
Manze adds a Scandinavian treat too: Stenhammar’s Serenade is nothing less than a love song to the city of Florence. He would not be drawn on the story behind the music but hinted “… it isn’t just the titles that are Italian.”
WITH ANDREW MANZE AND THE SCO... PIEMONTESI HAS A FIRST-CLASS MOZART ORCHESTRA. Fono Forum
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Wednesday 10 April 2019 Younger Hall – 7.30pm ––––– Proudly sponsored by
RAVEL
PIANO CONCERTO PLAYED BY BERTRAND CHAMAYOU CHAMAYOU BRINGS EVERYTHING HOME IN A WAY THAT IS DEEPLY PERSONAL, VIVID AND UNIQUE. NO ONE WHO LOVES FRENCH MUSIC OR EXQUISITE PIANO PLAYING WILL WANT TO MISS THIS.
GINASTERA Variaciones Concertantes (21’) RAVEL Piano Concerto in G (23’) BEETHOVEN Symphony No 4 (34’) ––––– JOSEP PONS – Conductor BERTRAND CHAMAYOU – Piano So many wonderful soloists in this concert! Each of Ginastera’s 12 ‘Variaciones’ puts different orchestral players in the spotlight, making a kind of kaleidoscopic spectacular. Then Bertrand Chamayou takes the stage for Ravel’s jazzy concerto. Ravel fell in love with jazz in the 1920s and fused it brilliantly with his own European heritage. Chamayou is sparky, dazzlingly virtuosic, but thoughtful and sensitive too: the ideal soloist. After such a high-octane first half, Pons closes the evening with Beethoven’s lustrous Fourth Symphony.
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DAYTIME CONCERTS SCO MUSICIANS IN RECITAL AS PART OF THE UNIVERSITY MUSIC CENTRE’S CONCERT PROGRAMME. ––––– Wednesday 17 October 2018 Byre Theatre – 1.10pm
MUSIC WITH A FRENCH FLAVOUR SCO Principal Clarinet Maximiliano Martín performs a beautiful recital of French music from 1880 to 1920.
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FRINGE OF GOLD Wind soloists from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra join St Andrews University students, staff and members of the local community for Fringe of Gold, the University’s wind, brass and percussion festival. See www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music/fringeofgold for more details.
––––– Tuesday 10 April 2019 Byre Theatre – 1.10pm
FLUTE DUOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD SCO Flute soloists Alison Mitchell and Brontë Hudnott present a delightful programme of duos.
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Thursday 13 September
Wednesday 7 November
NIELSEN Clarinet Concerto
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Patron Donald MacDonald CBE Life President
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BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’Eté
MOZART with Piemontesi
Wednesday 10 April RAVEL Piano Concerto
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