SCO 2012/13 Season Brochure St Andrews

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St Andrews Younger Hall Concerts 2012/13

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WELCOME

to your 2012/13 SCO Season!

Photograph by Chris Christodoulou

Notwithstanding the current financial climate, the Orchestra feels an intense excitement at the prospect of bringing you a Season full of wonderful soloists, conductors and music. The world needs music more than ever, and we are here to help make it available to you.

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St Andrews Concert Season 2012/13

Mahler and the SCO are not ingredients that are usually found together, but this Season the Orchestra will play its first Das Lied von der Erde in the chamber version.

Britten was hugely influenced by Mahler and it is fitting that we celebrate his centenary this Season; our brilliant Principal Horn Alec Frank-Gemmill joins John Mark Ainsley in the romantic Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. Ainsley will have just sung his first Peter Grimes so this promises Britten not to be missed.

As with every Season, we hope there is something here for everyone – familiar favourites such as Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Mozart and Berlioz make their welcome return as we at the Scottish Chamber Orchestra invite you to join us for a roller-coaster ride in classical music!

Photograph by Marco Borggreve

It is so important to us here at the Scottish Chamber Orchestra that when you open our new 2012/13 Season Brochure, there is a festival of choice in front of your eyes: from a UK premiere to familiar Mozart and Beethoven symphonies, we hope to give you a treat, a challenge, a gift on every page.

ROBIN TICCIATI PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 3

The Romantic Age

Pizarro plays Beethoven

Wednesday 10 October 7.30pm

Wednesday 5 December 7.30pm

BERLIOZ Overture, King Lear (16’) SCHUMANN Violin Concerto (31’) BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 ‘Eroica’ (47’) ROBIN TICCIATI Conductor VERONIKA EBERLE Violin

Musically, the 19th century was a golden era. To this day, its music brings the age of Romanticism alive: that time of sweeping change, war, revolution and passion is celebrated in the Opening Concert of the Season. Berlioz wrote King Lear a year after his Symphonie Fantastique: it is easily as vivid and dramatic, full of grandguignol tumult, but pathos and tragedy too. It makes a powerful complement to Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony, which Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati conducts for the first time in Scotland. Don’t miss the SCO Season debut of the young German violinist Veronika Eberle: currently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, she inspires reviews extolling her ‘star quality’ and ‘electrifying’ performances.

RAUTAVAARA Into the Heart of Light UK premiere (15’) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 2 (28’) MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 5 ‘Reformation’ (27’) JOHN STORGÅRDS Conductor ARTUR PIZARRO Piano

Charismatic Finn John Storgårds returns to the SCO with a new work from his famous countryman, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Mendelssohn’s majestic ‘Reformation’ Symphony. It was written to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession – the statement of Lutheran beliefs and practices presented to the Emperor Charles V in 1530; Mendelssohn captures the mystery and awe of the revelation, but also the fire and drama of Luther’s story. Pizarro’s performances of Beethoven have been described as an ‘unalloyed delight’. Not to be missed.

Pre-Concert Talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) John Storgårds talks to Dr Michael Downes, Director of Music at the University of St Andrews, about Rautavaara and the music in this concert.

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Photograph by Sven Arnstein

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St Andrews Concert Season 2012/13

Moonrise over the Sea

by Caspar David Friedrich

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Anderszewski plays Mozart

Das Lied von der Erde

Wednesday 20 February 7.30pm

Wednesday 13 March 7.30pm

SCHUBERT Overture in D ‘In the Italian Style’ (10’) MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 (26’) BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge (16’) MOZART Piano Concerto No 25 in C K503 (30’) PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI Piano/Director ALEXANDER JANICZEK Violin/Director

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Witness the ultimate in multi-tasking: playing the piano and directing an orchestra at the same time. Anderszewski manages it effortlessly and has given many wonderful Mozart performances with the SCO, both in Scotland and on their many international tours. It is really something special.

Complementing these marvellous pieces, SCO Associate Artist Alexander Janiczek directs a youthful spree from Schubert and one of the most astonishing pieces in all music: Grosse Fuge is late Beethoven at its most visionary.

HAYDN Symphony No 60 ‘Il Distratto’ (24’)

ROBIN TICCIATI Conductor KAREN CARGILL Mezzo Soprano TOBY SPENCE Tenor

“The most personal utterance among Mahler’s creations, and perhaps in all music…” The view of Mahler’s friend, the conductor Bruno Walter, who gave the premiere in 1911 and lived to conduct Das Lied at the very first Edinburgh Festival in 1947. Inspired by Chinese poetry, the music veers between earthly passions and eternal longings, ultimately dissolving into sublime nothingness. This acclaimed new chamber orchestra version was premiered at the BBC Proms. Ticciati has preceded it, playfully enough, with perhaps Haydn’s most theatrical and mad – literally mad – symphony.

Piotr Anderszewski. Photograph by Robert Workman

Gustav Mahler

Karen Cargill. Photograph by Ken Dundas

MAHLER (arr. CORTESE) Das Lied von der Erde (65’)

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Britten 100 Wednesday 24 April 7.30pm BIRTWISTLE Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum (10’) SUCKLING storm, rose, tiger (14’) BRITTEN Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (25’) MOZART Symphony No 40 (35’) GEORGE BENJAMIN Conductor JOHN MARK AINSLEY Tenor ALEC FRANK-GEMMILL Horn

2013 is Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday year. One of the great composers of the 20th century, Britten was a powerful, Janus-like figure musically, always looking both to the past and the future. This concert celebrates that aspect of the great man by arriving at Mozart’s mighty 40th Symphony by way of two composers who have been associated with Britten’s Festival in Aldeburgh. Birtwistle’s brief Carmen arcadiae presents an intense, dramatic and punchy opening; and Britten surely would have admired Suckling’s absorbing and ambitious storm, rose, tiger.

At the heart of the evening stands one of the greatest poetic masterpieces of all time; Britten’s own selection of verse on the theme of night and sleep, which he set with unforgettable brilliance. John Mark Ainsley, as fine an interpreter as you will find, is partnered by the SCO’s virtuoso Principal Horn, Alec Frank-Gemmill.

Pre-Concert Talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) Composer Martin Suckling talks about his work and Benjamin Britten.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is Orchestra in Residence at the University of St Andrews, complementing the SCO’s five-concert season with a number of collaborative projects. One such collaboration sees SCO players and associates feature in an Early Evening Concert Series. Other initiatives include pre-concert talks and the St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra (StAFCO).

Early Evening Concert Series SCO musicians perform in the University Music Centre’s series of early evening concerts at the Younger Hall.

Tickets: £8 / £6 seniors / £3 students.

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Wednesday 3 October 2012 Wednesday 21 November 2012 Wednesday 13 February 2013 Wednesday 20 March 2013

StAFCO Younger Hall, St Andrews Wednesday evenings during term time 7.15pm – 9.30pm The St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra meets weekly to make music and have fun! There are no auditions and all players are welcome, from adult learners and those who haven’t played for years to advanced musicians.

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I think it is wonderful. I never imagined actually playing in an orchestra when I took up my instrument on retiral. For me the whole buzz comes from playing with people.”

To join the Orchestra, contact the University of St Andrews Music Centre Tel: 01334 462226 Email: music@st-andrews.ac.uk

All concerts at 5.30pm For details visit www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music, phone 01334 462226 or call in to the University Music Centre at the Younger Hall.

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Benjamin Britten

Photograph by Lucy Lowe

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Tickets also available at the Younger Hall from an hour before each concert (cash sales only), but you can avoid the queue by booking in advance – all discounts are available in advance.

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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. scottish chamber orchestra HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay PATRON Robin Ticciati PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR Joseph Swensen CONDUCTOR EMERITUS Sir Peter Maxwell Davies COMPOSER LAUREATE Richard Egarr ASSOCIATE ARTIST Alexander Janiczek ASSOCIATE ARTIST

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