SCO St Andrews Brochure 2011-12

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St Andrews Younger Hall Tickets 01334 475000 www.byretheatre.com www.sco.org.uk

Baroque Greats

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Wednesday 11 April 7.30pm

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Ticciati combines Beethoven’s blazing symphony with a deep personal passion: Schumann’s Faust, which ranked among the composer’s greatest popular successes during his lifetime. The programme is also a showcase of Scottish talent as Karen Cargill performs Berlioz’s tragic and dramatic scena, which she will also perform in the Orchestra’s subsequent tour to Spain. pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) Robin Ticciati in conversation with Dr Michael Downes, Director of Music at the University of St Andrews.

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richard egarr Conductor/Harpsichord alec frank-gemmill Horn harry johnstone Horn The musical riches of three great German cities in a single evening: Hamburg, Dresden and Leipzig each had distinct characters and attracted the greatest composers of the age from across Germany and further afield. This is an evening of splendour and flamboyance directed by the man who has been called ‘The Leonard Bernstein of Early Music’.

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School groups – Teachers and/or accompanying adults go free when bringing a school or school-age youth group. For more information, contact SCO Connect on 0131 478 8353 or kirsten.hunter@sco.org.uk.

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All single tickets, including ticket discounts listed below, are on sale from 23 May 2011. Subscription bookings are taken from 30 March 2011.

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Welcome

to our 2011/12 Season!

Wednesday 22 February 7.30pm berlioz Love Scene from Romeo & Juliet (18’) schumann Cello Concerto (25’) brahms Serenade No 1 (49’)

On the eve of their departure for a major tour of Germany, the SCO is joined by the prodigious cellist, Andreas Brantelid, for Schumann’s autumnal concerto. This is an evening of music by his friends – Berlioz and Brahms are as different in their music and personalities as it is possible to be, but both enjoyed Schumann’s deepest affection and respect.

Brahms’ youthful serenade makes a delightful complement to Berlioz’s impassioned outpouring.

It gives me great delight to welcome soloists Jennifer Pike, Andreas Brantelid and Pieter Wispelwey for their first performances with the Orchestra.

We look forward to these new partnerships and to the insights they will bring, as well as welcoming back the familiar faces who make the SCO dance, laugh and cry – Richard Egarr, Karen Cargill and Thierry Fischer to mention but a few.

With Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann and Berlioz at every corner, there is something for everyone in our Season.

Your support means so much to us – I look forward to welcoming you.

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Serenade

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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra has, over a very short space of time, become my musical family and it gives me such joy to know that we will be making music together well beyond this Season, because the players, our supporters and I have agreed to continue our relationship until 2015. Our journey as an intimate group of musicians will continue to search deep within the music with the aim of giving you, our audience, evenings of wonderment: what is music for unless it helps us as a community to look into each and every person’s soul in an attempt to glimpse some sort of ungraspable utopia?

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Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony Wednesday 19 October 7.30pm

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Wednesday 7 December 7.30pm

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sibelius Suite, King Kristian II (22’) hallgrímsson Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op 46 (25’) world premiere Commissioned by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra

A spry and brilliant symphony by an eight-year-old; a magnificent concerto, lost for nearly two centuries; a symphony that has become a popular favourite the world over, though in its time it was astonishingly revolutionary. The familiar names of Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart conceal a wealth of stories in this delightful programme opening the SCO’s 2011/12 St Andrews Concert Season.

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Hallgrímsson’s relationship with the SCO has been outstandingly fruitful over the past two decades, yielding a sequence of major works for string soloist and orchestra. In his 70th birthday year, Jennifer Pike (BBC Young Musician of the Year 2002) is the soloist for this latest concerto, following in the footsteps of such distinguished artists as Truls Mørk and Lars Anders Tomter.

Mazzola frames Hallgrímsson with Nordic treasures: Sibelius’ atmospheric and melodious theatre score and Grieg’s youthful symphony. pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to ticket holders) Hafliði Hallgrímsson talks about his new concerto.

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Early Evening Concerts

As part of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s residency at the University of St Andrews, many of the Orchestra’s musicians perform in the University Music Centre’s series of early evening concerts which are held in the Younger Hall during term-time at 5.30pm. Tickets are £8/£6 seniors/£3 students, available at the door. 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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