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Autumn Season Preview: Classical Music

Autumn Season Preview: Classical Music

What's ahead in the next few weeks

17 Sep 2009

It’s autumn, the leaves are turning and it’s that time of year when classical music’s own type of seasons start up again to keep everyone going through until the Spring. A major difference this year is that the orchestras are returning to their…

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Tea and Symphony

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Tea and Symphony

16 Oct 2008

CLASSICAL A bit of tea and sympathy goes a long way to lift the spirits, but, with a clever play on words, the BBC SSO start a new series serving up tea with symphony, a pairing that promises to have no less an effect. Doldrumy afternoons in wintry…

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BBC SSO: The New Century – Webern and Berg
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Works by the two great disciples of Arnold Schoenberg. Webern's Im Sommerwind is a late-romantic idyll that wears its Debussy on its sleeve, whereas his 6 Pieces for Large Orchestra belies its composer's reputation for quietness with a fourth movement that slowly builds into a devastating funeral march. Berg's Chamber Concerto features pianist Nicolas Hodges, violinist Ilya Gringolts and 13 hand-picked players. Ilan Volkov conducts. This concert is being recorded by BBC Radio 3 and as such is…
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31 May 7.30pm Grand Hall at City Halls, Glasgow
BBC SSO: Discovering Music – Pictures at an Exhibition
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Stephen Johnson examines Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Giancarlo Guerrero conducts it in Ravel's well-loved orchestration.
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8 Jun 2pm City Halls, Glasgow
BBC SSO: Casablanca Live!
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Hard to believe that Casablanca is 70 years old – it seems to have been there since the dawn of time. See the cult film of all cult films with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Max Steiner's score live.
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15 Sep 7.30pm City Halls, Glasgow
BBC SSO: Wagner's Tristan and Isolde Act I
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Wagner's Tristan and Isolde mixes up Celtic mythology and a rather silly extra-marital affair of Wagner's into a intoxicating but delectable goulash of doomed love with a generous dollop of Schopenhauerian pessimism. It's so famously strenuous that at least two conductors have died during performances. Perhaps out of concern for the welfare of Donald Runnicles and his lead couple Nina Stemme and Ian Storey, the BBC SSO has wisely spread this concert performance over the course of several…
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27 Sep 6.45pm Club Room at City Halls, Glasgow
30 Sep 4pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh
BBC SSO: Wagner's Tristan and Isolde Act II
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Act II of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde sees the two lovers finally getting together, but this being a tragedy, their happiness can't last. This concert performance also features excerpts from Berlioz's Romeo and Juliette. Donald Runnicles conducts, with Nina Stemme and Ian Storey as the eponymous Wagnerian couple.
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8 Nov 7.30pm
Tickets are on sale from 23rd April. 		City Halls, Glasgow
11 Nov 4pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh
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