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鶹ƵAV Scottish Symphony Orchestra
10 Dec 2016, Glasgow City Halls
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鶹ƵAV SSO 2016-17 Season Hear and Now - Scottish Inspirations

鶹ƵAV Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Hear and Now - Scottish Inspirations
20:00 Sat 10 Dec 2016 Grand Hall
Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by Helen Grime, Jay Capperauld, Sally Beamish and Maxwell Davies at City Halls
Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by Helen Grime, Jay Capperauld, Sally Beamish and Maxwell Davies at City Halls

Programme

      • Snow (No.2 from Two Eardley Pictures)(10 mins)(鶹ƵAV Commission, Scottish Premiere)
      • Piano Concerto No 2 'Cauldron of the Speckled Seas'(30 mins)(鶹ƵAV Commission, World Premiere)
      • è-ٳԱ(10 mins)(鶹ƵAV Commission, World Premiere)
      • Symphony No.9(25 mins)(Scottish Premiere)

Concert information

An evening of new music with the 鶹ƵAV SSO, all with Scottish connections…

Sally Beamish’s new piano concerto is inspired by her family and the famous whirlpool at Corryvreckan; here it is premiered by its dedicatee, Martin Roscoe. Helen Grime, meanwhile, finds inspiration in a painting by Joan Eardley while Jay Capperauld’s è-ٳԱ (a Scots Gaelic phrase that translates as ‘self-knowledge’) explores identity in modern-day Scotland.

The concert ends with the Scottish Premiere of the late Peter Maxwell Davies’s Ninth Symphony, a single movement work which makes use of an off-stage brass sextet to both ambiguously celebrate and question military music. The Symphony was hailed at its premiere as a “brilliantly crafted work” (The Sunday Times) and “indisputably one of Maxwell Davies’s most engaged orchestral works” (The Guardian). The orchestra’s new Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard conducts.

The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on 鶹ƵAV Radio 3.

(Catterline in Winter, Helen Grime’s first Eardley Picture, will be performed by the 鶹ƵAV SSO on Thursday 22 September 2016)