Event Details
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Hear and Now 2 - New Music from New Zealand and Australia
City Halls : Grand Hall
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The BBC SSO presents an evening of music by composers from New Zealand and Australia, many of them European Premieres.
Edinburgh-based composer Lyell Creswell’s Piano Concerto, written for a close friend, is by turns melancholic, angry, and contemplative, while Jack Body’s Little Elegies was composed in response to the horrors of war. Liza Lim’s work has been acclaimed for its vibrancy and colour and the orchestra gives the UK Premiere of one of her new works while Helen Bowater’s New Year Fanfare re-captures a raucous Hogmanay in Java.
Expect vibrancy, energy and some exotic instrumentation as the countries’ composers fuse European, Pacific and Asian influences to stunning effect under the direction of the young Dutch conductor Otto Tausk.
This concert is not recommended for young children.
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Featuring:
Stephen de Pledge: Piano
Otto Tausk: Conductor
Works:
Helen Bowater - New Year fanfare (1994) (c.5')
Lyell Cresswell - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (in memory of Edward Harper) (UK Premiere) (c.30')
Samuel Holloway - Fault - for orchestra (2004) c.6' (UK Premier)
Jack Body - Little Elegies (c.14') (UK Premier)
Liza Lim - Pearl, Ochre, Hair String (2010) (c.18) (UK Premiere)
