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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Thursday Night Series: The Story Tellers: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
City Halls : Grand Hall
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The Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, who died 100 years ago, is not a familiar name to today’s concert-goers, but his warmly passionate violin concerto, written in 1903, certainly deserves to be better-known.
Tasmin Little has championed it with the BBC SSO on CD, and here’s a welcome chance to hear her play it live.
The second half of the programme focuses on colourful musical story-telling inspired by visual art, beginning with Respighi’s take on pictures by the great Renaissance painter Botticelli. Mussorgsky’s powers of invention are spectacularly demonstrated in the way he brings to life the characters and scenes in a series of paintings in a gallery, with the able assistance of Ravel’s orchestrations.
6:45pm Pre-concert prelude (in the Recital Room): Gavin Reid, Director BBC SSO, in conversation with John Leighton, Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Post-concert coda (approximately 10 minutes after main concert): Tasmin Little plays a selection of short pieces for solo violin.
Tickets: £23, £19, £16, £10
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Featuring:
Mikhail Agrest - Conductor
Works:
Glinka - Overture: A Life for the Tsar
Karlowicz - Violin Concerto
Respighi - Trittico Botticelliano
Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition
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