Event Details
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Elgar: Enigma Variations
Thursday 11th February 2010, 7.30pm
City Halls : Grand Hall
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Joins the BBC SSO for a programme that celebrates the best of British music.
Conductor Martin Andre joins Scotland’s internationally acclaimed soprano Lisa Milne in Thea Musgrave’s beautiful, Mahlerian settings of some of Robert Burns’ best known songs. Continuing our Northern theme he opens the concert with the foam-flecked, tempestuous interludes from Britten’s Peter Grimes, set against the dramatic backdrop of the North Sea. Elgar’s brilliantly inventive Enigma Variations brings the programme to a triumphant close.
6.15pm Pre-Concert Prelude (in the Recital Room): As well as being the BBC SSO’s longest serving player, cellist Anthony Sayer is also an accomplished writer. His blogs on the BBC SSO website are an articulate insight into the workings of an orchestra. Here he reads from the most recent of his posts.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the end of the main concert): Lisa Milne sings a selection of songs by Roger Quilter, one of the most successful and prolific of English songwriters.
This concert is part of the BBC SSO’s North by North-East series.
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