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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Elgar: Enigma Variations

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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Tickets:  £23, £19, £16, £10

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People with a disability and a companion - 50% discount

Tickets for school pupils - any single concert ticket for £5

Over 60's, SSO Club members, full time students - £2 off single ticket prices

Featuring:

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Lisa Milne - Soprano

 

Martin Andre

 

Works:

Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

 

Thea Musgrave - Songs for a Winter's Evening

 

Elgar - Enigma Variations

 

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