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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Mahler's Fourth with Donald Runnicles
Thursday 25th March 2010, 7.30pm
City Halls : Grand Hall
Following their performance of Mahler’s titanic First Symphony at the start of the season, Donald Runnicles and the BBC SSO turn to the ‘lightest’ of Mahler’s symphonies, with the young Korean soprano Ji Young Yang as soloist. Though Mahler scored it for a smaller orchestra than his other symphonies, and focuses on the theme of youthful innocence, the Fourth Symphony also has dark emotional depths, especially in the slow movement.
The lush, late romantic sound of Webern’s early In the summer wind is a long way from what we normally associate with him, whilst Britten’s Violin Concerto is one of its composer’s finest mature works. To play it, Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes makes a welcome return to the BBC SSO.
6.45pm Pre-Concert Prelude (in the Recital Room): Cellist and blogger Anthony Sayer delivers another of his eloquent epistles, known to the members of the BBC SSO as ‘Ant’s Rants’.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the end of the main concert): James Ehnes plays Bartók’s Rhapsody No.1 for violin and piano, Op.86.
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