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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Sacred & Profane 4
City Halls : Grand Hall
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American conductor Andrew Litton’s guest appearances with the BBC SSO are always a highlight of the season, and this time he brings a work that the orchestra has in its bones, Sibelius’s First Symphony.
Wagner’s last opera, Parsifal, is rich in Christian imagery and the beautiful Prelude to Act 1 sets the scene in the forest near Monsalvat, home of the Knights of the Holy Grail. Elgar’s Cello Concerto, very much a product of the composer’s despair at the end of the Great War, has its own inner spirituality, and an elegiac sense of loss that never ceases to move the listener. It’s played here by the outstanding young German cellist Johannes Moser.
6.45pm Pre-Concert Prelude (in the Recital Room): Members of the orchestra’s cello section discuss, amongst other things, the enduring popularity of Elgar’s Cello Concerto.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the end of the main concert): Johannes Moser plays pieces for unaccompanied cello by JS Bach, Britten and Lutoslawski.
Tickets: £23, £19, £16, £10
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Over 60's, SSO Club Members, Registered unemployed - £2 off full price single tickets
Registered disabled and their companions will receive a 50% discount on any single full price ticket
Those in full time education can buy tickets for £5
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Johannes Moser - Cello
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