SCO & RSNO 2014/15 Season Brochure - Aberdeen

Royal Scottish National Orchestra Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Aberdeen Concert Series 2014/15

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6 reasons to subscribe to the Aberdeen Concert Series 1. Build your own Season of RSNO and SCO concerts at the Music Hall 2. Save money by booking 4 or more concerts in advance 3. Keep your preferred seats from year to year 4. Use our free ticket exchange if your plans change 5. Get all the latest news with exclusive subscriber newsletters 6. Receive a personal invitation to the Supporters’ recital and reception 02

Peter Oundjian: Sian Richards

Welcome to the 2014/15 Aberdeen Concert Series

Robin Ticciati: Marco Borggreve

Peter Oundjian Music Director Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Robin Ticciati Principal Conductor Scottish Chamber Orchestra

The Aberdeen Concert Series is a special partnership between two of Scotland’s national orchestras – the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. This joint programme of concerts allows you to create your own tailored concert Season from a wide range of programmes. Subscription packages make the booking process easy while offering outstanding value for the music lovers of Aberdeen.

This Season we explore the world of Classical and Romantic piano concertos with some top international artists. Llŷr Williams is obsessed by Beethoven and performs his first two piano concertos. The award-winning Argentine Ingrid Fliter plays Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 1, while the extraordinarily talented Khatia Buniatishvili plays Liszt’s second piano concerto and Christian Ihle Hadland closes the Season with Grieg’s ever-popular concerto.

Noted for his fiery performances, French violinist Renaud Capuçon takes on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and the RSNO’s Principal Flute Katherine Bryan gives the Scottish premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto. You can also celebrate the Christmas season with Handel’s Messiah and the ever-popular annual concert featuring Howard Blake’s The Snowman.

We hope you are intrigued and excited by what is on offer, and we look forward to welcoming you to a magnificent Season of music at the Aberdeen Music Hall with the RSNO and the SCO.

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Llŷr Williams: Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 8 November 2014 • 7.30pm

Peter Oundjian: Mark Hamilton

Thursday 2 October 2014 • 7.30pm

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Oundjian conducts Scheherazade

Llŷr Williams plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1

Wagner Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Rouse Flute Concerto (Scottish Premiere) Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Peter Oundjian Conductor Katherine Bryan Flute Wagner’s Meistersinger overture creates a whole medieval city in all its sunshine and swagger; the RSNO’s own Katherine Bryan shares an evocative, elegiac concerto by one of America’s most popular living composers; and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade has 1001 tales to tell, in music that’s sensuous, spectacular and fabulously over-the-top. Prepare to have your ears dazzled, as we launch the new Season in a blaze of colour.

Pre-concert talk: 6.45pm RSNO Executive Producer, Manus Carey in conversation with Peter Oundjian

Stravinsky Concertino for 12 Instruments Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 Alexander Janiczek Director / Violin Llŷr Williams Piano Williams and Janiczek bring a wonderful spirit of camaraderie and chamber music to the SCO stage: no surprise as they have appeared as a duo for well over a decade now.

They offer two programmes of Beethoven and Mozart this Season (see also 17 January), both including music that the composers wrote for themselves to play. Both concertos are wondrous, youthful masterworks that set out to entertain, move, impress and engage: these were young people on the make! Stravinsky’s Concertino is actually a tiny violin concerto – intimate, detailed and perfectly formed.

Pre-concert talk: 6.45pm Llŷr Williams

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Saturday 29 November 2014 • 7.30pm

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Handel’s Messiah Handel Messiah Richard Egarr Conductor / Harpsichord Elizabeth Watts Soprano Claudia Huckle Contralto James Gilchrist Tenor Ashley Riches Bass SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorusmaster

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Centuries of tradition dictate how this ever-popular work is performed. Yet with a chamber orchestra performance, Richard Egarr will find something new and fresh in the dynamics, tempo and phrasing to get your imagination working overtime.

Join the SCO together with the SCO Chorus and a brilliant team of soloists for this seasonal experience, and celebrate the start of Christmas with music of power, passion and expressive warmth.

Pre-concert talk: 6.45pm Richard Egarr provides insight into Messiah

The Snowman : ©1982, 2012 Snowman Enterprises Ltd

Thursday 18 December 2014 • 7.30pm

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

The RSNO Christmas Concert: Christmas Concert featuring: Howard Blake The Snowman Christopher Bell Conductor Julie Wilson Nimmo Narrator RSNO Chorus

Join the RSNO and RSNO Chorus for a family celebration this Christmas! Conducted and presented by the effervescent Christopher Bell, this concert is packed full of your favourite festive melodies and traditional singalong carols. Plus, don’t miss the magical film The Snowman shown on the big screen, accompanied by Howard Blake’s timeless music and narrated by TV’s Julie Wilson Nimmo.

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Khatia Buniatishvili: Keith Saunders

Thursday 29 January 2015 • 7.30pm

Alexander Janiczek: Colin Jackson

Saturday 17 January 2015 • 7.30pm

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Llŷr Williams plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2

Buniatishvili plays Liszt

Stravinsky Concerto in Re Mozart Sinfonia Concertante Mozart Symphony No 31 ‘Paris’ Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 Alexander Janiczek Director / Violin Llŷr Williams Piano Jane Atkins Viola A tale of four cities here: Paris, Salzburg, Vienna and Hollywood! Stravinsky’s infectiously dance-like concerto was made in the USA but every single punchy, rhythmic bar is inspired by Bach.

A pair of sublime Mozart works from 1778-79 offers a snapshot of the young composer in Paris – where his symphony was an immediate hit – and Salzburg where he wrote the sublime Sinfonia Concertante. Mozart himself longed for Vienna, and so did Beethoven as he wrote his first concerto. When he finally arrived, Mozart was both a prospective teacher and his biggest competitor.

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Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 Wagner Siegfried Idyll Schumann Symphony No 1 ‘Spring’ Christoph Altstaedt Conductor Khatia Buniatishvili Piano Robert Schumann’s symphonies are more like love stories. His ‘Spring’ symphony positively bubbles over with happiness – and he couldn’t even bring himself to call his Overture, Scherzo and Finale a symphony at all. Guest conductor Christoph Altstaedt has this music in his blood, and he will bring the same Romantic ardour to Wagner’s tender musical love-letter, and a barnstorming concerto by classical music’s first global megastar: Franz Liszt. Khatia Buniatishvili will make it look easy. Don’t be fooled!

Pre-concert talk: 6.45pm RSNO Executive Producer, Manus Carey in conversation with Christoph Altstaedt

Saturday 25 April 2015 • 7.30pm

Ingrid Fliter: Anton Dressler

Robin Ticciati: Marco Borggreve

Saturday 7 March 2015 • 7.30pm

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Ingrid Fliter plays Chopin Piano Concerto No 1

Beethoven Violin Concerto Schubert Symphony No 9 ‘Great C major’ Robin Ticciati Conductor Renaud Capuçon Violin Considered one of today’s finest young violinists, Renaud Capuçon is prized for the exceptional strength and poetry of his performances. He joins the SCO for Beethoven’s noble Violin Concerto, with its vivacious finale.

Robin Ticciati concludes the evening with the majesty of Schubert’s powerful Ninth Symphony, the ‘Great’, whose boundless heroism is matched only by its effortless melody.

Chopin (orch. Stravinsky) Nocturne in A-flat Op 32 No 2 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’ Jun Märkl Conductor Ingrid Fliter Piano No composer captures the soul of the Romantic piano quite like Chopin; and few living pianists play Chopin with more eloquence and truth than Ingrid Fliter.

Framing Chopin’s Piano Concerto are Stravinsky’s beautiful 1909 orchestration of Chopin’s Nocturne in A-flat major and Mendelssohn’s exhilarating Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’.

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Christian Ihle Hadland: Kim Laland

Thursday 30 April 2015 • 7.30pm

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Grieg Piano Concerto Sibelius Nightride and Sunrise Grieg Piano Concerto Nielsen Symphony No 4 ‘The Inextinguishable’ John Storgårds Conductor Christian Ihle Hadland Piano “Music is life” declared Carl Nielsen “and like it, inextinguishable!” He proved it with his tremendous Fourth Symphony – music that leaves you thrilled to be alive. John Storgårds knows exactly how to make it catch fire, but first, he takes us on a bracing sleigh-ride through his native Finland, and introduces the acclaimed young Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland, in Grieg’s hugely popular Piano Concerto.

Pre-concert talk: 6.45pm RSNO Viola, Katherine Wren Sponsored by

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Aberdeen Box Office Aberdeen Box Office, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS. Telephone: 01224 641122 Website: www.boxofficeaberdeen.com Opening Times

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Subscription Bookings are available from 27 March 2014. Single Tickets are on sale from 5 May 2014.

School Groups Tickets for schools and school-age youth groups are £4 (excluding RSNO Christmas Concert). Accompanying adults go free.

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How to Subscribe If you book in advance for 4 or more of the concerts listed in this brochure you can take advantage of substantial discounts over our standard ticket prices. The more concerts you book for the more you can save – up to 40% for 8 or 9 concerts.

To Book by Post • Tick the concerts you wish to attend on the booking form

• Return the booking form (no stamp required) to: Aberdeen Concert Series Subscription FREEPOST RRJE-RXAK-RGUB Aberdeen Box Office Union Street Aberdeen AB10 1QS

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• Count the number of concerts and tell us how many people will be attending • Check the seating plans and tell us in which price band (I – IV) you would like to sit • Using the pricing table calculate the cost of your subscription and enter the total onto the booking form

• Tell us how you would like to pay and enclose your cheque or payment details

• Simply call the Aberdeen Box Office on 01224 641122 (open from 9.30am – 6.00pm) and tell them which concerts you would like to attend. Have your credit card or debit card ready to make your payment

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Subscription Booking Form 1. Let us know your details Title

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Email 2. Please tick the boxes below to indicate your choice of concerts: Thursday 2 October 2014 Oundjian conducts Scheherazade Saturday 8 November 2014 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 Saturday 29 November 2014 Handel’s Messiah Thursday 18 December 2014 The RSNO Christmas Concert

Saturday 17 January 2015 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 Thursday 29 January 2015 Buniatishvili plays Liszt Saturday 7 March 2015 Beethoven Violin Concerto Saturday 25 April 2015 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 Thursday 30 April 2015 Grieg Piano Concerto

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Benefactor Dunard Fund Corporate Sponsors Baillie Gifford First State Investments Corporate Friends Aberdeen Asset Management Key Player Corporate Supporters Arts & Business Scotland Balmoral Hotel Capital Solutions Corney & Barrow George Goldsmith Hamilton & Inches Isle of Eriska Hotel John Lewis Partnership Kinloch Anderson Lilly UK Linn Records The Miller Group Pulsant Radio Forth Scottish Council for Development & Industry VisitScotland

Concert Diary Thursday 2 October 2014 7.30pm

Oundjian conducts Scheherazade

Wagner Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Rouse Flute Concerto Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Peter Oundjian Conductor Katherine Bryan Flute

Saturday 8 November 2014 7.30pm

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1

Stravinsky Concertino for 12 Instruments Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1

Alexander Janiczek Director / Violin Llŷr Williams Piano

Saturday 29 November 2014 7.30pm

Handel’s Messiah

Handel Messiah

Richard Egarr Conductor / Harpsichord Elizabeth Watts Soprano Claudia Huckle Contralto James Gilchrist Tenor Ashley Riches Bass SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorusmaster

Thursday 18 December 2014 7.30pm

The RSNO Christmas Concert

Christmas Concert featuring Howard Blake’s The Snowman

Christopher Bell Conductor RSNO Chorus Julie Wilson Nimmo Narrator

Saturday 17 January 2015 7.30pm

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2

Stravinsky Concerto in Re Mozart Sinfonia Concertante Mozart Symphony No 31 ‘Paris’ Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2

Alexander Janiczek Director / Violin Llŷr Williams Piano Jane Atkins Viola

Thursday 29 January 2015 7.30pm

Buniatishvili plays Liszt

Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 Wagner Siegfried Idyll Schumann Symphony No 1 ‘Spring’

Christoph Altstaedt Conductor Khatia Buniatishvili Piano

Saturday 7 March 2015 7.30pm

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Beethoven Violin Concerto Schubert Symphony No 9 ‘Great C major’

Robin Ticciati Conductor Renaud Capuçon Violin

Saturday 25 April 2015 7.30pm

Chopin Piano Concerto No 1

Chopin (Orch. Stravinsky) Nocturne in A-flat Op 32 No 2 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’

Jun Märkl Conductor Ingrid Fliter Piano

Thursday 30 April 2015 7.30pm

Grieg Piano Concerto

Sibelius Nightride and Sunrise Grieg Piano Concerto Nielsen Symphony No 4 ‘The Inextinguishable’

John Storgårds Conductor Christian Ihle Hadland Piano

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