SCO Aberdeen 2010/11 Brochure

Aberdeen Music Hall Concert Season 10/11 www.boxofficeaberdeen.com www.sco.org.uk Tickets 01224 641122

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to the 2010/11 Season with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra!

scottish chamber orchestra patron hrh The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay principal conductor Robin Ticciati conductor laureate Sir Charles Mackerras conductor emeritus Joseph Swensen composer laureate Sir Peter Maxwell Davies chairman Donald MacDonald cbe managing director Roy McEwan

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and Olari Elts, will join the Orchestra at the Music Hall as well as three magnificent pianists – Piotr Anderszewski, Jean-Phillipe Collard and Francesco Piemontesi – and I personally look forward to sharing three programmes with you, including the Fourth Symphonies of both Beethoven and Schumann and Fauré’s wonderful Requiem.

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When I am asked what it is that makes the SCO such a special orchestra, one distinct thought comes to mind: the remarkable flexibility and commitment in transmitting the different emotional worlds of every composer that they, as a group of musicians, face.

We are servants to the composers and their scores. With that comes a huge responsibility to find, as much as we can, how the composer wanted his or her music to be played.

It is this chameleon-like quality the Orchestra brings to performance practice that allows us to explore, in a single season, the music of Antonio Lotti through to the works of Toru Takemitsu.

Please note that all timings (shown in brackets) are approximate and do not include intervals or platform changes.

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Enjoy more music – spend less! Book an SCO Subscription As well as substantial discounts on standard ticket prices, you can enjoy priority booking, special events and many other exclusive benefits. See page 9.

Mozart at the Piano

Saturday 23 October 7.30pm

Scenes from Prometheus (20’) Piano Concerto No 27

in B-flat K595 (28’)* mendelssohn Overture, The Hebrides

(Fingal’s Cave) (10’) mozart Piano Concerto No 20

in D minor K466 (30’)*

Ticciati’s Schumann

“...what poured out from the SCO all evening was some of the most utterly exhilarating orchestral playing you will hear anywhere, from anyone…”

– the herald

The Season is opened by the great Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski, who has established a wonderful rapport with the SCO over recent years. Here they offer a chance to measure the sheer richness of Mozart’s musical imagination by performing two utterly different piano concertos, juxtaposing the stormy, operatic drama of K466 and the near Beethovenian breadth of K595 – Mozart’s last piano concerto.

“Witnessing a partnership such as Piotr Anderszewski and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra makes one wonder why a conductor should ever be considered necessary for performing Mozart’s piano concertos…” – the guardian

Saturday 15 January 7.30pm

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britten schumann

beethoven mozart

piotr anderszewski Piano/Director* alexander janiczek Violin/Director

Overture, Beatrice and Benedict (8’) Nocturne (25’) Symphony No 4 (original version) (28’)

robin ticciati Conductor john mark ainsley Tenor

Collard plays Ravel

Saturday 4 December 7.30pm

takemitsu ravel

beethoven

How Slow the Wind (11’) Piano Concerto in G major (23’) Symphony No 4 (34’)

Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge and Wilfred Owen were among Britten’s inspirations in Nocturne, his dramatic evocation of night.

Here are seduction, repose, threat and menace in a phenomenal tour-de-force both for tenor soloist and the players who duet or spar with him in fleeting solos.

Ticciati frames Britten with two composers he loves and who were themselves regular correspondents. Schumann’s symphony blazes like day after Britten’s night: this is undiluted Romanticism at its most exhilarating – Schumann himself once used the word ‘Phantasie’ to describe it.

robin ticciati Conductor jean-phillipe collard Piano

Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati conducts the first of three concerts this Season.

Beethoven’s Fourth sings with all the ardour and lyricism of the first Romantics, and Ravel’s brilliance contrasts beautifully with the elegiac simplicity of Takemitsu’s miniature masterpiece – one of the SCO’s most widely performed commissions. jean-phillipe collard:

“This was stupendous playing, of a wholly French character.”

– the herald

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Italian Serenade

Prokofiev ‘Classical’ Symphony

Fauré Symphony No 1 ‘Classical’ (15’) Piano Concerto No 25 in C Requiem K503 (30’)

lotti Crucifixus (5’) (arr. manze) shostakovich Chamber Symphony (arr. barshai) in C minor Op 110a

Saturday 2 April 7.30pm

(arrangement of Quartet wagner schreker No 8) (21’) fauré

andrew manze Conductor francesco piemontesi Piano

Few concert programmes embrace greater emotional extremes than this. Opening with the extrovert showmanship of a youthful Prokofiev, it closes with the darkest night of the older Shostakovich’s soul. Strong stuff – sure to offer a stirring experience.

Mozart’s concerto is among his grandest, and it is played here by a brilliant young Italian making his SCO debut. To complete the programme, Andrew Manze’s own arrangement of a timeless lament: Lotti’s Crucifixus is one of the most beautiful pieces in all music.

“It reminded the listener just how finely integrated the SCO is... and highlighted the players’ commitment to the music and their sparky new conductor.”

– the independent

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Variations on a theme of Haydn (17’) haydn Cello Concerto in C major (24’) wolf Italian Serenade (8’) mendelssohn Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’ (27’)

brahms

Saturday 26 February 7.30pm

prokofiev mozart

Saturday 7 May 7.30pm

Siegfried Idyll (18’) Chamber Symphony (25’) Requiem (39’)

robin ticciati Conductor carolyn sampson Soprano neal davies Bass Baritone sco chorus

olari elts Conductor jean-guihen queyras Cello jane atkins Viola Playing a pair of ideas off against each other can achieve as satisfying a musical menu as you could wish for. Here, Brahms plays Haydn – the grand master of variation form – at his own game before we hear Haydn’s long lost cello concerto. Then two great German composers travel south for a taste of Italian song and dance.

“…A very human feeling of faith in eternal rest”, was what Fauré hoped to capture in his Requiem. He hated the fire and brimstone settings, and in movements such as the famous ‘Pie Jesu’ he communicates a precious air of peace and consolation instead.

Ticciati brings it together with Wagner’s touching love token and a beautiful rarity from the time of World War I. Schreker belonged to the world of Mahler, Strauss and Korngold.

He mostly wrote opera, and this chamber symphony has a theatrical, lyrical sweep to it.

If his name is unfamiliar that could be because, like so many musicians, he was persecuted by the Nazis and fell into obscurity. robin ticciati:

“...everything he touched turned to pure gold...” – the herald 7

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We invite individuals to become members of the SCO Patrons scheme, to join the SCO 250 Society, or to consider leaving a legacy to the Orchestra in their will. We offer companies a range of sponsorship and in-kind support opportunities and a flexible Corporate Membership scheme with regular hospitality and dedicated account management.

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