Glasgow Concert Season 201819

2O18/19 GLASGOVV CONCERT SEASON sco.org.uk

FRANÇOIS

LELEUX NICOLA

BENEDETTI BERTRAND

CHAMAYOU CAROLYN

SAMPSON VILDE

FRANG NICOLAS

ALTSTAEDT KRISTIAN

BEZUIDENHOUT PEKKA

KUUSISTO

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A very warm welcome to our

2O18/19 GLASGOVV CONCERT SEASON Visiting artists and musical stories weave their way through our concerts this Season as we welcome a host of exceptional international conductors and soloists – friends both old and new – to make music with our wonderful Orchestra.

Concerts span five centuries from the 17th Century music of Purcell and Biber, through an exploration of Mendelssohn’s most glorious works, some wellknown and some a little less familiar; Nordic music from Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen and Stenhammar; a taste of France including two concerts marking the 150th anniversary of the death of the great Hector Berlioz; and of course Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. There is also brand new music from our Associate Composer Martin Suckling and a true contemporary classic, Sir James MacMillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel with the incomparable Scottish percussionist Colin Currie, helping us to celebrate MacMillan’s 60th birthday.

We welcome back many old friends including Principal Guest Conductor Emmanuel Krivine, Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen, Richard Egarr, Andrew Manze, John Storgårds and Francesco Piemontesi.

We renew our acquaintance with some quite exceptional musicians including conductors Enrique Mazzola, Josep Pons, Clemens Schuldt, Duncan Ward and Karina Canellakis, pianist Paul Lewis and the phenomenal trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger.

Artists making their debuts with the SCO include the remarkable Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang performing Beethoven’s concerto; Baroque and Classical specialists Bernard Labadie and Reinhard Goebel; choral expert Laurence Equilbey and the brilliant cellist and conductor Nicolas Altstaedt.

We are particularly excited to welcome back the maverick Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto, Scotland’s favourite violinist Nicola Benedetti, the wonderful pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout and the extraordinary oboist and conductor François Leleux – all of whom take to the stage as both soloists and directors.

François Leleux is one of a number of featured artists appearing throughout the Season. He will play and conduct three separate programmes including a performance of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Eté with another of our featured artists, the captivating soprano Carolyn Sampson, who returns later in the season to sing Purcell and Handel with Richard Egarr. Our third featured artist is French pianist Bertrand Chamayou who makes two appearances with Beethoven and Ravel.

The SCO also has many remarkable soloists within the Orchestra, and this Season we can enjoy performances from no less than six of them. An SCO Season would not be complete, of course, without the SCO Chorus, expertly prepared by Chorus Director Gregory Batsleer.

They perform Haydn’s The Seasons, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht and MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross conducted by the composer.

For our Season Finale, they join the Orchestra for one of the most popular and beautiful of all works – Fauré’s Requiem, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, who completes our French theme with Berlioz’s extraordinary Symphonie Fantastique.

I do hope that you enjoy discovering our new Season and I very much look forward to seeing you at our concerts.

Gavin Reid Chief Executive Scottish Chamber Orchestra

2O18/19 GLASGOW CONCERTS September 2018 to May 2019 BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO HAYDN OBOE CONCERTO HAYDN THE SEASONS McLEOD NORDIC FIRE MOZART WITH BEZUIDENHOUT SCHUMANN CELLO CONCERTO BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO 4 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM TALES OF MENDELSSOHN II TALES OF MENDELSSOHN III MOZART HORN CONCERTO BERLIOZ LES NUITS D’ÉTÉ -

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MACMILLAN BIRTHDAY CONCERT 20 MOZART WITH PIEMONTESI 21 BRILLIANCE OF THE BAROQUE 21 SIBELIUS SYMPHONIES 6 & 7 22 RAVEL LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN 23 SERENADES WITH LELEUX 23 MOZART WITH BENEDETTI 24 RAVEL PIANO CONCERTO 24 HAYDN AND GRUBER TRUMPET CONCERTOS 25 DOVE ACCORDION CONCERTO 26 FAURÉ & BERLIOZ 27

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François Leleux – If you are a woodwind fan, then you must experience François Leleux. Hear him in three different programmes.

Vilde Frang – Passion and expression run in the blood of this young Norwegian violinist. Be sure to see this star in Scotland!

Emmanuel Krivine – Krivine enriches the colourful French finale to the Season with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Fauré’s Requiem.

Bertrand Chamayou – This remarkable musician presents Beethoven’s deeply affecting Fourth Piano Concerto.

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Kristian Bezuidenhout – The notable and exciting pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout guestdirects a joyous Mozart programme.

Pekka Kuusisto – With the extraordinary Finn Pekka Kuusisto at the helm, this concert is guaranteed to be awe-inspiring.

Håkan Hardenberger – Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger performs Haydn alongside the hugely fun Busking.

Nicola Benedetti – In demand across the globe, Benedetti returns home to direct two of Mozart’s Violin Concertos.

Laurence Equilbey – Enter the world of Mendelssohn’s folklore and fantasy with choral expert Laurence Equilbey.

Sir James MacMillan – Two of MacMillan’s greatest works conducted by the composer himself as a 60th Birthday treat.

Carolyn Sampson – The dazzling soprano celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Berlioz’s death with his sensuous Les Nuits d’Eté.

Karina Canellakis – The talented American conducts Bach’s E Major Violin Concerto played

by SCO Leader Benjamin Marquise Gilmore.

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A JOURNEY THROUGH THE NATURAL BY SIMON THOMPSON They say that when it comes to evoking a feeling of place, there’s nothing like your sense of smell to transport you somewhere; and that’s probably true if it’s somewhere you’ve already been. But when it comes to conjuring up kingdoms and landscapes that you don’t already know, or that perhaps never existed, there’s surely nothing that can hold a candle to music.

Not many of us have visited the Arctic Circle, for example, but listening to the icy strings of Sibelius’ Sixth Symphony (“pure cold spring water”, as the composer described it) or the craggy landscapes of his Seventh transports us straight there. Nielsen also evoked that elemental vastness in the great arch of his Helios Overture, and Haydn’s The Seasons is full of simple delight in the beauty of nature. We might smile at the naivety of his “mushrooms in the earthy forest”, but his pastoral music nevertheless has the power to transport us to a more innocent time.

And isn’t that feeling of escaping from our mundane, everyday lives one of the reasons why we love great music? Mendelssohn, on whom the Orchestra has a bit of a spotlight this year, was doubly gifted at this.

Not only could he evoke the vastness of the natural world – can the sea ever have sounded so limitless as it does in the opening of his Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage? – but at a stroke he could conjure up worlds that never were, be it in the rippling waves that shelter the mermaid Melusina, or the gossamer wings of the fairy music in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Mendelssohn could also plunge into the dark in the macabre spiritual melodrama of Die erste Walpurgisnacht, but not even he could match the blood-curdling horror of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, with its tale of obsession, witchcraft and drug-fuelled murder.

And maybe it’s that sense of transporting us out of ourselves that is at the heart of music’s power to move.

We can look at today’s world and find it overwhelming, sometimes even frightening; but music helps us to see that others have been there already and have found ways through it.

Music has the power to let you discover worlds beyond your experience or imagining. Where will you let this Season take you?

Simon Thompson Music Journalist for Bachtrack and Seen & Heard International

Friday 28 September 2018 7.30pm ––––– Proudly sponsored by

BEETHOVEN

VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYED BY VILDE FRANG THE SUN RISING AND SETTING OVER THE AEGEAN SEA WAS INSPIRATION FOR NIELSEN’S HELIOS: “SILENCE AND DARKNESS, THE SUN RISES WITH A JOYOUS SONG OF PRAISE, IT WANDERS ITS GOLDEN WAY AND SINKS QUIETLY INTO THE SEA.”

NIELSEN Helios Overture (12’) SIBELIUS Symphony No 3 in C, Op 52 (31’) BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D (42’) ––––– ENRIQUE MAZZOLA – Conductor VILDE FRANG – Violin What a way to open a Season! A melting pot of musical, artistic and creative wealth delivered by Enrique Mazzola – an Italian full of passion and life, and a happy, sunny character.

Sibelius’ Third Symphony oozes with desperate intensity while Nielsen’s Helios is a vivid musical evocation of sunshine shimmering and glittering on the sea.

The warmth continues with one of Norway’s brightest stars Vilde Frang, who joins for Beethoven’s noble Violin Concerto.

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ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST VIBRANT SOLOISTS

François Leleux –

FRANÇOIS LELEUX Featured Artist Unbridled sensuousness. Exceptional expressive power. And a musical personality that’s way larger than life.

French oboist and conductor François Leleux is an astonishingly charismatic musician. He couples an exuberant enthusiasm for music with an intense focus on telling its stories. His performances enthral, surprise and delight.

As an oboist, he is one of the world’s most vibrant, extrovert soloists, with an uncanny ability to charm and captivate his listeners. As a conductor, he’s renowned for his inspiring insights and musical energy.

François Leleux is a very special artist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this Season, directing and performing as soloist in three contrasting orchestral concerts, and joining SCO Principals for a chamber recital.

Experience Leleux’s irrepressible passion and joy for yourself at these very special concerts.

FRANÇOIS LELEUX IS A FABULOUS MUSICIAN AND I KNOW HE WILL PUT THE SCO WIND SECTION THROUGH ITS PACES, AND BRING A REFRESHING CHANGE. ALL THE CONCERTS WITH HIM ARE AN EXCITING PROSPECT. Rosie Staniforth

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Rosie Staniforth SCO Sub-Principal Oboe – Oboe, cor anglais and oboe d’amore.

This will be Rosie’s 20th Season with the SCO.

François Leleux and the SCO – French oboist and conductor François Leleux is quite simply one of today’s most charismatic, captivating musicians. With a larger-than-life musical personality, and searing musical insights to match, he brings an uninhibited enthusiasm to all he plays or conducts – telling his music’s stories with brilliant clarity and sparkling vitality.

Friday 5 October 2018 7.30pm ––––– We are delighted to dedicate this concert to our Glasgow Patrons in recognition of all their support of the SCO’s work.

HAYDN

OBOE CONCERTO PLAYED AND CONDUCTED BY FRANÇOIS LELEUX WHAT AN OBOIST FRANÇOIS LELEUX IS! THE SOUND HE MAKES IS UNMISTAKABLE: IMMENSE, VOLUPTUOUS, DARK AND OILY. HIS MUSICAL ENERGY IS ALERT AND TOTALLY UNINHIBITED. The Herald

HAYDN Symphony No 82 ‘The Bear’ (24’) Oboe Concerto in C (23’) SCHUBERT (arr WEBERN) German Dances (09’) BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn (17’) ––––– FRANÇOIS LELEUX – Conductor / Oboe Earthy folk tunes and foot-tapping dances from olden times pervade François Leleux’s gutsy first concert of this Season. Joseph Haydn delighted Parisian audiences with the country carnival atmosphere of his Symphony No 82, and its vivid images of bears jigging to rustic bagpipes are what gave the symphony its nickname. Likewise, Anton Webern had a lot of fun with his witty orchestral reimagining of six spirited German Dances by Schubert.

Scholarship suggests that the C Major Oboe Concerto may not be by Haydn, but its singing melodies and fizzing exuberance are the ideal match for Leleux’s animated playing all the same. He closes with the endless melodic inventiveness of Brahms’ ‘St Anthony’ Variations.

––––– MEET THE ARTIST INSIGHTS: 6.30pm François Leleux in conversation with SCO Chief Executive Gavin Reid.

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Friday 12 October 2018 7.30pm

HAYDN

THE SEASONS WITH SCO CHORUS AS NEWBIES TO THE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS EXPERIENCE, WE DID NOT REALLY KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. WE WERE COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY BY THE PERFORMANCE, THE ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM THAT EACH MUSICIAN PUT IN TO CREATE A BREATHTAKING DISPLAY. Audience member

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HAYDN The Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten) (134’) Sung in German ––––– BERNARD LABADIE – Conductor LUCY CROWE – Soprano ANDREW STAPLES – Tenor NEAL DAVIES – Bass Baritone ––––– SCO CHORUS GREGORY BATSLEER – Chorus Director Haydn’s own story of quiet revolution is overshadowed by the now fabled accounts of his contemporaries Mozart and Beethoven – their tortured artistic struggles, their lives touched by drama and tragedy. Haydn was a natural, hard-working person, who strived to meet the many deadlines for commissions ordered by his patrons.

The Seasons depicts many aspects of rural life through the four seasons of the year. It touches on friendship and love, success and hardship, and reaping the rewards of manual labour. There are also celebrations of wine and a hunting chorus. The more solemn ‘Ode to Toil’ caused Haydn to remark that, though he had been industrious all his life, he had never before been called upon to write music in praise of industry.

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Chorus Director Gregory Batsleer in conversation with Tenor Andrew Staples.

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McLEOD NORDIC FIRE

MOZART WITH BEZUIDENHOUT

WORLD PREMIERE CONDUCTED BY JOSEPH SWENSEN

PLAYED AND DIRECTED BY KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT

––––– Kindly supported by Donald and Louise MacDonald ––––– Friday 26 October 2018 7.30pm

––––– Kindly supported by Colin and Sue Buchan ––––– Friday 2 November 2018 7.30pm CPE BACH Symphony No 2 in E-flat, Wq 183 MOZART Symphony No 29 in A, K201 (24’) Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491 (30’) Rondo in A major, K386 (07’) ––––– KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT – Director / Harpsichord / Piano

GRIEG Holberg Suite (21’) McLEOD Viola Concerto ‘Nordic Fire’ World Premiere (27’) BEETHOVEN (arr SWENSEN) Quartet No 14 in C-sharp minor, Op 131 (38’) ––––– JOSEPH SWENSEN – Conductor JANE ATKINS – Viola Energy, light, colour and the magic of the Aurora Borealis form the inspiration behind John McLeod’s ‘Nordic Fire’ – a new Viola Concerto written for the Orchestra and the brilliant Jane Atkins. Grieg links Nordic and Scottish, having a great-grandfather born here before emigrating to Norway.

Joseph Swensen has a great love for Beethoven’s late quartets, rearranging the parts for the full string section. He explains: “Personally, I think the late quartets are an example of how Beethoven’s mind started evolving at its own relatively unchecked pace following the onset of his deafness and resulting isolation. That evolution, unencumbered by any musical distractions or influences, sped up dramatically as his hearing deteriorated further. In my view, his mind and imagination were practically in the 20th Century by the time he wrote Op 131, even though it was actually written in 1826!”

For Kristian Bezuidenhout, “Mozart is the most important musical figure in my life: there’s absolutely no question about that.” No question, either, that it is a joy to welcome the acclaimed pianist and director back to the SCO. He pairs a flamboyant, joyous symphony by his idol with arguably his most emotionally complex piano concerto. Opening the concert is a brilliant rarity by a composer Mozart himself adored: CPE Bach, JS Bach’s extrovert, second eldest son. Filled with a devil-may-care wildness, explosive drama and sheer panache, this is music that never fails to thrill and surprise.

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Next Piano Concerto Concert Kristian Bezuidenhout – One of today’s most notable and exciting keyboard artists.

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Friday 9 November 2018 7.30pm ––––– Proudly sponsored and match funded by

SCHUMANN

CELLO CONCERTO PLAYED AND CONDUCTED BY NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT I AM INVOLVED IN MANKIND, AND THEREFORE NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; IT TOLLS FOR THEE. John Donne Meditation XVII (1624)

WAGNER Siegfried Idyll (18’) SCHUMANN Cello Concerto (25’) SUCKLING Meditation (after Donne) World Premiere (10’) BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8 (26’) ––––– NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT – Conductor / Cello Marking the centenary of the Armistice, this special event represents a musical response to the legacy of war and the feelings of commemoration, love, loss, joy and peace it brings. Suckling’s Meditation is bound to be intriguing, with the inclusion of bells pealing from across Scotland. With the added luxury of one of the Season’s headline artists, Nicolas Altstaedt, a highly creative director and cellist in Schumann’s hugely expressive Concerto, the programme opens with Wagner’s beautiful lullaby and is completed with a work of brightness, optimism and good humour – Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony.

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Martin Suckling explores his new work Meditation (after Donne).

––––– Collection in aid of Poppyscotland.

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BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO No 4 CONDUCTED BY EMMANUEL KRIVINE – PLAYED BY BERTRAND CHAMAYOU ––––– Proudly sponsored by

––––– Friday 23 November 2018 7.30pm MENDELSSOHN Overture, The Fair Melusina (10’) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 in G (34’) SCHUMANN Symphony No 4 in D minor (revised version of 1851) (28’) ––––– EMMANUEL KRIVINE – Conductor BERTRAND CHAMAYOU – Piano

Emmanuel Krivine – Emmanuel Krivine brings an abundance of French panache to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU HAS MASTERED AN EXTENSIVE REPERTOIRE DISPLAYING STRIKING ASSURANCE, IMAGINATION, ARTISTIC APPROACH AND REMARKABLE CONSISTENCY IN ALL OF HIS PERFORMANCES.

Bertrand Chamayou

– Chamayou from Toulouse has been called a ‘prince of pianists’.

The brilliant French pianist from Toulouse, Bertrand Chamayou, noted for his technical wizardry and remarkable musicianship, is the soloist in the most lyrical of Beethoven’s piano concertos. The Fourth combines intimacy with energy, serenity with wit, and is the ideal match for Chamayou’s striking imagination and poetic emotions.

SCO Principal Guest Conductor Emmanuel Krivine concludes the concert with the pure-hearted music of Schumann, one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Lilting, soaring and majestic, and surging with abundant, virtuosic life, the Fourth Symphony is hardly indicative of the shattered spiritual condition of the composer at this point in his tragic career. Schumann once wrote: “Music – so different from painting – is the art which we enjoy the most in company with others”. Come and share in what promises to be one of the highlights of the Season.

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Friday 30 November 2018 7.30pm

TALES OF MENDELSSOHN I

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM WITH SCO CHORUS MENDELSSOHN’S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURES THE MAGIC AND FRIVOLITY OF THE ETHEREAL WORLD SHAKESPEARE CREATED IN HIS PLAY ABOUT UNEXPECTED TURNS IN LOVE AND LIFE.

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Incidental Music (40’) Die erste Walpurgisnacht (36’) ––––– LAURENCE EQUILBEY – Conductor HILARY SUMMERS – Contralto MARTIN MITTERRUTZNER – Tenor HUW MONTAGUE RENDALL – Baritone ––––– SCO CHORUS GREGORY BATSLEER – Chorus Director Mendelssohn’s enchanting music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream has to be the most famous and beloved Shakespearean score of all time, but what is a ‘Walpurgisnacht’? Think Halloween crossed with Beltane. In April, people across Northern and Eastern Europe dress up as witches and wizards, light bonfires, feast and are jolly. Mendelssohn celebrates by setting Goethe’s tale of ancient Druids outwitting the intolerant local Christians and, quite simply has a lot of choral fun with it.

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Mischief and Magic. Storyteller Anna Lehr and SCO Flute Brontë Hudnott invite concertgoers of all ages into Mendelssohn’s imagined worlds with timeless tales and musical magic. Presented in collaboration with the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

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TALES OF MENDELSSOHN II

TALES OF MENDELSSOHN III

CONDUCTED BY DANIELE RUSTIONI

CONDUCTED BY KARINA CANELLAKIS

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––––– Kindly supported by

ROSSINI Overture, L’Italiana in Algeri (08’)

––––– Friday 14 December 2018 7.30pm

SCO AMERICA

RESPIGHI Ancient Airs & Dances: Suite I (16’) MENDELSSOHN Two Concert Pieces, Opp 113, 114 (16’) Symphony No 1 in C minor (32’) ––––– DANIELE RUSTIONI – Conductor MAXIMILIANO MARTÍN – Clarinet WILLIAM STAFFORD – Basset Horn Meet the brilliant Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni.

At 34, he has already made starry debuts at opera houses and orchestras in the USA and Europe to huge acclaim. He brings great tunes, life and good humour.

Rossini’s overture is pure entertainment. Respighi’s suite is a chocolate box of miniature masterpieces inspired by bestselling Renaissance songs and dances.

Mendelssohn’s First Symphony was encored so much at its London premiere that the evening went on and on. The SCO’s own fine clarinettists step into the spotlight to complete the evening with a brace of duos guaranteed to bring a smile.

MENDELSSOHN Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (08’) BACH Violin Concerto in E (19’) BACH (arr WEBERN) Ricercare from A Musical Offering (08’) MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 5 in D ‘Reformation’ (27’) ––––– KARINA CANELLAKIS – Conductor BENJAMIN MARQUISE GILMORE – Violin Karina Canellakis pairs Mendelssohn with his idol, the man whose music he described as “The greatest music in the world”: JS Bach. We hear contrasting sides of Bach: the brilliant and courtly concerto composer in his 30s, then the visionary, astounding master in his last years.

Mendelssohn’s exhilarating and celebratory symphony makes a fine climax to the evening.

Written to mark the 300th anniversary of a key date in The Reformation, nonetheless it is the inspiration of Bach that you hear throughout.

THE FIRST TIME I PLAYED WITH THE SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, I FELT AN IMMEDIATE RAPPORT, BOTH MUSICALLY AND PERSONALLY, AND IT’S GROWN STRONGER EVER SINCE. Maximiliano Martín – The SCO’s Spanish clarinettist is also in high demand as an international soloist.

Maximiliano Martín CONNECT INSIGHTS: – 6.30pm –Ut enim ad veniam, quis nostrud exercitation Pre-concert performance ullamco laboris by students fromnisi theut aliquipConservatoire ex ea commodo Royal of consequat laboris.

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Benjamin Marquise Gilmore SCO Leader

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MOZART HORN CONCERTO No 4 CONDUCTED BY REINHARD GOEBEL – PLAYED BY ALEC FRANK-GEMMILL ––––– Friday 18 January 2019 7.30pm WA MOZART Symphony No 31 in D, K297 ‘Paris’ (17’) LEOPOLD MOZART Sinfonia in G major (08’) WA MOZART / MICHAEL HAYDN Adagio & Fugue in D, K291 / MH287

Reinhard Goebel – Founder of early music ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln and a master of historical performance.

WA MOZART Horn Concerto No 4 in E-flat, K495 (16’) JC BACH Overture and Suite, Amadis de Gaules (15’) WA MOZART Ballet Music from Idomeneo, K366 (15’) ––––– REINHARD GOEBEL – Conductor ALEC FRANK-GEMMILL – Natural Horn Welcome to the master of historical performance, Reinhard Goebel, for a concert dedicated to the genius that is Mozart, and his friends. Mozart wrote Symphony No 31 for the Parisian taste for colour and excitement, and it instantly grabs your attention with its energy and brilliant vitality. The SCO’s own award-winning Principal Horn Alec Frank-Gemmill presents the irresistible Horn Concerto No 4 on Natural Horn, and Mozart’s richly scored, dignified and noble orchestral interlude from Idomeneo also features, reflecting the opera’s central theme of averted disaster and final harmonious conclusion. JC Bach was a true cosmopolitan, and a composer greatly admired by Mozart. His accomplished opera Amadis de Gaule was premiered in Paris in 1779. The concert also includes music by Mozart’s close friend Michael Haydn and a short work by his father Leopold.

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SCO Principal Horn Alec Frank-Gemmill in conversation with Sub-Principal Second Violin Gordon Bragg.

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Alec Frank-Gemmill – A proponent of the historical natural horn as well as the modern instrument.

REINHARD GOEBEL, ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED MUSICIANS IN THE FIELD OF HISTORICALLY INFORMED PERFORMANCE PRACTICE, MAKES HIS SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA DEBUT WITH A PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTING THE MUSIC SURROUNDING WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART.

Friday 1 February 2019 7.30pm ––––– Proudly sponsored by

FRANÇOIS LELEUX CONDUCTS –––––

BERLIOZ

LES NUITS D’ÉTÉ SUNG BY CAROLYN SAMPSON LELEUX TAKES IN THE ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY AND SENSUALITY OF DEBUSSY’S EXQUISITE DANSES, THE INFECTIOUS NONCHALANCE OF GOUNOD’S EXUBERANT PETITE SYMPHONIE, AND THE BRACING DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER ERIC TANGUY’S EFFUSIVE INCANTO.

GOUNOD Petite Symphonie (21’) DEBUSSY (arr HENRI BÜSSER) Petite Suite (13’) Danses sacrée et profane (10’) TANGUY Incanto (06’) BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’Eté (31’) ––––– FRANÇOIS LELEUX – Conductor / Oboe CAROLYN SAMPSON – Soprano Immerse yourself in the heady perfumes and scintillating colours of France, as François Leleux leads you through a rich collection of music from his native country, past and present. Dazzling British soprano Carolyn Sampson is the soloist in Berlioz’s sensuous Les Nuits d’Eté, six heavily scented songs of love, loss and longing, with all the sumptuousness of a summer evening.

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Dr Jane Bentley, community music specialist, and SCO musicians Su-a Lee (Cello) and Peter Franks (Trumpet) discuss new developments in SCO ReConnect, the SCO programme for people living with dementia.

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SIR JAMES MACMILLAN 60TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Sir James MacMillan –

CONDUCTED BY SIR JAMES MACMILLAN – PLAYED BY COLIN CURRIE – WITH SCO CHORUS ––––– Kindly supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust

––––– Friday 22 February 2019 7.30pm PÄRT Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (06’) MACMILLAN Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (28’) Seven Last Words from the Cross (48’) ––––– SIR JAMES MACMILLAN – Conductor COLIN CURRIE – Percussion ––––– SCO CHORUS GREGORY BATSLEER – Chorus Director The partnership between Sir James MacMillan and the SCO goes back decades and has resulted in many remarkable new works. None has taken the world so much by storm as the percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel. It has been performed hundreds of times since its 1992 premiere and remains a thrilling experience live: a superb, celebratory highlight for this 60th Birthday Concert. Seven Last Words from the Cross is no less of a tour de force: a vivid, shocking and heartbreaking depiction of the crucifixion.

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Colin Currie – The Scottish musician has been hailed as “the world’s finest and most daring percussionist”.

The Spectator

Sir James MacMillan and the SCO – The SCO premiered Veni, Veni, Emmanuel in 1992 at the BBC Promenade Concerts, then at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Now in the pantheon of contemporary classics, it sounds as wonderfully fresh, imaginative, rhythmically impulsive and vibrantly colourful as it did all those years ago.

A modern choral counterpoint of Haydn’s masterpiece which was commissioned by the BBC for Holy Week in 1994, Seven Last Words was reviewed in the Guardian as “... probably MacMillan’s masterpiece... the maturity in this composition is astounding”.

MOZART PIANO CONCERTO No 19 PLAYED BY FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI ––––– Friday 1 March 2019 7.30pm

BRILLIANCE OF THE BAROQUE SUNG BY CAROLYN SAMPSON ––––– Friday 8 March 2019 7.30pm PURCELL Music from The Fairy Queen (40’) HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 1 in B-flat (10’) Arias from Semele: Oh, Jove in pity; Oh sleep; Myself I shall adore (15’) Music for the Royal Fireworks (20’) ––––– RICHARD EGARR – Conductor / Harpsichord CAROLYN SAMPSON – Soprano

STRAVINSKY Concerto in D (12’) MOZART Piano Concerto No 19 in F, K459 (28’) STENHAMMAR Serenade in F (36’) ––––– ANDREW MANZE – Conductor FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI – Piano Piemontesi and Manze first came together in 2011 and reunited two years ago for memorable Mozart concerts that led to a bestselling CD. Mozart is their focus here once more – his graceful, sunny Piano Concerto No 19. The SCO is one of the world’s greatest Mozart orchestras and it finds an ideal foil in the freshness and spontaneity of Piemontesi’s playing. Manze adds a Scandinavian treat too: Stenhammar’s Serenade is nothing less than a love song to the city of Florence. He would not be drawn on the story behind the music but hinted “… it isn’t just the titles that are Italian.”

WITH ANDREW MANZE AND THE SCO... PIEMONTESI HAS A FIRST-CLASS MOZART ORCHESTRA. Fono Forum 22

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Described as a conductor “full of fizzy finesse”, Richard Egarr presents a celebration of Handel and Purcell. There’s a riot of colour in Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and in his Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 1, and exquisitely beautiful arias from his humorous musical drama Semele, delivered by the dazzling soprano Carolyn Sampson. Purcell’s glimmering suite from the opera The Fairy Queen draws inspiration from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a bewitching tale celebrating the wonder and joy of love in all its forms. Purcell conjures up an enchanted world where the magical forces of nature reign supreme.

CAROLYN SAMPSON’S PURE SOPRANO COSSETS THE WORDS, SAVOURING THEIR EXPRESSIVE IMPLICATIONS, RELISHING THEIR SHIFTS OF RHYTHM AND SUBTLY SIGHING WITH BLISS, YEARNING OR HEARTACHE. The Telegraph Carolyn Sampson – Sampson’s soprano voice has super-refined control of phrasing and dynamics.

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Friday 15 March 2019 7.30pm

SIBELIUS

SYMPHONIES Nos 6 & 7 CONDUCTED BY JOSEPH SWENSEN PAUL LEWIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PIANISTS RENOWNED FOR HIS BEETHOVEN. HE IS A MULTI-AWARD WINNING RECORDING ARTIST, WITH AWARDS THAT INCLUDE HIS PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS.

BEETHOVEN Overture, Coriolan (08’) SIBELIUS Symphony No 6 (30’) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 2 (28’) SIBELIUS Symphony No 7 (21’) ––––– JOSEPH SWENSEN – Conductor PAUL LEWIS – Piano Two worlds collide thrillingly: Beethoven in Vienna around 1800, entering his prime and out to impress both as a performer and composer. Sibelius, 120 years later, deep in the Finnish countryside creating what would be some of his very last works.

These are two composers closest to Joseph Swensen’s heart. He delivers full-blooded interpretations and pairing him with Paul Lewis, another great Beethovenian, is bound to be inspirational.

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Joseph Swensen in conversation with Svend McEwan-Brown, a regular contributor to SCO programme notes.

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RAVEL LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN DIRECTED AND PLAYED BY PEKKA KUUSISTO ––––– Friday 22 March 2019 7.30pm BARTÓK Soldier Song (01’) RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin (17’) Sonata for Violin and Cello: Mvt 1 (05’)

THREE SERENADES CONDUCTED AND PLAYED BY FRANÇOIS LELEUX ––––– Proudly sponsored by

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MESSIAEN Abîme des Oiseaux from Quatuor pour le fin de Temps (08’) CRUMB God-music from Black Angels (03’) BIBER Battaglia (10’) HAYDN Symphony No 45 in F-sharp minor, ‘Farewell’ (25’) ––––– PEKKA KUUSISTO – Director / Violin MAXIMILIANO MARTÍN – Clarinet BENJAMIN MARQUISE GILMORE – Violin PHILIP HIGHAM – Cello Wayward genius… extraordinary sound… there’s not an inch of formality to Pekka Kuusisto. He is one-of-akind – a mesmerising player, with a riveting personality on stage who has earned himself a bit of a maverick reputation. His programme is a sort of musical ‘farewell’ through the last four centuries. The movements of Ravel’s light-hearted, reflective Tombeau de Couperin, dovetail with works written in times of conflict, including Messiaen’s Abyss of the Birds.

––––– CONNECT INSIGHTS: 6.30pm

Pre-concert performance by the music school of Douglas Academy.

THERE’S NOT AN INCH OF FORMALITY TO HIS PLAYING: PEKKA KUUSISTO MIGHT AS WELL HAVE WANDERED AROUND THE HALL AND WHISPERED.

WOLF Italian Serenade (08’) ˇ DVORÁK Serenade in D minor, Op 44 (24’) BRAHMS Serenade No 1 (49’) ––––– FRANÇOIS LELEUX – Conductor / Oboe Three enchanting serenades come together in a lavish conclusion to François Leleux’s Season with the SCO. The Orchestra’s strings take centre stage for the intimate warmth of Wolf’s Italian Serenade – hearing it is almost like eavesdropping on the sparkling conversations at a sophisticated party. There’s Bohemian brilliance, however, from Dvořák, whose richly rousing Serenade puts the SCO’s wind players firmly in the spotlight.

All the evening’s musicians get together for the delicious closing feast of Brahms’ youthful First Serenade, as joyful as it is exuberant.

The Guardian

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MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTOS Nos 3 & 5 PLAYED BY NICOLA BENEDETTI ––––– THE QUILTER CHEVIOT BENEDETTI SERIES

––––– Friday 5 April 2019 7.30pm

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––––– Friday 12 April 2019 7.30pm GINASTERA Variaciones Concertantes (21’) RAVEL Piano Concerto in G (23’)

MOZART Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216 (24’)* Symphony No 35 in D, K385 ‘Haffner’ (18’) ANNA CLYNE Within her Arms (14’) MOZART Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 ‘Turkish’ (29’)* ––––– BENJAMIN MARQUISE GILMORE – Director / Violin NICOLA BENEDETTI – Director / Violin * Benedetti play-directs two Mozart Violin Concertos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. These lovely pieces are perfect for her: Mozart probably wrote them for himself to play on his many tours and needless to say, he made sure they had all you could wish for in a showpiece: plenty of fireworks, sublime slow movements and quirky, memorable features like the ‘Turkish’ effects in No 5. Anna Clyne’s Within her Arms has been compared to Barber’s Adagio for Strings for its radiance and intensity – a moving contrast to Mozart’s youthful high spirits.

BRILLIANT, TUNEFUL, RHYTHMIC, EXOTIC – THAT’S WHAT ‘TURKISH’ MEANT TO MOZART, AND HIS VIOLIN CONCERTO IS A JOYOUS SHOWSTOPPER FOR SCOTLAND’S FAVOURITE VIOLINIST. 24 24

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 4 (34’) ––––– JOSEP PONS – Conductor BERTRAND CHAMAYOU – Piano So many wonderful soloists in this concert!

Each of Ginastera’s 12 ‘Variaciones’ puts different orchestral players in the spotlight, making a kind of kaleidoscopic spectacular. Then Bertrand Chamayou takes the stage for Ravel’s jazzy concerto. Ravel fell in love with jazz in the 1920s and fused it brilliantly with his own European heritage.

Chamayou is sparky, dazzlingly virtuosic, but thoughtful and sensitive too: the ideal soloist. After such a high-octane first half, Pons closes the evening with Beethoven’s lustrous Fourth Symphony.

CHAMAYOU BRINGS EVERYTHING HOME IN A WAY THAT IS DEEPLY PERSONAL, VIVID, UNIQUE. NO ONE WHO LOVES FRENCH MUSIC OR EXQUISITE PIANO PLAYING WILL WANT TO MISS THIS.

HARDENBERGER PLAYS HAYDN AND GRUBER

Håkan Hardenberger

– “… the best trumpet player in the galaxy…”

The Times

CONDUCTED BY JOHN STORGÅRDS – PLAYED BY HÅKAN HARDENBERGER ––––– Proudly sponsored by

––––– Friday 26 April 2019 7.30pm SCHULHOFF Serenade Op 18 (27’) HAYDN Trumpet Concerto in E-flat (14’) GRUBER Busking (31’) BEETHOVEN Twelve Contradances (12’) ––––– JOHN STORGÅRDS – Conductor HÅKAN HARDENBERGER – Trumpets “Great fun for the audience” – very few new pieces of music are reviewed like that, but Busking is a trumpet concerto unlike any you will have heard before, and it does leave its audiences cheering.

Virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger plays multiple instruments in it, while banjo and accordion join the ranks of the orchestra to help bring the vibrant, exotic world of street musicians into the concert hall. All in all it is a tour de force complemented by Beethoven’s delightful dances, Schulhoff’s jazzy serenade and an old favourite: Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto.

––––– CONDUCTOR INSIGHTS: 6.30pm

BUSKING WAS COMPOSED FOR HÅKAN HARDENBERGER AND MAKES FULL USE OF HIS PHENOMENAL VIRTUOSITY...

A DAZZLING CROSS-CUT FABRIC OF COMPETING RHYTHMS, WITH THE BANJO AND ACCORDION ADDING A BRITTLE, ALMOST SARDONIC EDGE.

John Storgårds – The Finnish conductor is an earthy, powerful, passionate musician with precision, vitality and clarity of performance.

The Guardian

John Storgårds discusses tonight’s programme.

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DOVE ACCORDION CONCERTO

Clemens Schuldt –

WORLD PREMIERE CONDUCTED BY CLEMENS SCHULDT – PLAYED BY OWEN MURRAY ––––– Kindly supported by Mr Roland Williams, PRS Foundation and the Royal Academy of Music

––––– Friday 3 May 2019 7.30pm MOZART Symphony No 34 in C, K338 (21’) DOVE Accordion Concerto World Premiere (20’) LIGETI Concerto Românesc (15’) HAYDN Symphony No 90 in C (24’) ––––– CLEMENS SCHULDT – Conductor OWEN MURRAY – Accordion BENJAMIN MARQUISE GILMORE – Violin Jonathan Dove’s concertos are often more than they seem, for example, his flute concerto The Magic Flute Dances imagines the life of the magic flute after the end of Mozart’s eponymous opera. His new Accordion Concerto promises to be a fitting tribute to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, drawing influences from his love of Orkney. Max had been commissioned to write the concerto for accordion virtuoso Owen Murray, but sadly he passed away just as he was about to start work on it. Mozart and Haydn are both in high spirits in their symphonies here – Haydn plays a joke that is sure to catch you out – while Ligeti is in rustic, folksy mood.

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UNQUESTIONABLY THE FINEST PLAYER AND TEACHER IN BRITAIN. CAN BE COMPARED TO SEGOVIA FOR HIS SUPREME VIRTUOSITY AND ALSO FOR HIS SUCCESS IN DEMONSTRATING THE GREAT POTENTIAL OF AN UNDERVALUED INSTRUMENT. The Times on Owen Murray

COMPOSER INSIGHTS: 6.30pm – Jonathan Dove introduces his new Accordion Concerto.

Friday 10 May 2019 7.30pm

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SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE CONDUCTED BY EMMANUEL KRIVINE “SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE IS A BIZARRE SORT OF NIGHT PIECE, NOW AND THEN ILLUMINATED BY THE SENTIMENTAL WHITENESS OF A WOMAN’S ROBE FLUTTERING TO AND FRO OR BY A SULPHUR-YELLOW GLEAM OF IRONY.” Heinrich Heine

FAURÉ Requiem (37’) BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique (50’) ––––– EMMANUEL KRIVINE – Conductor RUDOLF ROSEN – Baritone ––––– SCO CHORUS GREGORY BATSLEER – Chorus Director Passion rules in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Season Finale! Principal Guest Conductor Emmanuel Krivine brings an abundance of French panache in Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique: unrequited love, a ‘Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath’, an intense vision of hell, and a bizarre and fantastic ending.

In contrast, Fauré’s Requiem offers gentleness and intimacy, radiant with consolation – gloriously delivered by the sublime SCO Chorus and the soothing baritone of Rudolf Rosen.

––––– CONNECT INSIGHTS: 6.30pm

Fantastic Tales. Join storyteller Claire Hewitt and SCO Clarinet William Stafford as they conjure up Berlioz’s dark world of witchcraft and obsession.

Presented in collaboration with the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

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Alison Mitchell SCO Principal Flute – Alison Mitchell’s glorious flute sound is particularly prominent in Gounod’s Petite Symphonie (P19).

Alec Frank-Gemmill SCO Principal Horn – A historical performance of Mozart’s irresistible Fourth Horn Concerto (P18).

Gregory Batsleer SCO Chorus Director – The SCO Chorus perform Haydn, Mendelssohn, MacMillan and Fauré (P12).

Maximiliano Martín SCO Principal Clarinet – Mendelssohn Duos with William Stafford (P17) and Messiaen’s Abyss of the Birds (P23).

Stephanie Gonley SCO Leader – Enjoy Stephanie Gonley’s beautiful solo in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll (P14).

Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, SCO Leader – Partnering with Karina Canellakis (P17), Nicola Benedetti (P24) and Pekka Kuusisto (P23).

Jane Atkins SCO Principal Viola – Soloist in McLeod’s ‘Nordic Fire’ Concerto which is inspired by the aurora borealis (P13).

Philip Higham SCO Principal Cello – A beautiful solo spot, supported by 20 tuned wine glasses in Crumb’s God-music (P23).

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Friday 28 September

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BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto

HAYDN Oboe Concerto

HAYDN The Seasons

McLEOD Nordic Fire

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SIBELIUS Symphonies 6 & 7

Friday 22 March

Friday 29 March

Friday 5 April

Friday 12 April

RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin

THREE SERENADES with Leleux

MOZART with Benedetti

RAVEL Piano Concerto

Friday 26 April

Friday 3 May

Friday 10 May

HAYDN AND GRUBER Trumpet Concertos

DOVE Accordion Concerto

FAURÉ & BERLIOZ with Krivine

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