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| Maxim Emelyanychev and Scottish Chamber Orchestra |
Amazingly, 2025/26 will likely be Maxim Emelyanychev’s seventh season as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and he will likely be presenting ten programme with the orchestra through the season, together with Andrew Manze as principal visitor conductor. Emelyanychev’s programmes embrace Strauss’ Metamorphosen, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, contrasting Glorias from Vivaldi and Poulenc, Berlioz’ L’enfance du Christ , Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Mozart’s ultimate three symphonies. The orchestra’s principal cellist, Philip Higham joins him for Schumann’s Cello Concerto, and violinist Nicola Benedetti joins Emelyanychev and the orchestra for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.
Earlier this yr, I had an pleasurable chat to the orchestra’s affiliate composer Jay Capperauld [see my interview] and the season will function three of Capperauld’s works. Andrew Manze conducts The Language of Eden, a choral work that reimagines the beginning of language itself, and a second work can even function the refrain, The Winter’s Brightening, while Stylus Scarlatti reimagines Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas for the brilliant colors of the orchestra. While Capperauld’s The Nice Grumpy Gaboon will likely be returning too.
Different new music contains the UK premiere of Scottish composer Helen Grime’s River, carried out by the orchestra and director/percussionist Colin Currie, the UK premiere of Jörg Widmann’s affectionate homage to Schumann, Albumblätter, and Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto, devoted to its performer right here, Lawrence Energy. The SCO Refrain will likely be acting on of Roderick Williams’ works, O Adonai, as a part of their seasonal concert events, while the baritone himself will likely be performing Berlioz and Butterworth with the orchestra.
Violinist Alina Ibragimova would be the soloists in Hartmann’s Concerto funèbre, a piece she has lengthy championed. Andrew Manze and the orchestra’s clarinettist Maximiliano Martín current three iconic works by John Adams, Shaker Loops, Gnarly Buttons, and Fearful Symmetries as a part of the New Dimensions sequence which additionally contains Colin Currie in Steve Reich and Joe Duddell together with Helen Grime’s River, and saxophonist Jess Gillam in Anna Clyne, George Walker and Caroline Shaw, in addition to two works written particularly for her, by John Harle and Dani Howard.
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| SCO Tea Dance Concert events |
The orchestra’s Artistic Studying actions attain over 10,000 individuals throughout Scotland yearly, and this yr the season contains multisensory household concert events, Immerse concert events for secondary faculties, tea dance concert events and a continuation of their Craigmillar Residency. They are going to be celebrating 5 years of the Craigmillar Residency with Tapestry – a showcase that includes performances by the SCO Seen and Heard Ensemble and SCO Craigmillar Voices choir, together with a 25-minute work curated by Jay Capperauld.
Full particulars from the orchestra’s web site.
