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˿ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
9 Jan 2016, City Halls
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˿ SSO 2015-16 Season Hear and Now – Matthias Pintscher conducts….

˿ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Hear and Now – Matthias Pintscher conducts….
20:00 Sat 9 Jan 2016 Grand Hall
Matthias Pintscher conducts works by Wagner, Joan Magrané Figuera, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jay Schwartz and Helmut Lachenmann
Matthias Pintscher conducts works by Wagner, Joan Magrané Figuera, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jay Schwartz and Helmut Lachenmann

Programme

      • Parsifal(13 mins)Prelude to Act I
      • ...secreta desolación...(12 mins)UK Premiere
      • Libro notturno delle voci for flute and orchestra(23 mins)UK Premiere
        • interval
        • Delta – Music for Orchestra IV(25 mins)UK Premiere
        • Tableau(13 mins)Scottish Premiere

    Concert information

    With its suspension of time and space, magical colouring and mysterious silences, Wagner’s Parsifal prelude is a suitable opener to this concert of contemporary music, programmed and conducted by the ˿ SSO’s Artist-in-Association, Matthias Pintscher. Joan Magrané Figuera’s ...secreta desolación… makes melodic and harmonic references to Wagner’s opera while another German musical revolutionary, Helmut Lachenmann, uses silences and large orchestral forces in Tableau, a work recently described as “mesmerising, startling and occasionally forbidding.” Jay Schwartz’s Delta, combines ‘physics with the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of sound’ to create a work of great emotional intensity; and at the centre of this Hear and Now, a flute concerto by Salvatore Sciarrino in which the soloist engages in dialogues with a succession of instruments, creating a fragile soundworld which teeters on the edge of silence.

    The concert will be recorded for future broadcast in ˿ Radio 3’s Hear and Now.

    Tickets: FREE* (unreserved seating) limited to 2 tickets per application (not recommended for young children)

    *£1.00 online and £1.50 telephone venue booking fees apply.