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˿ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
8 Apr 2017, Glasgow City Halls
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˿ SSO 2016-17 Season Hear and Now - Matthias Pintscher Conducts….

˿ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Hear and Now - Matthias Pintscher Conducts….
20:00 Sat 8 Apr 2017 Grand Hall
Matthias Pintscher conducts works by Ligeti, Olga Neuwirth & Henze
Matthias Pintscher conducts works by Ligeti, Olga Neuwirth & Henze

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Matthias Pintscher, the ˿ SSO’s Artist-In-Association, curates another evening of works, all originally commissioned for one anniversary or another. Ligeti’s frantic, scuttling culmination of his explorations into musical polyphony was written for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s 60th birthday. Hans Werner Henze’s Seventh Symphony commemorated the Berlin Philharmonic’s centenary and references Beethovenian symphonic form, German dances and the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. Olga Neuwirth’s recent work, meanwhile, began as a tribute Mahler to mark the centenary of his death but is inspired by memories of her grandfather’s life by the Danube and is, in her own words, “an impossible attempt to stop time by composing”.

The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on ˿ Radio 3.