Colin Currie & Ilan Volkov
19:30
Thu 6 Feb 2025
Glasgow City Halls
Programme
- Festive Overture, Op. 96(7 mins)
- Trurliade 鈥� Zone Zero for solo percussion and orchestra(33 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No 6 in E flat minor(42 mins)
Performers
- Colin Curriepercussion
- Ilan Volkovconductor
Imagine...an irrational robot goes terrifyingly off the rails鈥� & Percussionist Colin Currie is the only man who can stop it.
All music tells a story, but the best music tells more than one. Shostakovich鈥檚 Festive Overture opens with jubilant trumpets 鈥� but this was the Soviet Union, so it would do, wouldn鈥檛 it? Prokofiev wrote his Sixth Symphony in the aftermath of World War Two, and though it鈥檚 certainly an epic, it鈥檚 far from clear that it ends in anything as simple as triumph. As you鈥檇 expect from Ilan Volkov, it鈥檚 the climax of a whole evening of music that asks as many questions as it answers, including Olga Neuwirth鈥檚 utterly original vision of a robot creator going terrifyingly off the rails. Armed with DJ turntables, a megaphone and clicking metal frogs, soloist Colin Currie - possibly the world鈥檚 greatest living percussionist 鈥� is the only man who can stop it鈥�
This concert ends at approximately 9:30pm.