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26 May 2021, Glasgow City Halls
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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SSO 2020-21 Season LIVE: Colin Currie Plays Joey Roukens

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
LIVE: Colin Currie Plays Joey Roukens
19:30 Wed 26 May 2021 Glasgow City Halls
Colin Currie gives the UK Premiere of the composer's percussion concerto from 2011.
Colin Currie gives the UK Premiere of the composer's percussion concerto from 2011.

This concert is online/on-air only

You can listen live via ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sounds

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Concert Information

Colin Currie is a BIG fan of Dutch composer Joey Roukens. He’s called the work he’s playing here ‘one of the repertoire's great concertos… resplendent in colour and life, it is 40 minutes of adventure and emotion.’ Enough said. There’s plenty of life, too, in our wonderful conductor Chloé van Soeterstède, who’ll bring energy and insight to Mozart’s Don Giovanni overture, and Beethoven’s Second Symphony. Written at the onset of his deafness, it’s a symphony that’s both sunny and powerful, as if the composer is enjoying flexing his ever-developing musical muscles.

The concert is broadcast as part of a week of music from Scotland on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3; it is presented by Jamie MacDougall.