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Fantasy, Funeral Laments and Fate

Lawrence Power, the SCO and John Storgårds give the UK premiere of Cassandra Miller's ethereal Viola Concerto alongside Sibelius's The Tempest and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

An evening of high emotions, Sibelius’s inventive incidental music for Shakespeare’s stormy drama opens the SCO concert from Glasgow City Halls. The centrepiece of the concert is the long-awaited new viola concerto by the exciting Canadian composer Cassandra Miller, co-commissioned by ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 and written for tonight's soloist, the viola player Lawrence Power. Don't miss this miraculously beautiful sound world full of trembling and longing for home, inspired by a Greek landscape.

Finnish conductor, John Storgårds, concludes the concert with an intimate chamber orchestra arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s most thrilling and emotional symphony. On the slow movement of his Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote ‘With desire and passion,’ this is Romantic music at its most sincere.

SIBELIUS: The Tempest Suite No 2
MILLER: I cannot love without trembling (Viola Concerto)
TCHAIKOVSKY (ARR G. MORTON): Symphony No 5

Scottish Chamber Orchestra
John Storgårds, conductor
Lawrence Power, viola

Presenter: Andrew McGregor
Producer: Lindsay Pell

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Wed 10 May 2023 19:30

Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Tempest: Suite No. 2 Op.109 No. 3

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
  • Cassandra Miller

    I Cannot Love Without Trembling

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
  • Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

    String Trio in B Minor

    Ensemble: Leopold String Trio.
    • Taneyev String Trios.
    • Hyperion.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64

    Music Arranger: George Morton. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
  • Claire Victoria Roberts

    Dream big for tomorrow

    Orchestra: Camden Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Levon Parikian.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Op 23 (No 8, 'In the Hall of the Mountain King')

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Gösta Ohlin's Vocal Ensemble. Choir: Pro Musica Chamber Choir.
    • Grieg: Complete music with orchestra: Gothenburg SO/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Aurore (Daybreak) from Jour d'été à la montagne

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Wed 10 May 2023 19:30