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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays hymn to nature
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Ilan Volkov conducts Beethoven, Mozart and Schonberg, Glasgow City Halls, 8
February 2007
A year after the opening of its new home at Glasgow City Halls, the BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov continue the
Glasgow concert season on Thursday 8 February in the company of one of the
world's leading pianists, Stephen Kovacevich.
He features in the sprightly
Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, one of Mozart's most jovial creations for piano
and orchestra.
Stephen Kovacevich has won unsurpassed admiration from Scottish audiences and
press for his playing of Beethoven and Mozart, and is regarded as one of the
most searching interpreters of the classical piano repertoire.
In this evening of musical contrasts, Ilan Volkov conducts Arnold Schoenberg's
virtuoso piece for chamber orchestra, the Chamber Symphony No.1, exactly 100 years to the day after it was premiered in Vienna.
Completing the
programme is one of the best loved works in the entire orchestral canon:
Beethoven's hymn to nature, the Pastoral Symphony.
The theme of nature in music runs throughout the evening: pianist Peter Hill
from the University of Sheffield talks about Nature In Music in the pre-concert
Prelude, and performs Messiaen's The Woodlark and other themes inspired by
nature in the post-concert Coda.
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC
Radio 3, presented by Petroc Trelawny.
In the year since the BBC SSO moved to City Halls, it has become bound to the
fabric of the building, and the relationship between the hall and the orchestra
has become a potent symbol of Scotland's thriving cultural life.
Notes to Editors
Thursday 8 February 2007, 7.30pm
BBC SSO, Thursday Night Series
City Halls, Glasgow
Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3, presented by Petroc Trelawny
Schönberg Chamber Symphony No.1, Op.9a [original version]
Mozart Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, K.491
Beethoven Symphony No.6 Pastoral
Stephen Kovacevich, piano
Ilan Volkov, conductor
Prelude: Peter Hill from the University of Sheffield talks about Music in
Nature
Coda: Peter Hill, pianist and leading authority on the music of Messiaen, plays
L'Alouette Lulu (The Woodlark) from Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux
Booking information
City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ
Box Office - Tel: 0141 353 8000
www.glasgowcityhalls.com
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