BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Season 09/10

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I am delighted to welcome you to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s 2009/10 City Halls Thursday Night Series, in my first season as Chief Conductor of this wonderful orchestra. We can promise you a superbly varied musical diet, filled with marvellous music including a few pieces you may not have come across before. I’m joined by a distinguished group of conductors and soloists whose artistry will bring something special to the orchestra’s performances and I’m especially happy that my brilliant predecessor Ilan Volkov maintains his close association with the orchestra as Principal Guest Conductor. We can promise you some exciting music making; I hope you’ll want to join us! Donald Runnicles

Donald Runnicles Chief ConductorIlan Volkov Principal Guest Conductor Stefan SolyomAssociate Guest ConductorJerzy Maksymiuk Conductor LaureateElizabeth Layton Leader

2009/2010 Season

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s 2009/10 Series is our fourth at City Halls and the first under new Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles. These 15 concerts are packed with great masterpieces in programmes that also introduce some new and neglected pieces, making our Thursday night concerts in Glasgow truly fresh and exciting. Our home since its opening in 2006 after extensive rebuilding, City Halls has come to be recognised as one of Britain’s best concert halls, with its unique combination of intimacy and sonic splendour. Of course we hope you’ll come to all of our concerts, but to help you through the riches on offer we have arranged them under three broad themes: Maestros’ Choice, Bohemian Rhapsodies and North by North-East:

MAESTROS’ CHOICE

A collection of six irrestible programmes that showcase the respective talents of Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov. These two distinguished musicians have, with the BBC SSO, given some of the finest concerts heard in Scotland in recent years, and this season they are joined by some superb soloists, including soprano Christine Brewer and violinist James Ehnes. Great symphonies by Mahler, Bruckner, Beethoven and Sibelius feature alongside ravishingly colourful music by Ravel and Richard Strauss, and landmark works from our own time by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and James MacMillan.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES

2009 is the 50th anniversary of the death of the Bohemian Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, and the 20th anniversary of ‘The Velvet Revolution’ so we take the opportunity to celebrate the great tradition of Czech music in five concerts that include Martinů’s five piano concertos. Overshadowed somewhat by his Moravian compatriot Janáček, Martinů’s music has exhilarating energy and a bracing sense of the great outdoors that is very appealing. Along with Dvořák’s three most popular symphonies and Janáček’s stunning Sinfonietta, these concerts promise some of the most intriguing and exciting listening of the season.

NORTH BY NORTH-EAST

Following last season’s successful series of all Rachmaninov’s piano concertos, the great Russian’s three glorious symphonies head up this marvellous quintet of concerts highlighting music from the North. The implacable, granite-hewn Tenth Symphony of Shostakovich continues the Russian theme while the greatest of all Nordic composers Sibelius, represented by his Violin Concerto, is in the virtuoso hands of Scotland’s popular international soloist Nicola Benedetti. There’s also storm-tossed sea music by Benjamin Britten and beautiful Burns’ songs from Thea Musgrave to add a British flavour to the Northern mix. With leading conductors and soloists such as Vassily Sinaisky, Lisa Milne and Simon Trpčeski, every one of these concerts has something to look forward to.

DON’T FORGET our Preludes and Codas (free to ticket-holders) – popular pre- and post-concert events that allow you to learn something about the music and musicians, or to enjoy a little extra music from some of our soloists after the main programme. All entirely optional, but a great way to make the most of your evening at City Halls!

All concerts will be recorded for future transmission, or broadcast live on BBC Radio 3: bbc.co.uk/radio3

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“THE SYMPHONY MuST BE LIkE THE wORLD. IT MuST EMBRACE EVERYTHING.”

GUSTAV MAHLER, 1907

MAESTROS’ CHOICE 1 THuRSDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2009, 7.30PM

BEETHOVEN SyMPHONy NO.1 BERG SEVEN EARLy SONGS MAHLER SyMPHONy NO.1 ‘TITAN’

HEIDI MELTON, SOPRANO DONALD RuNNICLES, CONDUCTOR

Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles begins his first season at the helm of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with two great works from the Austro-German symphonic tradition. Runnicles and the BBC SSO have already given some memorable performances of Mahler together, at the Edinburgh International Festival and in London at the BBC Proms, and their interpretation of the magnificent First Symphony will be eagerly awaited. Influenced by both Mahler and Richard Strauss, Alban Berg’s lushly scored, late romantic songs complete this marvellous programme.

Ken MacQuarrie, Controller BBC Scotland in conversation with Gavin Reid, Director BBC SSO.

Heidi Melton gives a short post-concert recital.

MAESTROS’ CHOICE 2 THuRSDAY, 15 OCTOBER, 7.30PM

MACMILLAN THE CONFESSION OF ISOBEL GOWDIE MOzART PIANO CONCERTO NO.25, K.503 RAVEL DAPHNIS ET CHLOé (COMPLETE)

SHAI wOSNER, PIANO EDINBuRGH FESTIVAL CHORuS DONALD RuNNICLES, CONDUCTOR

Hearing the complete Daphnis and Chloé with chorus is an overwhelming experience. Few scores have the opulent richness of sound that Ravel conjures up in this magical music, and Donald Runnicles and the orchestra will surely revel in its virtuosity. New york-based Israeli pianist Shai Wosner is a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist whose rising international reputation has already taken him to some of the world’s greatest orchestras. The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, premiered by the BBC SSO in 1990, has become one of the most often played modern British compositions around the world. A long-established BBC SSO party piece, this performance will mark James MacMillan’s 50th birthday year in truly dramatic style.

Writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson introduces James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. He’s joined by the historian Louise yeoman to discuss witchcraft in 17th century Scotland.

Shai Wosner plays Mozart’s Variations on a theme of Gluck, K.455.

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Pre-Concert Preludes take place in the Recital Room between 6.45pm and approximately 7.10pm, except for the Bohemian Rhapsodies and North by North-East concerts which start at 6.15pm.

Post-Concert Codas begin approximately 10 minutes after the end of the main concert.

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“I HAVE MORE SkILL, BuT HE IS GREATER.” RICHARD STRAUSS ON SIBELIUS

MAESTROS’ CHOICE 3 THuRSDAY, 29 OCTOBER, 7.30PM

RICHARD STRAuSS DON JUAN: SyMPHONIC POEM BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO.4 SIR PETER MAxwELL DAVIES NEW WORK (WORLD PREMIERE, BBC COMMISSION) SIBELIuS SyMPHONy NO.7

STEFAN VLADAR, PIANO ILAN VOLkOV, CONDUCTOR

Ilan Volkov, in his new role as Principal Guest Conductor, begins this concert with the scintillating adventures of Strauss’ amorous anti-hero Don Juan and brings it to a resounding close with the single, soaring arc of wonderful music that is Sibelius’ final symphony. Between these, a new piece from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies to celebrate his 75th birthday year, and Beethoven’s most genial piano concerto played by leading Austrian pianist Stefan Vladar.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in conversation with Gavin Reid, Director BBC SSO.

Stefan Vladar plays Haydn’s Piano Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI/50.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES 1 THuRSDAY, 12 NOVEMBER, 7.00PM

DVOřák OVERTURE: CARNIVAL MARTINů PIANO CONCERTO NO.3 DVOřák SyMPHONy NO.9 ‘FROM THE NEW WORLD’

IVO kAHANEk, PIANO STEFAN SOLYOM, CONDUCTOR

The young Czech pianist Ivo Kahanek had a major success with Martinů’s music at the 2007 BBC Proms, and here he launches our Bohemian Rhapsodies series with the composer’s powerful Third Piano Concerto. It’s a work which has tragic overtones linked to his American exile and feelings of alienation from his homeland. Dvořák’s great ‘New World Symphony’ was similarly composed when he was living in the United States, but here the mood is more one of grateful homage to the country that welcomed him so openly. Full of electric drama and inspired melodies, it’s a work that amply justifies its status as one of the best loved symphonies of all.

Stephen Johnson discusses Czech musical connections.

Ivo Kahanek plays excerpts from Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path and Martinů’s Three Czech Dances.

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JANáčEk THE FIDDLER’S CHILD MARTINů PIANO CONCERTO NO.1 DVOřák SyMPHONy NO.8

PIERS LANE, PIANO PETR ALTRICHTER, CONDUCTOR

Leading Czech conductor Petr Altrichter, Principal Conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra, brings his countryman Dvořák’s ebullient Eighth Symphony to City Halls. The sunniest of the composer’s symphonies, it’s full of lilting melodies and infectious, folk dance-inspired rhythms. Australian pianist Piers Lane joins the orchestra in Martinů’s brilliantly jazzy first piano concerto of 1925. Janáček’s evocative ‘ballad’ for orchestra The Fiddler’s Child has a starring role for the orchestra’s distinguished leader Elizabeth Layton.

Jan Smaczny, Hamilton Harty Professor of Music at Queen’s University Belfast, and a well known authority on Czech music, explores the work of Martinů, Janáček and Dvořák.

Piers Lane and Elizabeth Layton perform music by Janáček and Dvořák.

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“I SHOuLD BE GLAD IF SOMETHING OCCuRRED TO ME AS A MAIN IDEA THAT OCCuRS TO DVOřák ONLY BY THE wAY.”

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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER, 2.00PM to be recorded for future broadcast in BBC Radio 3’s series Discovering Music

MARTINů PIANO CONCERTO NO.2 MARTINů THREE INVENTIONS

STEPHEN JOHNSON, PRESENTER MARTIN ROSCOE, PIANO TECwYN EVANS, CONDUCTOR

Though Bohuslav Martinů may not be a household name in the UK, as a composer his reputation stands alongside that of Stravinsky and Bartók. Stephen Johnson, pianist Martin Roscoe and the BBC SSO unfold the story of this quiet, unassuming man and his darkly romantic music.

TICkETS: FREE (unreserved seating) details of ticket availabilty will be announced in September 2009.

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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES 4 THuRSDAY, 3 DECEMBER, 7.00PM

DVOřák LEGENDS 1 – 5 MARTINů PIANO CONCERTO NO.4 ‘INCANTATIONS’ DVOřák LEGENDS 6 – 10 JANáčEk SINFONIETTA

GARRICk OHLSSON, PIANO ILAN VOLkOV, CONDUCTOR

What better way to close a celebration of Czech music than Janáček’s glorious Sinfonietta, with its huge line-up of brass, including no fewer than 12 trumpets! This spectacular piece is offset by the more restrained beauty of Dvořák’s poetic Legends. Completing our series of Martinů piano concertos, one of America’s finest pianists joins Ilan Volkov for a rare performance of ‘Incantations’, with its irresistible combination of dreamy lyricism and driving energy.

Stephen Johnson discusses the musical worlds of Dvořák and Janáček.

A sextet from the BBC SSO performs a suite from Martinů’s jazz ballet, La revue de cuisine.



DVOřák THE GOLDEN SPINNING WHEEL MARTINů PIANO CONCERTO NO.5 ‘FANTASIA CONCERTO’ DVOřák SyMPHONy NO.7

IVO kAHANEk, PIANO STEFAN SOLYOM, CONDUCTOR

Stefan Solyom conducts the most Wagnerian of Dvořák’s symphonies, dark and immensely powerful. He begins the concert with the biggest of the composer’s symphonic poems, a graphic musical portrayal of a Czech folk tale. It was composed right at the end of his life, like Martinů’s Fifth Piano Concerto, which again features the superb young Czech pianist, Ivo Kahanek.

Jan Smaczny introduces Dvořák’s late tone poem The Golden Spinning Wheel and discusses Martinů’s Fifth Piano Concerto.

Ivo Kahanek plays excerpts from Miloslav Kabelác’s Eight Preludes, Op.30 and Smetana’s Concert Etude in C major.

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“SOuNDS, THE INTONATION OF HuMAN SPEECH, INDEED OF EVERY LIVING BEING, HAVE ALwAYS HAD FOR ME THE DEEPEST TRuTH.”

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MAESTROS’ CHOICE 4 THuRSDAY, 21 JANuARY 2010, 7.30PM

wAGNER SIEGFRIED IDyLL (ORIGINAL VERSION) BRuCkNER SyMPHONy NO.8

DONALD RuNNICLES, CONDUCTOR

“The work of a giant” is how Hugo Wolf described Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, and the symphony itself is a giant, with its full panoply of horns and Wagner tubas. Perhaps Bruckner’s greatest work, it is a huge challenge to any orchestra and conductor – but BBC SSO Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles has a distinguished track record as a Bruckner interpreter, and this performance is certain to be one of the major events of the season.

Stephen Johnson, author of Bruckner Remembered, explores the composer’s mighty Eighth Symphony.

Please note there will be no coda after this concert.

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NORTH BY NORTH-EAST 1 THuRSDAY, 11 FEBRuARY, 7.30PM

BRITTEN FOUR SEA INTERLUDES FROM ‘PETER GRIMES’ THEA MuSGRAVE SONGS FOR A WINTER’S EVENING ELGAR VARIATIONS ON AN ORIGINAL THEME ‘ENIGMA’

LISA MILNE, SOPRANO RICHARD FARNES, CONDUCTOR

Richard Farnes, Opera North’s talented Music Director, makes his BBC SSO debut with a programme that celebrates the best of British music. He’s joined by Scotland’s internationally acclaimed soprano Lisa Milne in Thea Musgrave’s beautiful, Mahlerian settings of some of Robert Burns’ best known songs. Continuing our Northern theme he opens the concert with the foam-flecked, tempestuous interludes from Britten’s Peter Grimes, set against the dramatic backdrop of the North Sea. Elgar’s brilliantly inventive Enigma Variations brings the programme to a triumphant close.

As well as being the BBC SSO’s longest serving player, cellist Anthony Sayer is also an accomplished writer. His blogs on the BBC SSO website are an articulate insight into the workings of an orchestra. Here he reads from the most recent of his posts.

Lisa Milne sings a selection of songs by Roger Quilter, one of the most successful and prolific of English songwriters.

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“BRuCkNER! HE IS MY MAN!” RICHARD WAGNER

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MAESTROS’ CHOICE 5 THuRSDAY, 18 MARCH, 7.30PM

wAGNER OVERTURE AND VENUSBERG MUSIC FROM TANNHäUSER RICHARD STRAuSS SONGS BEETHOVEN SyMPHONy NO.7

CHRISTINE BREwER, SOPRANO DONALD RuNNICLES, CONDUCTOR

The international reputation of Donald Runnicles as a Wagner conductor has been forged in the world’s leading opera houses, from Vienna, Berlin and Bayreuth to New york and San Francisco. The wonderful overture and virtuosic Venusburg Music from Tannhäuser make a superb start to this programme which features one of the world’s finest sopranos, Christine Brewer, in a ravishing selection of songs by Richard Strauss. “The apotheosis of the dance” was how Wagner described the extraordinary rhythmic energy of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony - music that truly sounds as if it was conceived in a white heat of inspiration.

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“TO ME HE SEEMED LIkE A TRAPPED MAN, wHOSE ONLY wISH wAS TO BE LEFT ALONE, TO THE PEACE OF HIS OwN ART AND TO THE TRAGIC

DESTINY TO wHICH HE HAD BEEN FORCED TO RESIGN HIMSELF.” NICHOLAS NABOKOV ON MEETING SHOSTAKOVICH IN 1949 IN NEW yORK

NORTH BY NORTH-EAST 2 THuRSDAY, 25 FEBRuARY, 7.30PM

BENJAMIN STAERN JUBILATE (UK PREMIERE) SIBELIuS VIOLIN CONCERTO SHOSTAkOVICH SyMPHONy NO.10

NICOLA BENEDETTI, VIOLIN STEFAN SOLYOM, CONDUCTOR

Popular violinist Nicola Benedetti makes a welcome return to City Halls with Sibelius’ passionate concerto. The concert begins with a short piece by the young Swedish composer Benjamin Staern, and his countryman Stefan Solyom closes this magnificent programme with Shostakovich’s epic Tenth Symphony, the first he had composed since he was denounced by Stalin’s regime in 1948. Completed soon after Stalin’s death in 1953, the brutally brilliant scherzo is said to be a musical portrait of the Soviet tyrant.

Nicola Benedetti in conversation with Simon Lord, Music Producer BBC SSO.

Nicola Benedetti plays JS Bach’s Chaconne from the Partita No.2 in D minor for solo violin.

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Christine Brewer talks to Gavin Reid, Director BBC SSO.

Christine Brewer sings a varied selection of songs, accompanied at the piano by the BBC SSO’s Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles.

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NORTH BY NORTH-EAST 3 RACHMANINOV SyMPHONy CyCLE THuRSDAY, 15 APRIL, 7.00PM

RIMSkY-kORSAkOV THE LEGEND OF THE INVISIBLE CITy OF KITEzH (ExCERPTS) MIkLOS ROSzA VIOLA CONCERTO RACHMANINOV SyMPHONy NO.1

LAwRENCE POwER, VIOLA ALExANDER TITOV, CONDUCTOR

The least well-known of Rachmaninov’s symphonies, the First is an incredibly powerful work, bursting with youthful energy. Its premiere, when Rachmaninov was only 24, was famously a disaster and was never again performed in his lifetime. Listeners who remember the 1970s theme tune of BBC TV’s ‘Panorama’ will recognise the magnificent opening of the finale. Miklos Rosza is best known for his Hollywood movie scores, especially blockbusters like Ben-Hur and El Cid. He wrote a good deal of fine concert music, too, including several concertos. Leading violist Lawrence Power returns to the BBC SSO with Rosza’s Viola Concerto of 1979.

Writer and Russian music specialist Geoffrey Baskerville introduces Rachmaninov’s symphonic adventure.

Lawrence Power plays an arrangement for viola of excerpts from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet.

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“IT IS CRuEL, YOu kNOw, THAT MuSIC SHOuLD BE SO BEAuTIFuL. IT HAS THE BEAuTY OF LONELINESS AND OF PAIN…THE BEAuTY

OF DISAPPOINTMENT AND NEVER-SATISFIED LOVE.” BENJAMIN BRITTEN

MAESTROS’ CHOICE 6 THuRSDAY, 25 MARCH, 7.30PM

wEBERN IM SOMMERWIND BRITTEN VIOLIN CONCERTO MAHLER SyMPHONy NO.4

JAMES EHNES, VIOLIN JI YOuNG YANG, SOPRANO DONALD RuNNICLES, CONDUCTOR

Following their performance of Mahler’s titanic First Symphony at the start of the season, Donald Runnicles and the BBC SSO turn to the ‘lightest’ of Mahler’s symphonies, with the young Korean soprano Ji young yang as soloist. Though Mahler scored it for a smaller orchestra than his other symphonies, and focuses on the theme of youthful innocence, the Fourth Symphony also has dark emotional depths, especially in the slow movement. The lush, late romantic sound of Webern’s early In the summer wind is a long way from what we normally associate with him, whilst Britten’s Violin Concerto is one of its composer’s finest mature works. To play it, Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes makes a welcome return to the BBC SSO.

Cellist and blogger Anthony Sayer delivers another of his eloquent epistles, known to the members of the BBC SSO as ‘Ant’s Rants’.

James Ehnes plays Bartók’s Rhapsody No.1 for violin and piano, Op.86.

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SARAH CHAPMAN

“ONLY ONE PLACE IS CLOSED TO ME, AND THAT IS MY OwN COuNTRY – RuSSIA.”

RACHMANINOV IN AN INTERVIEW FOR THE MUSICAL TIMES, 1930


NORTH BY NORTH-EAST 4 RACHMANINOV SyMPHONy CyCLE THuRSDAY, 29 APRIL, 7.00PM

LYADOV EIGHT RUSSIAN FOLK-SONGS STRAVINSkY VIOLIN CONCERTO RACHMANINOV SyMPHONy NO.2

BORIS BROVTSYN, VIOLIN VASSILY SINAISkY, CONDUCTOR

Vassily Sinaisky, always a welcome visitor to the BBC SSO, ends this concert with the vast, richly romantic canvas of Rachmaninov’s most popular symphony. The stormy drama and endless outpouring of great melodies in the Second Symphony never fails to raise the roof. As an ideal foil for the Rachmaninov - Stravinsky’s cool, elegant Violin Concerto is played here by young Moscow-born violinist Boris Brovtsyn.

Geoffrey Baskerville discusses the enduring popularity of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony.

Boris Brovtsyn gives a short solo recital.

NORTH BY NORTH-EAST 5 RACHMANINOV SyMPHONy CyCLE THuRSDAY, 20 MAY, 7.00PM

SHCHEDRIN CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA NO.1 ‘NAUGHTy LIMERICKS’ TCHAIkOVSkY PIANO CONCERTO NO.1 RACHMANINOV SyMPHONy NO.3

SIMON TRPčESkI, PIANO STEFAN SOLYOM, CONDUCTOR

The last of our Northern musical journeys - and the final concert of the season - reaches its climax with Rachmaninov’s ‘American’ symphony, composed in exile in the United States, but looking nostalgically back to his beloved Russia in a great outpouring of lyrical passion. Stefan Solyom launches this all-Russian evening with the outrageously over- the-top fireworks of Rodion Shchedrin’s brilliant orchestral showpiece, Naughty Limericks. He’s joined by one of the most exciting of today’s young lions of the keyboard, Simon Trpčeski, in Tchaikovsky’s majestic and deservedly popular First Piano Concerto.

Geoffrey Baskerville considers Rachmaninov’s final symphony and the orchestral wizardry of Rodion Shchedrin.

Simon Trpčeski plays a short solo recital of Russian piano music.

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City Halls is situated in the heart of the Merchant City at the north end of Candleriggs, between Trongate and Ingram Street. It is within easy walking distance of Argyle Street, Queen Street, High Street and Central railway stations, as well as St. Enoch and Buchanan Street subway stations. Buchanan Street bus station is a 15 minute walk away.

PARkING

Convenient car parking (including disabled parking) is available at multi- storey facilities at Q-Park on Candleriggs and Albion Street for just £1.20 on concert evenings. N.B. you will need to have your ticket validated in the City Halls foyer on concert nights when you arrive at the venue. Other car parking facilities close to City Halls include the NCP Glasshouse on Glassford Street and two car parks on the east side of High Street in addition to metered on-street parking throughout the area.

EATING & DRINkING

One of the oldest quarters of Glasgow and the cultural heart of the city, the Merchant City area is characterised by buzzing bars and award-winning restaurants to complement the design shops and thriving arts venues.

In the City Halls itself, the Candleriggs and Bazaar Bars are open on concert evenings and allow you to relax with a drink and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of the venue.

CONCERTS

All concerts in the Thursday Night Series begin at 7.30pm except those on 12 November, 19 November, 26 November and 3 December 2009 and 15 April, 29 April and 20 May 2010 which begin at the earlier time of 7.00pm.

Pre-Concert Prelude: Prelude events run between 6.45pm and approximately 7.10pm, except for the Bohemian Rhapsodies and North by North-East concerts when Preludes will start at 6.15pm. They will be held in the Recital Room.

Post-Concert Coda: Coda events begin approximately 10 minutes after the end of the main concert and are usually held in the Grand Hall. Please note there will be no coda after the concert on 21 January.

bbc.co.uk/bbcsso

Visit the BBC SSO’s website for detailed concert information and biographies on the musicians and conductors featured in the 2009/10 season. you can also read detailed synopses for some of the concerts, catch exclusive audio and video clips and watch interviews with players and soloists. Why not get involved by becoming a regular blogger and contribute your thoughts and opinions on what you have seen and heard.

BBC SSO Audience Line: 03703 666 303

BBC Radio 3 Audience Line: 03700 100 300

Friday 2 October 2009 5.00pm In Tune

Sunday 1 November 2.00pm Discovering Music: Peter Maxwell Davies at 75

Sunday 8 November 7.00pm Hear and Now: Peter Maxwell Davies at 75

Monday 23 November 2.00pm Discovering Music: Martinů (part of the Bohemian Rhapsodies series)

Sunday 20 December 3.00pm Christmas at the Movies

Thursday 7 January 2010 2.00pm Afternoon Performance

Thursday 14 January 2.00pm Afternoon Performance

Thursday 18 February 2.00pm Afternoon Performance

Thursday 4 March 2.00pm Afternoon Performance

Tuesday 9 March 2.00pm Discovering Music

Saturday 13 March 7.30pm Hear and Now: James MacMillan at 50

Sunday 18 April 2.00pm Discovering Music: Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances (part of the North by North-East series)

Saturday 24 April 7.30pm Hear and Now

Thursday 6 May 2.00pm Afternoon Performance

Saturday 15 May 7.30pm Hear and Now

Other Events

In addition to the Thursday Night Series, the BBC SSO regularly presents a number of special concerts and events that take place at City Halls throughout the season.

Afternoon PerformanceAn ever-popular selection of classical favourites and lesser-known works from the symphonic repertoire, with the orchestra ably assisted by outstanding conductors and soloists.

Discovering MusicEach event features a guest presenter and conductor who dissect a core work using specially selected musical extracts and historical anecdotes, which are followed by a complete performance of the work.

Hear and NowBBC Radio 3’s platform for new music in which we present the best and most exciting modern music by some of the world’s leading composers.

In TuneBroadcast live from City Halls, BBC Radio 3’s drive-time programme is a light-hearted mix of arts news and views reinforced by an eclectic choice of music featuring the BBC SSO.

TicketsAvailability and full programme details for the majority of events on this page will be announced at the beginning of September 2009.

Please Note BBC Scotland endeavours to ensure that personal details about customers, taken by box offices, are held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Patrons should be aware that if consent has previously been indicated, or is given at the time of ticket purchase, this information will be passed to the BBC SSO and from time to time may be used to contact you with information about forthcoming concerts or BBC events. These details will not be passed on to any third party. If you feel your consent has been wrongly applied, your details are incorrect, or you would like to withdraw from the BBC SSO mailing-list, please write to: BBC SSO mailing-list, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ.

The information carried in this brochure was correct at the time of publishing. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra reserves the right to amend artists and programmes for any of the listed concerts if necessary.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ Tel: 0141-552 0909 E-mail: [email protected] bbc.co.uk/bbcsso

Front cover image Emily MacPherson. The BBC SSO would like to thank Mark Hamilton for the photography featured in this brochure. Brochure design: www.weared8.com

A large print, text-only version of this brochure is available, for a copy please telephone: 0141-552 0909

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Season 09/10

Documents

Transcript of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Season 09/10