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Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
1 Feb 2017, City Halls
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Celtic Connections 2017 Celtic Connections - Brahms in Budapest

Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Celtic Connections - Brahms in Budapest
19:30 Wed 1 Feb 2017 Grand Hall
Budapest Bár and baritone Benjamin Appl join the Â鶹Éç SSO for an evening of Gypsy, Folk and Classical music
Budapest Bár and baritone Benjamin Appl join the Â鶹Éç SSO for an evening of Gypsy, Folk and Classical music

Programme

      • Hungarian Dances(orchestrated Brahms and Dausgaard)
      • SongsAn Schwager Kronos, D.369 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.3’) Geheimes, D.719 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.4’) Memnon, D.541 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.4’) Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D.583 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.3’)
        • interval
        • Symphony No. 2 in D major

    Concert information

    The wild dance rhythms of Hungarian folk music are at the beating heart of much of Brahms’s writing. The German composer was hugely influenced by its brooding, lilting melodies and fast, whirling tempos when he heard the music of refugees fleeing the Hungarian Revolution in the mid-1800s, and when touring with the violinist and composer Eduard Reményi.

    Gypsy band Budapest Bár join baritone Benjamin Appl, the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard for an evening that interweaves Gypsy, Folk and Classical music. In the first half, Brahms’s Hungarian Dances (three orchestrated by Dausgaard) and his arrangements of Schubert’s songs are interspersed with authentic folk performances by Budapest Bár. A complete performance of Brahms’s Second Symphony makes up the second half: a work with all the vigour, passion and abandon of a traditional Magyar night-out. The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 3.

    This event is jointly-promoted with Celtic Connections.