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Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
18 Sep 2016, His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
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Â鶹Éç SSO 2016-17 Season Sibelius Violin Concerto in Aberdeen

Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Sibelius Violin Concerto in Aberdeen
15:00 Sun 18 Sep 2016 His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
Ben Gernon conducts works by Glinka, Sibelius & Tchaikovsky
Ben Gernon conducts works by Glinka, Sibelius & Tchaikovsky

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Blink and you miss it: few overtures hurtle upwards and explode quite as brilliantly as Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla. But then, in the long winter nights of Northern Europe musicians have always known how to light up the sky. Sibelius’s Violin Concerto sounds like it’s lit by the midnight sun, and according to the critics, the rising French star Alexandra Soumm makes it glow with a special intensity. And Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony begins in an inferno of personal tragedy before cracking out the vodka and dancing till daybreak. Conductor Ben Gernon has a special flair for Tchaikovsky: on an autumn afternoon in Aberdeen, this should generate some serious heat.

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The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 3.