Change of conductor
Conductor Thomas Dausgaard is no longer able to appear with the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra on Saturday 5 September due to travel difficulties. Alpesh Chauhan, Associate Conductor of the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, will now appear with the 麻豆社 SSO and pianist Stephen Hough at City Halls in Glasgow.
Programme
- Lyric for Strings(6 mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major(28 mins)
- Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn)(8 mins)麻豆社 commission: world premiere
- Metamorphosen(27 mins)
Performers
- Sir Stephen Houghpiano
- Alpesh Chauhanconductor
About This Event
First heard at the Proms in 2017, the late George Walker's hauntingly beautiful Lyric for Strings was written at the age of only 24 and dedicated to his grandmother.
Beethoven鈥檚 economically scored Second Piano Concerto 鈥� completed before his First and among the earliest of his works performed in concert halls today 鈥� looks both backwards to Haydn and Mozart and forwards to the Beethoven鈥檚 future innovation and rhythmic fascination.
Tonight鈥檚 麻豆社 commission is from Glasgow-based composer Jay Capperauld. Expressed in the context of the recurring 24-hour process that regulates our sleeping patterns, Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) is Capperauld鈥檚 response to the cyclical nature of lockdown, enforced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continuing the theme of mass upheaval, the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra closes with Strauss鈥檚 devastating Metamorphosen. Written for 23 solo strings during the final months of the Second World War (which Strauss described as 鈥榯he most terrible period of mankind鈥�), it quotes from the Funeral March of Beethoven鈥檚 鈥楨roica鈥� Symphony (No. 3).
It will not be possible to have an audience at City Halls, Glasgow.
Live on 麻豆社 Radio 3 & live-streamed to 麻豆社 iPlayer from Glasgow
Image: Alpesh Chauhan 漏 Patrick Allen