SCO 2024/25: Parabola
PARABOLA
Part of ‘New Dimensions’ Series
BRITTEN Young Apollo
ADES Märchentänze
ANDRES Piano Concerto ‘The Blind Banister’
BEAMISH Whitescape
HAYDN Symphony No 88
Pekka Kuusisto Conductor / Violin
Simon Crawford-Phillips Conductor / Piano
Dolphin Boy DJ
Pekka Kuusisto and British pianist/conductor Simon Crawford-Phillips, invite you – and the SCO’s musicians – on an arc through time and musical styles in this joyfully eclectic programme.
The young Britten blended chamber and orchestral music in a portrait of his first love in Young Apollo, while Thomas Adès draws on English folk music in the fairytale dances he composed for Kuusisto. New York composer Timo Andres looks to outdo Beethoven in his flamboyant piano concerto The Blind Banister, and Sally Beamish salutes Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley in her dream-inspired Whitescape. To close, Kuusisto travels back to the 18th century, to the charm and elegance of one of Haydn’s wittiest symphonies.
Pekka Kuusisto Visiting Artist Chair kindly supported by The Honorary Consulate of Finland, Edinburgh and Glasgow
In association with The Skinny.
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